Isolation of new fastidious alpha Proteobacteria and Afipia felis from hospital water supplies by direct plating and amoebal co-culture procedures.

abstract：:Plasmid pQBR55 ( approximately 149 kb) represents one of five (Groups I-V) genetically distinct transfer proficient, mercury resistance plasmid groups that have been observed in the phytosphere pseudomonad community at a single geographic location in Oxford, UK. A 4.9-kb HindIII fragment was cloned from pQBR55 (a Grou...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Turner SL,Lilley AK,Bailey MJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is interest in understanding how cultivation, plant genotype, climate and soil conditions influence the biogeography of root nodule bacterial communities of legumes. For crops from regions with relict wild populations, this is of even greater interest because the effects of cultivation on symbiont communities ca...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ramoneda J,Roux JJL,Frossard E,Frey B,Gamper HA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastigales) are active degraders of fibrous plant material in the rumen. However, only limited information is available relating to how quickly they colonize ingested feed particles. The aim of this study was to determine the dynamics of initial colonization of forage by anaerobic fungi in the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Edwards JE,Kingston-Smith AH,Jimenez HR,Huws SA,Skøt KP,Griffith GW,McEwan NR,Theodorou MK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work is to document the complex nutritional strategy developed by kleptoplastic intertidal foraminifera. We study the mixotrophic ability of a common intertidal foraminifer, Elphidium williamsoni, by (i) investigating the phylogenetic identity of the foraminiferal kleptoplasts, (ii) following their oxy...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Jauffrais T,LeKieffre C,Schweizer M,Jesus B,Metzger E,Geslin E

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are common to drylands worldwide. We employed replicated, spatially nested sampling and 16S rRNA gene sequencing to describe the soil microbial communities in three soils derived from different parent material (sandstone, shale, and gypsum). For each soil type, two depths (biocrusts,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Steven B,Gallegos-Graves LV,Belnap J,Kuske CR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia oxidizers catalyze the first step of nitrification. Combined microbial nitrification-denitrification activities are essential for the removal of excess nitrogen from water bodies. In sandy streambeds, bed form structures are created by water flow and lead to the creation of heterogeneous microenvironments. The...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Yanuka-Golub K,Arnon S,Nejidat A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using laboratory microcosms, we studied direct and indirect interactions among different components of bi- and tritrophic communities. Filamentous cyanobacteria (Phormidium sp.) and autotrophic flagellates (Chlorogonium elongatum) were primary producers. The second trophic level was represented by ciliates Furgasonia ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Fyda J,Nosek J,Wiackowski K,Pajdak-Stós A,Fiałkowska E

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant symbioses with fungal root endophytes span a continuum from mutualistic to parasitic outcomes, and are highly variable depending on the genotype of each symbiont. The abiotic context in which interactions occur also seems to influence the outcome of plant-endophyte symbioses, but we lack understanding of its rel...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Kia SH,Jurkechova M,Glynou K,Piepenbring M,Maciá-Vicente JG

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a blue filamentous community from an alkaline thermal spring (79-83 degrees C) in Iceland revealed that the blue filaments were affiliated with the Aquificales. The dominant sequence type, pIce1, was most closely related to a sequence (SRI-48) found in a white filamentous community f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Takacs CD,Ehringer M,Favre R,Cermola M,Eggertsson G,Palsdottir A,Reysenbach A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The McMurdo Dry Valleys collectively comprise the most extensive ice-free region in Antarctica and are considered one of the coldest arid environments on Earth. In low-altitude maritime-associated valleys, mineral soil profiles show distinct horizontal structuring, with a surface arid zone overlying a moist and biolog...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Stomeo F,Makhalanyane TP,Valverde A,Pointing SB,Stevens MI,Cary CS,Tuffin MI,Cowan DA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate is the most important intermediate in anaerobic degradation of organic matter. The carbon isotope effects associated with the oxidation of acetate (epsilon(ac)) were examined for four acetotrophic sulfur reducers, Desulfuromonas acetoxidans, Desulfuromonas thiophila, Desulfurella acetivorans, and Hippea mariti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Goevert D,Conrad R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris with two indigenous rhizobia strains on plant growth promotion, nitrogen turnover processes, richness and structure of the Rhizobiaceae and total bacterial communities in the bulk soil. Both strains used induced a significant increase ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Trabelsi D,Mengoni A,Ben Ammar H,Mhamdi R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal communities in Norway spruce (Picea abies) logs in two forests in Sweden were investigated by 454-sequence analyses and by examining the ecological roles of the detected taxa. We also investigated the relationship between fruit bodies and mycelia in wood and whether community assembly was affected by how the de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ottosson E,Kubartová A,Edman M,Jönsson M,Lindhe A,Stenlid J,Dahlberg A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing prevalence of antibiotic resistance poses an increasingly serious threat to human health. Although an important driver of antibiotic resistance is the continuous exposure of bacteria to sublethal concentrations of antibiotics in natural environments, antibiotic pollutants are not currently tracked globally...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Parthasarathy R,Monette CE,Bracero S,S Saha M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soybean nodule endophytic bacterium Bradyrhizobium sp. strain SR-6 was characterized for production of acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) as quorum sensing molecules. Mass spectrometry analysis of AHLs revealed the presence of C6-HSL, 3OH-C6-HSL, C8-HSL, C10-HSL, 3oxoC10-HSL, 3oxo-C12-HSL and 3OH-C12-HSL which are sign...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ali A,Ayesha,Hameed S,Imran A,Iqbal M,Iqbal J,Oresnik IJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-separation and -segregation (boiling/distillation of subseafloor hydrothermal fluids) represent the primary mechanisms causing intra-field variations in vent fluid compositions. To determine whether this geochemical process affects the formation of microbial communities, we examined the microbial communities at ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Nakagawa S,Takai K,Inagaki F,Chiba H,Ishibashi J,Kataoka S,Hirayama H,Nunoura T,Horikoshi K,Sako Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous microscopy-based studies in the eastern English Channel have revealed it to be a productive meso-eutrophic coastal ecosystem, characterized by strong repeating patterns in microplankton succession. The present study examines the seasonal structure of the entire protistan community from March 2011 to July 2013...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Genitsaris S,Monchy S,Viscogliosi E,Sime-Ngando T,Ferreira S,Christaki U

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil bacteria and understorey plants interact and drive forest ecosystem functioning. Yet, knowledge about biotic and abiotic factors that affect the composition of the bacterial community in the rhizosphere of understorey plants is largely lacking. Here, we assessed the effects of plant species identity (Milium effus...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ma S,De Frenne P,Boon N,Brunet J,Cousins SAO,Decocq G,Kolb A,Lemke I,Liira J,Naaf T,Orczewska A,Plue J,Wulf M,Verheyen K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo contain over 1800 preserved bodies dating from the 16th to 20th centuries AD and showing evidence of biodeterioration. An extensive microbiological and molecular investigation was recently performed. Samples were taken from skin, muscle, hair, bone, stuffing materials, clothes, and su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Piñar G,Piombino-Mascali D,Maixner F,Zink A,Sterflinger K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed the microbial ecology on the surface of Mittivakkat glacier in SE-Greenland during the exceptional high melting season in July 2012 when the so far most extreme melting rate for the Greenland Ice Sheet has been recorded. By employing a complementary and multi-disciplinary field sampling and analytical...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Lutz S,Anesio AM,Jorge Villar SE,Benning LG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to characterize the vertical distribution of bacterial and archaeal communities in the water and sediment of Lake Taihu, which underwent a change in trophic status from oligotrophic to hypertrophic in last half of the 20th century. The results revealed that the bacterial communities in differe...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ye W,Liu X,Lin S,Tan J,Pan J,Li D,Yang H

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eastern Canada, climate change-related warming and increased precipitation may alter winter snow cover, with potential consequences for soil conditions, nitrogen (N) cycling, and microbes. We conducted a 2-year field study aimed at determining the influence of snow removal, snow accumulation, and ambient snow in a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Brin LD,Goyer C,Zebarth BJ,Burton DL,Chantigny MH

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GeoChip 4.2 gene array was employed to interrogate the microbial functional gene repertoire of sponges and seawater collected from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Complementary amplicon sequencing confirmed the microbial community composition characteristic of high microbial abundance (HMA) and low microbial ab...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Bayer K,Moitinho-Silva L,Brümmer F,Cannistraci CV,Ravasi T,Hentschel U

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of heavy metal contamination on soil bacterial communities was studied in soils amended for many years with sewage sludge contaminated with heavy metals to varying extents. At the broad level of resolution, DNA reassociation analysis indicated a dramatic decrease in bacterial diversity from 16{ omitted}000 ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Sandaa R,Torsvik V V,Enger,Daae FL,Castberg T,Hahn D

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endosymbionts commonly coexist in the same host insects. In order to gain an understanding of the biological roles of the individual symbionts in such complex systems, experimental techniques for enabling the selective removal of a specific symbiont from the host are of great importance. By using the pea aphi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Koga R,Tsuchida T,Sakurai M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed and used to arrest and stain reducing sugars (glucose) produced by bacteria with cell-surface-associated carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase) and endoglucanase activities (CMC bacteria) in the rumen of cows fed alfalfa or triticale. Precipitation of silver oxide on the surface of individual cells wa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Kong Y,Xia Y,Seviour R,He M,McAllister T,Forster R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio harveyi has been reported to enter into a viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state. Two clinical V. harveyi strains, SF1 and CW2, and the type strain, VIB295(T), were incubated in sterilized seawater at 4 degrees C. Plate counts in these strains declined to undetectable levels (<0.1 CFU mL(-1)) within 69, 67 and 6...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Sun F,Chen J,Zhong L,Zhang XH,Wang R,Guo Q,Dong Y

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown that microbial communities in Antarctic environments are highly diverse. However, considering that the Antarctic Peninsula is among the regions with the fastest warming rates, and that regional climate change has been linked to an increase in the mean rate of glacier retreat, the microbial d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Pessi IS,Osorio-Forero C,Gálvez EJ,Simões FL,Simões JC,Junca H,Macedo AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides is of increasing public interest. However, to ensure safe use of biocontrol methods, strategies to assess the possible risks need to be developed. The production of toxic metabolites is an aspect which has so far largely been neglected in the risk assessment ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Boss D,Maurhofer M,Schläpfer E,Défago G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium leiognathi is a facultative bioluminescent symbiont of marine animals. Strains of P. leiognathi that are merodiploid for the luminescence genes (lux-rib operon) have been previously obtained only from Japan. In contrast, strains bearing a single lux-rib operon have been obtained from all the areas sampl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Urbanczyk H,Kiwaki N,Furukawa T,Iwatsuki Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00