Comparative analysis of bacterial and archaeal communities in methanogenic sludge granules from upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors treating various food-processing, high-strength organic wastewaters.

abstract：:The effects of a nitrogen-fixing tree, black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), on the distribution of bacterial species were examined in a Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) and black locust-dominated area. DNA was extracted from the soil at depths of 0-5 and 5-10 cm, collected at the border between a Japanese black ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Taniguchi T,Kataoka R,Tamai S,Yamanaka N,Futai K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine fungus-like eukaryotic unicellular protists (thraustochytrids) are considered to play an important role in the marine microbial food web. However, their abundance, distribution, and relative biomass in coastal waters have not yet been examined in detail. By using a flow cytometry method (FCM) for the rapid enum...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Duan Y,Sen B,Xie N,Paterson JS,Chen Z,Wang G

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to characterize soil fungal communities in upland rice fields managed with tillage/non-tillage and winter cover-cropping (hairy vetch and cereal rye) practices, using PCR-based molecular methods. The study plots were maintained as upland fields for 5 years and the soils sampled in the second and fifth...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nishizawa T,Zhaorigetu,Komatsuzaki M,Sato Y,Kaneko N,Ohta H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-positive marine bacterium, Exiguobacterium sp. SBH81, was isolated as a hydrophilic organic-solvent tolerant bacterium, and exhibited high tolerance to various types of toxic hydrophilic organic solvents, including acetonitrile, at relatively high concentrations (up to 6% [v/v]) under the growing conditions. In...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kongpol A,Kato J,Tajima T,Vangnai AS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic (As) is a widely distributed toxic element in the environment and microorganisms have developed resistance mechanisms in order to tolerate it. The cellular response of the chemoorganotrophic arsenite (As[III])-oxidizing α-Proteobacteria, Sinorhizobium sp. strain A2, to arsenic was examined in the present study...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Fukushima K,Huang H,Hamamura N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and continuous pressure treatment was realized using a hydraulic pump and the momentary decompression following high pressurization was used to inactivate bacteria. The number of colony-forming E. coli decreased to 1/1000 in response to 10 cycles of pressure treatment. In groundwater samples, repeated pressure t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Baba T,Yamaguchi N,Tani K,Nasu M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cellular approach combining Direct Viable Counting and Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization using a one-step multiple-probe technique and Solid Phase Cytometry (DVC-FISH-SPC) was developed to monitor total viable vibrios and cover the detection of a large diversity of vibrios. FISH combined three probes in the same ass...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Girard L,Peuchet S,Servais P,Henry A,Charni-Ben-Tabassi N,Baudart J

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of haloorganic compounds undergo reductive dehalogenation by certain anaerobic microorganisms. Metabolic reductive dehalogenation is coupled with energy-conserving respiratory electron transport in which a halogenated compound is used as the terminal electron acceptor, the biological process called deha...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hiraishi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify altitudinal changes in the bacterial community on Gulkana Glacier in Alaska, we analyzed bacterial 16S rRNA gene by low-cycle PCR amplification, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), and culturing in a snowmelt medium at 4°C. Low-cycle PCR-based cloning revealed the presence of 100 bacterial OTUs;...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Segawa T,Takeuchi N,Ushida K,Kanda H,Kohshima S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics in animal husbandry are used to maintain welfare, but lead to the generation of resistant strains. We analyzed commensal multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from pigs at the beginning and end of the production cycle in a farm with a farrow-to-finish system in order to investigate whether clonal spread or ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Mazurek J,Bok E,Baldy-Chudzik K

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the colonization rate and communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the roots of Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Japanese pear) in orchards to investigate the effect of phosphorus (P) fertilization on AMF. Soil cores containing the roots of Japanese pear were collected from 13 orchards in Tottori Pr...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yoshimura Y,Ido A,Iwase K,Matsumoto T,Yamato M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological flux and lifetime of methanol in anoxic marine sediments are largely unknown. We herein reported, for the first time, quantitative methanol removal rates in subsurface sediments. Anaerobic incubation experiments with radiotracers showed high rates of microbial methanol consumption. Notably, methanol oxi...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yanagawa K,Tani A,Yamamoto N,Hachikubo A,Kano A,Matsumoto R,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2016-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched nonylphenol (BNP), a degradation product of nonylphenol polyethoxylates, exerts estrogenic effects on various organisms. The genes underlying BNP degradation by Sphingobium amiense DSM 16289T were analyzed by complete genome sequencing and compared with those of the versatile BNP-degrading Sphingobium cloacae...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ootsuka M,Nishizawa T,Hasegawa M,Kurusu Y,Ohta H

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 ([CO2]) enhance the production and emission of methane in paddy fields. In the present study, the effects of elevated [CO2], elevated temperature (ET), and no nitrogen fertilization (LN) on methanogenic archaeal and methane-oxidizing bacterial community structures in a free-a...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Liu D,Tago K,Hayatsu M,Tokida T,Sakai H,Nakamura H,Usui Y,Hasegawa T,Asakawa S

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrifiers can produce and consume nitrous oxide (N(2)O). While little N(2)O is emitted from rice paddy soil, the same soil produces N(2)O when the land is drained and used for upland crop cultivation. In this study, we collected soils from two types of fields each at three locations in Japan; one type of field had ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tago K,Ishii S,Nishizawa T,Otsuka S,Senoo K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of different land uses on densities of Escherichia coli, enterococci, and Clostridium perfringens in the water and soil of a tropical watershed were investigated. Densities of fecal indicator bacteria (FIBs) in the watershed exhibited a clear land-use dependency in the stream water. Significantly higher concen...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Goto DK,Yan T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) microbial community was developed under a high organic carbon to nitrate (C/NO3-) ratio in an anoxic semi-continuous sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with glucose as the source of carbon and NO3- as the electron acceptor. Activated sludge collected from a municipa...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Chutivisut P,Isobe K,Powtongsook S,Pungrasmi W,Kurisu F

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a severe problem in aquaculture. The ability of drug resistance genes to transfer from a bacterial cell to another is thought to be responsible for the wide dissemination of these genes in the aquaculture environment; however, little is known about the gene transfer mechanis...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nonaka L,Maruyama F,Miyamoto M,Miyakoshi M,Kurokawa K,Masuda M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies demonstrated that phylogenetically more diverse and abundant bacteria and fungi than previously considered are responsible for denitrification in terrestrial environments. We herein examined the effects of land-use types on the community composition of those denitrifying microbes based on their nitrite ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Fujimura R,Azegami Y,Wei W,Kakuta H,Shiratori Y,Ohte N,Senoo K,Otsuka S,Isobe K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous extraction of plant organelle (mitochondria and plastid) genes during the DNA extraction step is a major limitation in investigating the community structures of bacteria associated with plants because organelle SSU rRNA genes are easily amplified by PCR using primer sets that are specific to bacteria....

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ikenaga M,Sakai M

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and fifty nine isolates of fluorescent pseudomonads were obtained from the leaves and roots of potato plants. Of these, 20 leaf isolates and 28 root isolates induced violacein production in two N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-reporter strains-Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 and VIR24. VIR24 is a new report...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Someya N,Morohoshi T,Okano N,Otsu E,Usuki K,Sayama M,Sekiguchi H,Ikeda T,Ishida S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, degradative plasmids have been isolated from bacteria capable of degrading a variety of both natural and man-made compounds. Degradative plasmids belonging to three incompatibility (Inc) groups in Pseudomonas (IncP-1, P-7, and P-9) have been well studied in terms of their replication, mainte...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Shintani M,Takahashi Y,Yamane H,Nojiri H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cyanobacteria (<2 µm, pico-cyanobacteria) are abundant in waters deeper than the oxic-anoxic zone in the halocline of a saline meromictic lake, Lake Suigetsu, Fukui, Japan. We have isolated 101 strains that were grouped into six groups by means of the phycobiliprotein composition and sequence homology of the int...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ohki K,Yamada K,Kamiya M,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to survey cultivable heterotrophic bacteria from sea ice samples collected from Peter the Great Bay of the Sea of Japan, and to test the isolates for antagonistic activity. A total of 195 strains were isolated and investigated by a phenotypic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of th...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Romanenko LA,Tanaka N,Uchino M,Kalinovskaya NI,Mikhailov VV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Legionella genus find suitable conditions for their growth and survival in nuclear power plant cooling circuits. To limit the proliferation of Legionella pathogenic bacteria in nuclear power plant cooling circuits, and ensure that levels remain below regulatory thresholds, monochloramine treatment can b...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Jakubek D,Guillaume C,Binet M,Leblon G,DuBow M,Le Brun M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated biofilm formation on biodegradable plastics in freshwater samples. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) was covered by a biofilm after an incubation in freshwater samples. A next generation sequencing analysis of the bacterial communities of biofilms that formed on PHBH films revealed t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Morohoshi T,Oi T,Aiso H,Suzuki T,Okura T,Sato S

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their obligate symbiotic nature and lack of long-term storage methods, the strain collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi requires periodic proliferation using a pot culture with host plants. Therefore, a method to evaluate the purity of proliferated AM fungal cultures is critical for the quality contro...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ohtomo R,Oka N,Morimoto S

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We established artificial consortia of bacteria inoculated from soil and a green alga, Chlorella vulgaris NIES-227. The bacteria and the alga were mixed in a tube or partitioned in a dialysing culture vessel, and the bacterial composition was examined after cultivation. The community of bacteria formed in the consorti...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ueda H,Otsuka S,Senoo K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mining industry generates huge amounts of wastewater, containing toxic heavy metals. Treatment to remove heavy metals is necessary and recent work has been focused on finding more environmentally friendly materials for removing heavy metals from wastewater. Biosorption can be an effective process for heavy metal r...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Mohamad OA,Hao X,Xie P,Hatab S,Lin Y,Wei G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin amendment is an agricultural management strategy for controlling soil-borne plant disease. We previously reported an exponential decrease in chitin added to incubated upland soil. We herein investigated the transition of the bacterial community structure in chitin-degrading soil samples over time and the charac...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Iwasaki Y,Ichino T,Saito A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00