Effects of land uses on fecal indicator bacteria in the water and soil of a tropical watershed.

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：:Oligosaline lakes in arid regions provide indispensable water resources for humans; however, information on the bacterial community composition (BCC) of this ecosystem is limited. In the present study, we explored seasonal and vertical variations in BCC in Lake Bosten, a unique oligosaline lake (1.2‰ salinity) in arid...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tang X,Xie G,Shao K,Dai J,Chen Y,Xu Q,Gao G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato peels consist of a tissue called phellem, which is formed by suberized cell layers. The degradation of suberin, a lipidic and recalcitrant polymer, is an ecological process attributed to soil fungal populations; however, previous studies have suggested that Streptomyces scabiei, the causal agent of potato commo...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Beaulieu C,Sidibé A,Jabloune R,Simao-Beaunoir AM,Lerat S,Monga E,Bernards MA

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the relationships between understory bamboo and soil properties, we compared microbial community structures in the soil of a Betula ermanii boreal forest with Sasa kurilensis present and removed using high-throughput DNA sequencing. The presence of understory S. kurilensis strongly affected soil...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kong B,Chen L,Kasahara Y,Sumida A,Ono K,Wild J,Nagatake A,Hatano R,Hara T

更新日期：2017-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of microbes in the early development of ecosystems on new volcanic materials seems to be crucial to primary plant succession but is not well characterized. Here we analyzed the bacterial community colonizing 22-year-old volcanic deposits of the Miyake-jima Island (Japan) using culture-based and 16S rRNA gene ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Lu H,Fujimura R,Sato Y,Nanba K,Kamijo T,Ohta H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The splicing of a bacterial group II subclass B intron B.me.I1 from Bacillus megaterium chromosomes was investigated. RT-PCR and nucleic acid hybridization methods were used to understand the role of the intron-encoded protein (IEP) in the splicing of B.me.I1. An in vivo assay showed that the splicing occurred in the ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Chien MF,Tosa S,Huang CC,Endo G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are used as quorum-sensing signaling molecules by many Gram-negative bacteria. Here, 413 bacterial strains were obtained from the roots of potato plants and screened for AHL-degrading bacteria using Chromobacterium violaceum reporter strains. Sixty one isolates degraded N-hexanoyl-L-ho...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Rashid R,Morohoshi T,Someya N,Ikeda T

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Various DNA extraction methods are often used interchangeably for the characterization of microbial communities despite indications that different techniques produce disparate results. The microbiomes of two ascidian species were herein characterized using two common DNA extraction kits, the DNeasy Blood and Tissue Ki...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Evans JS,López-Legentil S,Erwin PM

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosynthetic microbial communities develop and form dense cell aggregates in slightly alkaline sulfidic hot springs in the temperature range of 70-86°C at Nakabusa, Japan. Nitrogenase activity has recently been detected in the microbial communities collected. To identify possible members capable of nitrogen fixation...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nishihara A,Thiel V,Matsuura K,McGlynn SE,Haruta S

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes interact with each other in multicellular communities and this interaction enables certain microorganisms to survive in various environments. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a highly adaptable bacterium that ubiquitously inhabits diverse environments including soil, marine habitats, plants and animals. Behind this ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tashiro Y,Yawata Y,Toyofuku M,Uchiyama H,Nomura N

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNAs that suppress the expression of target mRNAs. The seed sequence of miRNA plays a crucial role in recognizing the 3'-untranslated region of the target mRNA. Cells infected with a simian foamy virus (SFV) isolated from an African green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops)...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hashimoto-Gotoh A,Kitao K,Miyazawa T

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：:The inhibitory effects of ammonia on two different degradation pathways of methanogenic acetate were evaluated using a pure culture (Methanosaeta thermophila strain PT) and defined co-culture (Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus strain TM and Thermacetogenium phaeum strain PB), which represented aceticlastic and sy...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kato S,Sasaki K,Watanabe K,Yumoto I,Kamagata Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophyton ajelloi is a geophilic dermatophyte that specializes in the decomposition of native keratin. It exists in soil with a permanent influx of keratin matter. In the present study, two PCR-based methods were used for the identification and intra-species differentiation of T. ajelloi strains isolated from 3 typ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ciesielska A,Bohacz J,Korniłłowicz-Kowalska T,Stączek P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice seedlings were inoculated with Azospirillum sp. B510 and transplanted into a paddy field. Growth in terms of tiller numbers and shoot length was significantly increased by inoculation. Principal-coordinates analysis of rice bacterial communities using the 16S rRNA gene showed no overall change from B510 inoculati...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Bao Z,Sasaki K,Okubo T,Ikeda S,Anda M,Hanzawa E,Kakizaki K,Sato T,Mitsui H,Minamisawa K

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：:The present study aimed to reveal the eukaryotic diets of two economically important marine sediment-inhabiting worms, Sipunculus nudus (peanut worm) and Urechis unicinctus (spoon worm), using clone libraries and phylogenetic analyses of 18S rRNA genes. Fungal rDNA was also targeted and analyzed to reveal mycobiomes. ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wang Y,Shi T,Huang G,Gong J

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is a triazine herbicide that is widely used to control broadleaf weeds. Its widespread use over the last 50 years has led to the potential contamination of soils, groundwater, rivers, and lakes. Its main route of complete degradation is via biological means, which is carried out by soil microbiota using a 6-s...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Fernandes AFT,Wang P,Staley C,Aparecida Silva Moretto J,Miguel Altarugio L,Chagas Campanharo S,Guedes Stehling E,Jay Sadowsky M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HcRNAV is a small icosahedral virus that infects the shellfish-killing marine dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama, which harbors a dicistronic linear single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) genome ca. 4.4 kb in length. Its major capsid protein (MCP) gene sequence is not expressed by various strains of Escherichia coli, pos...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wada K,Kimura K,Hasegawa A,Fukuyama K,Nagasaki K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic and molecular analyses showed the presence of endobacteria inside the mycelia of four out of twelve nitrous oxide (N(2)O)-producing fungal isolates identified as Mortierella elongata. The 16S rRNA gene was successfully amplified with DNA extracted directly from the endobacterium-containing fungal strains a...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Sato Y,Narisawa K,Tsuruta K,Umezu M,Nishizawa T,Tanaka K,Yamaguchi K,Komatsuzaki M,Ohta H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes the occurrence of a unique archaeal ammonia monooxygenase alpha subunit (amoA) gene in nitrifying acid-sulfate soil microcosms at pH 3.5. The soil was collected from an abandoned paddy field in Thailand. Microcosms were incubated in the dark at 30°C for 372 days with the following three tre...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nakaya A,Onodera Y,Nakagawa T,Satoh K,Takahashi R,Sasaki S,Tokuyama T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbioses have played pivotal roles in biological, ecological, and evolutionary diversification. Symbiotic bacteria affect the biology of hosts in a number of ways. Esteya vermicola, an endoparasitic nematophagous fungus, has high infectivity in the pine wood nematode (PWN), which causes devastating ecological damage ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wang R,Dong L,Chen Y,Qu L,Wang Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean plants host endosymbiotic dinitrogen (N2)-fixing bacteria from the genus Bradyrhizobium. Under oxygen-limiting conditions, Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens and Bradyrhizobium japonicum perform denitrification by sequentially reducing nitrate (NO3-) to nitrous oxide (N2O) or N2. The anaerobic reduction of NO3- to ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Siqueira AF,Sugawara M,Arashida H,Minamisawa K,Sánchez C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative isolation and unique physical properties of the Savusavu Hot Springs in Fiji may yield unique thermophiles. This study was conducted to determine the presence of aerobic thermophilic bacteria in these hot springs. A total of 104 thermophilic bacterial isolates were characterized and using Thermus and Baci...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Narayan VV,Hatha MA,Morgan HW,Rao D

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Diarrhea is often associated with marked alterations in the intestinal microbiota, termed dysbiosis; however, limited information is currently available on the intestinal microbiota in captive golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) with diarrhea. We herein characterized the fecal microbiota in diarrhea an...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Zhu H,Zeng D,Wang Q,Wang N,Zeng B,Niu L,Ni X

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth inhibition due to continuous cropping of asparagus is a major problem; the yield of asparagus in replanted fields is low compared to that in new fields, and missing plants occur among young seedlings. Although soil-borne disease and allelochemicals are considered to be involved in this effect, this is still con...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Urashima Y,Sonoda T,Fujita Y,Uragami A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00