Diverse arsenic- and iron-cycling microbial communities in arsenic-contaminated aquifers used for drinking water in Bangladesh.

abstract：:Abstract The impact of salinity on the composition and functional performance (biomass production, growth efficiency and growth rates) of bacterial communities was investigated using batch cultures growing on dissolved organic carbon from a river draining into the Northern Baltic Sea. The cultures were adjusted to riv...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Langenheder S,Kisand V,Wikner J,Tranvik LJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify intestinal bacteria that produce phenols (phenol and p-cresol), we screened 153 strains within 152 species in 44 genera by culture-based assay using broth media supplemented with 200 µM each of tyrosine and its predicted microbial metabolic intermediates (4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate, DL-4-hydroxyphenyllactate,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Saito Y,Sato T,Nomoto K,Tsuji H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dietary deficiency in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and/or sterols can severely constrain growth and reproduction of invertebrate consumers. Single nutrients are potentially assigned to different physiological processes, for example to support defence mechanisms; therefore, lipid requirements of healthy and pa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Schlotz N,Pester M,Freese HM,Martin-Creuzburg D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and in vitro expression of homologues to 22 bacterial human virulence determinants amongst culturable soil bacteria were investigated. About 25% of the bacterial isolates contained virulence gene homologues representing toxin (hblA, cytK2), adhesin (fimH), regulator (phoQ) and resistance (yfbI) determinan...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Søborg DA,Hendriksen NB,Kroer N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In marine oxygen deficient zones (ODZs), which contribute up to half of marine N loss, microbes use nitrogen (N) for assimilatory and dissimilatory processes. Here, we examine N utilization above and within the ODZ of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean, focusing on distribution, uptake and genes for the utilizat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Widner B,Fuchsman CA,Chang BX,Rocap G,Mulholland MR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic-derived sources of selection are typically implicated as mechanisms for maintaining antibiotic resistance in the environment. Here we report an additional mechanism for maintaining antibiotic resistance in the environment through bacterial exposure to metals. Using a culture-independent approach, bacteri...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Wright MS,Loeffler Peltier G,Stepanauskas R,McArthur JV

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why should organisms cooperate with each other? Helping close relatives that are likely to share the same genes (kin selection) is one important explanation that is likely to apply across taxa. The production of metabolically costly extracellular iron-scavenging molecules (siderophores) by microorganisms is a cooperat...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Buckling A,Harrison F,Vos M,Brockhurst MA,Gardner A,West SA,Griffin A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second step of nitrification, the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate, is vital for the functioning of the nitrogen cycle, but our understanding of the ecological roles of the involved microorganisms is still limited. The known diversity of Nitrospira, the most widely distributed nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, has increa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Nowka B,Off S,Daims H,Spieck E

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies to protect groundwater sources from microbial contamination (e.g., wellhead protection areas) rely upon natural attenuation of microorganisms between wells or springs and potential sources of contamination and are determined using average (macroscopic) groundwater flow velocities defined by Darcy's ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Taylor R,Cronin A,Pedley S,Barker J,Atkinson T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollution of the environment by human and animal faecal pollution affects the safety of shellfish, drinking water and recreational beaches. To pinpoint the origin of contaminations, it is essential to define the differences between human microbiota and that of farm animals. A strategy based on real-time quantitative P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Furet JP,Firmesse O,Gourmelon M,Bridonneau C,Tap J,Mondot S,Doré J,Corthier G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two wild-type strains of Lactobacillus plantarum previously isolated from fermented dry sausages were analysed for their ability to transfer antibiotic resistance plasmids in the gastrointestinal tract. For this purpose, we used gnotobiotic rats as an in vivo model. Rats were initially inoculated with the recipient En...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Jacobsen L,Wilcks A,Hammer K,Huys G,Gevers D,Andersen SR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acropora white syndrome (AWS) is characterized by rapid tissue loss revealing the white underlying skeleton and affects corals worldwide; however, reports of causal agents are conflicting. Samples were collected from healthy and diseased corals and seawater around American Samoa and bacteria associated with AWS charac...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Wilson B,Aeby GS,Work TM,Bourne DG

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most significant challenges facing the global medical community and can be attributed to the use and misuse of antibiotics. This includes use as growth promoters or for prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial infection in intensively farmed livestock from where antibiotics can ent...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Cleary DW,Bishop AH,Zhang L,Topp E,Wellington EM,Gaze WH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host microbiota may have an impact on pathogens. This is often studied in laboratory-reared hosts but rarely in individuals whose microbiota looks like that of wild animals. In this study, we modified the gut microbiota of the insect Tenebrio molitor by rearing larvae in soil sampled from the field. We showed by h...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Cambon MC,Lafont P,Frayssinet M,Lanois A,Ogier JC,Pagès S,Parthuisot N,Ferdy JB,Gaudriault S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In disease-suppressive soil, plants rely upon mutualistic associations between roots and specific microbes for nutrient acquisition and disease suppression. Notably, the transmission of suppressiveness by the cysts of sugar beet cyst nematode from suppressive to conducive soils has been previously observed in greenhou...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Hussain M,Hamid MI,Tian J,Hu J,Zhang X,Chen J,Xiang M,Liu X

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus pumilus is a Gram-positive bacterium with a wide range of attributed applications, namely as a plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), animal, and human probiotic. However, a rare putative role in human diseases has been reported, namely in food poisoning or as anthrax-like cutaneous infectious agent. Th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Branquinho R,Meirinhos-Soares L,Carriço JA,Pintado M,Peixe LV

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alveolate microalga Chromera velia is an evolutionarily significant organism, representing the closest photosynthetic relative of the parasitic Apicomplexa. Chromera velia has been detected in and isolated from several stony corals and can be readily cultured in vitro under strictly autotrophic conditions. However...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Foster C,Portman N,Chen M,Šlapeta J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riverine biofilms remain one of the least-studied habitats despite the significant increase in the examination of aquatic microbial communities in recent years. In this study, the dynamics of epilithic biofilm communities native on rocks from a low-order upland stream were examined over a period of 3 years. Spatial an...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Anderson-Glenna MJ,Bakkestuen V,Clipson NJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaciers accumulate airborne microorganisms year by year and thus are good archives of microbial communities and their relationship to climatic and environmental changes. Hypotheses have focused on two possible drivers of microbial community composition in glacier systems. One is aeolian deposition, in which the micro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Xiang SR,Shang TC,Chen Y,Yao TD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil from the zone of maximal methanotrophic activity (approximately 5-8 cm depth) in a mixed coniferous-hardwood forest consumed atmospheric methane over a wide pH range (3.5-7.5) with a broad optimum between 4.8 and 6.0. Methane uptake at native soil pH values (4.4-4.8) was only slightly less rapid than rates at opt...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Benstead J,King GM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of microbial communities and their inherent heterogeneity has dramatically increased with the widespread use of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and we are learning more about the ecological processes that structure microbial communities across a wide range of environments, as well as the relative sc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Meadow JF,Zabinski CA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioavailability of electron acceptors is probably the most limiting factor in the restoration of anoxic, contaminated environments. The oxidation of contaminants such as aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly in aquifers, often depends on the reduction of ferric iron or sulphate. We have previously detected a highly acti...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Pilloni G,von Netzer F,Engel M,Lueders T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative genetic diversity of microcystin-producing Microcystis in the water and sediment of the Daechung Reservoir, Korea, was investigated over an entire year, including the cyanobacterial bloom season. The cells of potentially toxic Microcystis strains containing mcyJ genotypes and cells containing the genus-sp...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Kim SG,Joung SH,Ahn CY,Ko SR,Boo SM,Oh HM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to elucidate the depth distribution and community composition of Archaea in a temperate acidic forest soil. Numbers of Archaea and Bacteria were measured in the upper 18 cm of the soil, and soil cores were sampled on two separate occasions using quantitative PCR targeting 16S rRNA genes....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Kemnitz D,Kolb S,Conrad R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial blooms have become more frequent as a result of eutrophication in lakes. The accumulation and breakdown of huge cyanobacterial biomasses often cause hypoxia in lakes. However, little is known about microbial diversity in these areas. In this study, we characterized the bacterial community composition of...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Li H,Xing P,Wu QL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work focused on the assessment of plant virus occurrence among primitive and higher plants in the Antarctic region. Sampling occurred during two seasons (2004/5 and 2005/6) at the Ukrainian Antarctic Station 'Academician Vernadskiy' positioned on Argentina Islands. Collected plant samples of four moss genera (Pol...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Polischuk V,Budzanivska I,Shevchenko T,Oliynik S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice plants are the habitat for large and diverse populations of microbes, which play important roles on rice health and productivity. However, the response of microbiome on rice culm to water flooding is poorly understood. In this study, the bacterial community on non-flooded (RSA) and flooded (RSB) rice culms was in...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Cui HL,Duan GL,Zhang H,Cheng W,Zhu YG

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of Salmonella was analysed in biofilm and water samples from the spring and slough arms of Spring Lake, the headwaters of the San Marcos River, Texas, during the drought of 2011, with only one potential run-off event at the beginning of the study. Salmonellae were detected in semiselective enrichment cul...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Sha Q,Forstner MR,Hahn D

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions among microorganisms found in coral mucus can be either symbiotic or competitive. It has been hypothesized that microbial communities found on the surface of coral play a role in coral holobiont defense, possibly through production of antimicrobial substances. Selected microorganisms isolated from the muc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Shnit-Orland M,Kushmaro A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Definition of lichens has evolved from bi(tri)partite associations to multi-species symbioses, where bacteria would play essential roles. Besides, although soil bacterial communities are known to be affected by edaphic factors, when lichens grow upon them these could become less preponderant. We hypothesized that the ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Leiva D,Clavero-León C,Carú M,Orlando J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00