Understory Dwarf Bamboo Affects Microbial Community Structures and Soil Properties in a Betula ermanii Forest in Northern Japan.

abstract：:Diazotrophs had not previously been identified among bacterial species in the phylum Bacteroidetes until the rapid expansion of bacterial genome sequences, which revealed the presence of nitrogen fixation (nif) genes in this phylum. We herein determined the draft genome sequences of Bacteroides graminisolvens JCM 1509...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Inoue J,Oshima K,Suda W,Sakamoto M,Iino T,Noda S,Hongoh Y,Hattori M,Ohkuma M

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:"Terre Calde di Medolla" (TCM) (literally, "Hot Lands of Medolla") refers to a farming area in Italy with anomalously high temperatures and diffuse emissions of biogenic CO2, which has been linked to CH4 oxidation processes from a depth of 0.7 m to the surface. We herein assessed the composition of the total bacterial...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Cappelletti M,Ghezzi D,Zannoni D,Capaccioni B,Fedi S

更新日期：2016-12-23 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：:Changes in the bacterial community in soil-water suspensions during the enrichment period of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T degraders were examined using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. The nucleotide sequences of almost all major bands at the degradation of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T correspon...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Huong NL,Itoh K,Suyama K

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:The nifV gene encodes homocitrate synthase, the enzyme that catalyzes the formation of homocitrate, which is essential for arranging the FeMo-cofactor in the catalytic center of nitrogenase. Some host plants, such as Lotus japonicus, supply homocitrate to their symbionts, in this case, Mesorhizobium loti, which lacks ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hashimoto S,Wongdee J,Songwattana P,Greetatorn T,Goto K,Tittabutr P,Boonkerd N,Teaumroong N,Uchiumi T

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particle structures that infect Acanthamoeba cells. The first Marseillevirus to be discovered was isolated in 2009. Since then, several other members of the Marseilleviridae family have been reported, including Lausannevirus, Senegalvirus, C...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Takemura M

更新日期：2016-12-23 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：:Fucose-containing oligosaccharides on the cell surface of some pathogenic bacteria are thought to be important for host-microbe interactions and to play a major role in the pathogenicity of bacterial pathogens. Here, we screened marine bacteria for glycosyltransferases using two methods: a one-pot glycosyltransferase ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kajiwara H,Toda M,Mine T,Nakada H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Terrestrial hydrocarbon seeps are an important source of naturally emitted methane over geological time. The exact community compositions responsible for carbon cycling beneath these surface features remain obscure. As sulfate reduction represents an essential process for anoxic organic mineralization, this study coll...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Cheng TW,Lin LH,Lin YT,Song SR,Wang PL

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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