Comparative Analysis of the Genetic Basis of Branched Nonylphenol Degradation by Sphingobium amiense DSM 16289T and Sphingobium cloacae JCM 10874T.

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：: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：:Termites depend nutritionally on their gut microbes, and protistan, bacterial, and archaeal gut communities have been extensively studied. However, limited information is available on viruses in the termite gut. We herein report the complete genome sequence (99,517 bp) of a phage obtained during a genome analysis of "...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Pramono AK,Kuwahara H,Itoh T,Toyoda A,Yamada A,Hongoh Y

更新日期：2017-06-24 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：:Giant viruses of 'Megaviridae' have the ability to widely disperse around the globe. We herein examined 'Megaviridae' communities in four distinct aquatic environments (coastal and offshore seawater, brackish water, and hot spring freshwater), which are distantly located from each other (between 74 and 1,765 km), usin...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Li Y,Endo H,Gotoh Y,Watai H,Ogawa N,Blanc-Mathieu R,Yoshida T,Ogata H

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly-developed molecular method, hierarchical oligonucleotide primer extension (HOPE), was used to analyze various groups within the species Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. PCR-amplified internally transcribed spacer sequences of 16S-23S from C. raciborskii in reservoir samples of Taiwan and Kinmen were examined. O...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wu JH,Hsu MH,Hung CH,Tseng IC,Lin TF

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:Fusarium oxysporum is an ascomycetous fungus that is well-known as a soilborne plant pathogen. In addition, a large population of nonpathogenic F. oxysporum (NPF) inhabits various environmental niches, including the phytosphere. To obtain an insight into the origin of plant pathogenic F. oxysporum, we focused on the t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Inami K,Kashiwa T,Kawabe M,Onokubo-Okabe A,Ishikawa N,Pérez ER,Hozumi T,Caballero LA,de Baldarrago FC,Roco MJ,Madadi KA,Peever TL,Teraoka T,Kodama M,Arie T

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The diversity and abundance of Burkholderia species in sugarcane field soils were investigated by a 16S rRNA gene-based approach using genus-specific primers. A total of 365,721 sequences generated by the Illumina MiSeq platform were assigned to the genus Burkholderia. Nearly 58% of these sequences were placed in a pr...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tago K,Itoh H,Kikuchi Y,Hori T,Sato Y,Nagayama A,Okubo T,Navarro R,Aoyagi T,Hayashi K,Hayatsu M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the prokaryotic community structure of the anaerobic ciliate, Metopus sp. using rRNA sequencing, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Metopus sp. was physically separated from anaerobic granular sludge in a domestic waste...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hirakata Y,Oshiki M,Kuroda K,Hatamoto M,Kubota K,Yamaguchi T,Harada H,Araki N

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The addition of ferrihydrite to methanogenic microbial communities obtained from a thermophilic anaerobic digester suppressed methanogenesis in a dose-dependent manner. The amount of reducing equivalents consumed by the reduction of iron was significantly smaller than that expected from the decrease in the production ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yamada C,Kato S,Ueno Y,Ishii M,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00