abstract：:Vegetation and water table are important regulators of methane emission in peatlands. Microform variation encompasses these factors in small-scale topographic gradients of dry hummocks, intermediate lawns and wet hollows. We examined methane production and oxidization among microforms in four boreal bogs that showed m...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Juottonen H,Kotiaho M,Robinson D,Merilä P,Fritze H,Tuittila ES

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic hyperalkaline sites provide an environment that is analogous to proposed cementitious geological disposal facilities (GDF) for radioactive waste. Under anoxic, alkaline conditions cellulosic wastes will hydrolyze to a range of cellulose degradation products (CDP) dominated by isosaccharinic acids (ISA). ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Charles CJ,Rout SP,Garratt EJ,Patel K,Laws AP,Humphreys PN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid flagellates, microscopically often detected from various aquatic environments and considered ubiquitous are seldom reported in molecular diversity studies with universal eukaryote DNA primers. To investigate this inconsistency, we examined nanoflagellate diversity in Lake Biwa, Japan by 18S rRNA gene clo...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Mukherjee I,Hodoki Y,Nakano S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased warming in spring and prolonged summer drought may alter soil microbial denitrification. We measured potential denitrification activity and denitrifier marker gene abundances (nirK, nirS, nosZ) in grasslands soils in three geographic regions characterized by site-specific land-use indices (LUI) after warming...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Keil D,Niklaus PA,von Riedmatten LR,Boeddinghaus RS,Dormann CF,Scherer-Lorenzen M,Kandeler E,Marhan S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrate-producing bacteria are promising probiotic candidates to target microbial dysbiosis in gastrointestinal disorders like inflammatory bowel diseases. Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum 25-3(T), a butyrate-producing clostridial cluster IV strain, is such a candidate. Little is known about its abundance in the colon mi...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Geirnaert A,Wang J,Tinck M,Steyaert A,Van den Abbeele P,Eeckhaut V,Vilchez-Vargas R,Falony G,Laukens D,De Vos M,Van Immerseel F,Raes J,Boon N,Van de Wiele T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stream epilithic biofilm community assembly is influenced in part by environmental factors. Autumn leaf deposition is an annual resource subsidy to streams, but the physical effects of leaves settling on epilithic biofilms has not been investigated.We hypothesized that bacterial and microeukaryotic community assembly ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Lang JM,McEwan RW,Benbow ME

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous microscopy-based studies in the eastern English Channel have revealed it to be a productive meso-eutrophic coastal ecosystem, characterized by strong repeating patterns in microplankton succession. The present study examines the seasonal structure of the entire protistan community from March 2011 to July 2013...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Genitsaris S,Monchy S,Viscogliosi E,Sime-Ngando T,Ferreira S,Christaki U

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota of insects contributes positively to the physiology of its host mainly by participating in food digestion, protecting against pathogens, or provisioning vitamins or amino acids, but the dynamics of this complex ecosystem is not well understood so far. In this study, we have characterized the gut mic...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Pérez-Cobas AE,Maiques E,Angelova A,Carrasco P,Moya A,Latorre A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsurface removal of arsenic by injection with oxygenated groundwater has been proposed as a viable technology for obtaining 'safe' drinking water in Bangladesh. While the oxidation of ferrous iron to solid ferric iron minerals, to which arsenic adsorbs, is assumed to be driven by abiotic reactions, metal-cycling mic...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Hassan Z,Sultana M,van Breukelen BM,Khan SI,Röling WF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal communities in Norway spruce (Picea abies) logs in two forests in Sweden were investigated by 454-sequence analyses and by examining the ecological roles of the detected taxa. We also investigated the relationship between fruit bodies and mycelia in wood and whether community assembly was affected by how the de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ottosson E,Kubartová A,Edman M,Jönsson M,Lindhe A,Stenlid J,Dahlberg A

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Drift ice, open water and under-ice water bacterial communities covering several developmental stages from open water to thick ice were studied in the northern Baltic Sea. The bacterial communities were assessed with 16S rRNA gene terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism and cloning, together with bacterial a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Eronen-Rasimus E,Lyra C,Rintala JM,Jürgens K,Ikonen V,Kaartokallio H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown that microbial communities in Antarctic environments are highly diverse. However, considering that the Antarctic Peninsula is among the regions with the fastest warming rates, and that regional climate change has been linked to an increase in the mean rate of glacier retreat, the microbial d...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Pessi IS,Osorio-Forero C,Gálvez EJ,Simões FL,Simões JC,Junca H,Macedo AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stolotermes ruficeps is a widespread, primitive, lower termite occupying dead and decaying wood of many tree species in New Zealand's temperate forests. We identified core bacterial taxa involved in gut processes through combined DNA- and RNA (cDNA)-based pyrosequencing analysis of the 16S nucleotide sequence from fiv...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Reid NM,Addison SL,West MA,Lloyd-Jones G

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GeoChip 4.2 gene array was employed to interrogate the microbial functional gene repertoire of sponges and seawater collected from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Complementary amplicon sequencing confirmed the microbial community composition characteristic of high microbial abundance (HMA) and low microbial ab...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Bayer K,Moitinho-Silva L,Brümmer F,Cannistraci CV,Ravasi T,Hentschel U

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with the knowledge of sponge-associated bacterial diversity and ecological roles, the fungal diversity and ecological roles of sponges remain largely unknown. In this study, the fungal diversity and protein synthesis potential in two South China Sea sponges Theonella swinhoei and Xestospongia testudinaria wer...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Jin L,Liu F,Sun W,Zhang F,Karuppiah V,Li Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Sheath-forming iron- and manganese-depositing bacteria belonging to the Sphaerotilus-Leptothrix group (SLG) are widespread in natural and artificial water systems. Known requirements for their growth include the presence of organic substrates and molecular oxygen. High concentrations of reduced iron or manganese, alth...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Schmidt B,Sánchez LA,Fretschner T,Kreps G,Ferrero MA,Siñeriz F,Szewzyk U

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Plastic pollution is now recognised as a major threat to marine environments and marine biota. Recent research highlights that diverse microbial species are found to colonise plastic surfaces (the plastisphere) within marine waters. Here, we investigate how the structure and diversity of marine plastisphere microbial ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Oberbeckmann S,Loeder MG,Gerdts G,Osborn AM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial communities in Arctic sea ice play an important role in the regulation of nutrient and energy dynamics in the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice has vertical gradients in temperature, brine salinity and volume, and light and UV levels. Multiyear ice (MYI) has at least two distinct ice layers: old fresh ice with limited p...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Hatam I,Charchuk R,Lange B,Beckers J,Haas C,Lanoil B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia oxidizers catalyze the first step of nitrification. Combined microbial nitrification-denitrification activities are essential for the removal of excess nitrogen from water bodies. In sandy streambeds, bed form structures are created by water flow and lead to the creation of heterogeneous microenvironments. The...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Yanuka-Golub K,Arnon S,Nejidat A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil RNA and DNA were coextracted along a contamination gradient at a landfarming field with aged crude oil contamination to investigate pollution-dependent differences in 16S rRNA and rRNA gene pools. Microbial biomass correlated with nucleic acid yields as well as bacterial community change, indicating that the same...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Mikkonen A,Santalahti M,Lappi K,Pulkkinen AM,Montonen L,Suominen L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now, the culture of sulphur-oxidizing bacterial symbionts associated with marine invertebrates remains impossible. Therefore, few studies focused on symbiont's physiology under stress conditions. In this study, we carried out a comparative experiment based on two different species of lucinid bivalves (Codakia or...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Elisabeth NH,Caro A,Césaire T,Mansot JL,Escalas A,Sylvestre MN,Jean-Louis P,Gros O

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenic biodegradation involves the cooperative metabolism of syntrophic bacteria that catalyse the initial attack and subsequent degradation of hydrocarbons, and methanogens that convert intermediates such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide, formate, and/or acetate to methane. The identity of syntrophic microbes and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Fowler SJ,Gutierrez-Zamora ML,Manefield M,Gieg LM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed the microbial ecology on the surface of Mittivakkat glacier in SE-Greenland during the exceptional high melting season in July 2012 when the so far most extreme melting rate for the Greenland Ice Sheet has been recorded. By employing a complementary and multi-disciplinary field sampling and analytical...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Lutz S,Anesio AM,Jorge Villar SE,Benning LG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a 6-year field trial in a temperate steppe in Inner Mongolia, we investigated the effects of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization and mowing on the abundance and community compositions of ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria (AOB) and Archaea (AOA) upon early (May) and peak (August) plant growth using quantita...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Chen YL,Hu HW,Han HY,Du Y,Wan SQ,Xu ZW,Chen BD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although efforts have been made the past few years, knowledge on genomic and phenotypic diversity and occurrence of the denitrification ability in Gram-positive bacteria are still fragmentary. Many environmental monitoring approaches have used nir, nor, and nos genes as marker genes for detection of denitrification or...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Verbaendert I,Hoefman S,Boeckx P,Boon N,De Vos P

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are some of the most widespread xenobiotic pollutants, with the potentially carcinogenic high-molecular-weight representatives being of particular interest. However, while in eukaryotes, the cytochrome P450 (CYP)-mediated activation of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) has become a model f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Sowada J,Schmalenberger A,Ebner I,Luch A,Tralau T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marginal sea methane seep sediments sustain highly productive chemosynthetic ecosystems and are hotspots of intense biogeochemical cycling. Rich methane supply stimulates rapid microbial consumption of oxygen; these systems are thus usually hypoxic to anoxic. This and reported evidence for resident nitrogen fixation s...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Shao S,Luan X,Dang H,Zhou H,Zhao Y,Liu H,Zhang Y,Dai L,Ye Y,Klotz MG

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel approach to identifying and quantifying closely related organohalide-respiring bacteria. Our approach made use of the unique genomic associations of specific reductive dehalogenase subunit A encoding genes (rdhA) that exist in known strains of Dehalococcoides mccartyi and Desulfitobacterium a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Marshall IP,Azizian MF,Semprini L,Spormann AM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite predicted global warming, the temperature effects on headwater stream functioning are poorly understood. We studied these effects on microbial-mediated leaf decomposition and the performance of associated aquatic hyphomycete assemblages. Alder leaves were incubated in three streams differing in winter water te...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Martínez A,Larrañaga A,Pérez J,Descals E,Pozo J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomics combined with 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses was applied to unveil the taxonomic composition and functional diversity of the farmed adult turbot gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome. Proteobacteria and Firmicutes which existed in both GI content and mucus were dominated in the turbot GI microbiome. 16S rRNA ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Xing M,Hou Z,Yuan J,Liu Y,Qu Y,Liu B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides water, nitrogen is the limiting factor for biomass production in arid ecosystems. Global climatic changes are exacerbating aridity levels, and the response of nitrogen-transforming microorganisms to these changes is not clear yet. Using semi-arid and arid ecosystems as surrogates for conditions of increased ar...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Sher Y,Zaady E,Nejidat A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo contain over 1800 preserved bodies dating from the 16th to 20th centuries AD and showing evidence of biodeterioration. An extensive microbiological and molecular investigation was recently performed. Samples were taken from skin, muscle, hair, bone, stuffing materials, clothes, and su...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Piñar G,Piombino-Mascali D,Maixner F,Zink A,Sterflinger K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) was examined at different age classes using fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) and 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing. The FISH results indicated that in the fur seal groups, the predominant phyla are Firmicutes (22.14-67.33%) followed by Ba...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Smith SC,Chalker A,Dewar ML,Arnould JP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are common to drylands worldwide. We employed replicated, spatially nested sampling and 16S rRNA gene sequencing to describe the soil microbial communities in three soils derived from different parent material (sandstone, shale, and gypsum). For each soil type, two depths (biocrusts,...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Steven B,Gallegos-Graves LV,Belnap J,Kuske CR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In drinking water (DW) and the distribution systems, bacterial growth and biofilm formation have to be controlled both for limiting taste or odour development and preventing clogging or biocorrosion problems. After a contamination with undesired bacteria, factors like nutrient availability and temperature will influen...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Van Nevel S,De Roy K,Boon N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00