abstract：:In a future scenario of increasing temperatures in North-Atlantic waters, the risk associated with the expansion of the harmful, benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. siamensis has to be evaluated and monitored. Microscopy observations and spatio-temporal surveys of environmental DNA (eDNA) were associated with Lagran...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Drouet K,Jauzein C,Herviot-Heath D,Hariri S,Laza-Martinez A,Lecadet C,Plus M,Seoane S,Sourisseau M,Lemée R,Siano R

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic association is universal in nature, and an array of symbionts play a crucial part in host life history. Aphids and their diverse symbionts have become a good model system to study insect-symbiont interactions. Previous symbiotic diversity surveys have mainly focused on a few aphid clades, and the relative im...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Qin M,Chen J,Xu S,Jiang L,Qiao G

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its environmental robustness Pseudomonas putida strain KT2440 is very sensitive to DNA damage and displays poor homologous recombination efficiencies. To gain an insight into this deficiency isogenic ∆recA and ∆lexA1 derivatives of prophage-free strain P. putida EM173 were generated and responses of the recA a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Akkaya Ö,Aparicio T,Pérez-Pantoja D,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Our lower gastrointestinal tract plays host to a vast consortium of microbes, known as the human gut microbiota (HGM). The HGM thrives on a complex and diverse range of glycan structures from both dietary and host sources, the breakdown of which requires the concerted action of cohorts of carbohydrate-active enzymes (...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Briggs JA,Grondin JM,Brumer H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the extent of parasite diversity requires the application of appropriate molecular tools, especially given the growing evidence of multiple parasite co-occurrence. Here, we compared the performance of a next-generation sequencing technology (Ion PGM ™ System) in 12 Bombus terrestris specimens that were PCR-i...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bartolomé C,Jabal-Uriel C,Buendía-Abad M,Benito M,Ornosa C,De la Rúa P,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M,Maside X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality microbiome research relies on the integrity, management and quality of supporting data. Currently biobanks and culture collections have different formats and approaches to data management. This necessitates a standard data format to underpin research, particularly in line with the FAIR data standards of f...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ryan MJ,Schloter M,Berg G,Kinkel LL,Eversole K,Macklin JA,Rybakova D,Sessitsch A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of archetypal ribonucleases (RNases) in the physiology and stress endurance of the soil bacterium and metabolic engineering platform Pseudomonas putida KT2440 has been inspected. To this end, variants of this strain lacking each of the most important RNases were constructed. Each mutant lacked either one exor...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Apura P,de Lorenzo V,Arraiano CM,Martínez-García E,Viegas SC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MerF, a proposed bacterial mercury transporter, was surprisingly found to play key roles in the flagellum biogenesis and motility but not mercuric resistance of the deep-sea bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri 273 in our previous study. However, the mechanism behind this interesting discovery has not been elucidated. Here,...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zheng R,Wu S,Sun C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raphidiopsis raciborskii is an invasive bloom-forming cyanobacteria with the flexibility to utilize atmospheric and fixed nitrogen. Since nitrogen-fixation has a high requirement for iron as an ezyme cofactor, we hypothesize that iron availability would determine the success of the species under nitrogen-fixing condit...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： D'Agostino PM,Yeung ACY,Poljak A,David Waite T,Neilan BA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advances in synthetic biology bring exciting new opportunities to reprogram microorganisms with novel functionalities for environmental applications. For real-world applications, a genetic tool that enables genetic engineering in a stably genomic inherited manner is greatly desired. In this work, we design a novel...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fan YY,Tang Q,Li Y,Li FH,Wu JH,Li WW,Yu HQ

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Geothermal springs are essentially unaffected by environmental conditions aboveground as they are continuously supplied with subsurface water with little variability in chemistry. Therefore, changes in their microbial community composition and function, especially over a long period, are expected to be limited but thi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meziti A,Nikouli E,Hatt JK,Konstantinidis KT,Kormas KA

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated Streptomyces biogeography in soils along a 1200 km latitudinal transect across New Zealand (NZ). Streptomyces diversity was examined using high-throughput sequencing of rpoB amplicons generated with a Streptomyces specific primer set. We detected 1287 Streptomyces rpoB operational taxonomic units (OTUs) w...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Higgins SA,Panke-Buisse K,Buckley DH

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-sea ecosystems, such as cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, have high biomass, even though they are located in the benthic zone, where no sunlight is present to provide energy for organism proliferation. Based on the coexistence of the reduced gases and chemoautotrophic microbes, it is inferred that the energy fro...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sun X,Yang J,Zheng M,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance Nodulation cell Division (RND) efflux pumps are known to contribute to the tolerance of Pseudomonas putida to aromatic hydrocarbons, but their role in antibiotic resistance has not been fully elucidated. In this study, two types of single-step multidrug-resistant (MDR) mutants were selected in vitro from re...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Puja H,Comment G,Chassagne S,Plésiat P,Jeannot K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic modules usually consisting of two elements-a toxin and an antitoxin. The abundance of TA systems among various bacterial strains may indicate an important evolutionary role. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can be found in a variety of niches in nature, is an opportunistic p...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zander I,Shmidov E,Roth S,Ben-David Y,Shoval I,Shoshani S,Danielli A,Banin E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common polysaccharide antigen (CPA) of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Pseudomonas syringae is highly variable, but the genetic basis for this is poorly understood. We have characterized the CPA locus from P. syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa). This locus has genes for l- and d-rhamnose biosynthesis and an operon cod...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jayaraman J,Jones WT,Harvey D,Hemara LM,McCann HC,Yoon M,Warring SL,Fineran PC,Mesarich CH,Templeton MD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria play major roles in global biogeochemical cycles and oceanic nutrient fluxes. These interactions occur in the microenvironment surrounding phytoplankton cells, known as the phycosphere. Bacteria in the phycosphere use either chemotaxis or attachment to benefit from algal...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fei C,Ochsenkühn MA,Shibl AA,Isaac A,Wang C,Amin SA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies in plant, soil, and human systems have shown that microbial volatiles can mediate microbe-microbe or microbe-host interactions. These previous studies have often used artificially high concentrations of volatiles compared to in situ systems and have not demonstrated the roles volatiles play in mediati...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cosetta CM,Kfoury N,Robbat A,Wolfe BE

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive metagenomic sequencing combined with gene prediction methods were previously used to compile the gene catalogue of the ocean and host-associated microbes. Global expeditions conducted over the past 15 years have sampled the ocean to build a catalogue of genes from pelagic microbes. Here we undertook a large se...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Duarte CM,Ngugi DK,Alam I,Pearman J,Kamau A,Eguiluz VM,Gojobori T,Acinas SG,Gasol JM,Bajic V,Irigoien X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus are major contributors to global primary productivity and are found in a wide range of aquatic ecosystems. This Synechococcus collective (SC) is metabolically diverse, with some lineages thriving in polar and nutrient-rich locations and others in tropical or riverine waters. Al...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Salazar VW,Tschoeke DA,Swings J,Cosenza CA,Mattoso M,Thompson CC,Thompson FL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct electron uptake is emerging as a key process for electron transfer in anaerobic microbial communities, both between species and from extracellular sources, such as zero-valent iron (Fe0 ) or cathodic surfaces. In this study, we investigated cathodic electron uptake by Fe0 -corroding Desulfovibrio ferrophilus IS...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： McCully AL,Spormann AM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The d- and l-forms of lactate are important fermentation metabolites produced by intestinal bacteria but are found to negatively affect mucosal barrier function and human health. Both enantiomers of lactate can be converted with acetate into the presumed beneficial butyrate by a phylogenetically related group of anaer...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Shetty SA,Boeren S,Bui TPN,Smidt H,de Vos WM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi have been observed to exhibit resistance to high levels of ionizing radiation despite sharing most DNA repair mechanisms with other eukaryotes. Radioresistance, in fact, is such a common feature in fungi that it is difficult to identify species that exhibit widely different radiosensitivities, which in turn has ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Romsdahl J,Schultzhaus Z,Chen A,Liu J,Ewing A,Hervey J,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI nanomachine is critical for Vibrio cholerae to establish infections and to thrive in niches co-occupied by competing bacteria. The genes for the type VI structural proteins are encoded in one large and two small auxiliary gene clusters. VCA0117 (VasH) - a σ54 -transcriptional activator - is strictly requir...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Seibt H,Aung KM,Ishikawa T,Sjöström A,Gullberg M,Atkinson GC,Wai SN,Shingler V

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As microbiologists we live in exciting times. A variety of technical and conceptual developments, particularly in the last decade have revolutionized the field of microbiology, redrawing the landscape, and entirely redefining what is possible. Perhaps this paradigm shift is no more apparent than in the study of vibrio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Baker-Austin C,Trinanes J,Martinez-Urtaza J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As filter-feeders, bivalve molluscs accumulate Vibrio into edible tissues. Consequently, an accurate assessment of depuration procedures and the characterization of the persistent Vibrio community in depurated shellfish represent a key issue to guarantee food safety in shellfish products. The present study investigate...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zampieri A,Carraro L,Cardazzo B,Milan M,Babbucci M,Smits M,Boffo L,Fasolato L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aromatic hydrocarbon naphthalene, which occurs in coal and oil, can be degraded by aerobic or anaerobic microorganisms. A wide-spread electron acceptor for the latter is sulfate. Evidence for in situ naphthalene degradation stems in particular from the detection of 2-naphthoate and [5,6,7,8]-tetrahydro-2-naphthoat...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chen G,Widdel F,Musat F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis is an emergent, fatal fungal infection of humans and warm-blooded animals caused by species of the order Mucorales. Immune cells of the innate immune system serve as the first line of defence against inhaled spores. Alveolar macrophages were challenged with the mucoralean fungus Lichtheimia corymbifera an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hassan MIA,Kruse JM,Krüger T,Dahse HM,Cseresnyés Z,Blango MG,Slevogt H,Hörhold F,Ast V,König R,Figge MT,Kniemeyer O,Brakhage AA,Voigt K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotrophic carbon dioxide (CO2 ) fixation by microbes is ubiquitous in the environment and potentially contributes to the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool. However, the multiple autotrophic pathways of microbial carbon assimilation and fixation in paddy soils remain poorly characterized. In this study, we combine metag...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Xiao KQ,Ge TD,Wu XH,Peacock CL,Zhu ZK,Peng J,Bao P,Wu JS,Zhu YG

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In warm regions, agricultural fields are occupied by complex Aspergillus flavus communities composed of isolates in many vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) with varying abilities to produce highly toxic, carcinogenic aflatoxins. Aflatoxin contamination is reduced with biocontrol products that enable atoxigenic iso...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ortega-Beltran A,Callicott KA,Cotty PJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the oil in low temperature, non-uplifted reservoirs is biodegraded due to millions of years of microbial activity, including via methanogenesis from crude oil. To evaluate stimulating additional methanogenesis in already heavily biodegraded oil reservoirs, oil sands samples were amended with nutrients and elec...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： de Rezende JR,Oldenburg TBP,Korin T,Richardson WDL,Fustic M,Aitken CM,Bowler BFJ,Sherry A,Grigoryan A,Voordouw G,Larter SR,Head IM,Hubert CRJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria developed many different ways to orient themselves in the environment. Magnetoreception with following motility along Earth's magnetic field lines and photoreception with subsequent positive or negative phototaxis allow bacteria to optimally position themselves for survival and growth. Some bacteria show both...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wettstadt S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their key role in biogeochemical processes, particularly the methane cycle, archaea are widely underrepresented in molecular surveys because of their lower abundance compared with bacteria and eukaryotes. Here, we use parallel high-resolution small subunit rRNA gene sequencing to explore archaeal diversity in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Juottonen H,Fontaine L,Wurzbacher C,Drakare S,Peura S,Eiler A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role during host-pathogen interactions and are often an indication of induced host defence responses. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that Puccinia triticina (Pt) generates ROS, including superoxide, H2 O2 and hydroxyl radicals, during wheat infection. T...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Che MZ,Khalil HB,McCallum BD,Bakkeren G,Rampitsch C,Saville BJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary metabolites (SMs) are crucial for fungi and vary in function from beneficial antibiotics to pathogenicity factors. To generate diversified SMs that enable different functions, SM-coding regions rapidly evolve in fungal genomes. However, the driving force and genetic mechanism of fungal SM diversification in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhong Z,Lin L,Zheng H,Bao J,Chen M,Zhang L,Tang W,Ebbole DJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 produces intracellular gas vesicles to enable upward flotation in water columns. It also uses flagellar rotation to swim through liquid and swarm across semi-solid surfaces. Flotation and motility can be co-regulated with production of a β-lactam antibiotic (carbapenem carboxylate) and a linear...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Quintero-Yanes A,Lee CM,Monson R,Salmond G

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) induce the synthesis of a myriad of secondary metabolites, including aflatoxins. It raises significant concern as it is a potent environmental contaminant. In Aspergillus flavus., antioxidant enzymes link ROS stress response with coordinated gene regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis. In t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhu Z,Yang M,Bai Y,Ge F,Wang S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a multitude of resistance strategies that microbes can apply to avoid inhibition by antimicrobials. One of these strategies is the enzymatic modification of the antibiotic, in a process generally termed inactivation. Furthermore, some microorganisms may not be limited to the mere inactivation of the antimicr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Perri R,Kolvenbach BA,Corvini PFX

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes inhabiting intermittent streambeds are responsible for controlling and developing many biogeochemical processes essential for the ecosystem functions. Although streambed microbiota is adapted to intermittency the intensification of water scarcity and prolonged dry periods may jeopardise their capacity to cope...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gionchetta G,Artigas J,Arias-Real R,Oliva F,Romaní AM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serpentinization is the hydration and oxidation of ultramafic rock, which occurs as oceanic lithosphere is emplaced onto continental margins (ophiolites), and along the seafloor as faulting exposes this mantle-derived material to circulating hydrothermal fluids. This process leads to distinctive fluid chemistries as m...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sabuda MC,Brazelton WJ,Putman LI,McCollom TM,Hoehler TM,Kubo MDY,Cardace D,Schrenk MO

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00