abstract：:Menez Gwen, Lucky Strike and Rainbow are the three most visited and well-known deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields in the Azores region, located in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Their distinct geological and ecological features allow them to support a diversity of vent communities, which are largely dependent on Bacteria and ...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Cerqueira T,Pinho D,Froufe H,Santos RS,Bettencourt R,Egas C

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant community characteristics impact rhizosphere Streptomyces nutrient competition and antagonistic capacities. However, the effects of Streptomyces on, and their responses to, coexisting microorganisms as a function of plant host or plant species richness have received little attention. In this work, we characteriz...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Essarioui A,LeBlanc N,Kistler HC,Kinkel LL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chilas and Hunza areas, located in the Main Mantle Thrust and Main Karakoram Thrust of the Himalayas, host a range of geochemically diverse hot springs. This Himalayan geothermal region encompassed hot springs ranging in temperature from 60 to 95 °C, in pH from 6.2 to 9.4, and in mineralogy from bicarbonates (Tato Fie...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Amin A,Ahmed I,Salam N,Kim BY,Singh D,Zhi XY,Xiao M,Li WJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic microbes that grow in and on many organisms can play important roles in protecting their hosts from pathogen infection. While species diversity has been shown to influence community function in many other natural systems, the question of how species diversity of host-associated symbiotic microbes contrib...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Piovia-Scott J,Rejmanek D,Woodhams DC,Worth SJ,Kenny H,McKenzie V,Lawler SP,Foley JE

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propionate degradation is a critical step during the conversion of complex organic matter under methanogenic conditions, and it requires a syntrophic cooperation between propionate-oxidizing bacteria and methanogenic archaea. Increasing evidences suggest that interspecies electron transfer for syntrophic metabolism is...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Zhuang L,Ma J,Tang J,Tang Z,Zhou S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscodor spp. are proficient producers of bioactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with many potential applications. However, all members of this genus produce varying amounts and types of VOCs which suggests the involvement of epigenetics as a possible explanation. The members of this genus are poorly explored for...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Qadri M,Nalli Y,Jain SK,Chaubey A,Ali A,Strobel GA,Vishwakarma RA,Riyaz-Ul-Hassan S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effect of the antiretroviral ritonavir on protease secretion in different strains of Cryptococcus neoformans isolated from the environment and investigated the expression of heat shock protein (Hsp90), classically described virulence factors in other yeast in the presence of the same antiretro...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Serafin CF,Paris AP,Paula CR,Simão RC,Gandra RF

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phyllosphere of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest has been estimated to contain several million bacterial species that are associated with approximately 20000 plant species. Despite the high bacterial diversity in the phyllosphere, the function of these microorganisms and the mechanisms driving their community assembl...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Lambais MR,Barrera SE,Santos EC,Crowley DE,Jumpponen A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial symbionts are increasingly recognised as mediators of ecologically important traits of their animal hosts, with acquisition of new traits possible by uptake of novel symbionts. The entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis downesi associates with two bacterial symbionts, Photorhabdus temperata subsp. tempera...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Maher AMD,Asaiyah MAM,Brophy C,Griffin CT

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that contaminated environments may harbor a greater proportion of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms than unpolluted reference sites. Here, we report the screening of 427 Escherichia coli strains isolated from 11 locations on nine streams draining the US Department of Energy's Sava...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： McArthur JV,Fletcher DE,Tuckfield RC,Baker-Austin C

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus spp. bacteria were first described in 1885 by Gustav Hauser, who had revealed their feature of intensive swarming growth. Currently, the genus is divided into Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Proteus penneri, Proteus hauseri, and three unnamed genomospecies 4, 5, and 6 and consists of 80 O-antigenic serogr...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Drzewiecka D

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) M. Schmidt is a stalked freshwater diatom that is expanding its range globally. In some rivers, D. geminata forms thick and expansive polysaccharide-dominated mats. Like other stalked diatoms, D. geminata cells attach to the substratum with a pad of adhesive extracellular polymeric sub...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Brandes J,Kuhajek JM,Goodwin E,Wood SA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commensal bacteria influence many aspects of an organism's behaviour. However, studies on the influence of commensal bacteria in insect mate-selection are scarce. Here, we present empirical evidence that commensal bacteria mediate mate-selection in the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis. Male flies were attracted...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Damodaram KJ,Ayyasamy A,Kempraj V

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ongoing climate change is expected to affect the diversity and activity of aquatic microbes, which play a key role in plant litter decomposition in forest streams. We used a before-after control-impact (BACI) design to study the effects of warming on a forest stream reach. The stream reach was divided by a longitudina...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Duarte S,Cássio F,Ferreira V,Canhoto C,Pascoal C

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrially derived carbon and nutrients are washed into lakes, providing nutritional drivers for both microbial heterotrophy and phototrophy. Changes in the quantity and diversity of carbon and nutrients exported from watersheds in response to alterations in long-term land use have led to a need for evaluation of t...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Song L,Li L

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil filamentous fungi play a prominent role in regulating ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. This necessitates understanding their responses to climate change drivers in order to predict how nutrient cycling and ecosystem services will be influenced in the future. Here, we provide a quantitative synthes...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Veresoglou SD,Anderson IC,de Sousa NM,Hempel S,Rillig MC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large areas of rainforest in Asia have been converted to plantations, with uncertain effects on soil biodiversity. Using standard metagenetic methods, we compared the soil biota of bacteria, fungi, and nematodes at three rainforest sites in Malaysia with two rubber plantation sites with similar soils and geology. We p...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Kerfahi D,Tripathi BM,Dong K,Go R,Adams JM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arcellininids (testate amoebae) were examined from 61 surface sediment samples collected from 59 lakes in the vicinity of former gold mines, notably Giant Mine, near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada to determine their utility as bioindicators of arsenic (As), which occurs both as a byproduct of gold extracti...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Nasser NA,Patterson RT,Roe HM,Galloway JM,Falck H,Palmer MJ,Spence C,Sanei H,Macumber AL,Neville LA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep sequencing of prokaryotic 16S rDNA regularly reveals thousands of microbial species thriving in many common habitats. It is still unknown how this huge microbial diversity, including many potentially competing organisms, may persist at a single site. One of plausible hypotheses is that a large number of spatially...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Falteisek L,Duchoslav V,Čepička I

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many vertebrates, social interactions and nutrition can affect the colonization of gut symbionts across generations. In the highly social honey bee, it is unknown to what extent the hive environment and older worker individuals contribute to the generational transmission of core gut bacteria. We used high-throughpu...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Anderson KE,Rodrigues PA,Mott BM,Maes P,Corby-Harris V

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foliar chemistry influences leaf decomposition, but little is known about how litter chemistry affects the assemblage of bacterial communities during decomposition. Here we examined relationships between initial litter chemistry and the composition of the bacterial community in a stream ecosystem. We incubated replica...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Wymore AS,Liu CM,Hungate BA,Schwartz E,Price LB,Whitham TG,Marks JC

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic bacteria are, in many aquatic systems, reliant on autochthonous organic carbon as their energy source. One exception is low-productive humic lakes, where allochthonous dissolved organic matter (ADOM) is the major driver. We hypothesized that bacterial production (BP) is similarly regulated in subarctic e...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Figueroa D,Rowe OF,Paczkowska J,Legrand C,Andersson A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of salinity on prokaryotic community diversity in Abijata-Shalla Soda Ash Concentration Pond system was investigated by using high-throughput 16S rRNA gene 454 pyrosequencing. Surface water and brine samples from five sites spanning a salinity range of 3.4 % (Lake Abijata) to 32 % (SP230F, crystallizer pond...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Simachew A,Lanzén A,Gessesse A,Øvreås L

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saltmarshes are typically dominated by perennial grasses with large underground rhizome systems that can change local sediment conditions and be important in shaping the sediment microbial community. Factors such as salinity that control plant zonation in saltmarshes are also likely to influence the microbial communit...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Rietl AJ,Overlander ME,Nyman AJ,Jackson CR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization and succession of diazotrophs are essential for the development of organic soil layers in desert. We examined the succession of diazotrophs in the well-established revegetated areas representing a chronosequence of 0 year (control), 22 years (restored artificially since 1981), 57 years (restored artif...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Wang J,Bao JT,Li XR,Liu YB

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial symbionts on frog skin can reduce the growth of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) through production of inhibitory metabolites. Bacteria can be effective at increasing the resistance of amphibians to chytridiomycosis when added to amphibian skin, and isolates can be screened for producti...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Yasumiba K,Bell S,Alford R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reveal the variation of microbial community functions during water filtration process in river sediments, which has been utilized widely in natural water treatment systems, this study investigates the influence of municipal wastewater discharge to streams on the phylotype and metabolic potential of the microbiome i...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Li D,Sharp JO,Drewes JE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, there is a limited understanding of the role of the airway microbiome in the early life development of respiratory diseases such as asthma, partly due to a lack of simple and minimally invasive sample collection methods. In order to characterize the baseline microbiome of the upper respiratory tract (URT) in ...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Shilts MH,Rosas-Salazar C,Tovchigrechko A,Larkin EK,Torralba M,Akopov A,Halpin R,Peebles RS,Moore ML,Anderson LJ,Nelson KE,Hartert TV,Das SR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term disposal of radioactive wastes in a deep geological repository is the accepted international solution for the treatment and management of these special residues. The microbial community of the selected host rocks and engineered barriers for the deep geological repository may affect the performance and th...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Lopez-Fernandez M,Cherkouk A,Vilchez-Vargas R,Jauregui R,Pieper D,Boon N,Sanchez-Castro I,Merroun ML

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red clay was previously used to enhance bioremediation of diesel-contaminated soil. It was speculated that the enhanced degradation of diesel was due to increased bacterial growth. In this study, we selected Acinetobacter oleivorans DR1, a soil-borne degrader of diesel and alkanes, as a model bacterium and performed t...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Jung J,Jang IA,Ahn S,Shin B,Kim J,Park C,Jee SC,Sung JS,Park W

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hardly any molecular studies have been done on euendoliths of marine coastal environments, especially along the supratidal ranges of carbonate coasts. In our study, we provide a comparative sequence analysis using 454 pyrosequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene combined with extensive microscopy of the endolit...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Brandes M,Albach DC,Vogt JC,Mayland-Quellhorst E,Mendieta-Leiva G,Golubic S,Palinska KA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bark beetles are the most important mortality agent in coniferous forests, and pheromones play important roles in their management. Dendroctonus valens LeConte was introduced from North America to China and has killed millions of healthy pines there. Trapping with semiochemicals and pheromones was deployed in D. valen...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Xu L,Lou Q,Cheng C,Lu M,Sun J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to their ubiquitous presence and ability to act as primary or opportunistic pathogens, Vibrio species greatly contribute to the diversity and evolution of marine ecosystems. This study was aimed at unveiling the cellular strategies enabling the marine gammaproteobacterium Vibrio harveyi to adapt and persist in n...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Kaberdin VR,Montánchez I,Parada C,Orruño M,Arana I,Barcina I

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are ubiquitous in aquatic environments. Biodegradation is a major way to clean up the BPA pollution in sediments. However, information on the effective BPA biodegradation in anaerobic sediments is still lacking. The present study investigated the biod...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Yang Y,Wang Z,He T,Dai Y,Xie S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of microbial communities to disturbance is a major concern for microbial ecologists since potential modifications in their composition and functioning may affect ecosystems to a larger extent. Microbial ecosystems may be resistant (not affected) or may present engineering (return to initial state) or ecol...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Barthès A,Ten-Hage L,Lamy A,Rols JL,Leflaive J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological transformations derived from habitat fragmentation have led to increased threats to above-ground biodiversity. However, the impacts of forest fragmentation on soils and their microbial communities are not well understood. We examined the effects of contrasting fragment sizes on the structure and functioning...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Flores-Rentería D,Curiel Yuste J,Rincón A,Brearley FQ,García-Gil JC,Valladares F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative amounts of hyphal inoculum in forest soils may determine the capacity for fungi to compete with and replace early colonizers of wood in ground contact. Our aim in this study was to test the flexibility of priority effects (colonization timing) by varying the timing of inoculum introduction (i.e., precolon...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Song Z,Vail A,Sadowsky MJ,Schilling JS

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of Fusarium solani species complex (FSSC) have been known as plant, animal, and human pathogens. Nevertheless, the taxonomic status of such an important group of fungi is still very confusing and many new species as well as lineages have been elucidated recently. Unfortunately, most of the new taxa came from t...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Chehri K,Salleh B,Zakaria L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic methanotrophs present in wetlands can serve as a methane filter and thereby significantly reduce methane emissions. Sanjiang wetland is a major methane source and the second largest wetland in China, yet little is known about the characteristics of aerobic methanotrophs in this region. In the present study, we...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Yun J,Zhang H,Deng Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For most mammals, including nonhuman primates, diet composition varies temporally in response to differences in food availability. Because diet influences gut microbiota composition, it is likely that the gut microbiota of wild mammals varies in response to seasonal changes in feeding patterns. Such variation may affe...

journal_title：Microbial ecology

authors： Amato KR,Leigh SR,Kent A,Mackie RI,Yeoman CJ,Stumpf RM,Wilson BA,Nelson KE,White BA,Garber PA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00