Search Results - "Environmental microbiology"

Formation of propionate and butyrate by the human colonic microbiota by Louis, Petra, Flint, Harry J.

“…Summary The human gut microbiota ferments dietary non‐digestible carbohydrates into short‐chain fatty acids (SCFA). These microbial products are utilized by…”
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Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples by Parada, Alma E., Needham, David M., Fuhrman, Jed A.

“…Summary Microbial community analysis via high‐throughput sequencing of amplified 16S rRNA genes is an essential microbiology tool. We found the popular primer…”
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Soil pH and temperature regulate assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems by Jiao, Shuo, Lu, Yahai

“…Summary The factors determining stochastic and deterministic processes that drive microbial community structure, specifically the balance of abundant and rare…”
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Differentiation strategies of soil rare and abundant microbial taxa in response to changing climatic regimes by Liang, Yuting, Xiao, Xian, Nuccio, Erin E., Yuan, Mengting, Zhang, Na, Xue, Kai, Cohan, Frederick M., Zhou, Jizhong, Sun, Bo

“…Summary Despite the important roles of soil microbes, especially the most diverse rare taxa in maintaining community diversity and multifunctionality, how…”
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Rare taxa maintain the stability of crop mycobiomes and ecosystem functions by Xiong, Chao, He, Ji‐Zheng, Singh, Brajesh K., Zhu, Yong‐Guan, Wang, Jun‐Tao, Li, Pei‐Pei, Zhang, Qin‐Bing, Han, Li‐Li, Shen, Ju‐Pei, Ge, An‐Hui, Wu, Chuan‐Fa, Zhang, Li‐Mei

“…Summary Plants harbour highly diverse mycobiomes which sustain essential functions for host health and productivity. However, ecological processes that govern…”
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The plant endosphere world – bacterial life within plants by Compant, Stéphane, Cambon, Marine C., Vacher, Corinne, Mitter, Birgit, Samad, Abdul, Sessitsch, Angela

“…Summary The plant endosphere is colonized by complex microbial communities and microorganisms, which colonize the plant interior at least part of their…”
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Evidence for selective bacterial community structuring on microplastics by Ogonowski, Martin, Motiei, Asa, Ininbergs, Karolina, Hell, Eva, Gerdes, Zandra, Udekwu, Klas I., Bacsik, Zoltan, Gorokhova, Elena

“…Summary In aquatic ecosystems, microplastics are a relatively new anthropogenic substrate that can readily be colonized by biofilm‐forming organisms. To…”
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Salinity controls soil microbial community structure and function in coastal estuarine wetlands by Zhang, Guangliang, Bai, Junhong, Tebbe, Christoph C., Zhao, Qingqing, Jia, Jia, Wang, Wei, Wang, Xin, Yu, Lu

“…Summary Soil salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities, but the consequences for microbial diversity and biogeochemical…”
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Where in the world do bacteria experience oxidative stress? by Imlay, James A.

“…Summary Reactive oxygen species – superoxide, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals – have long been suspected of constraining bacterial growth in important…”
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Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient by Shen, Congcong, Gunina, Anna, Luo, Yu, Wang, Jianjun, He, Ji‐Zheng, Kuzyakov, Yakov, Hemp, Andreas, Classen, Aimée T., Ge, Yuan

“…Summary Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their shaping mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil…”
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Archaea produce lower yields of N2O than bacteria during aerobic ammonia oxidation in soil by Hink, Linda, Nicol, Graeme W., Prosser, James I.

“…Summary Nitrogen fertilisation of agricultural soil contributes significantly to emissions of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O), which is generated…”
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It is elemental: soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity by Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Khachane, Amit N., Campbell, Colin D., Thomas, Nadine, Freitag, Thomas E., Abu Al‐Soud, Waleed, Sørensen, Søren, Bardgett, Richard D., Singh, Brajesh K.

“…Summary It is well established that resource quantity and elemental stoichiometry play major roles in shaping below and aboveground plant biodiversity, but…”
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Oscillospira and related bacteria – From metagenomic species to metabolic features by Gophna, Uri, Konikoff, Tom, Nielsen, Henrik Bjørn

“…Summary Oscillospira is an under‐studied anaerobic bacterial genus from Clostridial cluster IV that has resisted cultivation for over a century since the first…”
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Strong impact of anthropogenic contamination on the co‐occurrence patterns of a riverine microbial community by Hu, Anyi, Ju, Feng, Hou, Liyuan, Li, Jiangwei, Yang, Xiaoyong, Wang, Hongjie, Mulla, Sikandar I., Sun, Qian, Bürgmann, Helmut, Yu, Chang‐Ping

“…Summary Although the health of rivers is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors with increasing frequency, it remains an open question how riverine…”
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Field study reveals core plant microbiota and relative importance of their drivers by Hamonts, Kelly, Trivedi, Pankaj, Garg, Anshu, Janitz, Caroline, Grinyer, Jasmine, Holford, Paul, Botha, Frederik C., Anderson, Ian C., Singh, Brajesh K.

“…Summary Harnessing plant microbiota can assist in sustainably increasing primary productivity to meet growing global demands for food and biofuel. However,…”
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Keystone taxa predict compositional change in microbial communities by Herren, Cristina M., McMahon, Katherine D.

“…Summary The influence of biotic interactions on microbial community assembly is intensely debated. We hypothesized that keystone taxa, which influence…”
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Pediatric obesity is associated with an altered gut microbiota and discordant shifts in Firmicutes populations by Riva, Alessandra, Borgo, Francesca, Lassandro, Carlotta, Verduci, Elvira, Morace, Giulia, Borghi, Elisa, Berry, David

“…Summary An altered gut microbiota has been linked to obesity in adulthood, although little is known about childhood obesity. The aim of this study was to…”
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Experimental evidence of microbial inheritance in plants and transmission routes from seed to phyllosphere and root by Abdelfattah, Ahmed, Wisniewski, Michael, Schena, Leonardo, Tack, Ayco J. M.

“…Summary While the environment is considered the primary origin of the plant microbiome, the potential role of seeds as a source of transmitting microorganisms…”
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Revisiting the virulence hallmarks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a chronicle through the perspective of quorum sensing by Chadha, Jatin, Harjai, Kusum, Chhibber, Sanjay

“…Summary Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen and the leading cause of mortality among immunocompromised patients in clinical setups. The…”
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Network succession reveals the importance of competition in response to emulsified vegetable oil amendment for uranium bioremediation by Deng, Ye, Zhang, Ping, Qin, Yujia, Tu, Qichao, Yang, Yunfeng, He, Zhili, Schadt, Christopher Warren, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Discerning network interactions among different species/populations in microbial communities has evoked substantial interests in recent years, but little…”
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