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In situ cultivation of previously uncultivable microorganisms using the ichip by Berdy, Brittany, Spoering, Amy L, Ling, Losee L, Epstein, Slava S

“…This protocol details the construction and use of the ichip, a platform developed to isolate previously uncultivable microorganisms from a range of…”
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Incubation of Environmental Samples in a Diffusion Chamber Increases the Diversity of Recovered Isolates by Bollmann, Annette, Lewis, Kim, Epstein, Slava S

“…The majority of microorganisms from natural environments cannot be grown in the laboratory. The diffusion-chamber-based approach is an alternative method that…”
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Polymerase chain reaction primers miss half of rRNA microbial diversity by Hong, SunHee, Bunge, John, Leslin, Chesley, Jeon, Sunok, Epstein, Slava S

“…The rRNA approach is the principal tool to study microbial diversity, but it has important biases. These include polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers bias,…”
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A targeted liquid cultivation method for previously uncultured non-colony forming microbes by Seo, Eun-Young, Jung, Dawoon, Epstein, Slava S, Zhang, Weiyan, Owen, Jeffrey S, Baba, Hiroaki, Yamamoto, Akina, Harada, Mifuyu, Nakashimada, Yutaka, Kato, Setsu, Aoi, Yoshiteru, He, Shan

“…A large number of microbes are not able to form colonies using agar-plating methods, which is one of the reasons that cultivation based on solid media leaves…”
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Application of a new cultivation technology, I-tip, for studying microbial diversity in freshwater sponges of Lake Baikal, Russia by Jung, Dawoon, Seo, Eun-Young, Epstein, Slava S., Joung, Yochan, Han, Jaemin, Parfenova, Valentina V., Belykh, Olga I., Gladkikh, Anna S., Ahn, Tae Seok

“…Abstract One of the fundamental methods for cultivating bacterial strains is conventional plating on solid media, but this method does not reveal the true…”
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Isolation and Physiology of Bacteria from Contaminated Subsurface Sediments by Bollmann, Annette, Palumbo, Anthony V, Lewis, Kim, Epstein, Slava S

“…The majority of environmental microorganisms cannot be grown by traditional techniques. Here we employed, and contrasted with conventional plating, an…”
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Predicting Microbial Species Richness by Hong, Sun-Hee, Bunge, John, Jeon, Sun-Ok, Epstein, Slava S.

“…Microorganisms are spectacularly diverse phylogenetically, but available estimates of their species richness are vague and problematic. For example, for…”
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In Situ Cultivation Allows for Recovery of Bacterial Types Competitive in Their Natural Environment by Jung, Dawoon, Aoi, Yoshiteru, Epstein, Slava S.

“…Standard cultivation fails to grow most microorganisms, whereas in situ cultivation allows for the isolation of comparatively diverse and novel microorganisms…”
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TM7 detection in human microbiome: Are PCR primers and FISH probes specific enough? by Sizova, Maria V., Doerfert, Sebastian N., Gavrish, Ekaterina, Epstein, Slava S.

“…TM7 appears important and omnipresent because it is repeatedly detected by molecular techniques in diverse environments. Here we report that most of primers…”
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Novel Eukaryotes from the Permanently Anoxic Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea) by STOECK, Thorsten, TAYLOR, Gordon T, EPSTEIN, Slava S

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Stomatobaculum longum gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic bacterium from the human oral cavity by Sizova, Maria V, Muller, Paul, Panikov, Nicolai, Mandalakis, Manolis, Hohmann, Tine, Hazen, Amanda, Fowle, William, Prozorov, Tanya, Bazylinski, Dennis A, Epstein, Slava S

“…A strictly anaerobic Gram-stain-variable but positive by structure, non-spore-forming bacterium designated Lachnospiraceae bacterium ACC2 strain DSM 24645T was…”
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Microbial awakenings by Epstein, Slava S

“…A theory of how microbes 'wake up' from dormancy could help to solve scientific mysteries and improve disease control, says Slava S. Epstein…”
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A Multiple PCR-primer Approach to Access the Microeukaryotic Diversity in Environmental Samples by Stoeck, Thorsten, Hayward, Brett, Taylor, Gordon T., Varela, Ramon, Epstein, Slava S.

“…The Cariaco Basin off the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean Sea is the world's largest truly marine body of anoxic water. The first rRNA survey of microbial…”
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Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern Mediterranean Sea by Edgcomb, Virginia, Orsi, William, Leslin, Chesley, Epstein, Slava S., Bunge, John, Jeon, Sunok, Yakimov, Michail M., Behnke, Anke, Stoeck, Thorsten

“…Environmental factors restrict the distribution of microbial eukaryotes but the exact boundaries for eukaryotic life are not known. Here, we examine protistan…”
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Draft Genome Sequence for Microbacterium laevaniformans Strain OR221, a Bacterium Tolerant to Metals, Nitrate, and Low pH by BROWN, Steven D, PALUMBO, Anthony V, PANIKOV, Nicolai, ARIYAWANSA, Thilini, KLINGEMAN, Dawn M, JOHNSON, Courtney M, LAND, Miriam L, UTTURKAR, Sagar M, EPSTEIN, Slava S

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Environmental rRNA inventories miss over half of protistan diversity by Jeon, Sunok, Bunge, John, Leslin, Chesley, Stoeck, Thorsten, Hong, Sunhee, Epstein, Slava S

“…The main tool to discover novel microbial eukaryotes is the rRNA approach. This approach has important biases, including PCR discrimination against certain…”
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Actinobaculum massiliense Proteome Profiled in Polymicrobial Urethral Catheter Biofilms by Yu, Yanbao, Tsitrin, Tamara, Singh, Harinder, Doerfert, Sebastian N, Sizova, Maria V, Epstein, Slava S, Pieper, Rembert

“…, a Gram-positive anaerobic coccoid rod colonizing the human urinary tract, belongs to the taxonomic class of Actinobacteria. We identified as a cohabitant of…”
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Pararhodobacter marinus sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from marine sediment in the East China Sea and emended description of the genus Pararhodobacter by Zhang, Weiyan, Chen, Can, Yuan, Ye, Su, Dengquan, Ding, Lijian, Epstein, Slava S, He, Shan

“…A Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile and strictly aerobic bacterium, designated ZQ420 , was isolated from marine sediment sampled on Zhoushan Island located…”
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Methodology of Protistan Discovery: from rRNA Detection to Quality Scanning Electron Microscope Images by STOECK, Thorsten, FOWLE, William H, EPSTEIN, Slava S

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Saccharospirillum mangrovi sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from mangrove sediment by Zhang, Weiyan, Yuan, Ye, Su, Dengquan, Ding, Lijian, Yan, Xiaojun, Wu, Min, Epstein, Slava S, He, Shan

“…A Gram-negative, spirilla, non-spore-forming, motile and strictly aerobic bacterium, designated HK-33 , was isolated from a mangrove sediment sample in Haikou…”
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