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Synthetic microbial communities [PDF]

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2014
While natural microbial communities are composed of a mix of microbes with often unknown functions, the construction of synthetic microbial communities allows for the generation of defined systems with reduced complexity. Used in a top-down approach, synthetic communities serve as model systems to ask questions about the performance and stability of ...
Großkopf, Tobias, Soyer, Orkun S
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Microbial Communication Superhighways [PDF]

Cell, 2011
Exchange of information is critical for bacterial social behaviors. Now Dubey and Ben-Yehuda (2011) provide evidence for bacterial "nanotube" conduits that allow microbes to directly exchange cytoplasmic factors. Protein and DNA transfer between distantly related species raises the prospect of a new, widely distributed mechanism of bacterial ...
Schertzer, Jeffrey W., Whiteley, Marvin
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Microbial Interactions within a Cheese Microbial Community [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2008
ABSTRACT The interactions that occur during the ripening of smear cheeses are not well understood. Yeast-yeast interactions and yeast-bacterium interactions were investigated within a microbial community composed of three yeasts and six bacteria found in cheese. The growth dynamics of this community was precisely described during
Mounier, Jérôme, Monnet, Christophe, Vallaeys, Tatiana, Arditi, Roger, Sarthou, Anne-Sophie, Hélias, Arnaud, Irlinger, Françoise   +6 more
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Comparative Metagenomics of Microbial Communities [PDF]

Science, 2005
The species complexity of microbial communities and challenges in culturing representative isolates make it difficult to obtain assembled genomes. Here we characterize and compare the metabolic capabilities of terrestrial and marine microbial communities using largely unassembled sequence data obtained by shotgun sequencing DNA isolated from the ...
Tringe, S G, von Mering, C, Kobayashi, A, Salamov, A A, Chen, K, Chang, H W, Podar, M, Short, J M, Mathur, E J, Detter, J C, Bork, P, Hugenholtz, P, Rubin, E   +12 more
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Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities

Annual Review of Biophysics, 2020
Directed evolution is a form of artificial selection that has been used for decades to find biomolecules and organisms with new or enhanced functional traits. Directed evolution can be conceptualized as a guided exploration of the genotype–phenotype map, where genetic variants with desirable phenotypes are first selected and then mutagenized to search ...
Rebolleda-Gomez, Maria, Chang, Chang-Yu, Estrela, Sylvie, Vila, Jean, Sanchez, Alvaro, Diaz-Colunga, Juan   +5 more
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Growth and Break-Up of Methanogenic Granules Suggests Mechanisms for Biofilm and Community Development

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Methanogenic sludge granules are densely packed, small, spherical biofilms found in anaerobic digesters used to treat industrial wastewaters, where they underpin efficient organic waste conversion and biogas production.
Anna Christine Trego, Anna Christine Trego, Evan Galvin, Conor Sweeney, Sinéad Dunning, Cillian Murphy, Simon Mills, Corine Nzeteu, Christopher Quince, Stephanie Connelly, Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, Gavin Collins, Gavin Collins, Gavin Collins   +13 more
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Activated Sludge Microbial Community Assembly: The Role of Influent Microbial Community Immigration

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2023
Abstract Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are host to diverse microbial communities and receive a constant influx of microbes from influent wastewater, however the impact of immigrants on the structure and activities of the activated sludge (AS) microbial community remains unclear.
Claire Gibson, Shameem Jauffur, Bing Guo, Dominic Frigon   +3 more
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On the complexity of haplotyping a microbial community [PDF]

Bioinformatics, 2020
Abstract Motivation Population-level genetic variation enables competitiveness and niche specialization in microbial communities. Despite the difficulty in culturing many microbes from an environment, we can still study these communities by isolating and sequencing DNA directly from an ...
Samuel M. Nicholls, Wayne Aubrey, Kurt De Grave, Leander Schietgat, Christopher J. Creevey, Amanda Clare   +5 more
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Genomic and in Situ Analyses Reveal the Micropruina spp. as Abundant Fermentative Glycogen Accumulating Organisms in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Systems

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) involves the cycling of biomass through carbon-rich (feast) and carbon-deficient (famine) conditions, promoting the activity of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs).
Simon J. McIlroy, Cristobal A. Onetto, Bianca McIlroy, Florian-Alexander Herbst, Morten S. Dueholm, Rasmus H. Kirkegaard, Eustace Fernando, Søren M. Karst, Marta Nierychlo, Jannie M. Kristensen, Kathryn L. Eales, Paul R. Grbin, Reinhard Wimmer, Per Halkjær Nielsen   +13 more
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Biology of Microbial Communities - Interview [PDF]

Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2007
Video Link The video component of this article can be found at http://www.jove.com/video/205/
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