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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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Salinity Is a Key Determinant for Soil Microbial Communities in a Desert Ecosystem

mSystems, 2019
Soil salinization is a growing environmental problem caused by both natural and human activities. Excessive salinity in soil suppresses growth, decreases species diversity, and alters the community composition of plants; however, the effect of salinity ...
Kaoping Zhang, Yu Shi, Xiaoqing Cui, Ping Yue, Kaihui Li, Xuejun Liu, Binu M. Tripathi, Haiyan Chu   +7 more
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Impact of inoculum type on the microbial community and power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells [PDF]

, 2020
Bacteria are the driving force of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, which benefits from their natural ability to degrade organic matter and generate electricity. The development of an efficient anodic biofilm has a significant impact on the power
Salar-Garcia, Maria Jose, Kurt, Halil, Halil Kurt, Kartik Chandran, Obata, Oluwatosin, Maria Jose Salar-Garcia, Chandran, Kartik, Ieropoulos, Ioannis A., Oluwatosin Obata, John Greenman, Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, Greenman, John   +11 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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Spatiotemporal variations of microbial assembly, interaction, and potential risk in urban dust

Environment International, 2022
Community and composition of dust-borne microbes would affect human health and are regulated by microbial community assembly. The dust in kindergarten is always collected to evaluate the microbial exposure of children, yet the microbial assembly, their ...
Hu Li, Pei-Qin Liu, Qiu-Ping Luo, Jin-Jin Ma, Xiao-Ru Yang, Yu Yan, Jian-Qiang Su, Yong-Guan Zhu   +7 more
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Microbial community development in a dynamic gut model is reproducible, colon region specific, and selective for Bacteroidetes and Clostridium cluster IX [PDF]

, 2010
Dynamic, multicompartment in vitro gastrointestinal simulators are often used to monitor gut microbial dynamics and activity. These reactors need to harbor a microbial community that is stable upon inoculation, colon region specific, and relevant to in ...
Marzorati, M., Sam Possemiers, Sahar El Aidy, Kleerebezem, M., Verstraete, Willy, Smidt, H., Marzorati, Massimo, Philippe Gérard, Rabot, S., Charlotte Grootaert, Verstraete, W., Aidy, S.F., El, Erwin Zoetendal, Hauke Smidt, Possemiers, Sam, Zoetendal, Erwin, Kleerebezem, Michiel, van der Wiele, T., Sylvie Rabot, Grootaert, C., Michiel Kleerebezem, Possemiers, S., Massimo Marzorati, Derrien, Muriel, Pieter Van den Abbeele, Tom Van de Wiele, Derrien, M.M.N., Rabot, Sylvie, Grootaert, Charlotte, van den Abbeele, P., Bruneau, A., Wiele, T., van der, Willy Verstraete, Zoetendal, E.G., El Aidy, Sahar, Gerard, Philippe, Abbeele, P., van den, Muriel Derrien, Smidt, Hauke, Van de Wiele, Tom, Gérard, P., Van den Abbeele, Pieter, Bruneau, Aurelia, El Aidy, S.F., Aurélia Bruneau   +44 more
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Litter mixing promoted decomposition and altered microbial community in common bean root litter

BMC Microbiology, 2023
Background Decomposition of plant litter is a key driver of carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Mixing litters of different plant species may alter the decomposition rate, but its effect on the microbial decomposer community in plant ...
Linlin Zhang, Jiawei Li, Zhilin Wang, Dinghong Zhang, Hui Liu, Jia Wang, Fengzhi Wu, Xue Wang, Xingang Zhou   +8 more
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Microbial community composition of transiently wetted Antarctic Dry Valley soils [PDF]

, 2015
During the summer months, wet (hyporheic) soils associated with ephemeral streams and lake edges in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (DVs) become hotspots of biological activity and are hypothesized to be an important source of carbon and nitrogen for arid DV ...
Stephen C. Cary, Capone, Douglas G., Edward J. Carpenter, Gunderson, Troy E., Joëlle Tirindelli, Parker, Alexander E., Sohm, Jill A., Carpenter, Edward J., Troy E. Gunderson, Stephen Craig Cary, Niederberger, Thomas D., Douglas G. Capone, Jill A. Sohm, Joelle eTirindelli, Thomas D. Niederberger, Cary, S. Craig, Alexander E. Parker, Tirindelli, Joëlle, Douglas G Capone, Thomas D. Neiderberger, Thomas D. Niederberger   +20 more
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Microbial Colonization of Minerals in Marine Sediments – Method Development and Ecological Significance [PDF]

, 2011
Interactions between microorganisms and minerals significantly impact microbial diversity and geochemical cycles in diverse settings. However, methodological difficulty has inhibited past study of microbe–mineral interactions in fine-grained subsurface ...
Harrison, Benjamin Kimball
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Extreme Geochemical Conditions and Dispersal Limitation Retard Primary Succession of Microbial Communities in Gold Tailings

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Microbial community succession in tailings materials is poorly understood at present, and likely to be substantially different from similar processes in natural primary successional environments due to the unusual geochemical properties of tailings and ...
Talitha C. Santini, Talitha C. Santini, Maija Raudsepp, Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Nunn   +4 more
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