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A minimal model for microbial biodiversity can reproduce experimentally observed ecological patterns [PDF]
Scientific Reports 10:3308 (2020), 2019 Surveys of microbial biodiversity such as the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) and the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) have revealed robust ecological patterns across different environments. A major goal in ecology is to leverage these patterns to identify the ecological processes shaping microbial ecosystems.
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Microbiome, 2019 Background Modern crop varieties are typically cultivated in agriculturally well-managed soils far from the centers of origin of their wild relatives. How this habitat expansion impacted plant microbiome assembly is not well understood.
Juan E. Pérez-Jaramillo +5 more
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Microbial catalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction for microbial fuel cells: a review. [PDF]
, 2012 The slow kinetics of the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a crucial bottleneck in the development of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). This article firstly gives an overview of the particular constraints imposed on ORR by MFC operating ...
Bergel, Alain +2 more
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Accessible ecophysiological tools for seabird conservation
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 32, Issue 12, Page 1983-2002, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Seabirds are the most endangered avian taxa on Earth, with over a third of species globally threatened. To help slow their decline, conservation physiology seeks to determine how seabird responses to climatic and anthropogenic threats influence demographic processes, but it is not widely utilized in monitoring.
Edin A. Whitehead, Brendon J. Dunphy
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Current Challenges and Pitfalls in Soil Metagenomics
Microorganisms, 2022 Soil microbial communities are essential components of agroecological ecosystems that influence soil fertility, nutrient turnover, and plant productivity.
Marcio F. A. Leite +2 more
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Synthetic microbial ecosystems : an exciting tool to understand and apply microbial communities [PDF]
, 2013 Many microbial ecologists have described the composition of microbial communities in a plenitude of environments, which has greatly improved our basic understanding of microorganisms and ecosystems.
Boon, Nico +4 more
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, 2023 With the expansion of human space exploration, there is a growing demand to better understand the impacts of space stressors such as microgravity (µG), space radiation, extreme temperatures, and extreme isolation.
Castillo, Hugo +2 more
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Ecological feedback in quorum-sensing microbial populations can induce heterogeneous production of autoinducers [PDF]
eLife 2017;6:e25773, 2017 Autoinducers are small signaling molecules that mediate intercellular communication in microbial populations and trigger coordinated gene expression via "quorum sensing". Elucidating the mechanisms that control autoinducer production is, thus, pertinent to understanding collective microbial behavior, such as virulence and bioluminescence.
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Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView., 2023 In the present study, we created the weight gain models with Min and Yorkshire pigs and conducted the metagenomics and metabolomics of colon contents and transcriptomics of colon tissue. Further, we revealed the characteristics and functions of the colonic microbiota in Min and Yorkshire pigs and analyzed their interactions with the host. Overall, this
Xiaoyu Huang +6 more
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Microbiome, 2020 Background Cultivation-independent methods, including metagenomics, are tools for the exploration and discovery of biotechnological compounds produced by microbes in natural environments.
Ohana Y. A. Costa +4 more
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