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Ecological perspectives on synthetic biology: insights from microbial population biology [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
The metabolic capabilities of microbes are the basis for many major biotechnological advances, exploiting microbial diversity by selection or engineering of single strains. However, there are limits to the advances that can be achieved with single strains, and attention has turned toward the metabolic potential of consortia and the field of synthetic ...
Ana E Escalante, Ana E Escalante, Ana E Escalante, María eRebolleda-Gómez, Mariana eBenítez, Mariana eBenítez, Michael eTravisano, Michael eTravisano   +7 more
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Population-based microbial computing: a third wave of synthetic biology? [PDF]

International Journal of General Systems, 2014
Synthetic biology is an emerging research field, in which engineering principles are applied to natural, living systems. A major goal of synthetic biology is to harness the inherent “biological nanotechnology” of living cells for the purposes of computation, production or diagnosis.
Martyn Amos
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Biological evolution: Lessons to be learned from microbial population biology and genetics

Research in Microbiology, 2004
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Michel Blot, who died in a tragic accident in the French Alps in September 2002, bringing his fruitful scientific activities to a sudden end. After having completed his basic and doctoral education in population biology of eukaryotic organisms, Michel Blot joined my laboratory in 1989 with the intention of ...
Werner Arber
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Neurospora from natural populations: Population genomics insights into the Life history of a model microbial Eukaryote [PDF]

, 2020
The ascomycete filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa played a historic role in experimental biology and became a model system for genetic research. Stimulated by a systematic effort to collect wild strains initiated by Stanford geneticist David Perkins ...
A Menkis, A Pandit, A Pandit, A Pringle, A Stamatakis, AJ Powell, BC Turner, BO Dodge, BO Dodge, BO Dodge, C Roux, CA Muirhead, CE Ellison, CF Villalta, CL Shear, D Bryant, D Charlesworth, D Falush, DD Perkins, DD Perkins, DD Perkins, DD Perkins, DD Perkins, DD Perkins, DJ Jacobson, DJ Jacobson, DJ Jacobson, DK Aanen, E Frichot, E Turner, E Turner, EM Luque, GS Saenz, GW Beadle, H Akashi, H-C Kuo, HV Colot, J Dettman, J Heller, J Heller, J Palma-Guerrero, J Svedberg, J Zhao, JB Leducq, JE Galagan, JE Stajich, JF Wilson, JK Pritchard, JR Dettman, JR Dettman, JW Taylor, JW Taylor, JW Taylor, K Kitazima, K Nygren, KR Pomraning, MJ Hubisz, MP Skupski, NB Raju, NG Swenson, NH Horowitz, NL Glass, NL Glass, P Ad, P Corcoran, P Corcoran, P Corcoran, P Corcoran, P Gladieux, P Gladieux, P Gladieux, PR Neal, RH Davis, RH Davis, RN Gutenkunst, S Billiard, S Mita De, S Poggeler, T Giraud, TE Cruickshank, YF Li   +80 more
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Effect of irrigation with municipal water or sewage effluent on the biology of soil cores [PDF]

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 1978
Abstract Microbial populations and respiratory activity are reported for topsoils (0–10 cm) of 15 cm diameter cores (depth 50 cm) of 10 pasture soils representative of soils of North Island, New Zealand, after 15 months' irrigation with either municipal tapwater or unchlorinated sewage effluent from a biological filtration plant.
Esme M. Guy, Mary E. Dutch, J. D. Stout, Annette Cairns   +3 more
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Synthetic control of a fitness tradeoff in yeast nitrogen metabolism [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Microbial communities are involved in many processes relevant to industrial and medical biotechnology, such as the formation of biofilms, lignocellulosic degradation, and hydrogen production.
Bayer, Travis S., Beisel, Chase L., Hoff, Kevin G., Lee, Jack J., Smolke, Christina D.   +4 more
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Improving the availability of biopesticides : an interdisciplinary research project [PDF]

, 2008
There is a need for new, biologically-based crop protection products to serve as alternatives to or to complement synthetic chemical pesticides. An interdisciplinary research team from the natural and social sciences considered whether regulatory ...
Chandler, Dave, Grant, Wyn, Greaves, Justin, Prince, Gillian, Tatchell, Mark (G. Mark)   +4 more
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Noise-driven oscillations in microbial population dynamics [PDF]

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 314 (2012), p120-129, 2011
Microbial populations in the natural environment are likely to experience growth conditions very different from those of a typical laboratory xperiment. In particular, removal rates of biomass and substrate are unlikely to be balanced under realistic environmental conditions. Here, we consider a single population growing on a substrate under conditions
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Identifying Keystone Species in the Human Gut Microbiome from Metagenomic Timeseries using Sparse Linear Regression [PDF]

, 2014
Human associated microbial communities exert tremendous influence over human health and disease. With modern metagenomic sequencing methods it is possible to follow the relative abundance of microbes in a community over time.
Fisher, Charles K., Mehta, Pankaj
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Extending an eco-evolutionary understanding of biofilm-formation at the air-liquid interface to community biofilms [PDF]

, 2020
Growing bacterial populations diversify to produce a number of competing lineages. In the Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 model system, Wrinkly Spreader mutant lineages, capable of colonising the air-liquid interface of static microcosms by biofilm ...
Jerdan, Robyn, Lungin, Olga, Moshynets, Olena V., Potters, Geert, Spiers, Andrew J.   +4 more
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