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• Microbial life in deep terrestrial subsurfaces: diverse, abundant communities thrive 500 meters underground

  Authors:Carl B. Fliermans and David L. BalkwillFrom:BioScience (Vol. 39, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 19892,904 words Article Microbial Life in Deep Terrestrial Subsurfaces Diverse, abundant communities thrive 500 meters underground Until recently, extensive microbiological investigations have been confined to the upper few meters of the...

• Septic tank additive impacts on microbial populations

  From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 70, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  January-February 2008317 words Brief article 1250L* In the United States, 25 percent of the total housing units and 33 percent of all new development rely on onsite wastewater treatment. * The number increases every year as a result of continuous urban and suburban...

• Microbial community structure and its functional implications

  Author:Jed A. FuhrmanFrom:Nature (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-Reviewed

  May 14, 20097,031 words Report 1470LMarine microbial communities are engines of globally important processes, such as the marine carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycles. Recent data on the structures of these communities show that they adhere to universal...

• The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in isolated populations of the Baja California treefrog Pseudacris hypochondriaca curta in Baja California Sur, Mexico

  Authors:Victor H. Luja, Ricardo Rodriguez-Estrella, Kris Ratzlaff, Gabriela Parra-Olea, and Aurelio Ramirez-BautistaFrom:Southwestern Naturalist (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20123,079 words Report 1230LThe chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis was detected in five populations of Pseudacris hypochondriaca curta, an endemic treefrog fully dependent on desert oases in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Prevalence of...

• Links between microbial population dynamics and nitrogen availability in an alpine ecosystem

  Authors:David A. Lipson, Steven K. Schmidt, and Russel K. MonsonFrom:Ecology (Vol. 80, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  July 19995,369 words Article Past studies of plant-microbe interactions in the alpine nitrogen cycle have revealed a seasonal separation of N use, with plants absorbing N primarily during the summer months and microbes immobilizing N primarily...

• Monitoring seasonal changes in microbial populations of spruce forest soil of the Northern Temperate Zone/Sesoonsed muutused parasvootme kuusemetsa mulla mikroobikoosluses

  Authors:Lelde Grantina, Gunta Bondare, Anna Janberga, Guntis Tabors, Raimonds Kasparinskis, Vizma Nikolajeva, et al.From:Estonian Journal of Ecology (Vol. 61, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20127,220 words Report 1400LSoil microbial populations in the Northern Temperate Zone have been poorly studied in comparison with extreme environments. The aim of the work was to study the seasonal changes in the microbial populations of spruce...

• Genome-centric metatranscriptomes and ecological roles of the active microbial populations during cellulosic biomass anaerobic digestion

  Authors:Yangyang Jia, Siu-Kin Ng, Hongyuan Lu, Mingwei Cai, and Patrick K. H. LeeFrom:Biotechnology for Biofuels (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 23, 20187,989 words Report 1710LBackground Although anaerobic digestion for biogas production is used worldwide in treatment processes to recover energy from carbon-rich waste such as cellulosic biomass, the activities and interactions among the...

• Yeast facilitates the multiplication of Drosophila bacterial symbionts but has no effect on the form or parameters of Taylor's law.

  Authors:Robin Guilhot, Simon Fellous, and Joel E. CohenFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 23, 20204,879 words Report 1430LInteractions between microbial symbionts influence their demography and that of their hosts. Taylor's power law (TL)-a well-established relationship between population size mean and variance across space and time-may...

• Microbial-Community Analysis--An Automated System

  From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 63, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  October-September 2000309 words Brief article Microorganisms are typically the first organisms to react to chemical and physical changes in the environment. Because microorganisms are at the bottom of the food chain, changes in microbial communities are often...

• Femtomolar sensitivity of a NO sensor from Clostridium botulinum

  Authors:Pierre Nioche, Vladimir Berka, Julia Vipond, Nigel Minton, Ah-Lim Tsai, and C.S. RamanFrom:Science (Vol. 306, Issue 5701) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 26, 20042,874 words Article 1480LNitric oxide (NO) is extremely toxic to Clostridium botulinum, but its molecular targets are unknown. Here, we identify a heine protein sensor (SONO) that displays femtomolar affinity for NO. The crystal structure of...

• First approach to the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in the indigenous population in Puerto Nariño-Amazonas, Colombia.

  Authors:Alejandro Vega Marín, Nalin Rastogi, David Couvin, Viviana Mape, and Martha Isabel MurciaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 7, 20217,592 words Report 1440LIntroduction Tuberculosis affects vulnerable groups to a greater degree, indigenous population among them. Objective To determine molecular epidemiology of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis...

• Molecular characterization of microbial communities in Canadian pulp and paper activated sludge and quantification of a novel Thiothrix eikelboomii-like bulking filament

  Authors:Tim J. Dumonceaux, Janet E. Hill, Carl P. Pelletier, Michael G. Paice, Andrew G. Van Kessel, and Sean M. HemmingsenFrom:Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Vol. 52, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20064,363 words Article 1630LAbstract: We examined the microbial community structure and quantified the levels of the filamentous bulking organism Thiothrix eikelboomii in samples of activated sludge mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) from...

• Isolation of symbiotically expressed genes from the dinoflagellate symbiont of the solitary radiolarian Thalassicolla nucleata

  Authors:Rebecca J. Gast, David J. Beaudoin, and David A. CaronFrom:The Biological Bulletin (Vol. 204, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20032,333 words Article Symbiotic associations are fundamental to the survival of many organisms on Earth. The ability of the symbiont to perform key biochemical functions often allows the host to occupy environments that it would otherwise...

• Universality of human microbial dynamics

  Authors:Amir Bashan, Travis E. Gibson, Jonathan Friedman, Vincent J. Carey, Scott T. Weiss, Elizabeth L. Hohmann, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 534, Issue 7606) Peer-Reviewed

  June 9, 20165,999 words Report 1390LHuman-associated microbial communities have a crucial role in determining our health and well-being (1,2), and this has led to the continuing development of microbiome-based therapies (3) such as faecal microbiota...

• Rates and mechanisms of bacterial mutagenesis from maximum-depth sequencing.

  Authors:Justin Jee, Aviram Rasouly, Ilya Shamovsky, Yonatan Akivis, Susan R. Steinman, Bud Mishra, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 534, Issue 7609) Peer-Reviewed

  June 30, 20167,542 words Article 1550LMaximum-depth sequencing (MDS), a new method of detecting extremely rare variants within a bacterial population, is used to show that mutation rates in Escherichia coli vary across the genome by at least an order of...

• Physical and chemical factors affecting microbial biomass and activity in contaminated subsurface riverine sediments

  Authors:Jennifer J. Mosher, Robert H. Findlay, and Carl G. JohnstonFrom:Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Vol. 52, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20065,258 words Article 1530LAbstract: Over 80 years of direct discharge of industrial effluents into the Mahoning River, located in northeastern Ohio, USA, has led to the accumulation of a wide variety of pollutants within its sediments. This...

• Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

  Authors:Antoine Bricard, Jean-Baptiste Caussin, Nicolas Desreumaux, Olivier Dauchot, and Denis BartoloFrom:Nature (Vol. 503, Issue 7474) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 7, 20133,101 words Report 1390LFrom the formation of animal flocks to the emergence of coordinated motion in bacterial swarms, populations of motile organisms at all scales display coherent collective motion. This consistent behaviour strongly...

• Microbiology: Fungi boost bacterium

  From:Nature (Vol. 539, Issue 7627) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 3, 2016139 words Brief article 1510LA study of 25 cheeses finds that a slow-growing bacterium can outcompete its relatives with the help of fungi.[illus. 1] Benjamin Wolfe at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and his colleagues examined the...

• Ranking the biases: The choice of OTUs vs. ASVs in 16S rRNA amplicon data analysis has stronger effects on diversity measures than rarefaction and OTU identity threshold.

  Authors:Marlène Chiarello, Mark McCauley, Sébastien Villéger, and Colin R. JacksonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 24, 20228,226 words Report 1580LAdvances in the analysis of amplicon sequence datasets have introduced a methodological shift in how research teams investigate microbial biodiversity, away from sequence identity-based clustering (producing Operational...

• Taking the bad with the good

  Authors:Carl T. Bergstrom and Benjamin KerrFrom:Nature (Vol. 521, Issue 7553) Peer-Reviewed

  May 28, 20151,315 words Report 1250LModelling of the interactions between antibiotic production and antibiotic degradation reveals that these opposing activities are key to maintaining diversity in microbial communities. See Letter p.516 We commonly...