Miranda, Catarina Bettencourt, Sara Pozdniakova, Tatiana Pereira, Joana Sampaio, Paula Franco-Duarte, Ricardo Pais, Célia
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundOver the last years oleaginous yeasts have been studied for several energetic, oleochemical, medical and pharmaceutical purposes. However, only a small number of yeasts are known and have been deeply exploited. The search for new isolates with high oleaginous capacity becomes imperative, as well as the use of alternative and ecological ca...
Walter, Julia Leganés, Francisco Aro, Eva-Mari Gollan, Peter J.
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BackgroundFilamentous cyanobacteria represent model organisms for investigating multicellularity. For many species, nitrogen-fixing heterocysts are formed from photosynthetic vegetative cells under nitrogen limitation. Intracellular Ca2+ has been implicated in the highly regulated process of heterocyst differentiation but its role remains unclear. ...
Zheng, Yaqiang Xiao, Guanli Zhou, Wenwu Gao, Yulin Li, Zhengyue Du, Guangzu Chen, Bin
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BackgroundThe potato tuber moth (PTM), Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller), is a worldwide pest that feeds on both the leaves and tubers of potato plants. PTM larvae can digest leaves, or tubers, resulting in serious damage to potato plants in the field and potato tubers in storage. To understand how midgut bacterial diversity is influenced by the con...
Differding, Moira K. Benjamin-Neelon, Sara E. Hoyo, Cathrine Østbye, Truls Mueller, Noel T.
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundEarly introduction of complementary foods has been associated with various immune disorders, oxidative stress, and obesity in childhood. The gut microbiota and the short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) they produce are postulated to be on the causal pathway. The objective of this study was to determine if early complementary feeding (i.e. consu...
Podgoršek, Daša Ružić-Sabljić, Eva Logar, Mateja Pavlović, Andrea Remec, Tatjana Baklan, Zvonko Pal, Emil Cerar, Tjaša
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BackgroundDifferent diagnostic methods have been used for the laboratory confirmation of leptospirosis. Molecular diagnostic techniques are not only faster and more sensitive than culture analysis, but can also detect a Leptospira infection before the appearance of antibodies. The aim of the present study was to analyze and compare two different PC...
Song, Liyun Wang, Jie Jia, Haiyan Kamran, Ali Qin, Yuanxia Liu, Yingjie Hao, Kaiqiang Han, Fei Zhang, Chaoqun Li, Bin
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundMajor latex proteins (MLPs) belong to the MLP subfamily in Bet v 1 protein family and respond to both biotic and abiotic stresses, which play critical roles in plant disease resistance. As the type species of widely distributed and economically devastating Potyvirus, Potato virus Y (PVY) is one of the major constraints to important crop p...
Eltai, Nahla O. Al Thani, Asmaa A. Al Hadidi, Sara H. Al Ansari, Khalid Yassine, Hadi M.
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BackgroundThe treatment of Enterobacteriaceae family including diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC) has been increasingly complicated due to the emergence of resistant strains. Here we report on the phenotypic resistance profiles and ESBL genotype and virulence profiles of Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) and Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) isolated from ch...
Qiu, Peng-Lei Liu, Shu-Yan Bradshaw, Michael Rooney-Latham, Suzanne Takamatsu, Susumu Bulgakov, Timur S. Tang, Shu-Rong Feng, Jing Jin, Dan-Ni Aroge, Temitope
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundPrevious phylogenetic analyses of species within the genus Golovinomyces (Ascomycota, Erysiphales), based on ITS and 28S rDNA sequence data, revealed a co-evolutionary relationship between powdery mildew species and hosts of certain tribes of the plant family Asteraceae. Golovinomyces growing on host plants belonging to the Heliantheae fo...
Xiang, Chao Liu, Ying Liu, Shi-Ming Huang, Ya-Fei Kong, Ling-An Peng, Huan Liu, Mao-Yan Liu, Jing Peng, De-Liang Huang, Wen-Kun
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundThe root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola has become a serious threat to rice production as a result of the cultivation changes from transplanting to direct seeding. The nematicidal activity of Aspergillus welwitschiae have been investigated in vitro, and the disease control efficacy of the active compound has been evaluated under gr...
Nesse, Live L. Osland, Ane Mohr Mo, Solveig S. Sekse, Camilla Slettemeås, Jannice S. Bruvoll, Anna Eline E. Urdahl, Anne Margrete Vestby, Lene K.
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundQuinolone resistant Escherichia coli (QREC) have been found in samples from Norwegian broiler chicken, despite quinolones not being administered to poultry in Norway. Biofilm production may be one factor contributing to the observed persistence in the broiler production chain. In the present study, 158 QREC strains from chicken caecal and...
