Zhan, Yu Wang, Ergang Zhou, Yi He, Guixiang Lv, Pengyuan Wang, Lixiang Zhou, Tingting Miao, Xinyue Chen, Changbao Li, Qiong
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Microbial ecology
Chemical soil fumigation (CSF) and reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) have been proven to be effective agricultural strategies to improve soil quality, restructure microbial communities, and promote plant growth in soil degradation remediation. However, it is still unclear how RSD and CSF ensure soil and plant health by altering fungal communities...
Minahan, Nicholas T Chen, Chi-Hsien Chuang, Yu-Chen Tsai, Kun-Hsien Shen, Wei-Chiang Guo, Yue Leon
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Microbial ecology
Fungal spores are common airborne allergens, and fungal richness has been implicated in allergic disease. Amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA from air samples is a promising method to estimate fungal spore richness with semi-quantification of hundreds of taxa and can be combined with quantitative PCR to derive abundance estimates. However, it ...
Arbulu, Sara Kjos, Morten
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Microbial ecology
Bacteriocins are gene-encoded antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria. These peptides are heterogeneous in terms of structure, antimicrobial activities, biosynthetic clusters, and regulatory mechanisms. Bacteriocins are widespread in nature and may contribute to microbial diversity due to their capacity to target specific bacteria. Primarily st...
Botero Rute, Lina Marcela Caro-Quintero, Alejandro Acosta-González, Alejandro
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Microbial ecology
The rumen microbiota is critical in cattle digestion. Still, its low cultivability makes it difficult to study its ecological function and biotechnological potential. To improve the recovery of ruminal microorganisms, this study combined the evaluation of several cultivation parameters with metabarcoding analysis. The parameters tested comprised ei...
Liu, Huan-Huan Chen, Lei Shao, Hui-Biao Gao, Shuo Hong, Xiao-Yue Bing, Xiao-Li
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Microbial ecology
Microbes play a key role in the biology, ecology, and evolution of arthropods. Despite accumulating data on microbial communities in arthropods that feed on plants using piercing-sucking mouthparts, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the composition and assembly factors of the microbiota, particularly in field-collected spider mites. He...
Zaman, Rashaduz Antonioli, Federico Shah, Ateeq Ullah, Aziz May, Courtney Klutsch, Jennifer G Erbilgin, Nadir
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Microbial ecology
In North America, lodgepole pine is frequently subjected to attacks by various biotic agents that compromise its ability to defend against subsequent attacks by insect herbivores. We investigated whether infections of lodgepole pine by different pathogenic fungal species have varying effects on its defense chemistry. We selected two common pathogen...
Ho, Huy V N Dunigan, David D Salsbery, Miranda E Agarkova, Irina V Al Ameeli, Zeina Van Etten, James L DeLong, John P
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Microbial ecology
Chemotaxis is widespread across many taxa and often aids resource acquisition or predator avoidance. Species interactions can modify the degree of movement facilitated by chemotaxis. In this study, we investigated the influence of symbionts on Paramecium bursaria's chemotactic behavior toward chloroviruses. To achieve this, we performed choice expe...
Kostešić, Ema Mitrović, Maja Kajan, Katarina Marković, Tamara Hausmann, Bela Orlić, Sandi Pjevac, Petra
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Microbial ecology
Hot spring biofilms are stable, highly complex microbial structures. They form at dynamic redox and light gradients and are composed of microorganisms adapted to the extreme temperatures and fluctuating geochemical conditions of geothermal environments. In Croatia, a large number of poorly investigated geothermal springs host biofilm communities. H...
Owashi, Yuta Minami, Toma Kikuchi, Taisei Yoshida, Akemi Nakano, Ryohei Kageyama, Daisuke Adachi-Hagimori, Tetsuya
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Microbial ecology
Many insects are associated with endosymbionts that influence the feeding, reproduction, and distribution of their hosts. Although the small green mirid, Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae), a zoophytophagous predator that feeds on plants as well as arthropods, is a globally important biological control agent, its microbiome has not b...
Šaraba, Vladimir Milovanovic, Jelena Nikodinovic-Runic, Jasmina Budin, Clémence de Boer, Tjalf Ciric, Milica
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Microbial ecology
The selected brackish groundwater occurrences in the geotectonic regions of Inner Dinarides of western Serbia (Obrenovačka Banja) and Serbian crystalline core (Lomnički Kiseljak and Velika Vrbnica) were sampled for isolation and identification of plastic- and lignocellulose-degrading bacteria, as well as for the assessment of their enzymatic potent...
