Sentences with phrase «affects microbial communities»

The researchers will also be able to study whether climate affects microbial communities.

Without that information, it's impossible to know, for example, how antibiotics affect the microbial community in the intestines, he says.

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But the team hopes the Lake Whillans microbial community can help it understand so - called extremophile organisms that can exist in the extreme dark and cold, and how such microbes might also be affecting the chemistry of the ice itself.

The findings, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, suggest that manipulating the gut's microbial communities may protect against intestinal parasites, which affect more than 1 billion people worldwide.

We have shown that albedo is strongly affected by and dependent upon the development and dominance of microbial communities.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which bacterial taxa invade the gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.

Based on methane and oxygen distributions measured at 207 stations throughout the affected region, we find that within ~ 120 days from the onset of release ~ 3.0 × 1010 to 3.9 × 1010 moles of oxygen were respired, primarily by methanotrophs, and left behind a residual microbial community containing methanotrophic bacteria.

The product affected certain gut bacteria without changing the global composition of the microbial community.

Microbial communities in marine sediments control ecological processes, affecting the availability of nutrients and the chemistry of the soil.

While the microbial community of the water was only significantly affected when 5.0 g of feces was added, the microbial community of the sediment was impacted by smaller amounts of feces.

Local - dominant communities consist of viruses that are influenced by environmental conditions, which affect their microbial hosts and indirectly alter the structure of the viral community.

Several reasonable explanations arise given these results: (1) all players were exercising, and exercise produces predictable changes in skin habitat conditions that are likely to affect bacterial communities over time; (2) players were acquiring microbial transients from the built environment; and (3) players were coming into repeated physical contact with their teammates and those from opposing teams, often using the sampled area of their upper arms, and potentially sharing portions of their skin microbiomes.

Microbial communities affecting albumen photography heritage: a methodological survey — Puškárová — Scientific Reports — February 2016

Jansson had long been curious about how these rapid temperature changes were affecting the underground microbial community, and whether these changes had any surprising side effects.