Sentences with word «archaeal»

Recent developments in the field of metagenomics and single - cell genomics, however, have allowed the reconstruction of archaeal genomes directly from environmental samples without prior cultivation.

Although environmental surveys had started to reveal a plethora of uncultured archaeal lineages during the 1990s, in - depth knowledge about their diversity, ecology, and evolution remained limited.

As a member of the consortium, I'm focusing my studies towards developing imaging - based tools to observe the cell cycle of the archaea H. salinarum as a proof - of - concept for live - cell imaging in archaeal model organisms.

The genome of M. acetivorans C2A is by far the largest of all sequenced archaeal genomes.

The putative archaeal host existed in a stable symbiotic relationship with one or more bacterial species, with the capacity for both gene and lipid exchange between species.

«Well, I used to laugh at the idea,» says Mark Young, a Montana State University biologist who leads a research team that gathers new archaeal viruses from superhot aquatic environments in Yellowstone National Park and other places around the world.

«The results of our genetic analysis (DNA - based quantitative PCR and next - generation sequencing), together with results obtained from infrared spectroscopy imaging, allowed us to link lower levels of sebum [the oily secretion of sebaceous glands] and thus reduced skin moisture with an increase of archaeal signatures.»

Degradation shaped bacterial and archaeal communities with predictable taxa and their association patterns in Zoige wetland at Tibet plateau — Yunfu Gu, Scientific Reports

Our aim is to shed light on the evolutionary path by which archaeal proteins gave rise to the eukaryotic cytoskeleton.

Here we compared the methane production between runnel and polygonal ponds using stable isotope ratios, 14C signatures, and investigated potential methanogenic communities through high - throughput sequencing archaeal 16S rRNA genes.

The lineages of these groups are not restricted to extreme habitats, as was once thought common for archaeal species; rather, archaea are widespread and occur in all thinkable environments on Earth, where they can make up substantial portions of the microbial biomass.

Disa will work on the genomic exploration of «microbial dark matter», focusing on new archaeal lineages and viruses, using both lab - and bioionformatics - based approaches.

Since then, our knowledge on archaeal diversity has increased rapidly.

On the basis of our current understanding, much archaeal diversity still defies genomic exploration.

Schematic phylogenetic tree including major archaeal groups for which genomic data are currently available.

The researchers compared the sequence to that of other sequenced methanogens to identify a distinct set of genes characteristic of archaeal methanogens.

Starting his first postdoc here in Ettema - lab his work will involve the exploration of poorly described archaeal lineages and the development of novel methods to investigate syntrophic relationships in microbial communities.

Currently only 35 bacterial and archaeal phyla are recognized on the basis of classical approaches to microbial taxonomy.

Spang et al. review the diversity of Archaea and their genomes, metabolomes, and history, which clarifies the biology and placement of recently discovered archaeal lineages.

Recently, cultivation - independent sequencing methods have produced a wealth of genomic data for previously unidentified archaeal lineages, several of which appear to represent newly revealed branches in the tree of life.

Ten years ago in the early days of genome sequencing, researchers scoured the genomes of 580 bacterial and archaeal species for large genes.

The wealth of novel archaeal genomic data represents a treasure trove for generating testable hypotheses on the metabolic and cellular features of these archaea and will thus help to unveil their thus far poorly characterized biology.

«Typically, every methane seep site hosts several different groups of archaeal methane - oxidizers,» Hatzenpichler said.

The variations in archaeal abundance among the age groups were statistically significant and unexpected.

This study sheds new light onto archaeal genome evolution, the deep roots of archaea and the phylogenetic placement of DPANN.

My aim is to find Archaeal cytoskeletal proteins and identify their structure using spinning disk confocal microscopy.

Comparisons of bacterial and Archaeal Communities in the Rumen and a Dual - Flow Continuous Culture Fermentation System using Amplicon Sequencing — I J Salfer — Journal of Animal Science

He proposes that the nucleus might have come from a virus that once infected archaeal cells but eventually began sticking around.

Knowledge of archaeal biological diversity and their role in evolution has rapidly expanded in the past decade.

Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.

As the closest known archaeal relative of eukaryotes, Loki helps to answer that question.

A team adapted the polymerase chain reaction and other methods to spot their targets and isolated and characterized archaeal DNA from dozens of biopsies of human skin, lungs, noses, and guts, including intestinal tissue from people with inflammatory bowel disease.

Orphan and her team plan to use the genomic information from the paired methane - oxidizing archaeal and bacterial partners to develop deeper insights into the physiology and mechanisms of interaction and energetic exchange between different methanotrophic consortia coexisting in the environment.

For this study, Hatzenpichler and his colleagues used sediment samples collected from deep - sea methane seep sediments off the coasts of Oregon and California for a series of incubation experiments, tracking the slow growth of methane - metabolizing bacterial and archaeal populations.

«From a practical standpoint, the ability to direct the specific, addressable destruction of DNA... could have considerable functional utility, especially if the system can function outside of its native bacterial or archaeal context,» they wrote.

In collaboration with Peter Wolf of the Medical University of Graz, the team also correlated archaeal abundance with skin dryness, as middle - aged persons have higher sebum levels and thus moister skin than the elderly.

Klare JP, Bordignon E, Engelhard M, Steinhoff HJ (2011) Transmembrane signal transduction in archaeal phototaxis: The sensory rhodopsin II - transducer complex studied by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.

At present, STSV1 is the largest archaeal virus that has been isolated and studied.

Tide as Steering Factor in Structuring Archaeal and Bacterial Ammonia - Oxidizing Communities in Mangrove Forest Soils Dominated by Avicennia germinans and Rhizophora mangle — Magalí S. Marcos et al. — Microbial Ecology

I believe we can re-construct and characterise complex Archaeal cytoskeleton networks by co-expressing multiple proteins using this genetically tractable organism.

«Archaeal Dominance in the Mesopelagic Zone of the Pacific Ocean.»

Plant, root, and soil microbiome Compositional shifts in root - associated bacterial and archaeal microbiota track the plant life cycle in field - grown rice.

I am currently using fission yeast as a system to express and image Archaeal proteins.

Four labs simultaneously engineered the bacterial and archaeal CRISPR - Cas9 system to induce precise cleavage at mammalian genomic loci1 — 4.

Insights into substrate specificity of geranylgeranyl reductases revealed by the structure of digeranylgeranylglycerophospholipid reductase, an essential enzyme in the biosynthesis of archaeal membrane lipids.

Spo11 introduces DNA breaks in the chromosomes and is homologous to the DNA cleavage subunit of archaeal topoisomerase IV.

Sogin and his co-workers have demonstrated the power of pyrosequencing by amplifying the V6 variable region of 16S rRNA from marine deep water and hydrothermal vent samples, analyzing over 900,000 bacterial and archaeal tags from the vent system and revealing greater taxonomic richness (over 20,000 OTUs observed at 3 % sequence divergence) than has previously been reported for any microbial habitat [39,42,43].