Sentences with phrase «bacterial communities living»

The researchers sequenced all of the DNA in the bacterial communities living in the preterm babies» guts.

The shape and chemical composition of the mounds, called stromatolites, match those formed by modern bacterial communities living in shallow seawater, says a team led by geologist Allen Nutman of the University of

Not exact matches

In a 1967 paper published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Margulis suggested that mitochondria and plastids — vital structures within animal and plant cells — evolved from bacteria hundreds of million of years ago, after bacterial cells started to collect in interactive communities and live symbiotically with one another.

A biofilm is essentially a three - dimensional community of bacteria that live together, kind of like a bacterial apartment building or city.

A central aspect of life sciences is to explore the symbiotic cohabitation of animals, plants and humans with their specific bacterial communities.

The filaments interconnect, creating living electrical circuits that span entire bacterial communities.

«Whether the bacterial community is very small, as it is in early infancy, or if it's larger as it is later in life, the community is always serving the same major functions regardless of its composition.

Large buoyant particles dominated by cyanobacterial colonies harbor distinct bacterial communities from small suspended particles and free ‐ living bacteria in the water column — Limei Shi — Microbiology Open

Seasonal succession of free - living bacterial communities in coastal waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

This Life Sciences professor is all about communities — from the bacterial ones she studies (yuck) to the UNLV community she is pleased to have joined.

Some bacterial species have two types of populations: communities that live inside other organisms and larger populations living free in the environment.

While the jury's out on whether these supplements have any effect on the gut's bacterial environment, it is clear that not having a thriving microbial community in one's intestines can be dangerous, with consequences ranging from a day or two of diarrhea to life - threatening infection with a nasty bug called Clostridium difficile, which can gain a foothold in patients treated with antibiotics.

How do we build up our bacterial community to help us live a healthier life?