Sentences with phrase «describe microbial communities»

Leading microbiome researchers use the term «impoverished» to describe microbial communities that lack healthy numbers and diversity.

Last year they were reviewing WSU grad student John «Wes» Dille's thesis, which described the microbial community on Junco feathers.

Following the isolation and purification of microbial DNA from all samples, we used community fingerprinting (ARISA) and high - throughput sequencing of the 16s ribosomal RNA gene (V1 - V3) to describe the microbial community structure in each group.

Not exact matches

This week, a consortium involving 200 investigators from a variety of disciplines describes more than a dozen microscopic communities as part of the most thorough look ever at the microbial world on and within us.

This week, investigators from a variety of disciplines describe more than a dozen microscopic communities as part of the most thorough look ever at the microbial world on and within us.

Lake ice microbial communities, called LIMCOs as a counterpart to the already well described sea ice microbial communities (SIMCOs), are highly active and live within alternating layers of slush and white ice.

The researchers working on the Great Prairie project have managed to compile about 1.8 trillion bases of DNA data, but Jansson thinks those data describe only a fraction of the microbial communities in prairie soil, given that the soil contains between 1 billion and 10 billion individual cells per gram.

She will discuss microbial community response to environmental conditions, and will describe the research mission of Microbiomes in Transition, an initiative she directs at PNNL.

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.