Sentences with phrase «for microbial diversity»

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

We think it's likely that some biochars will knock out some conversations and not others, so we want to test that idea and, if possible, come up with a way to tailor biochar for the microbial diversity that's desired.»

Not exact matches

Under European conditions, organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture with regard to certain parameters: for example, 30 to 100 percent higher microbial activity3 and a significantly higher biomass (+30 to 40 percent), density (+ 50 to 80 percent) and species diversity of earthworms, a key soil - macro faunal species4.

Huge successes in the isolation and cultivation of marine microbial strains have been made by the EC - funded MaCuMBA (Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications) project, which aims to uncover the untold diversity of marine microbes using cultivation - dependent strategies.

A high diversity of microbial communities in the water could also reduce the potential for infection, according to earlier investigations conducted by UFZ researchers and published in Current Biology.

High up a Chilean volcano, there's more microbial diversity in bone - dry vents than icy patches - which could alter our search for life out in the solar system

For their study, they analysed bacteria present in healthy and ulcerated cattle stomachs and found very few differences in microbial diversity.

The microbial diversity present in the stomachs of cattle has now for the first time been published in the journal Veterinary Microbiology.

There is no lack of opportunities for exploring the planet's microbial diversity, Rubin said.

Understanding the true scope of the planet's microbial diversity is of interest to the DOE in order to learn how they can be harnessed for a wide range of energy and environmental challenges.

The microbial mass in and on a person may amount to just a few pounds, but in terms of genetic diversity these fellow travelers overwhelm their hosts, with 400 genes for every human one.

One explanation for this could be that the greater variations in environmental conditions, particularly the fluctuating substrate concentration, increased the diversity of the microbial community, leading to more functional groups of bacteria.

In his own lab, he is raising nematodes on soil enriched with different types of produce — sugary versus fibrous, for example — and finds that no matter what the food source and the resulting environmental microbial diversity, worms have similar sets of bacteria in their guts.

This suggests that the existence of Treponema «is likely a good indicator of a general high level of microbial diversity in the human gut,» says evolutionary anthropologist Stephanie Schnorr of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Ours is the first comprehensive long - time study that investigates the microbial load, diversity and dynamics in a closed habitat — a mock - up spacecraft — for 520 days, the full duration of a simulated flight to Mars.»

ATCC was originally put together by scientific societies for the purpose of storing the genetic diversity of the microbial world.

Bioinformatics MUGAN: Multi-GPU accelerated AmpliconNoise server for rapid microbial diversity assessment.

Antje Boetius and her team are renowned for their contributions to the diversity and function of life associated with seafloor processes, including pelagobenthic coupling, gas seepage and fluid flow, and the structure, function and dynamics of microbial communities of the ocean floor.

Our findings are potentially applicable to early disease detection, and future test development should focus on longitudinal sampling of the microbiota to monitor for changes in microbial diversity in a larger cohort of patients.

The Blumberg Institute is home to one of the world's greatest natural products collection of microbial and botanical extracts that provide broad chemical diversity for research and scholarship.

He is specialized in the ecology and diversity of cyanobacteria, other marine bacteria and microalgae, and known for his work on microbial mats and nitrogen fixation

Computer simulations by Liu et al. [43], Wang et al. [41], and Sundquist et al. [47] have indicated that pyrosequencing tags from different regions of the gene will vary in their utility for the distinct tasks of revealing microbial diversity and performing taxonomic classification, both of which contribute to making informative comparisons between complex microbial communities.

Our Western diet and propensity for antibiotics and antibacterial sprays and soaps have wiped out the microbial diversity of our guts, and we need to cultivate and develop them back into the equivalent of beautiful rainforests.

For my kids, I was like, «No, airports are bad places to pick up microbial diversity probably.

Prebiotics, or foods that escape digestion and are instead selectively fermented by beneficial bacteria in the colon, are a viable strategy for encouraging microbial diversity and in turn enhance the health of the host (45).

With my patients, I often discuss diet and food sensitivities, investigating gut microbial diversity, evaluating adrenal function and stress response and testing for exposure to environmental toxins.

«UH oceanographers Robert Bidigare, director of the Center for Marine Microbial Ecology and Diversity (CMMED), and Dave Karl, director of the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C - MORE) are among the co-authors of a paper in the journal Science showing that carbon dioxide does not always sink to the ocean depths where it can be stored.

- Designing a garden / field to encourage diversity and health - Spatial planning - Companion planting - Succession planting · Soil Health Basics for Organic Systems - Microbial life - Compost - Compost teas - Cover Cropping