Sentences with phrase «marine microorganisms»

Some prefer the deep seas, others the coastal waters, in their search for marine microorganisms.

It is of great importance to increase the number of marine microorganisms in culture because it is the only way to understand their nature, their function in the marine microbiome, and their properties, including potential pharmaceutical or biotechnological applications.

To figure out how organisms might have endured periods of so - called «catastrophic darkness», Charles Cockell of the Open University's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research in Milton Keynes, UK, and his team placed samples of both freshwater and marine microorganisms in darkness...

MaCuMBA coordinator Prof Lucas Stal (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)-RRB-, said: «MaCuMBA aims to improve the isolation rate and growth efficiency of marine microorganisms from conventional and extreme habitats by applying innovative methods and using automated high - throughput procedures.

New genetic analyses of tropical marine microorganisms have revealed that some species of single - celled plankton are converting significant amounts of nitrogen from the air into nutrients, helping to fortify the base of the ocean's food pyramid.

When marine microorganisms break down DMSP, they release a climate - cooling gas called dimethylsulfide (DMS), which also gives the seaside its characteristic smell.

Microbiologists have concocted an artificial seawater medium that can be used to successfully cultivate abundant marine microorganisms, many of which have not been genetically characterized before.

The MaCuMBA summer school on sampling, isolation and cultivation of marine microorganisms takes place from Monday 13 — Friday 24 July 2015 July 2015.

Dr. Anton Post is a microbiologist who specializes in the molecular ecology of marine microorganisms with a focus on abundant cyanobacterial species.

Marine Microorganisms as Source of Stereoselective Esterases and Ketoreductases: Kinetic Resolution of a Prostaglandin Intermediate

Marine microorganisms play a major role in cycling elements like carbon and nitrogen throughout the environment.

Thus, these vesicles seem to be a general feature of marine microorganisms.

Haeckel's exquisite 19th - century science drawings — many depicting a selection of the hundreds of marine microorganisms he himself discovered — helped launch the Art Nouveau movement as well as the field of evolutionary biology.

In a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans in July, researchers found that phytoplankton, marine microorganisms that serve as the foundation of the food chain in the ocean, were more likely to thrive with the melting of the continent's ice shelves and ice sheets.

The 16th and final issue of the MaCuMBA (Marine Microorganisms: Cultivation Methods for Improving their Biotechnological Applications) project newsletter is...

Marine microorganisms that drive many global ocean processes (e.g. oxygen production, primary productivity and biogeochemical cycling) are able to adapt to ocean acidification [49].