Microbial biodiversity refers to the variety of different microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, found in a particular environment. It reflects the diverse range of species and their interactions within a microorganism community.
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Klepac - Ceraj recently worked with Michigan State University ecologist Brian Maurer on a study of cystic fibrosis that showed the importance of
microbial biodiversity in diseased lungs.
Paul Sipiera, president of PSF and expedition leader, covered the meteorite research, whereas my task was to collect ice cores for investigations
of microbial biodiversity in permanent ice fields.
«When a microbe is so abundant, it probably plays a very important role in the ecosystem,» said Patrick Keeling, a professor of botany at UBC and director of the
Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program at CIFAR.
She is a member of CIFAR's Integrated
Microbial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecosystems.
This distinctive trait is rendered possible by the combined action of cheese maturation and enzymes naturally found in milk and through the use of processing aids such as «scotta innesto» (starter culture with a
high microbial biodiversity) and calf rennet paste.
«The results represent a one thousand-fold increase in data over previous attempts to characterize
ocean microbial biodiversity,» said a senior author on one of the papers, Peer Bork, during a teleconference for reporters on 19 May, «and yet, this is still the tip of the iceberg.»
In addition, I had the freedom to conduct my own research in the Dry Valleys, taking ice samples from the surrounding glaciers to
investigate microbial biodiversity in glacier ice.
But a study published today in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that a favored sequencing method for
measuring microbial biodiversity is not as accurate as once thought.
The outcome is the first comprehensive in situ quantification of nutrient uptake capabilities among dominant phytoplankton groups in the North Atlantic Ocean that takes into
account microbial biodiversity.»
To address the knowledge gap about the globally - relevant ecosystem process of nutrient uptake, researchers worked to identify how different levels of
microbial biodiversity influenced in situ phosphorus uptake in the Western Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean.
In a Commentary published April 11 in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers at the University of Alberta advocate for strategically increasing dietary fiber intake as one path forward in
regaining microbial biodiversity.
In today's digest, check among many interesting articles: the evolution within human microbiome by T.D. Lieberman,
unique microbial biodiversity residing in hadal trenches by L.M. Peoples, changes in community composition in coastal water following exposure to oil and oil dispersant by S.H. Doyle.
Recent advances in bacterial identification and sequencing have allowed for more and more environments, including our skin, mouths and guts, to give up the secrets of
their microbial biodiversity.
Patrick Keeling, assistant professor in the department of botany at the University of British Columbia, is leading an effort to establish a second - generation CIAR program, to be called Integrated
Microbial Biodiversity.
It will build on the foundation of the previous program but go in a new direction:
microbial biodiversity.
«I think that
this microbial biodiversity is an emerging field, and Canada can make a really big difference,» Keeling says
While phytoplankton's ability to adjust their physiology to exploit limited nutrients in the open ocean has been well documented, little is understood about how variations in
microbial biodiversity — the number and variety of marine microbes — affects global ocean function.
[7] «Within the BelSPO - funded BELDIVA project, we are studying
the microbial biodiversity and its response to climate change, in collaboration with scientists from the Universities of Liège and Ghent and the Botanic Garden in Meise.
According to Stanford microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg, «The safest way to increase
your microbial biodiversity is to eat a variety of polysaccharides.»
That's because according to Stanford microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg, «The safest way to increase
your microbial biodiversity is to eat a variety of polysaccharides.»