Sentences with phrase «microbial communities in»

Microbial communities in wetlands play a dominant role in the removal of inorganic nitrogen (nitrate and ammonium)(DeBusk 1999).

Australians are of course working on techniques to identify and promote the optimum microbial communities in soils.

Microbial communities in thawing permafrost contribute a significant amount to atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

«We are seeing an explosion in our mechanistic understanding of how microbial communities in our intestines and elsewhere influence multiple aspects of immune and metabolic health,» said John Wherry, Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

I also collaborate with other researchers who want help to analyze microbial communities in other type of systems, such as the intestinal flora of various animals.

The Rosalind Franklin Award committee also gives honorable mention to Rachel Dutton, PhD, of the University of California, San Diego, for her work on the genetic mechanisms of formation of microbial communities in cheese; and Elizabeth Murchison, PhD, of Cambridge University for her work on transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils.

In this study, we have used culture - independent shotgun metagenomics to investigate microbial communities in river sediments exposed to waste water from the production of antibiotics in India.

Long - term forest soil warming alters microbial communities in temperate forest soils.

A team from the University of California - Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, PNNL, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory sequenced nearly 150,000 genes from three microbial communities in samples from a subsurface aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site in Rifle, Colorado.

Impact of fomesafen on the soil microbial communities in soybean fields in Northeastern China — XH Wu — Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety DOI not available yet.

Microbial communities in biological denitrification system using methanol as carbon source for treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate from coking wastewater — Enchao Li — Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination

A comparative study revealed first insights into the diversity and metabolisms of the microbial communities in the sediments of Pacmanus and Desmos hydrothermal fields — Hai - liang Wang — PLoS One

Molecular diversity and ecophysiology of microbial communities in extreme environments.

Removal of artificial sweeteners and their effects on microbial communities in sequencing batch reactors.

«The deep - sea microbial communities in the Mediterranean fix as much or even more carbon dioxide each year as those in the surface layers,» says Yakimov.

* Dysbiotic subgingival microbial communities in periodontally healthy patients with rheumatoid arthritis — Isabel Lopez - Oliva — Arthritis and Rheumatology

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.

Microbial communities in seawater from an Arctic and a temperate Norwegian fjord and their potentials for biodegradation of chemically dispersed oil at low seawater temperatures — Deni Ribicic — Marine Pollution Bulletin

Additionally, we assessed microbial communities in settled particles surrounding each occupant, to investigate the potential long - term fate of airborne microbial emissions.

Specifically, the researchers found that deforestation dramatically alters microbial communities in sandy soils, but has minimal effects in muddy, clay - like soils, even after extensive tree removal.

Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.

In 1996, right at the end of my PhD, I was invited by John C. Priscu of Montana State University in Bozeman MSU to participate in his project studying ice microbial communities in antarctic lakes.

While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.

This scientific trip will lead us to the Canadian High Arctic and North Pole, to study (lake) ice microbial communities in high arctic lakes and ice fields.

Microbial communities in marine sediments control ecological processes, affecting the availability of nutrients and the chemistry of the soil.

The open source software package the researchers have designed, known as Microbial Dynamical Systems INference Engine (MDSINE), uses advanced machine learning technologies to accurately predict how microbial communities in the gut will grow and interact over time.

Although the microbial communities in this study did not present a health risk, this method can be used in such cases, the researchers said.

The microbial communities in these sediments include aggregates of methane - oxidizing archaea called ANME (for ANaerobic MEthanotrophs) and sulfate - reducing bacteria (SRB) that live together symbiotically and help to remove some 80 percent of the methane released from ocean sediments.

«The more we know about the microbial communities in a given environment, the more likely it is we can reshape them to improve environmental and human health,» said senior author Rob Knight, PhD, professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering, and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego.

«As we start to look deeply into these other microbial communities in and on the body and see their importance, I think people will realize that there's more to microbiome research than the gut,» Kwon says.

It involved intensive molecular testing of swab samples from 87 women who had acquired HIV infection and of 262 who did not, and sophisticated analysis comparing the vaginal microbial communities in each of those groups.

This study is the largest of its kind on captive Komodo dragons, and the first to investigate the microbial communities in the feces and skin of Komodo dragons.

Enabled by cutting - edge technologies at GIS, I look forward to more studies in this area with a view to understanding the role of microbial communities in diseases, and eventually leading to better health outcomes for patients.»

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.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Microbial communities in navels have much the same make - up as those behind the knees.

After 21 days, researchers examined the microbial communities in each fish's intestines and those associated with their food and the surrounding water.

Males had more diverse microbial communities in their cloacas.

Professor Rachel Dutton, along with postdoctoral researchers Ben Wolfe and Julie Button, has spent the past several years mapping, analyzing and otherwise fiddling with the microbial communities in 160 different kinds of cheese rind.

I could imagine a microbial community in which diethyl ether is made as a waste product and exploited by dragons to breathe fire.»

Without that information, it's impossible to know, for example, how antibiotics affect the microbial community in the intestines, he says.

Because the microbial community in the mucus of each amphibian species differs, adding a particular type of bacteria to the mucus through a probiotic wash will have different impacts on different types of frogs.

One avenue of research is the changing microbial community in the soil beneath decomposing bodies.

Researchers have also detected a change in the rodents» microbiome, the natural microbial community in their guts.

«By studying the microbial community in the panda's gastrointestinal tract, we gain a better understanding of panda nutrition, which could help improve the health and reproduction of the endangered species.»

Using fruit flies, Fiumera looks at the effects of nanoparticles on development, physiology and biochemical composition, as well as the microbial community in the GI tract of the fly.

«Our results confirmed the changes in nutrient condition and microbial community in water caused by a small amount of feces,» Lee concluded.

Effects of soil depth and plant - soil interaction on microbial community in temperate grasslands of northern China.

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.

After we take the time to rebuild our gut lining, we want to reintroduce good foods to help support the development of the microbial community in our gut.