Sentences with phrase «on microbial communities»

Lack of fermentation and its role in colonic pH and pH's impact on microbial communities is well understood process and well represented in the literature.

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

In the near future, these researchers plan to develop methods to screen soils for carbon sequestration potential based on their microbial communities.

In this way, the scientists could separate out the effects of surgery itself on microbial communities from the effects of losing weight or consuming less food.

Our research advances our knowledge of the impact of management practices on microbial communities and adds to a growing understanding of their importance for animal and environmental health.

There have been no long - term longitudinal studies of the effects of early feeding method on the microbiome, but early feeding has the potential for lasting effects on microbial community structure, 32 and these effects may be one mechanism for the health benefits of breastfeeding on childhood and lifelong health.

«When you use antibiotics, you are essentially dropping a bomb on a microbial community, hoping that your explosion will not harm anything useful,» he says.

«In contrast to a traditional soil decomposition model, our model can elucidate mechanisms that depend on social dynamics that emerge on the microbial community level, but are driven by individual interactions among microbes competing for food and space at the smallest scale.»

Effect of hydraulic retention time on microbial community structure in wastewater treatment electro - bioreactors — Nancy A. ElNaker — Microbiology Open

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

Influence of secondary water supply systems on microbial community structure and opportunistic pathogen gene markers — Huan Li — Water Research

Effects of ocean acidification on microbial community composition of, and oxygen fluxes through, biofilms from the Great Barrier Reef

Not exact matches

«Human microbial communities play an important role in digestion and immune health and are believed to collectively endow us with the essential traits we rely on for such functions, according to the research team.

His team knew that microbial communities on skin tend to be unique to the individual and change little over time.

A new study shows that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies — known as the human microbiome — have the potential to uniquely identify individuals, much like a fingerprint.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

To investigate, the team disinfected «plots» on the foreheads and left forearms of volunteers, wiping out the indigenous microbial communities.

Bouquet, a student in the joint doctoral program between UTSA's Department of Physics and Astronomy and SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division, explained that microbial communities sustained by H2 have been found in extreme environments on Earth.

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.

Wherever we go, microbial communities will faithfully follow, making this evidence of the effects of spaceflight on bacterial physiology relevant to human health.

«The next phases are a lot more soil biology, measuring changes below ground in fungal and microbial communities to get a handle on how they are responding to the warming.»

This is the most comprehensive study of microbial communities living on a glacier to date,» said Lutz.

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.

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.

Fredricks is a leading expert on the complex microbial communities that live in the vagina and the role they play in health and disease.

«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.

He was game to research the microbial communities he would encounter on his journey, and every day after he made what he called a «tripmark,» a tire tread imprint on a piece of paper with location information and notes (above), he filled three vials of dirt and sent them back to Nagler at the University of Innsbruck, providing her with a rare opportunity to examine many samples of microbes from a broad geographic range.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

The research also suggests that the microbial succession on a cadaver operates similarly to the colonization that occurs in plant communities, where «at first, weedy species thrive — they scoop up the easy - to - eat stuff,» says DeBruyn.

The novel techniques developed by Louca and his colleagues will allow scientists around the world to better understand the processes that shape microbial communities, which form the basis of life on Earth.

But the caterpillars that munched on the plastic had a much more diverse native microbial community.

Based on methane and oxygen distributions measured at 207 stations throughout the affected region, we find that within ~ 120 days from the onset of release ~ 3.0 × 1010 to 3.9 × 1010 moles of oxygen were respired, primarily by methanotrophs, and left behind a residual microbial community containing methanotrophic bacteria.

Cuypers, who was not involved with the work, says the most surprising insight is that the microbial decomposer community doesn't depend on soil type.

«Since the microbial community is a critical part of a food web, global warming will have direct impacts on organisms feeding on plankton... What exactly and how large this impact will be will require more data to understand.»

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.

This is also the goal of many other current research projects of the Department of Computational Systems Biology, which focuses on research on pathogens, microbial communities and molecular interactions between species adopting a system - oriented approach.

Studies of germ - free rodents and other animals on gut - disrupting antibiotics show that changing microbial communities can impair memory and cause anxiety - like behaviours.

When the scientists examined the cells in the growing communities closely, they found nanoparticles of magnetite on the surface of cells and, in some cases, grains of the iron mineral connecting microbial pairs.

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.

In a comprehensive analysis of soil collected from 11 distinct U.S. regions, from Hawaii to northern Alaska, researchers found that the extent to which deforestation disturbs underground microbial communities that regulate the loss of carbon into the atmosphere depends almost exclusively on the texture of the soil.

Based on those changes, you will see drastically different microbial communities.

High pulse energies are for raw substrate treatment yielding a high level of cell killing and disintegration while moderate pulse protocols are used for recirculate where the focus lies on the control of the microbial community.

Taking an ecological approach that considers the influence of anatomical and physiological features of the human host as well as the microorganisms» impact on both healthy and impaired individuals, the author surveys microbial communities that inhabit healthy humans.

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

The team also demonstrated that bodies decomposing on soils modify the soil microbial communities substantially, allowing detection of a decomposing human body via the soil microbial community even if a body has been moved.

The team is now working on characterizing the microbial community of naturally occurring E. coli and Enterococci, using Hawaii with its warm waters as a testing ground.

Microbial communities living on and in the human skin are diverse and complex.

For example, the large - scale sequencing program has already started to sequence the genomes of 100 microorganisms found in the human gut, and will build on this by using genomic sequencing to characterize the complex microbial communities found at many sites in and on the human body.