Sentences with phrase «says microbial ecologist»

Yes, says microbial ecologist Holly Ganz, PhD, co-founder and CEO of AnimalBiome, a company that analyzes the microbiomes of dogs and cats and offers treatment in the form of healthy fecal material in capsules.

And other labs working with Vostok ice haven't found any evidence of thermophiles, says microbial ecologist John Priscu, whose group published the first papers on bacteria in Vostok ice.

The morel can spread soil bacteria to new «fields» and cultivate them with fungal secretions that the bacteria consume, says microbial ecologist Pilar Junier of the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

The research demonstrates an exciting new way that microbes may be able to survive underground, says microbial ecologist Rick Colwell of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls.

«This is really cool, just from a biological discovery standpoint,» says microbial ecologist Jennifer DeBruyn of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville who was not part of the study.

It's too soon to say that the microorganisms found at 16 meters are in fact 2800 years old, since the ice could have melted and refrozen recently, says microbial ecologist Warwick Vincent of the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

Another possibility is that the toxins are simply a way for a diatom or dinoflagellate to store excess nutrients, such as carbon or nitrogen, rather than a stress response, says microbial ecologist William Cochlan of San Francisco State University.

Researchers «saw the oil at 800 to 1,400 meters depth,» says microbial ecologist Andreas P. Teske of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Not exact matches

To really determine whether stowaway bacteria would survive on Mars, experiments need to use more complex surfaces, «not the kind of configurations that microbial ecologists find easy to count,» he says.

«Nobody's ever just taken a bunch of soils and said, «Let's see what we have,»» says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado.

«There are certain [microbes] we all have, and certain things that are unique to individuals, but we really have no idea where we acquire these in our lifetime,» says James Meadow, the study's lead author and a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Garriet Smith, a marine microbial ecologist at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, says he suspects that the aspergillus arrives as atmospheric fallout, from winds bearing sands of the Sahara.

«This is a powerful study,» says Rachel Adams, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the new research.

The release of those gases from fertilized soils increases at high temperatures due to increased microbial activity, says Darrel Jenerette, an ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved in the new study.

«This is one of the first studies to show that that the microbiomes of a traditional agriculturalist group exhibit an intermediate state, between the microbiomes of hunter - gatherers and those of a western industrialized society,» says first author Andres Gomez, a microbial ecologist and staff scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California.

This transfer of carbon — or energy — up the food web is inefficient, says John Priscu, a microbial ecologist from Montana State University who was part of the team that discovered the Antarctic fish this month.

Corpses represent a «gold mine» for microbes, says George Kowalchuk, a microbial ecologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who was not involved with the study.

«Once you look at these microbes at the species level, we are all pretty much distinct,» says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The study is the first to demonstrate this kind of teleconnection between the sea floor, subsea floor and microbial processes in the upper ocean, said Andy Juhl, an aquatic ecologist at Lamont and coauthor.

«This is extremely exciting as it provides evidence that a microbial war is ongoing in our body,» says Jack Gilbert, a microbial ecologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

However, the rain was less efficient removing viruses from the atmosphere,» said author and microbial ecologist Isabel Reche from the University of Granada.