Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options

BK Singh, RD Bardgett, P Smith, DS Reay - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
Microbial processes have a central role in the global fluxes of the key biogenic greenhouse
gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) and are likely to respond rapidly to …

The core gut microbiome, energy balance and obesity

PJ Turnbaugh, JI Gordon - The Journal of physiology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Metagenomics is an emerging field focused on characterizing the structures, functions and
dynamic operations of microbial communities sampled in their native habitats without the …

Strengths and limitations of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing in revealing temporal microbial community dynamics

R Poretsky, LM Rodriguez-R, C Luo, D Tsementzi… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
This study explored the short-term planktonic microbial community structure and resilience
in Lake Lanier (GA, USA) while simultaneously evaluating the technical aspects of …

[BOOK][B] Textbook of limnology

GA Cole, PE Weihe - 2015 - books.google.com
The interdisciplinary nature of limnology requires lucid and well-integrated coverage of
biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and resource management. Paul Weihe skillfully …

The chemistry of lanthanides in biology: recent discoveries, emerging principles, and technological applications

JA Cotruvo Jr - ACS central science, 2019 - ACS Publications
The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011
that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only …

Rare earth metals are essential for methanotrophic life in volcanic mudpots

A Pol, TRM Barends, A Dietl… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Growth of M ethylacidiphilum fumariolicum S olV, an extremely acidophilic methanotrophic
microbe isolated from an I talian volcanic mudpot, is shown to be strictly dependent on the …

Emergent properties of microbial activity in heterogeneous soil microenvironments: different research approaches are slowly converging, yet major challenges remain

PC Baveye, W Otten, A Kravchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data
showing that the bulk, macroscopic parameters (eg, granulometry, pH, soil organic matter …

Widespread genetic switches and toxicity resistance proteins for fluoride

JL Baker, N Sudarsan, Z Weinberg, A Roth… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Most riboswitches are metabolite-binding RNA structures located in bacterial messenger
RNAs where they control gene expression. We have discovered a riboswitch class in many …

Metabolic engineering in methanotrophic bacteria

MG Kalyuzhnaya, AW Puri, ME Lidstrom - Metabolic engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Methane, as natural gas or biogas, is the least expensive source of carbon for (bio) chemical
synthesis. Scalable biological upgrading of this simple alkane to chemicals and fuels can …

PQQ-dependent methanol dehydrogenases: rare-earth elements make a difference

JT Keltjens, A Pol, J Reimann… - Applied microbiology and …, 2014 - Springer
Methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) catalyzes the first step in methanol use by methylotrophic
bacteria and the second step in methane conversion by methanotrophs. Gram-negative …