Life at low water activity

WD Grant - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 2004‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Two major types of environment provide habitats for the most xerophilic organisms known:
foods preserved by some form of dehydration or enhanced sugar levels, and hypersaline …

Search and discovery strategies for biotechnology: the paradigm shift

AT Bull, AC Ward, M Goodfellow - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2000‏ - journals.asm.org
Profound changes are occurring in the strategies that biotechnology-based industries are
deploying in the search for exploitable biology and to discover new products and develop …

The Diversity of Archaea and Bacteria in Association with the Roots of Zea mays L.

MK Chelius, EW Triplett - Microbial ecology, 2001‏ - JSTOR
The diversity of bacteria and archaea associating on the surface and interior of maize roots
(Zea mays L.) was investigated. A bacterial 16S rDNA primer was designed to amplify …

Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments

KU Hinrichs, JM Hayes, SP Sylva, PG Brewer… - Nature, 1999‏ - nature.com
Large amounts of methane are produced in marine sediments but are then consumed
before contacting aerobic waters or the atmosphere. Although no organism that can …

Phylogenetic analysis of particle-attached and free-living bacterial communities in the Columbia River, its estuary, and the adjacent coastal ocean

BC Crump, EV Armbrust, JA Baross - Applied and environmental …, 1999‏ - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT The Columbia River estuary is a dynamic system in which estuarine turbidity
maxima trap and extend the residence time of particles and particle-attached bacteria over …

Microbial diversity of hydrothermal sediments in the Guaymas Basin: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities

A Teske, KU Hinrichs, V Edgcomb… - Applied and …, 2002‏ - journals.asm.org
Microbial communities in hydrothermally active sediments of the Guaymas Basin (Gulf of
California, Mexico) were studied by using 16S rRNA sequencing and carbon isotopic …

Comparative analysis of methane-oxidizing archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria in anoxic marine sediments

VJ Orphan, KU Hinrichs, W Ussler III… - Applied and …, 2001‏ - journals.asm.org
The oxidation of methane in anoxic marine sediments is thought to be mediated by a
consortium of methane-consuming archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria. In this study, we …

Genomic analysis of the uncultivated marine crenarchaeote Cenarchaeum symbiosum

SJ Hallam, KT Konstantinidis, N Putnam… - Proceedings of the …, 2006‏ - pnas.org
Crenarchaeota are ubiquitous and abundant microbial constituents of soils, sediments,
lakes, and ocean waters. To further describe the cosmopolitan nonthermophilic …

Genetic diversity of archaea in deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments

K Takai, K Horikoshi - Genetics, 1999‏ - academic.oup.com
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of naturally occurring archaeal communities in deep-sea
hydrothermal vent environments was carried out by PCR-mediated small subunit rRNA gene …

Microbial ecology of Antarctic aquatic systems

R Cavicchioli - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015‏ - nature.com
The Earth's biosphere is dominated by cold environments, and the cold biosphere is
dominated by microorganisms. Microorganisms in cold Southern Ocean waters are …