Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

MDJ Lynch, JD Neufeld - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …

Microbial ecology of denitrification in biological wastewater treatment

H Lu, K Chandran, D Stensel - Water research, 2014 - Elsevier
Globally, denitrification is commonly employed in biological nitrogen removal processes to
enhance water quality. However, substantial knowledge gaps remain concerning the overall …

HT-SIP: a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline identifies cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

EE Nuccio, SJ Blazewicz, M Lafler, AN Campbell… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Linking the identity of wild microbes with their ecophysiological traits and
environmental functions is a key ambition for microbial ecologists. Of many techniques that …

Biological nitrification inhibition in the rhizosphere: determining interactions and impact on microbially mediated processes and potential applications

P Nardi, HJ Laanbroek, GW Nicol… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nitrification is the microbial conversion of reduced forms of nitrogen (N) to nitrate (NO3−),
and in fertilized soils it can lead to substantial N losses via NO3− leaching or nitrous oxide …

Microbial community transcriptomes reveal microbes and metabolic pathways associated with dissolved organic matter turnover in the sea

J McCarren, JW Becker, DJ Repeta… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) contains as much carbon as the Earth's atmosphere,
and represents a critical component of the global carbon cycle. To better define microbial …

The seasonal structure of microbial communities in the Western English Channel

JA Gilbert, D Field, P Swift, L Newbold… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Very few marine microbial communities are well characterized even with the weight of
research effort presently devoted to it. Only a small proportion of this effort has been aimed …

Molecular ecology techniques for the study of aerobic methanotrophs

IR McDonald, L Bodrossy, Y Chen… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Methane oxidation can occur in both aerobic and anaerobic environments; however, these
are completely different processes involving different groups of prokaryotes. Aerobic …

Detection of large numbers of novel sequences in the metatranscriptomes of complex marine microbial communities

JA Gilbert, D Field, Y Huang, R Edwards, W Li, P Gilna… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Sequencing the expressed genetic information of an ecosystem
(metatranscriptome) can provide information about the response of organisms to varying …

North Sea spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria fill diverse heterotrophic niches

B Francis, T Urich, A Mikolasch, H Teeling… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Background The planktonic bacterial community associated with spring phytoplankton
blooms in the North Sea is responsible for a large amount of carbon turnover in an …

Phytoplankton strategies for photosynthetic energy allocation

KH Halsey, BM Jones - Annual review of marine science, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Phytoplankton physiology is dynamic and highly responsive to the environment.
Phytoplankton acclimate to changing environmental conditions by a complex reallocation of …