• Generally, this condition is characterized by a shift in microbial composition from an abundance of lactobacilli in healthy women, to an increase of commensal anaerobic bacteria (such as Gardnerella , Atopobium , Prevotella and a panoply of other species). (news-medical.net)
  • however, that way it is impossible to get deep insights into the composition of present bacterial communities. (news-medical.net)
  • Rhizosphere microbial community composition shifts sp. (umr-beep.fr)
  • Les objectifs scientifiques de l'unité mixte de recherche Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystèmes marins Profonds (BEEP) visent à décrire et comprendre la composition, la structure et le fonctionnement de différents écosystèmes marins profonds en couplant les études faunistiques et microbiennes, des communautés aux molécules et vice versa, en utilisant des approches intégrées et multidisciplinaires. (umr-beep.fr)
  • The blowout of the Macondo Prospect reservoir on April 20, 2010, which released oil hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico, presented an opportunity to examine whether microbial community composition might provide a sensitive measure of ecosystem disturbance. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • Superimposed upon these beach community distance and time relationships, was increased variability in bacterial community composition from oil hydrocarbon contaminated sands. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • Microbial communities in downstream sediments had lower diversity and shifts in community composition compared to upstream locations, which could impact nutrient cycling due to altered microbial activity. (usgs.gov)
  • Does permafrost thaw alter methane cycling via a shift in the microbial community composition? (devindrown.com)
  • Natural restoration of vegetation significantly changed composition proportion of soil microbial communities. (nau.edu)
  • Our finding suggested that natural restoration of vegetation altered the biomass and composition proportion of soil microbial communities, which was strongly driven by variations in soil nutrient substrates and physiochemical properties (e.g., soil moisture and pH), as well as litter and root biomass along the long gradient of vegetation. (nau.edu)
  • Leachable Additives of Tire Particles Explain the Shift in Microbial Community Composition and Function in Coastal Sediments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Tire particles (TPs) are an important microplastic source, but little is known about how TPs affect the microbial community composition and function in coastal sediments and the role leachable additives play in TP toxicity . (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, a microcosm experiment was performed using coastal sediments amended with different doses of TPs and with their leachable additives to investigate their effects on the sediment microbial community composition and function. (bvsalud.org)
  • Also, as the microbial community associated with the seven healthy colonies did not alter composition significantly, it was possible to verify the microbial succession during different stages of tissue necrosis (i.e., initial, intermediate, and advanced). (nature.com)
  • Moreover, organic matter (in both particulate and dissolved forms) may be a major factor that controls the composition and structure of microbial communities in marine waters ( Dang and Lovell, 2016 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • I employ a range of meta-omics approaches including: meta-barcoding of microbiomes to assess microbial diversity coupled with the use of comparative meta-genomics and meta-transcriptomics in the frame of interdisciplinary and integrated research projects to link structural and functional diversity of microbes with diversity and community composition of plant communities. (ufz.de)
  • Shifts in taxonomic and functional diversity, community composition and distribution patterns of soil microbiomes with main focus on general fungi, mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria along land use and simulated drought senarios. (ufz.de)
  • Soil fungal diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land use gradients in three German Biodiversity Exploratories. (ufz.de)
  • The others were about the comparison of vaginal microbial composition of non-pregnant with pregnant women by the case-control longitudinal study but these designs did not reflect on the real menstrual cycle[9,10]. (researchsquare.com)
  • Effects of stand density on soil microbial community composition and enzyme activities in subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolate (Lamb. (scirp.org)
  • Biological composition and microbial dynamics of sinking particulate organic matter at abyssal depths in the open ocean. (usc.edu)
  • Various statistical analysis methods were used to detect the effect of year, warming, precipitation alternation and clipping on the diversity, composition, structure, functional potential and dynamics of soil microbial communities. (confex.com)
  • These results indicate that warming, altered precipitation and clipping have differential effects on the diversity, composition, structure, function and dynamics of soil microbial communities. (confex.com)
  • 2018. DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei . (geomar.de)
  • Direct impacts of climate change on soil microorganisms can occur rapidly, whereas indirect effects mediated by shifts in plant community composition are not immediately apparent and likely to increase over time. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • We compared shifts in microbial community structure to changes in plant species composition and key plant traits across 78 microsites within plots subjected to winter heating, rainfall supplementation, or summer drought. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • There was moderate concordance between soil microbial communities and plant species composition within microsites. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • With the gradient studies, I assessed microbial community composition in stream biofilms across a gradient of alkaline mine drainage. (duke.edu)
  • I used multivariate approaches to examine changes in the non-eukaryote microbial community composition of taxa (chapter 2) and functional genes (chapter 3). (duke.edu)
  • I found that stream biofilms at sites receiving alkaline mine drainage had distinct community composition and also differed in the composition of functional gene groups compared with unmined reference sites. (duke.edu)
  • The results from my dissertation work advise that it is important to carefully interpret shifts in community composition in relation to abiotic characteristics and recommend considering ecological, thermodynamic, and kinetic principles to understand the properties governing community responses to environmental perturbation. (duke.edu)
  • 2010. The influence of vegetation type, soil properties and precipitation on the composition of soil mite and microbial communities at the landscape scale . (hutton.ac.uk)
  • The microbial communities may shift in species composition and the abundances of these species, favouring the growth of degrading species. (cefic-lri.org)
  • Furthermore, foaming and non-foaming samples differed in their microbial community composition. (nationalhogfarmer.com)
  • According to the research, DDGS and fiber were the leading feed components associated with shifts in composition of methane-producing microorganisms. (nationalhogfarmer.com)
  • We tested for effects of effluent inputs on chlorophyll a content, bacterial community composition, and metabolic rates: gross primary production (GPP), net community production (NCP), community respiration (CR) and. (lu.se)
  • Nutrient amendments and seasonally variable environmental conditions lead to lower alpha-diversity and shifts in bacterial community composition (e.g. increased abundance of a few cyanobacterial populations in the summer experiment), concomitant with changes in metabolic rates. (lu.se)
  • 2020. Movement ecology and sex are linked to barn owl microbial community composition. (lu.se)
  • Changes in the biomass and structure of soil microbial communities have the potential to impact ecosystems via interactions with plants and weathering minerals. (psu.edu)
  • Differences among microbial communities from each chronosequence soil were found primarily in the subsurface where older subsurface soils had smaller microbial community biomass, a higher proportion of fungi, and a different community structure than the younger subsurface soil. (psu.edu)
  • Subsurface microbial community shifts in biomass and community structure correlated with, and were likely driven by, decreasing soil P availability and Ca concentrations, respectively. (psu.edu)
  • The biomass of these microbial communities declined sharply along with soil depth at each of the restoration stage. (nau.edu)
  • Additionally, the impacts of natural restoration of vegetation on soil microbial communities were primarily concentrated in the surface soil layer rather than deep soil layer, and soil microbial biomass reached maximum in the climax forests. (nau.edu)
  • The focus now shifts to effectively eliminating as much biomass and biofilm as possible. (tunein.com)
  • Ann, V., Freixa A., Butturini A., Romaní A.M. "Interplay between sediment properties and stream flow conditions influences surface sediment organic matter and microbial biomass in a Mediterranean river. (udg.edu)
  • I welcome enquiries from potential postgraduate researchers (MScRes, MPhil, PhD) on topics related to my group's research interests in microbiomes - viromes - tree health/forest pathology - plant biomass degradation - pathogen ecology - microbial ecology. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Over the last century, leaps in technology for imaging, sampling, detection, high-throughput sequencing, and -omics analyses have revolutionized microbial ecology to enable rapid acquisition of extensive datasets for microbial communities across the ever-increasing temporal and spatial scales. (frontiersin.org)
  • We describe the Framework for Integrated, Conceptual, and Systematic Microbial Ecology (FICSME), an experimental design framework for conducting process-focused microbial ecology studies that incorporates biological, chemical, and physical drivers of a microbial system into a conceptual model. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, the multiscale, stochastic, spatio-temporal, and diverse nature of microbial processes makes it difficult to achieve predictive understanding of microbial systems, despite the large body of microbial ecology research. (frontiersin.org)
  • This disconnect between basic and translational science in microbial ecology stems largely from the intractability of most microbes and microbial communities- in situ in their natural habitat and in the laboratory, due to challenges with cultivation and genetic manipulation. (frontiersin.org)
  • As a result, most of our understanding of microbial ecology is patchwork, synthesized from model microbes that often do not represent the full set of capabilities of the microbial communities associated with real-world phenomena. (frontiersin.org)
  • Aquatic Microbial Ecology. (usc.edu)
  • Our results imply that high-specificity fibres generate more dramatic gut microbial shifts than low-specificity ones, which has potential implications not only for the microbial ecology itself but also for aspects of clinical relevance. (foodnavigator.com)
  • James McDonald is Professor of microbial ecology at Bangor University. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • No organisms were significantly associated with Oakdale Field compared to the other three sites, nor were any hydrogeochemical or gas geochemical parameters (for example, CO 2 concentration) found to have significant associations with the microbial ecology of these four sites. (usgs.gov)
  • The research group Aquatic Ecology studies, among other things, climate change effects on aquatic systems, regime shifts in shallow lakes, dispersal, and migration of aquatic organisms, population genetics, predator-prey interactions, effects of pesticides and endocrine disruptors and sustainable fisheries. (lu.se)
  • Microbial diversity decreased markedly over the course of incubation, with subtle differences between ferrihydrite and goethite amendments. (ku.edu)
  • Women with this condition are characterized by heterogeneous communities of bacteria that exhibit increased richness and diversity of existent bacterial species. (news-medical.net)
  • Environmentally relevant concentrations of TPs can change the microbial community structure , decrease community diversity, and inhibit nutrient cycling processes, including carbon fixation and degradation, nitrification , denitrification , and sulfur cycling in sediments . (bvsalud.org)
  • Further modeling revealed that leachable additives not only directly influenced community function but also indirectly affected community diversity and function by shifting the community structure. (bvsalud.org)
  • Moreover, the contribution of spatial distribution to the microbial community assembly was investigated via aggregated boosted tree (ABT) analyses, and the results indicated spatial isolation was not a major factor affecting the phylogenetic diversity and phylotypes of water microbial communities. (frontiersin.org)
  • Research Topic: Molecular diversity and community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with indigenous tree species in a mountain forest in Ethiopia. (ufz.de)
  • We showed that the vaginal microbial richness(Alpha diversity measured by PD_whole tree) was decreased in normal women(without reproductive tract infections) than in those with bacterial vaginosis (BV), and decreased in pregnant women than in other groups of non-pregnancy. (researchsquare.com)
  • In this study, using faecal samples from patients with IBD, we show through diversity analysis of the microbial community structure based on the 16S rRNA gene that the gut microbiome of IBD patients is less diverse compared to healthy individuals. (springer.com)
  • The diversity and dynamics of the microbial communities during the manufacturing of Ragusano cheese, an artisanal cheese produced in Sicily (Italy), were investigated by a combination of classical and culture-independent approaches. (who.int)
  • This balance is maintained by microbial diversity, genetic factors, and complex molecular-cellular interactions between host and microbiome. (uni-ulm.de)
  • 2021. Larvae of deep-sea invertebrates harbor low-diversity bacterial communities. (geomar.de)
  • However, little is known about the historic distribution of microbes associated with plants through time, limiting our understanding of how microbial diversity responds to global change. (tamucc.edu)
  • The research also served as a proof of the concept that data could be pulled from these herbarium specimens to uncover the natural history of microbial diversity , which are not only crucial to plants for healthy growth and protection from herbivores, but, in turn, are useful as sources of new medicine in pharmaceutical industries. (tamucc.edu)
  • 2019). We continuously monitored the marked fluctuation of bacterial diversity and relative abundances after the pandas were 1.5 years old and the bacterial community stabilized when pandas had adapted to a specialized bamboo diet after they were 2 years old, differing from those of Zhang et al. (researchgate.net)
  • In addition, rare taxa could be crucial mediators of ecological functions of sediment microbial community . (bvsalud.org)
  • The relative abundance of dominant bacterial taxa in vaginal microbial communities of women at childbearing age, characterized with 16S rRNA gene sequence and QIIME based analysis, were not different among groups of childbearing history and menstrual cycle. (researchsquare.com)
  • 2019. Shift in bacterial taxa precedes morphological plasticity in a larval echinoid. (geomar.de)
  • Importantly, although dominant microbial taxa were largely unaffected by drought, there were substantial changes in the abundances of subordinate fungal and bacterial taxa. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • however, no statistically significant shifts in the abundance (>2-fold) of taxa between the two time points was observed. (cdc.gov)
  • However, significant gaps remain in our understanding of long-term soil microbial community dynamics, especially for non-forested ecosystems and in subsurface soil horizons. (psu.edu)
  • Anthropogenic stressors often impact these ecosystems, but little is known about whether these disturbances can be identified through microbial community change. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • The effects of environmental factors on water microbial communities have been extensively studied, but little is known about the effects in shrimp cultural enclosure ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • We analyzed 16S rRNA gene amplicons to determine the principal environmental factors that shape the structure and function of microbial communities in shrimp cultural enclosure ecosystems from Guangdong and Hainan provinces, in China. (frontiersin.org)
  • Collectively, these results showed that environmental factors influenced the structure and function of water microbial communities, while salinity was the principal environmental factor instead of temperature, TP, TN, and pH in shrimp cultural enclosure ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • influence microbial community structure in different ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • A growing number of studies have addressed the patterns and functions of microbial communities in the waters of different ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • Microbial communities serve critical roles in all ecosystems and have a profound impact on human health, environmental health, and industrial capabilities. (frontiersin.org)
  • Soil microbial communities mediate critical carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. (confex.com)
  • By forming a mutual relationship with the host, the vaginal microbiome ( i.e. various kinds of vaginal microbial communities present in healthy women) has a significant impact on women's health and disease. (news-medical.net)
  • Humans, animals and plants are closely related to complex microbial communities, the so-called microbiome. (uni-ulm.de)
  • Of particular interest to Dr. Sung is characterizing the global interconnectivity within our body's microbial community, as well as identifying the primary biomolecular processes driving microbiome-associated chronic disease. (mayo.edu)
  • Through a deeper understanding of the community-scale function of the gut microbiome, Dr. Sung aims to develop the conceptual framework necessary to design probiotic cocktails for gut-related disorders. (mayo.edu)
  • In women reaching the end of pregnancy, for example, the team saw gut microbiome and metabolomic shifts that were distinct from those found around the time of delivery or at post-pregnancy time points, including higher-than-usual levels of Streptococcus salivarius and S. parasanguinis microbes that tend to make their way into infant gut microbial communities as well as changes expected to alter metabolism in mothers-to-be. (genomeweb.com)
  • The researchers linked levels of species such as Bacteroides cellulosilyticus in the maternal gut microbiome - including bugs with relatively low maternal-to-infant transmission frequency - to specific functional and structural features in infant gut microbial communities over the first few months of life, including the presence of human milk oligosaccharide-degrading glycoside hydrolase enzymes. (genomeweb.com)
  • The discovery that mother-to-infant interspecies HGT events shape infant microbial metabolic activities expands our understanding of maternal influences on the infant gut microbiome," the authors reported, noting that "identification of distinctive metabolomic profiles and microbe-metabolite interactions in the infant gut constitutes a platform for further study of microbial contributions to development. (genomeweb.com)
  • Increasing evidence suggests that the community of microbes located within the gastrointestinal tract of vertebrates, known as the "gut microbiome" , is a crucial determinant of health and physiological condition. (lu.se)
  • The human microbiome is the collective genome of microbial communities that live in and on us. (cdc.gov)
  • The colonic microbiome view is controversial, some people Metagenomics of the Human Intes- is the most diverse and also the best consider the gut microbiota to be tinal Tract (MetaHIT) consortium re- characterized microbial community. (who.int)
  • Understanding the significance of these terms becomes paramount, as biofilm harbors its own diverse microbial community that can contribute to tank corrosion. (tunein.com)
  • Some of these studies focused on the microbiota associated with healthy corals, but the microbial community associated with bleached and/or diseased colonies of M. braziliensis, S. stellata, and M. decactis were also determined. (nature.com)
  • We tested the hypothesis of whether the relative abundance of microbial species in vaginal microbiota was different between women with different urogenital tract infections, childbearing history and menstrual cycle. (researchsquare.com)
  • The gut microbiota, which has a complex community of a hundred trillion bacterial and archaeal cells comprising more than a thousand species, provides benefits to the host such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and amino acids, metabolism of undigested carbohydrate, and stimulation of the immune system [ 19 , 20 ]. (springer.com)
  • The in vitro investigation into the impact of fibre specificity on microbiota structure indicates that fibres with high-specificity (and specifically insoluble β-glucan) can potentially bypass the competitive jostling for fibre utilization to increase target bacteria and promote significant shifts in gut microbial. (foodnavigator.com)
  • This would promote an increase in target bacteria (independent of the overall background microbial community) and encourage similar microbial shifts in subjects with distinctly different microbiota environments. (foodnavigator.com)
  • 2019. Major shifts in gut microbiota during development and its relationship to growth in ostriches. (lu.se)
  • The recent success gut microbial genes, obtained after has fantastic potential, it has only of faecal microbiota transplantation, sequencing whole faecal microbiota been about 10 years since the sci- especially in the context of Clostridi- metagenomes from 124 European indi- entific community first realized its im- um difficile infection, argues for such viduals [4]. (who.int)
  • Under healthy conditions, the in- nomes obtained from individuals crobiota resembles the mother's skin testinal microbiota is considered to on three continents, including 760 microbial community, composed of be a stable community, influenced samples from Europe. (who.int)
  • In brief, these studies suggested that there are fundamental microorganisms to the host and that the balance of the microbial community is the result of long (co-evolutionary) and short-term (ecological) processes acting simultaneously. (nature.com)
  • While location-specific interactions between temperature and energy supply appear to set the absolute limits of life in many places, less is known about how interactions between temperature and energy supply influence the community structure of microorganisms. (nature.com)
  • Vector fitting of community-weighted mean plant traits to ordinations of soil bacterial and fungal communities showed that shifts in soil microbial community structure were related to plant traits representing the quality of resources available to soil microorganisms: the construction cost of leaf material, foliar carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, and leaf dry matter content. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Microorganisms from these sites were metabolically diverse and had the potential to (1) generate methane, (2) produce corrosive hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), and (3) rapidly biofoul and (or) clog pore spaces by shifting microbial communities with changes in salinity or nutrient supply. (usgs.gov)
  • 2019. SSU-rRNA gene sequencing survey of benthic microbial eukaryotes from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent. (usc.edu)
  • Enteric viruses can disturb the balance of the microbial communities, which can lead to secondary infections and to shifts towards higher number of pathogenic microbe species. (uni-ulm.de)
  • These results suggest that Fe(III) oxide mineralogy and availability of electron donors could have led to spatial separation of Fe(III)-reducing and methanogenic microbial communities in ferruginous marine sediments, potentially explaining the persistence of CH4 as a greenhouse gas throughout the first half of Earth history. (ku.edu)
  • In order to understand potential environmental health concerns, microbial communities were characterized in surficial sediments, and bioassays were used to determine endocrine disruption activity in surface waters. (usgs.gov)
  • Our results suggest that in hydrothermal sediments temperature determines domain-level dominance, whereas temperature-energy interactions structure microbial communities at the phylum-level and below. (nature.com)
  • A.M. Romaní "Interaction between physical heterogeneity and microbial processes in subsurface sediments: a laboratory-scale column experiment. (udg.edu)
  • Bik and senior author W. Kelley Thomas, director of the HCGS, as well as collaborators from Auburn University and the University of Texas, San Antonio, found that the communities of microbial eukaryotes (organisms not visible to the naked eye whose cells contain nuclei) in the sediments shifted dramatically from highly diverse communities dominated by nematodes - "what you would expect on a beach," says Bik -- to an almost exclusively fungal community. (eponline.com)
  • We investigated soil chemistry, aboveground plant productivity, and soil microbial communities across a grassland chronosequence (65,000-226,000 yrs old) located near Santa Cruz, CA. Aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) initially increased to a maximum and then decreased for the older soils. (psu.edu)
  • We undertook a long-term experiment to examine the effect of climate warming, precipitation alternation, and clipping on soil microbial communities in a temperate grassland of Central Oklahoma (OK). (confex.com)
  • We used molecular fingerprinting of bacterial and fungal communities in the soil to investigate the effects of 17 years of temperature and rainfall manipulations in a species-rich grassland near Buxton, UK. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • 2019. Bacterial community dynamics during embryonic and larval development of three confamilial echinoids. (geomar.de)
  • Understanding these dynamics will inform ecological principles developed for macroorganisms and aid expectations for microbial responses to new gradients. (duke.edu)
  • The group included 70 mother-infant pairs, they noted, providing a microbe, microbial genes, and metabolite dynamics as infant gut microbiomes and immune systems developed. (genomeweb.com)
  • Dietary intakes can influence the microbial gut community and shift the balance between different functional bacterial groups, with potential consequences for host health. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • 2019. Growth and grazing control of the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum in a natural plankton community. (usc.edu)
  • 2019. Diel patterning in the bacterial community associated with Nematostella vectensis . (geomar.de)
  • 2019. Geographic location and food availability offer differing levels of influence on the bacterial communities associated with larval sea urchins. (geomar.de)
  • The compositional ratio of the main lactobacillus species may shift depending on the normal physiological cycle and reproductive tract infections. (researchsquare.com)
  • These results highlighted the potential for indirect factors to also play an important role in explaining compositional shifts. (duke.edu)
  • 2018. Diet-induced shifts in the crown-of-thorns ( Acanthaster sp. (geomar.de)
  • 2018. A microbial perspective on the life-history evolution of marine invertebrate larvae: if, where, and when to feed. (geomar.de)
  • 2018. Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes. (geomar.de)
  • In the recent years our knowledge of those vaginal bacteria communities has expanded rapidly as a consequence of using modern molecular (cultivation-independent) methods for species identification. (news-medical.net)
  • Such species heterogeneity in bacterial vaginosis is thought to arise from functional redundancy between them, which is in turn associated with improved community reliability when faced with environmental changes. (news-medical.net)
  • Structural analysis of the metagenomes of SL1 (agricultural soil) and SL3 (mercury-contaminated agricultural soil) using Illumina shotgun next-generation sequencing revealed the loss due to mercury contamination of 54.75 % of the microbial community consisting of an archaeal domain, 11 phyla, 12 classes, 24 orders, 36 families, 59 genera, and 86 species. (springeropen.com)
  • Communities of microbial organisms -- species such as nematodes, protists and fungi -- on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico changed significantly following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, research from the University of New Hampshire's Hubbard Center for Genome Studies (HCGS) and partners found. (eponline.com)
  • In addition, we quantify the shifts in antibiotic resistance gene abundances in different species in a 25 member human gut microbial community in response to antibiotics. (biorxiv.org)
  • Along with microbial genome sequences that turned up in both the maternal and infant metagenomic datasets, the investigators flagged 977 microbial genes from 11 microbial species that appeared to be passed from 22 of the mothers to their babies through horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between gut microbes without transmission of the original species. (genomeweb.com)
  • The occurrence of foam is associated with a rise in methane production and shifts in the abundance of specific bacterial species. (nationalhogfarmer.com)
  • Here we examine the importance of temperature and energy supply (defined as available power) in controlling the microbial abundance and community structure in hydrothermal sediment from two locations in Guaymas Basin, central Gulf of California. (nature.com)
  • This study demonstrates that the indirect effects of climate on plant communities may be just as important as the effects of climate-change-induced mismatches between migrating birds and food abundance because plants, including trees, provide the habitat birds need to survive," Martin said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Reactive Fe(III) minerals can influence methane (CH4) emissions by inhibiting microbial methanogenesis or by stimulating anaerobic CH4 oxidation. (ku.edu)
  • She utilises a wide range of technical approaches, including strictly anaerobic microbiology, molecular microbial community analysis, -omics technologies and mathematical modelling, to investigate which microbes are instrumental for primary fibre degradation and how different microbial community members interact with each other during fibre breakdown and fermentation product formation. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • We utilise are wide range of technical approaches, including strictly anaerobic microbiology of pure strains and mixed microbial consortia, molecular microbial community analysis of in vitro and human dietary studies, -omics technologies, enzymology and mathematical modelling. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Considering little is known about the microbes (the ammonia producers) in these acidified poultry litter systems, laboratory incubations were performed to determine (1) the differential effect of commonly-used acidifiers (Al+Clear®, PLT®, Poultry Guard®) on microbial populations and (2) how acidification specifically affects the microbial populations responsible for organic N mineralization, and subsequent ammonia production. (usda.gov)
  • They compared bird and plant communities in these exclusion areas with nearby similar areas where elk had access, and found that, over the six years of the study, multi-decadal declines in plant and songbird populations were reversed in the areas where elk were prohibited from browsing. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Single cell genetic heterogeneity is ubiquitous in microbial populations and an important aspect of microbial biology. (biorxiv.org)
  • Adaptation to chemicals can also occur at the biochemical level, influenced by the environmental conditions under which microbial populations are growing. (cefic-lri.org)
  • Plant-associated microbial assemblages are known to shift at time scales aligned with plant phenology, as influenced by the changes in plant-derived nutrient concentrations and abiotic conditions observed over a growing season. (umr-beep.fr)
  • Thus, our study provides evidence that climate change could affect soil microbial communities indirectly via changes in plant inputs and highlights the importance of considering long-term climate change effects, especially in nutrient-poor systems with slow-growing vegetation. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Through iterative cycles that advance our understanding of the coupling across scales and processes, we can reliably predict how perturbations to microbial systems impact ecosystem-scale processes or vice versa. (frontiersin.org)
  • We describe an approach and potential applications for using the FICSME to elucidate the mechanisms of globally important ecological and physical processes, toward attaining the goal of predicting the structure and function of microbial communities in chemically complex natural environments. (frontiersin.org)
  • My work also focus to disentangle the relationship between below ground inter- and intra-kingdom microbial co-occurrence and interaction networks, patterns of functional gene profiles and its implication in understanding ecosystem processes in different microbial hotspots. (ufz.de)
  • The results of canonical correspondence analyses (CCA) indicated that salinity, total phosphate (TP), total nitrogen (TN), temperature, and pH were the most important factors shaping microbial community structure. (frontiersin.org)
  • Furthermore, we predicted water microbial community functional profiling using the PICRUSt program and principal component analyses (PCA) suggested that salinity was a major contributor to the structure and function of the microbial communities. (frontiersin.org)
  • Analyses determined individual shifts in target bacteria which confirm divergent fibre responses occur when utilising both low-specificity dietary fibres. (foodnavigator.com)
  • During the development of microbial communities, groups of cells come together and exhibit heterogeneity within spatial organization ( Ackermann, 2015 ). (elifesciences.org)
  • Dissimilarity analysis showed that each treatment alone as well as year affected the bacterial and fungal communities. (confex.com)
  • The physiological conditions experienced by a microbial community can thus be inferred using meta-transcriptomic sequencing by comparing transcription levels of specifically chosen genes. (osti.gov)
  • The researchers used two parallel methodologies - high-throughput gene sequencing to sort the organisms into "piles" by their DNA, and an under-the-microscope taxonomic approach -- to evaluate the communities pre- and post-spill. (eponline.com)
  • Although most of the chemical levels were not high enough to cause immediate and lethal concerns for aquatic life, the observed changes in the microbial community and evidence of endocrine disrupting activity indicate potential adverse health outcomes for organisms living in or near the stream. (usgs.gov)
  • Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., develops computational analytical approaches to understand the intricate relationship between commensal microbial organisms and human health. (mayo.edu)
  • Selective pressure placed upon communities of organisms by the large increase of petroleum and other petroleum derivatives selects for the survival of organisms that can use petroleum and derivatives as energy, electron, and or carbon source [5] . (kenyon.edu)
  • Comparison of the rRNA-derived patterns obtained by RT-PCR to the rDNA DGGE patterns indicated a substantially different degree of metabolic activity for the microbial groups detected. (who.int)
  • Hence, different cells of the community exhibit metabolic interdependencies, presumably to balance out trade-offs arising from resource sharing. (elifesciences.org)
  • In addition, GeoChip analysis showed that warming, clipping as well as year had significant effects on the functional structure of soil communities. (confex.com)
  • This study is the first to investigate subsurface microbial communities in a long-term chronosequence. (psu.edu)
  • Increases in bacterial production and simultaneous decreases of primary production lead to more carbon being consumed in the microbial loop, and may shift the ecosystem towards heterotrophy. (lu.se)
  • 3 For the purposes of the draft GPW 14, the term "global health ecosystem" refers to the complex network of interconnected players at the community, country, regional and global levels, including governmental and non-State actors, as well as the public and private sectors and the health and health-related sectors, which exert influence on the health and well-being of people, whether directly or indirectly. (who.int)
  • This promoted dramatic changes in microbial community structure, compared to low-specificity fibres. (foodnavigator.com)
  • DGGE profiles from samples taken during cheese production indicated dramatic shifts in the microbial community structure. (who.int)
  • Individual beaches had unique community signatures that persisted over time and exhibited spatial relationships, where community similarity decreased as horizontal distance between samples increased from one to hundreds of meters. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • PLFAs characteristic of Gram-positive bacteria and actinobacteria increased as a fraction of the microbial community with depth while the fungal fraction decreased relative to the surface. (psu.edu)
  • The increased variability was observed among the core, resident, and transient community members, indicating the occurrence of community-wide impacts rather than solely an overprinting of oil hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria onto otherwise relatively stable sand population structures. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • Researchers at the Whistler Centre for Carbohydrate Research, US, have discovered a way to select prebiotic fibres that promote bacteria propagation for improved gut health and are effective in any microbial environment. (foodnavigator.com)
  • These were associated with increases in ratios of related metabolites (butyrate and propionate, respectively) in every microbial community in which these bacteria were present, which help support many of the body's essential functions, they explained. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The microbial community in the human large intestine consists of a diverse range of bacteria that break down complex nutrients of dietary and host origin. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • The present challenge is capitalizing on our enhanced abilities of observation and integrating diverse data types from different scales, resolutions, and disciplines to reach a causal and mechanistic understanding of how microbial communities transform and respond to perturbations in the environment. (frontiersin.org)
  • In the fourth chapter, I synthesized studies that use environmental perturbations to explore microbial community structure and microbial process connections. (duke.edu)
  • Here we analyze how temperature-energy interactions structure sediment microbial communities in two hydrothermally active areas of Guaymas Basin. (nature.com)
  • Sequence comparisons of bacterial ribosomal RNA gene hypervariable regions isolated from beach sands located to the east and west of Mobile Bay in Alabama demonstrated that regional drivers account for markedly different bacterial communities. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • Her research concentrates on the metabolism of the microbial community that inhabits the human intestine and how it can be modulated by diet to improve human health, with a particular emphasis on short-chain fatty acid production from dietary non-digestible carbohydrates. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Our research concentrates on the microbial metabolism of dietary non-digestible carbohydrates, with a particular emphasis on short-chain fatty acid production. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • In that short time period, we saw a drastic change in the microbial community," says lead author Holly Bik, a postdoctoral researcher at UNH's HCGS when the research was conducted, now at the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. (eponline.com)
  • The infectious disease community has recognized the dangers of antibiotic misuse for decades. (medscape.com)
  • Evidence suggests that energy-depleted, diffusion-dominated subseafloor environments in many cases have lower microbial temperature maxima (60-80 °C) 4 , 5 than environments with advective supplies of external microbial energy substrates. (nature.com)
  • Freixa A., Acuña V., Casellas M., Pecheva S., Romaní A.M. "Warmer night-time temperature promotes microbial heterotrophic activity and modifies stream sediment community. (udg.edu)
  • A variety of additives were found in the pore water of sediment, and they could explain over 90% of the variations of the community structure. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mora-Gómez J., Duarte S., Cássio F., Pascoal C., Romaní A.M. "Microbial decomposition is highly sensitive to leaf litter emersion in a permanent temperate stream. (udg.edu)
  • Also lacking is an effective laboratory-based surveillance system for the early detection of exotic microbial agents that might be used for biological warfare or terrorist activities. (cdc.gov)
  • However, very little is known about how microbial communities respond to vegetation and multiple climate change factors. (confex.com)
  • Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high elevations over winter and consume plants, according to a groundbreaking study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Massively mobilized herbarium records are an underused resource that hold the promise of revealing how microbial communities respond to rapid shifts in climate due to human activity. (tamucc.edu)
  • This transformative shift in the automotive industry is becoming increasingly evident, with the year 2023 potentially marking a pivotal tipping point. (tunein.com)
  • June 27, 2023 A recent study shows that European bird communities have shifted northeastward in the past 30 years. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Antigenic shifts are probably due to genetic recombination (an exchange of a gene segment) between influenza A viruses that affect humans and/or animals. (cdc.gov)
  • Nitrogen-rich dissolved organic matter (DOM) inputs from effluents increased bacterial production and decreased primary production and community respiration. (lu.se)