Conservation biology needs a microbial renaissance: a call for the consideration of host-associated microbiota in wildlife management practices

BK Trevelline, SS Fontaine… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The central aim of conservation biology is to understand and mitigate the effects of human
activities on biodiversity. To successfully achieve this objective, researchers must take an …

Changes in bacterial and archaeal community structure and functional diversity along a geochemically variable soil profile

CM Hansel, S Fendorf, PM Jardine… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Spatial heterogeneity in physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils allows for the
proliferation of diverse microbial communities. Factors influencing the structuring of …

Metagenomic insights into evolution of a heavy metal-contaminated groundwater microbial community

CL Hemme, Y Deng, TJ Gentry, MW Fields… - The ISME …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Understanding adaptation of biological communities to environmental change is a central
issue in ecology and evolution. Metagenomic analysis of a stressed groundwater microbial …

Acidobacteria Phylum Sequences in Uranium-Contaminated Subsurface Sediments Greatly Expand the Known Diversity within the Phylum

SM Barns, EC Cain, L Sommerville… - Applied and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
The abundance and composition of bacteria of the phylum Acidobacteria were surveyed in
subsurface sediments from uranium-contaminated sites using amplification of 16S rRNA …

In situ recovery of uranium—the microbial influence

CM Zammit, J Brugger, G Southam, F Reith - Hydrometallurgy, 2014 - Elsevier
In situ recovery (ISR) has become an increasingly utilized technology worldwide for the
economical extraction of uranium (U). Microorganisms play a significant role in U …

Candidate phylum TM6 genome recovered from a hospital sink biofilm provides genomic insights into this uncultivated phylum

JS McLean, MJ Lombardo, JH Badger… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The “dark matter of life” describes microbes and even entire divisions of bacterial phyla that
have evaded cultivation and have yet to be sequenced. We present a genome from the …

Denitrifying bacteria isolated from terrestrial subsurface sediments exposed to mixed-waste contamination

SJ Green, O Prakash, TM Gihring… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
In terrestrial subsurface environments where nitrate is a critical groundwater contaminant,
few cultivated representatives are available to verify the metabolism of organisms that …

Metabolically active microbial communities in uranium-contaminated subsurface sediments

DM Akob, HJ Mills, JE Kostka - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
In order to develop effective bioremediation strategies for radionuclide contaminants, the
composition and metabolic potential of microbial communities need to be better understood …

Microbial communities in contaminated sediments, associated with bioremediation of uranium to submicromolar levels

E Cardenas, WM Wu, MB Leigh, J Carley… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial enumeration, 16S rRNA gene clone libraries, and chemical analysis were used to
evaluate the in situ biological reduction and immobilization of uranium (VI) in a long-term …

Lateral gene transfer in a heavy metal-contaminated-groundwater microbial community

CL Hemme, SJ Green, L Rishishwar, O Prakash… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Unraveling the drivers controlling the response and adaptation of biological communities to
environmental change, especially anthropogenic activities, is a central but poorly …