Strategies for culture of 'unculturable'bacteria

SR Vartoukian, RM Palmer… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Molecular ecology methods are now well established for the culture-independent
characterization of complex bacterial communities associated with various environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms

R Margesin, V Miteva - Research in microbiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Cold environments represent the majority of the biosphere on Earth and have been
successfully colonized by psychrophilic microorganisms that are able to thrive at low …

A guide to successful bioprospecting: informed by actinobacterial systematics

M Goodfellow, HP Fiedler - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 2010 - Springer
New structurally diverse natural products are discovered when novel screening procedures
are introduced or when high quality biological materials from new sources are examined in …

Millions of reads, thousands of taxa: microbial community structure and associations analyzed via marker genes

M Bálint, M Bahram, AM Eren, K Faust… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
With high-throughput sequencing (HTS), we are able to explore the hidden world of
microscopic organisms to an unpre-cedented level. The fast development of molecular …

Production of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Lipids from Autotrophic, Mixotrophic and Heterotrophic cultivation of Galdieria sp. strain USBA-GBX-832

G López, C Yate, FA Ramos, MP Cala, S Restrepo… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
A search for extremophile organisms producing bioactive compounds led us to isolate a
microalga identified as Galdieria sp. USBA-GBX-832 from acidic thermal springs. We have …

The value of cultures to modern microbiology

B Austin - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 2017 - Springer
Since the late nineteenth century, pure cultures have been regarded as the cornerstone of
bacteriology. However, not all bacteria will multiply sufficiently to produce visible colonies on …

Expanding the diversity of bacterioplankton isolates and modeling isolation efficacy with large-scale dilution-to-extinction cultivation

MW Henson, VC Lanclos, DM Pitre… - Applied and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cultivated bacterioplankton representatives from diverse lineages and locations are
essential for microbiology, but the large majority of taxa either remain uncultivated or lack …

Improved culturability of SAR11 strains in dilution-to-extinction culturing from the East Sea, West Pacific Ocean

J Song, HM Oh, JC Cho - FEMS microbiology letters, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Although the SAR11 clade of the Alphaproteobacteria represents the most abundant and
ubiquitous bacterioplankton in the ocean, very few laboratories have successfully cultured …

Antarctica as a reservoir of planetary analogue environments

A Cassaro, C Pacelli, L Aureli, I Catanzaro, P Leo… - Extremophiles, 2021 - Springer
One of the main objectives of astrobiological research is the investigation of the habitability
of other planetary bodies. Since space exploration missions are expensive and require long …

The first complete genome sequences of the acI lineage, the most abundant freshwater Actinobacteria, obtained by whole-genome-amplification of dilution-to …

I Kang, S Kim, MR Islam, JC Cho - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The acI lineage of the phylum Actinobacteria is the most abundant bacterial group in most
freshwater lakes. However, due to difficulties in laboratory cultivation, only two mixed …