Bacteria of the genus Aeromonas display multicellular behaviors herein referred to as
“social life”. Since the 1990s, interest has grown in cell-to-cell communication through …

Iron oxides have been widely investigated to accelerate the conversion of organic wastes to
methane. However, the potential mechanism involved with different types of iron oxides is a …

This textbook focuses on the most important parasites affecting dogs, cats, ruminants,
horses, pigs, rabbits, rodents, birds, fishes, reptiles and bees. For each parasite, the book …

Digestive-tract microbiota exert tremendous influence over host health. Host-symbiont model
systems are studied to investigate how symbioses are initiated and maintained, as well as to …

Endosymbiosis is a common phenomenon in nature, especially between bacteria and
insects, whose typically unbalanced diets are usually complemented by their obligate …

The gut microbiome is known to influence and have regulatory effects in diverse
physiological functions of host animals, but only recently has the relationship between host …

Diverse insects are obligatorily associated with microbial symbionts, wherein the host often
develops special symbiotic organs and vertically transmits the symbiont to the next …

Along with the constant improvement in high-throughput sequencing technology, an
increasing number of transcriptome sequencing projects are carried out in organisms …

Biological models describing anaerobic digestion (AD) of sewage sludge have been widely
applied to test various control and operation strategies. Anaerobic digestion model 1 …

So far, the adverse effects of excess Fe in shrimp have been ignored for years as it was
thought that extra Fe supplementation was not needed in the practical diets. Nowadays, Fe …