Interkingdom microbial consortia mechanisms to guide biotechnological applications

S Zhang, N Merino, A Okamoto… - Microbial …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of
synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms …

Accuracy of taxonomy prediction for 16S rRNA and fungal ITS sequences

RC Edgar - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Prediction of taxonomy for marker gene sequences such as 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a
fundamental task in microbiology. Most experimentally observed sequences are diverged …

Forfeiting the priority effect: turnover defines biofilm community succession

CJ Brislawn, EB Graham, K Dana, P Ihardt… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Microbial community succession is a fundamental process that affects underlying functions
of almost all ecosystems; yet the roles and fates of the most abundant colonizers are often …

Disentangling the drivers of functional complexity at the metagenomic level in Shark Bay microbial mat microbiomes

HL Wong, RA White III, PT Visscher… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The functional metagenomic potential of Shark Bay microbial mats was examined for the first
time at a millimeter scale, employing shotgun sequencing of communities via the Illumina …

Eukaryotic parasites are integral to a productive microbial food web in oxygen-depleted waters

EA Suter, M Pachiadaki, GT Taylor… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oxygen-depleted water columns (ODWCs) host a diverse community of eukaryotic protists
that change dramatically in composition over the oxic-anoxic gradient. In the permanently …

Would that it were so simple: Interactions between multiple traits undermine classical single‐trait‐based predictions of microbial community function and evolution

RJ Lindsay, A Jepson, L Butt, PJ Holder… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how microbial traits affect the evolution and functioning of microbial
communities is fundamental for improving the management of harmful microorganisms …

[HTML][HTML] Improved drinking water quality after adding advanced oxidation for organic micropollutant removal to pretreatment of river water undergoing dune infiltration …

PHA Timmers, T Slootweg, A Knezev… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Improved drinking water quality after adding advanced oxidation for organic micropollutant
removal to pretreatment of river water undergoing dune infiltration near The Hague …

Resource availability governs polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) accumulation and diversity of methanotrophic enrichments from wetlands

Y Kim, Z Flinkstrom, P Candry, MKH Winkler… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Aquatic environments account for half of global CH4 emissions, with freshwater wetlands
being the most significant contributors. These CH4 fluxes can be partially offset by aerobic …

Interpretable metric learning in comparative metagenomics: The adaptive Haar-like distance

ED Gorman, ME Lladser - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Random forests have emerged as a promising tool in comparative metagenomics because
they can predict environmental characteristics based on microbial composition in datasets …

Photosynthetic activity assessment in mixotrophically cultured Chlorella vulgaris biofilms at various developmental stages

SM Rincon, NF Urrego, KJ Avila, HM Romero… - Algal Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Biofilm reactors have been used to grow the microalga Chlorella vulgaris, which under
mixotrophic conditions can effectively grow as biofilm with reduced liquid volumes and low …