Metal oxide nanomaterials are widely used in practical applications and represent a class of
nanomaterials with the highest global annual production. Many of those, such as TiO2 and …

Microbes exist in a range of metabolic states (for example, dormant, active and growing) and
analysis of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is frequently employed to identify the 'active'fraction of …

To describe a microbe's physiology, including its metabolism, environmental roles, and
growth characteristics, it must be grown in a laboratory culture. Unfortunately, many …

Objective Antibiotic (AB) usage strongly affects microbial intestinal metabolism and thereby
impacts human health. Understanding this process and the underlying mechanisms remains …

The frequent discrepancy between direct microscopic counts and numbers of culturable
bacteria from environmental samples is just one of several indications that we currently …

Communities of microscopic plant life, or phytoplankton, dominate the Earth's aquatic
ecosystems. This important new book by Colin Reynolds covers the adaptations, physiology …

The surface layer of the oceans and other aquatic environments contains many bacteria that
range in activity, from dormant cells to those with high rates of metabolism. However, little …

Uncovers the Key Role Microbes Play in the Transformation of Oxidizable and Reducible
MineralsMany areas of geomicrobial processes are receiving serious attention from …

Very little is known about growth rates of individual bacterial taxa and how they respond to
environmental flux. Here, we characterized bacterial community diversity, structure and the …

The most abundant class of bacterial ribosomal RNA genes detected in seawater DNA by
gene cloning belongs to SAR11—an α-proteobacterial clade. Other than indications of their …