The marine environment is the largest aquatic ecosystem on Earth and it harbours
microorganisms responsible for more than 50% of total biomass of prokaryotes in the world …

Bacteria of the genus Shewanella are known for their versatile electron-accepting
capacities, which allow them to couple the decomposition of organic matter to the reduction …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

The majority of the bacterial genome sequences deposited in the National Center for
Biotechnology Information database contain prophage sequences. Analysis of the …

Actinobacteria is a phylum of gram-positive bacteria, and members of bacteria belonging to
this phylum are classified into six classes, namely Acidimicrobiia, Actinobacteria …

The shewanellae are aquatic microorganisms with worldwide distribution. Their hallmark
features include unparalleled respiratory diversity and the capacity to thrive at low …

▪ Abstract Since the first estimate of prokaryotic abundance in soil was published,
researchers have attempted to assess the abundance and distribution of species and relate …

We have found direct DNA repeats 21–47 bp in length interspersed with nonrepetitive
sequences of similar length, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

The genomic plasticity of Candida albicans, a commensal and common opportunistic fungal
pathogen, continues to reveal unexpected surprises. Once thought to be asexual, we now …

Several types of microarrays have recently been developed and evaluated for bacterial
detection and microbial community analysis. These studies demonstrated that specific …