Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

S Louca, MF Polz, F Mazel, MBN Albright… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial communities often exhibit incredible taxonomic diversity, raising questions
regarding the mechanisms enabling species coexistence and the role of this diversity in …

Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes

T Van Rossum, P Ferretti, OM Maistrenko… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

Mechanisms and strategies of plant microbiome interactions to mitigate abiotic stresses

N Munir, M Hanif, Z Abideen, M Sohail, A El-Keblawy… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Abiotic stresses are the most significant factors reducing agricultural productivity. Plants face
extreme environmental conditions that may affect their biological mechanisms, thereby …

A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

S Louca, F Mazel, M Doebeli, LW Parfrey - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The global diversity of Bacteria and Archaea, the most ancient and most widespread forms
of life on Earth, is a subject of intense controversy. This controversy stems largely from the …

Baseline human gut microbiota profile in healthy people and standard reporting template

CH King, H Desai, AC Sylvetsky, J LoTempio… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A comprehensive knowledge of the types and ratios of microbes that inhabit the healthy
human gut is necessary before any kind of pre-clinical or clinical study can be performed …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa: patogenicidad y resistencia antimicrobiana en la infección urinaria

VM Paz-Zarza, S Mangwani-Mordani… - Revista chilena de …, 2019 - SciELO Chile
Dentro de las infecciones nosocomiales más frecuentes asociadas a bacterias multi-
resistentes y de peor pronóstico, se encuentran las producidas por Pseudomonas …

The effect of seaweed extract on tomato plant growth, productivity and soil

HI Hussain, N Kasinadhuni, T Arioli - Journal of Applied Phycology, 2021 - Springer
This study investigated the effects of seaweed extract (SWE) made from the brown algae
Durvillaea potatorum and Ascophyllum nodosum on plants and soil. The application of SWE …

Rumen microbiome composition is altered in sheep divergent in feed efficiency

S McLoughlin, C Spillane, N Claffey, PE Smith… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rumen microbiome composition and functionality is linked to animal feed efficiency,
particularly for bovine ruminants. To investigate this in sheep, we compared rumen bacterial …

Distribution and spread of the mobilised RND efflux pump gene cluster tmexCD-toprJ in clinical Gram-negative bacteria: a molecular epidemiological study

N Dong, Y Zeng, Y Wang, C Liu, J Lu, C Cai… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background TMexCD1-TOprJ1, which is associated with phenotypic resistance to
multiple classes of antibiotics, is a transmissible resistance-nodulation-division (RND) family …

Two Chloroflexi classes independently evolved the ability to persist on atmospheric hydrogen and carbon monoxide

ZF Islam, PRF Cordero, J Feng, YJ Chen… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Most aerobic bacteria exist in dormant states within natural environments. In these states,
they endure adverse environmental conditions such as nutrient starvation by decreasing …