Microbial indicators as a diagnostic tool for assessing water quality and climate stress in coral reef ecosystems

B Glasl, NS Webster, DG Bourne - Marine Biology, 2017 - Springer
Microorganisms play a fundamental role in the functioning and stability of coral reef
ecosystems. However, environmental disturbances can trigger alterations to the natural …

Interpretations of environmental microbial community studies are biased by the selected 16S rRNA (gene) amplicon sequencing pipeline

D Straub, N Blackwell, A Langarica-Fuentes… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the major methods to identify microbial community composition, to unravel microbial
population dynamics, and to explore microbial diversity in environmental samples is high …

Sustaining rare marine microorganisms: macroorganisms as repositories and dispersal agents of microbial diversity

M Troussellier, A Escalas, T Bouvier… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Recent analyses revealed that most of the biodiversity observed in marine microbial
communities is represented by organisms with low abundance but, nonetheless essential for …

Predicting the HMA-LMA status in marine sponges by machine learning

L Moitinho-Silva, G Steinert, S Nielsen… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The dichotomy between high microbial abundance (HMA) and low microbial abundance
(LMA) sponges has been observed in sponge-microbe symbiosis, although the extent of this …

Wheat dwarfing influences selection of the rhizosphere microbiome

VN Kavamura, RJ Robinson, D Hughes, I Clark… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The development of dwarf wheat cultivars combined with high levels of agrochemical inputs
during the green revolution resulted in high yielding cropping systems. However, changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the impacts of heavy metals on spatial variations of sediment-associated bacterial communities

M Rajeev, TJ Sushmitha, C Aravindraja… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the fundamental objectives in modern ecology is to decipher how bacterial
communities in natural environment respond to anthropogenic activities. In recent times …

Climate change stressors destabilize the microbiome of the Caribbean barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta

MP Lesser, C Fiore, M Slattery, J Zaneveld - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2016 - Elsevier
The effect of climate change, both thermal stress and ocean acidification, on coral reefs is of
increasing concern with the effects on calcification at the organismal level, and changes in …

Community structure and diversity of endophytic bacteria in seeds of three consecutive generations of Crotalaria pumila growing on metal mine residues

AS Sánchez-López, S Thijs, B Beckers… - Plant and Soil, 2018 - Springer
Aims We investigated the possible transgenerational transfer of bacterial seed endophytes
across three consecutive seed generations of Crotalaria pumila growing on a metal mining …

New microbial resource: microbial diversity, function and dynamics in Chinese liquor starter

Y Huang, Z Yi, Y Jin, Y Zhao, K He, D Liu, D Zhao… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Traditional Chinese liquor (Baijiu) solid state fermentation technology has lasted for
several thousand years. The microbial communities that enrich in liquor starter are important …

Heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification performance in a granular sequencing batch reactor supported by next generation sequencing

P Bucci, B Coppotelli, I Morelli, N Zaritzky… - International …, 2021 - Elsevier
Several nitrogen transformation processes occur in wastewater treatment; among them,
heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification (HNAD) has not been adequately quantified …