River water is a small percentage of the total freshwater on Earth but represents an essential resource for mankind. Microbes in rivers perform essential ecosystem roles including the …
Treated wastewater discharged into the environment acts as a disturbance of the natural microbial communities in terms of taxonomic composition and of functional gene pool …
The fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARG s) in environmental microbial communities is of primary concern as prodromal of a potential transfer to pathogenic bacteria. Although of …
Previous stable isotope and biomarker evidence has indicated that methanotrophy is an important pathway in the microbial loop of freshwater ecosystems, despite the low cell …
Y Yang, Y Dai, Z Wu, S Xie, Y Liu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In either eutrophic Dianchi Lake or mesotrophic Erhai Lake, the abundance, diversity, and structure of archaeaplankton communities in spring were different from those in summer. In …
Y Okazaki, Y Hodoki, S Nakano - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Uncultured bacteria affiliated with the CL500-11 cluster (phylum Chloroflexi) were first reported from the oxygenated hypolimnion of Crater Lake (USA) as a predominant …
CJ Hayden, JM Beman - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Nitrification plays a central role in the nitrogen cycle by determining the oxidation state of nitrogen and its subsequent bioavailability and cycling. However, relatively little is known …
Despite their crucial role in the nitrogen cycle, freshwater ecosystems are relatively rarely studied for active ammonia oxidizers (AO). This study of Lake Lucerne determined the …
The habitat of metal respiring acidothermophilic lithoautotrophs is perhaps the most oxidizing environment yet identified. Geothermal heat, sulfuric acid and transition metals …