Aspects of the rhizospheric microbiota and their interactions with the soil ecosystem by El Amrani Belkacem

“…Beyond the descriptive level, the current orientation of microbial ecology is to link these structures to the functioning of ecosystems; specifically, to understand the effect of environmental factors on the functional structure of microbial communities in ecosystems. …”
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Probiotic Bacteria Influence the Composition and Function of the Intestinal Microbiota by Paul W. O'Toole, Jakki C. Cooney

“…We now have the microbial inventories and genetic blueprints to begin tackling intestinal microbial ecology at an unprecedented level of detail, aided by the understanding that dietary components may be utilized differentially by individual phylotypes. …”
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Prokaryotic diversity of the rhizosphere from Argentinean wine-producing regions by Andres Martin Toscani, Monica Oyuela Aguilar, Constanza Rey, Ramiro Eugenio Rocco Welsh, Alex Gobbi, Maria Florencia del Papa, Liliana Carmen Semorile, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Mariano Pistorio

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Application of Sequence-Dependent Electrophoresis Fingerprinting in Exploring Biodiversity and Population Dynamics of Human Intestinal Microbiota: What Can Be Revealed? by Geert Huys, Tom Vanhoutte, Peter Vandamme

“…Sequence-dependent electrophoresis (SDE) fingerprinting techniques such as denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) have become commonplace in the field of molecular microbial ecology. The success of the SDE technology lays in the fact that it allows visualization of the predominant members of complex microbial ecosystems independent of their culturability and without prior knowledge on the complexity and diversity of the ecosystem. …”
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Seaweed-derived bioactives: Gut microbiota targeted interventions for immune function by Holly Sedgwick, Glenn Gibson, Jessica Adams, Anisha Wijeyesekera

“…Foods resistant to upper gastrointestinal digestion may undergo fermentation by microbial populations within the large intestine, which can induce alterations in the microbial ecology and metabolites, and consequently have implications for host health. …”
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Modulating the fatty acid composition of black soldier fly larvae via substrate fermentation by F. IJdema, S. Lievens, R. Smets, G. Poma, M. Van Der Borght, B. Lievens, J. De Smet

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Neobacillus driksii sp. nov. isolated from a Mars 2020 spacecraft assembly facility and genomic potential for lasso peptide production in Neobacillus by Asif Hameed, Francesca McDonagh, Pratyay Sengupta, Georgios Miliotis, Shobhan Karthick Muthamilselvi Sivabalan, Lukasz Szydlowski, Anna Simpson, Nitin Kumar Singh, Punchappady Devasya Rekha, Karthik Raman, Kasthuri Venkateswaran

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Crosstalk between the Gut and Brain in Ischemic Stroke: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Options by Wenjing Huang, Luwen Zhu, Wenjing Song, Mei Zhang, Lili Teng, Minmin Wu

“…To effectively monitor and cure ischemic stroke, restoring a healthy microbial ecology in the gut may be a critical therapeutic focus. …”
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Probiotics to Prevent the Need for, and Augment the Use of, Antibiotics by Gregor Reid

“…It is to our discredit that basic research on microbial ecology has been stalled in Canada for the past 20 years. …”
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Relating ecological diversity to genetic discontinuity across bacterial species by Hemanoel Passarelli-Araujo, Thiago M. Venancio, William P. Hanage

“…However, exploring the degree to which bacterial diversity exists as a continuum or sorted into discrete and readily defined species remains a challenge in microbial ecology. Here, we aim to quantify the genetic discontinuity ( $$\delta$$ δ ) and investigate how this metric is related to ecology. …”
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Analytical Tools and Databases for Metagenomics in the Next-Generation Sequencing Era by Mincheol Kim, Ki-Hyun Lee, Seok-Whan Yoon, Bong-Soo Kim, Jongsik Chun, Hana Yi

“…Metagenomics has become one of the indispensable tools in microbial ecology for the last few decades, and a new revolution in metagenomic studies is now about to begin, with the help of recent advances of sequencing techniques. …”
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Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes. by Thomas A Richards, Laura Eme, John M Archibald, Guy Leonard, Susana M Coelho, Alex de Mendoza, Christophe Dessimoz, Pavel Dolezal, Lillian K Fritz-Laylin, Toni Gabaldón, Vladimír Hampl, Geert J P L Kops, Michelle M Leger, Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, James O McInerney, David Moreira, Sergio A Muñoz-Gómez, Daniel J Richter, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Alyson E Santoro, Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Berend Snel, Courtney W Stairs, Eelco C Tromer, Jolien J E van Hooff, Bill Wickstead, Tom A Williams, Andrew J Roger, Joel B Dacks, Jeremy G Wideman

“…Once assembled, a robust LECA gene set will be a useful tool for evaluating alternative hypotheses about the origin of eukaryotes and understanding the evolution of traits in all descendant lineages, with relevance in diverse fields such as cell biology, microbial ecology, biotechnology, agriculture, and medicine. …”
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Using problem formulation for an efficient, fit-for-purpose risk assessment of microbial plant protection products by Anne K. Steenbergh, Gertie Arts, Peter A. H. M. Bakker, Wietse de Boer, Debora C. M. Glandorf, Mechteld M. S. ter Horst, Rob de Jonge, Willem Jan de Kogel, Jürgen Köhl

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Gut Microbiota-Derived Metabolites in the Development of Diseases by Guangyu Shen, Jing Wu, Bang-Ce Ye, Nan Qi

“…Since high-fat and high-protein diets substantially affect the gut microbial ecology and human health, the current review summarizes the gut microbiota-derived metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), amino acids, and their derivatives and highlights the mechanisms underlying the host responses to these bioactive substances.…”
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Evaluation of Proteins Released to Medium in Yeast-Bacteria Co-culture System by Çağatay Tarhan, Ayşegül Yanık

“…With these systems, natural product discovery, microbial ecology, evolution and pathogenesis studies are carried out. …”
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Toward an Integrated Physiological Theory of Microbial Growth: From Subcellular Variables to Population Dynamics by Atul Narang, Sergei S. Pilyugin

“…The dynamics of microbial growth is a problem of fundamental interest in microbiology,microbial ecology, and biotechnology. The pioneering work of JacobMonod, served as a starting point for developing a wealth of mathematicalmodels that address different aspects of microbial growth inbatch and continuous cultures. …”
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Back flux during anaerobic oxidation of butane supports archaea-mediated alkanogenesis by Song-Can Chen, Sheng Chen, Niculina Musat, Steffen Kümmel, Jiaheng Ji, Marie Braad Lund, Alexis Gilbert, Oliver J. Lechtenfeld, Hans-Hermann Richnow, Florin Musat

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Community-Acquired Pneumonia Requiring Hospitalization among French Guianese Children by Alexandre Cannesson, Narcisse Elenga

“…The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiological characteristics and current microbial ecology of community-acquired pneumonia in children in French Guiana. …”
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Novel bacteriophages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria carry DNA modifications and single-strand breaks by Peter Erdmann Dougherty, Maja Schmidt Pedersen, Laura Milena Forero-Junco, Alexander Byth Carstens, Jos M. Raaijmakers, Leise Riber, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen

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Dominance of Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria, <i>Thiomicrorhabdus</i>, in the Waters Affected by a Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Plume by Chih-Ching Chung, Gwo-Ching Gong, Hsiao-Chun Tseng, Wen-Chen Chou, Chuan-Hsin Ho

“…The shallow-sea hydrothermal vent at Guishan Islet, located off the coast of Taiwan, serves as a remarkable natural site for studying microbial ecology in extreme environments. In April 2019, we investigated the composition of prokaryotic picoplankton communities, their gene expression profiles, and the dissolved inorganic carbon uptake efficiency. …”
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