... gene, 16S rDNA, functions as a barcode of life and can be used to catalog the species present in a microbial community without having to culture the bacteria.
Surprisingly, they did not find a single ...
... human digestive tract may play in inflammatory bowel diseases. They are collecting and comparing microbial communities in samples from people with Crohn’s disease, people with ulcerative colitis and ...
... live in our digestive tracts. In sheer numbers, the mammalian colon harbors one of the densest microbial communities found on Earth. Estimates of the number of distinct kinds of bacteria in the human ...
Researchers have catalogued the microbial species in the guts of lean and obese female twins and their mothers, finding that each individual carries a unique collection of bacteria, although the ...
... life is under way by NASA.
The microbial communities atop Socompa -- which straddles Argentina and Chile ... CO2 work in concert in the barren soils to fuel microbial life near the small volcanic vents, ...
... lab: the researchers can now conduct lab experiments to look at the effects of environmental perturbation on microbial communities. These new sRNAs also expand our general knowledge of the nature and ...
... ⎯ in partnership with environmental metagenomics to provide a more holistic understanding of microbial communities and their individual members.
Kyrpides also suggests several innovative approaches ...
... to extensively sequence the metagenomes of five human body sites and look for correlations between microbial communities and human health. Dr. Michelle Giglio, Assistant Professor at the Institute ...
... on Earth.
"One of my motivations for understanding stromatolites," Allwood says, "is the knowledge that if microbial communities once flourished on Mars, of all the traces they might leave in the ...
... . This noninvasive technique does not destroy individual target organisms or disrupt the structure of microbial communities or the surrounding ice matrix. The authors' work, described in the article " ...
... the magnitude of these effects, very little is known about the metabolism of the zones' microbial communities and how they respond to environmental changes.
Researchers studied the microbe in Saanich ...
... which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on the seafloor and alter the microbial activities that impact the rate and magnitude of ocean carbon sequestration. Despite the ...
... of climate change in some regions of the Arctic, and may result in changes to river microbial communities and the biogeochemical transformations that they carry out.
Data for this study was collected ...
... In one activity, an opaque bag filled with various types of candy is used to represent a soil microbial community. This bag includes candies of several different shapes and sizes, each representing a ...
... well for single organisms, such as the sequencing of the human genome. The complexity of natural microbial communities, however, is a major problem. The vast collection of genes can often not be ...
