... 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 ... says. "But before we can confidently associate changes in our indigenous microbial communities with risk for certain diseases, it is very ...
... Fetzer of the UFZ. "But who is responsible for what within these microbial communities? This is an important question that scientists are only just ... a mixed culture. We have been studying the structure and function of the microbial communities involved in the breakdown harmful substances ...
... time period, we saw a drastic change in the microbial community," says lead author Holly Bik ... University and the University of Texas, San Antonio, found that the communities of microbial eukaryotes (organisms not visible to the naked ...
... Phys.org) -- A team of researchers has developed a new tool that can be used to profile the metagenome of large microbial communities such as those that live in the human gut. Using the new ...
... , an expert in tropical rain forest microbial soil communities, says, "We found that after rainforest conversion to agricultural pastures ... of biodiversity in plants and animals. Now we know that microbial communities which are so important to the ecosystem also suffer ...
... ) was approached by an international team researching a mysterious microbial community discovered deep in cold sulfur ... always as minority members of much larger microbial communities. A unique exception to this pattern was discovered ...
... with various types of candy is used to represent a soil microbial community. This bag includes candies of several ... diversity that microbiologists would find in a soil microbial community. Small student groups work ...
... majority on our planet: There are more than 100 Million times more microbial cells than stars in the visible universe, accounting ... , such as the sequencing of the human genome. The complexity of natural microbial communities, however, is a major problem. The vast ...
... . The Human Microbiome Project aims to characterize the microbial communities of several regions of the body, including ... disease. “Our long-term goal is to clarify the microbial contribution to a myriad of skin disorders both ...
... time that they have been quantified. “We were truly shocked to find microbial life thriving at the levels we observed,” said Cara ... the surface,” Santelli said. “What role does this microbial community play in global ocean chemistry ...
... in inflammatory bowel diseases. They are collecting and comparing microbial communities in samples from people with Crohn’s disease ... will use new, comprehensive laboratory technologies to characterize the microbial communities present in samples taken from healthy ...
... . "Are they the result of biological or geological processes? Why are there different microbes living on them and how long have these microbial communities been preserved? These are some of our big questions," says Slater ...
... a number of these lakes on a trajectory to recovery, but up until now we have had little understanding of the changing biodiversity of microbial communities within the impacted lakes as they recover ...
... has selected several metagenomes to sequence—complex microbial communities that are isolated directly from the environment or reside ... hypotheses and determine the composition and activity of subsurface microbial communities in microenvironments and across transition zones ...
... of different methods and approaches, which include oceanography, microbial ecology, and genomics techniques," says DeLong. "In the case ... the Co-Director), we plan next to learn how and when microbial communities turn on and off their methane production ...
