The rebirth of culture in microbiology through the example of culturomics to study human gut microbiota

JC Lagier, P Hugon, S Khelaifia… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial culture was the first method used to describe the human microbiota, but this
method is considered outdated by many researchers. Metagenomics studies have since …

Microbial sulfur metabolism and environmental implications

B Wu, F Liu, W Fang, T Yang, GH Chen, Z He… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sulfur as a macroelement plays an important role in biochemistry in both natural
environments and engineering biosystems, which can be further linked to other important …

Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria

I Nouioui, L Carro, M García-López… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The application of phylogenetic taxonomic procedures led to improvements in the
classification of bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria but even so there remains a …

Integrating genomics into the taxonomy and systematics of the Bacteria and Archaea

J Chun, FA Rainey - International journal of systematic …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
The polyphasic approach used today in the taxonomy and systematics of the Bacteria and
Archaea includes the use of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic data. The use of …

Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling

LA Hug, CJ Castelle, KC Wrighton, BC Thomas… - Microbiome, 2013 - Springer
Background Sediments are massive reservoirs of carbon compounds and host a large
fraction of microbial life. Microorganisms within terrestrial aquifer sediments control buried …

Microbial Cleavage of C–F Bonds in Two C6 Per- and Polyfluorinated Compounds via Reductive Defluorination

Y Yu, K Zhang, Z Li, C Ren, J Chen… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The C–F bond is one of the strongest single bonds in nature. Although microbial reductive
dehalogenation is well known for the other organohalides, no microbial reductive …

Metagenomic analysis further extends the role of Chloroflexi in fundamental biogeochemical cycles

MPN Rao, ZH Luo, ZY Dong, Q Li, BB Liu, SX Guo… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chloroflexi members are ubiquitous and have been extensively studied; however, the
evolution and metabolic pathways of Chloroflexi members have long been debated. In the …

A polyphasic strategy incorporating genomic data for the taxonomic description of novel bacterial species

D Ramasamy, AK Mishra, JC Lagier… - … of systematic and …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
Currently, bacterial taxonomy relies on a polyphasic approach based on the combination of
phenotypic and genotypic characteristics. However, the current situation is paradoxical in …

[HTML][HTML] A review of prokaryotic populations and processes in sub-seafloor sediments, including biosphere: geosphere interactions

RJ Parkes, B Cragg, E Roussel, G Webster… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
A general review of the sub-seafloor biosphere is presented. This includes an update and
assessment of prokaryotic cell distributions within marine sediments, current deepest 1922 …

Improve niche colonization and microbial interactions for organohalide-respiring-bacteria-mediated remediation of chloroethene-contaminated sites

R Wu, R Shen, Z Liang, S Zheng, Y Yang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB)-mediated reductive dehalogenation is promising in
in situ bioremediation of chloroethene-contaminated sites. The bioremediation efficiency of …