Volatile compounds-induced environmental pH shifts mediate interspecific bacterial interactions over long-distance

N Luo, M Wang, Y Nie, XL Wu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Microorganisms interact with each other through exchanging metabolites as well as signals
molecules. This exchange typically depends on metabolites or signaling molecules diffusing …

Microbial volatiles as mediators of eco-evolutionary dynamics

R Masteling, W de Boer, JM Raaijmakers… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microbial volatile compounds (mVCs) can provide numerous functional benefits to the
producing organism, for instance, by contributing to the invasion of previously unexploited …

Successful microbial colonization of space in a more dispersed manner

X Liu, M Wang, Y Nie, XL Wu - ISME communications, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many organisms live in habitats with limited nutrients or space, competition for these
resources is ubiquitous. Although spatial factors related to the population's manner of …

The conditional defector strategies can violate the most crucial supporting mechanisms of cooperation

AM Ibrahim - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cooperation is essential for all domains of life. Yet, ironically, it is intrinsically vulnerable to
exploitation by cheats. Hence, an explanatory necessity spurs many evolutionary biologists …

Successful microbial colonization of space using an anti-aggregation strategy

X Liu, M Wang, Y Nie, XL Wu - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Many organisms live in habitats with limited nutrients or space, competition for these
resources is ubiquitous. Although spatial factors related to population's manner of colonizing …

Method of microbial enhanced oil recovery by changing microbial motility

X Wu, Y Nie, W Miaoxiao, G Shuang… - US Patent 11,091,736, 2021 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein is a method of microbial enhanced oil recovery by changing microbial
motility, including: subjecting a viable Glycocaulis strain and the alkane-degrading Dietzia …