Deinococcus radiodurans is a robust bacterium best known for its capacity to repair massive
DNA damage efficiently and accurately. It is extremely resistant to many DNA-damaging …

Thermus spp is one of the most wide spread genuses of thermophilic bacteria, with isolates
found in natural as well as in man-made thermal environments. The high growth rates, cell …

Grassland degradation is a retrogressive succession of grassland vegetation, which leads to
the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem functions. Soil microbiomes play …

Background The human lung tissue microbiota remains largely uncharacterized, although a
number of studies based on airway samples suggest the existence of a viable human lung …

The expansion of the agriculture has become the main agent of disturbance in the Amazon
region, and such alteration has consequences on soil microbial communities, which …

Agricultural management alters physical and chemical soil properties, which directly affects
microbial life strategies and community composition. The microbial community drives …

Chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) are potentially toxic substances that have been
detected in various contaminated environments. Biological elimination is the main technique …

Aims We investigated the possible transgenerational transfer of bacterial seed endophytes
across three consecutive seed generations of Crotalaria pumila growing on a metal mining …

The main targets of photodynamic inactivation (PDI) are the external bacterial structures,
cytoplasmic membrane and cell wall. In this work it was evaluated how the external bacterial …

Phylogenetic trees of individual genes of prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria) generally have
different topologies, largely owing to extensive horizontal gene transfer (HGT), suggesting …