Motility often plays a decisive role in the survival of species. Five systems of motility have
been studied in depth: those propelled by bacterial flagella, eukaryotic actin polymerization …

Commercial production of carotenoids from microorganisms competes mainly with synthetic
manufacture by chemical procedures. Efficient stimulation of carotenoid biosynthesis is …

Chloroflexi members are ubiquitous and have been extensively studied; however, the
evolution and metabolic pathways of Chloroflexi members have long been debated. In the …

Metagenomic sequence data from defined mock communities is crucial for the assessment
of sequencing platform performance and downstream analyses, including assembly, binning …

Phototrophic sulfur bacteria are characterized by oxidizing various inorganic sulfur
compounds for use as electron donors in carbon dioxide fixation during anoxygenic …

Two thermophilic, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, multicellular filamentous micro-
organisms were isolated from thermophilic granular sludge in an upflow anaerobic sludge …

Comparative analysis of bacterial diversity in freshwater sediment collected from a shallow
eutrophic lake was performed by using 16S rRNA gene clone library and improved …

Advances in recent years have revolutionized our understanding of both the context and
occurrence of polyploidy in plants. Molecular phylogenetics has vastly improved our …

A novel thermophilic, photosynthetic bacterium, designated strain HLO8T, was isolated from
a bacterial mat in a Japanese hot spring. Morphologically, the isolate was an unbranched …

The phylum Chloroflexi contains several isolated bacteria that have been found to respire a
diverse array of halogenated anthropogenic chemicals. The distribution and role of these …