Molecular detection, quantification, and diversity evaluation of microalgae

V Ebenezer, LK Medlin, JS Ki - Marine biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
This study reviews the available molecular methods and new high-throughput technologies
for their practical use in the molecular detection, quantification, and diversity assessment of …

Developing insights into the mechanisms of evolution of bacterial pathogens from whole-genome sequences

J Bryant, C Chewapreecha, SD Bentley - Future microbiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Evolution of bacterial pathogen populations has been detected in a variety of ways including
phenotypic tests, such as metabolic activity, reaction to antisera and drug resistance and …

Interaction of cyanobacteria with nanometer and micron sized polystyrene particles in marine and fresh water

TTS de Oliveira, I Andreu, MC Machado, G Vimbela… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Microplastics and nanoplastics are emerging pollutants, widespread both in marine and in
freshwater environments. Cyanobacteria are also ubiquitous in water and play a vital role in …

Evolutionary strategies of viruses, bacteria and archaea in hydrothermal vent ecosystems revealed through metagenomics

RE Anderson, ML Sogin, JA Baross - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The deep-sea hydrothermal vent habitat hosts a diverse community of archaea and bacteria
that withstand extreme fluctuations in environmental conditions. Abundant viruses in these …

Transstadial transmission and long-term association of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks shapes genome plasticity

H Xia, AS Beck, A Gargili, N Forrester, ADT Barrett… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The trade-off hypothesis, the current paradigm of arbovirus evolution, proposes that cycling
between vertebrate and invertebrate hosts presents significant constraints on genetic …

Reconstructing an ancestral genotype of two hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading Sphingobium species using metagenomic sequence data

N Sangwan, H Verma, R Kumar, V Negi, S Lax… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 60 years, the use of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) as a pesticide has resulted
in the production of> 4 million tons of HCH waste, which has been dumped in open sinks …

Metagenomes of the Picoalga Bathycoccus from the Chile Coastal Upwelling

D Vaulot, C Lepere, E Toulza, R De la Iglesia… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Among small photosynthetic eukaryotes that play a key role in oceanic food webs,
picoplanktonic Mamiellophyceae such as Bathycoccus, Micromonas, and Ostreococcus are …

Mutational Studies of Putative Biosynthetic Genes for the Cyanobacterial Sunscreen Scytonemin in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133

D Ferreira, F Garcia-Pichel - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The heterocyclic indole-alkaloid scytonemin is a sunscreen found exclusively among
cyanobacteria. An 18-gene cluster is responsible for scytonemin production in Nostoc …

Analysis of two marine metagenomes reveals the diversity of plasmids in oceanic environments

Y Ma, IT Paulsen, B Palenik - Environmental Microbiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmid diversity is still poorly understood in pelagic marine environments. Metagenomic
approaches have the potential to reveal the genetic diversity of microbes actually present in …

Factors influencing the diversity of iron uptake systems in aquatic microorganisms

DK Desai, FD Desai, J LaRoche - Frontiers in microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for many processes in all living cells. Dissolved Fe
(dFe) concentrations in the ocean are of the order of a few nM, and Fe is often a factor …