Energetic basis of microbial growth and persistence in desert ecosystems

PM Leung, SK Bay, DV Meier, E Chiri, DA Cowan… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial life is surprisingly abundant and diverse in global desert ecosystems. In these
environments, microorganisms endure a multitude of physicochemical stresses, including …

Reaching unreachables: Obstacles and successes of microbial cultivation and their reasons

G Kapinusova, MA Lopez Marin, O Uhlik - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In terms of the number and diversity of living units, the prokaryotic empire is the most
represented form of life on Earth, and yet it is still to a significant degree shrouded in …

Illegal dumping of oil and gas wastewater alters arid soil microbial communities

M Kashani, MA Engle, DB Kent… - Applied and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Permian Basin, underlying southeast New Mexico and west Texas, is one
of the most productive oil and gas (OG) provinces in the United States. Oil and gas …

Leave no stone unturned: individually adapted xerotolerant Thaumarchaeota sheltered below the boulders of the Atacama Desert hyperarid core

Y Hwang, D Schulze-Makuch, FL Arens, JS Saenz… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert is an extremely harsh environment
thought to be colonized by only a few heterotrophic bacterial species. Current concepts for …

Isolation and identification of soil bacteria from extreme environments of Chile and their plant beneficial characteristics

A Gaete, D Mandakovic, M González - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The isolation of soil bacteria from extreme environments represents a major challenge, but
also an opportunity to characterize the metabolic potential of soil bacteria that could promote …

Optimized bioleaching of copper by indigenous cyanogenic bacteria isolated from the landfill of e-waste

B Arab, F Hassanpour, M Arshadi, S Yaghmaei… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, indigenous cyanogenic bacterial strains were isolated on nutrient, minimal salt,
and soil extract media at various culture conditions from two distinct landfills of e-waste, Iran …

Association of antibiotics and heavy metal arsenic to horizontal gene transfer from multidrug-resistant clinical strains to antibiotic-sensitive environmental strains

A Kothari, P Kumar, A Gaurav, K Kaushal… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is currently posing a significant threat to
global public health. By testing for resistance to different antibiotic classes, we discovered …

Topsoil and subsoil bacterial community assemblies across different drainage conditions in a mountain environment

C Aguado-Norese, V Cárdenas, A Gaete… - Biological Research, 2023 - Springer
Background High mountainous environments are of particular interest as they play an
essential role for life and human societies, while being environments which are highly …

Composition, predicted functions and co-occurrence networks of rhizobacterial communities impacting flowering desert events in the Atacama Desert, Chile

M Astorga-Eló, Q Zhang, G Larama, A Stoll… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Flowering desert (FD) events consist of the rapid flowering of a wide variety of native plants
in the Atacama Desert of Chile, which is categorized as the driest desert in the world. While …

Characterizations of microbial diversity and machine oil degrading microbes in machine oil contaminated soil

M Wang, B Deng, X Fu, H Sun, Z Xu - Environmental Pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbial diversity in machine oil contaminated soil was determined by high-throughput
amplicon sequencing technology. The diversity of culturable microbes in the contaminated …