Application of microorganisms in biotransformation and bioremediation of environmental contaminant: a review

M Nag, D Lahiri, S Ghosh, T Sarkar, S Pati… - Geomicrobiology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The increase in population has resulted in a rapid increase in waste that is being dumped
within the environment. The addition of various harmful and contaminating compounds …

Recent Advances in Metagenomic Approaches, Applications, and Challenges

NK Lema, MT Gemeda, AA Woldesemayat - Current Microbiology, 2023 - Springer
Advances in metagenomics analysis with the advent of next-generation sequencing have
extended our knowledge of microbial communities as compared to conventional techniques …

Invasions toolkit: Current methods for tracking the spread and impact of invasive species

S Kamenova, TJ Bartley, DA Bohan, JR Boutain… - Advances in ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biological invasions exert multiple pervasive effects on ecosystems, potentially disrupting
species interactions and global ecological processes. Our ability to successfully predict and …

Construction and characterization of DNA libraries from cultured phages and environmental viromes

C Gu Liu, BE Thompson, JD Chang, L Min… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Despite many efforts to understand and leverage the functional potential of environmental
viromes, most bacteriophage genes are largely uncharacterized. To explore novel biology …

Exploring bacterial attributes that underpin symbiont life in the monogastric gut

GW Tannock - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The large bowel of monogastric animals, such as that of humans, is home to a microbial
community (microbiota) composed of a diversity of mostly bacterial species …

A novel bacterial carboxylesterase identified in a metagenome derived-clone from Brazilian mangrove sediments

FJ Araujo, DC Hissa, GO Silva, ASLM Antunes… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Springer
A functional screening of 1152 clones from a plasmid library constructed with DNA extracted
from Brazilian mangrove sediments revealed 3 positive clones for ester-hydrolyzing …

High-throughput nanopore DNA sequencing of large insert fosmid clones directly from bacterial colonies

L Chuzel, A Sinha, CV Cunningham… - Applied and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fosmids and cosmids are vectors frequently used in functional metagenomic studies. With a
large insert capacity (around 30 kb) they can encode dozens of cloned genes or in some …

Interactive Web-Based Services for Metagenomic Data Analysis and Comparisons

NA Abdelsalam, H Elshora, M El-Hadidi - Metagenomic Data Analysis, 2023 - Springer
Recently, sequencing technologies have become readily available, and scientists are more
motivated to conduct metagenomic research to unveil the potential of a myriad of …

Isolation of high molecular weight and humic acid-free metagenomic DNA from lignocellulose-rich samples compatible for direct fosmid cloning

A Sar, S Pal, B Dam - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Activity-based screening of metagenomic DNA libraries is a promising approach to fish out
genes encoding novel bioactive compounds/enzymes of industrial importance. The starting …

Developing a Bacteroides System for Function-Based Screening of DNA from the Human Gut Microbiome

KN Lam, EC Martens, TC Charles - Msystems, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Functional metagenomics is a powerful method that allows the isolation of genes whose role
may not have been predicted from DNA sequence. In this approach, first, environmental …