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Investigations of interspecies transfer mechanisms important to syntrophic metabolism
(2011)
Syntrophy is a tightly coupled mutualistic interaction among microorganisms that is essential for the global cycling of carbon in essentially all anaerobic environments. Syntrophic degradation of aromatic, alicyclic and ...
ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION AND ANAEROBIC PHYSIOLOGY OF n-ALKANE DEGRADATION BY BACTERIAL ISOLATES AND MIXED COMMUNITIES
(2011)
In the first chapter, carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation of n-alkanes was examined in order to compare aliphatic hydrocarbon biodegradation under oxic and anoxic conditions. Desulfoglaeba alkanexedens, a sulfate-reducing ...
AEROBIC RESPIRATION AND ECOLOGY OF Escherichia coli IN THE MOUSE CECUM
(2011)
The gastrointestinal tract contains a complex microbial ecosystem that exists in a symbiotic relationship with its host and plays an important role in maintaining human health. Escherichia coli, a facultative anaerobe, ...
Response of the soil microbiome to climate change
(2011)
Anthropogenically induced climate change is a multi-factor process that will likely exert significant pressure on biogeochemical cycling of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen in all environments. Central to the ...
Transcriptional Adaptation of Enterococcus faecalis within Macrophages and the Role of PerA in Virulence
(2011)
The intestinal ecosystem is comprised of bacteria that are both beneficial and detrimental to human health. The opportunistic pathogens residing within the gastrointestinal tract typically function as commensal members ...
ANAEROBACULUM HYDROGENIFORMANS: INSIGHTS INTO THE NOVEL BIOCHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ABILITY OF A THERMOPHILIC BIOCATALYST THAT CAN UTILIZE BOTH DEFINED AND UNDEFINED SUBSTRATES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE HYDROGEN ENERGY
(2011)
This body of work describes the bacterium Anaerobaculum hydrogeniformans strain OS1, a novel anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, NaCl-requiring fermentative bacterium that was isolated from oil production water collected ...
UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEM CARBON DYNAMICS BY MODELING APPROACHES
(2011)
Ecosystem models are a useful tool to explore ecological processes and their responses to climate change. The basic structures of current ecosystem C cycle models are similar and robust, but their uncertainties are high, ...