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A Semi-Continuous System for Monitoring Microbially Influenced Corrosion
(2018)
Microbially Influenced Corrosion (MIC), also known as biocorrosion, has significant impacts on the environment and economy. Typical systems to study biocorrosion are either dynamic (once-through flow) or static (serum ...
Delving deeper into plant assembly: determine the role of intraspecific diversity across space and time to affect carbon dynamics in natural and managed systems
(2019-05-11)
Understanding the key ecological processes contributing towards the spatial-temporal variation in intra-specific diversity of commonly occurring species, especially during early colonization events, can be key to predict ...
EVALUATING COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS AND CARBON FLOW IN METHANE-RICH ENVIRONMENTS USING METHANOTROPHIC-HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAL CO-CULTURES
(2020-07)
Methane oxidizing bacteria play a significant role in global methane and carbon cycling and are present in many different global environments. Isolation and enrichment for novel methanotrophic species is an important way ...
Assembly through invasion and restoration: effects on biodiversity and ecosystem function
(2020-12-18)
It is well established that human activities have damaged many natural systems. Two critical aspects of mitigating this damage are identifying pathways to impacts and identifying the characteristics of successful interventions. ...
Heirloom Microbes: a survey of lactic acid bacteria in traditional Mongolian dairy
(2020)
Fermentation has sustained human communities for thousands of years. Through most of that time, humans unknowingly used microbes in food production, especially dairy. It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that the ...
Herbivory, not soil nitrogen, alters grassland plant community structure and decomposition
(2016-12)
Human activity has shifted grazing and nitrogen (N) altering plant community structure worldwide. Plant community changes are expected to alter associated ecosystem functions (e.g., plant litter decomposition). Few studies ...
Functional Analysis of Duplicated NF-YB Genes in Photoperiod-Dependent Flowering
(2018-05)
The heterotrimeric transcription factor NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) regulates photoperiod-dependent flowering and is composed of NF-YA, NF-YB, and NF-YC subunits. In higher plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, whole genome ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF FUNGAL CONTAMINANTS IN B20 BIODIESEL STORAGE TANKS AND THEIR EFFECT ON FUEL COMPOSITION
(2016-08)
The liquid transportation fuel B20 biodiesel is an 80:20 blend of petroleum-derived
ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) and biodiesel. Although B20 biodiesel represents a
fungible fuel with a reduced carbon footprint compared ...
The role of Gammaproteobacteria in aerobic alkane degradation in oilfield production water from the Barnett Shale
(2017-12)
Despite nearly a century’s worth of research focused on investigating the activities of microorganisms in petroleum production systems, a large gap in the literature exists on the role of heterotrophic microorganisms in ...
Exploration of the Vinyl-4-Reductase Effector Domain of the Methanogen Specific Transcription Regulator MsvR in Methanosarcina acetivorans
(2017-07-20)
Global warming is one of the most pressing issues that this planet faces. Methane production by methanogenic archaea plays a crucial in not only climate change, but also in the global carbon cycle. Methanogenic archaea ...