Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Author "Zhili He"
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Assessing the Microbial Community and Functional Genes in a Vertical Soil Profile with Long-Term Arsenic Contamination
Jinbo Xiong; Zhili He; Joy D. Van Nostrand; Guosheng Luo; Shuxin Tu; Jizhong Zhou; Gejiao Wang (PLos One, 2012-11-30)Arsenic (As) contamination in soil and groundwater has become a serious problem to public health. To examine how microbial communities and functional genes respond to long-term arsenic contamination in vertical soil profile, ... -
Functional Biogeography as Evidence of Gene Transfer in Hypersaline Microbial Communities
J. Jacob Parnell; Giovanni Rompato; Leigh C. Latta IV; Michael E. Pfrender; Joy D. Van Nostrand; Zhili He; Jizhong Zhou; Gary Andersen; Patti Champine; Balasubramanian Ganesan; Bart C. Weimer (PLos One, 2010-09-23)BackgroundHorizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in speciation and evolution of bacteria and archaea by controlling gene distribution within an environment. However, information that links HGT to a natural ... -
Microbial Electricity Generation Enhances Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) Degradation
Yonggang Yang; Meiying Xu; Zhili He; Jun Guo; Guoping Sun; Jizhong Zhou (PLos One, 2013-08-05)Due to environmental persistence and biotoxicity of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), it is urgent to develop potential technologies to remediate PBDEs. Introducing electrodes for microbial electricity generation to ... -
The Thermoanaerobacter Glycobiome Reveals Mechanisms of Pentose and Hexose Co-Utilization in Bacteria
Lu Lin; Houhui Song; Qichao Tu; Yujia Qin; Aifen Zhou; Wenbin Liu; Zhili He; Jizhong Zhou; Jian Xu (PLos Genetics, 2011-10-13)Author Summary Renewable liquid fuels derived from lignocellulosic biomass could alleviate global energy shortage and climate change. Cellulose and hemicellulose are the main components of lignocellulosic biomass. ... -
Ultrasound-Mediated DNA Transformation in Thermophilic Gram-Positive Anaerobes
Lu Lin; Houhui Song; Yuetong Ji; Zhili He; Yunting Pu; Jizhong Zhou; Jian Xu (PLos One, 2010-09-04)BackgroundThermophilic, Gram-positive, anaerobic bacteria (TGPAs) are generally recalcitrant to chemical and electrotransformation due to their special cell-wall structure and the low intrinsic permeability of plasma ...