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Assessing the Microbial Community and Functional Genes in a Vertical Soil Profile with Long-Term Arsenic Contamination
(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, ...
Hexavalent Chromium Reduction under Fermentative Conditions with Lactate Stimulated Native Microbial Communities
(PLos One, 2013-12-23)
Microbial reduction of toxic hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in-situ is a plausible bioremediation strategy in electron-acceptor limited environments. However, higher Cr(VI) may impose stress on syntrophic communities and ...
Functional Biogeography as Evidence of Gene Transfer in Hypersaline Microbial Communities
(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 Community Analysis of a Coastal Salt Marsh Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(PLos One, 2012-07-18)
Coastal salt marshes are highly sensitive wetland ecosystems that can sustain long-term impacts from anthropogenic events such as oil spills. In this study, we examined the microbial communities of a Gulf of Mexico coastal ...
First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust
(PLos One, 2010-11-05)
The gabbroic layer comprises the majority of ocean crust. Opportunities to sample this expansive crustal environment are rare because of the technological demands of deep ocean drilling; thus, gabbroic microbial communities ...
Microbial Community Dynamics and Activity Link to Indigo Production from Indole in Bioaugmented Activated Sludge Systems
(PLos One, 2015-09-15)
Biosynthesis of the popular dyestuff indigo from indole has been comprehensively studied using pure cultures, but less has been done to characterize the indigo production by microbial communities. In our previous studies, ...