Microbial Life Educational Resources. Microbial Life is a freely accessible digital library dedicated to the diversity, ecology, and evolution of the ...

Using the well-developed microbial system, Clostridium phytofermentans, we developed an assay that provides the ability to measure the impact of pretreatment, conversion processes, and microbial and plant genetic diversity of digestibility, and thereby determine the potential effects of numerous var...

Researchers and implementers of biological control are confronted with a variety of scientific, regulatory and administrative challenges to their biological control programs. One developing challenge will arise from the implementation of provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) co...

This Science Magazine scholarly article explores gut microbial diversity by examining prokaryotic ribosomal RNA gene sequences from multiple colonic mucosal sites and feces of healthy humans. The study showed that a majority of the bacterial sequences corresponded to uncultivated species and novel microorganisms. It also revealed significant intersubject ...

This Science scholarly article discusses the molecular biology behind geomicrobiology. It features sections about microbial diversity, microbial activity in the environment, mechanistic details, the genomic revolution, and modeling microbial communities. The paper includes color images of supplemental figures. The ...

This scientific paper describes the microbial community composition of samples collected from acidic hydrothermal vents on the Aeolian Island of Vulcano (Italy). The authors review the environmental conditions of the sampling sites and the molecular and microbial strain isolating procedures used to characterize the microbial community. ...

. Unfortunately, the debate surrounding the magnitude of global microbial richness has been fueled by speculation times of individual microbial cells in situ and it can be difficult to distinguish between "active1 Microbial biogeography: patterns in microbial diversity across space and time ...

... a high level of diversity of bacteria in the soil given the simplicity and .... Microbial biodiversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils ...

Microbial diversity and population structure studies in the Rio Tinto ... Genome -Genome Integration: Symbiosis, genetic assimilation, and evolutionary ...

Oct 14, 2008 ... information about the ecology, diversity and evolution of ... microbial life in extreme environments and microbial life in oceans. ...

A.J. Kluyver and C.B. van Niel introduced many scientists to the exceptional metabolic capacity of microbes and their remarkable ability to adapt to changing environments in The Microbe's Contribution to Biology. Beyond providing an overview of the physiology and adaptability of microbes, the book outlined many of the basic principles for the emerging discipline of microbial ...

This page provides free Video On Demand access to 12 half-hour educational video programs that comprise the series Unseen Life on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology. Topics covered include microbial metabolism, the role of microbes in global ecology, origins of life, molecular evolution, lateral gene transfer, microbial ...

This Letters to Nature scholarly article presents findings from a study done at Yellowstone's Norris Geyser Basin, the purpose of which was to characterize the endolithic microbial community in the hydrothermal environment. The article features photomicrographs of the endoliths, a figure depicting diversity found (based on molecular methods), as well as a ...

... Accession Number : AD0023395. Title : MICROBIAL POLYSACCHARIDES AS PLASMA SUBSTITUTES. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...

... Accession Number : ADD750954. Title : MICROBIAL DEGRADATION OF PLASTICIZERS. Descriptive Note : JOURNAL ARTICLE. ...

... Accession Number : AD0298138. Title : DISINFECTION OF MICROBIAL AEROSOL CHAMBERS WITH BETA-PROPIOLACTONE. ...

Sep 5, 2011 ... Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems ... tree of life, not only in terms of numbers, but also the diversity of ...

Microbial Diversity in the Deep Sea and the Underexplored Rare Biosphere ... have led to very high levels of genetic diversity and phenotypic variation. ...

Students learn about microbial diversity by building a microbe collection. This workbook provides a framework for students to collect diverse microorganisms from the environment.

The microbial diversity of intertidal hot springs on the seashore of northwest Iceland was examined by combining directed in situ enrichments, artificial support colonization, and mat sampling. Analysis of 16S rRNA genes revealed the presence of clones related to both marine and terrestrial, thermophilic, mesophilic, and psychrophilic microorganisms ...

Soil microbial communities contain the highest level of prokaryotic diversity of any environment, and metagenomic approaches involving the extraction of DNA from soil can improve our access to these communities. Most analyses of soil biodiversity and function assume that the DNA extracted represents the microbial ...

Soil microbial communities contain the highest level of prokaryotic diversity of any environment, and metagenomic approaches involving the extraction of DNA from soil can improve our access to these communities. Most analyses of soil biodiversity and function assume that the DNA extracted represents the microbial ...

... Accession Number : ADA257841. Title : Microbial Threats to Health. Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States. ...

In the collective genomes (the metagenome) of the microorganisms inhabiting the Earth�s diverse environments is written the history of life on this planet. New molecular tools developed and used for the past 15�years by microbial ecologists are facilitating the extraction, cloning, screening, and sequencing of these genomes. This approach allows ...

Recent progress in molecular microbial ecology has revealed that traditional culturing methods fail to represent the scope of microbial diversity in nature, since only a small proportion of viable microorganisms in a sample are recovered by culturing techniques. To develop methods to investigate the full extent of ...

A collection of three quantitative microbial ecology exercises that address diversity, scaling, and experimental design.