Soil Bacterium Boosts Sulphur Oxidation and Crop Yields in Sodic Soils
The bacterium Acinetobacter radioresistens Ke–5 enhanced elemental sulphur oxidation by 3.7 to 29.4 per cent in sodic soils and, combined ...
Tag: Microbial ecology
Sick Leeches Keep Their Microbial Diversity but Lose Their Microbial Stability
A new 16S rRNA study of farmed medicinal leeches shows that disease is marked not by lost microbial diversity but ...
Richer Microbial Communities Help Soils Hold Water, Study Finds
A University of Arizona mesocosm experiment shows that more diverse soil microbial communities produce extracellular polymeric substances that increase water ...
Probiotics Rebuild the Gut and Stomach Microbiome After H. pylori Eradication Therapy
A mouse study finds that probiotic supplementation with Enterococcus faecium R0026 and Bacillus subtilis R0179 accelerates recovery of both gastric ...
Tumors Are Not Sterile: How Microbes Living Inside Cancers Reshape Immunity and Immunotherapy
A new review in Molecular Cancer argues that microbes living inside tumors dynamically reprogram immunity and can determine whether patients ...
Oxygen Scarcity and Habitat History Team Up to Decide Which Oil-Eating Microbes Win
A new study shows that environmental origin and oxygen availability act as complementary ecological filters that determine which hydrocarbon-degrading microbes ...
Hidden Microbial Worlds Revealed in Four Colombian Andean Lakes
A 16S rRNA gene sequencing survey of four Colombian Andean lakes reveals diverse bacterial communities, predicted metabolic functions and low-abundance ...
ERMA brings standardization to single-cell epicPCR analysis of microbial communities
An open-source Snakemake pipeline called ERMA standardizes and automates epicPCR data analysis, achieving strong concordance with published results and full ...
Gut bacteria team up with diet to decide who rules the microbiome
New research shows that dietary fibers and vitamins promote dominance of Segatella over Bacteroidaceae in the human gut only through ...
A Leaf-Dwelling Yeast Feeds Vitamin B1 to a Pathogen, Keeping Both Alive
Researchers have shown that a leaf-dwelling yeast secretes thiamine through a dedicated permease to help an obligate plant pathogen colonize ...
Fast-Growing Soil Microbes Emerge as Key Drivers of Carbon-Releasing Priming Effect
A new cybernetic modeling study shows that fast-growing copiotrophic microbes and their interactions with non-degrading neighbors determine whether fresh organic ...
Coral Reef Sediment Bacteria Obey the Map, Not the Microhabitat
A multi-scale survey at One Tree Island on the Great Barrier Reef shows that lagoon-wide spatial and nutrient gradients, not ...
Heatwaves Reshape Lake Microbes in Surprisingly Different Ways
A simulated 8-degree heatwave in Lake Taihu mesocosms revealed that prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities follow sharply different paths of ...
Drained and Damaged Peatlands Lose the Microbial Order That Keeps Carbon Locked Away
New research from the Australian Alps shows that peatland degradation disrupts the depth- and water-table-dependent organization of microbial communities and ...
Alligator Leeches Reveal a Hidden Core Microbiome Built for a Blood-Only Diet
A sweeping survey of Placobdella leeches from American alligators across the southeastern United States reveals a conserved core microbiome, four ...
Hidden Bacterial Partners Shape How Edible Mushroom Mycelia Grow and Function
A new study finds that cultivated edible mushroom mycelia host bacterial communities that are conserved in diversity but strain-specific in ...
Dammed River, Rewired Guts: How Diets Shape Fish Microbiomes in a Channelized Yangtze Tributary
A study of eight fish species in the dammed Jialing River shows that gut microbial communities track feeding habits as ...
Ancient Lake DNA Reveals Microbes Evolving Faster Than Their Functions Under Climate Change
Sedimentary ancient DNA from Lake Daihai in northern China reveals that microbial community structure evolved nearly ten times faster than ...
From Friend to Foe: How Actinomycetes Switch Between Symbiosis and Disease
A new review in Microbial Ecology explains how the same biosynthetic gene clusters that make actinomycetes valuable symbionts can also ...
Common Gut Microbe Blastocystis Turns Up in Insects Across China, Hinting at a Hidden Ecological Role
A large survey of nearly 1,400 invertebrates in China found Blastocystis DNA most often in insects, with subtypes ST1, ST2, ...
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