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NanoSIMS isotopic imaging - Deciphering the nature of coral-symbiont metabolic interactions

Anders Meibom, Isabelle Domart-Coulon, Christophe Kopp, Thomas Krüger, Maoz Fine

The ability of endosymbiotic Symbiodinium to fix inorganic nutrients and their translocation to the coral host is considered a key element for the growth of coral reefs in tropical coastal waters and has been a fundamental research topic for over 50 years. ...

2015

Microbial metabolism in the deep subsurface

Alexandre Bagnoud

Microbes have successfully colonized the deep subsurface, thanks to their small size and their diverse metabolic activities. This part of the biosphere remains a terra incognita for microbiologists, containing innumerable unknown microbial species and proc ...

EPFL2015

Genome analysis of Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii reveals a physiological similarity with Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani

Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii is a moderately thermophilic member of the polyphyletic spore-forming genus Desulfotomaculum in the family Peptococcaceae. This species is of interest because it originates from deep subsurface thermal mineral water at a depth ...

Genomic Stand Consort2013

Phylogenetic and functional marker genes to study ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) in the environment

Thomas Junier

The oxidation of ammonia plays a significant role in the transformation of fixed nitrogen in the global nitrogen cycle. Autotrophic ammonia oxidation is known in three groups of microorganisms. Aerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea convert ammonia ...

Springer-Verlag2010

Aerobic granular sludge formation and performance at 30 and 35°C in sequencing batch bubble-column reactors

Christof Holliger, Graciela Gonzalez Gil, Sirous Ebrahimi, Sébastien Gabus, Maryam Hosseini

Aerobic granular sludge-based reactors represent an attractive alternative to conventional activated sludge systems due to their small footprint and their low energy consumption and excess sludge production. The granules developed in such systems have high ...

2008

Effects of experimental lead pollution on the microbial communities associated to Sphagnum fallax (Bryophyta)

Edward Mitchell

Ecotoxicological studies usually focus on single microbial species under controlled conditions. As a result, little is known about the responses of different microbial functional groups or individual species to stresses. In an aim to assess the response of ...

2007

Aerobic granular sludge reactor technology Microbial diversity of aerobic granules

David Gregory Weissbrodt

• Goal The goal of the project was to produce biomolecular fingerprints in order to describe the structure of microbial community which develops during aerobic sludge granulation, initiated in sequencing batch wastewater treatment processes. Four SBR were ...

2006

Molecular analysis of the biodiversity of protists in hydrocarbon-polluted and pristine soils

Enrique Lara

Eukaryotic microorganisms are an essential component of the Earth's global diversity. It is believed that the number of protistan taxa far outnumbers the one of viruses and bacteria. The taxonomic classification of these organisms, which also represent the ...

EPFL2005

Structure of microbial communities in Sphagnum peatlands and effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment

Alexandre Buttler, Edward Mitchell, Jean-Michel Gobat

Little is known about the structure of microbial communities in Sphagnum peatlands, and the potential effects of the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration on these communities are not known. We analyzed the structure of microbial communities in five Sph ...

2003

The coupling between catabolism and anabolism of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum in H2- and iron-limited continuous cultures

Urs von Stockar, Ian William Marison

The aim of the present work was to investigate whether uncoupling of catabolism from anabolism, which was often obsd. in heterotrophic microorganisms under energy-sufficient growth conditions, also occurs in the autotrophic bacterium M. thermoautotrophicum ...

1999

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