Biological Soil Crusts from Different Soil Substrates Harbor Distinct Bacterial Groups with the Potential to Produce Exopolysaccharides and Lipopolysaccharides

Carbon cycling of biological soil crusts mirrors ecological maturity along a Central European inland dune catena

(2018) Thomas Fischer et al.   CATENA

Microbial mat ecosystems: Structure types, functional diversity, and biotechnological application

(2018) Cristina M. Prieto-Barajas et al.   ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genetic Analysis of Human Norovirus Strains in Japan in 2016–2017

(2018) Koo Nagasawa et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Direct and indirect effects of a pH gradient bring insights into the mechanisms driving prokaryotic community structures

(2018) Daniel R. Lammel et al.   Microbiome

The potential of the cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya ohadii as inoculum for stabilizing bare sandy substrates

(2018) Gianmarco Mugnai et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microaggregates in soils

(2017) Kai Uwe Totsche et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Complex role of the polymeric matrix in biological soil crusts

(2017) Federico Rossi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Abundance and co-occurrence of extracellular capsules increase environmental breadth: Implications for the emergence of pathogens

(2017) Olaya Rendueles et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Microbial Community and Biochemical Dynamics of Biological Soil Crusts across a Gradient of Surface Coverage in the Central Mojave Desert

(2017) Rakesh Mogul et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Outer Membrane Proteome of Veillonella parvula: A Diderm Firmicute of the Human Microbiome

(2017) Daniel I. Poppleton et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Characterization of novel Acidobacteria exopolysaccharides with potential industrial and ecological applications

(2017) Anna M. Kielak et al.   Scientific Reports

Photosynthetic characteristics and their spatial variance on biological soil crusts covering initial soils of post-mining sites in Lower Lusatia, NE Germany

(2016) Stella Gypser et al.   FLORA

Pore characteristics in biological soil crusts are independent of extracellular polymeric substances

(2016) Vincent J.M.N.L. Felde et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fast and sensitive taxonomic classification for metagenomics with Kaiju

(2016) Peter Menzel et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenomic analysis supports the ancestral presence of LPS-outer membranes in the Firmicutes

(2016) Luisa CS Antunes et al.   eLife

The Lack of the Essential LptC Protein in the Trans-Envelope Lipopolysaccharide Transport Machine Is Circumvented by Suppressor Mutations in LptF, an Inner Membrane Component of the Escherichia coli Transporter

(2016) Mattia Benedet et al.   PLoS One

Three-dimensional structure and cyanobacterial activity within a desert biological soil crust

(2015) Hagai Raanan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Differentiation of the characteristics of excreted extracellular polysaccharides reveals the heterogeneous primary succession of induced biological soil crusts

(2015) Giovanni Colica et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

(2015) Jaime Huerta-Cepas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bacterial exopolysaccharides: biosynthesis pathways and engineering strategies

(2015) Jochen Schmid et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Atomic force microscopy measurements of bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation onto clay-sized particles

(2015) Qiaoyun Huang et al.   Scientific Reports

Biosynthesis and Export of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides

(2014) Chris Whitfield et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Soil carbon quality and nitrogen fertilization structure bacterial communities with predictable responses of major bacterial phyla

(2014) Harald Cederlund et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Biological soil crusts in a changing world: introduction to the special issue

(2014) Leopoldo G. Sancho et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Organic matter from biological soil crusts induces the initial formation of sandy temperate soils

(2014) A. Dümig et al.   CATENA

Estimating coverage in metagenomic data sets and why it matters

(2014) Luis M Rodriguez-R et al.   ISME Journal

Synergic hydraulic and nutritional feedback mechanisms control surface patchiness of biological soil crusts on tertiary sands at a post-mining site

(2014) Thomas Fischer et al.   Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

(2014) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

Measuring the soil-microbial interface: Extraction of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from soil biofilms

(2014) M.A. Redmile-Gordon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Life on the outside: role of biofilms in environmental persistence of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli

(2014) Philippe Vogeleer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Development of artificially induced biological soil crusts in fields and their effects on top soil

(2013) Yiwen Wu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Microbial Diversity and Its Relationship to Physicochemical Characteristics of the Water in Two Extreme Acidic Pit Lakes from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)

(2013) Esther Santofimia et al.   PLoS One

Tropical agricultural land management influences on soil microbial communities through its effect on soil organic carbon

(2013) Woo Jun Sul et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial secreted exopolysaccharides affect the hydrological behavior of induced biological soil crusts in desert sandy soils

(2013) Giovanni Colica et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Brazilian Cerrado Soil Actinobacteria Ecology

(2013) Monique Suela Silva et al.   Biomed Research International

Species-Driven Phases and Increasing Structure in Early-Successional Plant Communities

(2012) Markus K. Zaplata et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Characteristics and role of the exocellular polysaccharides produced by five cyanobacteria isolated from phototrophic biofilms growing on stone monuments

(2012) Federico Rossi et al.   BIOFOULING

SortMeRNA: fast and accurate filtering of ribosomal RNAs in metatranscriptomic data

(2012) Evguenia Kopylova et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Small scale spatial heterogeneity of Normalized Difference Vegetation Indices (NDVIs) and hot spots of photosynthesis in biological soil crusts

(2012) Thomas Fischer et al.   FLORA

The use of microbiotic crusts as biomarkers for ponding, subsurface flow and soil moisture content and duration

(2012) Giora J. Kidron et al.   GEODERMA

TIGRFAMs and Genome Properties in 2013

(2012) Daniel H. Haft et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

(2011) R. Schmieder et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Microbial diversity of active layer and permafrost in an acidic wetland from the Canadian High Arctic

(2011) Roland C. Wilhelm et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Differential hydrological response of biological topsoil crusts along a rainfall gradient in a sandy arid area: Northern Negev desert, Israel

(2011) A. Yair et al.   CATENA

Fast Identification and Removal of Sequence Contamination from Genomic and Metagenomic Datasets

(2011) Robert Schmieder et al.   PLoS One

Predicting Solute Transport in Structured Soil Using Pore Network Models

(2011) J. Maximilian Köhne et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

The Role of Nonphotosynthetic Microbes in the Recovery of Biological Soil Crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China

(2010) N. Wu et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Quantification of soil structure based on Minkowski functions

(2010) H.-J. Vogel et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Abundances and potential activities of nitrogen cycling microbial communities along a chronosequence of a glacier forefield

(2010) Robert Brankatschk et al.   ISME Journal

Glycan chain-length control

(2010) Chris Whitfield   Nature Chemical Biology

The biofilm matrix

(2010) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

FragGeneScan: predicting genes in short and error-prone reads

(2010) Mina Rho et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Primer on Metagenomics

(2010) John C. Wooley et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

(2009) C. L. Lauber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiotic soil crusts in the Sahel of Western Niger and their influence on soil porosity and water dynamics

(2009) O. Malam Issa et al.   CATENA

Water repellency and pore clogging at early successional stages of microbiotic crusts on inland dunes, Brandenburg, NE Germany

(2009) Thomas Fischer et al.   CATENA

The artificial catchment “Chicken Creek” (Lusatia, Germany)—A landscape laboratory for interdisciplinary studies of initial ecosystem development

(2009) Werner Gerwin et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses

(2009) Ryan T Jones et al.   ISME Journal

Truncation in the core oligosaccharide of lipopolysaccharide affects flagella-mediated motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 via modulation of cell surface attachment

(2009) T. Lindhout et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Lipopolysaccharide: Biosynthetic pathway and structure modification

(2009) Xiaoyuan Wang et al.   PROGRESS IN LIPID RESEARCH

Soil acidity determines the effectiveness of an organic amendment and a native bacterium for increasing soil stabilisation in semiarid mine tailings

(2008) L. Carrasco et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Stop and go: regulation of chain length in the biosynthesis of bacterial polysaccharides

(2008) Chris Whitfield et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of two inner-membrane proteins required for the transport of lipopolysaccharide to the outer membrane of Escherichia coli

(2008) N. Ruiz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA