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Microbiology
Clemens Schauberger, David Seki, Elise M. M. Cutts, Ronnie N. N. Glud, Bo Thamdrup
Summary: Microbial communities in marine sediments are highly diverse, and their composition gradually changes with sediment depth due to the abrupt changing selective pressures across the discrete boundaries between redox zones. Dispersal limitation affects microbial communities, and the relative contributions of different processes leading to this compositional gradient are still unknown. This study applied ecological statistical frameworks to investigate the links between biogeochemistry, burial, and microbial community assembly processes in Atacama Trench sediments.
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Microbiology
Arne Traulsen, Michael Sieber
Summary: Microbial populations exhibit a high degree of diversity within populations, which is closely linked to the structure of the population. Endogenous factors, such as genetic and demographic aspects, are driven by ecology and evolutionary dynamics, while exogenous factors are influenced by spatial and temporal properties of the environment. An interesting scenario occurs when the exogenous structure also experiences feedback from the microbial population.
CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yichao Wu, Chengxia Fu, Caroline L. Peacock, Soren J. Sorensen, Marc A. Redmile-Gordon, Ke-Qing Xiao, Chunhui Gao, Jun Liu, Qiaoyun Huang, Zixue Li, Peiyi Song, Yongguan Zhu, Jizhong Zhou, Peng Cai
Summary: Cooperative interactions between free-living and biofilm-forming bacteria are found to drive spatial segregation and enable species coexistence in a microfluidic chip environment, promoting their respective dominance in segregated microhabitats. This active spatial segregation is induced by cooperative interactions, improving the fitness of both biofilm and planktonic populations. The study also shows that free-living Arthrobacter induces surface colonization and receives benefits from public goods secreted by biofilm-forming strains.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Sana Romdhane, Ayme Spor, Julie Aubert, David Bru, Marie-Christine Breuil, Sara Hallin, Arnaud Mounier, Sarah Ouadah, Myrto Tsiknia, Laurent Philippot
Summary: This study utilized a top-down manipulation approach to investigate the role of biotic interactions in shaping soil microbial communities, revealing the importance of such interactions and identifying microbial community assembly rules. Modified biotic interactions had a greater impact on activities related to nitrogen cycling than carbon cycling, providing insights into microbial interactions in complex ecosystems and their relationship with ecosystem function.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Evan Kiefl, Ozcan C. Esen, Samuel E. Miller, Kourtney L. Kroll, Amy D. Willis, Michael S. Rappe, Tao Pan, A. Murat Eren
Summary: Comprehensive sampling of natural genetic diversity with metagenomics enables highly resolved insights into the interplay between ecology and evolution. Analyzing genetic variation in the context of predicted protein structures reveals a tight association between genetic variation and protein structure. This approach provides insights into the governing principles of evolution and enables structure-aware investigations of microbial population genetics.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bart A. C. Noort, Taco van der Vaart, Kees Ahaus
Summary: Research indicates that healthcare purchasers such as health insurers and governmental bodies face challenges in strategically managing chronic care chains due to conflicting interests among stakeholders. A longitudinal case study in the Netherlands shows that purchasers need to adapt to various pressures, including relationship pressures, cost pressures, medical demands, public health demands, and uncertainty, in order to achieve a shift in institutional logics.
Editorial Material
Ecology
Linnea L. Lungstrom, Zachary J. F. Fedder
Summary: Female wood tiger moths that were heterozygous for a wing color gene exhibited higher fertility, hatching success, and offspring survival, indicating that the maintenance of color polymorphisms within populations is driven by a complex interaction between heterozygote advantage and pleiotropic effects in the face of multiple and competing selective pressures in the wild.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xin Lu, Zhixuan Feng, Bin Cui, Dandan Zhou
Summary: This study explored the effects of fungal bloom on the community networks and metabolic pathways of nitrogen-cycling bacteria using an activated sludge reactor. The findings show that fungal bloom leads to the decrease in abundances and expressions of classic nitrogen cycle genes, resulting in the collapse of nitrogen cycling metabolic network. However, the relative abundance of the autotrophic denitrifying bacteria Rhodanobacter, which forms a symbiotic relationship with the fungal bloom, significantly increased.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Shangjie Yao, Liying Hao, Rongqing Zhou, Yao Jin, Jun Huang, Chongde Wu
Summary: Food fermentation is a process driven by microorganisms that form multispecies biofilms. These biofilms have important implications for the quality and safety of fermented foods. This review focuses on the formation of multispecies biofilms, microbial interactions and communication within these biofilms, and their application in food fermentation. The review also discusses the limitations of current studies and the need for more research on functional microorganisms and their biofilm formation during fermentation.
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xin Lei, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
Summary: This study investigated players' emotional responses to performance feedback in an educational game under cooperative and competitive structures. Through experiments and questionnaires, the study found that positive feedback led to increased brain activation in specific regions, while cooperative structures caused more activation in low-demand tasks.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Peng Xu
Summary: Researchers have formulated unstructured kinetic models to quantitatively capture the dynamic interactions in microbial consortia, finding that only parasitism, commensalism, and cooperation can lead to stable coexisting states. They have also identified the optimal social interaction criteria for microbial coculture and the accumulation and formation of metabolic intermediates in different species using specific equations.
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
(2021)
Review
Agricultural Engineering
Zimin Wei, Taha Ahmed Mohamed, Li Zhao, Zechen Zhu, Yue Zhao, Junqiu Wu
Summary: Composting organic waste into stable carbon is environmentally friendly, but the complex environment and microbial community can limit the directional transformation of organic carbon. Increasing humus yield may promote carbon fixation.
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Cell Biology
David Frieser, Aurora Pignata, Leila Khajavi, Danielle Shlesinger, Carmen Gonzalez-Fierro, Xuan-Hung Nguyen, Alexander Yermanos, Doron Merkler, Romana Hoftberger, Virginie Desestret, Katharina M. Mair, Jan Bauer, Frederick Masson, Roland S. Liblau
Summary: This study reveals the important role of tissue-resident memory T cells, particularly pathogenic CD8(+) T cells, in chronic autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system. These cells are crucial for sustaining chronic inflammation and progressive loss of neurons, and they exhibit phenotypic and functional heterogeneity. The presence and functional output of tissue-resident CD8(+) T cells depend critically on CD4(+) T cells. Therefore, therapies targeting this compartmentalized autoreactive T cell subset may be effective for treating CNS autoimmune diseases.
SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Seung-Cheol Lee
Summary: This study discusses chemisorption on ferromagnetic and non-magnetic surfaces within the framework of the Newns-Anderson-Grimley model and the Stoner model of ferromagnetism. The adsorption energy on ferromagnetic surfaces is formulated in terms of changes in surface magnetic moments, showing a possible scaling relationship between adsorption energy and surface magnetic moments. A modified Stoner criterion is formulated for non-magnetic surfaces to discuss the conditions for the appearance of magnetism due to chemisorption on an otherwise non-magnetic surface.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Michael Baumgartner, Katia R. Pfrunder-Cardozo, Alex R. Hall
Summary: Biological invasions can greatly affect ecosystem stability and function. In the mammalian gastrointestinal tract, resident microbial communities play a crucial role in inhibiting invading pathogens like Escherichia coli, with this inhibition being stronger at later time points and influenced by changes in community composition and nutrient availability.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Catherine A. Wakeman, Jessica L. Moore, Michael J. Noto, Yaofang Zhang, Marc D. Singleton, Boone M. Prentice, Benjamin A. Gilston, Ryan S. Doster, Jennifer A. Gaddy, Walter J. Chazin, Richard M. Caprioli, Eric P. Skaar
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2016)
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Oscar D. Ayala, Catherine A. Wakeman, Isaac J. Pence, Jennifer A. Gaddy, James C. Slaughter, Eric P. Skaar, Anita Mahadevan-Jansen
ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2018)
Review
Microbiology
Catherine A. Wakeman, Eric P. Skaar
CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Microbiology
Catherine A. Wakeman, Devin L. Stauff, Yaofang Zhang, Eric P. Skaar
JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
(2014)
Article
Microbiology
Catherine A. Wakeman, Jonathan R. Goodson, Vineetha M. Zacharia, Wade C. Winkler
JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
(2014)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Catherine A. Wakeman, Neal D. Hammer, Devin L. Stauff, Ahmed S. Attia, Laura L. Anzaldi, Sergey I. Dikalov, M. Wade Calcutt, Eric P. Skaar
MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
(2012)
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Genetics & Heredity
Jung-Ho Shin, Catherine A. Wakeman, Jonathan R. Goodson, Dmitry A. Rodionov, Benjamin G. Freedman, Ryan S. Senger, Wade C. Winkler
Review
Microbiology
Karishma Bisht, Jiwasmika Baishya, Catherine A. Wakeman
CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2020)
Review
Microbiology
Jiwasmika Baishya, Karishma Bisht, Jeanette N. Rimbey, Kiddist D. Yihunie, Shariful Islam, Hafij Al Mahmud, Jayc E. Waller, Catherine A. Wakeman
Summary: This review explores how microbial interactions shape host health, with both competitive and cooperative interactions potentially having positive or negative effects on the host.
Article
Microbiology
Hafij Al Mahmud, Jiwasmika Baishya, Catherine A. Wakeman
Summary: Cystic fibrosis patients' lungs facilitate bidirectional nutrient exchange between the dominant pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, potentially promoting their coexistence in the pulmonary microenvironment.
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Chemistry, Analytical
O. D. Ayala, C. A. Wakeman, I. J. Pence, C. M. O'Brien, J. A. Werkhaven, E. P. Skaar, A. Mahadevan-Jansen
ANALYTICAL METHODS
(2017)