Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release
Emerging products of biotechnology involve the release of living genetically modified microbes (GMMs) into the environment. However, regulatory cha…
Tag: Soil microbiology
Two-tiered mutualism improves survival and competitiveness of cross-feeding soil bacteria
Metabolic cross-feeding is a pervasive microbial interaction type that affects community stability and functioning and directs carbon and energy fl…
Nitrogen transfer and cross-feeding between Azotobacter chroococcum and Paracoccus aminovorans promotes pyrene degradation
Nitrogen is a limiting nutrient for degraders function in hydrocarbon-contaminated environments. Biological nitrogen fixation by diazotrophs is a n…
Protistan predation selects for antibiotic resistance in soil bacterial communities
Understanding how antibiotic resistance emerges and evolves in natural habitats is critical for predicting and mitigating antibiotic resistance in …
Land use conversion increases network complexity and stability of soil microbial communities in a temperate grassland
Soils harbor highly diverse microbial communities that are critical to soil health, but agriculture has caused extensive land use conversion result…
Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula
Ice-free terrestrial environments of the western Antarctic Peninsula are expanding and subject to colonization by new microorganisms and plants, wh…
Microbial drivers of DMSO reduction and DMS-dependent methanogenesis in saltmarsh sediments
Saltmarshes are highly productive environments, exhibiting high abundances of organosulfur compounds. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is produced…
Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
The soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum acts as both a predator and potential host for diverse bacteria. We tested fifteen Pseudomonas
Selection and enrichment of microbial species with an increased lignocellulolytic phenotype from a native soil microbiome by activity-based probing
Multi-omic analyses can provide information on the potential for activity within a microbial community but often lack specificity to link functions…