Tag: environmental microbiology

Researchers in Australia have characterized phage Ptero and a family of thirteen minimalist bacteriophages whose stripped-down infection machinery reveals the ...

A 40-day column experiment shows that a bentonite seepage-control layer can cut antibiotic transport by nearly half and block antibiotic ...

A new study of an acid mine drainage-impacted river shows that rare prokaryotic taxa, though nearly invisible, occupy keystone positions ...

A controlled 147-day study at a Portuguese wastewater treatment plant shows that operating activated sludge systems at 5 degrees Celsius ...

Researchers combined filter mating with nanopore selective sequencing to recover over 600 conjugative plasmid sequences from a full-scale wastewater treatment ...

A metagenomic study of Chinese forest soils finds that removing leaf litter changes soil nutrients but leaves antibiotic resistance genes ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed BTEXgenie, a curated hidden Markov model-based tool that dramatically improves substrate-specific annotation of ...

A new study finds that over 60 percent of E. coli isolates from drinking water sources along Sri Lanka's Upper ...

In the vast expanse of geological time, Earth's early environment was a stark contrast to the life-supporting planet we inhabit ...

In a significant advancement in the field of environmental microbiology, researchers have turned their attention to the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus ...