Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "microbial ecology"
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Carbon fixation by basalt-hosted microbial communities
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)Oceanic crust is a massive potential habitat for microbial life on Earth, yet our understanding of this ecosystem is limited due to difficulty in access. In particular, measurements of rates of microbial activity are sparse. ... -
Carbon fixation by basalt-hosted microbial communities
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)Oceanic crust is a massive potential habitat for microbial life on Earth, yet our understanding of this ecosystem is limited due to difficulty in access. In particular, measurements of rates of microbial activity are sparse. ... -
Characterizing the distribution and rates of microbial sulfate reduction at Middle Valley hydrothermal vents
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)Few studies have directly measured sulfate reduction at hydrothermal vents, and relatively little is known about how environmental or ecological factors influence rates of sulfate reduction in vent environments. A better ... -
Characterizing the Distribution and Rates of Microbial Sulfate Reduction at Middle Valley Hydrothermal Vents
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013-02-28)Few studies have directly measured sulfate reduction at hydrothermal vents, and relatively little is known about how environmental or ecological factors influence rates of sulfate reduction in vent environments. A better ... -
Community-level cohesion without cooperation
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2016)Recent work draws attention to community-community encounters ('coalescence') as likely an important factor shaping natural ecosystems. This work builds on MacArthur’s classic model of competitive coexistence to investigate ... -
Expression and Putative Function of Innate Immunity Genes under In Situ Conditions in the Symbiotic Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae
(Public Library of Science, 2012)The relationships between hydrothermal vent tubeworms and sulfide-oxidizing bacteria have served as model associations for understanding chemoautotrophy and endosymbiosis. Numerous studies have focused on the physiological ... -
Reprograming of gut microbiome energy metabolism by the FUT2 Crohn's disease risk polymorphism
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)Fucosyltransferase 2 (FUT2) is an enzyme that is responsible for the synthesis of the H antigen in body fluids and on the intestinal mucosa. The H antigen is an oligosaccharide moiety that acts as both an attachment site ...