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This section aims to publish studies looking at all aspects of ecological and evolutionary microbiology, including microbial ecology, ecosystems, biodiversity, evolution, population genetics, phylogenetics, microbial communities and biofilms, marine and freshwater microbiology.
Research article
G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of transmembrane receptors in fungi, where they play important roles in signal transduction. Among them, the Pth11-related GPCRs form a large and dive...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:166
Published on: 25 July 2017
Research article
Intramuscular fat (IMF) that deposits among muscle fibers or within muscle cells is an important meat quality trait in pigs. Previous studies observed the effects of dietary nutrients and additives on improvin...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:162
Published on: 19 July 2017
Research article
Gut microbiota plays an important role in the harvesting, storage, and expenditure of energy obtained from one’s diet. Our cross-sectional study aimed to identify differences in gut microbiota according to bod...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:151
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research article
The importance of upper airway structure in the susceptibility of the lower respiratory tract to colonization with potential pathogens is well established. With the advent of rapid, high throughput, next gener...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:138
Published on: 23 June 2017
Research article
With the growing demand for fossil fuels and the severe energy crisis, lignocellulose is widely regarded as a promising cost-effective renewable resource for ethanol production, and the use of lignocellulose r...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:129
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research article
In drug-drug interactions, there are surprising cases in which the growth inhibition of bacteria by a single antibiotic decreases when a second antibiotic is added. These interactions are termed suppressive an...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:107
Published on: 6 May 2017
Research article
Here, we aimed to investigate the effects of ensiled mulberry leaves (EML) and sun-dried mulberry fruit pomace (SMFP) on fecal bacterial communities in Simmental crossbred finishing steers. To this end, the st...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:97
Published on: 21 April 2017
Research article
The nitrogen (N) cycle consists of complex microbe-mediated transformations driven by a variety of factors, including diversity and concentrations of N compounds. In this study, we examined taxonomic diversity...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:87
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Establishing an optimal proportion of nitrifying microbial populations, including ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), complete nitrite oxidizers (comammox) and ammonia-oxidizing...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:85
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Staphylococcus aureus more than any other human pathogen is a better model for the study of the adaptive evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, as it has demonstrated a rema...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:83
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
The nasopharyngeal (NP) microbiota plays an important role in bovine health, comprising a rich and diverse microbial community. The nasopharynx is also the niche for potentially pathogenic agents which are ass...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:70
Published on: 22 March 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2017 17:95
Research article
The study aimed at enumerating, identifying and categorizing the endophytic cultivable bacterial community in selected salad vegetables (carrot, cucumber, tomato and onion). Vegetable samples were collected fr...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:64
Published on: 14 March 2017
Research article
Present study focuses on diversity and distribution analysis of endophytic fungi associated with different tissues of the Monarda citriodora Cerv. ex Lag. (Lamiaceae/Labiatae). Anticancer and antimicrobial potent...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:44
Published on: 7 March 2017
Research article
Natural transformation enables acquisition of adaptive traits and drives genome evolution in prokaryotes. Yet, the selective forces responsible for the evolution and maintenance of natural transformation remai...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:34
Published on: 15 February 2017
Researc article
Unconventional natural gas (UNG) extraction (fracking) is ongoing in 29 North American shale basins (20 states), with ~6000 wells found within the Fayetteville shale (north-central Arkansas). If the chemical s...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:29
Published on: 3 February 2017
Software
Gene knockouts are a common tool used to study gene function in various organisms. However, designing gene knockouts is complicated in viruses, which frequently contain sequences that code for multiple overlap...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:12
Published on: 7 January 2017
Research article
While recent advances in next generation sequencing technologies have enabled researchers to readily identify countless microbial species in soil, rhizosphere, and phyllosphere microbiomes, the biological func...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:4
Published on: 5 January 2017
Research article
During chronic lung infections of cystic fibrosis patients Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations undergo extensive evolutionary diversification. However, the selective drivers of this evolutionary process are poorly...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:3
Published on: 5 January 2017
Research article
Previous studies on the bacteria associated with the bryophytes showed that there were abundant bacteria inhabited in/on these hosts. However, the type of bacteria and whether these discriminate between differ...
BMC Microbiology 2016 16:276
Published on: 16 November 2016
Methodology article
Currently, bacterial 16S rRNA gene analyses are based on sequencing of individual variable regions of the 16S rRNA gene (Kozich, et al Appl Environ Microbiol 79:5112–5120, 2013).This short read approach can intro...
BMC Microbiology 2016 16:274
Published on: 14 November 2016
