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Ok-Sun Kim
Microbiology
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Environmental Adaptation of Psychrophilic Bacteria Subtercola spp. Isolated from Various Cryospheric Habitats
Subtercola boreus K300T is a novel psychrophilic strain that was isolated from permanently cold groundwater in Finland and has also been found in several places in Antarctica including lake, soil, and rocks. We p...
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Glaciers as microbial habitats: current knowledge and implication
Glaciers, formed from the gradual accumulation of snow, can be continuous records representing past environments and recognized as a time capsule of our planetary evolution. Due to extremely harsh conditions, ...
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Bacterial diversity in ornithogenic soils compared to mineral soils on King George Island, Antarctica
In the Narębski Point area of King George Island of Antarctica, ornithogenic soils form on land under Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguin rookeries. The purpose of this study was to compare the bacterial community co...
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Comparative approach to capture bacterial diversity of coastal waters
Despite the revolutionary advancements in DNA sequencing technology and cultivation techniques, few studies have been done to directly compare these methods. In this study, a 16S rRNA gene-based, integrative a...
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Open AccessPhylogenetic and functional marker genes to study ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) in the environment
The oxidation of ammonia plays a significant role in the transformation of fixed nitrogen in the global nitrogen cycle. Autotrophic ammonia oxidation is known in three groups of microorganisms. Aerobic ammonia...
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Open AccessCommunity analysis of betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing bacteria using the amoCAB operon
The genes and intergenic regions of the amoCAB operon were analyzed to establish their potential as molecular markers for analyzing ammonia-oxidizing betaproteobacterial (beta-AOB) communities. Initially, sequenc...
