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Volume Scanning Electron Microscopy: Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy Focussed Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy
Volume scanning electron microscopy is renewing interest in electron microscopy by offering three dimensional visualisation of biological systems. Two main contributors to this are the Serial Block-Face SEM (S...
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Open AccessCrosstalk between sugarcane and a plant-growth promoting Burkholderia species
Bacterial species in the plant-beneficial-environmental clade of Burkholderia represent a substantial component of rhizosphere microbes in many plant species. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of the ...
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Open AccessInvestigation of a new acetogen isolated from an enrichment of the tammar wallaby forestomach
Forestomach fermentation in Australian marsupials such as wallabies and kangaroos, though analogous to rumen fermentation, results in lower methane emissions. Insights into hydrogenotrophy in these systems cou...
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Isolation and diversity of planctomycetes from the sponge Niphates sp., seawater, and sediment of Moreton Bay, Australia
Planctomycetes are ubiquitous in marine environment and were reported to occur in association with multicellular eukaryotic organisms such as marine macroalgae and invertebrates. Here, we investigate planctomy...
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Cell Compartmentalization and Endocytosis in Planctomycetes: Structure and Function in Complex Bacteria
Planctomycetes are unique among the domain Bacteria in possessing cells with a complex plan defined by internal membranes forming separated compartments within the cell. They also possess other unique features...
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Identification of Yeast Associated with the Planthopper, Perkinsiella saccharicida: Potential Applications for Fiji Leaf Gall Control
Yeasts associate with numerous insects, and they can assist the metabolic processes within their hosts. Two distinct yeasts were identified by PCR within the planthopper Perkinsiella saccharicida, the vector of F...
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Open AccessPhylum Verrucomicrobia representatives share a compartmentalized cell plan with members of bacterial phylum Planctomycetes
The phylum Verrucomicrobia is a divergent phylum within domain Bacteria including members of the microbial communities of soil and fresh and marine waters; recently extremely acidophilic members from hot springs ...
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Anammoxosomes of Anaerobic Ammonium-oxidizing Planctomycetes
Anammoxosomes are unique metabolically significant compartments of planctomycetes performing the anammox process. These bacteria carry out AnaerobicAmmonium Oxidation, a chemolithotrophicand autotrophic metabolis...
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Cell compartmentalisation in planctomycetes: novel types of structural organisation for the bacterial cell
The organisation of cells of the planctomycete species Pirellula marina, Isosphaera pallida, Gemmata obscuriglobus, Planctomyces maris and "Candidatus Brocadia anammoxidans" was investigated based on ultrastruct...
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Isolation and characterization of a Clostridium sp. with cinnamoyl esterase activity and unusual cell envelope ultrastructure
Microorganisms that hydrolyse the ester linkages between phenolic acids and polysaccharides in plant cell walls are potential sources of enzymes for the degradation of lignocellulosic waste. An anaerobic, mes...
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A sponge/dinoflagellate association in the haplosclerid sponge Haliclona sp.: cellular origin of cytotoxic alkaloids by Percoll density gradient fractionation
Light-microscopic and electron-microscopic studies of the tropical marine sponge Haliclona sp. (Order: Haplosclerida; Family: Haliclonidae) from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, have revealed that this sponge is...
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Cellular origin of chlorinated diketopiperazines in the dictyoceratid sponge Dysidea herbacea (Keller)
The tropical marine sponge Dysidea herbacea (Keller) contains the filamentous unicellular cyanobacterium Oscillatoria spongeliae (Schulze) Hauck as an endosymbiont, plus numerous bacteria, both intracellular and ...
