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Cryosphere: a frozen home of microbes and a potential source for drug discovery
The world is concerned about the emergence of pathogens and the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance among pathogens. Drug development...
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Tracing hotspots of soil erosion in high mountain environments: how forensic science based on plant eDNA can lead the way. An opinion
High mountain environments are among the most fragile on Earth. Due to anthropogenic disturbances and the exposure to extreme weather events, the...
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Oceanobacter mangrovi Sp. Nov., a Novel Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate Accumulating Bacterium Isolated from Mangrove Sediment
A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, motile, mesophilic, and aerobic bacterial strain, designated SM2-42 T was isolated from a mangrove sediment....
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Broad diversity of bacteria degrading 17ß-estradiol-3-sulfate isolated from river sediment and biofilm at a wastewater treatment plant discharge
Conjugated estrogens, such as 17β-estradiol-3-sulfate (E2-3S), can be released into aquatic environments through wastewater treatment plants (WWTP)....
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Conclusions on the Impacts of Logging at Danum
During logging, road and skid trail crossings of streams acted as key points of sediment input to stream channels. Slope stability was disturbed in...
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Flexitraits, Natural Chemical Tracers of Plant Competition and Productivity in Pacific Mangroves
Metabolomic and genomic markers in plants have helped diagnose evolutionary pressures and resulting modern-day floristic diversification. Here we use...
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Bacterial community structure and diversity along the halocline of Tyro deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin
PurposeTyro is a deep hypersaline anoxic basin (DHAB) located at the seafloor of the Eastern Mediterranean sea. Tyro hosts a stratified eukaryotic...
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The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation
Since the initial identification of the Denisovans a decade ago, only a handful of their physical remains have been discovered. Here we analysed...
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Extreme Events and the Dynamics of Logged Catchments
Physical phenomena and the activities of forest organisms lead to two kinds of erosive response to timber harvesting in the rainforest: immediate...
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Combining Isotopic Techniques to Assess Historical Sediment Delivery in a Forest Catchment in Central Chile
The purpose of this research was to determine the historical evolution of different sources of sediment by land uses in a forest catchment, through...
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Leaf anatomy and dereplication by FIA-ESI-IT-MS/MS of secondary metabolites of Clusia criuva Cambess as an integrative approach to assess the environmental status of coastal plain forests
The increasing development of industry, ports, tourism, and commerce along the coasts poses a severe threat to local forests due to elevated levels...
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Characterization of new diesel-degrading bacteria isolated from freshwater sediments
As the result of diesel’s extensive production and use as fuel for transportation, pollution with such complex mixtures of hydrocarbons is a major...
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Brevibacterium limosum sp. nov., Brevibacterium pigmenatum sp. nov., and Brevibacterium atlanticum sp. nov., three novel dye decolorizing actinobacteria isolated from ocean sediments
During a study of the marine actinobacterial biodiversity, a large number of Brevibacterium strains were isolated. Of these, five that have...
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Sources and Fate of Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment
The sources, levels, and fate of organic contaminants of major concern in the marine environment are reviewed. Spatial distributions among the...
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Why the geosciences are becoming increasingly vital to the interpretation of the human evolutionary record
Advanced geoscience techniques are essential to contextualize fossils, artefacts and other archaeologically important material accurately and...
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Molecular Tools for Monitoring and Validating Bioremediation
BioremediationBioremediation may be defined as the mechanism by which a biological agent (e.g., microbesMicrobes, fungiFungi, plants, and...
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Diversity and enzymatic potential of thermophilic bacteria associated with terrestrial hot springs in Algeria
This study aims to determine the diversity of culturable thermophilic bacteria isolated from eight terrestrial hot springs in Northeastern of Algeria...
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Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and multi-SIR profiles of soil microbial communities from a karst doline at Aggtelek National Park, Hungary
Soils play an important role in the ecosystem of karstic landscapes both as a buffer zone and as a source of acidity to belowground water. Although...
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Survival strategies of aerobic methanotrophs under hypoxia in methanogenic lake sediments
BackgroundMicrobial methane oxidation, methanotrophy, plays a crucial role in mitigating the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane from...
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MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry–based identification of Eurotiales from different substrates and locations in Brazil
We used matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) fingerprinting to identify 95 strains of Aspergillus...
