-
Article
Open AccessEffects of timber harvesting on the genetic potential for carbon and nitrogen cycling in five North American forest ecozones
Forest ecosystems are critical to global biogeochemical cycles but under pressure from harvesting and climate change. We investigated the effects of organic matter (OM) removal during forest harvesting on the ...
-
Article
Open AccessA metagenomic survey of forest soil microbial communities more than a decade after timber harvesting
The scarcity of long-term data on soil microbial communities in the decades following timber harvesting limits current understanding of the ecological problems associated with maintaining the productivity of m...
-
Article
Open AccessProceedings of the Canadian society of allergy and clinical immunology annual scientific meeting 2015
A1 Role of fibrocytes in allergic rhinitis
-
Article
Open AccessDefoliation of interior Douglas-fir elicits carbon transfer and stress signalling to ponderosa pine neighbors through ectomycorrhizal networks
Extensive regions of interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, IDF) forests in North America are being damaged by drought and western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis). This damage is res...
-
Article
The essential role of nitrogen limitation in expression of xplA and degradation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) in Gordonia sp. strain KTR9
Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) is a widely used explosive and a major soil and groundwater contaminant. Organisms such as Gordonia sp. KTR9, capable of degrading RDX and using it as an N source, ma...
-
Article
Open AccessThe early life gut microbiota and atopic disease
-
Article
Open AccessThe impact of the intestinal microbiome on human immune development and atopic disease
-
Article
Open AccessBiosynthesis of storage compounds by Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 and global identification of genes involved in their metabolism
Members of the genus Rhodococcus are frequently found in soil and other natural environments and are highly resistant to stresses common in those environments. The accumulation of storage compounds permits cells ...
-
Chapter
Assessment of Microbial Phylogenetic Diversity Based on Environmental Nucleic Acids
“It is a Golden Age for the discovery of new organisms and for achieving a better understanding of the global ecosystem, which is, after all, based upon the microbial world” (Hugenholtz and Pace 1996). These sent...
-
Chapter
Biodegradation and Bioremediation of Halogenated Organic Compounds
Halo-organic compounds are among the most problematic pollutants. The relatively great electronegativity of halogens often confers chemical stability to halo-organic compounds, thereby making these compounds r...
-
Protocol
The Isolation of DNA Sequences Flanking Tn5 Transposon Insertions by Inverse PCR
Because of its versatility, the Tn5 transposon has become a powerful tool in the classical genetic studies of Gram-negative bacteria. The Tn5 transposon is functional in a broad range of Gram-negative bacteria...
-
Article
Purification, characterization and gene sequence analysis of a novel cytochrome c co-induced with reductive dechlorination activity in Desulfomonile tiedjei DCB-1
The sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulfomonile tiedjei DCB-1, conserves energy for growth from reductive dechlorination of 3-chlorobenzoate via halorespiration. To understand this respiratory process better, we ex...
-
Article
Indirect bioremediation: biodegradation of hydrocarbons on a commercial sorbent
Urea-formaldehyde polymer is currently used as asorbent for containment and clean up of hydrocarbons. The aerobic biodegradability of this polymer andhydrocarbons sorbed to the polymer were tested. Soilmicroor...
-
Article
Evidence for chemiosmotic coupling of reductive dechlorination and ATP synthesis in Desulfomonile tiedjei
Desulfomonile tiedjei (strain DCB-1) was previously shown to conserve energy for growth from reductive dechlorination of 3-chlorobenzoate coupled to formate oxidation. We tested the hypothesis that a chemiosmoti...
-
Article
Strain DCB-1 conserves energy for growth from reductive dechlorination coupled to formate oxidation
Strain DCB-1 is a strict anaerobe capable of the reductive dechlorination of chlorobenzoates. The effect of dechlorination on the yield of pure cultures of DCB-1 was tested. Cultures were incubated with format...
