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Fungal and bacterial communities and their associations in snow-free and snow covered (sub-)alpine Pinus cembra forest soils
BackgroundIn Europe, Pinus cembra forests cover subalpine and alpine areas and they are of high conservational and ecological relevance. These...
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Snow Microorganisms Colonise Arctic Soils Following Snow Melt
Arctic soils are constantly subjected to microbial invasion from either airborne, marine, or animal sources, which may impact local microbial...
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Investigating non-fungal eukaryotic diversity in snow in the Antarctic Peninsula region using DNA metabarcoding
Snow is a unique microhabitat, despite being a harsh environment, multiple life forms have adapted to survive in it. While algae, bacteria and fungi...
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Bacteria contribute exopolysaccharides to an algal-bacterial joint extracellular matrix
Marine ecosystems are influenced by phytoplankton aggregation, which affects processes like marine snow formation and harmful events such as marine...
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Fisheries and Aquaculture of Snow Trouts in the Trans-Himalayan Region
The Himalayas play a vital role in the livelihood support of human beings, and the significance of efficiently conserving these diverse natural...
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Particle-associated bacteria differentially influence the aggregation of the marine diatom Minutocellus polymorphus
The aggregation of phytoplankton leads to the settling of particulate organic carbon in the form of marine snow, making it an important process in...
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Fungal diversity in seasonal snow of Martel Inlet, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, assessed using DNA metabarcoding
Antarctic snow represents a microhabitat directly linked with atmospheric precipitation, and through it receives dust, sea spray, organic materials...
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Dyadobacter diqingensis sp. nov., isolated from Baima snow mountain of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, south-west China
A Gram-negative, aerobic, nonmotile, rod-shaped and yellow-pigment-producing bacteria was isolated from Baima snow mountain of Diqing Tibetan...
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Taxonomic diversity and environmental tolerance of cultivable extremophilic bacteria from a high-altitude meltwater pond on Ojos del Salado (Chile)
Earth harbors unique environments where only microorganisms adapted to extreme conditions, known as extremophiles, can survive. This study focused on...
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Whole-genome sequence and mass spectrometry study of the snow blight fungus Phacidium infestans (Karsten) DSM 5139 growing at freezing temperatures
Phacidium infestans (synonym Gremmenia infestans ) is a significant pathogen that impacts Pinus species across the northern regions of Europe and...
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Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria of the Meromictic Lake Bol’shie Khruslomeny (Oleniy Island, Kandalaksha Gulf, Murmansk Oblast, Russia)
Abstract —The composition and structure of the anoxygenic phototrophic bacterial (APB) community in the water column of meromictic Lake Bol’shie...
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Cultivable bacteria in the supraglacial lake formed after a glacial lake outburst flood in northern Pakistan
Recently, a supraglacial lake formed as a result of a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in the Dook Pal Glacier. Lake debris and meltwater samples...
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Cultivable Root-Symbiotic Bacteria of a Pioneer Ericaceous Dwarf Shrub Colonizing Volcanic Deposits and Their Potential to Promote host Fitness
Ericaceous plants (Ericaceae, the heath family) establish complex symbioses with soil-borne microorganisms that facilitate their survival in...
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Soil bacteria mediate organic carbon stability during alpine wetland biogeomorphic succession in the arid region of Central Asia
AimsSoil organic carbon (SOC) stability greatly affects soil carbon sequestration capacity and carbon emissions, is related to soil bacterial...
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Mechanism of d-alanine transfer to teichoic acids shows how bacteria acylate cell envelope polymers
Bacterial cell envelope polymers are often modified with acyl esters that modulate physiology, enhance pathogenesis and provide antibiotic...
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Aerobic bacteria produce nitric oxide via denitrification and promote algal population collapse
Microbial interactions govern marine biogeochemistry. These interactions are generally considered to rely on exchange of organic molecules. Here we...
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Identification of levoglucosan degradation pathways in bacteria and sequence similarity network analysis
Levoglucosan is produced in the pyrolysis of cellulose and starch, including from bushfires or the burning of biofuels, and is deposited from the...
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Inherited chitinases enable sustained growth and rapid dispersal of bacteria from chitin particles
Many biogeochemical functions involve bacteria utilizing solid substrates. However, little is known about the coordination of bacterial growth with...
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Cold-adaptive traits identified by comparative genomic analysis of a lipase-producing Pseudomonas sp. HS6 isolated from snow-covered soil of Sikkim Himalaya and molecular simulation of lipase for wide substrate specificity
The genomic analysis of industrially important bacteria can help in understanding their capability to withstand extreme environments and shed light...
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Autochthonous psychrophilic hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria and its ecological function in contaminated cold environments
Petroleum hydrocarbon (PH) pollution has mostly been caused by oil exploration, extraction, and transportation activities in colder regions,...
