Volume 93, Issue 6, June 2017

The authors assess evidence that certain mycorrhizal fungi may produce resistant propagules that remain viable for hundreds to thousands of years before colonising host plants, this is the ‘paleosymbiosis hypothesis’.

Growth and BAM-degrading activity of Aminobacter sp. MSH1 invading a microbial community from a drinking water biofilter unit was studied at micropollutant BAM concentrations in C-limiting conditions.

This study attempts to discuss the distribution and abundance of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and their contribution to total organic carbon pool in the groundwater-surface water exchange system of subtropical karst catchments, Southwest China.

Larger granules harbor more diverse microbial communities.

While elevated seawater temperatures may diminish carbon accumulation at the sediment surface, the anoxic conditions in coastal sediments can provide carbon protection under warming temperatures, thus promoting carbon storage.

Variations of prokaryotic communities caused by water table drawdown in peatlands are depth-dependent and possibly predictive.

Bacterial assemblages reflect high connectivity to the sea in an inland coastal lake system in north-western Australia.

Comparisons between free-living and particle-attached bacterial communities in diversity, their relationships with environmental factors and the assembly processes were investigated in this paper.

Cryoconite bacterial community exhibited significant differences among glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, interaction between geographic distance and environmental variables driven regional beta- diversity, environmental variables contributed more than geographic distance.

Symbiotic fungi living inside of a grass species alters the response of soil fungi and bacteria to precipitation.

Bacterial diversity, taxonomic characterisation and comparison of the gill mucus bacterial communities of four Indo-Pacific butterflyfish species.

Diploptera punctata females and their corresponding developing embryos differ in microbiota composition.

The manuscript presents the first evidence of polyphosphate-accumulating bacterial community associated with the tissue of a terrestrial animal described in the calcium bodies—specialized organs for calcium storage in terrestrial isopod crustaceans.

When given excess glucose, rumen ciliates responded by storing it (synthesizing reserve carbohydrate), but bacteria responded largely by burning off the excess as heat (spilling energy).

Our results show the diversity of Lupinus luteus root nodule symbionts in Northern Tunisia, where most of the strains are within the Bradyrhizobium canariense/B. lupini lineages, widely described as microsymbionts of Old World Lupinus; and the remaining strains belong to two minority groups never identified as L. luteus endosymbionts, one corresponding to a new clade of Bradyrhizobium and the other to the genus Microvirga.

We tested environmentally isolated Vibrio vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus isolates for the presence of virulence markers and found that pathogenic subpopulations do not necessarily reflect total species abundance and correlation patterns.

Thraustochytrids were found to be dominant in heterotrophic microbial communities in the coastal water of southern China with novel molecular diversity.

A disease currently affecting Geodia barretti populations in the Norwegian fjords causes a distinct shift in the microbiome of affected sponges.

Long-term enrichment of sludge with CO as the sole carbon and energy source selected for species within the genera Acetobacterium, Oscillospira and Pleomorphomonas, and for Desulfovibrio when CO₂ was an additional carbon source.

The cyanobacterial population in the Negev is sensitive not only to macroscale factors but also local climate variations, and 4 years was insufficient for complete recovery after disturbance.