Nevertheless, different bacterial species may be doing similar jobs in different ... and not every body site contained members of all the major groups, or phyla, of bacteria known to colonize the ...

This combined computational and geological approach allowed researchers to build a detailed timeline, estimating when different bacterial groups developed the ability to use oxygen for respiration.

Microbial communities consist of groups of microorganisms ... alone or be put in a series (e.g., such as a train with ...

Microbial communities are groups of microorganisms that share a common living space. The microbial populations that form the community can interact in different ways, for example as predators and ...

Tiedje also found that the microbes were active ... "I believe this occurred because the deep soil is such a different environment, and this group of organisms has evolved over a long period of time ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

Soil is probably the most complex and heterogeneous microbial habitat on earth. The diversity of soil microbial communities exceeds that of other environments. Soil metagenomics is a cultivation ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Assistant Professor Elizabeth ...