The calculative nature of microbial biofilms and bioaggregatesInternational Microbiology - Tập 5 - Trang 107-116 - 2002
Douglas E. Caldwell
Biological proliferation is optimized at various levels of organization, including the molecule (e.g. nucleic acids, prions), the cell (e.g. prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells), and the community (e.g. microbial biofilms, bioaggregates). Although it was initially assumed that this occurred through the genesis of information within DNA alone, it now appears that innovative design originates at ot...... hiện toàn bộ
Searching for life in the Universe: unconventional methods for an unconventional problemInternational Microbiology - Tập 5 - Trang 223-230 - 2002
K. Nealson, A. Tsapin, M. Storrie-Lombardi
The search for life, on and off our planet, can be done by conventional methods with which we are all familiar. These methods are sensitive and specific, and are often capable of detecting even single cells. However, if the search broadens to include life that may be different (even subtly different) in composition, the methods and even the approach must be altered. Here we discuss the developmen...... hiện toàn bộ
Roger Yate Stanier, 1916–1982: a transcendent journeyInternational Microbiology - Tập 4 - Trang 59-66 - 2001
Alexander N. Glazer
The Tenth International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes (Barcelona, 26–31 August 2000) was the latest in a series of conferences initiated by Roger Stanier in 1971 to create ties within the community of scientists working with cyanobacteria or green and purple bacteria. Consonant with Stanier's own work, the subjects of these conferences range broadly from systematics and ecology through ge...... hiện toàn bộ
Speciation of termite gut protists: the role of bacterial symbiontsInternational Microbiology - Tập 4 - Trang 203-208 - 2001
Michael F. Dolan
At least 12 termite gut protists have been named because of their bacterial symbionts. Dozens more species are diagnosed by epi- and endosymbionts and more still have regular bacterial associations referred to in their species description. Molecular systematic studies have begun to identify these bacteria, but the ecological relations with their protist bionts are still unknown. Recent findings o...... hiện toàn bộ