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Rules Of Engagement: Interspecies Interactions That Regulate Microbial Communities, Ainslie Little, Courtney Robinson, S Peterson, Kenneth Raffa, Jo Handelsman
Rules Of Engagement: Interspecies Interactions That Regulate Microbial Communities, Ainslie Little, Courtney Robinson, S Peterson, Kenneth Raffa, Jo Handelsman
Department of Biology Faculty Publications
Microbial communities comprise an interwoven matrix of biological diversity modified by physical and chemical variation over space and time. Although these communities are the major drivers of biosphere processes, relatively little is known about their structure and function, and predictive modeling is limited by a dearth of comprehensive ecological principles that describe microbial community processes. Here we discuss working definitions of central ecological terms that have been used in various fashions in microbial ecology, provide a framework by focusing on different types of interactions within communities, review the status of the interface between evolutionary and ecological study, and highlight important …
Isolation And Characterization Of Vibrio Tubiashii Outer Membrane Proteins And Determination Of A Toxr Homolog, Broderick Eribo
Isolation And Characterization Of Vibrio Tubiashii Outer Membrane Proteins And Determination Of A Toxr Homolog, Broderick Eribo
Department of Biology Faculty Publications
Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) expressed by Vibrio tubiashii under different environmental growth conditions were characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, N-terminal amino acid sequencing, and PCR analyses. Results showed the presence of a 38- to 40-kDa OmpU-like protein and ompU gene, a maltoporin-like protein, several novel OMPs, and a regulatory toxR homolog.