Flashcards: Environmental microbiology

A biofilm is any group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often these cells adhere to a surface.

Methanogens are microorganisms that produce methane as a metabolic byproduct in anoxic conditions.

The gut–brain axis is the biochemical signaling that takes place between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system.

Microbiology of decomposition is the study of all microorganisms (mainly bacteria and fungi) involved in decomposition, the chemical and physical processes during which organic matter is broken down and reduced to its original elements.

Solemyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine protobranch bivalve mollusks in the order Solemyoida.

Phycisphaerae is a class of aquatic bacteria Containing a single order Phycisphaerales.

Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa, previously cyanobacterium UCYN-A, is a species of non-photosynthetic nitrogen-fixing marine cyanobacteria that lacks the oxygen-producing photosystem II complex of the photosynthetic apparatus, the Carboxysome, enzymes of the Calvin and tricarboxylic acid cycles, as well as several enzymes involved in amino acid synthesis.

is a bioinformatics software, the name is an abbreviation for phylogenetic investigation of communities by reconstructionof unobserved states.

CAMERA, or the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, is an online cloud computing service that provides hosted software tools and a high-performance computing infrastructure for the analysis of metagenomic data.

Candidatus Brocadia fulgida is a bacterial species that performs the anammox process.

Prochlorococcus is a genus of very small (0.6 µm) marine cyanobacteria with an unusual pigmentation (chlorophyll b).

Acaryochloris marina is a symbiotic species of the phylum Cyanobacteria that produces chlorophyll d, allowing it to use far-red light, at 710 nm wavelength.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology.

"Candidatus Scalindua" is a bacterial genus, member of the order Planctomycetes.

"Candidatus Scalindua brodae" is a bacterial member of the order Planctomycetes and therefore lacks peptidoglycan in its cell wall, has a compartmentalized cytoplasm.

Candidatus Scalindua wagneri is a Gram-negative coccoid-shaped bacterium that was first isolated from a wastewater treatment plant.