Respirometry, which is widely used for the monitoring of oxygen uptake in different biochemical processes provides a procedure to assess the state of microbial activity and is used for the determination of the parameters of microbial kinetic models including the characterization of wastewater and activated sludge (Marsili and Tabani 2002; Young and Cowan 2004).
Models including microbial agents measurements were additionally adjusted for season of dust sampling.
Research supports the generality of the principle in numerous plant, microbial, invertebrate, and vertebrate models, including humans, while being independent of the end point measured and chemical class assessed.
The recent release provides 100 human tissue-specific models including normal, cancer and curated models and five human-related microbial GEMs as shown in Table 2.
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To further characterize the CRISPR technology, we present current applications of these tools in microbial systems, including model- and non-model industrial microorganisms.
Most microbial species, including model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, possess genetic capability to utilize many alternative nutrient sources.
For this reason, the anti-bacterial activities of wound dresses were investigated against model microbial species, including Escherichia coli (Gram-negative) and Staphylococcus aureus (Gram-positive), through the following method.
The model included the main microbial processes driving groundwater acidification as well as mineral dissolution.
The key microbial processes accounted for in the modeling included ammonification, aerobic heterotrophic growth, nitrification and algal growth.
