Our results indicate that, in addition to temperature optima, microbial strategies for kinetic adaptation to temperature dynamics (e.g. circadian temperature cycles) may play a key role in determining microbial fitness in natural environments.
Generation of β-lactamase enzymes is an example of microbial strategy that is responsible for resistance to β-lactam antibiotics [ 152].
A major problem preventing widespread implementation of microbial injection strategies for bioremediation and/or microbially enhanced oil recovery is the tendency of bacteria to strongly adhere to surfaces in the immediate vicinity of the injection point.
Decades of work have produced a considerable knowledge-base for the physiology and pathway engineering of microbes, making microbial engineering an ideal strategy for producing biofuel.
The Census of Marine Life is an international program designed to assess and explain the changes in the biodiversity of the world oceans, using a variety of tools ranging from classical surveys to technologies such as 454 tag sequencing strategy for microbial biodiversity.
Here, we articulate the case for microbial gardening as a strategy for maximising fitness in resident mesopelagic zooplankton, and use a simple food web model to demonstrate that it can be an effective growth strategy.
As such, the ability to switch between ploidy states, via sexual or less conventional mechanisms, may be an important bet-hedging strategy for microbial fitness, particularly in dynamic or fluctuating environments.
Nevertheless, it enables us to examine the potential of microbial gardening as a strategy for maximising the growth of detritivorous zooplankton by varying the fraction of D1 fragmented to D2 during grazing (parameter λ).
The analysis using 16S rRNA genes as a phylogenetic marker was a revolutionary strategy for microbial ecology with cultured-independent method being developed since 90s, after the work of Lane and collaborators [ 44].
Immobilisation of living cells either by physical entrapment in biopolymer networks (e.g. cross-linked or entangled polysaccharide hydrogel systems) or by absorption/attachment in pre-formed carriers and membranes is a well-established strategy for microbial stability in other industries.
