Sentence examples for microbial survey from inspiring English sources

Six years ago, molecular studies had indicated the microbial marine world was more diverse than expected, but "we were blown away by what the data told us," recalls Mitch Sogin, a molecular biologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who co-led a microbial survey.

Ravel's idea is strengthened by microbial survey data from human vaginal bacterial communities from women across different ethnic groups.

To illustrate the utility of TopiaryExplorer we applied it to a microbial survey of the hands and keyboards of three individuals (Fierer et al., 2010).

Our results from this genomic microbial survey demonstrate a significant difference in the microbiomes of children versus adults at body sites relevant to infections and inflammatory skin diseases.

The hygienic working practices of the maintenance personnel as well as the hygiene of the equipment in the food industry were investigated with questionnaires and microbial surveys.

Because of the differing rates at which the fish, benthic, and microbial surveys could be conducted, not all groups were characterized at each site.

As the scope of microbial surveys expands with the parallel growth in sequencing capacity, a significant bottleneck in data analysis is the ability to generate a biologically meaningful multiple sequence alignment.

Microbial surveys, done as part of the Census project Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems, showed relatively higher abundance (up to 105 CFU (colony forming units)L−1) of nitrifiers and manganese- and cobalt-tolerant bacteria, synchronizing with relatively high methane and metal concentrations at potential locations along the Carlsberg and North Central Indian Ridges [49].

Molecular microbial surveys based on 16S rRNA gene have been adopted to study the phylogenetic diversity in different extreme environments [ 10– 10].

Third, most oral microbial surveys that enumerated 16 S sequences of PCR-amplicons have ignored potential PCR artifacts [ 16- 19]; as a result, a comprehensive and accurate organismal landscape of most oral microbiomes, particularly those related to diseases, remained largely elusive.

Both DGGE and pyrosequencing of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes, however, showed that the structures of the microbial communities surveyed were minimally affected by the method of DNA extraction (Figures 3 through5).