Knowing the Tree's structure has given biologists the ability to characterize the complex array of microbial populations that live in us and on us, and investigate how they contribute to health and disease.
With the advent of new molecular sequencing techniques, it is easier to understand how the immune system of vertebrates is, to a great extent, orchestrated by the complex microbial communities that live in symbiosis with their hosts.
After studying 137 varieties collected in 10 countries, Dutton has identified three general types of microbial communities that live on cheese, opening the door to using each as a model for the study of whether and how various microbes and fungi compete or cooperate as they form communities, as well as what molecules and mechanisms are involved in the process.
The facility will dramatically increase the capacity of researchers in the state to collect, use and analyze microbiome specimens bacteria and microbial organisms that live on and within humans, which are increasingly recognized as playing a role in health and disease.
Templeton took up the study of the ecology and chemistry of microbial communities that live on the flanks of submarine volcanoes.
Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.
To get a better idea of the sorts of microbial communities that live on marine plastic pollutants, Dr. Leong and Emily Curren, a PhD student with the NUS Faculty of Science, collected microplastics from the beaches and coastal regions of Singapore during six months between April and July 2018.
Scientists studying the microbial communities that live in and on the human body -- the human microbiome -- are examining the role of microbes in many different areas of human health: obesity, digestive diseases, esophageal cancer, psoriasis, and sexually transmitted diseases, among others.
Most plants have endophytes, microbial organisms that live within them.
As a result, the microbial communities that live in the spaces we build — homes, schools, trains — are a reflection of the people who pass through them.
