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A 2016 paper by Brent Stephens [7] highlights some of the key findings of studies of "microbiomes of the indoor environment". These key findings include those listed below: "Culture-independent methods reveal vastly greater microbial diversity compared to culture-based methods" "Indoor spaces often harbor unique microbial communities"
In 2016, the journal Microbiome published a collection of various works studying the microbial ecology of the built environment. [68] A 2006 study of pathogenic bacteria in hospitals found that their ability to survive varied by the type, with some surviving for only a few days while others survived for months. [69]
Chemolithoautotrophic bacteria derive nutrients and energy from the geological activity at Hydrothermal vents to fix carbon into organic forms. Viruses are also a part of the hydrothermal vent microbial community and their influence on the microbial ecology in these ecosystems is a burgeoning field of research. [1]
Schematic of the microbial loop. Changes in the biodiversity of an ecosystem, whether marine or terrestrial, may affect its efficiency and function. Climate change or other anthropogenic perturbations can decrease productivity and disrupt global biogeochemical cycles.
Singh graduated with a PhD from Imperial College, London, in 2003. After working for about ten years in Scotland, working at the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen from 2002 to 2010, Singh moved to WSU in 2010, where he worked at various positions until 2015, [1] when he became the director of its the Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation. [8]
These examples demonstrate the importance of microbial symbioses for the functioning of ocean ecosystems. Understanding symbioses with this same level of detail in the context of complex communities (i.e., whole microbiomes) remains ripe for exploration and, indeed, requires a more integrated framework from the fields of microbiology ...
Organisms evolve within ecosystems so that the change of one organism affects the change of others. The hologenome theory of evolution proposes that an object of natural selection is not the individual organism, but the organism together with its associated organisms, including its microbial communities.
Environmental models: Within the animal kingdom, and in addition to corals and sponges, the discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents revealed symbioses of animals with chemosynthetic bacteria that have later been found in many other marine ecosystems [34] [35] and frequently exhibit high levels of metabolic and taxonomic diversity.