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Aurelija Samuiloviene, Marco Bartoli, Stefano Bonaglia, Ulisse Cardini, Irma Vybernaite-Lubiene, Ugo Marzocchi, Jolita Petkuviene, Tobia Politi, Anastasija Zaiko and Mindaugas Zilius
The combination of biogeochemical methods and molecular techniques has the potential to uncover the black-box of the nitrogen (N) cycle in bioturbated sediments. Advanced biogeochemical methods allow the quantification of the process rates of different m...
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Zhuoran Li, Yushan Li, Wentao Zhu, Xiangbo Liu, Rou-Wen Chen, Aimin Wang and Xiubao Li
Coral?s susceptibility to bleaching is determined by the strength of the intricate mutual relationships among coral symbionts. However, there is limited knowledge about how the symbiotic members of the scleractinian coral Echinopora gemmacea respond to c...
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Susanna Gorrasi, Angelika Brandt, Francesca Pittino, Andrea Franzetti, Marcella Pasqualetti, Barbara Muñoz-Palazon, Giorgia Novello and Massimiliano Fenice
The Kuril?Kamchatka Trench (North-West Pacific Ocean) is included in the deepest trenches (>9000 m). This study is the first that aims at uncovering the bathyal prokaryotic diversity (1000?2000 m) of this fascinating extreme environment. The analysis of ...
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Simone Becarelli, Giacomo Bernabei, Giovanna Siracusa, Diego Baderna, Monica Ruffini Castiglione, Giampiero De Simone and Simona Di Gregorio
To accelerate the depletion of total petroleum hydrocarbons, a hydrocarburoclastic ascomycetes, Lambertella sp. MUT 5852, was bioaugmented to dredged sediments co-composting with a lignocellulosic matrix. After only 28 days of incubation, a complete depl...
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Ivan Sazykin, Ludmila Khmelevtsova, Tatiana Azhogina and Marina Sazykina
The increasing rate of natural resource use leads to an increase in the anthropogenic load on the soil. As the result of industrial, metallurgical and mining activities, excessive amounts of heavy metals (HMs) enter the soil. In addition, they can be int...
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Jianhua Kang, Hala F. Mohamed, Xinming Liu, Lulu Pei, Shuhong Huang, Xiangyuan Lin, Xinqing Zheng and Zhaohe Luo
Cyanobacteria occupy an extraordinarily diverse array of ecological niches in coral reefs because they play multifaceted roles, including primary carbon and nitrogen fixation, calcification, nutrient cycling, and oxygen production, as well as coral reef ...
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Chuanqi Jiang, Bin Liu, Jing Zhang, Siyu Gu, Zhencheng Liu, Xueyan Wang, Kai Chen, Jie Xiong, Yishan Lu and Wei Miao
Ciliates are fundamental components of microzooplankton, with important ecological roles. However, ciliate communities are particularly difficult to monitor using conventional morphological approaches. New molecular tools, such as DNA metabarcoding, can ...
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Kyoko Yarimizu, So Fujiyoshi, Mikihiko Kawai, Luis Norambuena-Subiabre, Emma-Karin Cascales, Joaquin-Ignacio Rilling, Jonnathan Vilugrón, Henry Cameron, Karen Vergara, Jesus Morón-López, Jacquelinne J. Acuña, Gonzalo Gajardo, Oscar Espinoza-González, Leonardo Guzmán, Milko A. Jorquera, Satoshi Nagai, Gemita Pizarro, Carlos Riquelme, Shoko Ueki and Fumito Maruyama
Harmful algae blooms (HABs) cause acute effects on marine ecosystems due to their production of endogenous toxins or their enormous biomass, leading to significant impacts on local economies and public health. Although HAB monitoring has been intensively...
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Valeria Specchia, Eftychia Tzafesta, Gabriele Marini, Salvatore Scarcella, Simona D?Attis and Maurizio Pinna
The use of molecular tools (DNA barcoding and metabarcoding) for the identification of species and ecosystem biomonitoring is a promising innovative approach. The effectiveness of these tools is, however, highly dependent on the reliability and coverage ...
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