This is a descriptive study of a series of laboratory exercises on environmental microbiology carried out by students in a general microbiology course during eight of the twelve weeks of the semester. The revised laboratory component is predicated upon seawater and sediment samples collected by student pairs using marine sampling equipment on a field trip aboard a research vessel. Two longitudi...

Marine bacterial communities are resistant to elevated carbon dioxide levels. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6 (6). The NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. Summary 31 It is well established that the release of anthropogenic derived ...

Biogeosciences Discussions is the access reviewed discussion forum of Biogeosciences Availability of phosphate for phytoplankton and bacteria and of labile organic carbon for bacteria at different pCO2 levels in a mesocosm study T. Tanaka, T. F. Thingstad, T. Løvdal, H.-P. Grossart, A. Larsen, K. G. Schulz, and U. Riebesell Marine Microbiology Res. Group (MMRG), Dept. of Biology, Univ. Bergen, ...

The articles in this special issue attest to the fact that we are in the early stages of a scientific revolution in marine microbiology that is being fueled by vast quantities of new information derived from advances in microbiological techniques and genomic studies. Many new species, metabolic processes, and pathways in marine systems have recently been discovered. Subtle metabolic variations ...

8 Hui Wang, Haywood D Laughinghouse IV, Matthew A. Anderson, Feng Chen, Ernest 9 Willliams, Allen R. Place, Odi Zmora, Yonathan Zohar, Tianling Zheng 10 and Russell T. Hill 11 12 Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for 13 Environmental Science; University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA; 14 Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education ...

In 2006, the first isolate of KPC-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the world was identified in Colombia. Recently, similar strains have been reported in Puerto Rico. We now report KPC-2-producing P. aeruginosa in Trinidad and Tobago. Surveillance for similar strains is warranted, considering their wide geographic spread and known association with mobile genetic elements.

Iridescent color appearances are widespread in nature. They arise from the interaction of light with micron- and submicron-sized physical structures spatially arranged with periodic geometry and are usually associated with bright angle-dependent hues. Iridescence has been reported for many animals and marine organisms. However, iridescence has not been well studied in bacteria. Recently, we rep...