Andrew K. Lilley

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that there is a decelerating relationship between community respiration and increasing bacterial diversity, and both synergistic interactions among bacterial species and the composition of the bacterial community are important in determining the level of ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: This is the first report of a diverse family of related syntenic genomic islands with a deep evolutionary origin, and the findings challenge the view that genomic islands consist only of independently evolving modules.

TL;DR: Findings strongly suggest that CFPE do not generally result from increased bacterial density within the airways, and are consistent with alternative models of pulmonary exacerbation.

TL;DR: The findings showed that the temporal scaling exponent (slope), and therefore taxa turnover of the bacterial taxa-time relationship decreased as selective pressure (industrial wastewater concentration) increased and as the concentration of industrial wastewater increased across the bioreactors, a gradual switch from stochastic community assembly to more deterministic (niche)-based considerations was observed.

TL;DR: Bacterial community structure showed that the intensity of impact and the rate of recovery to pre-perturbation structure were dose-dependent and may potentially provide a metric for environmental assessment and regulation.