Bärbel U. Foesel

TL;DR: Upon both acid and base hydrolyses of total cell material, the uncommon membrane-spanning lipid 13,16-dimethyl octacosanedioic acid (iso-diabolic acid) was released in substantial amounts (22 to 43% of the total fatty acids) from all of the acidobacteria studied.

TL;DR: Genomic analyses showed that certain species are specific to the mouse intestine and that a minimal consortium of 18 strains covered 50–75% of the known functional potential of metagenomes, which will sustain future research on microbiota–host interactions in health and disease.

TL;DR: Edaphic properties, such as pH, organic carbon, total nitrogen, C/N ratio, phosphorus, nitrate, ammonium, soil moisture, soil temperature, and soil respiration, had an impact on community composition as assessed by fingerprinting, but interrelations with environmental parameters among subgroup terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) differed significantly, e.g., different Gp1 T- RFs correlated positively or negatively with nitrogen content.

TL;DR: After accounting for heterogeneity resulting from large scale differences among sampling locations and land-use types, soil properties still explain significant proportions of variation in fungal and soil fauna abundance or diversity, but soil biota was also related to processes that act at larger spatial scales and bacteria or soil yeasts only showed weak relationships to soil properties.

TL;DR: A member of Acidobacteria subdivision 4, strain A2-16(T), was isolated from a semiarid savanna soil and proposed as a new species of a novel genus, Blastocatella fastidiosa gen. nov.