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Ian M. Head
Researcher at Newcastle University
Publications - 235
Citations - 19416
Ian M. Head is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbial fuel cell & Petroleum. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 235 publications receiving 17303 citations. Previous affiliations of Ian M. Head include University of Manchester & Royal Dutch Shell.
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Biological activity in the deep subsurface and the origin of heavy oil
TL;DR: Most of the world's oil was biodegraded under anaerobic conditions, with methane, a valuable commodity, often being a major by-product, which suggests alternative approaches to recovering the world' vast heavy oil resource that otherwise will remain largely unproduced.
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Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data
Christopher Quince,Anders Lanzén,Thomas P. Curtis,Russell J. Davenport,Neil Hall,Ian M. Head,L Fiona Read,William T. Sloan +7 more
TL;DR: An algorithm is presented, PyroNoise, that clusters the flowgrams of 454 pyrosequencing reads using a distance measure that models sequencing noise and infers the true sequences in a collection of amplicons.
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Marine microorganisms make a meal of oil
TL;DR: That the globe is not swamped with oil is testament to the efficiency and versatility of the networks of microorganisms that degrade hydrocarbons, some of which have recently begun to reveal the secrets of when and how they exploit Hydrocarbons as a source of carbon and energy.
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Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure.
TL;DR: It is shown that the relative abundance and frequency with which different taxa are observed in samples can be explained by a neutral community model (NCM), which suggests that chance and immigration are important forces in shaping the patterns seen in prokaryotic communities.
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Microbial Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology: A Decade of Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Uncultivated Microorganisms
TL;DR: This review provides an outline of the main methods used in molecular microbial ecology, and their limitations, with reference to morphologically distinctive, uncultivated bacteria; an important biotechnological process (wastewater treatment); and symbiotic relationships between Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya.