Jon R. Saunders

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.

TL;DR: A novel optimization algorithm, group search optimizer (GSO), which is inspired by animal behavior, especially animal searching behavior, and has competitive performance to other EAs in terms of accuracy and convergence speed, especially on high-dimensional multimodal problems.

TL;DR: The presence of methanogenic bacteria was assessed in peat and soil cores taken from upland moors and formed two clusters on the end of long branches within the methanogen radiation that are distinct from each other.

TL;DR: Experimental results indicate that the PSO with passive congregation improves the search performance on the benchmark functions significantly and can be used to improve the performance of standard PSO.

TL;DR: These studies have confirmed the previous observations that meningococcal pili are glycosylated and provided the first structural evidence for the presence of covalently linked carbohydrate on pili, and revealed a completely novel protein/saccharide linkage.