Kai Finster

TL;DR: A new chemolithotrophic bacterial metabolism was discovered in anaerobic marine enrichment cultures and offers an explanation for recent observations of an aerobic sulfide oxidation to sulfate in anoxic sediments.

TL;DR: Strain SB164P1 is the first bacterium described that grows chemolithoautotrophically exclusively by the disproportionation of inorganic sulfur compounds and is proposed to be designated the type strain of Desulfocapsa sulfoexigens sp.

TL;DR: The microbial communities of the ileum and cecum of broiler chickens from a conventional and an organic farm were investigated using conventional culture techniques as well as cloning and sequencing of 16S rRNA genes.

TL;DR: Molecular signatures of organisms present in the transition zone were detected by using selective PCR primers for sulfate-reducing bacteria and for Archaea and revealed that they all belonged to a novel deeply branching lineage of diverse DSR gene sequences not related to any previously described DSR genes.

TL;DR: A quantitative analysis of a potentially large-scale dispersion of thermophilic bacteria in the ocean using a 1.5-million-year fossil record of marine diatoms shows that, even at the largest (global) spatial scale, the dispersal of marine datoms is not very limited.