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Karen Tait
Researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Publications - 56
Citations - 3062
Karen Tait is an academic researcher from Plymouth Marine Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quorum sensing & Benthic zone. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 51 publications receiving 2691 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Tait include University of Edinburgh & University of Birmingham.
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The interaction of phage and biofilms.
TL;DR: Although phage have been proposed as a means of destroying or controlling biofilms, the technology for this has not yet been successfully developed.
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Cell-to-Cell Communication Across the Prokaryote-Eukaryote Boundary
Ian Joint,Karen Tait,Maureen E. Callow,James A. Callow,Debra L. Milton,Paul Williams,Miguel Cámara +6 more
TL;DR: Bacteria are capable of complex assemblage behavior through cell-to-cell communication using diffusible chemical signal molecules that accumulate to a threshold concentration that activates target genes, but this process, termed “quorum sensing,” has not been shown to cross the prokaryote barrier.
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Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storage
Jerry Blackford,Henrik Stahl,Jonathan M. Bull,Benoit Bergès,Melis Cevatoglu,Anna Lichtschlag,Douglas P. Connelly,Rachael H. James,Jun Kita,D. Long,Mark Naylor,Kiminori Shitashima,Dave Smith,Peter Taylor,Ian C. Wright,Maxine Akhurst,Baixin Chen,Thomas M. Gernon,Chris Hauton,Masatoshi Hayashi,Hideshi Kaieda,Timothy G. Leighton,Toru Sato,Martin Sayer,Masahiro Suzumura,Karen Tait,Mark E. Vardy,Paul R. White,Steve Widdicombe +28 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the detectability and environmental impact of leakage from a controlled sub-seabed release of CO2 and show that the biological impact and footprint of this small leak analogue (<1 tonne CO2 d−1) is confined to a few tens of metres.
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Disruption of quorum sensing in seawater abolishes attraction of zoospores of the green alga Ulva to bacterial biofilms.
TL;DR: The production and destruction of AHLs in biofilms of the AHL-producing marine bacterium, Vibrio anguillarum and their stability in seawater are investigated and it is shown that spores settle directly on bacterial cells and in particular on microcolonies which are sites of concentrated AHL production.
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Cross-kingdom signalling: exploitation of bacterial quorum sensing molecules by the green seaweed Ulva.
TL;DR: It has been demonstrated that the detection of AHLs results in calcium influx into the zoospore, the first example of a calcium signalling event in a eukaryote in response to bacterial quorum sensing molecules.