Ok-Sun Kim

TL;DR: It is concluded that the EzTaxon-e database provides a useful taxonomic backbone for the identification of cultured and uncultured prokaryotes and offers a valuable means of communication among microbiologists who routinely encounter taxonomically novel isolates.

TL;DR: This review presents an overview of approaches that have been used for the molecular study of ammonia oxidizers and discusses their application in different environments.

TL;DR: A new library-dependent MST method that uses pyrosequencing-derived shared operational taxonomy units (OTUs) to define sources of fecal contamination in waterways and indicated that analysis of shared OTUs derived from barcoded pyro sequencing reads provide the necessary resolution and discrimination to be useful as a next generation platform for microbial source tracking studies.

TL;DR: It was showed that soil depth and pH were the most important soil properties determining bacterial community structure of the subarctic tundra soil in Council, Alaska.

TL;DR: It is identified that human activity and certain soil characteristics correlate with antibiotic resistance genes in these oligotrophic Antarctic soils and provides a baseline of ARGs and MGEs for future comparisons.