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Werner Liesack
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 142
Citations - 16618
Werner Liesack is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Methane monooxygenase & Methanotroph. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 136 publications receiving 15329 citations. Previous affiliations of Werner Liesack include University of Queensland & University of Marburg.
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The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoA as a functional marker: molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations.
TL;DR: The data suggest that amoA represents a very powerful molecular tool for analyzing indigenous ammonia-oxidizing communities due to (i) its specificity, (ii) its fine-scale resolution of closely related populations, and (iii) the fact that a functional trait rather than a phylogenetic trait is detected.
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Diversity and structure of the methanogenic community in anoxic rice paddy soil microcosms as examined by cultivation and direct 16S rRNA gene sequence retrieval.
TL;DR: A dual approach consisting of cultivation and molecular retrieval of partial archaeal 16S rRNA genes was carried out to characterize the diversity and structure of the methanogenic community inhabiting the anoxic bulk soil of flooded rice microcosms.
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Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia
Peter F. Dunfield,Anton Yuryev,Pavel Senin,Pavel Senin,Angela V Smirnova,Matthew B. Stott,Shaobin Hou,Shaobin Hou,Binh Ly,Binh Ly,Jimmy H. Saw,Zhemin Zhou,Yan Ren,Jianmei Wang,Bruce W. Mountain,Michelle A. Crowe,Tina M. Weatherby,Paul L. E. Bodelier,Werner Liesack,Lu Feng,Lei Wang,Maqsudul Alam,Maqsudul Alam +22 more
TL;DR: The findings show that methanotrophy in the Bacteria is more taxonomically, ecologically and genetically diverse than previously thought, and that previous studies have failed to assess the full diversity of meethanotrophs in acidic environments.
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Microbiology of flooded rice paddies
TL;DR: This review presents the current knowledge about the highly complex microbiology of flooded rice paddies and describes the predominant microbial groups and their function with particular regard to bacterial populations utilizing polysaccharides and simple sugars, and to the methanogenic archaea.
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Occurrence of novel groups of the domain Bacteria as revealed by analysis of genetic material isolated from an Australian terrestrial environment.
Werner Liesack,Erko Stackebrandt +1 more
TL;DR: A molecular ecological study was performed on an Australian soil sample to unravel a substantial portion of the bacterial diversity, revealing the presence of three major groups of prokaryotes of the domain Bacteria.