A5070188363- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Gut microbiota and health
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
Sun Yat-sen University
2018-2025
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)
2020-2025
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai)
2023-2024
Anhui Medical University
2015-2024
Washington University in St. Louis
2015-2020
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
2012-2018
ETH Zurich
2012-2018
Shenzhen University
2011-2015
81th Hospital of PLA
2014
UV irradiation and chlorination have been widely used for water disinfection. However, there are some limitations, such as the risk of generating viable but nonculturable bacteria reactivation when using or alone. This study comprehensively evaluated feasibility UV/chlorine process in drinking disinfection, Pseudomonas aeruginosa was selected target microorganism. The number culturable cells effectively reduced by more than 5 orders magnitude (5-log10) after UV, chlorine, treatments. intact...
Abstract Background Phosphorus (P) is one of the most essential macronutrients on planet, and microorganisms (including bacteria archaea) play a key role in P cycling all living things ecosystems. However, our comprehensive understanding genes (PCGs) (PCMs) as well their ecological functions remains elusive even with rapid advancement metagenome sequencing technologies. One major challenges lack accurately annotated functional gene database. Results In this study, we constructed well-curated...
Abstract Background Mangrove ecosystems are considered as hot spots of biogeochemical cycling, yet the diversity, function and coupling mechanism microbially driven cycling along sediment depth mangrove wetlands remain elusive. Here we investigated vertical profile methane (CH 4 ), nitrogen (N) sulphur (S) genes/pathways their potential mechanisms using metagenome sequencing approaches. Results Our results showed that metabolic pathways involved in CH , N S were mainly shaped by pH acid...
Abstract Mangrove roots harbor a repertoire of microbial taxa that contribute to important ecological functions in mangrove ecosystems. However, the diversity, function, and assembly root-associated communities along continuous fine-scale niche remain elusive. Here, we applied amplicon metagenome sequencing investigate bacterial fungal among four compartments (nonrhizosphere, rhizosphere, episphere, endosphere) roots. We found different distribution patterns for both all root compartments,...
Abstract Microorganisms play important roles in the biogeochemical cycling of sulphur (S), an essential element Earth's biosphere. Shotgun metagenome sequencing has opened a new avenue to advance our understanding S microbial communities. However, accurate metagenomic profiling communities remains technically challenging, mainly due low coverage and inaccurate definition gene families public orthology databases. Here we developed manually curated database (SCycDB) profile functional genes...
Clarifying mechanisms underlying the ecological succession of gut microbiota is a central theme ecology. Under experimental manipulations zebrafish hatching and rearing environments, we test our core hypothesis that host development will overwhelm environmental dispersal in governing fish microbial community due to genetics, immunology, nutrient niches. We find developmental stage substantially explains succession, whereas effects do not significantly affect from larvae adult fish. The...
Methane is a critical greenhouse gas with significant impacts on environmental and global change. However, CH4 cycling processes coupling mechanisms the biogeochemical of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur metals in environment remain elusive. To fill such knowledge gaps, we constructed manually curated methane database (MCycDB) for comprehensive accurate analysis microbial communities. MCycDB contains 298 gene families covering 10 metabolism pathways 610,208 representative sequences, associated...
Nano- and microplastics have become a serious global concern, threatening our living environments. Previous studies shown that many organisms, including bacteria, animals, plants, can be affected by microplastics. However, little is known about one ecologically important group of soil the protists. In this study, we investigated how polystyrene micro- nanoplastics interacted with amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. The results showed environmental concentrations nano- could negatively affect...
Understanding the microbial community assembly is an essential topic in ecology. Coastal wetlands are important blue carbon sink, where microbes play a key role biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and energy transformation. However, drivers controlling distribution patterns bacterial archaeal communities coastal wetland unclear. Here we examined diversity, co-occurrence network, processes environmental from inshore to offshore sediments by sequencing 16S rRNA gene amplicons. The value α-...
Mangrove ecosystems are globally recognized for their blue carbon (C) sequestration capacity. Lignocellulosic detritus constitutes the primary C input to mangrove sediments, but microbial processes involved in its bioprocessing remain unclear. Using lignocellulosic analysis and metagenomic sequencing across five 100-cm sediment cores, we found a high proportion of lignin (95.0–97.7%) within sediments' detritus, with small fraction lignin-degrading genes (1.24–1.98%) carbohydrate-active...
Long before bacteria infected humans, they amoebas, which remain a potentially important reservoir for human disease. Diverse soil amoebas including Dictyostelium and Acanthamoeba can host intracellular bacteria. Though the internal environment of free-living is similar in many ways to that mammalian macrophages, differ number ways, temperature. A new study PLOS Biology by Taylor-Mulneix et al. demonstrates Bordetella bronchiseptica has two different gene suites are activated depending on...
Recent symbioses, particularly facultative ones, are well suited for unravelling the evolutionary give and take between partners. Here we look at variation in natural isolates of social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum their relationships with bacterial symbionts, Burkholderia hayleyella agricolaris. Only about a third field-collected amoebae carry symbiont. We cured cross-infected hosts different symbiont association histories then compared host responses to each type. Before curing, clones...