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The 2014 Golden Gate National Parks Bioblitz - Data Management and the Event Species List Achieving a Quality Dataset from a Large Scale Event
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Stewardship and Science The 2014 Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz - Data Management and the Event Species List Achieving a Quality Dataset from a Large Scale Event Natural Resource Report NPS/GOGA/NRR—2016/1147 ON THIS PAGE Photograph of BioBlitz participants conducting data entry into iNaturalist. Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service. ON THE COVER Photograph of BioBlitz participants collecting aquatic species data in the Presidio of San Francisco. Photograph courtesy of National Park Service. The 2014 Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz - Data Management and the Event Species List Achieving a Quality Dataset from a Large Scale Event Natural Resource Report NPS/GOGA/NRR—2016/1147 Elizabeth Edson1, Michelle O’Herron1, Alison Forrestel2, Daniel George3 1Golden Gate Parks Conservancy Building 201 Fort Mason San Francisco, CA 94129 2National Park Service. Golden Gate National Recreation Area Fort Cronkhite, Bldg. 1061 Sausalito, CA 94965 3National Park Service. San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory & Monitoring Program Manager Fort Cronkhite, Bldg. 1063 Sausalito, CA 94965 March 2016 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado, publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics. These reports are of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate comprehensive information and analysis about natural resources and related topics concerning lands managed by the National Park Service. -
Genomic Encyclopedia of Sugar Utilization Pathways in The
Rodionov et al. BMC Genomics 2010, 11:494 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/494 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Genomic encyclopedia of sugar utilization pathways in the Shewanella genus Dmitry A Rodionov1,2, Chen Yang1,3, Xiaoqing Li1, Irina A Rodionova1, Yanbing Wang4, Anna Y Obraztsova4,7, Olga P Zagnitko5, Ross Overbeek5, Margaret F Romine6, Samantha Reed6, James K Fredrickson6, Kenneth H Nealson4,7, Andrei L Osterman1,5* Abstract Background: Carbohydrates are a primary source of carbon and energy for many bacteria. Accurate projection of known carbohydrate catabolic pathways across diverse bacteria with complete genomes constitutes a substantial challenge due to frequent variations in components of these pathways. To address a practically and fundamentally important challenge of reconstruction of carbohydrate utilization machinery in any microorganism directly from its genomic sequence, we combined a subsystems-based comparative genomic approach with experimental validation of selected bioinformatic predictions by a combination of biochemical, genetic and physiological experiments. Results: We applied this integrated approach to systematically map carbohydrate utilization pathways in 19 genomes from the Shewanella genus. The obtained genomic encyclopedia of sugar utilization includes ~170 protein families (mostly metabolic enzymes, transporters and transcriptional regulators) spanning 17 distinct pathways with a mosaic distribution across Shewanella species providing insights into their ecophysiology and adaptive evolution. Phenotypic -
A Taxonomic Framework for Emerging Groups of Ecologically
Spring S, Scheuner C, Göker M, Klenk H-P. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Frontiers in Microbiology 2015, 6, 281. Copyright: Copyright © 2015 Spring, Scheuner, Göker and Klenk. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. DOI link to article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00281 Date deposited: 07/03/2016 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Newcastle University ePrints - eprint.ncl.ac.uk ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 09 April 2015 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00281 A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data Stefan Spring 1*, Carmen Scheuner 1, Markus Göker 1 and Hans-Peter Klenk 1, 2 1 Department Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany, 2 School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Edited by: Marcelino T. Suzuki, Sorbonne Universities (UPMC) and In recent years a large number of isolates were obtained from saline environments that are Centre National de la Recherche phylogenetically related to distinct clades of oligotrophic marine gammaproteobacteria, Scientifique, France which were originally identified in seawater samples using cultivation independent Reviewed by: Fabiano Thompson, methods and are characterized by high seasonal abundances in coastal environments. -
Wolbachia, an Intracellular Symbiont, Manipulates Bacterial Diversity in Its Insect Host
microorganisms Article Influential Insider: Wolbachia, an Intracellular Symbiont, Manipulates Bacterial Diversity in Its Insect Host Morgane Ourry 1,* , Agathe Crosland 2, Valérie Lopez 2, Stéphane A. P. Derocles 2, Christophe Mougel 1, Anne-Marie Cortesero 2 and Denis Poinsot 2 1 Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP), INRAE, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes, F-35650 Le Rheu, France; [email protected] 2 Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP), INRAE, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes, F-35000 Rennes, France; [email protected] (A.C.); [email protected] (V.L.); [email protected] (S.A.P.D.); [email protected] (A.-M.C.); [email protected] (D.P.) * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Facultative intracellular symbionts like the α-proteobacteria Wolbachia influence their insect host phenotype but little is known about how much they affect their host microbiota. Here, we quantified the impact of Wolbachia infection on the bacterial community of the cabbage root fly Delia radicum by comparing the microbiota of Wolbachia-free and infected adult flies of both sexes. We used high-throughput DNA sequencing (Illumina MiSeq, 16S rRNA, V5-V7 region) and performed a community and a network analysis. In both sexes, Wolbachia infection significantly decreased the diversity of D. radicum bacterial communities and modified their structure and composition by reducing abundance in some taxa but increasing it in others. Infection by Wolbachia was negatively Citation: Ourry, M.; Crosland, A.; correlated to 8 bacteria genera (Erwinia was the most impacted), and positively correlated to Providen- Lopez, V.; Derocles, S.A.P.; Mougel, cia and Serratia. -
A Novel Protein Kinase-Like Domain in a Selenoprotein, Widespread in the Tree of Life
A Novel Protein Kinase-Like Domain in a Selenoprotein, Widespread in the Tree of Life Małgorzata Dudkiewicz3, Teresa Szczepin´ ska1, Marcin Grynberg2, Krzysztof Pawłowski1,3* 1 Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 2 Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Abstract Selenoproteins serve important functions in many organisms, usually providing essential oxidoreductase enzymatic activity, often for defense against toxic xenobiotic substances. Most eukaryotic genomes possess a small number of these proteins, usually not more than 20. Selenoproteins belong to various structural classes, often related to oxidoreductase function, yet a few of them are completely uncharacterised. Here, the structural and functional prediction for the uncharacterised selenoprotein O (SELO) is presented. Using bioinformatics tools, we predict that SELO protein adopts a three-dimensional fold similar to protein kinases. Furthermore, we argue that despite the lack of conservation of the ‘‘classic’’ catalytic aspartate residue of the archetypical His-Arg-Asp motif, SELO kinases might have retained catalytic phosphotransferase activity, albeit with an atypical active site. Lastly, the role of the selenocysteine residue is considered and the possibility of an oxidoreductase-regulated kinase function for SELO is discussed. The novel kinase prediction is discussed in the context of functional data on SELO orthologues in model organisms, FMP40 a.k.a.YPL222W (yeast), and ydiU (bacteria). Expression data from bacteria and yeast suggest a role in oxidative stress response. Analysis of genomic neighbourhoods of SELO homologues in the three domains of life points toward a role in regulation of ABC transport, in oxidative stress response, or in basic metabolism regulation. -
Network Analysis of Ten Thousand Genomes Shed Light on Pseudomonas
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.16.456539; this version posted August 16, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 1 Network analysis of ten thousand genomes shed light on Pseudomonas 2 diversity and classification 3 Hemanoel Passarelli-Araujo1,2,*, Glória Regina Franco1, Thiago M. Venancio2,* 4 1Departamento De Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto De Ciências Biológicas, UniversiDaDe FeDeral De 5 Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 6 2Laboratório De Química e Função De Proteínas e PeptíDeos, Centro De Biociências e Biotecnologia, 7 UniversiDaDe EstaDual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. 8 9 *CorresponDing authors 10 Av. Alberto Lamego 2000, P5 sala 217; Parque Califórnia 11 Campos Dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil 12 CEP: 28013-602 13 HPA: [email protected]; TMV: [email protected] bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.16.456539; this version posted August 16, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 14 SUMMARY 15 The growth of sequenceD bacterial genomes has revolutionizeD the assessment of microbial 16 diversity. Pseudomonas is a wiDely diverse genus, comprising isolates associateD with processes 17 from pathogenesis to biotechnological applications. -
The Cause of Death of a Child in the 18Th Century Solved by Bone Microbiome Typing Using Laser Microdissection and Next Generation Sequencing
International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article The Cause of Death of a Child in the 18th Century Solved by Bone Microbiome Typing Using Laser Microdissection and Next Generation Sequencing Valeria D’Argenio 1,2, Marielva Torino 3, Vincenza Precone 1, Giorgio Casaburi 1,†, Maria Valeria Esposito 1, Laura Iaffaldano 1, Umberto Malapelle 4, Giancarlo Troncone 4, Iolanda Coto 1,2, Paolina Cavalcanti 5, Gaetano De Rosa 6, Francesco Salvatore 1,7,* and Lucia Sacchetti 1,* 1 CEINGE-Biotecnologie Avanzate, via G. Salvatore 486, 80145 Naples, Italy; [email protected] (V.D.); [email protected] (V.P.); [email protected] (G.C.); [email protected] (M.V.E.); [email protected] (L.I.); [email protected] (I.C.) 2 Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy 3 Department of Paleopathology, University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, via Suor Orsola 10, 80125 Naples, Italy; [email protected] 4 Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy; [email protected] (U.M.); [email protected] (G.T.) 5 Microbiology Unit, Hospital of Cosenza, via San Martino, 87100 Cosenza, Italy; [email protected] 6 Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy; [email protected] 7 IRCCS (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico)-Fondazione SDN, via Gianturco 113, 80143 Naples, Italy * Correspondence: [email protected] (F.S.); [email protected] (L.S.); Tel.: +39-081-746-3648 (F.S.); +39-081-373-7827 (L.S.); Fax+39-081-746-3133 (F.S.); +39-081-373-7808 (L.S.) † Present address: Life Sciences Lab, University of Florida, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, FL 32953, USA. -
A Taxonomic Framework for Emerging Groups of Ecologically Important
ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 09 April 2015 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00281 A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data Stefan Spring 1*, Carmen Scheuner 1, Markus Göker 1 and Hans-Peter Klenk 1, 2 1 Department Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany, 2 School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Edited by: Marcelino T. Suzuki, Sorbonne Universities (UPMC) and In recent years a large number of isolates were obtained from saline environments that are Centre National de la Recherche phylogenetically related to distinct clades of oligotrophic marine gammaproteobacteria, Scientifique, France which were originally identified in seawater samples using cultivation independent Reviewed by: Fabiano Thompson, methods and are characterized by high seasonal abundances in coastal environments. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, To date a sound taxonomic framework for the classification of these ecologically Brazil important isolates and related species in accordance with their evolutionary relationships Jose M. Gonzalez, University of La Laguna, Spain is missing. In this study we demonstrate that a reliable allocation of members of the *Correspondence: oligotrophic marine gammaproteobacteria (OMG) group and related species to higher Stefan Spring, taxonomic ranks is possible by phylogenetic analyses of whole proteomes but also Department Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of of the RNA polymerase beta subunit, whereas phylogenetic reconstructions based Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, on 16S rRNA genes alone resulted in unstable tree topologies with only insignificant Inhoffenstr. 7 B, 38124 Braunschweig, bootstrap support. The identified clades could be correlated with distinct phenotypic Germany [email protected] traits illustrating an adaptation to common environmental factors in their evolutionary history.