The Dark Side of Microbial Processes: Accumulation of Nitrate During Storage of Surface Water in the Dark and the Underlying Mechanism

Microbial communities play an essential role in maintaining a healthy aquatic ecosystem. For example, in surface water reservoirs, microorganisms produce oxygen, break down toxic contaminants, and remove excess nitrogen.

Spatial and Temporal Constraints on the Composition of Microbial Communities in Subsurface Boreholes of the Edgar Experimental Mine

The Edgar Experimental Mine, Idaho Springs, CO, provides inexpensive and open access to borehole investigations for subsurface microbiology studies. Understanding how microbial processes in the near subsurface are connected to surface hydrological influences is lacking.

Draft Genome Sequences of Enterobacter spp., Lelliottia spp., and Serratia spp., Coliform Bacteria from Drinking Water Reservoirs and Lakes

Surface waters are a major source for drinking water production. Therefore, it is essential to examine microbial processes within the water bodies, such as mass proliferations of coliform bacteria. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of Enterobacter spp., Lelliottia spp., and Serratia spp. isolated from drinking water reservoirs and lakes.

Metagenomes, metatranscriptomes and microbiomes of naturally decomposing deadwood

Deadwood represents significant carbon (C) stock in a temperate forests. Its decomposition and C mobilization is accomplished by decomposer microorganisms – fungi and bacteria – who also supply the foodweb of commensalist microbes. Due to the ecosystem-level importance of deadwood habitat as a C and nutrient stock with significant nitrogen fixation, the deadwood microbiome composition and function are critical to understanding the microbial processes related to its decomposition. We present a comprehensive suite of data packages obtained through environmental DNA and RNA sequencing from natural deadwood. Data provide a complex picture of the composition and function of microbiome on decomposing trunks of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in a natural forest. Packages include deadwood metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, sequences of total RNA, bacterial genomes resolved from metagenomic data and the 16S rRNA gene and ITS2 metabarcoding markers to characterize the bacterial and fungal communities. This project will be of use to microbiologists, environmental biologists and biogeochemists interested in the microbial processes associated with the transformation of recalcitrant plant biomass.