Roger W. Pickup

TL;DR: This review provides an outline of the main methods used in molecular microbial ecology, and their limitations, with reference to morphologically distinctive, uncultivated bacteria; an important biotechnological process (wastewater treatment); and symbiotic relationships between Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya.

TL;DR: The presence of methanogenic bacteria was assessed in peat and soil cores taken from upland moors and formed two clusters on the end of long branches within the methanogen radiation that are distinct from each other.

TL;DR: The development of optimized sample processing and DNA extraction procedures with fresh human intestinal mucosal biopsy specimens which ensure access to M. paratuberculosis DNA and maximize detection of these low-abundance pathogens are described.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided to support the hypothesis that the aquaculture and human compartments of the environment behave as a single interactive compartment and that related tetracycline resistance-encoding plasmids have disseminated between differentAeromonas species and E. coli and between the human and Aquaculture environments in distinct geographical locations.

TL;DR: A critical inter-disciplinary review of recent advances of research centred on the hyporheic zone (HZ) and highlights the current state of knowledge regarding hydrological, biogeochemical and ecohydrological process understanding is presented in this article.