The increasing anthropogenic pressures, particularly from industries and activities like intensive aquaculture affect marine benthic ecosystems. This context requires immediate implementation of frequent and effective ...

Several studies have shown that a bacteria’s development of resistance to an antimicrobial substance often comes with a cost related to their general fitness and adaptation to environmental changes. Further research is ...

Class IIa bacteriocins are Antimicrobial peptides found in many lactic acid bacteria. Here they serve as a weapon against competing bacteria by causing cell leakage through pore-formation in the membrane. An immunity protein ...

Background With the emergence of Oxford Nanopore technology, now the on-site sequencing of 16S rRNA from environments is available. Due to the error level and structure, the analysis of such data demands some database of ...

Denitrification allows sustained respiratory metabolism during periods of anoxia, an advantage in soils with frequent anoxic spells. However, the gains may be more than evened out by the energy cost of producing the ...

The aim of this project was to investigate to what extent some machine learning methods are able to classify chromosome reads from plasmid reads based on K-mer statistics. Both short Illumina HiSeq 2500 reads and medium-length ...