Publications by authors named "F Smedile"
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- The artificial solar saltworks fields of Hon Khoi in southern Vietnam are crucial for industry and biodiversity, characterized by extreme conditions like high salinity and intense UV radiation.
- A metabarcoding study was conducted to analyze the unique prokaryotic communities in these saltworks, comparing them with other saline environments in northern Vietnam and Italy.
- Findings revealed significant structural instability in prokaryotic communities due to pond reuse, but also identified specific ultra-small prokaryotic clades unique to Hon Khoi, highlighting the need for further research to explore their ecological and potential biotechnological roles.
DNA methylation serves a variety of functions across all life domains. In this study, we investigated archaeal methylomics within a tripartite xylanolytic halophilic consortium. This consortium includes Haloferax lucertense SVX82, Halorhabdus sp.
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- * Researchers studied 78 Antarctic fish to check for microplastic contamination over time.
- * Results show more synthetic fibers now than in 1998, likely due to increased human activity, which stresses the need for better environmental care.
Varunaivibrio type strain TC8 is a mesophilic, facultatively anaerobic, facultatively chemolithoautotrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from a sulfidic shallow-water marine gas vent located at Tor Caldara, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy. belongs to the family within the Alphaproteobacteria, with as its closest relative. The genome of encodes the genes involved in sulfur, thiosulfate and sulfide oxidation, as well as nitrate and oxygen respiration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtremely halophilic representatives of the phylum Nanohaloarchaeota (members of the DPANN superphyla) are obligately associated with extremely halophilic archaea of the phylum (according to the GTDB taxonomy). Using culture-independent molecular techniques, their presence in various hypersaline ecosystems around the world has been confirmed over the past decade. However, the vast majority of nanohaloarchaea remain uncultivated, and thus their metabolic capabilities and ecophysiology are currently poorly understood.
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