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Koch's Postulates — Then and Now
This story begins in the early 1880s. The germ theory of disease was fairly well established, although some experts continued to challenge it. For example, Theodor Billroth (1829–1894) of Vienna, often called the founding father of abdominal surgery, did not immediately accept the germ theory, bu...
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Nitrifiers: More than 100 Years from Isolation to Genome Sequences
About 8 × 1013 g of industrially produced nitrogen enter the biogeochemical cycle each year. Nitrification, denitrification, and nitrogen fixation are the major bacterially mediated processes moving inorganic nitrogen through this cycle (Fig. 1). During nitrification, reduced inorganic...
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Outside Forces Helped Shape the Thermotoga Metagenome
The genomes of bacteria are dynamic —subject to homologous recombination, gene duplication and loss, and lateral gene transfer (LGT). Given these dynamics, even closely related microorganisms with identical 16S rRNA sequences can prove to be extraordinarily diverse structurally and to contain lar...
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