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Dr. Swanner’s Microbial Ecology course (MICRO/BIOL/GEOL 487/587) drafted Wikipedia articles as part of a Wiki Education assignment. Topics were environmentally-significant microbial species. Below are some links to a few of the articles:
- Read about the genus Afifella, anaerobic bacteria living in shallow marine and estuarine environments.
- Strains of Acidithrix ferrooxidans oxidize Fe(II) in acidic waters, often where acid mine drainage occurs.
- Thiolava is one of 2018 Species of the Year, and was discovered at a recently erupted underwater volcano.
- Methylomirabilis oxyfera oxidizes methane with nitrite, but only after it produces oxygen from the nitrite.
- Read about symbiosis between the chickpea and Mesorhizobium mediterraneum.
- Methylobacterium extorquans produces volatile carbon compounds that change the way strawberries smell.
- Candidatus Caballeronia kirkii are essential plant symbionts.
- Candidatus Arsenophonus arthropodicus are parasitic to flies!
- The anoxygenic phototrophic sulfide-oxidizing Candidatus Thiodyctyon syntrophicum was enriched from Lake Cadagno.
- The species Salisediminibacterium halotolerans includes a strain isolated from a Mongolian soda lake.
- The first strain of Bosea lupini was isolated from a leguminous plant.
- Nocardiopsis sinuspersici is a spore-forming bacterium first isolated from sandy Iranian soils.
- The bacterial genus Polyprosthecobacterium is gram-negative and found in many environments, including groundwater, seawater, and soils.