• Ancestral Absence of Electron Transport Chains in Patescibacteria and DPANN 

      Beam J.P., Becraft E.D., Brown J.M., Schulz F., Jarett J.K., Bezuidt O., Poulton N.J., Clark K., Dunfield P.F., Ravin N.V., Spear J.R., Hedlund B.P., Kormas K.A., Sievert S.M., Elshahed M.S., Barton H.A., Stott M.B., Eisen J.A., Moser D.P., Onstott T.C., Woyke T., Stepanauskas R. (2020)
      Recent discoveries suggest that the candidate superphyla Patescibacteria and DPANN constitute a large fraction of the phylogenetic diversity of Bacteria and Archaea. Their small genomes and limited coding potential have ...
    • Characterisation of a ST100 Staphylococcus epidermidis producing an LnuB nucleotidyltransferase: Evidence for interspecies spread of an lnuB-carrying transposon 

      Papagiannitsis C.C., Sarrou S., Tsilipounidaki K., Malli E., Medvecky M., Hrabak J., Fthenakis G.C., Petinaki E. (2018)
      [No abstract available]
    • Environmental impacts of genetically modified plants: A review 

      Tsatsakis A.M., Nawaz M.A., Kouretas D., Balias G., Savolainen K., Tutelyan V.A., Golokhvast K.S., Lee J.D., Yang S.H., Chung G. (2017)
      Powerful scientific techniques have caused dramatic expansion of genetically modified crops leading to altered agricultural practices posing direct and indirect environmental implications. Despite the enhanced yield ...
    • Inactivation, removal, and regrowth potential of opportunistic pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes in recycled water systems 

      Drigo B., Brunetti G., Aleer S.C., Bell J.M., Short M.D., Vasileiadis S., Turnidge J., Monis P., Cunliffe D., Donner E. (2021)
      With two thirds of the global population living in areas affected by water scarcity, wastewater reuse is actively being implemented or explored by many nations. There is a need to better understand the efficacy of recycled ...
    • Insights into the function and horizontal transfer of isoproturon degradation genes (pdmAB) in a biobed system 

      Storck V., Gallego S., Vasileiadis S., Hussain S., Béguet J., Rouard N., Baguelin C., Perruchon C., Devers-Lamrani M., Karpouzas D.G., Martin-Laurent F. (2020)
      Biobeds, designed to minimize pesticide point source contamination, rely mainly on biodegradation processes. We studied the interactions of a biobed microbial community with the herbicide isoproturon (IPU) to explore the ...
    • Metabolic and evolutionary insights in the transformation of diphenylamine by a Pseudomonas putida strain unravelled by genomic, proteomic, and transcription analysis 

      Papadopoulou E.S., Perruchon C., Vasileiadis S., Rousidou C., Tanou G., Samiotaki M., Molassiotis A., Karpouzas D.G. (2018)
      Diphenylamine (DPA) is a common soil and water contaminant. A Pseudomonas putida strain, recently isolated from a wastewater disposal site, was efficient in degrading DPA. Thorough knowledge of the metabolic capacity, ...
    • Recurrent horizontal transfer identifies mitochondrial positive selection in a transmissible cancer 

      Strakova A., Nicholls T.J., Baez-Ortega A., Ní Leathlobhair M., Sampson A.T., Hughes K., Bolton I.A.G., Gori K., Wang J., Airikkala-Otter I., Allen J.L., Allum K.M., Arnold C.L., Bansse-Issa L., Bhutia T.N., Bisson J.L., Blank K., Briceño C., Castillo Domracheva A., Corrigan A.M., Cran H.R., Crawford J.T., Cutter S.M., Davis E., de Castro K.F., De Nardi A.B., de Vos A.P., Delgadillo Keenan L., Donelan E.M., Espinoza Huerta A.R., Faramade I.A., Fazil M., Fotopoulou E., Fruean S.N., Gallardo-Arrieta F., Glebova O., Gouletsou P.G., Häfelin Manrique R.F., Henriques J.J.G.P., Horta R.S., Ignatenko N., Kane Y., King C., Koenig D., Krupa A., Kruzeniski S.J., Lanza-Perea M., Lazyan M., Lopez Quintana A.M., Losfelt T., Marino G., Martínez Castañeda S., Martínez-López M.F., Masuruli B.M., Meyer M., Migneco E.J., Nakanwagi B., Neal K.B., Neunzig W., Nixon S.J., Ortega-Pacheco A., Pedraza-Ordoñez F., Peleteiro M.C., Polak K., Pye R.J., Ramirez-Ante J.C., Reece J.F., Rojas Gutierrez J., Sadia H., Schmeling S.K., Shamanova O., Sherlock A.G., Steenland-Smit A.E., Svitich A., Tapia Martínez L.J., Thoya Ngoka I., Torres C.G., Tudor E.M., van der Wel M.G., Vițălaru B.A., Vural S.A., Walkinton O., Wehrle-Martinez A.S., Widdowson S.A.E., Zvarich I., Chinnery P.F., Falkenberg M., Gustafsson C.M., Murchison E.P. (2020)
      Autonomous replication and segregation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) creates the potential for evolutionary conflict driven by emergence of haplotypes under positive selection for ‘selfish’ traits, such as replicative ...
    • Shotgun metagenomics assessment of the resistome, mobilome, pathogen dynamics and their ecological control modes in full-scale urban wastewater treatment plants 

      Karaolia P., Vasileiadis S., G. Michael S., G. Karpouzas D., Fatta-Kassinos D. (2021)
      The conventional activated sludge (CAS) process has limited capacity to remove pathogenic microorganisms and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), compared to membrane bioreactors (MBRs). However, the full extent of pathogenic ...