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| Title |
Engineering microbial consortia to enhance biomining and bioremediation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00203 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karl D. Brune, Travis S. Bayer |
| Abstract |
In natural environments microorganisms commonly exist as communities of multiple species that are capable of performing more varied and complicated tasks than clonal populations. Synthetic biologists have engineered clonal populations with characteristics such as differentiation, memory, and pattern formation, which are usually associated with more complex multicellular organisms. The prospect of designing microbial communities has alluring possibilities for environmental, biomedical, and energy applications, and is likely to reveal insight into how natural microbial consortia function. Cell signaling and communication pathways between different species are likely to be key processes for designing novel functions in synthetic and natural consortia. Recent efforts to engineer synthetic microbial interactions will be reviewed here, with particular emphasis given to research with significance for industrial applications in the field of biomining and bioremediation of acid mine drainage. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 417 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 404 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 94 | 23% |
| Researcher | 74 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 57 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 36 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 28 | 7% |
| Other | 58 | 14% |
| Unknown | 70 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 147 | 35% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 65 | 16% |
| Environmental Science | 49 | 12% |
| Engineering | 29 | 7% |
| Chemistry | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 33 | 8% |
| Unknown | 87 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2020.
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