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The effect of hypoxia on Daphnia magna performance and its associated microbial and bacterioplankton community: A scope for phenotypic plasticity and microbiome community interactions upon environmental stress? KU Leuven
The depletion of oxygen as a result of increased stratification and decreased oxygen solubility is one of the most significant chemical changes occurring in aquatic ecosystems as a result of global environmental change. Hence, more aquatic organisms will be exposed to hypoxic conditions over time. Deciphering the effects of hypoxia on strong ecological interactors in this ecosystem’s food web is critical for predicting how aquatic communities ...
Association between the proportion of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections detected by passive surveillance and the magnitude of the asymptomatic reservoir in the community: a pooled analysis of paired health facility and community data Universiteit Antwerpen
Background Passively collected malaria case data are the foundation for public health decision making. However, because of population-level immunity, infections might not always be sufficiently symptomatic to prompt individuals to seek care. Understanding the proportion of all Plasmodium spp infections expected to be detected by the health system becomes particularly paramount in elimination settings. The aim of this study was to determine the ...
Psychiatric foster homes as care in the community: the view of the community and relevant stakeholders Universiteit Gent
Characterization of a thermophilic acidogenic microbial community treating organic waste and producing the high commodity chemical n-caproate using a combination of culturomics and meta-omics KU Leuven
Proposed outline of the dissertation: This research aims to develop a biological model that explains the metabolic interactions in the biological anaerobic waste digestion reactor C1 of the MELiSSA system. This system, based on a lake ecosystem, aims at recycling waste by mainly microbial reactions, during long term space missions. Four main activities are performed to obtain a validated biological metabolic model of the complex microbial ...
Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate administration during early life : effects on performance, immunity and microbial community of European sea bass yolk-sac larvae Universiteit Gent
Roles of bacteriophages, plasmids and CRISPR immunity in microbial community dynamics revealed using time-series integrated meta-omics KU Leuven
Viruses and plasmids (invasive mobile genetic elements (iMGEs)) have important roles in shaping microbial communities, but their dynamic interactions with CRISPR-based immunity remain unresolved. We analysed generation-resolved iMGE-host dynamics spanning one and a half years in a microbial consortium from a biological wastewater treatment plant using integrated meta-omics. We identified 31 bacterial metagenome-assembled genomes encoding ...
"A community… sounds like communism": notions of gay community and "community belonging contradiction" among Bulgarian non-heterosexual males Universiteit Antwerpen
The term "gay community" has been criticized for its inability to explain the pluralities in a specific cultural and political context. Based on in-depth interviews with 63 non-heterosexual males in Bulgaria, this study aims to revisit the theories of gay communities in a non-Western, post-communist context. The data from this study suggest that (1) the idea of a "gay community" is often rejected due to anti-communist notions and explicit ...
The bacterioplankton community composition and a host genotype dependent occurrence of taxa shape the Daphnia magna gut bacterial community Universiteit Gent KU Leuven
The assembly of host-associated bacterial communities is influenced by a multitude of biotic and abiotic factors. It is essential to gain insight in the impact and relative strength of these factors if we want to be able to predict the effects of environmental change on the assembly of host-associated bacterial communities, or deliberately modify them. The environmental pool of bacteria, from which the host is colonized, and the genetic ...
Moving apart together : co-movement of a symbiont community and their ant host, and its importance for community assembly Universiteit Gent KU Leuven
Background: Species interactions may affect spatial dynamics when the movement of one species is determined by the presence of another one. The most direct species-dependence of dispersal is vectored, usually cross-kingdom, movement of immobile parasites, diseases or seeds by mobile animals. Joint movements of species should, however, not be vectored by definition, as even mobile species are predicted to move together when they are tightly ...