Werner Selbitschka

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic “supergroups”

Improving bioscience research reporting: The ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research

Efflux-Mediated Drug Resistance in Bacteria

Lateral gene transfer in eukaryotes

The diversity of conjugative relaxases and its application in plasmid classification

Field applications of genetically engineered microorganisms for bioremediation processes

The arable ecosystem as battleground for emergence of new human pathogens

A global perspective on the use, sales, exposure pathways, occurrence, fate and effects of veterinary antibiotics (VAs) in the environment

Piggery manure used for soil fertilization is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance plasmids

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

Phylogeny and identification of Pantoea species associated with plants, humans and the natural environment based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA)

Plant Species-Dependent Increased Abundance and Diversity of IncP-1 Plasmids in the Rhizosphere: New Insights Into Their Role and Ecology

Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part I

Coupling Factors in Macromolecular Type-IV Secretion Machineries

Genetic diversity and composition of a plasmid metagenome from a wastewater treatment plant

Pseudomonas for biocontrol of phytopathogens: from functional genomics to commercial exploitation

PhyloChip hybridization uncovered an enormous bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere of different potato cultivars: many common and few cultivar-dependent taxa

Dynamics of the IncW genetic backbone imply general trends in conjugative plasmid evolution

The rhizosphere microbiome: significance of plant beneficial, plant pathogenic, and human pathogenic microorganisms

Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part II

The Science of Antibiotic Discovery

Occurrence of integron-associated resistance gene cassettes located on antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from a wastewater treatment plant

Plasmids foster diversification and adaptation of bacterial populations in soil

Endophytic Bacterial Diversity in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Roots Estimated by 16S rDNA Sequence Analysis

Inferring the Evolutionary History of IncP-1 Plasmids Despite Incongruence among Backbone Gene Trees

Antibiotic resistance and its cost: is it possible to reverse resistance?

Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life

Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter

Genomics of IncP-1 antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from wastewater treatment plants provides evidence for a widely accessible drug resistance gene pool

Potential of predominant activated sludge bacteria as recipients in conjugative plasmid transfer

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

Exploitation of genetically modified inoculants for industrial ecology applications

Gentamicin resistance genes in environmental bacteria: prevalence and transfer

Antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants: Tackling the black box

Bacterial secrets of secretion: EuroConference on the biology of type IV secretion processes

Broad-host-range IncP-1 plasmids and their resistance potential

Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes spread into the environment: A review

Antibiotic resistance in the environment

Multiresistance Genes of Rhizobium etli CFN42

Variation of Microbial Rhizosphere Communities in Response to Crop Species, Soil Origin, and Inoculation with Sinorhizobium meliloti L33

Call of the wild: antibiotic resistance genes in natural environments

Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework

Review of antibiotic resistance in China and its environment

The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health

Improving Bioscience Research Reporting: The ARRIVE Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research

The RecA protein as a model molecule for molecular systematic studies of bacteria: Comparison of trees of RecAs and 16S rRNAs from the same species

Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for the release of antibiotics in the environment: A review

Small mobilizable multi-purpose cloning vectors derived from the Escherichia coli plasmids pK18 and pK19: selection of defined deletions in the chromosome of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Wastewater bacterial communities bring together broad-host range plasmids, integrons and a wide diversity of uncharacterized gene cassettes

Potential impacts of disinfection processes on elimination and deactivation of antibiotic resistance genes during water and wastewater treatment

TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIA

Antimicrobial resistance patterns in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from an urban wastewater treatment plant

Persistence and dissemination of the multiple-antibiotic-resistance plasmid pB10 in the microbial communities of wastewater sludge microcosms

Multidrug efflux pumps: structure, function and regulation

Mobile Genetic Elements Associated with Antimicrobial Resistance

Improved Culturability of Soil Bacteria and Isolation in Pure Culture of Novel Members of the Divisions Acidobacteria , Actinobacteria , Proteobacteria , and Verrucomicrobia

Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods: A Scientist's Analysis of the Issues (Part II)

Electrochemiluminescence polymerase chain reaction detection of genetically modified organisms

Marine microorganisms make a meal of oil

Molecular Basis of Bacterial Outer Membrane Permeability Revisited

Actinomyces and Related Organisms in Human Infections

MICROBIAL DIVERSITY IN SOIL: Selection of Microbial Populations by Plant and Soil Type and Implications for Disease Suppressiveness

Detection of 140 clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in the plasmid metagenome of wastewater treatment plant bacteria showing reduced susceptibility to selected antibiotics

The Hidden World within Plants: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations for Defining Functioning of Microbial Endophytes

Lactic acid bacteria as functional starter cultures for the food fermentation industry

Sponge-Associated Microorganisms: Evolution, Ecology, and Biotechnological Potential

Spread and survival of promiscuous IncP-1 plasmids.

Microbial Communities and Their Interactions in Soil and Rhizosphere Ecosystems

Tetracycline resistance genes in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants

Adaptive Plasmid Evolution Results in Host-Range Expansion of a Broad-Host-Range Plasmid

The rhizosphere zoo: An overview of plant-associated communities of microorganisms, including phages, bacteria, archaea, and fungi, and of some of their structuring factors

Mobilizable IncQ-Related Plasmid Carrying a New Quinolone Resistance Gene, qnrS2 , Isolated from the Bacterial Community of a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Occurrence and reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment

Advances in Rhizobium Research

Patulibacter minatonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated using an agar medium supplemented with superoxide dismutase, and proposal of Patulibacteraceae fam. nov.

Use of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases: Principles, Mechanisms of Action, and Future Prospects

Cultivation of globally distributed soil bacteria from phylogenetic lineages previously only detected in cultivation‐independent surveys

Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms

Novel Macrolide Resistance Module Carried by the IncP-1β Resistance Plasmid pRSB111, Isolated from a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Influence of Inorganic Nitrogen Management Regime on the Diversity of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria in Agricultural Grassland Soils

Introducing EzTaxon-e: a prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene sequence database with phylotypes that represent uncultured species

Actinobaculum schaalii Causing Fournier's Gangrene

Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence and Its Biorelated Applications

Recent Advances in Petroleum Microbiology

Microbial Biofilms: from Ecology to Molecular Genetics

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

The Challenge of Efflux-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria

Origins and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as biofertilizers

Effect of Dissemination of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D) Degradation Plasmids on 2,4-D Degradation and on Bacterial Community Structure in Two Different Soil Horizons

The 64 508 bp IncP-1β antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pB10 isolated from a waste-water treatment plant provides evidence for recombination between members of different branches of the IncP-1β group

Quantifying Nonspecific TEM β-Lactamase ( bla _TEM ) Genes in a Wastewater Stream

The Biodiversity of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Greek Traditional Wheat Sourdoughs Is Reflected in Both Composition and Metabolite Formation

Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

Complete Sequence of a 184-Kilobase Catabolic Plasmid from Sphingomonas aromaticivorans F199

Introducing DOTUR, a Computer Program for Defining Operational Taxonomic Units and Estimating Species Richness

Surviving the Acid Test: Responses of Gram-Positive Bacteria to Low pH

Application of 'next-generation' sequencing technologies to microbial genetics

Plant growth-promoting bacteria in the rhizo- and endosphere of plants: Their role, colonization, mechanisms involved and prospects for utilization

The complete sequences of plasmids pB2 and pB3 provide evidence for a recent ancestor of the IncP-1β group without any accessory genes

Microbial Biodiversity: Approaches to Experimental Design and Hypothesis Testing in Primary Scientific Literature from 1975 to 1999

Combining Mathematical Models and Statistical Methods to Understand and Predict the Dynamics of Antibiotic-Sensitive Mutants in a Population of Resistant Bacteria During Experimental Evolution

Plasmid Donor Affects Host Range of Promiscuous IncP-1β Plasmid pB10 in an Activated-Sludge Microbial Community

Effect of carbon and nitrogen input on the bacterial community structure of Neocaledonian nickel mine spoils

The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoA as a functional marker: molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations

Structure and Functions of the Bacterial Microbiota of Plants

Isolation and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus starvat ion4 nduced, stationary-phase mutants defective in survival or recovery

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Antimicrobial Resistance in ESKAPE Pathogens

Antibiotic Resistance Genes as Emerging Contaminants:  Studies in Northern Colorado

Biomass for a sustainable bioeconomy: An overview of world biomass production and utilization

Binding of DNA from Bacillus subtilis on Montmorillonite–Humic Acids–Aluminum or Iron Hydroxypolymers

Erythromycin Resistance-Conferring Plasmid pRSB105, Isolated from a Sewage Treatment Plant, Harbors a New Macrolide Resistance Determinant, an Integron-Containing Tn 402 -Like Element, and a Large Region of Unknown Function

Biofilm models for the food industry: hot spots for plasmid transfer?

Horizontal gene transfer as a biosafety issue: A natural phenomenon of public concern

Phenotypic and molecular characterization of conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmids isolated from bacterial communities of activated sludge

Comparative genomic hybridisation and ultrafast pyrosequencing revealed remarkable differences between the Sinorhizobium meliloti genomes of the model strain Rm1021 and the field isolate SM11

Phylogenetic Analysis of Microbial Diversity in the Rhizoplane of Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus cv. Westar) Employing Cultivation-Dependent and Cultivation-Independent Approaches

The insertion sequence element ISRm2011-2 belongs to the IS630-Tcl family of transposable elements and is abundant in Rhizobium meliloti

Characterization of recA genes and recA mutants of Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae

Characterization of two bioluminescentRhizobium meliloti strains constructed for field releases

Biocontrol strain Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 and its genetically modified derivative with enhanced biocontrol capability exert comparable effects on the structure of a Sinorhizobium meliloti population in gnotobiotic systems

The complete nucleotide sequence and environmental distribution of the cryptic, conjugative, broad-host-range plasmid pIPO2 isolated from bacteria of the wheat rhizosphere The GenBank accession number for the pIPO2T sequence reported in this paper is AJ297913.

Stationary-phase mutants of Sinorhizobium meliloti are impaired in stationary-phase survival or in recovery to logarithmic growth

Horizontal gene transfer among bacteria in terrestrial and aquatic habitats as assessed by microcosm and field studies

A biological containment system for Rhizobium meliloti based on the use of recombination-deficient (recAâ) strains

Evaluation of the resolving power of three different DNA fingerprinting methods to discriminate among isolates of a natural Rhizobium meliloti population

Construction of gene replacement vectors for Gram? bacteria using a genetically modified sacRB gene as a positve selection marker