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Sergio E. Morales

University of Otago
Verified email at otago.ac.nz
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Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA‐based studies

…, G Lear, A Makiola, SE Morales… - Molecular Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
DNA ‐based techniques are increasingly used for measuring the biodiversity (species presence,
identity, abundance and community composition) of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. …

Linking bacterial identities and ecosystem processes: can 'omic'analyses be more than the sum of their parts?

SE Morales, WE Holben - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A major goal in microbial ecology is to link specific microbial populations to environmental
processes (eg biogeochemical transformations). The cultivation and characterization of …

Atmospheric hydrogen scavenging: from enzymes to ecosystems

…, P Constant, K Hards, SE Morales… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
We have known for 40 years that soils can consume the trace amounts of molecular hydrogen
(H 2 ) found in the Earth's atmosphere. This process is predicted to be the most significant …

Genomic and metagenomic surveys of hydrogenase distribution indicate H2 is a widely utilised energy source for microbial growth and survival

…, MC Taylor, MB Stott, GM Cook, SE Morales - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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Bacterial gene abundances as indicators of greenhouse gas emission in soils

SE Morales, T Cosart, WE Holben - The ISME Journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… Error bars are one standard error of the mean (se) of at least triplicate qPCR reactions (n⩾3).
AB#6 and TM#4: operational taxonomic units based on ⩾97% sequence similarity to the …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPRDetect: a flexible algorithm to define CRISPR arrays

A Biswas, RHJ Staals, SE Morales, PC Fineran… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) RNAs
provide the specificity for noncoding RNA-guided adaptive immune defence systems in …

Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

…, J Kamke, CK Lee, R MacDiarmid, SE Morales… - New Zealand Journal of …, 2018 - JSTOR
Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge
opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the collection or …

Diverse hydrogen production and consumption pathways influence methane production in ruminants

…, R Geier, C Wang, LC Woods, SE Morales… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Farmed ruminants are the largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions globally. The
methanogenic archaea responsible for these emissions use molecular hydrogen (H 2 ), …

H2 metabolism is widespread and diverse among human colonic microbes

PG Wolf, A Biswas, SE Morales, C Greening… - Gut …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Microbial molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) cycling is central to metabolic homeostasis and
microbial composition in the human gastrointestinal tract. Molecular H 2 is produced as an …

Persistence of the dominant soil phylum Acidobacteria by trace gas scavenging

…, K Hards, MC Taylor, SE Morales… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The majority of microbial cells in global soils exist in a spectrum of dormant states. However,
the metabolic processes that enable them to survive environmental challenges, such as …