List of works by George A. Kowalchuk

A comparison of rpoB and 16S rRNA as markers in pyrosequencing studies of bacterial diversity

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A global overview of the trophic structure within microbiomes across ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 February 2021

Accurate quantification of microorganisms in PCR-inhibiting environmental DNA extracts by a novel internal amplification control approach using Biotrove OpenArrays

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Alternative transient states and slow plant community responses after changed flooding regimes

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Analysis of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of chrysanthemum via denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA as well as DNA fragments coding for 16S rRNA.

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Back to the Future of Soil Metagenomics

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Bacteria, not archaea, restore nitrification in a zinc-contaminated soil

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

Bacterial and fungal communities associated withTuber magnatum‐productive niches

Bacteria and Fungal communities

Bacterial diversity amplifies nutrient-based plant-soil feedbacks

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Bio-organic fertilizers stimulate indigenous soil Pseudomonas populations to enhance plant disease suppression

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Biocontrol Traits Correlate With Resistance to Predation by Protists in Soil Pseudomonads

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Chapter 12 Valid Recovery of Nucleic Acid Sequence Information from High Contamination Risk Samples – Ancient DNA and Environmental DNA

Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae

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Community analysis of ammonia-oxidising bacteria, in relation to oxygen availability in soils and root-oxygenated sediments, using PCR, DGGE and oligonucleotide probe hybridisation

scientific article published in December 1998

Community analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with Ammophila arenaria in Dutch coastal sand dunes

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Community assembly, species richness and nestedness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural soils.

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Comparative analysis of acidobacterial genomic fragments from terrestrial and aquatic metagenomic libraries, with emphasis on acidobacteria subdivision 6.

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Competitive PCR-DGGE analysis of bacterial mixtures: an internal standard and an appraisal of template enumeration accuracy

scientific article published in April 2000

Compositional Stability of the Bacterial Community in a Climate-Sensitive Sub-Arctic Peatland

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Contrasting patterns of evolutionary divergence within the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus pca operon

scientific article published in August 1994

Differences in vegetation composition and plant species identity lead to only minor changes in soil-borne microbial communities in a former arable field

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Differential responses of soil bacteria, fungi, archaea and protists to plant species richness and plant functional group identity

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Early colonizers of unoccupied habitats represent a minority of the soil bacterial community

scientific article published on 15 March 2015

Ecology. Bad news for soil carbon sequestration?

scientific article published in August 2012

Ecotrons: powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Effect of land use and soil organic matter quality on the structure and function of microbial communities in pastoral soils: Implications for disease suppression.

scientific article published on 7 May 2018

Effects of above-ground plant species composition and diversity on the diversity of soil-borne microorganisms

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Environmental microarray analyses of Antarctic soil microbial communities

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Environmental microbial ecology in an "omics" era: summary report of MicroEnGen-II (Shanghai, June 12-15, 2006).

scientific article published in April 2007

Enzymology under global change: organic nitrogen turnover in alpine and sub-Arctic soils

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Fast and furious: Early differences in growth rate drive short-term plant dominance and exclusion under eutrophication

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Finding the needles in the metagenome haystack

scientific article (publication date: April 2007)

Functional microarray analysis of nitrogen and carbon cycling genes across an Antarctic latitudinal transect

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Fungistasis and general soil biostasis – A new synthesis

Growth of chitinolytic dune soil beta-subclass Proteobacteria in response to invading fungal hyphae

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ISMEJ turns 10: tracking rapid progress in microbial ecology

scientific article published in May 2017

Impact of matric potential and pore size distribution on growth dynamics of filamentous and non-filamentous soil bacteria

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Impact of metal pollution and Thlaspi caerulescens growth on soil microbial communities.

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Impacts of 3 years of elevated atmospheric CO2 on rhizosphere carbon flow and microbial community dynamics.

scientific article published on 7 November 2012

Indirect reduction of Ralstonia solanacearum via pathogen helper inhibition

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Influences of space, soil, nematodes and plants on microbial community composition of chalk grassland soils

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Initial soil microbiome composition and functioning predetermine future plant health

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Interplay between Senecio jacobaea and plant, soil, and aboveground insect community composition

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Local Functioning, Landscape Structuring: Drivers of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function in Peatlands

scientific article published in 2018

Micro-scale determinants of bacterial diversity in soil

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Microbes orchestrate life on Earth.

scientific article published on 16 July 2008

Microbial community composition affects soil fungistasis

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Microbial environmental genomics

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Microbial modulation of plant ethylene signaling: ecological and evolutionary consequences

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Microbial secondary succession in a chronosequence of chalk grasslands

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Microvariation artifacts introduced by PCR and cloning of closely related 16S rRNA gene sequences

scientific article published in January 2001

Modulation of Litter Decomposition by the Soil Microbial Food Web Under Influence of Land Use Change

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Molecular trait indicators: moving beyond phylogeny in arbuscular mycorrhizal ecology.

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Morphological, ontogenetic and molecular characterization of Scutellospora reticulata (Glomeromycota).

scientific article published in June 2005

New perspectives towards analysing fungal communities in terrestrial environments

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Nitrification in acid soils: micro-organisms and mechanisms

Nitrosomonas europaea-like bacteria detected as the dominant β-subclass Proteobacteria ammonia oxidisers in reference and limed acid forest soils

No effects of experimental warming but contrasting seasonal patterns for soil peptidase and glycosidase enzymes in a sub-arctic peat bog

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Nucleotide sequences transferred by gene conversion in the bacterium Acinetobacter calcoaceticus

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Optimization of plant hormonal balance by microorganisms prevents plant heavy metal accumulation

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Optimizing cover crop and fertilizer timing for high maize yield and nitrogen cycle control

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PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis profiling of inter- and intraspecies 18S rRNA gene sequence heterogeneity is an accurate and sensitive method to assess species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of the genus Gigaspora

scientific article published on March 2004

Patterns of bacterial diversity across a range of Antarctic terrestrial habitats

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Phylogenetic analysis of aerobic freshwater and marine enrichment cultures efficient in hydrocarbon degradation: effect of profiling method

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Phylogenetic and metagenomic analysis of Verrucomicrobia in former agricultural grassland soil.

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Phylogenetic diversity of Acidobacteria in a former agricultural soil

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Positive effects of organic farming on below-ground mutualists: large-scale comparison of mycorrhizal fungal communities in agricultural soils

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Protists: Puppet Masters of the Rhizosphere Microbiome

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Quantitative multiplex detection of plant pathogens using a novel ligation probe-based system coupled with universal, high-throughput real-time PCR on OpenArrays

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Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis

scientific article published in August 2011

Recovery of a Nitrosomonas-like 16S rDNA sequence group from freshwater habitats

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Resource availability modulates biodiversity-invasion relationships by altering competitive interactions

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Resource stoichiometry shapes community invasion resistance via productivity-mediated species identity effects

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Responses of Antarctic soil microbial communities and associated functions to temperature and freeze-thaw cycle frequency.

scientific article published on 9 May 2008

Rhizosphere bacterial community composition in natural stands of Carex arenaria (sand sedge) is determined by bulk soil community composition

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Rhizosphere microbiome functional diversity and pathogen invasion resistance build up during plant development

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Rhizosphere protists are key determinants of plant health

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Robust detection and identification of multiple oomycetes and fungi in environmental samples by using a novel cleavable padlock probe-based ligation detection assay

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

Root exudates drive soil-microbe-nutrient feedbacks in response to plant growth

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Root exudates drive the soil-borne legacy of aboveground pathogen infection

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Root-associated microorganisms reprogram plant life history along the growth-stress resistance tradeoff

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Shifting carbon flow from roots into associated microbial communities in response to elevated atmospheric CO2

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Shifts in soil microorganisms in response to warming are consistent across a range of Antarctic environments

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Shifts in the phylogenetic structure and functional capacity of soil microbial communities follow alteration of native tussock grassland ecosystems

scholarly article by Steven A. Wakelin et al published February 2013 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Silver Toxicity Thresholds for Multiple Soil Microbial Biomarkers

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Single-cell versus population-level reproductive success of bacterial immigrants to pre-colonized leaf surfaces.

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

Size and structure of bacterial, fungal and nematode communities along an Antarctic environmental gradient

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Soil and plant factors driving the community of soil-borne microorganisms across chronosequences of secondary succession of chalk grasslands with a neutral pH.

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Soil characteristics more strongly influence soil bacterial communities than land-use type

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Soil feedback of exotic savanna grass relates to pathogen absence and mycorrhizal selectivity

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Soil protist communities form a dynamic hub in the soil microbiome

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Soil-borne microbial functional structure across different land uses.

scientific article published on 10 August 2014

Specific rhizosphere bacterial and fungal groups respond differently to elevated atmospheric CO(2).

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Stem traits, compartments and tree species affect fungal communities on decaying wood

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Stimulation of Rhizosphere Microbial Communities During Chemophytostabilization of a Pb-Zn Mine Soil

Structural and functional variation in soil fungal communities associated with litter bags containing maize leaf

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Summer warming accelerates sub-arctic peatland nitrogen cycling without changing enzyme pools or microbial community structure

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Targeted plant hologenome editing for plant trait enhancement

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Temperature sensitivity of peatland C and N cycling: Does substrate supply play a role?

Testing potential effects of maize expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab endotoxin (Bt maize) on mycorrhizal fungal communities via DNA- and RNA-based pyrosequencing and molecular fingerprinting.

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The Earth Microbiome Project: The Meeting Report for the 1st International Earth Microbiome Project Conference, Shenzhen, China, June 13th-15th 2011.

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

The Ecology of Acidobacteria: Moving beyond Genes and Genomes

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The ISME journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology

scientific article published in May 2007

The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification

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The northward shifting neophyteTragopogon dubiusis just as effective in forming mycorrhizal associations as the nativeT. pratensis

scientific article published in 2013

Toward a standards-compliant genomic and metagenomic publication record

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Towards meaningful scales in ecosystem microbiome research

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Tracking fungal community responses to maize plants by DNA- and RNA-based pyrosequencing

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Unlocking the potential of metagenomics through replicated experimental design

scientific article published on 7 June 2012

Unusual G + C content and codon usage in catIJF, a segment of the ben-cat supra-operonic cluster in the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus chromosome

scientific article published on January 1994

Variation in local carrying capacity and the individual fate of bacterial colonizers in the phyllosphere

scientific article published on 19 January 2012