Petra Pjevac

The paper identifies a novel Saccharimonadia genus associated with a polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium in wastewater treatment plants and explores their ecological and metabolic interactions.

This study evaluates three biological nitrification inhibitors in two soils, finding that MBOA is the most effective with minimal off-target effects and greatest persistence.

This study evaluates the effects of exogenous biological nitrification inhibitors on barley growth, soil nitrogen dynamics, and microbial communities in an alkaline agricultural soil.

This study shows that gut-derived ammonia modulates hypothalamic stress responses during viral infection by increasing corticosterone levels and affecting antiviral responses.

This paper introduces a microrespirometry-based workflow to rapidly assess nitrification inhibitors' efficacy, competitiveness, and specificity using oxygen consumption as a real-time readout.

The paper examines protist community dynamics in surface water and shallow groundwater of the Danube wetland, revealing seasonal differences and environmental influences on community composition.

The paper introduces improved 16S rRNA V4 primers that enhance detection of underrepresented microbial lineages across diverse environments.

This study links gut microbiota composition to personality traits in captive common marmosets, finding specific bacterial taxa associated with behavioral characteristics.

This study shows sponge-associated ammonia-oxidizing archaea use branched-chain amino acids as a carbon and nitrogen source, revealing a mixotrophic lifestyle and a new nutritional interaction in sponge holobionts.

This study benchmarks shotgun sequencing depth in metagenomics, showing that strain-level analysis and functional insights require deep sequencing, while shallow sequencing has significant limitations.

This study shows that human-derived miR-21 interacts with gut microbiota and regulates bacterial transcripts involved in indole and L-tryptophan biosynthesis, potentially influencing intestinal function and disease.

The paper examines microbial metabolic capabilities and spatial distribution along a redox gradient to show that background metabolic differences and spatial partitioning prevent ecological equivalence among microbes.

The paper improves 16S rRNA gene primers to better detect Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plants, revealing their global diversity and potential ecological roles.

This study links microbial communities in millimetre-sized soil aggregates to their physico-chemical properties, showing distinct communities and environmental relationships.

This study identifies two novel nitrifying symbiont lineages in marine sponges, showing vertical transmission and suggesting their role in nitrogen cycling.