Advanced Photogrammetry to Assess Lichen Colonization in the Hyper-Arid Namib Desert

by Graham Hinchliffe, Barbara Bollard-Breen, Don A. Cowan, Ashray Doshi, Len N. Gillman, Gillian Maggs-Kolling, Asuncion de Los Rios, Stephen B. Pointing
Published 2017-10-01

The soil microbiomics of intact, degraded and partially-restored semi-arid succulent thicket (Albany Subtropical Thicket)

by Micaela Schagen, Jason Bosch, Jenny Johnson, Robbert Duker, Pedro Lebre, Alastair J. Potts, Don A. Cowan
Published 2021-10-01

Diversity structure of the microbial communities in the guts of four neotropical termite species

by Surendra Vikram, Joel D. Arneodo, Javier Calcagno, Maximiliano Ortiz, Maria Laura Mon, Clara Etcheverry, Don A. Cowan, Paola Talia
Published 2021-04-01

Arable agriculture changes soil microbial communities in the South African Grassland Biome

by Gilbert Kamgan Nkuekam, Don A. Cowan, Angel Valverde
Published 2018-05-01

Namib Desert primary productivity is driven by cryptic microbial community N-fixation

by Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Stephan Woodborne, Grant Hall, Mary Seely, Don A. Cowan
Published 2018-05-01

Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host

by Ramona Marasco, María J. Mosqueira, Marco Fusi, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Giuseppe Merlino, Jenny M. Booth, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A. Cowan, Daniele Daffonchio
Published 2018-12-01

Trophic Selective Pressures Organize the Composition of Endolithic Microbial Communities From Global Deserts

by Evan B. Qu, Chris R. Omelon, Aharon Oren, Victoria Meslier, Don A. Cowan, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Published 2020-01-01

Nutrient Acquisition, Rather Than Stress Response Over Diel Cycles, Drives Microbial Transcription in a Hyper-Arid Namib Desert Soil

by Carlos León-Sobrino, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Don A. Cowan
Published 2019-05-01

Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal micro...

by Riaan F. Rifkin, Surendra Vikram, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Alba Rey-Iglesia, Tina B. Brand, Guillaume Porraz, Aurore Val, Grant Hall, Stephan Woodborne, Matthieu Le Bailly, Marnie Potgieter, Simon J. Underdown, Jessica E. Koopman, Don A. Cowan, Yves Van de Peer, Eske Willerslev, Anders J. Hansen
Published 2020-05-01

In silico characterization of the global Geobacillus and Parageobacillus secretome

by Pedro H. Lebre, Habibu Aliyu, Pieter De Maayer, Don A. Cowan
Published 2018-10-01

Environmental drivers of viral community composition in Antarctic soils identified by viromics

by Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Rolf Kramer, Marc W. Van Goethem, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Ian Hogg, Don A. Cowan
Published 2017-07-01

The Healthy Human Blood Microbiome: Fact or Fiction?

by Diego J. Castillo, Riaan F. Rifkin, Riaan F. Rifkin, Don A. Cowan, Marnie Potgieter
Published 2019-05-01

Biodiversity: So much more than legs and leaves

by Don A. Cowan, Edward P. Rybicki, Marla I. Tuffin, Angel Valverde, Michael J. Wingfield
Published 2013-11-01

Metaviromics of Namib Desert Salt Pans: A Novel Lineage of Haloarchaeal Salterproviruses and a Rich Source of ssDNA Viruses

by Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Don A. Cowan, Marla I. Trindade
Published 2016-01-01

Phylogenomic, Pan-genomic, Pathogenomic and Evolutionary Genomic Insights into the Agronomically Relevant Enterobacteria Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea stewartii

by Pieter De Maayer, Habibu Aliyu, Surendra Vikram, Jochen Blom, Brion Duffy, Don A. Cowan, Theo H. M. Smits, Stephanus N. Venter, Teresa A. Coutinho
Published 2017-09-01

Marion Island half a century ago: A glimpse into an earlier era of sub-Antarctic exploration

by Don A. Cowan
Published 2017-01-01

Genomic characterization of a polyvalent hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain BUN14

by Mouna Mahjoubi, Habibu Aliyu, Mohamed Neifar, Simone Cappello, Habib Chouchane, Yasmine Souissi, Ahmed Salaheddine Masmoudi, Don A. Cowan, Ameur Cherif
Published 2021-04-01

Foliar fungi of the enigmatic desert plant Welwitschia mirabilis show little adaptation to their unique host plant

by Martin Kemler, Michael J. Wingfield, Don A. Cowan, Bernard Slippers
Published 2021-03-01

The Rhizobial Microbiome from the Tropical Savannah Zones in Northern Côte d’Ivoire

by Sara Laetitia Elphège Gnangui, Romain Kouakou Fossou, Anicet Ebou, Chiguié Estelle Raïssa Amon, Dominique Kadio Koua, Claude Ghislaine Zaka Kouadjo, Don A. Cowan, Adolphe Zézé
Published 2021-08-01

Exploring South Africa’s southern frontier: A 20-year vision for polar research through the South African National Antarctic Programme

by Isabelle J. Ansorge, Paul Skelton, Annie Bekker, P.J. Nico de Bruyn, Doug Butterworth, Pierre Cilliers, John Cooper, Don A. Cowan, Rosemary Dorrington, Sarah Fawcett, Susanne Fietz, Ken P. Findlay, William P. Froneman, Geoff H. Grantham, Michelle Greve, David Hedding, Greg G.J. Hofmeyr, Michael Kosch, Peter C. le Roux, Mike Lucas, Keith MacHutchon, Ian Meiklejohn, Werner Nel, Pierre Pistorius, Peter G. Ryan, Johan Stander, Sebastiaan Swart, Anne Treasure, Marcello Vichi, Bettine J. van Vuuren
Published 2017-05-01