Metagenomics of Virus Diversities in Solid-State Brewing Process of Traditional Chinese Vinegar
Foods, 2022 Traditional Chinese vinegar offers an exceptional flavor and rich nutrients due to its unique solid-state fermentation process, which is a multiple microbial fermentation system including various bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Zhen Yu +8 more
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Adaptive laboratory evolution of a genome-reduced Escherichia coli. [PDF]
, 2019 Synthetic biology aims to design and construct bacterial genomes harboring the minimum number of genes required for self-replicable life. However, the genome-reduced bacteria often show impaired growth under laboratory conditions that cannot be ...
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Diversities and potential biogeochemical impacts of mangrove soil viruses
Microbiome, 2019 Background Mangroves are ecologically and economically important forests of the tropics. As one of the most carbon-rich biomes, mangroves account for 11% of the total input of terrestrial carbon into oceans.
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Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. [PDF]
, 2018 Functional profiles of microbial communities are typically generated using comprehensive metagenomic or metatranscriptomic sequence read searches, which are time-consuming, prone to spurious mapping, and often limited to community-level quantification ...
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionAlthough the composition and succession of microbial communities in soy sauce fermentation have been well-characterized, the understanding of phage communities in soy sauce remains limited.MethodsThis study determined the diversity, taxonomic
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Dynamic energy budget approach to evaluate antibiotic effects on biofilms [PDF]
, 2017 Quantifying the action of antibiotics on biofilms is essential to devise therapies against chronic infections. Biofilms are bacterial communities attached to moist surfaces, sheltered from external aggressions by a polymeric matrix.
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Chloride channels regulate differentiation and barrier functions of the mammalian airway. [PDF]
, 2020 The conducting airway forms a protective mucosal barrier and is the primary target of airway disorders. The molecular events required for the formation and function of the airway mucosal barrier, as well as the mechanisms by which barrier dysfunction ...
Caplan, Michael J +14 more
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Significance analysis and statistical mechanics: an application to clustering
, 2010 This paper addresses the statistical significance of structures in random data: Given a set of vectors and a measure of mutual similarity, how likely does a subset of these vectors form a cluster with enhanced similarity among its elements?
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Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection. [PDF]
, 2019 Phytoplankton and associated microbial communities provide organic carbon to oceanic food webs and drive ecosystem dynamics. However, capturing those dynamics is challenging. Here, an in situ, semi-Lagrangian, robotic sampler profiled pelagic microbes at
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ΦCrAss001 represents the most abundant bacteriophage family in the human gut and infects Bacteroides intestinalis [PDF]
, 2018 peer-reviewedCrAssphages are an extensive and ubiquitous family of tailed bacteriophages, predicted to infect bacteria of the order Bacteroidales. Despite being found in ~50% of individuals and representing up to 90% of human gut viromes, members of this
Draper, Lorraine A. +6 more
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