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The role of intraspecific trait variability and soil properties in community assembly during forest secondary succession

Ecosphere, 2019
Trait‐based approaches applied to community assembly have led to a considerable advance in understanding the drivers that underlie community dynamics.
Yongfu Chai, Han Dang, Ming Yue, Jinshi Xu, Lixia Zhang, Jiaxin Quan, Yaoxin Guo, Ting Li, Lei Wang, Mao Wang, Xiao Liu   +10 more
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Unraveling assembly of stream biofilm communities [PDF]

The ISME Journal, 2012
Abstract Microbial biofilms assemble from cells that attach to a surface, where they develop into matrix-enclosed communities. Mechanistic insights into community assembly are crucial to better understand the functioning of natural biofilms, which drive key ecosystem processes in numerous aquatic habitats.
Besemer K, Peter H, Logue JB, Langenheder S, Lindström ES, Tranvik LJ, Battin TJ   +6 more
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Advancements in Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment: The Promise of Quasi‐Liquid Surfaces to Reduce Salt Scaling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Durable quasi‐liquid polymer brush surfaces provide an anti‐scaling strategy for hypersaline brine evaporation and zero‐liquid‐discharge desalination. The smooth, liquid‐like QLS interface suppresses substrate‐side salt nucleation, promotes compact crystallization and dewetting, reduces crystal–surface contact area, and enables low‐adhesion salt ...
Mohammed Imran Khan, Bei Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Metabolic specialization and the assembly of microbial communities [PDF]

The ISME Journal, 2012
Abstract Metabolic specialization is a general biological principle that shapes the assembly of microbial communities. Individual cell types rarely metabolize a wide range of substrates within their environment. Instead, different cell types often specialize at metabolizing only subsets of the available substrates.
Johnson DR, Goldschmidt F, Lilja EE, Ackermann M   +3 more
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Chemically Fueled Systems Chemistry Across Length Scales

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Chemically fueled reaction cycles regulate processes through single and multiple catalytic sites on the molecular and assembly scale. This gives rise to unique kinetically controlled properties/functions like spatio‐temporal catalysis, oscillations, optical properties, and perform work.
Brigitte A. K. Kriebisch, Job Boekhoven
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly [PDF]

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2013
SUMMARY Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly. However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists because of inconsistent and often confusing terminology as well as unnecessarily polarizing debates.
Diana R, Nemergut, Steven K, Schmidt, Tadashi, Fukami, Sean P, O'Neill, Teresa M, Bilinski, Lee F, Stanish, Joseph E, Knelman, John L, Darcy, Ryan C, Lynch, Phillip, Wickey, Scott, Ferrenberg   +10 more
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Press Disturbance Alters Community Structure and Assembly Mechanisms of Bacterial Taxa and Functional Genes in Mesocosm-Scale Bioreactors

mSystems, 2020
Press disturbances are of interest in microbial ecology, as they can drive microbial communities to alternative stable states. However, the effect of press disturbances in community assembly mechanisms, particularly with regard to taxa and functional ...
Ezequiel Santillan, Florentin Constancias, Stefan Wuertz   +2 more
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A 3D Human Neuron‐on‐Chip Platform to Monitor Neuronal Injury Responses

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel 3D Neuron‐on‐Chip model that can maintain human PSC‐derived excitatory prefrontal cortex neurons in 3D hydrogels and can be used to monitor neuronal injury responses over time. Results show injury‐induced acute neuronal excitotoxicity, declining neuronal connectivity, and the activation of a neurodegenerative, SASP‐like ...
Ruiping Tang, Charles‐Francois Latchoumane, Avi Chopra, Md Marzan Sarkar, Chunki Kim, Nathan Gonsalves, Hsueh‐Fu Wu, John C. Sentmanat, Alan Liu, Isha Mhatre‐Winters, Aditya Mishra, Andrei G. Fedorov, Jay M. Patel, Nadja Zeltner, Steven L. Stice, Jason R. Richardson, Lohitash Karumbaiah   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flash Assembloids: A Rapid Biofabrication of a Platform for Modeling Early Glioblastoma Invasion at the Glioblastoma–Brain Organoid Interfaces

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a bioengineered assembloid (ASM) system combining glioblastoma (GBM) cells in oxidized alginate (OA) microgels with dorsal organoids (DOs). This model simulates brain tumor‐host interactions, revealing enhanced GBM invasion, altered gene expression, and aggressive infiltration patterns, demonstrating ASM as a valuable platform for ...
Chao Liang, Henry Robert Howard, Shihui Chen, Won‐Young Choi, Summer Cao, Arthur Chien, Kevin Zou, Michael Kassiou, Fabien Delerue, Ho Sang Jung, Yeonju Park, Young Mee Jung, Yong‐Dae Kwon, Karrie M. Kiang, Gilberto Ka‐Kit Leung, Ryohichi Sugimura, Ann‐Na Cho, Sang Jin Lee   +17 more
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