Competition-based screening helps to secure the evolutionary stability of a defensive microbiome
BMC Biology, 2021 Background The cuticular microbiomes of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants pose a conundrum in microbiome biology because they are freely colonisable, and yet the prevalence of the vertically transmitted bacteria Pseudonocardia, which contributes to the ...
Sarah F. Worsley +9 more
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2021-2022 STEM Sustainability Case Competition: Synthetic Biology
Undergraduate Research in Natural and Clinical Science and Technology (URNCST) Journal, 2022 The STEM Sustainability Case Competition is an annual research case competition hosted by undergraduate students from the STEM Students Guelph Support Association (SSGSA). The mission of this competition is to provide University of Guelph undergraduate students with an opportunity to develop their own research proposal while gaining valuable experience
Michael Hamilton +6 more
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Patterns of Sponge Abundance Across a Gradient of Habitat Quality in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2011 Sponges are important components of reef communities worldwide, fulfilling a number of important functional roles. Habitat degradation caused by the loss of hard corals has the potential to cause increases in sponge abundance and percentage cover as they
Bell, JJ +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 Transient transfections are routinely used in basic and synthetic biology studies to unravel pathway regulation and to probe and characterise circuit designs.
Roberto Di Blasi +4 more
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Translating advances in microbial bioproduction to sustainable biotechnology
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Advances in synthetic biology have radically changed our ability to rewire microorganisms and significantly improved the scalable production of a vast array of drop-in biopolymers and biofuels.
David N. Carruthers +3 more
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Female Fighting and Host Competition Among Four Sympatric Species of \u3ci\u3eMelittobia\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) [PDF]
, 2018 Melittobia is a genus of parasitic wasps well known for high levels of inbreeding and violent male combat. Casual observations of groups of sisters of M.
Deyrup, Leif D, Matthews, Robert W
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Multifactorial Competition and Resistance in a Two-Species Bacterial System. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2015 Microorganisms exist almost exclusively in interactive multispecies communities, but genetic determinants of the fitness of interacting bacteria, and accessible adaptive pathways, remain uncharacterized.
Anupama Khare, Saeed Tavazoie
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Animals, 2022 The trophic niche of a species is one of the fundamental traits of species biology. The ideal trophic niche of a species is realized in the absence of interspecific competition, targeting the most profitable and easy-to-handle food resources.
Enrico Lunghi +4 more
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The exotic invasive plant Vincetoxicum rossicum is a strong competitor even outside its current realized climatic temperature range [PDF]
, 2013 Dog-strangling vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum) is an exotic plant originating from Central and Eastern Europe that is becoming increasingly invasive in southern Ontario, Canada.
Antunes, Pedro M., Sanderson, Laura A.
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How self-regulation, the storage effect and their interaction contribute to coexistence in stochastic and seasonal environments [PDF]
, 2019 Explaining coexistence in species-rich communities of primary producers remains a challenge for ecologists because of their likely competition for shared resources.
Barraquand, Frederic, Picoche, Coralie
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