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Enhancing UV-C and perchlorate resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana through the introduction of microbial genes from hypersaline environment

Frontiers in Microbiology
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching the Earth's surface affects all living organisms. Recent reports show a trend of increasing exposure levels due to stratospheric ozone depletion and contamination.
Carolina González de Figueras, Sara Gómez, Maria Lamprecht-Grandío, Salvador Mirete, Jorge Díaz-Rullo, Pablo Martínez-Rodríguez, Mercedes Sánchez-Costa, José Eduardo González-Pastor   +7 more
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Point of sampling detection of Zika virus within a multiplexed kit capable of detecting dengue and chikungunya

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Zika, dengue, and chikungunya are three mosquito-borne viruses having overlapping transmission vectors. They cause diseases having similar symptoms in human patients, but requiring different immediate management steps.
Ozlem Yaren, Barry W. Alto, Priyanka V. Gangodkar, Shatakshi R. Ranade, Kunal N. Patil, Kevin M. Bradley, Zunyi Yang, Nikhil Phadke, Steven A. Benner   +8 more
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Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis

Communications Biology, 2021
Kiefer et al. sequence the metagenome of the sawtoothed grain beetle and demonstrate how its symbiont mechanistically helps the host by providing tyrosine. Providing this amino acid in the pupal stage and early adulthood supports cuticle biosynthesis and
Julian Simon Thilo Kiefer, Suvdanselengee Batsukh, Eugen Bauer, Bin Hirota, Benjamin Weiss, Jürgen C. Wierz, Takema Fukatsu, Martin Kaltenpoth, Tobias Engl   +8 more
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Evolution of an ancient protein function involved in organized multicellularity in animals. [PDF]

, 2016
To form and maintain organized tissues, multicellular organisms orient their mitotic spindles relative to neighboring cells. A molecular complex scaffolded by the GK protein-interaction domain (GKPID) mediates spindle orientation in diverse animal taxa ...
Anderson, Douglas P, Campodonico-Burnett, William, Hanson-Smith, Victor, King, Nicole, Prehoda, Kenneth E, Thornton, Joseph W, Volkman, Brian F, Whitney, Dustin S, Woznica, Arielle   +8 more
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Bacterial N4-methylcytosine as an epigenetic mark in eukaryotic DNA

Nature Communications, 2022
Eukaryotic DNA can be methylated as 5-methylcytosine and N6-methyladenine, but whether other forms of DNA methylation occur has been controversial. Here the authors show that a bacterial DNA methyltransferase was acquired >60 Mya in bdelloid rotifers ...
Fernando Rodriguez, Irina A. Yushenova, Daniel DiCorpo, Irina R. Arkhipova   +3 more
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The Subcellular Proteome of a Planctomycetes Bacterium Shows That Newly Evolved Proteins Have Distinct Fractionation Patterns

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
The Planctomycetes bacteria have unique cell architectures with heavily invaginated membranes as confirmed by three-dimensional models reconstructed from FIB-SEM images of Tuwongella immobilis and Gemmata obscuriglobus.
Christian Seeger, Karl Dyrhage, Mayank Mahajan, Anna Odelgard, Sara Bergström Lind, Siv G. E. Andersson   +5 more
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Evolutionary genomics of socially polymorphic populations of Pogonomyrmex californicus

BMC Biology
Background Social insects vary considerably in their social organization both between and within species. In the California harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus (Buckley 1867), colonies are commonly founded and headed by a single queen (haplometrosis,
Mohammed Errbii, Ulrich R. Ernst, Aparna Lajmi, Eyal Privman, Jürgen Gadau, Lukas Schrader   +5 more
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The SoftWipe tool and benchmark for assessing coding standards adherence of scientific software

Scientific Reports, 2021
Scientific software from all areas of scientific research is pivotal to obtaining novel insights. Yet the coding standards adherence of scientific software is rarely assessed, even though it might lead to incorrect scientific results in the worst case ...
Adrian Zapletal, Dimitri Höhler, Carsten Sinz, Alexandros Stamatakis   +3 more
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Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: COOL BUDHIES I - a pilot study of molecular and atomic gas at z~0.2 [PDF]

, 2015
An understanding of the mass build-up in galaxies over time necessitates tracing the evolution of cold gas (molecular and atomic) in galaxies. To that end, we have conducted a pilot study called CO Observations with the LMT of the Blind Ultra-Deep H I ...
Chung, Aeree, Cybulski, Ryan, De la Luz, Victor, Deshev, Boris Z., Erickson, Neal, Fernández, Ximena, Gorkom, Jacqueline van, Haines, Chris, Harrington, Kevin, Hughes, David H., Jaffé, Yara L., Montaña, Alfredo, Montero Castaño, María, Morrison, Glenn E., Narayanan, Gopal, Poggianti, Bianca M., Schloerb, F. Peter, Sánchez, David, Velazquez, Miguel, Verheijen, Marc A. W., Yoon, Hyein, Yun, Min S., Zavala, Jorge A., Zeballos, Milagros   +23 more
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Spatial organization of the kelp microbiome at micron scales

Microbiome, 2022
Background Elucidating the spatial structure of host-associated microbial communities is essential for understanding taxon-taxon interactions within the microbiota and between microbiota and host. Macroalgae are colonized by complex microbial communities,
S. Tabita Ramírez-Puebla, Brooke L. Weigel, Loretha Jack, Cathleen Schlundt, Catherine A. Pfister, Jessica L. Mark Welch   +5 more
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