Medusa: Software to build and analyze ensembles of genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions
Uncertainty in the structure and parameters of networks is ubiquitous across computational biology. In constraint-based reconstruction and analysis of metabolic networks, this uncertainty is present both during the reconstruction of networks and in ...
Gregory L Medlock +2 more
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Life Cycle Transitions in the Freshwater Jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii [PDF]
Craspedacusta sowerbii is an invasive hydrozoan found globally in freshwater habitats. C. sowerbii has a complex life cycle that includes benthic, pelagic, dispersal and dormant stages.
Kent Winata +6 more
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Cassiopea xamachana microbiome across anatomy, development, and geography. [PDF]
The upside-down jellyfish holobiont, Cassiopea xamachana, is a useful model system for tri-partite interactions between the cnidarian host, the photosymbiont, and the bacterial microbiome. While the interaction between the host and photosymbiont has been
Allison H Kerwin +7 more
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Predicting habitat suitability for an endangered medicinal plant, Saussurea medusa: insights from ensemble species distribution models [PDF]
IntroductionGlobal climate change has profound impacts on alpine ecosystems, and with climate warming, alpine plants often face a substantial risk of habitat loss.
Xiang Guo +8 more
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Impossible worlds originating from dung: from Italo Calvino’s Bersabea to Galileo Galilei’s Medusa
L’immagine di Bersabea (Le città invisibili) oscilla attorno alla contrapposizione fra i materiali più pregiati e quelli più vili. Se Calvino si confronta con una tradizione di pensiero ‘antagonista’, l’evoluzione concettuale della coppia antonimica ...
Andrea Cannas
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Coevolution of the Tlx homeobox gene with medusa development (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)
Cnidarians display a wide diversity of life cycles. Among the main cnidarian clades, only Medusozoa possesses a swimming life cycle stage called the medusa, alternating with a benthic polyp stage.
Matthew Travert +6 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of Saussurea medusa maxim. (Asteraceae), an alpine Tibetan herb
Saussurea medusa is an important traditional Tibetan medicinal plant in China. In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of S. medusa. The complete S.
Yongsheng Wei +8 more
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Petrifyin’: Canonical Counter-Discourse in Two Caribbean Women’s Medusa Poems
This essay utilizes Helen Tiffin’s idea of canonical counter-discourse to read the Medusa poems of Shara McCallum and Dorothea Smartt, two female Caribbean poets.
Phillip Zapkin
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It has been recently demonstrated that use of ultrasound increases the tissue yield in ultrasound-enhanced fine-needle aspiration biopsy (USeFNAB) as compared to conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB).
Saif Bunni, Heikki J. Nieminen
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