Medusa: Software to build and analyze ensembles of genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions
PLoS Computational Biology, 2020 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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Predicting habitat suitability for an endangered medicinal plant, <i>Saussurea medusa</i>: insights from ensemble species distribution models. [PDF]
Front Plant SciIntroductionGlobal climate change has profound impacts on alpine ecosystems, and with climate warming, alpine plants often face a substantial risk of habitat loss.
Guo X +7 more
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Life Cycle Transitions in the Freshwater Jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)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.
Winata K +6 more
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Cassiopea xamachana microbiome across anatomy, development, and geography. [PDF]
PLoS OneThe 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
Kerwin AH +7 more
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Coevolution of the Tlx homeobox gene with medusa development (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)
Communications Biology, 2023 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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Scientific Reports, 2022 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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The complete chloroplast genome of Saussurea medusa maxim. (Asteraceae), an alpine Tibetan herb
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 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
Humanities, 2022 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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Demonizing Woman: The Myth of Medusa and Its Depiction on Works of Art
İstanbul Üniversitesi Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This compilation article interprets how the Myth of Medusa, which has ancient roots and which portrays a creature that turns those who look directly into her eyes into stone, has inspired various fields of art since ancient times, and how it is handled ...
Gillian Alban, Tuba Meltem Pekol
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Observations on the Surface Structure of Aurelia solida (Scyphozoa) Polyps and Medusae
Diversity, 2021 The surface structures and mucus layers that form an interface between the epithelial layer of organisms and their external environment were studied in the bloom-forming moon jellyfish (Aurelia solida, Scyphozoa) from the northern Adriatic.
Valentina Turk +6 more
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