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A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2021
Many methods have been developed for statistical analysis of microbial community profiles, but due to the complex nature of typical microbiome measurements (e.g.
Siyuan Ma, Boyu Ren, Himel Mallick, Yo Sup Moon, Emma Schwager, Sagun Maharjan, Timothy L Tickle, Yiren Lu, Rachel N Carmody, Eric A Franzosa, Lucas Janson, Curtis Huttenhower   +11 more
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TriTOX: A novel Trichomonas vaginalis assay platform for high-throughput screening of compound libraries

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2021
Trichomonas vaginalis is a neglected urogenital parasitic protist that causes 170 million cases of trichomoniasis annually, making it the most prevalent non-viral, sexually transmitted disease.
Alexander Y.F. Lam, Daniel Vuong, Aaron R. Jex, Andrew M. Piggott, Ernest Lacey, Samantha J. Emery-Corbin   +5 more
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Heterogeneity in pure microbial systems: experimental measurements and modeling [PDF]

, 2017
Cellular heterogeneity influences bioprocess performance in ways that until date are not completely elucidated. In order to account for this phenomenon in the design and operation of bioprocesses, reliable analytical and mathematical descriptions are ...
González-Cabaleiro, Rebeca, Mitchell, Anca M., Ofiţeru, Irina D., Smith, Wendy, Wipat, Anil   +4 more
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High-Quality Complete Genome Resource of Pathogenic Bacterium Pectobacterium atrosepticum Strain Green1 Isolated from Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in Greenland

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2021
Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a narrow-host-range, pectinolytic, plant-pathogenic bacterium causing blackleg of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) worldwide. Till present, several P.
Robert Czajkowski, Lukasz Rabalski, Maciej Kosinski, Eigil de Neergaard, Susanne Harding   +4 more
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Movement ecology and sex are linked to barn owl microbial community composition. [PDF]

, 2020
The behavioural ecology of host species is likely to affect their microbial communities, because host sex, diet, physiology, and movement behaviour could all potentially influence their microbiota.
Bowie, Rauri CK, Charter, Motti, Corl, Ammon, Getz, Wayne M, Kamath, Pauline L, Nathan, Ran, Rozman, Gabe, Toledo, Sivan, Turjeman, Sondra   +8 more
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Synthetic biology: advancing biological frontiers by building synthetic systems [PDF]

, 2012
Advances in synthetic biology are contributing to diverse research areas, from basic biology to biomanufacturing and disease therapy.
Chen, Yvonne Y., Galloway, Kate E., Smolke, Christina D.   +2 more
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Evolution of the exclusively human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Human‐specific engagement of immunoregulatory Siglecs

Evolutionary Applications, 2019
Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea exclusively in humans and uses multiple strategies to infect, including acquisition of host sialic acids that cap and mask lipooligosaccharide termini, while restricting complement ...
Corinna S. Landig, Ashley Hazel, Benjamin P. Kellman, Jerry J. Fong, Flavio Schwarz, Sarika Agarwal, Nissi Varki, Paola Massari, Nathan E. Lewis, Sanjay Ram, Ajit Varki   +10 more
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Sweet Scents: Nectar Specialist Yeasts Enhance Nectar Attraction of a Generalist Aphid Parasitoid Without Affecting Survival

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Floral nectar is commonly inhabited by microorganisms, mostly yeasts and bacteria, which can have a strong impact on nectar chemistry and scent. Yet, little is known about the effects of nectar microbes on the behavior and survival of insects belonging ...
Islam S. Sobhy, Islam S. Sobhy, Dieter Baets, Tim Goelen, Beatriz Herrera-Malaver, Lien Bosmans, Wim Van den Ende, Kevin J. Verstrepen, Felix Wäckers, Felix Wäckers, Hans Jacquemyn, Bart Lievens   +11 more
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Can regulatory T cells improve outcomes of sensitised patients after HLA-Ab incompatible renal transplantation: study protocol for the Phase IIa GAMECHANgER-1 trial

BMC Nephrology, 2023
Background Kidney transplantation is the gold-standard treatment for patients with kidney failure. However, one-third of patients awaiting a kidney transplant are highly sensitized to human leukocyte antigens (HLA), resulting in an increased waiting time
C Dudreuilh, P Jarvis, N Beadle, I Pilecka, O Shaw, L Gardner, C Scottà, N Mamode , DS Game, A Sanchez-Fueyo, G Lombardi, A Learoyd, A Douiri, A Dorling   +13 more
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Augmenting Biogas Process Modeling by Resolving Intracellular Metabolic Activity [PDF]

, 2019
The process of anaerobic digestion in which waste biomass is transformed to methane by complex microbial communities has been modeled for more than 16 years by parametric gray box approaches that simplify process biology and do not resolve intracellular ...
Denny Popp, Dirk Benndorf, Dirk Benndorf, Fabian Bonk, Florian Centler, Sabine Koch, Steffen Klamt, Sören Weinrich   +7 more
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