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Woodpeckers can act as dispersal vectors for fungi, plants, and microorganisms
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Bird‐mediated dispersal is presumed to be important in the dissemination of many different types of organisms, but concrete evidence remains scarce. This is especially true for biota producing microscopic propagules.
Niko R. Johansson +2 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 The symptoms of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) are largely attributed to two C. difficile toxins, TcdA and TcdB. Significant efforts have been devoted to developing vaccines targeting both toxins through parenteral immunization routes. Recently,
Shaohui Wang, Duolong Zhu, Xingmin Sun
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Characterization of the pathogenicity of a Bacillus cereus isolate from the Mariana Trench
Virulence, 2022 Bacillus cereus is an important opportunistic pathogen widely distributed in the environment. In this study, we reported the isolation and characterization of a B. cereus isolate, MB1, from the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench.
Yujian Wang +3 more
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Lack of ecological context can create the illusion of social success in Dictyostelium discoideum [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol 12(12): e1005246. 2016, 2016 Studies of cooperation in microbes often focus on one fitness component, with little information about or attention to the ecological context, and this can lead to paradoxical results. The life cycle of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum includes a multicellular stage in which not necessarily clonal amoebae aggregate upon starvation to form a ...
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Arthroplasty Today, 2020 Management of large acetabular bone defects is challenging. The Masquelet technique has successfully reconstructed segmental defects in long bones arising from trauma, tumors, or infection but not been described for large acetabular defects. We present 3
Gerald Joseph Zeng, MBBS (Spore), MRCS (England) +3 more
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Timing of fungal spore release dictates survival during atmospheric transport [PDF]
, 2019 The fungi disperse spores to move across landscapes and spore liberation takes different patterns. While many species release spores intermittently, others release spores at specific times of day or night according to intrinsic rhythms. Despite intriguing evidence of diurnal rhythms, why the timing of spore liberation would matter to a fungus remains ...
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Embodied Synaptic Plasticity with Online Reinforcement learning [PDF]
Frontiers in neurorobotics, volume 13, p81, 2019, 2020 The endeavor to understand the brain involves multiple collaborating research fields. Classically, synaptic plasticity rules derived by theoretical neuroscientists are evaluated in isolation on pattern classification tasks. This contrasts with the biological brain which purpose is to control a body in closed-loop. This paper contributes to bringing the
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Demonstrating the Use of a Fungal Synthesized Quinone in a Redox Flow Battery
Batteries &Supercaps, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 Biobased: The filamentous fungus can be used as an environmentally and sustainable benign source to produce the bio‐based quinone phoenicin. This natural compound shows electrochemical properties, which can be used as the active material in the negative electrolyte in a redox flow battery with results showing that biologically produced quinones may ...
Charlotte Overgaard Wilhelmsen +15 more
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Real-time In Situ Electron Spin Resonance Measurements on Fungal Spores of Penicillium digitatum during Exposure of Oxygen Plasmas [PDF]
Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 013704 (2012), 2012 We report the kinetic analysis of free radicals on fungal spores of Penicillium digitatum interacted with atomic oxygen generated plasma electric discharge using real time in situ electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements. We have obtained information that the ESR signal from the spores was observed and preliminarily assignable to semiquinone radical ...
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