Browsing by Subject "Interdisciplinary"
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Assessing the Microbial Community and Functional Genes in a Vertical Soil Profile with Long-Term Arsenic Contamination
(PLos One, 2012-11-30)Arsenic (As) contamination in soil and groundwater has become a serious problem to public health. To examine how microbial communities and functional genes respond to long-term arsenic contamination in vertical soil profile, ... -
BAC-Pool Sequencing and Analysis of Large Segments of A12 and D12 Homoeologous Chromosomes in Upland Cotton
(PLos One, 2013-10-08)Although new and emerging next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have reduced sequencing costs significantly, much work remains to implement them for de novo sequencing of complex and highly repetitive genomes such ... -
Climate and Weather Impact Timing of Emergence of Bats
(PLos One, 2012-08-02)Interest in forecasting impacts of climate change have heightened attention in recent decades to how animals respond to variation in climate and weather patterns. One difficulty in determining animal response to climate ... -
Combining Text Analysis and Concept Mapping for Conceptual Model Development
(2020-05)The Rio Grande/Río Bravo River (RGB) stretches through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, spanning a politically, socio-economically, and environmentally diverse region. Management ... -
Comparative Transcriptome Analyses of Deltamethrin-Resistant and -Susceptible Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes from Kenya by RNA-Seq
(PLos One, 2012-09-07)Malaria causes more than 300 million clinical cases and 665,000 deaths each year, and the majority of the mortality and morbidity occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the lack of effective vaccines and wide-spread resistance ... -
Crowned in Glory: The Beyond Band Approach
(2021-12-17)In recent years, primary and secondary education has embraced trends which emphasize “core” subject areas. As of the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), music has been labelled an essential area of education in the ... -
Crumple: A Method for Complete Enumeration of All Possible Pseudoknot-Free RNA Secondary Structures
(PLos One, 2012-12-27)The diverse landscape of RNA conformational space includes many canyons and crevices that are distant from the lowest minimum free energy valley and remain unexplored by traditional RNA structure prediction methods. A ... -
Ecological Energetics of an Abundant Aerial Insectivore, the Purple Martin
(PLos One, 2013-09-25)The atmospheric boundary layer and lower free atmosphere, or aerosphere, is increasingly important for human transportation, communication, environmental monitoring, and energy production. The impacts of anthropogenic ... -
Ecosystem Carbon Stock Influenced by Plantation Practice: Implications for Planting Forests as a Measure of Climate Change Mitigation
(PLos One, 2010-05-27)Uncertainties remain in the potential of forest plantations to sequestrate carbon (C). We synthesized 86 experimental studies with paired-site design, using a meta-analysis approach, to quantify the differences in ecosystem ... -
Effects of Blood Flow Restricted Low-Intensity Concentric or Eccentric Training on Muscle Size and Strength
(PLos One, 2012-12-31)We investigated the acute and chronic effects of low-intensity concentric or eccentric resistance training with blood flow restriction (BFR) on muscle size and strength. Ten young men performed 30% of concentric one ... -
Elevated Levels of the Vesicular Monoamine Transporter and a Novel Repetitive Behavior in the Drosophila Model of Fragile X Syndrome
(PLos One, 2011-11-02)Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is characterized by mental impairment and autism in humans, and it often features hyperactivity and repetitive behaviors. The mechanisms for the disease, however, remain poorly understood. Here we ... -
Emissions of NO and NH3 from a Typical Vegetable-Land Soil after the Application of Chemical N Fertilizers in the Pearl River Delta
(PLos One, 2013-03-19)Cropland soil is an important source of atmospheric nitric oxide (NO) and ammonia (NH3). Chinese croplands are characterized by intensive management, but limited information is available with regard to NO emissions from ... -
Epsin 1 Promotes Synaptic Growth by Enhancing BMP Signal Levels in Motoneuron Nuclei
(PLos One, 2013-06-19)Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) retrograde signaling is crucial for neuronal development and synaptic plasticity. However, how the BMP effector phospho-Mother against decapentaplegic (pMad) is processed following receptor ... -
Exposure of Soil Microbial Communities to Chromium and Arsenic Alters Their Diversity and Structure
(PLos One, 2012-06-29)Extensive use of chromium (Cr) and arsenic (As) based preservatives from the leather tanning industry in Pakistan has had a deleterious effect on the soils surrounding production facilities. Bacteria have been shown to be ... -
First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust
(PLos One, 2010-11-05)The gabbroic layer comprises the majority of ocean crust. Opportunities to sample this expansive crustal environment are rare because of the technological demands of deep ocean drilling; thus, gabbroic microbial communities ... -
Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems
(PLos One, 2010-09-01)BackgroundSale of organic foods is one of the fastest growing market segments within the global food industry. People often buy organic food because they believe organic farms produce more nutritious and better tasting ... -
Functional Biogeography as Evidence of Gene Transfer in Hypersaline Microbial Communities
(PLos One, 2010-09-23)BackgroundHorizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in speciation and evolution of bacteria and archaea by controlling gene distribution within an environment. However, information that links HGT to a natural ... -
Functional Metagenomics of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Interactions with Spinach Indigenous Microorganisms during Biofilm Formation
(PLos One, 2012-09-05)The increase in foodborne outbreaks worldwide attributed to fresh fruit and vegetables suggests that produce may serve as an ecological niche for enteric pathogens. Here we examined the interaction of E. coli O157:H7 ... -
Generation and Validation of a Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Clone Set for Protein Expression and Phage Display
(PLos One, 2008-08-20)A comprehensive gene collection for S. oneidensis was constructed using the lambda recombinase (Gateway) cloning system. A total of 3584 individual ORFs (85%) have been successfully cloned into the entry plasmids. To ... -
Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Maps in Follicular Lymphoma Cells Determined by Methylation-Enriched Bisulfite Sequencing
(PLos One, 2010-09-29)BackgroundFollicular lymphoma (FL) is a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) that arises from germinal center (GC) B-cells. Despite the significant advances in immunotherapy, FL is still not curable. Beyond transcriptional ...