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Targeted Curing of All Lysogenic Bacteriophage from Streptococcus pyogenes Using a Novel Counter-selection Technique
(PLos One, 2016-01-12)
Streptococcus pyogenes is a human commensal and a bacterial pathogen responsible for a wide variety of human diseases differing in symptoms, severity, and tissue tropism. The completed genome sequences of >37 strains of ...
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 ...
Psychedelics and the Human Receptorome
(PLos One, 2010-02-02)
We currently understand the mental effects of psychedelics to be caused by agonism or partial agonism of 5-HT2A (and possibly 5-HT2C) receptors, and we understand that psychedelic drugs, especially phenylalkylamines, are ...
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 ...
Insights from Characterizing Extinct Human Gut Microbiomes
(PLos One, 2012-12-12)
In an effort to better understand the ancestral state of the human distal gut microbiome, we examine feces retrieved from archaeological contexts (coprolites). To accomplish this, we pyrosequenced the 16S rDNA V3 region ...
Shared and Unique Patterns of Embryo Development in Extremophile Poeciliids
(PLos One, 2011-11-07)
Background Closely related lineages of livebearing fishes have independently adapted to two extreme environmental factors: toxic hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and perpetual darkness. Previous work has demonstrated in ...
Genomic and Metabolomic Insights into the Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity of a Feral-Hog-Associated Brevibacillus laterosporus Strain
(2014-03-03)
Bacteria associated with mammals are a rich source of microbial biodiversity; however, little is known concerning the abilities of these microbes to generate secondary metabolites. This report focuses on a bacterium isolated ...
Fact or Fiction? Children’s Preferences for Real Versus Make-Believe Stories
(Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2015-03-01)
Some children and adults are more drawn to the imaginary than others. Here, we examine whether developmental differences also play a role in the degree to which individuals are drawn to make-believe stories over real ones ...
New Trends in Globalisation: An Examination of the Brazilian Case
(Social Change, 2013-03-01)
This analysis looks at the role of Wal-Mart in Brazil by using glocalisation theory. Glocalisation refers to the strategies and practices adopted by transnational corporations to cater to local cultures and customs. In the ...
Spatial Orientation Aware Smartphones for Tele-operated Robot Control in Military Environments: A Usability Experiment
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2013-09-01)
We report an experiment conducted to assess the usability of a smartphone-based controller for use by dismounted troops using unmanned ground vehicles for reconnaissance and surveillance. A virtual joystick controller is ...