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Retromer Is Essential for Autophagy-Dependent Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus
(PLos Genetics, 2015-12-10)
Author Summary The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae utilizes key infection structures, called appressoria, elaborated at the tips of the conidial germ tubes to gain entry into the host tissue. Development of the ...
Roles of TLR/MyD88/MAPK/NF-κB Signaling Pathways in the Regulation of Phagocytosis and Proinflammatory Cytokine Expression in Response to E. faecalis Infection
(PLos One, 2015-08-28)
Enterococcus faecalis is a commensal bacterium residing in the gastrointestinal tract of mammals, but in certain situations it is also an opportunistic pathogen which can cause serious disease. Macrophages have been shown ...
Is extinction forever?
(Public Understanding of Science, 2015-02-23)
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution ...
Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification
(2015-11-13)
To date, characterization of ancient oral (dental calculus) and gut (coprolite) microbiota has been primarily accomplished through a metataxonomic approach involving targeted amplification of one or more variable regions ...
An automatic approach to weighted subject indexing – An empirical study in the biomedical domain
(2015)
Subject indexing is an intellectually intensive process that has many inherent uncertainties. Existing manual subject indexing systems generally produce binary outcomes for whether or not to assign an indexing term. This ...
The Therapeutic Efficacy of Domestic Violence Victim Interventions
(Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2015-01-22)
The Evolutionary History of Daphniid a-Carbonic Anhydrase within Animalia
(2015)
Understanding the mechanisms that drive acid-base regulation in organisms is important, especially for organisms in aquatic habitats that experience rapidly fluctuating pH conditions. Previous studies have shown that ...
Utilizing and Adapting the Delphi Method for Use in Qualitative Research
(2015-12)
The Delphi method is a pragmatic research method created in the 1950s by researchers at the RAND Corporation for use in
policy making, organizational decision making, and to inform direct practices. While the Delphi method ...
Microbial Community Dynamics and Activity Link to Indigo Production from Indole in Bioaugmented Activated Sludge Systems
(PLos One, 2015-09-15)
Biosynthesis of the popular dyestuff indigo from indole has been comprehensively studied using pure cultures, but less has been done to characterize the indigo production by microbial communities. In our previous studies, ...
How Advanced Building Systems Can Offset Water Infrastructure Needs
(2015-07)
Water infrastructure requirements will be reaching crisis proportions in the coming years. Increasing urban populations, drought conditions due to climate change, and increasing EPA rule limits for drinking water contaminants ...