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30496179 | PMC6264808 | pmc | 3,252 | {
"abstract": "Speech recognition (SR) has been improved significantly by artificial neural networks (ANNs), but ANNs have the drawbacks of biologically implausibility and excessive power consumption because of the nonlocal transfer of real-valued errors and weights. While spiking neural networks (SNNs) have the pote... | 4,315 |
28428313 | PMC5399272 | pmc | 3,253 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophs may provide hydrogen as primary energy for the microbial community via carbon monoxide oxidation. To investigate the genetics of carbon monoxide metabolism, we report here the draft genome sequences of the hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophs Carboxydocella sp. strai... | 96 |
19399520 | null | s2 | 3,255 | {
"abstract": "Small changes in environmental conditions can unexpectedly tip an ecosystem from one community type to another, and these often irreversible shifts have been observed in semi-arid grasslands, freshwater lakes and ponds, coral reefs, and kelp forests. A commonly accepted explanation is that these ecosys... | 371 |
19107720 | null | s2 | 3,256 | {
"abstract": "Artificial ECMs that not only closely mimic the hybrid nature of the natural ECM but also provide tunable material properties and enhanced biological functions are attractive candidates for tissue engineering applications. This review summarizes recent advances in developing multicomponent hybrid hydro... | 194 |
31323902 | PMC6680700 | pmc | 3,258 | {
"abstract": "In this study, we used a multifaceted approach to select robust bioaugmentation candidates for enhancing biogas production and to demonstrate the usefulness of a genome-centric approach for strain selection for specific bioaugmentation purposes. We also investigated the influence of the isolation sourc... | 5,715 |
35040953 | PMC8793870 | pmc | 3,259 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cost-effective microbial conversion processes of renewable feedstock into biofuels and biochemicals are of utmost importance for the establishment of a robust bioeconomy. Conventional baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , widely employed in biotechnology for decades, lacks many of the desi... | 362 |
31680119 | PMC6976577 | pmc | 3,260 | {
"abstract": "Deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels and their chemoautotrophic symbionts are well-studied representatives of mutualistic host–microbe associations. However, how host–symbiont interactions vary on the molecular level between related host and symbiont species remains unclear. Therefore, we compared the host... | 4,952 |
31406671 | PMC6685505 | pmc | 3,262 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Although organic and composite thermoelectric (TE) materials have witnessed explosive developments in the past five years, the research of flexible TE devices is rather limited. In particular, their assembly strategies and device performance reported in the literature cannot be directly compar... | 337 |
39230277 | PMC11481889 | pmc | 3,264 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT During its cell cycle, the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus switches from a motile, free-living state, to a sessile surface-attached cell. During this coordinated process, cells undergo irreversible morphological changes, such as shedding of their polar flagellum and synthesis of an adhesive... | 6,332 |
38049915 | PMC10696704 | pmc | 3,266 | {
"abstract": "Background Active hydrothermal vents create extreme conditions characterized by high temperatures, low pH levels, and elevated concentrations of heavy metals and other trace elements. These conditions support unique ecosystems where chemolithoautotrophs serve as primary producers. The steep temperature... | 5,656 |
31844294 | PMC7008030 | pmc | 3,267 | {
"abstract": "The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is widely used in the manufacture of industrial enzymes and pharmaceuticals. Like most biotechnological production hosts, P. pastoris is heterotrophic and grows on organic feedstocks that have competing uses in the production of food and animal feed. In a st... | 2,445 |
35572762 | PMC9089743 | pmc | 3,268 | {
"abstract": "The demand for self-healing\nelastomers is increasing due to the\npotential opportunities such materials offer in reducing down-time\nand cost through extended product lifetimes and reduction of waste.\nHowever, further understanding of self-healing mechanisms and processes\nis required in order to dev... | 4,754 |
33877964 | PMC8057819 | pmc | 3,269 | {
"abstract": "A major open question in microbial community ecology is whether we can predict how the components of a diet collectively determine the taxonomic composition of microbial communities. Motivated by this challenge, we investigate whether communities assembled in pairs of nutrients can be predicted from th... | 2,111 |
36909290 | PMC9995662 | pmc | 3,270 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Emerging neuromorphic hardware promises to solve certain problems faster and with higher energy efficiency than traditional computing by using physical processes that take place at the device level as the computational primitives in neural networks. While initial results in photonic neuromorph... | 1,739 |
34123311 | PMC8150096 | pmc | 3,271 | {
"abstract": "Herein, we report a three-dimensional (3D) DNA walking nanomachine innovatively constructed from a functionalized 3D DNA track, which runs in an orderly manner with favorable directionality to allow for programming certain pathways of information transduction for some target tasks. The nanomachine was ... | 5,670 |
35539192 | PMC9082177 | pmc | 3,272 | {
"abstract": "Oil/water separation has become an increasingly important field due to frequent industrial oily wastewater emission and crude oil spill accidents. Herein, we fabricate a robust superhydrophobic loofah sponge via a versatile, environmentally friendly, and low-cost dip coating strategy, which involves ... | 6,761 |
23143043 | null | s2 | 3,274 | {
"abstract": "Non-Watson-Crick base pairing provides an in situ approach for actuation of DNA nanostructures through responses to solution conditions. Here we demonstrate this concept by using physiologically-relevant changes in pH to regulate DNA pyramid assembly/disassembly and to control the release of protein ca... | 76 |
22880069 | PMC3413654 | pmc | 3,275 | {
"abstract": "Background History drives community assembly through differences both in density (density effects) and in the sequence in which species arrive (sequence effects). Density effects arise from predictable population dynamics, which are free of history, but sequence effects are due to a density-free mechan... | 2,964 |
27359217 | null | s2 | 3,276 | {
"abstract": "The ability of bacteria to recognize kin provides a means to form social groups. In turn these groups can lead to cooperative behaviors that surpass the ability of the individual. Kin recognition involves specific biochemical interactions between a receptor(s) and an identification molecule(s). Recogni... | 245 |
31667368 | PMC6807065 | pmc | 3,278 | {
"abstract": "One-carbon compounds, such as methanol, are becoming potential alternatives to sugars as feedstocks for the biological production of chemicals, fuels, foods, and pharmaceuticals. Efficient biological production often requires extensive genetic manipulation of a microbial host strain, making well-charac... | 3,437 |
37110511 | PMC10146397 | pmc | 3,279 | {
"abstract": "Rhizosheric bacteria with several abilities related to plant growth and health have been denominated Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). PGPR promote plant growth through several modes of action, be it directly or indirectly. The benefits provided by these bacteria can include increased nutrie... | 752 |
40037293 | PMC11931723 | pmc | 3,281 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Drylands cover one-third of the Earth’s surface and are one of the largest terrestrial sinks for methane. Understanding the structure–function interplay between members of arid biomes can provide critical insights into mechanisms of resilience toward anthropogenic and climate-change-driven env... | 8,897 |
27376307 | PMC4962014 | pmc | 3,282 | {
"abstract": "Astaxanthin, a red C40 carotenoid, is one of the most abundant marine carotenoids. It is currently used as a food and feed additive in a hundred-ton scale and is furthermore an attractive component for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications with antioxidant activities. Corynebacterium glutamicum , w... | 4,386 |
35158314 | null | s2 | 3,283 | {
"abstract": "Microbes can convert inexpensive renewable substrates to valuable metabolites by their natural metabolic pathways. To maximize the productivity, the pathways yet require further optimization, which remains challenging for our limited knowledge of complex biology. Genetically encoded biosensors are able... | 170 |
19178139 | null | s2 | 3,284 | {
"abstract": "The topology of metabolic networks can provide insight not only into the metabolic processes that occur within each species, but also into interactions between different species. Here, we introduce a novel pair-wise, topology-based measure of biosynthetic support, reflecting the extent to which the nut... | 376 |
27607553 | null | s2 | 3,286 | {
"abstract": "The ancient phylum Actinobacteria is composed of phylogenetically and physiologically diverse bacteria that help Earth's ecosystems function. As free-living organisms and symbionts of herbivorous animals, Actinobacteria contribute to the global carbon cycle through the breakdown of plant biomass. In ad... | 224 |
32900963 | PMC7519342 | pmc | 3,287 | {
"abstract": "Significance Although various creatures possess different structural gradients to gather water from fog, such as spider silk and cactus cluster, their gradient surfaces can only drive the motion of harvested water droplets over only a limited drop-sized distance and afford a slow speed, limiting the pr... | 4,831 |
28939889 | PMC5610245 | pmc | 3,289 | {
"abstract": "Pretreatment of biomass with dilute acid requires high temperatures of >160 °C to remove xylan and does not remove lignin. Here we report that the addition of peracetic acid, a strong oxidant, to mild dilute acid pretreatment reduces the temperature requirement to only 120 °C. Pretreatment of yellow po... | 5,475 |
25641390 | null | s2 | 3,291 | {
"abstract": "Developing renewable energy sources is critical to maintaining the economic growth of the planet while protecting the environment. First generation biofuels focused on food crops like corn and sugarcane for ethanol production, and soybean and palm for biodiesel production. Second generation biofuels ba... | 297 |
22289118 | null | s2 | 3,292 | {
"abstract": "In bacteria, many small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are induced in response to specific environmental signals or stresses and act by base-pairing with mRNA targets to affect protein translation or mRNA stability. In Escherichia coli, the gene for the sRNA IS061/IsrA, here renamed McaS, was predicted to res... | 340 |
22355791 | PMC3282947 | pmc | 3,293 | {
"abstract": "Microbes providing public goods are widespread in nature despite running the risk of being exploited by free-riders. However, the precise ecological factors supporting cooperation are still puzzling. Following recent experiments, we consider the role of population growth and the repetitive fragmentatio... | 1,253 |
36453153 | PMC10107794 | pmc | 3,294 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Microbial activity is a major contributor to the biogeochemical cycles that make up the life support system of planet Earth. A 613 m deep geomicrobiological perforation and a systematic multi‐analytical characterization revealed an unexpected diversity associated with the rock matrix microbiom... | 9,836 |
22530002 | PMC3328440 | pmc | 3,296 | {
"abstract": "Background \n Methanocellales contributes significantly to anthropogenic methane emissions that cause global warming, but few pure cultures for Methanocellales are available to permit subsequent laboratory studies (physiology, biochemistry, etc.). Methodology/Principal Findings By combining anaerobi... | 5,332 |
26689675 | PMC4683866 | pmc | 3,297 | {
"abstract": "Background Microalgae are a potential source of sustainable commodities of fuels, chemicals and food and feed additives. The current high production costs, as a result of the low areal productivities, limit the application of microalgae in industry. A first step is determining how the different product... | 5,018 |
27761134 | PMC5051215 | pmc | 3,298 | {
"abstract": "Sulfate reduction is the predominant anaerobic microbial process of organic matter mineralization in marine sediments, with recent studies revealing that sulfate reduction not only occurs in sulfate-rich sediments, but even extends to deeper, methanogenic sediments at very low background concentrations... | 6,970 |
26787827 | PMC4725000 | pmc | 3,299 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Oil reservoirs are major sites of methane production and carbon turnover, processes with significant impacts on energy resources and global biogeochemical cycles. We applied a cultivation-independent genomic approach to define microbial community membership and predict roles for specific organ... | 9,750 |
36465542 | PMC9709946 | pmc | 3,300 | {
"abstract": "Artificial molecular machines have found widespread applications\nranging from fundamental studies to biomedicine. More recent advances\nin exploiting unique physical and chemical properties of DNA have\nled to the development of DNA-based artificial molecular machines.\nThe unprecedented programmabili... | 1,858 |
26300859 | PMC4523816 | pmc | 3,302 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria switch between two distinct life styles – planktonic (free living) and biofilm forming – in keeping with their ever-changing environment. Such switch involves sophisticated signaling and tight regulation, which provides a fascinating portal for studying gene function and orchestrated protein i... | 3,053 |
25658824 | PMC4319750 | pmc | 3,303 | {
"abstract": "Invasive species can alter the succession of ecological communities because they are often adapted to the disturbed conditions that initiate succession. The extent to which this occurs may depend on how widely they are distributed across environmental gradients and how long they persist over the course... | 4,161 |
34690962 | PMC8529109 | pmc | 3,305 | {
"abstract": "Anthropogenic disturbances and global climate change are causing large-scale biodiversity loss and threatening ecosystem functions. However, due to the lack of knowledge on microbial species loss, our understanding on how functional profiles of soil microbes respond to diversity decline is still limite... | 4,836 |
36975332 | PMC10046621 | pmc | 3,308 | {
"abstract": "Biomimetic nanotechnology pertains to the fundamental elements of living systems and the translation of their properties into human applications. The underlying functionalities of biological materials, structures and processes are primarily rooted in the nanoscale domain, serving as a source of inspira... | 249 |
38647965 | PMC10992200 | pmc | 3,309 | {
"abstract": "In the context of the rapid development of low-carbon economy, there has been increasing interest in utilizing naturally abundant and cost-effective one-carbon (C1) substrates for sustainable production of chemicals and fuels. Moorella thermoacetica , a model acetogenic bacterium, has attracted signif... | 1,978 |
37197028 | PMC10173371 | pmc | 3,310 | {
"abstract": "Microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem function through metabolic interactions. Genome-scale modeling is a promising method to understand these interactions. Flux balance analysis (FBA) is most often used to predict the flux through all reactions in a genome-scale model. However, the fl... | 2,870 |
40069904 | PMC11899425 | pmc | 3,311 | {
"abstract": "Background In plants, root exudates selectively influence the growth of bacteria that colonize the rhizosphere. Bacterial communities associated with root systems are involved in macro and micronutrients cycling and organic matter transformation. In particular, iron is an essential micronutrient requir... | 3,324 |
33273477 | PMC7712892 | pmc | 3,312 | {
"abstract": "As a new-era of energy harvesting technology, the enhancement of triboelectric charge density of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is always crucial for its large-scale application on Internet of Things (IoTs) and artificial intelligence (AI). Here, a microstructure-designed direct-current TENG (MDC-T... | 2,303 |
39496625 | PMC11535214 | pmc | 3,313 | {
"abstract": "Microbes perform critical functions in corals, yet most knowledge is derived from the photic zone. Here, we discover two mollicutes that dominate the microbiome of the deep-sea octocoral, Callogorgia delta , and likely reside in the mesoglea. These symbionts are abundant across the host’s range, absen... | 5,136 |
23526120 | null | s2 | 3,314 | {
"abstract": "In Nature, directional surfaces on insect cuticle, animal fur, bird feathers, and plant leaves are comprised of dual micro-nanoscale features that tune roughness and surface energy. This feature article summarizes experimental and theoretical approaches for the design, synthesis and characterization of... | 173 |
36160923 | PMC9487992 | pmc | 3,315 | {
"abstract": "Methane emissions and plastic pollution are critical global challenges. The biological conversion of methane to poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) not only mitigates methane emissions but also provides biodegradable polymer substitutes for petroleum-based materials used in plastics production. This work prov... | 1,562 |
33072283 | PMC7548198 | pmc | 3,316 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Although soil microbial communities are central in ecosystem functioning, we know little of their characterization for those associated with grazing‐tolerant host plant species in grassland ecosystems in response to grazing. In this study, we used a high‐throughput sequencing approach to chara... | 4,452 |
37213224 | PMC10197150 | pmc | 3,317 | {
"abstract": "Summary Owing to superior softness, wetness, responsiveness, and biocompatibility, bulk hydrogels are being intensively investigated for versatile functions in devices and machines including sensors, actuators, optics, and coatings. The one-dimensional (1D) hydrogel fibers possess the metrics from both... | 3,868 |
26052941 | PMC4460010 | pmc | 3,318 | {
"abstract": "Ferroproteins arose early in Earth’s history, prior to the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and the subsequent reduction of bioavailable iron. Today, iron availability limits primary productivity in about 30% of the world’s oceans. Diatoms, responsible for nearly half of oceanic primary production,... | 5,370 |
28379466 | PMC5860119 | pmc | 3,320 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Summary Reconstructing and analyzing a large number of genome-scale metabolic models is a fundamental part of the integrated study of microbial communities; however, two of the most widely used frameworks for building and analyzing models use different metabolic network representations. Here w... | 1,074 |
33629071 | PMC7881767 | pmc | 3,322 | {
"abstract": "As a promising renewable energy source, it is a challenging task to obtain blue energy, which is irregular and has an ultralow frequency, due to the limitation of technology. Herein, a nonresonant hybridized electromagnetic-triboelectric nanogenerator was presented to efficiently obtain the ultralow fr... | 6,620 |
25852671 | PMC4365725 | pmc | 3,324 | {
"abstract": "Microbial communities play important roles in health, industrial applications and earth's ecosystems. With current molecular techniques we can characterize these systems in unprecedented detail. However, such methods provide little mechanistic insight into how the genetic properties and the dynamic cou... | 2,880 |
31658297 | PMC6816544 | pmc | 3,325 | {
"abstract": "Plant-pollinator networks have been repeatedly reported as cumulative ones that are described with >1 years observations. However, such cumulative networks are composed of pairwise interactions recorded at different periods, and thus may not be able to reflect the reality of species interactions in nat... | 3,295 |
29553156 | null | s2 | 3,327 | {
"abstract": "Here we demonstrate a 3D-printable microvalve that is transparent, built with a biocompatible resin, and has a simple architecture that can be easily scaled up into large arrays. The open-at-rest valve design is derived from Quake's PDMS valve design. We used a stereolithographic (SL) 3D printer to pri... | 330 |
28758093 | null | s2 | 3,328 | {
"abstract": "Harvester ant colonies adjust their foraging activity to day-to-day changes in food availability and hour-to-hour changes in environmental conditions. This collective behavior is regulated through interactions, in the form of brief antennal contacts, between outgoing foragers and returning foragers wit... | 293 |
39506750 | PMC11542441 | pmc | 3,330 | {
"abstract": "NorR, as a single-target regulator, has been demonstrated to be involved in NO detoxification in bacteria under anaerobic conditions. Here, the norR gene was identified and deleted in the genome of Vibrio alginolyticus . The results showed that deletion of norR in Vibrio alginolyticus led to low... | 4,378 |
36079948 | PMC9457562 | pmc | 3,332 | {
"abstract": "Piezoelectric energy harvesters are appealing for the improvement of wearable electronics, owing to their excellent mechanical and electrical properties. Herein, screen-printed piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) are developed from triethoxy(octyl)silane-coated barium titanate/polyvinylidene fluoride ... | 6,282 |
36033895 | PMC9403865 | pmc | 3,336 | {
"abstract": "The ability of bacteria to resist heat shock allows them to adapt to different environments. In addition, heat shock resistance is known for their virulence. Our previous study showed that the AI-2/luxS quorum sensing system affects the growth characteristics, biofilm formation, and virulence of Glaes... | 2,857 |
27547328 | PMC4979722 | pmc | 3,338 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Biological invasion remains a major threat to biodiversity in general and a disruptor to mutualistic interactions in particular. While a number of empirical studies have directly explored the role of invasion in mutualistic pollination networks, a clear picture is yet to emerge and a theoretic... | 6,148 |
33184366 | PMC7661510 | pmc | 3,339 | {
"abstract": "As anomalous heat waves are causing the widespread decline of coral reefs worldwide, there is an urgent need to identify coral populations tolerant to thermal stress. Heat stress adaptive potential is the degree of tolerance expected from evolutionary processes and, for a given reef, depends on the arr... | 5,131 |
35508975 | PMC9066861 | pmc | 3,340 | {
"abstract": "Background The rising temperature of the oceans has been identified as the primary driver of mass coral reef declines via coral bleaching (expulsion of photosynthetic endosymbionts). Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been implemented throughout the oceans with the aim of mitigating the impact of local... | 2,978 |
37653875 | PMC10223382 | pmc | 3,341 | {
"abstract": "Iron is an essential element for most organisms. Both plants and microorganisms have developed different mechanisms for iron uptake, transport and storage. In the symbiosis systems, such as rhizobia–legume symbiosis and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, maintaining iron homeostasis to meet the req... | 1,059 |
22214379 | PMC3311593 | pmc | 3,342 | {
"abstract": "Current-generating (exoelectrogenic) bacteria in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) may not be culturable using standard in vitro agar-plating techniques, making isolation of new microbes a challenge. More in vivo like conditions are needed where bacteria can be grown and directly isolated on an ele... | 2,005 |
30245550 | PMC6147227 | pmc | 3,344 | {
"abstract": "Graphical processing units (GPUs) can significantly accelerate spiking neural network (SNN) simulations by exploiting parallelism for independent computations. Both the changes in membrane potential at each time-step, and checking for spiking threshold crossings for each neuron, can be calculated indep... | 6,284 |
36651189 | PMC10154605 | pmc | 3,346 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Glucuronoyl esterases (GEs) are microbial enzymes able to cleave covalent linkages between lignin and carbohydrates in the plant cell wall. GEs are serine hydrolases found in carbohydrate esterase family 15 (CE15), which belongs to the large α/β hydrolase superfamily. GEs have been shown to re... | 1,061 |
28191902 | PMC5340623 | pmc | 3,347 | {
"abstract": "Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce desirable products on an industrial scale can result in unbalanced cellular metabolic networks that reduce productivity and yield. Metabolic fluxes can be rebalanced using dynamic pathway regulation, but few broadly applicable tools are available to ac... | 1,234 |
39898181 | PMC11787994 | pmc | 3,348 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Microbial perception of spatial electromagnetic fields is essential for navigation and communication on Earth's surface system, but current understanding of this phenomenon is limited. At present, cable bacteria of the Desulfobulbaceae family have the longest known range of electron transport.... | 2,724 |
21526386 | null | s2 | 3,349 | {
"abstract": "Microorganisms have become an increasingly important platform for the production of drugs, chemicals, and biofuels from renewable resources. Advances in protein engineering, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology enable redesigning microbial cellular networks and fine-tuning physiological capabil... | 193 |
36557161 | PMC9788529 | pmc | 3,351 | {
"abstract": "As a new membrane technology, forward osmosis (FO) has aroused more and more interest in the field of wastewater treatment and recovery in recent years. Due to the driving force of osmotic pressure rather than hydraulic pressure, FO is considered as a low pollution process, thus saving costs and energy... | 4,056 |
25168789 | null | s2 | 3,352 | {
"abstract": "Sessile marine mussels must \"dry\" underwater surfaces before adhering to them. Synthetic adhesives have yet to overcome this fundamental challenge. Previous studies of bioinspired adhesion have largely been performed under applied compressive forces, but such studies are poor predictors of the abilit... | 253 |
36376336 | PMC9663567 | pmc | 3,353 | {
"abstract": "We present a Brownian dynamics study of a 2D bath of active particles interacting among each other through usual steric interactions and, additionally, via non-reciprocal avoidant orientational interactions. We motivate them by the fact that the two flagella of the alga Chlamydomonas interact sterica... | 8,044 |
22367118 | null | s2 | 3,357 | {
"abstract": "Reconstructed microbial metabolic networks facilitate a mechanistic description of the genotype-phenotype relationship through the deployment of constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) methods. As reconstructed networks leverage genomic data for insight and phenotype prediction, the develo... | 202 |
29950589 | PMC6021390 | pmc | 3,359 | {
"abstract": "Microbial aromatic catabolism offers a promising approach to convert lignin, a vast source of renewable carbon, into useful products. Aryl- O -demethylation is an essential biochemical reaction to ultimately catabolize coniferyl and sinapyl lignin-derived aromatic compounds, and is often a key bottlene... | 2,952 |
38327460 | PMC10847661 | pmc | 3,361 | {
"abstract": "Platinum group metals (PGMs) assume an important role within the chemistry and chemical engineering due to their exceptional chemical stability in high temperatures and various environmental conditions. Their unique attributes make them highly demanded materials across an array of industries. Neverthel... | 2,708 |
28781576 | null | s2 | 3,363 | {
"abstract": "Coral reefs worldwide are shifting from high-diversity, coral-dominated communities to low-diversity systems dominated by seaweeds. This shift can impact essential recovery processes such as larval recruitment and ecosystem resilience. Recent evidence suggests that chemical cues from certain corals att... | 267 |
24358717 | null | s2 | 3,364 | {
"abstract": "Ecological networks of two interacting guilds of species, such as flowering plants and pollinators, are common in nature, and studying their structure can yield insights into their resilience to environmental disturbances. Here we develop analytical methods for exploring the strengths of interactions w... | 535 |
27786309 | PMC5082368 | pmc | 3,365 | {
"abstract": "With the increasing anthropogenic CO 2 concentration, ocean acidification (OA) can have dramatic effects on coral reefs. However, the effects of OA on coral physiology and the associated microbes remain largely unknown. In the present study, reef-building coral Acropora gemmifera collected from a re... | 4,111 |
36697422 | PMC9877027 | pmc | 3,366 | {
"abstract": "Despite the recognized importance of mycorrhizal associations in ecosystem functioning, the actual abundance patterns of mycorrhizal fungi belowground are still unknown. This information is key for better quantification of mycorrhizal impacts on ecosystem processes and for incorporating mycorrhizal pat... | 286 |
40241745 | PMC12002618 | pmc | 3,368 | {
"abstract": "Summary Despite advances in coral restoration science, challenges imposed by rapid environmental change impede progress. Here, we report mortality from disease and bleaching in an introduced nursery-reared population of the staghorn coral Acropora aspera, in Guam, Micronesia. We present disease progr... | 7,345 |
38470769 | PMC10934599 | pmc | 3,369 | {
"abstract": "Owing to their excellent elasticities and adaptability as sensing materials, ionic hydrogels exhibit significant promise in the field of intelligent wearable devices. Nonetheless, molecular chains within the polymer network of hydrogels are susceptible to damage, leading to crack extension. Hence, we d... | 2,604 |
27819039 | PMC5091355 | pmc | 3,370 | {
"abstract": "A hybridized self-powered textile for simultaneously collecting solar energy and random body motion energy was demonstrated.",
"conclusion": "CONCLUSION In summary, we demonstrate the concept of a hybridized self-charging power textile system with the aim of simultaneously collecting outdoor sunshine... | 6,446 |
34493336 | PMC8425128 | pmc | 3,372 | {
"abstract": "Background To create an ideotype woody bioenergy crop with desirable growth and biomass properties, we utilized the viral 2A-meidated bicistronic expression strategy to express both PtrMYB3 ( MYB46 ortholog of Populus trichocarpa , a master regulator of secondary wall biosynthesis) and PdGA20ox1 ... | 2,179 |
37985370 | PMC10711711 | pmc | 3,374 | {
"abstract": "The ever-increasing demand for self-powered systems such\nas glucose\nbiosensors and mixed reality devices has sparked significant interest\nin triboelectric generators, which hold large potential as renewable\nenergy solutions. Our study explores new methods for integrating energy-harvesting\ncapabili... | 8,651 |
28642744 | PMC5462947 | pmc | 3,376 | {
"abstract": "Acid mine drainage (AMD) and mine tailing environments are well-characterized ecosystems known to be dominated by organisms involved in iron- and sulfur-cycling. Here we examined the microbiology of industrial soft coal slags that originate from alum leaching, an ecosystem distantly related to AMD envi... | 4,625 |
32010113 | PMC6978639 | pmc | 3,377 | {
"abstract": "Fermentation of gases provides a promising opportunity for the production of biochemicals from renewable resources, which has resulted in a growing interest in acetogenic bacteria. Thermophilic organisms provide potential advantages for the fermentation of, e.g., syngas into for example volatile compou... | 6,480 |
25455858 | null | s2 | 3,378 | {
"abstract": "Widespread quorum-sensing (QS) enables bacteria to communicate and plays a critical role in controlling bacterial virulence. However, effects of promiscuous QS crosstalk and its implications for gene regulation and cell decision-making remain largely unknown. Here we systematically studied the crosstal... | 291 |
20024685 | PMC2855437 | pmc | 3,379 | {
"abstract": "Microbial fuel cell (MFC) systems employ the catalytic activity of microbes to produce electricity from the oxidation of organic, and in some cases inorganic, substrates. MFC systems have been primarily explored for their use in bioremediation and bioenergy applications; however, these systems also off... | 4,251 |
29522747 | null | s2 | 3,380 | {
"abstract": "Spatial organization is a hallmark of all living systems. Even bacteria, the smallest forms of cellular life, display defined shapes and complex internal organization, showcasing a highly structured genome, cytoskeletal filaments, localized scaffolding structures, dynamic spatial patterns, active trans... | 174 |
29522747 | null | s2 | 3,381 | {
"abstract": "Spatial organization is a hallmark of all living systems. Even bacteria, the smallest forms of cellular life, display defined shapes and complex internal organization, showcasing a highly structured genome, cytoskeletal filaments, localized scaffolding structures, dynamic spatial patterns, active trans... | 174 |
27801908 | PMC5270565 | pmc | 3,382 | {
"abstract": "The hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus lives in an intimate\nsymbiosis with two types of chemosynthetic Gammaproteobacteria in its gills: a\nsulfur oxidizer and a methane oxidizer. Despite numerous investigations over the\nlast decades, the degree of interdependence between the three sym... | 8,260 |
38982749 | PMC11253715 | pmc | 3,383 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Ciliates are a diverse group of protists known for their ability to establish various partnerships and thrive in a wide variety of oxygen-depleted environments. Most anaerobic ciliates harbor methanogens, one of the few known archaea living intracellularly. These methanogens increase the metab... | 355 |
33638170 | PMC9292320 | pmc | 3,384 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are keystone symbionts of agricultural soils but agricultural intensification has negatively impacted AMF communities. Increasing crop diversity could ameliorate some of these impacts by positively affecting AMF. However, the underlying relationship between... | 6,069 |
33777686 | PMC7610433 | pmc | 3,386 | {
"abstract": "Photosynthetic organisms evolved different mechanisms to protect themselves from high irradiances and photodamage. In cyanobacteria, the photoactive Orange Carotenoid-binding Protein (OCP) acts both as a light sensor and quencher of excitation energy. It binds keto-carotenoids and, when photoactivated,... | 3,986 |
19818022 | null | s2 | 3,387 | {
"abstract": "The initial encounter between a microbe and its host can dictate the success of the interaction, be it symbiosis or pathogenesis. This is the case, for example, in the symbiosis between the bacterium Vibrio fischeri and the squid Euprymna scolopes, which proceeds via a biofilm-like bacterial aggregatio... | 338 |
28435803 | PMC5374263 | pmc | 3,391 | {
"abstract": "Highlights • The droplet culture of cyanobacteria showed little toxicity using dodecane. • The oil phase protects the medium from drying and increases CO 2 supply. • Single cell encapsulation and culture can be a powerful tool in mutant selection.",
"conclusion": "4 Conclusions In this study, drople... | 2,833 |
32995524 | PMC7445765 | pmc | 3,392 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Synthetic biology holds significant potential in biomaterials science as synthetically engineered cells can produce new biomaterials, or alternately, can function as living components of new biomaterials. Here, we describe the creation of a new biomaterial that incorporates living bacterial co... | 2,899 |
38292616 | PMC10823519 | pmc | 3,395 | {
"abstract": "Elastomers are widely\nused in textiles, foam, and rubber, yet they\nare rarely recycled due to the difficulty in deconstructing polymer\nchains to reusable monomers. Introducing reversible bonds in these\nmaterials offers prospects for improving their circularity; however,\nconcomitant bond exchange p... | 7,995 |
31123251 | PMC6533293 | pmc | 3,397 | {
"abstract": "Growing tissue and bacterial colonies are active matter systems where cell divisions and cellular motion generate active stress. Although they operate in the non-equilibrium regime, these biological systems can form large-scale ordered structures. How mechanical instabilities drive the dynamics of acti... | 1,184 |
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