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39338472 | PMC11434368 | pmc | 4,914 | {
"abstract": "Some sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), mainly belonging to the Desulfovibrionaceae family, have evolved the capability to conserve energy through microbial extracellular electron transfer (EET), suggesting that this process may be more widespread than previously believed. While previous evidence has s... | 12,865 |
28691092 | PMC5479648 | pmc | 4,916 | {
"abstract": "A strategy for bonding water-rich hydrogels to diverse materials for electronic skins, energy storage, and soft optics is reported.",
"conclusion": "CONCLUSION In summary, we introduce here a facile, universally applicable method for instant tough bonding of hydrogels to a wide variety of materials—f... | 7,046 |
33154962 | PMC7591714 | pmc | 4,918 | {
"abstract": "Synthetic biology has played a major role in engineering microbial cell factories to convert plant biomass (lignocellulose) to fuels and bioproducts by fermentation. However, the final product yield is limited by inhibition of microbial growth and fermentation by toxic phenolic compounds generated duri... | 2,451 |
35346686 | PMC9062432 | pmc | 4,919 | {
"abstract": "The actinobacterium Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 grows on a remarkable variety of aromatic compounds and has been studied for applications ranging from the degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls to the valorization of lignin, an underutilized component of biomass. In RHA1, the catabolism of two classes ... | 1,854 |
35493553 | PMC9042265 | pmc | 4,920 | {
"abstract": "Introducing double physical crosslinking reagents ( i.e. , a hydrophobic monomer micelle and the LAPONITE® XLG nano-clay) into the copolymerization reaction of hydrophilic monomers of N , N -dimethylacrylamide (DMAA) and acrylamide (AM) is reported here by a thermally induced free-radical polymerizati... | 5,205 |
27387283 | PMC5001620 | pmc | 4,921 | {
"abstract": "DNA nanoassemblies have demonstrated wide applications in various fields including nanomaterials, drug delivery and biosensing. In DNA origami, single-stranded DNA template is shaped into desired nanostructure by DNA staples that form Holliday junctions with the template. Limited by current methodologi... | 8,607 |
33683803 | PMC8085966 | pmc | 4,922 | {
"abstract": "Summary Marine photosynthetic microalgae are ubiquitously associated with bacteria in nature. However, the influence of these bacteria on algal cultures in bioreactors is still largely unknown. In this study, eighteen different bacterial strains were isolated from cultures of Nannochloropsis sp. CCAP... | 5,959 |
32393858 | null | s2 | 4,923 | {
"abstract": "Plant pathogenic bacteria cause high crop and economic losses to human societies"
} | 20 |
31281294 | PMC6595629 | pmc | 4,927 | {
"abstract": "The bio-economy relies on microbial strains optimized for efficient large scale production of chemicals and fuels from inexpensive and renewable feedstocks under industrial conditions. The reduced one carbon compound methanol, whose production does not involve carbohydrates needed for the feed and food... | 4,016 |
38944415 | PMC11258901 | pmc | 4,928 | {
"abstract": "Abstract \n Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 is a promising microbial chassis for industrial production of valuable compounds, including aromatic amino acids derived from the shikimate pathway. In this work, we developed two whole-cell, transcription factor based fluorescent biosensors to track... | 4,647 |
38961629 | PMC11222294 | pmc | 4,931 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Ciliate protozoa are an integral part of the rumen microbial community involved in a variety of metabolic processes. These processes are thought to be in part the outcome of interactions with their associated prokaryotic community. For example, methane production is enhanced through interspeci... | 3,764 |
31663059 | PMC6787351 | pmc | 4,932 | {
"abstract": "Biofilm research is usually focused on the prevention or control of biofilm formation. Recently, the significance of the biofilm mode of growth in biotechnological applications received increased attention. Since biofilm reactors show many advantages over suspended cell reactors, especially in their hi... | 1,633 |
24053676 | PMC3851129 | pmc | 4,933 | {
"abstract": "Background Understanding the process of amino acid fermentation as a comprehensive system is a challenging task. Previously, we developed a literature-based dynamic simulation model, which included transcriptional regulation, transcription, translation, and enzymatic reactions related to glycolysis, th... | 2,730 |
29062948 | PMC5625796 | pmc | 4,935 | {
"abstract": "The rapid development of synthetic biology enables the design, construction and optimization of synthetic microbial consortia to achieve specific functions. In China, the “973” project-“Design and Construction of Microbial Consortia” was funded by the National Basic Research Program of China in January... | 1,299 |
29062958 | PMC5625795 | pmc | 4,938 | {
"abstract": "Cell-free synthetic biology emerges as a powerful and flexible enabling technology that can engineer biological parts and systems for life science applications without using living cells. It provides simpler and faster engineering solutions with an unprecedented freedom of design in an open environment... | 1,751 |
31680818 | PMC6803503 | pmc | 4,939 | {
"abstract": "Purkinje cell is an important neuron for the cerebellar information processing. In this work, we present an efficient implementation of a cerebellar Purkinje model using the Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm and implement it on a Large-Scale Conductance-Based Spiking Neural Networ... | 3,874 |
24288334 | null | s2 | 4,940 | {
"abstract": "In photosynthetic organisms, photons are captured by light-harvesting antenna complexes, and energy is transferred to reaction centers where photochemical reactions take place. We describe here the isolation and characterization of a fully functional megacomplex composed of a phycobilisome antenna comp... | 228 |
38313259 | PMC10836074 | pmc | 4,943 | {
"abstract": "Microbiomes are generally characterized by high diversity of coexisting microbial species and strains that remains stable within a broad range of conditions. However, under fixed conditions, microbial ecology conforms with the exclusion principle under which two populations competing for the same resou... | 2,753 |
26285202 | PMC4540456 | pmc | 4,944 | {
"abstract": "Taxonomic marker gene studies, such as the 16S rRNA gene, have been used to successfully explore microbial diversity in a variety of marine, terrestrial, and host environments. For some of these environments long term sampling programs are beginning to build a historical record of microbial community s... | 7,647 |
38136504 | PMC10742641 | pmc | 4,945 | {
"abstract": "The increase in ecosystem biodiversity can be perceived as one of the universal processes converting energy into information across a wide range of living systems. This study delves into the dynamics of living systems, highlighting the distinction between ex post adaptation, typically associated with n... | 17,507 |
23975157 | PMC3819121 | pmc | 4,947 | {
"abstract": "Profiling phylogenetic marker genes, such as the 16S rRNA gene, is a key tool for studies of microbial communities but does not provide direct evidence of a community’s functional capabilities. Here we describe PICRUSt (Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States), ... | 3,057 |
28680480 | PMC5496137 | pmc | 4,950 | {
"abstract": "Background Crude glycerol in the waste stream of the biodiesel production process is an abundant and renewable resource. However, the glycerol-based industry is usually afflicted by the cost for refinement of crude glycerol. This issue can be addressed by developing a microbial process to convert crude... | 2,065 |
28878236 | PMC5587736 | pmc | 4,951 | {
"abstract": "Excavating sponges are prominent bioeroders on coral reefs that in comparison to other benthic organisms may suffer less or may even benefit from warmer, more acidic and more eutrophic waters. Here, the photosymbiotic excavating sponge Cliona orientalis from the Great Barrier Reef was subjected to a ... | 5,442 |
31459827 | PMC6648901 | pmc | 4,954 | {
"abstract": "Graphene (GE) has attracted significant\nattention on account of\nits unique structure and superior performance, arousing a new research\nfield for materials science. Herein, a novel GE-coated poly(ethylene\nterephthalate) nonwoven (PGNW) hollow tube (PGNW-T) was fabricated\nfor continuous and highly e... | 6,050 |
30718738 | PMC6361979 | pmc | 4,955 | {
"abstract": "Cyanobacteria are among only a few organisms that naturally synthesize long-chain alkane and alkene hydrocarbons. Cyanobacteria use one of two pathways to synthesize alka/enes, either acyl-ACP reductase (Aar) and aldehyde deformylating oxygenase (Ado) or olefin synthase (Ols). The genomes of cyanobacte... | 4,017 |
21358041 | null | s2 | 4,956 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial colonies often exhibit complex spatio-temporal organization. This collective behavior is affected by a multitude of factors ranging from the properties of individual cells (shape, motility, membrane structure) to chemotaxis and other means of cell-cell communication. One of the important but ... | 321 |
25469170 | PMC4211721 | pmc | 4,958 | {
"abstract": "Evolution has resulted in thousands of species possessing similar metabolic enzymes with identical functions that are, however, regulated by different mechanisms. It is thus difficult to select optimal gene to engineer novel or manipulated metabolic pathways. Here, we tested the ability of molecular ev... | 2,900 |
35362167 | PMC9287070 | pmc | 4,961 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Historical contingency has long figured prominently in the conceptual frameworks of evolutionary biology and community ecology. Evolutionary biologists typically consider the effects of chance mutation and historical contingency in driving divergence and convergence of traits in populations, w... | 5,453 |
32760534 | PMC7391324 | pmc | 4,962 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Species occurrence in a site can be limited by both the abiotic environment and biotic interactions. These two factors operate in concert, but their relative importance is often unclear. By experimentally introducing seeds or plants into competition‐free gaps or into the intact vegetation, we ... | 6,431 |
23024637 | PMC3441193 | pmc | 4,963 | {
"abstract": "Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus , which numerically dominate vast oceanic areas, are the two most abundant oxygenic phototrophs on Earth. Although they require solar energy for photosynthesis, excess light and associated high UV radiations can induce high levels of oxidative stress that may have de... | 8,594 |
37777794 | PMC10541700 | pmc | 4,964 | {
"abstract": "Background Microbiome recruitment is influenced by plant host, but how host plant impacts the assembly, functions, and interactions of perennial plant root microbiomes is poorly understood. Here we examined prokaryotic and fungal communities between rhizosphere soils and the root endophytic compartment... | 2,532 |
26601203 | PMC4640615 | pmc | 4,965 | {
"abstract": "Coral reef community responses vary but bioerosion increases under natural ocean acidification.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Shifts in ocean chemistry are likely occurring more rapidly now than in the past 300 million years ( 1 ). Excess CO 2 released from fossil fuel emissions and deforestation ... | 4,197 |
33328495 | PMC7744511 | pmc | 4,966 | {
"abstract": "Developing an efficient deconstruction step of woody biomass for biorefinery has been drawing considerable attention since its xylem cell walls display highly recalcitrance nature. Here, we explored transcriptional factors (TFs) that reduce wood recalcitrance and improve saccharification efficiency in ... | 3,628 |
39275109 | PMC11397719 | pmc | 4,969 | {
"abstract": "Among polymer wastes, poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is the most important commercial thermoplastic polyester. Less than 30% of total PET production is recycled into new products. Therefore, large amounts of waste PET need to be recycled. We describe a feasible approach for the direct application o... | 6,745 |
38167850 | PMC10762202 | pmc | 4,974 | {
"abstract": "In terrestrial ecosystems, plant leaves provide the largest biological habitat for highly diverse microbial communities, known as the phyllosphere microbiota. However, the underlying mechanisms of host-driven assembly of these ubiquitous communities remain largely elusive. Here, we conduct a large-scal... | 3,450 |
34493930 | PMC7611625 | pmc | 4,980 | {
"abstract": "Highlights • Research on tree diversity and antagonists often neglects plant complementarity. • We studied species richness/mycorrhizal type effects on leaf herbivory/pathogens. • Mycorrhizal type had different effects on herbivory and pathogen infestation. • Elemental not metabolite concentrations det... | 5,508 |
30404178 | PMC6266758 | pmc | 4,981 | {
"abstract": "Microbes influence a wide range of host social behaviors and vice versa. So far, however, the mechanisms underpinning these complex interactions remain poorly understood. In social animals, where individuals share microbes and interact around foods, the gut microbiota may have considerable consequences... | 3,553 |
29464208 | PMC5815863 | pmc | 4,982 | {
"abstract": "Widely distributed outer-membrane cytochromes enable sulfur-reducing bacteria to obtain energy from solid electron donors.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Microbial reduction of oxidized sulfur species (OSS), such as SO 4 2− , SO 3 2− , S 2 O 3 2− , S 0 , and S n 2− , coupled with the oxidation of in... | 5,246 |
30013839 | PMC6046197 | pmc | 4,983 | {
"abstract": "Black Band Disease (BBD) is a widely distributed and destructive coral disease that has been studied on a global scale, but baseline data on coral diseases is missing from many areas of the Arabian Seas. Here we report on the broad distribution and prevalence of BBD in the Red Sea in addition to docume... | 4,259 |
32676588 | PMC7334800 | pmc | 4,984 | {
"abstract": "In this work, we present a versatile surface engineering strategy by the combination of mussel adhesive peptide mimicking and bioorthogonal click chemistry. The main idea reflected in this work derived from a novel mussel-inspired peptide mimic with a bioclickable azide group (i.e., DOPA 4 -azide). Sim... | 6,045 |
34699370 | null | s2 | 4,985 | {
"abstract": "Various nonclassical approaches of distributed information processing, such as neural networks, reservoir computing (RC), vector symbolic architectures (VSAs), and others, employ the principle of collective-state computing. In this type of computing, the variables relevant in computation are superimpos... | 392 |
25437804 | PMC4243450 | pmc | 4,986 | {
"abstract": "The global clustering of gene families through network analysis has been demonstrated in whole genome, plasmid, and microbiome analyses. In this study, we carried out a plasmidome network analysis of all available complete bacterial plasmids to determine plasmid associations. A blastp clustering search... | 7,098 |
24149708 | PMC3917226 | pmc | 4,987 | {
"abstract": "Biofilm formation by the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis is tightly controlled at the level of transcription. The biofilm contains specialized cell types that arise from controlled differentiation of the resident isogenic bacteria. DegU is a response regulator that controls several social b... | 7,015 |
23087494 | null | s2 | 4,991 | {
"abstract": "Many biological and physical systems exhibit population-density dependent transitions to synchronized oscillations in a process often termed \"dynamical quorum sensing\". Synchronization frequently arises through chemical communication via signaling molecules distributed through an external medium. We ... | 255 |
29751652 | PMC5982004 | pmc | 4,993 | {
"abstract": "Long-term unregulated mining of ion-adsorption clays (IAC) in China has resulted in severe ecological destruction and created large areas of wasteland in dire need of rehabilitation. Soil amendment and revegetation are two important means of rehabilitation of IAC mining wasteland. In this study, we use... | 6,944 |
27148240 | PMC4840303 | pmc | 4,994 | {
"abstract": "The methanogenic biodegradation of crude oil involves the conversion of hydrocarbons to methanogenic substrates by syntrophic bacteria and subsequent methane production by methanogens. Assessing the metabolic roles played by various microbial species in syntrophic communities remains a challenge, but s... | 6,344 |
22355311 | PMC3280245 | pmc | 4,995 | {
"abstract": "Raspy crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae) are unique among the orthopterans in producing silk, which is used to build shelters. This work studied the material composition and the fabrication of cricket silk for the first time. We examined silk-webs produced in captivity, which comprised cylindrical f... | 3,082 |
26831705 | null | s2 | 4,996 | {
"abstract": "Heterologous biosynthesis of natural products is meant to enable access to the vast array of valuable properties associated with these compounds. Often motivated by limitations inherent in native production hosts, the heterologous biosynthetic process begins with a candidate host regarded as technicall... | 259 |
30883020 | PMC6922529 | pmc | 4,998 | {
"abstract": "Summary The use of renewable waste feedstocks is an environment‐friendly choice contributing to the reduction of waste treatment costs and increasing the economic value of industrial by‐products. Glycerol (1,2,3‐propanetriol), a simple polyol compound widely distributed in biological systems, constitut... | 3,942 |
36753538 | PMC9908019 | pmc | 4,999 | {
"abstract": "Neuromorphic computing is expected to achieve human-brain performance by reproducing the structure of biological neural systems. However, previous neuromorphic designs based on synapse devices are all unsatisfying for their hardwired network structure and limited connection density, far from their biol... | 3,023 |
26387825 | PMC4585669 | pmc | 5,000 | {
"abstract": "We developed a book-shaped triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that consists of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) nanofibers to effectively harvest mechanical energy. The dispersed graphene oxide in the PVDF nanofibers acts as charge trapp... | 3,084 |
38486283 | PMC10941469 | pmc | 5,004 | {
"abstract": "Glycolate is produced by microalgae under photorespiratory conditions and has the potential for sustainable organic carbon production in biotechnology. This study explores the glycolate production balance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii , using a custom-built 10-L flat panel bioreactor with sophisticated... | 7,291 |
38313033 | PMC10836209 | pmc | 5,005 | {
"abstract": "Anthropogenic activities increase sediment suspended in the water column and deposition on reefs can be largely dependent on colony morphology. Massive and plating corals have a high capacity to trap sediments, and active removal mechanisms can be energetically costly. Branching corals trap less sedime... | 7,859 |
23226544 | PMC3513314 | pmc | 5,006 | {
"abstract": "Disease is increasingly viewed as a major factor in the ecology of marine communities and its impact appears to be increasing with environmental change, such as global warming. The temperate macroalga Delisea pulchra bleaches in Southeast Australia during warm summer periods, a phenomenon which previ... | 4,476 |
30333383 | PMC6308002 | pmc | 5,007 | {
"abstract": "The hydrothermal vent squat lobster Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams harbors an epibiotic bacterial community, which is numerically and functionally dominated by methanotrophs affiliated with Methylococcaceae and thioautotrophs affiliated with Sulfurovum and Thiotrichaceae . In the present stu... | 3,510 |
29214058 | null | s2 | 5,010 | {
"abstract": "The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a dynamic environment that constantly provides physical and chemical cues to embedded cells. Much progress has been made in engineering hydrogels that can mimic the ECM, but hydrogel properties are, in general, static. To recapitulate the dynamic nature of the ECM, man... | 235 |
35558927 | PMC9088807 | pmc | 5,011 | {
"abstract": "Long-term operation of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) results in an electrochemical activity decline by the degradation of the anodic biofilm. In this work, an alkaline soaking treatment is proposed as an efficient and simple method for anode regeneration. The alkaline treatment was employed in a used car... | 5,490 |
19275941 | null | s2 | 5,013 | {
"abstract": "The byssal threads of the California mussel, Mytilus californianus, are highly hysteretic, elastomeric fibers that collectively perform a holdfast function in wave-swept rocky seashore habitats. Following cyclic loading past the mechanical yield point, threads exhibit a damage-dependent reduction in me... | 334 |
33997787 | PMC8067885 | pmc | 5,014 | {
"abstract": "The construction of ionic conductive hydrogels with high transparency, excellent mechanical robustness, high toughness, and rapid self-recovery is highly desired yet challenging. Herein, a hydrogen-bonding network densification strategy is presented for preparing a highly stretchable and transparent po... | 2,134 |
30034977 | null | s2 | 5,016 | {
"abstract": "We report a new class of textiles with electrochemical functions which, when moistened by a conductive liquid (saline solution, sweat, wound fluid, etc.), generate DC voltage and current levels capable of powering wearable electronics on the go. Contrary to previously reported power generation techniqu... | 207 |
35478808 | PMC9034150 | pmc | 5,018 | {
"abstract": "In order to improve the waterproof and mildew resistance of electronic equipment, a superhydrophobic coating was prepared on a circuit board. First, hexadecyl trimethoxysilane was used to modify the nano silica and nano zinc oxide particles, and then the modified nanoparticles were mixed with the silic... | 4,837 |
35410135 | PMC8996662 | pmc | 5,020 | {
"abstract": "Background Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and roots play important roles in plant nutrient acquisition, especially in nutrient poor and heterogeneous soils. However, whether an accumulation strategy of AM fungi and root exists in such soils of karst shrubland ecosystems remains unclear. Root traits ... | 3,247 |
24430239 | PMC4049913 | pmc | 5,021 | {
"abstract": "Renewable lignocellulosic plant biomass is a promising feedstock from which to produce biofuels, chemicals, and materials. One approach to cost-effectively exploit this resource is to use consolidating bioprocessing (CBP) microbes that directly convert lignocellulose into valuable end products. Because... | 3,041 |
33673106 | PMC7918670 | pmc | 5,025 | {
"abstract": "Currently, polymers are competing with metals and ceramics to realize various material characteristics, including mechanical and electrical properties. However, most polymers consist of organic matter, making them vulnerable to flames and high-temperature conditions. In addition, the combustion of poly... | 2,345 |
28716030 | PMC5514506 | pmc | 5,026 | {
"abstract": "Background A unique combination of mechanical, physiochemical and biological forces influences granulation during processes of anaerobic digestion. Understanding this process requires a systems biology approach due to the need to consider not just single-cell metabolic processes, but also the multicell... | 5,548 |
25725015 | PMC4398279 | pmc | 5,027 | {
"abstract": "We summarize different studies describing mechanisms through which bacteria in a biofilm mode of growth resist mechanical and chemical challenges. Acknowledging previous microscopic work describing voids and channels in biofilms that govern a biofilms response to such challenges, we advocate a more qua... | 2,488 |
23940510 | PMC3734138 | pmc | 5,028 | {
"abstract": "Although consumers can strongly influence community recovery from disturbance, few studies have explored the effects of consumer identity and density and how they may vary across abiotic gradients. On rocky shores in Maine, recent experiments suggest that recovery of plant- or animal- dominated communi... | 3,411 |
40013369 | PMC11923407 | pmc | 5,029 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n The increased positive impact of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning is often attributed to the accumulation of mutualists and dilution of antagonists in diverse plant communities. While increased plant diversity alters traits related to resource acquisition, it remains unclear whether ... | 8,055 |
35603544 | PMC9786923 | pmc | 5,030 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Growth‐coupling product formation can facilitate strain stability by aligning industrial objectives with biological fitness. Organic acids make up many building block chemicals that can be produced from sugars obtainable from renewable biomass. Issatchenkia orientalis is a yeast strain toler... | 13,666 |
34427516 | PMC8409731 | pmc | 5,031 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Investigation of microbial communities has led to many advances in our understanding of ecosystem function, whether that ecosystem is a subglacial lake or the human gut. Within these communities, much emphasis has been placed on interspecific variation and between-species relationships. Howeve... | 255 |
21524904 | null | s2 | 5,033 | {
"abstract": "Recapitulating the elegant structures formed during development is an extreme synthetic and biological challenge. Great progress has been made in developing materials to support transplanted cells, yet the complexity of tissues is far beyond that found in even the most advanced scaffolds. Self-assembly... | 176 |
26277623 | null | s2 | 5,034 | {
"abstract": "Flagella propel bacteria during both swimming and swarming, dispersing them widely. However, while swimming bacteria use chemotaxis to find nutrients and avoid toxic environments, swarming bacteria appear to suppress chemotaxis and to use the dynamics of their collective motion to continuously expand a... | 216 |
35767228 | PMC9546210 | pmc | 5,035 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Understanding the role of animal behaviour in linking individuals to ecosystems is central to advancing knowledge surrounding community structure, stability and transition dynamics. Using 22 years of long‐term subtidal monitoring, we show that an abrupt outbreak of purple sea urchins ( Strongy... | 3,926 |
29748514 | PMC5983801 | pmc | 5,044 | {
"abstract": "The use of natural products (NPs) as possible alternative biocidal compounds for use in antifouling coatings has been the focus of research over the past decades. Despite the importance of this field, the efficacy of a given NP against biofilm (mainly bacteria and diatoms) formation is tested with the ... | 4,553 |
35544567 | PMC9094664 | pmc | 5,045 | {
"abstract": "Although proteins are considered as nonconductors that transfer electrons only up to 1 to 2 nanometers via tunneling, Geobacter sulfurreducens transports respiratory electrons over micrometers, to insoluble acceptors or syntrophic partner cells, via nanowires composed of polymerized cytochrome OmcS. ... | 2,185 |
36679027 | PMC9864307 | pmc | 5,046 | {
"abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form mutualistic symbiotic relationships with many land plants and play a key role in nitrogen (N) acquisition. NO 3 − -N and NH 4 + -N are the main sources of soil mineral N, but how extraradical mycelial transfer affects the different N forms and levels available to... | 4,401 |
33893232 | PMC8092576 | pmc | 5,047 | {
"abstract": "Significance Human-designed infrastructures and networks relying on centralized or hierarchical control are susceptible to single-point catastrophic failure when disrupted. By contrast, most complex biological systems employ distributed control and can be more robust to perturbations. In field experime... | 1,665 |
23490197 | null | s2 | 5,048 | {
"abstract": "Bacillus subtilis has adopted a bet-hedging strategy to ensure survival in changing environments. From a clonal population, numerous sub-populations can emerge, expressing different sets of genes that govern the developmental processes of sporulation, competence and biofilm formation. The master transc... | 326 |
35736075 | PMC9224570 | pmc | 5,050 | {
"abstract": "Transporters of the NRAMP family are ubiquitous metal-transition transporters, playing a key role in metal homeostasis, especially in Mn and Fe homeostasis. In this work, we report the characterization of the NRAMP family members ( RiSMF1 , RiSMF2 , RiSMF3.1 and RiSMF3.2 ) of the arbuscular mycorrh... | 5,586 |
34149752 | PMC8210828 | pmc | 5,051 | {
"abstract": "Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are a useful tool for a more realistic understanding of the outcomes of multiple biotic interactions where microbes, plants, and the environment are players in time and space of a multidimensional and complex system. Toward a more in-depth overview of the knowl... | 6,990 |
28289729 | PMC5340861 | pmc | 5,052 | {
"abstract": "In this study, we show how invasive plant species drive rapid shifts in the soil environment from surrounding native communities. Each of the three plant invaders had different but consistent effects on soils. Thus, there does not appear to be a one-size-fits-all strategy for how plant invaders alter g... | 3,073 |
24809026 | PMC4010749 | pmc | 5,053 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria frequently acquire novel genes by horizontal gene transfer (HGT). HGT through the process of bacterial conjugation is highly efficient and depends on the presence of conjugative plasmids (CPs) or integrated conjugative elements (ICEs) that provide the necessary genes for DNA transmission. This... | 3,223 |
40271349 | PMC12014621 | pmc | 5,054 | {
"abstract": "Chloroplasts are critical organelles in plants and algae responsible for accumulating biomass through photosynthetic carbon fixation and cellular maintenance through metabolism in the cell. Chloroplasts are increasingly appreciated for their role in biomanufacturing, as they can produce many useful mol... | 3,347 |
39106075 | PMC11340025 | pmc | 5,055 | {
"abstract": "The self-sustained\nmotion of fluids on gradient substrates\nis a\nspectacular phenomenon, which can be employed and controlled in applications\nby carefully engineering the substrate properties. Here, we report\non a design of a gel substrate with stiffness gradient, which can\ncause the spontaneous m... | 4,911 |
38542638 | PMC10972092 | pmc | 5,060 | {
"abstract": "For some so-called computationally difficult problems, using the method of Boolean logic is fundamentally inefficient. For example, the vertex coloring problem looks very simple, but the number of possible solutions increases sharply with the increase of graph vertices. This is the difficulty of the pr... | 2,958 |
22518097 | PMC3324817 | pmc | 5,061 | {
"abstract": "Most scene segmentation and categorization architectures for the extraction of features in images and patches make exhaustive use of 2D convolution operations for template matching, template search, and denoising. Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) are one example of such architectures that can i... | 2,438 |
30401427 | null | s2 | 5,062 | {
"abstract": "No abstract available"
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31277471 | PMC6681080 | pmc | 5,063 | {
"abstract": "Flooding limits biomass production in agriculture. Leguminous plants, important agricultural crops, use atmospheric dinitrogen gas as nitrogen nutrition by symbiotic nitrogen fixation with rhizobia, but this root-nodule symbiosis is sometimes broken down by flooding of the root system. In this study, w... | 2,509 |
34390211 | PMC8529448 | pmc | 5,064 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The triboelectric effect is a ubiquitous phenomenon in which the surfaces of two materials are easily charged during the contact‐separation process. Despite the widespread consequences and applications, the charging mechanisms are not sufficiently understood. Here, the authors report that, in ... | 8,287 |
40253432 | PMC12009515 | pmc | 5,065 | {
"abstract": "Microbiome research is revolutionizing human and environmental health, but the value and reuse of microbiome data are significantly hampered by the limited development and adoption of data standards. While several ongoing efforts are aimed at improving microbiome data management, significant gaps still... | 1,939 |
32796828 | PMC7429506 | pmc | 5,067 | {
"abstract": "Ecological communities often show changes in populations and their interactions over time. To date, however, it has been challenging to effectively untangle the mechanisms shaping such dynamics. One approach that has yet to be fully explored is to treat the varying structure of empirical communities—i.... | 4,834 |
32782254 | PMC7419493 | pmc | 5,068 | {
"abstract": "Cooperative breeding may be selected for in animals when, on average, it confers greater benefits than solitary breeding. In a number of eusocial insects (i.e., ants, bees, wasps, and termites), queens join together to co-create new nests, a phenomenon known as colony co-founding. It has been hypothesi... | 3,633 |
35042817 | PMC8794879 | pmc | 5,069 | {
"abstract": "Significance Biofilms are multicellular, soft microbial communities that are able to colonize synthetic surfaces as well as living organisms. To survive sudden environmental changes and efficiently share their common resources, cells in a biofilm divide into subgroups with distinct functions, leading t... | 1,394 |
30514205 | PMC6280343 | pmc | 5,070 | {
"abstract": "Background Constraint-based modeling is a widely used and powerful methodology to assess the metabolic phenotypes and capabilities of an organism. The starting point and cornerstone of all such modeling is a genome-scale metabolic network reconstruction. The creation, further development, and applicati... | 2,161 |
24348089 | PMC3856425 | pmc | 5,071 | {
"abstract": "Several laboratories are pursuing the synthesis of cellular systems from different directions, including those that begin with simple chemicals to those that exploit existing cells. The methods that begin with nonliving components tend to focus on mimicking specific features of life, such as genomic re... | 166 |
31844276 | PMC6986341 | pmc | 5,072 | {
"abstract": "Early insights into the unique structure and properties of native silk suggested that β-sheet nanocrystallites in silk would degrade prior to melting when subjected to thermal processing. Since then, canonical approaches for fabricating silk-based materials typically involve solution-derived processing... | 276 |
35814004 | PMC9260013 | pmc | 5,075 | {
"abstract": "Global warming is approaching an alarming level due to the anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). To overcome the challenge, the reliance on fossil fuels needs to be alleviated, and a significant amount of CO 2 needs to be sequestrated from the atmosphere. In this endeavor, carbon-neutral a... | 1,875 |
35480677 | PMC9037800 | pmc | 5,077 | {
"abstract": "Motion is a basic behavioral attribute of organisms, and it is a behavioral response of organisms to the external environment and internal state changes. Materials with switchable mechanical properties are widespread in living organisms and play crucial roles in the motion of organisms. Therefore, sign... | 2,385 |
19249281 | null | s2 | 5,079 | {
"abstract": "Memory storage on short timescales is thought to be maintained by neuronal activity that persists after the remembered stimulus is removed. Although previous work suggested that positive feedback is necessary to maintain persistent activity, here it is demonstrated how neuronal responses can instead be... | 245 |
39934908 | PMC11817178 | pmc | 5,080 | {
"abstract": "Background Beta-diversity is a fundamental ecological metric for exploring dissimilarities between microbial communities. On the functional dimension, metaproteomics data can be used to quantify beta-diversity to understand how microbial community functional profiles vary under different environmental ... | 1,735 |
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