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PMC11914766
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{ "abstract": "Highlights • Soil and its microbial communities play a pivotal role in nutrient cycling, plant growth, and overall ecosystem health. • Over time, the co-evolution of plant-microbe relationships has fostered an interdependence that is central to the microbial loop, significantly contributing to ecosyste...
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PMC8787007
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{ "abstract": "Background Although microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a promising technology for capturing renewable energy from wastewater, their scaling-up is significantly limited by a slow-rate cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the development of a resilient anodic microbial community. In this study...
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PMC6291805
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{ "abstract": "DNA\nnanotechnology provides a versatile toolbox for creating custom\nand accurate shapes that can serve as versatile templates for nanopatterning.\nThese DNA templates can be used as molecular-scale precision tools\nin, for example, biosensing, nanometrology, and super-resolution imaging,\nand biocomp...
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{ "abstract": "Hydrogels are candidate building blocks in a wide range of biomaterial applications including soft and biohybrid robotics, microfluidics, and tissue engineering. Recent advances in embedded 3D printing have broadened the design space accessible with hydrogel additive manufacturing. Specifically, the Fr...
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PMC5332151
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{ "abstract": "By adding a small amount of a vesicle surfactant, “unavoidable” splashing is considerably reduced on superhydrophobic surfaces.", "conclusion": "CONCLUSION In conclusion, although we have mainly focused on a specific microstructured/nanostructured superhydrophobic surface with varying tilted angles t...
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PMC11871721
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{ "abstract": "Background Astaxanthin is a red pigment required by feed, nutraceutical, and cosmetic industries for its pigmentation and antioxidant properties. This carotenoid is one of the main high-value products that can nowadays be derived from microalgae cultivation, raising important industrial interest. Howev...
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{ "abstract": "Natural recombination combines pieces of preexisting proteins to create new tertiary structures and functions. We describe a computational protocol, called SEWING, which is inspired by this process and builds new proteins from connected or disconnected pieces of existing structures. Helical proteins de...
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{ "abstract": "Polymer networks are critically important for numerous applications including soft biomaterials, adhesives, coatings, elastomers, and gel-based materials for energy storage. One long-standing challenge these materials present lies in understanding the role of network defects, such as dangling ends and ...
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PMC10092803
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{ "abstract": "Summary \n The model heterocyst‐forming filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 ( Anabaena ) is a typical example of a multicellular organism capable of simultaneously performing oxygenic photosynthesis in vegetative cells and O 2 ‐sensitive N 2 ‐fixation inside heterocysts. The flavodiiron ...
5,216
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PMC3590773
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Many insect species have established long-term symbiotic relationships with intracellular bacteria. Symbiosis with bacteria has provided insects with novel ecological capabilities, which have allowed them colonize previously unexplored niches. Despite its importance to the understanding of the emergenc...
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{ "abstract": "Microorganisms are the pillars of life on Earth. Over billions of years, they have evolved into every conceivable niche on the planet. Microbes reshaped the oceans and atmosphere and gave rise to conditions conducive to multicellular organisms. Only in the past decade have we started to peer deeply int...
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PMC7601019
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{ "abstract": "Mechanical property is one of the most important properties of nanofiber membranes. Electrospinning is widely used in the preparation of nanofibers due to its advantages such as good stability and easy operation. Compared with some nature silk, the mechanical properties of nanofibers prepared by electr...
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PMC10533193
pmc
5,991
{ "abstract": "Despite the well-documented role of biochar in promoting soil quality and crop productivity, the underlying biological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we explored the effects of straw biochar on soil microbiome in the rhizosphere from wheat using metagenomic sequencing. Our results showed th...
2,048
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PMC4132294
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Efficient microbial conversion of lignocellulosic hydrolysates to biofuels is a key barrier to the economically viable deployment of lignocellulosic biofuels. A chief contributor to this barrier is the impact on microbial processes and energy metabolism of lignocellulose-derived inhibitors, including p...
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PMC4752607
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The genomes of many photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic bacteria encode numerous phytochrome superfamily photoreceptors whose functions and interactions are largely unknown. Cyanobacterial genomes encode particularly large numbers of phytochrome superfamily members called cyanobacteriochromes...
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PMC3943290
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{ "abstract": "Obligate aerobic AMF taxa have high species richness under waterlogged conditions, but their ecological role remains unclear. Here we focused on AM fungal mediation of plant interactions in a marshland plant community. Five cooccurring plant species were chosen for a neighbor removal experiment in whic...
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PMC3210360
pmc
5,998
{ "abstract": "Respiration and photosynthesis are two important processes in microalgal growth that occur simultaneously in the light. To know the rates of both processes, at least one of them has to be measured. To be able to measure the rate of light respiration of Chlorella sorokiniana , the measurement of oxygen...
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PMC10945513
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent simple devices that harness the metabolic activities of microorganisms to produce electrical energy from diverse sources such as organic waste and sustainable biomass. Because of their unique advantage to generate sustainable energy, through the employment of biode...
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PMC9062269
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{ "abstract": "Summary Liquid phase leakage, intrinsic rigidity, and easy brittle failure are the longstanding bottlenecks of phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage, which seriously hinder their widespread applications in advanced energy-efficient systems. Emerging flexible composite PCMs that are c...
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PMC9753497
pmc
6,001
{ "abstract": "In this paper, catalyst-free room-temperature healing\nepoxy vitrimer-like\nmaterials (S-vitrimer) are introduced. The S-vitrimer can be healed\nat room temperature without any external stimuli such as solvent,\npressure, heat, and catalyst through an aromatic disulfide exchange\nreaction and a hydroge...
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PMC3123342
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{ "abstract": "Cleaning behaviour is deemed a mutualism, however the benefit of cleaning interactions to client individuals is unknown. Furthermore, mechanisms that may shift fish community structure in the presence of cleaning organisms are unclear. Here we show that on patch reefs (61–285 m 2 ) which had all cleane...
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PMC6032008
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Interactions between host plants and endophytic microorganisms play an important role in plant responses to pathogens and environmental stresses and have potential applications for plant stress management under in vitro conditions. We assessed the effect of endophytic bacteria on the growth and proli...
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PMC11006893
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Stretchable neuromorphic optoelectronics present tantalizing opportunities for intelligent vision applications that necessitate high spatial resolution and multimodal interaction. Existing neuromorphic devices are either stretchable but not reconcilable with multifunctionality, or discrete but with low...
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PMC11350736
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and glycerol are prevalent\nforms\nof plastic and biowaste, necessitating facile and effective strategies\nfor their upcycling treatment. Herein, we present an innovative one-pot\nreaction system for the concurrent depolymerization of PET plastics\nand the transesterifi...
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PMC8378814
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Self-contained soft electrofluidic actuators display excellent performance in portability, rapid response, and actuation.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION In contrast to conventional rigid robots, soft robots ( 1 – 8 ) made from flexible materials offer great advantages in adapting to complex surround...
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PMC3049413
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Fermentation of plant biomass by microbes like Clostridium phytofermentans recycles carbon globally and can make biofuels from inedible feedstocks. We analyzed C. phytofermentans fermenting cellulosic substrates by integrating quantitative mass spectrometry of more than 2500 proteins with measureme...
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PMC2852388
pmc
6,015
{ "abstract": "Background Microorganisms possess diverse metabolic capabilities that can potentially be leveraged for efficient production of biofuels. Clostridium thermocellum (ATCC 27405) is a thermophilic anaerobe that is both cellulolytic and ethanologenic, meaning that it can directly use the plant sugar, cell...
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PMC8339926
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Gated recurrent units (GRUs) are specialized memory elements for building recurrent neural networks. Despite their incredible success on various tasks, including extracting dynamics underlying neural data, little is understood about the specific dynamics representable in a GRU network. As a result, it ...
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PMC4620420
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Yellowstone Lake (Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA) is a large high-altitude (2200 m), fresh-water lake, which straddles an extensive caldera and is the center of significant geothermal activity. The primary goal of this interdisciplinary study was to evaluate the microbial populations inhabiting the...
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PMC12024680
pmc
6,020
{ "abstract": "Increasing efforts have been devoted to developing biobased and biodegradable plastics and composites from lignocellulosic biomass. Current bioplastic production entails multiple challenging steps including monomer production from biomass as well as polymer synthesis and modification. Here, we report a...
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PMC9544845
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{ "abstract": "Abstract \n The spatial distribution of animals in a landscape depends mainly on the distribution of resources. Resource availability is often facilitated by other species and can positively influence local species diversity and affect community structure. Species that significantly change resource ava...
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PMC10505944
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The light conditions are of utmost importance in any microalgae production process especially involving artificial illumination. This also applies to a chrysolaminarin (soluble 1,3‐β‐glucan) production process using the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum . Here we examine the influence of the a...
3,001
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PMC3159908
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Genetically engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains are able to ferment xylose present in lignocellulosic biomass. However, better xylose fermenting strains are required to reach complete xylose uptake in simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation (SSCF) of lignocellulosic hydrolyzates. In...
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PMC5496868
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The deep biosphere is one of the least understood ecosystems on Earth. Although most microbiological studies in this system have focused on prokaryotes and neglected microeukaryotes, recent discoveries have revealed existence of fossil and active fungi in marine sediments and sub-seafloor basalts, with...
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PMC5221347
pmc
6,028
{ "abstract": "The family Leguminosae comprises approximately 20,000 species that mostly form symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB). This study is aimed at investigating and confirming the dependence on nodulation and biological nitrogen fixation in the specie Piptade...
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PMC5345924
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A polymer is described that is conductive and stretchable, which can lead to electronics that can conform to the human body.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Recent advancements in stretchable electronics have blurred the interfaces between human and machine ( 1 , 2 ). Devices such as epidermal elect...
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PMC7805616
pmc
6,033
{ "abstract": "The relationship between a reinforcement learning (RL) agent and an asynchronous environment is often ignored. Frequently used models of the interaction between an agent and its environment, such as Markov Decision Processes (MDP) or Semi-Markov Decision Processes (SMDP), do not capture the fact that, ...
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PMC7819241
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Many fungi grow as saprobic organisms and obtain nutrients from a wide range of dead organic materials. Among saprobes, fungal species that grow on wood or in polluted environments have evolved prolific mechanisms for the production of degrading compounds, such as ligninolytic enzymes. These...
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PMC8233197
pmc
6,036
{ "abstract": "Summary Electrotrophic microorganisms have not been well studied in extreme environments. Here, we report on the nitrate-reducing cathodic microbial biofilm from a haloalkaline environment. The biofilm enriched via electrochemical approach under 9.5 pH and 20 g NaCl/L salinity conditions achieved − ...
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PMC5309244
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Here we provide the state-of-the-art of bioelectronic interfacing between biological neuronal systems and artificial components, focusing the attention on the potentiality offered by intrinsically neuromorphic synthetic devices based on Resistive Switching (RS). Neuromorphic engineering is outside th...
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PMC10301997
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play key roles in enhancing plant tolerance to heavy metals, and iron (Fe) compounds can reduce the bioavailability of arsenic (As) in soil, thereby alleviating As toxicity. However, there have been limited studies of the synergistic antioxidant mechanisms of AMF ( Fu...
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PMC6492693
pmc
6,043
{ "abstract": "Microbial dissimilatory sulfate reduction to sulfide is a predominant terminal pathway of organic matter mineralization in the anoxic seabed. Chemical or microbial oxidation of the produced sulfide establishes a complex network of pathways in the sulfur cycle, leading to intermediate sulfur species and...
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PMC10225898
pmc
6,046
{ "abstract": "The world's population is increasing and is anticipated to spread 10 billion by 2050, and the issue of food security is becoming a global concern. To maintain global food security, it is essential to increase crop productivity under changing climatic conditions. Conventional agricultural practices freq...
2,408
39979462
PMC11842525
pmc
6,047
{ "abstract": "Solitarily foraging ants learn to navigate between important locations by comparing their current view with memorized scenes along a familiar route. As desert ants, in particular, travel between their nest and a food source, they establish stable and visually guided routes that guide them without relyi...
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PMC10099496
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The spatial organization of biofilm bacterial communities can be influenced by several factors, including growth conditions and challenge with antimicrobials. Differential survival of clusters of cells within biofilms has been observed. In this work, we present a variety of methods to identify...
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PMC8009962
pmc
6,050
{ "abstract": "Benthic cyanobacterial mats (BCMs) are becoming increasingly common on coral reefs. In Fiji, blooms generally occur in nearshore areas during warm months but some are starting to prevail through cold months. Many fundamental knowledge gaps about BCM proliferation remain, including their composition and...
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{ "abstract": "Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that uses the process of quorum sensing (QS) to coordinate the expression of many virulence genes. During quorum sensing, N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) signaling molecules regulate the activity of three LuxR-type transcription factors, LasR, RhlR an...
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{ "abstract": "Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that uses the process of quorum sensing (QS) to coordinate the expression of many virulence genes. During quorum sensing, N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) signaling molecules regulate the activity of three LuxR-type transcription factors, LasR, RhlR an...
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PMC4468158
pmc
6,055
{ "abstract": "Rare earth elements (REEs) have become increasingly important metals used in modern technology. Processes including mining, oil refining, discarding of obsolete equipment containing REEs, and the use of REE-containing phosphate fertilizers may increase the likelihood of environmental contamination. How...
5,320
34063836
PMC8224052
pmc
6,056
{ "abstract": "Intensive exchange of nutrients is a crucial part of the complex interaction between a host plant and fungi within arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis. For the first time, the present study demonstrates how inoculation with AMF Rhizophagus irregularis affects the pea ( Pisum sativum L.) root metab...
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PMC4299433
pmc
6,060
{ "abstract": "Many of the precise biological mechanisms of synaptic plasticity remain elusive, but simulations of neural networks have greatly enhanced our understanding of how specific global functions arise from the massively parallel computation of neurons and local Hebbian or spike-timing dependent plasticity ru...
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{ "abstract": "A novel composite hydrogel was developed that shows remarkable similarities to load bearing biological tissues. The composite gel consisting of a poly(vinyl alcohol (PVA) matrix filled with poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) microgel particles exhibits osmotic and mechanical properties that are qualitatively dif...
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PMC6862615
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A superhydrophilic aluminum surface with fast water evaporation based on nanostructured aluminum oxide was fabricated via anodizing in pyrophosphoric acid. Anodizing aluminum in pyrophosphoric acid caused the successive formation of a barrier oxide film, a porous oxide film, pyramidal bundle structures...
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PMC5781258
pmc
6,067
{ "abstract": "The identification of a common “stress microbiome” indicates tightly controlled relationships between the plant host and bacterial associates and a conserved structure in bacterial communities associated with poplar trees under different growth conditions. The ability of the microbiome to buffer the pl...
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PMC8145531
pmc
6,071
{ "abstract": "As the smallest unit of life, cells attract interest due to their structural complexity and functional reliability. Protocells assembled by inanimate components are created as an artificial entity to mimic the structure and some essential properties of a natural cell, and artificial reaction networks a...
1,964
30636412
PMC6367683
pmc
6,072
{ "abstract": "Stiffening due to internal stress\ngeneration is of paramount importance\nin living systems and is the foundation for many biomechanical processes.\nFor example, cells stiffen their surrounding matrix by pulling on\ncollagen and fibrin fibers. At the subcellular level, molecular motors\nprompt fluidiza...
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PMC9624335
pmc
6,073
{ "abstract": "Antifogging surfaces with unique properties to migrate severe fog formation have gained extensive interest, which is of particular interest for transparent substrates to obtain high visibility and transparency. To date, a large number of strategies including superhydrophilic or superhydrophobic surface...
5,925
21406598
PMC3055163
pmc
6,075
{ "abstract": "Horizontal gene transfer contributes to evolution and the acquisition of new traits. In bacteria, horizontal gene transfer is often mediated by conjugative genetic elements that transfer directly from cell to cell. Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs; also known as conjugative transposons) are m...
1,436
36652484
PMC9942920
pmc
6,076
{ "abstract": "Significance The long-term impacts of infection on the microbiota and its regulation of host physiology are poorly understood. Here, we report that long-term alterations to the gut microbiota following a single, acute episode of bacterial or protozoan gut infection can remodel host metabolism to prefer...
1,516
38834547
PMC11150272
pmc
6,077
{ "abstract": "Liquid-solid contact electrification (CE) is essential to diverse applications. Exploiting its full implementation requires an in-depth understanding and fine-grained control of charge carriers (electrons and/or ions) during CE. Here, we decouple the electrons and ions during liquid-solid CE by designi...
2,400
38419632
PMC10900513
pmc
6,078
{ "abstract": "Species differentiation and the appearance of novel diversity on Earth is a major issue to understand the past and future of microbial evolution. Herein, we propose the analysis of a singular evolutive example, the case of microorganisms carrying out the process of anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation...
2,652
39944239
PMC11815889
pmc
6,079
{ "abstract": "Abstract The rhizosphere is the soil region around plant roots hosting a diverse microbial community, influencing nutrient availability and how plants react to extreme conditions. However, our understanding of the fungi biodiversity and the impact of environmental variations on this biodiversity is sti...
3,932
35340841
PMC8942777
pmc
6,080
{ "abstract": "It is anticipated that copper mining output will significantly increase over the next 20 years because of the more intensive use of copper in electricity-related technologies such as for transport and clean power generation, leading to a significant increase in the impacts on water resources if stricte...
9,613
38390176
PMC10881560
pmc
6,082
{ "abstract": "Escalating concern over global warming, which is mostly associated with deforestation, has led to the development of new classes of materials that can replace wood and better utilise natural resources. Presently, waste is a significant factor in recycling. In this regard, one of the leading contributor...
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37542329
PMC10403917
pmc
6,083
{ "abstract": "Background Sesquiterpenes are designated as a large class of plant-derived natural active compounds, which have wide applications in industries of energy, food, cosmetics, medicine and agriculture. Neither plant extraction nor chemical synthesis can meet the massive market demands and sustainable devel...
5,405
22207865
PMC3245565
pmc
6,085
{ "abstract": "A cold methane seep was discovered in a forearc sediment basin off the island Sumatra, exhibiting a methane-seep adapted microbial community. A defined seep center of activity, like in mud volcanoes, was not discovered. The seep area was rather characterized by a patchy distribution of active spots. Th...
6,538
39404665
PMC7616573
pmc
6,086
{ "abstract": "This perspective article focuses on the innovative field of materials-based bacterial engineering, highlighting interdisciplinary research that employs material science to study, augment, and exploit the attributes of living bacteria. By utilizing exogenous abiotic material interfaces, researchers can ...
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{ "abstract": "Bacteria have developed a cell-to-cell communication system, termed quorum sensing (QS), which allows for the population-dependent coordination of their behavior via the exchange of chemical signals. Autoinducer-2 (AI-2), a class of QS signals derived from 4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentandione (DPD), has been ...
357
31910889
PMC6947943
pmc
6,090
{ "abstract": "Background The impact of human activities on the environmental resistome has been documented in many studies, but there remains the controversial question of whether the increased antibiotic resistance observed in anthropogenically impacted environments is just a result of contamination by resistant fe...
2,349
38684659
PMC11058813
pmc
6,091
{ "abstract": "Agriculture contributes to a decline in local species diversity and to above- and below-ground biotic homogenization. Here, we conduct a continental survey using 1185 soil samples and compare microbial communities from natural ecosystems (forest, grassland, and wetland) with converted agricultural land...
5,299
36307673
PMC9614761
pmc
6,094
{ "abstract": "Ocean warming has both direct physiological and indirect ecological consequences for marine organisms. Sessile animals may be particularly vulnerable to anomalous warming given constraints in food acquisition and reproduction imposed by sessility. In temperate reef ecosystems, sessile suspension feedin...
4,418
40251215
PMC12008304
pmc
6,095
{ "abstract": "Microbial community responses to environmental stressors are often characterised by assessing changes in taxonomic structure, but such changes, or lack thereof, may not reflect functional changes that are critical to ecosystem processes. We investigated the individual and combined effects of nutrient e...
5,795
39005283
PMC11244974
pmc
6,097
{ "abstract": "Microbial communities vary across space, time, and individual hosts, presenting new challenges for the development of statistics measuring the variability of community composition. To understand differences across microbiome samples from different host individuals, sampling times, spatial locations, or...
3,841
24408876
PMC4060947
pmc
6,100
{ "abstract": "Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is the most popular cyanobacterial model for prokaryotic photosynthesis and for metabolic engineering to produce biofuels. Genomic and transcriptomic comparisons between closely related bacteria are powerful approaches to infer insights into their metabolic potentials and re...
7,812
37662195
PMC10473689
pmc
6,102
{ "abstract": "Disturbance events can impact ecological community dynamics. Understanding how communities respond to disturbances, and how those responses can vary, is a challenge in microbial ecology. In this study, we grew a previously enriched specialized microbial community on either cellulose or glucose as a sol...
4,199
35519388
PMC9065546
pmc
6,106
{ "abstract": "The great potential of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) in pollution control combined with energy recovery has attracted increasing attention. Classified by their functions in the BES, microorganisms including degraders, electricigens, and element cycle-related microbes play key roles in pollutant deg...
1,421
36838264
PMC9964534
pmc
6,108
{ "abstract": "It is claimed that one g of soil holds ten billion bacteria representing thousands of distinct species. These bacteria play key roles in the regulation of terrestrial carbon dynamics, nutrient cycles, and plant productivity. Despite the overwhelming diversity of bacteria, most bacterial species remain ...
2,478
40092618
PMC11910081
pmc
6,109
{ "abstract": "Summary Anti-smudge coating materials have a broad prospect, but they are susceptible to wear from nails and sand. Therefore, the potential application of such coatings on glass substrates needs coating features such as superhardness and high transparency. However, realizing these key properties combin...
6,265
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PMC11169877
pmc
6,110
{ "abstract": "A comprehensive study was conducted in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin (CCB) in Coahuila, Mexico, which is known for its diversity of microorganisms and unique physicochemical properties. The study focused on the “Archaean Domes” (AD) site in the CCB, which is characterized by an abundance of hypersaline, no...
7,609
28424712
PMC5371606
pmc
6,112
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are crucial components of fertile soils, able to provide several ecosystem services for crop production. Current economic, social and legislative contexts should drive the so-called “second green revolution” by better exploiting these beneficial microorganisms. Many c...
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6,114
{ "abstract": "All systems for processing signals, both artificial and within animals, must obey fundamental statistical laws for how information can be processed. We discuss here recent results using information theory that provide a blueprint for building circuits where signals can be read-out without information l...
408
37965057
PMC10641440
pmc
6,115
{ "abstract": "Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have emerged as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional polyesters. In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of the genomic and phenotypic characteristics of three non-model thermophilic bacteria known for their ability to produce PHAs: Schlegelel...
5,073
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6,117
{ "abstract": "Bacteria employ a variety of mechanisms to promote and control colonization of their respective hosts, including restricting the expression of genes necessary for colonization to distinct situations (i.e. encounter with a prospective host). In the symbiosis between the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri ...
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PMC11697164
pmc
6,122
{ "abstract": "Abstract Urea is hypothesized to be an important source of nitrogen and chemical energy to microorganisms in the deep sea; however, direct evidence for urea use below the epipelagic ocean is lacking. Here, we explore urea utilization from 50 to 4000 meters depth in the northeastern Pacific Ocean using ...
5,132
37233284
PMC10219321
pmc
6,123
{ "abstract": "3-Hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) is an important intermediate compound in the chemical industry. Green and environmentally friendly microbial synthesis methods are becoming increasingly popular in a range of industries. Compared to other chassis cells, Yarrowia lipolytica possesses advantages, such as ...
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20431716
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6,124
{ "abstract": "The combustion of fossil-derived fuels has a significant impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)) levels and correspondingly is an important contributor to anthropogenic global climate change. Plants have evolved photosynthetic mechanisms in which solar energy is used to fix CO(2) into carbohydrate...
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PMC8795527
pmc
6,125
{ "abstract": "Significance We provide insights into the sequence–conformation–property relationship that is central to the mechanical properties of protein elastomers. We find that a high content of glycine residue alone, not including proline, is sufficient for achieving near-perfect resilience. The content of prol...
5,451
38324676
PMC10849601
pmc
6,126
{ "abstract": "Through evolution, nature has presented a set of remarkable protein materials, including elastins, silks, keratins and collagens with superior mechanical performances that play crucial roles in mechanobiology. However, going beyond natural designs to discover proteins that meet specified mechanical pro...
5,397
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PMC6334530
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Bacterial biofilms are communities of microbial cells encased within a self‐produced polymeric matrix. In the Bacillus subtilis biofilm matrix, the extracellular fibres of TasA are essential. Here, a recombinant expression system allows interrogation of TasA, revealing that monomeric and fibr...
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{ "abstract": "Inspired by spider silk's hierarchical diversity, we leveraged peptide motifs with the capability to tune structural arrangement for controlling the mechanical properties of a conventional polymer framework. The addition of nanofiller with hydrogen bonding sites was used as another pathway towards hier...
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PMC5415339
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{ "abstract": "Biobased\nfuranics like 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) are interesting\nplatform chemicals for the synthesis of biofuel additives and polymer\nprecursors. 5-HMF is typically prepared from C6 ketoses like fructose,\npsicose, sorbose and tagatose. A known byproduct is 2-hydroxyacetylfuran\n(2-HAF), part...
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PMC4668581
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{ "abstract": "Ecological networks such as plant-pollinator and host-parasite networks have structured interactions that define who interacts with whom. The structure of interactions also shapes ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Yet, there is significant ongoing debate as to whether certain structures, e.g., nest...
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PMC8638023
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{ "abstract": "Biogenic coalbed\nmethane (CBM) is generally believed to be formed\nby anaerobic bacteria and methanogens, while a few studies took fungi\ninto account. Here, the microflora consisting of fungi and methanogens\nwas enriched from the produced water associated with the Qinshui Basin\nusing anthracite as ...
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PMC7768010
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{ "abstract": "Volcanic areas emit a number of gases including methane and other short chain alkanes, that may serve as energy source for the prevailing microorganisms. The verrucomicrobial methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV was isolated from a volcanic mud pot, and is able to grow under thermoacidoph...
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{ "abstract": "Engineering synthetic heterotrophy is a key to the efficient bio-based valorization of renewable and waste substrates. Among these, engineering hemicellulosic pentose utilization has been well-explored in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) over several decades-yet the answer to what makes their utilizati...
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PMC11153752
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{ "abstract": "The rhizosphere microbiome plays a crucial role in supporting plant productivity and ecosystem functioning by regulating nutrient cycling, soil integrity, and carbon storage. However, deciphering the intricate interplay between microbial relationships within the rhizosphere is challenging due to the ov...
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{ "abstract": "We consider systems of agents interacting through topological interactions. These have been shown to play an important part in animal and human behavior. Precisely, the system consists of a finite number of particles characterized by their positions and velocities. At random times a randomly chosen par...
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PMC4061089
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{ "abstract": "Apical lesions on Porites astreoides were characterized by the appearance of a thin yellow band, which was preceded by bleaching of the coral tissues and followed by a completely denuded coral skeleton, which often harbored secondary macroalgal colonizers. These characteristics have not been previous...
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{ "abstract": "No abstract available" }
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PMC10865589
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{ "abstract": "Alfalfa, an essential forage crop known for its high yield, nutritional value, and strong adaptability, has been widely cultivated worldwide. The yield and quality of alfalfa are frequently jeopardized due to environmental degradation. Lignin, a constituent of the cell wall, enhances plant resistance t...
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