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34927022 | PMC8649731 | pmc | 7,170 | {
"abstract": "Summary Wearable thermoelectrochemical cells have attracted increasing interest due to their ability to turn human body heat into electricity. Here, we have fabricated a flexible, cost-effective, and 3D porous all-polymer electrode on an electrical conductive polymer substrate via a simple 3D printing ... | 7,691 |
39204837 | PMC11359260 | pmc | 7,172 | {
"abstract": "Textile-based thermoelectric (TE) devices are being investigated to power smart textiles autonomously. While previous research has focused on a solid system where the required junctions are fabricated into the device, there has been limited attention given to replacing these TE systems reliably. This w... | 4,564 |
25927577 | PMC4463603 | pmc | 7,173 | {
"abstract": "Harnessing hydrogen competently through wastewater treatment using a particular class of biocatalyst is indeed a challenging issue. Therefore, biohydrogen potential of real-field wastewater was evaluated by hybrid fermentative process in a single-stage process. The cumulative hydrogen production (CHP) ... | 6,046 |
39946539 | PMC11848305 | pmc | 7,174 | {
"abstract": "Significance For photoautotrophs, light is both an essential driver of photosynthesis and a potential threat when in excess. Our research unveils the photoreceptor-induced Light Harvesting complex-Like 4 (LHL4) as a protagonist in the photoprotective response against harmful effects of high light (HL) ... | 5,708 |
37276409 | PMC10268325 | pmc | 7,175 | {
"abstract": "Significance Coral reefs are biodiversity hotspots that are in decline due to stressors associated with climate change. Thus, a critical research goal is to achieve a deeper understanding of basic coral biology to inform conservation efforts. This goal has been difficult to achieve due to the lack of g... | 1,653 |
37655360 | PMC10466179 | pmc | 7,176 | {
"abstract": "Superhydrophobic porous materials exhibit remarkable stability and exceptional efficacy in combating marine oil spills and containing oily water discharges. This work employed the multi-template high internal phase emulsion method to fabricate a multi-template porous superhydrophobic foam (MTPSF). The ... | 6,625 |
29030583 | PMC5640656 | pmc | 7,178 | {
"abstract": "Nacre, a composite made from biogenic aragonite and proteins, exhibits excellent strength and toughness. Here, we show that nacreous sections can exhibit complete brittle fracture along the tablet interfaces at the proportional limit under pure shear stresses of torsion. We quantitatively separate the ... | 3,815 |
35157069 | PMC8902694 | pmc | 7,179 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Nutrient pollution is linked to coral disease susceptibility and severity, but the mechanism behind this effect remains underexplored. A recently identified bacterial species, ‘ Ca . Aquarickettsia rohweri,’ is hypothesized to parasitize the Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis , le... | 6,472 |
38626194 | PMC11020763 | pmc | 7,181 | {
"abstract": "The move from a free-living environment to a long-term residence inside a host eukaryotic cell has profound effects on bacterial function. While endosymbioses are found in many eukaryotes, from protists to plants to animals, the bacteria that form these host-beneficial relationships are even more diver... | 952 |
25897488 | PMC4410645 | pmc | 7,182 | {
"abstract": "Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a key role in bacterial evolution, especially with respect to antibiotic resistance. Fitness costs associated with mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are thought to constrain HGT, but our understanding of these costs remains fragmentary, making it difficult to predict t... | 1,746 |
24903884 | null | s2 | 7,183 | {
"abstract": "DNA assembler is an efficient synthetic biology method for constructing and manipulating biochemical pathways. The rapidly increasing number of sequenced genomes provides a rich source for discovery of gene clusters involved in synthesizing new natural products. However, both discovery and economical p... | 272 |
34081101 | PMC8358223 | pmc | 7,185 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Annotated genome sequences provide valuable insight into the functional capabilities of members of microbial communities. Nevertheless, most studies on the microbiome in animal guts use metagenomic data, hampering the assignment of genes to specific microbial taxa. Here, we make use of the rea... | 6,069 |
26296163 | null | s2 | 7,186 | {
"abstract": "The underlying physical properties of microfluidic tools have led to new biological insights through the development of microsystems that can manipulate, mimic and measure biology at a resolution that has not been possible with macroscale tools. Microsystems readily handle sub-microlitre volumes, preci... | 245 |
34938574 | PMC8671620 | pmc | 7,187 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The leakage of industrial oil and organic wastewater discharge has caused serious damage to the natural environment and ecology. Therefore, implementation of a low‐cost and high‐performance adsorbent material is of great significant. This work reports the preparation of superhydrophobic rock w... | 7,314 |
25617645 | PMC4305289 | pmc | 7,190 | {
"abstract": "Previous explanations of computations performed by recurrent networks have focused on symmetrically connected saturating neurons and their convergence toward attractors. Here we analyze the behavior of asymmetrical connected networks of linear threshold neurons, whose positive response is unbounded. We... | 4,726 |
27019743 | null | s2 | 7,191 | {
"abstract": "Host-associated microbiomes influence host health. However, it is unclear whether genotypic variations in host organisms influence the microbiome in ways that have adaptive consequences for the host. Here, we show that wild accessions of "
} | 59 |
33293404 | PMC7743110 | pmc | 7,192 | {
"abstract": "In this work, an original methodology was developed that quantifies bioenergetically and physiologically feasible net ATP yields for large numbers of microbial metabolic pathways and their variants under different conditions. All variants are evaluated, which ensures global optimality in finding the pa... | 7,641 |
36793505 | PMC9912012 | pmc | 7,193 | {
"abstract": "Deterministic and stochastic processes are believed to play a combined role in microbial community assembly, though little is known about the factors determining their relative importance. We investigated the effect of biofilm thickness on community assembly in nitrifying moving bed biofilm reactors us... | 5,640 |
36879809 | PMC9985049 | pmc | 7,194 | {
"abstract": "Summary Epoxy resin is widely used in various fields of the national economy due to its excellent chemical and mechanical properties. Lignin is mainly derived from lignocelluloses as one of the most abundant renewable bioresources. Due to the diversity of lignin sources and the complexity as well as he... | 1,754 |
21556065 | PMC3130554 | pmc | 7,197 | {
"abstract": "Many compounds being considered as candidates for advanced biofuels are toxic to microorganisms. This introduces an undesirable trade-off when engineering metabolic pathways for biofuel production because the engineered microbes must balance production against survival. Cellular export systems, such as... | 3,393 |
27774985 | PMC5079060 | pmc | 7,198 | {
"abstract": "The subterranean world hosts up to one-fifth of all biomass, including microbial communities that drive transformations central to Earth's biogeochemical cycles. However, little is known about how complex microbial communities in such environments are structured, and how inter-organism interactions sha... | 1,802 |
35559674 | PMC9106289 | pmc | 7,203 | {
"abstract": "Synthetic composite materials constructed by hybridizing multiple components are typically unsustainable due to inadequate recyclability and incomplete degradation. In contrast, biological materials like silk and bamboo assemble pure polymeric components into sophisticated multiscale architectures, ach... | 1,542 |
28592993 | PMC5460468 | pmc | 7,204 | {
"abstract": "Background Feedstock cost is a substantial barrier to the commercialization of lignocellulosic biorefineries. Poplar grown using a short rotation coppice (SRC) system has the potential to provide a low-cost feedstock and economically viable sugar yields for fuels and chemicals production. In the coppic... | 6,126 |
35560875 | PMC9089752 | pmc | 7,205 | {
"abstract": "Correction for ‘Preparation of superhydrophobic surfaces with micro/nano alumina molds’ by Takashi Yanagishita et al. , RSC Adv. , 2018, 8 , 36697–36704."
} | 39 |
23922937 | PMC3724788 | pmc | 7,208 | {
"abstract": "Mutualisms are common in nature, though these symbioses can be quite permeable to cheaters in situations where one individual parasitizes the other by discontinuing cooperation yet still exploits the benefits of the partnership. In the Rhizobium -legume system, there are two separate contexts, namely ... | 3,522 |
18760359 | null | s2 | 7,212 | {
"abstract": "The extremely thermoacidophilic archaea are a particularly intriguing group of microorganisms that must simultaneously cope with biologically extreme pHs (< or = 4) and temperatures (Topt > or = 60 degrees C) in their natural environments. Their expanding biotechnological significance relates to their ... | 232 |
36297830 | PMC9611852 | pmc | 7,213 | {
"abstract": "Polymer film coating with a highly hydrophobic surface property is a practical approach to prevent fouling of any structures in the marine environment without affecting marine microorganisms. The preparation of a polymer coating, from a simple and easy method of solution blending of hydrophobic polydim... | 7,485 |
28301612 | null | s2 | 7,216 | {
"abstract": "The Gold King Mine spill in August 2015 released 11 million liters of metal-rich mine waste to the Animas River watershed, an area that has been previously exposed to historical mining activity spanning more than a century. Although adsorption onto fluvial sediments was responsible for rapid immobiliza... | 207 |
36134938 | PMC9496521 | pmc | 7,218 | {
"abstract": "Controlled, reversible attachment is widely spread throughout the animal kingdom: from ticks to tree frogs, whose weights span from 2 mg to 200 g, and from geckos to mosquitoes, who stick under vastly different situations, such as quickly climbing trees and stealthily landing on human hosts. A fascinat... | 6,985 |
33927732 | PMC8076870 | pmc | 7,220 | {
"abstract": "Microalgae are used as a source of lipids for the production of biofuels. Most algae produce neutral lipids under stress conditions. Here, lipid accumulation by the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was examined during cultivation under iron-limiting conditions. Severe iron stress caused the... | 7,221 |
35211146 | PMC8860905 | pmc | 7,221 | {
"abstract": "Soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP), typical of Pectobacterium and Dickeya , are a class of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens that cause devastating diseases on a wide range of crops and ornamental plants worldwide. Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-cell communication mechanism regulating the expression of... | 1,895 |
36075917 | PMC9458730 | pmc | 7,222 | {
"abstract": "Operation of temperature sensors over extended temperature ranges, and particularly in extreme conditions, poses challenges with both the mechanical integrity of the sensing material and the operational range of the sensor. With an emissive bendable organic crystalline material, here we propose that or... | 6,581 |
38161372 | PMC10755848 | pmc | 7,223 | {
"abstract": "Selective lignin\ndepolymerization is a key step in lignin valorization\nto value-added products, and there are multiple catalytic methods\nto cleave labile aryl–ether bonds in lignin. However, the overall\naromatic monomer yield is inherently limited by refractory carbon–carbon\nlinkages, which are ab... | 6,276 |
36824217 | PMC9941318 | pmc | 7,224 | {
"abstract": "Intelligent sensor systems are essential for building modern Internet of Things applications. Embedding intelligence within or near sensors provides a strong case for analog neural computing. However, rapid prototyping of analog or mixed signal spiking neural computing is a non-trivial and time-consumi... | 4,421 |
30410980 | PMC6202650 | pmc | 7,227 | {
"abstract": "Marine\norganisms such as mussels have mastered the challenges in\nunderwater adhesion by incorporating post-translationally modified\namino acids like l -3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) in adhesive\nproteins. Here we designed a catechol containing elastomer adhesive\nto identify the role of catecho... | 10,639 |
34845026 | PMC8670470 | pmc | 7,228 | {
"abstract": "Significance Almost all organisms replicate by growing and then shedding offspring. Some molecules also replicate, but by moving rather than growing: They find and combine building blocks into self-copies. Here we show that clusters of cells, if freed from a developing organism, can similarly find and ... | 930 |
33042172 | PMC7527422 | pmc | 7,229 | {
"abstract": "Soil microorganisms influence biotic and abiotic stress tolerance of crops. Most interactions between plant symbiotic and non-symbiotic soil microorganisms and plants occur in the rhizosphere and are sustained through plant exudation/rhizodeposition. Bioaugmentation, i.e. , the introduction or amplifi... | 3,626 |
30949148 | PMC6437101 | pmc | 7,233 | {
"abstract": "Cyanobacteria are supposed to be promising photosynthetic microbial platforms that recycle carbon dioxide driven into biomass and bioproducts by solar energy. Glycogen synthesis serves as an essential natural carbon sink mechanism, storing a large portion of energy and organic carbon source of photosyn... | 5,794 |
28389638 | PMC5429687 | pmc | 7,234 | {
"abstract": "Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) constitute a platform that combines genome sequences and detailed biochemical information to quantify microbial physiology at the system level. To improve the unity, integrity, correctness, and format of data in published GSMMs, a consensus IMGMD database was built... | 3,851 |
18794915 | null | s2 | 7,235 | {
"abstract": "In this Analysis we use published 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences to compare the bacterial assemblages that are associated with humans and other mammals, metazoa and free-living microbial communities that span a range of environments. The composition of the vertebrate gut microbiota is influenced by d... | 221 |
35495540 | PMC9042051 | pmc | 7,238 | {
"abstract": "With the background of contemporary art, using comprehensive materials to create artworks is becoming more and more common. The new era of digital image-based copperplate artworks, using photosensitive lithography, has given traditional art forms new life and greater popularity in the digital age. Howe... | 5,813 |
34143385 | PMC8494672 | pmc | 7,239 | {
"abstract": "The mitigation of metals contamination is currently a crucial issue for the reclamation of mine sites. Indeed, mine wastes are often disposed in open dumps and consequently pollutants are subjected to dispersion in the surrounding areas. In this study, the potential use of Helichrysum microphyllum su... | 9,513 |
34045570 | PMC8160205 | pmc | 7,240 | {
"abstract": "Rhodolith beds built by free-living coralline algae are important ecosystems for marine biodiversity and carbonate production. Yet, our mechanistic understanding regarding rhodolith physiology and its drivers is still limited. Using three rhodolith species with different branching morphologies, we inve... | 4,126 |
37765573 | PMC10534511 | pmc | 7,241 | {
"abstract": "This study presents, for the first time, a comprehensive investigation of the influence of pre- and post-fabrication parameters for the electroactive properties of electrospun chitosan/PVA-based micro- and nanofibers. Chitosan/PVA fibers were fabricated using electrospinning, characterized, and tested ... | 12,953 |
29740597 | PMC5938282 | pmc | 7,244 | {
"abstract": "We present a genome-level understanding of how cellulose is metabolized by Thermoanaerobacterium for biobutanol production.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Biofuels produced from renewable lignocellulosic biomass are expected to meet growing energy demands without increasing greenhouse gas emission... | 1,836 |
30881355 | PMC6406033 | pmc | 7,246 | {
"abstract": "Anaerobic biodegradation of aromatic compounds under sulfate-reducing conditions is important to marine sediments. Sulfate respiration by a single bacterial strain and syntrophic metabolism by a syntrophic bacterial consortium are primary strategies for sulfate-dependent biodegradation of aromatic comp... | 5,140 |
24846283 | PMC4028902 | pmc | 7,247 | {
"abstract": "Biochar, a charcoal-like product of the incomplete combustion of organic materials, is an increasingly popular soil amendment designed to improve soil fertility. We investigated the possibility that biochar could promote direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) in a manner similar to that previousl... | 1,168 |
26906501 | null | s2 | 7,249 | {
"abstract": "Most of the networks used by computer scientists and many of those studied by modelers in neuroscience represent unit activities as continuous variables. Neurons, however, communicate primarily through discontinuous spiking. We review methods for transferring our ability to construct interesting networ... | 127 |
35946347 | PMC9435057 | pmc | 7,250 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) by cyanobacteria is of significant importance for the Earth’s biogeochemical nitrogen cycle but is restricted to a few genera that do not form monophyletic group. To explore the evolutionary trajectory of BNF and investigate the driving forces of its evolutio... | 3,140 |
33910898 | PMC8081358 | pmc | 7,254 | {
"abstract": "Quantitative assessments of microbial activity in crustal fluids yield potential strategies to supplement recalcitrant DOC.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION In the deep ocean, seawater is entrained into the rocky crust, chemically altered by abiotic and microbial processes, and discharged from the sea... | 6,570 |
35422414 | PMC9199093 | pmc | 7,255 | {
"abstract": "Despite major environmental and genetic differences, microbial metabolic networks are known to generate consistent physiological outcomes across vastly different organisms. This remarkable robustness suggests that, at least in bacteria, metabolic activity may be guided by universal principles. The cons... | 3,630 |
37092565 | PMC10323669 | pmc | 7,259 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Ionogels prepared from ionic liquid (IL) have the characteristics of nonevaporation and stable performance relative to traditional hydrogels. However, the conductivities of commonly used ionogels are at very low relative to traditional hydrogels because the large sizes of the cation and anion ... | 7,277 |
35795346 | PMC9251461 | pmc | 7,260 | {
"abstract": "With a growing world population and increasing frequency of climate disturbance events, we are in dire need of methods to improve plant productivity, resilience, and resistance to both abiotic and biotic stressors, both for agriculture and conservation efforts. Microorganisms play an essential role in ... | 1,672 |
26167106 | null | s2 | 7,261 | {
"abstract": "The spatial organization of cellular communities plays a fundamental role in determining intercellular communication and emergent behavior. However, few tools exist to modulate tissue organization at the scale of individual cells, particularly in the case of dynamic manipulation. Micromechanical reconf... | 199 |
24492676 | PMC4041232 | pmc | 7,264 | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the photosynthetic response of a Roseobacter strain of marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria to an organic substrate limitation. In batch cultures, higher values of the spheroidenone/bacteriochlorophyll a ratio were observed under substrate-deficient conditions. Inter... | 201 |
36132283 | PMC9417820 | pmc | 7,265 | {
"abstract": "Magnetotactic bacteria Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1 biosynthesise chains of cube–octahedral magnetosomes, which are 40 nm magnetite high quality (Fe 3 O 4 ) nanoparticles. The magnetic properties of these crystalline magnetite nanoparticles, which can be modified by the addition of other el... | 8,761 |
26418631 | PMC4796938 | pmc | 7,266 | {
"abstract": "Chemosynthetic symbiosis is one of the successful systems for adapting to a wide range of habitats including extreme environments, and the metabolic capabilities of symbionts enable host organisms to expand their habitat ranges. However, our understanding of the adaptive strategies that enable symbioti... | 3,664 |
33444471 | PMC8048573 | pmc | 7,268 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Biological processes rely on transient interactions that govern assembly of biomolecules into higher order, multi‐component systems. A synthetic platform for the dynamic assembly of multicomponent complexes would provide novel entries to study and modulate the assembly of artificial systems in... | 251 |
35241967 | PMC8864493 | pmc | 7,270 | {
"abstract": "The plant faces different pedological and climatic challenges that influence its growth and enhancement. While, plant-microbes interactions throught the rhizosphere offer several privileges to this hotspot in the service of plant, by attracting multi-beneficial mutualistic and symbiotic microorganisms ... | 2,216 |
22347878 | PMC3274759 | pmc | 7,272 | {
"abstract": "The Gram-negative bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 (ES-1) grows on FeCO 3 or FeS at oxic–anoxic interfaces at circumneutral pH, and the ES-1-mediated Fe(II) oxidation occurs extracellularly. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying ES-1’s ability to oxidize Fe(II) remain unknown. Surve... | 4,422 |
38533191 | PMC10961847 | pmc | 7,273 | {
"abstract": "Microbial ureolysis\noffers the potential to remove metals including\nSr 2+ as carbonate minerals via the generation of alkalinity\ncoupled to NH 4 + and HCO 3 – production. Here, we investigated the potential for bacteria, indigenous\nto sediments representative of the U.K. Sellafield nuclear site ... | 11,794 |
37755994 | PMC10534446 | pmc | 7,274 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial organisms have undergone homologous recombination (HR) and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) multiple times during their history. These processes could increase fitness to new environments, cause specialization, the emergence of new species, and changes in virulence. Therefore, comprehensive kno... | 3,064 |
19720520 | null | s2 | 7,275 | {
"abstract": "Constructing novel biological systems that function in a robust and predictable manner requires better methods for discovering new functional molecules and for optimizing their assembly in novel biological contexts. By enabling functional diversification and optimization in the absence of detailed mech... | 147 |
39894851 | PMC11788432 | pmc | 7,276 | {
"abstract": "Current artificial systems suffer from catastrophic forgetting during continual learning, a limitation absent in biological systems. Biological mechanisms leverage the dual representation of specific and generalized memories within corticohippocampal circuits to facilitate lifelong learning. Inspired b... | 4,537 |
39475634 | PMC11551383 | pmc | 7,277 | {
"abstract": "Significance We established a strain learning mechanical metamaterial that can not only recover after plastic deformation but also become stronger and stiffer in response to the applied loads. We demonstrate that shape-memory protein–polymer networks can unravel to release their stored length and, afte... | 4,652 |
28097922 | PMC5560479 | pmc | 7,278 | {
"abstract": "When surveying the trends and criteria for the design for recycling (DfR) of bio-based polymers, priorities appear to lie in energy recovery at the end of the product life of durable products, such as bio-based thermosets. Non-durable products made of thermoplastic polymers exhibit good properties for ... | 8,682 |
39853017 | PMC11768817 | pmc | 7,285 | {
"abstract": "The development of the non-ferrous metal industry is generating increasingly large quantities of wastewater containing heavy metals (e.g., Sb). The precipitation of heavy metals by microorganisms involves complex mechanisms that require further investigation to optimize bioremediation technologies. In ... | 6,816 |
31619728 | PMC6795859 | pmc | 7,292 | {
"abstract": "The positive effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been demonstrated for plant biomass, and zinc (Zn) and phosphorus (P) uptake, under soil nutrient deficiency. Additionally, a number of Zn and P transporter genes are affected by mycorrhizal colonisation or implicated in the mycorrhizal pa... | 5,741 |
25707972 | null | s2 | 7,295 | {
"abstract": "No abstract available"
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35519064 | PMC9056714 | pmc | 7,298 | {
"abstract": "Light-weight, mechanically flexible, transparent thermoelectric devices are promising as portable, and easy-to-integrate energy sources. Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) nanowires (PEDOT NWs) possessing high electrical conductivity were synthesized by a facile self-assembled micellar soft-template meth... | 4,161 |
30366368 | PMC6315946 | pmc | 7,299 | {
"abstract": "The anode of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) was formed on a graphite electrode and immobilized Gluconobacter oxydans VKM-1280 bacterial cells. Immobilization was performed in chitosan, poly(vinyl alcohol) or N -vinylpyrrolidone-modified poly(vinyl alcohol). Ethanol was used as substrate. The anode was ... | 5,269 |
36844455 | PMC9947323 | pmc | 7,301 | {
"abstract": "Summary Regenerative agriculture (RA) is gaining traction globally as an approach for meeting growing food demands while avoiding, or even remediating, the detrimental environmental consequences associated with conventional farming. Momentum is building for science to provide evidence for, or against, ... | 1,971 |
30218023 | PMC6138649 | pmc | 7,302 | {
"abstract": "The uniformity of crop yield is extremely important for consumers and of as much relevance to the grower as overall yield. However, size inequality within a plant population is rarely measured and has never before been considered in relation to the use of beneficial microbes for yield enhancement. For ... | 5,192 |
30298258 | null | s2 | 7,303 | {
"abstract": "Improvements in sequencing technologies and reduced experimental costs have resulted in a vast number of studies generating high-throughput data. Although the number of methods to analyze these \"omics\" data has also increased, computational complexity and lack of documentation hinder researchers from... | 174 |
33995895 | PMC8079826 | pmc | 7,306 | {
"abstract": "Graphical abstract",
"conclusion": "4 Conclusions Distinct bacterial communities can be formed from a more complex mixture of microbial isolates. Diverse bacterial species, without previously known or expected obligate relationships, were combined and put through dilution cycles. After approximately ... | 8,702 |
34210981 | PMC8249394 | pmc | 7,307 | {
"abstract": "Biofilm and nitrogen fixation are two competitive strategies used by many plant-associated bacteria; however, the mechanisms underlying the formation of nitrogen-fixing biofilms remain largely unknown. Here, we examined the roles of multiple signalling systems in the regulation of biofilm formation by ... | 6,282 |
27197212 | PMC4889971 | pmc | 7,308 | {
"abstract": "Evolutionary innovation must occur in the context of some genomic background, which limits available evolutionary paths. For example, protein evolution by sequence substitution is constrained by epistasis between residues. In prokaryotes, evolutionary innovation frequently happens by macrogenomic event... | 1,876 |
35744257 | PMC9228329 | pmc | 7,310 | {
"abstract": "The wettability, surface energy, structure, and morphology of a material’s surface will affect the interaction process between the material and the organism. Moreover, these factors are not independent of each other, but will affect each other, which together determine the biological surface of the mat... | 1,277 |
27066306 | PMC4802760 | pmc | 7,311 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Researchers contest the importance of gene flow in bacterial core genomes, as traditionalists view microbes as predominantly clonal, asexually reproducing organisms. Contrary to the traditional perspective, Escherichia coli core genes vary greatly in their levels of synonymous genetic divers... | 591 |
34086906 | PMC8214833 | pmc | 7,312 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Learning allows animals to respond to changes in their environment within their lifespan. However, many responses to the environment are innate, and need not be learned. Depending on the level of cognitive flexibility an animal shows, such responses can either be modified by learning or not. M... | 3,192 |
29483940 | PMC5820786 | pmc | 7,313 | {
"abstract": "Background Part-stream low-frequency ultrasound (LFUS) was one of the common practices for sludge disintegration in full-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities. However, the effectiveness of part-stream LFUS treatment and its effect on AD microbiome have not been fully elucidated. Methods Here we te... | 6,339 |
28555001 | PMC5484101 | pmc | 7,315 | {
"abstract": "Water surface-floating microalgae have great potential for biofuel applications due to the ease of the harvesting process, which is one of the most problematic steps in conventional microalgal biofuel production. We have collected promising water surface-floating microalgae and characterized their capa... | 2,560 |
34695974 | PMC8539789 | pmc | 7,316 | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with analytical modelling of piezoelectric energy harvesting systems for generating useful electricity from ambient vibrations and comparing the usefulness of materials commonly used in designing such harvesters for energy harvesting applications. The kinetic energy harvesters have the... | 2,647 |
39475286 | PMC11577766 | pmc | 7,319 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Wildfires are unpredictable disturbances with profound effects on soil properties and microbial communities within forest ecosystems. However, knowledge of post-fire microbial communities in karst forests remains limited. In this study, microbial amplicon sequencing techniques were employed to... | 5,611 |
28773929 | PMC5456629 | pmc | 7,321 | {
"abstract": "Graphene-modified materials have captured increasing attention for energy applications due to their superior physical and chemical properties, which can significantly enhance the electricity generation performance of microbial fuel cells (MFC). In this review, several typical synthesis methods of graph... | 2,534 |
31493408 | null | s2 | 7,322 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria have developed numerous protection strategies to ensure survival in harsh environments, with perhaps the most robust method being the formation of a protective biofilm. In biofilms, bacterial cells are embedded within a matrix that is composed of a complex mixture of polysaccharides, proteins,... | 351 |
31493408 | null | s2 | 7,323 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria have developed numerous protection strategies to ensure survival in harsh environments, with perhaps the most robust method being the formation of a protective biofilm. In biofilms, bacterial cells are embedded within a matrix that is composed of a complex mixture of polysaccharides, proteins,... | 351 |
38363846 | PMC10871528 | pmc | 7,324 | {
"abstract": "Reservoir computing is a powerful neural network–based computing paradigm for spatiotemporal signal processing. Recently, physical reservoirs have been explored based on various electronic devices with outstanding efficiency. However, the inflexible temporal dynamics of these reservoirs have posed fund... | 2,215 |
35362974 | null | s2 | 7,327 | {
"abstract": "Defining chemical properties of intracellular organelles is necessary to determine their function(s) as well as understand and mimic the reactions they host. However, the small size of bacterial and archaeal microorganisms often prevents defining local intracellular chemical conditions in a similar way... | 99 |
27175224 | null | s2 | 7,328 | {
"abstract": "Many fish exhibit rheotaxis, a behavior in which fish orient themselves relative to flow. Rheotaxis confers many benefits, including energetic cost savings and interception of drifting prey. Despite the fact that most species of fish school during at least some portion of their life, little is known ab... | 320 |
31698841 | PMC6918236 | pmc | 7,332 | {
"abstract": "Plant attributes have direct and indirect effects on soil microbes via plant inputs and plant-mediated soil changes. However, whether plant taxonomic and functional diversities can explain the soil microbial diversity of restored forest ecosystems remains elusive. Here, we tested the linkage between pl... | 4,636 |
32946129 | null | s2 | 7,334 | {
"abstract": "Cooperation can be favoured through the green-beard mechanism, where a set of linked genes encodes both a cooperative trait and a phenotypic marker (green beard), which allows carriers of the trait to selectively direct cooperative acts to other carriers. In theory, the green-beard mechanism should fav... | 371 |
37091415 | PMC10116497 | pmc | 7,335 | {
"abstract": "A series of highly\nflexible and environmentally friendly\ncomposites\nbased on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) filled with 200 nm size ferroelectric\nBaTiO 3 (BTO) particles at different concentrations (from\n7 to 23 vol %) have been fabricated by a simple dispersion method.\nThe dielectric, piezoelectri... | 5,194 |
35281742 | PMC8904616 | pmc | 7,336 | {
"abstract": "Summary Two-dimensional van der Waals materials offer various possibilities for synaptic devices, matching the requirements of intelligent and energy-efficient computation. However, very few studies on robust flexible synaptic transistors have been reported, which hold great potential for soft robotics... | 1,600 |
32774862 | PMC7362743 | pmc | 7,337 | {
"abstract": "Bio-inspired chiral nematic cellulose films with periodic surface grating structures exhibit optically programmable photonic–photonic coupling.",
"conclusion": "Conclusions In conclusion, here we have studied the chiral nematic organization and surface topography relations governing dual structural c... | 7,520 |
28018855 | PMC5176132 | pmc | 7,338 | {
"abstract": "We announce the draft genome sequence of three Gram-negative bacteria isolated from coral tissues affected with the black band disease (BBD), identified with the NCBI's Assembly Database accession numbers: MBQF, MAYB and MBQE. These genome drafts constitute an useful tool for the characterisation of th... | 117 |
34194405 | PMC8237939 | pmc | 7,339 | {
"abstract": "Metabolically engineered cyanobacteria have the potential to mitigate anthropogenic CO 2 emissions by converting CO 2 into renewable fuels and chemicals. Yet, better understanding of metabolic regulation in cyanobacteria is required to develop more productive strains that can make industrial scale-up... | 4,583 |
35416699 | PMC9239051 | pmc | 7,340 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Root nodulating rhizobia are nearly ubiquitous in soils and provide the critical service of nitrogen fixation to thousands of legume species, including staple crops. However, the magnitude of fixed nitrogen provided to hosts varies markedly among rhizobia strains, despite host legumes having m... | 4,071 |
26872043 | null | s2 | 7,342 | {
"abstract": "Marine sediments are the largest carbon sink on earth. Nearly half of dark carbon fixation in the oceans occurs in coastal sediments, but the microorganisms responsible are largely unknown. By integrating the 16S rRNA approach, single-cell genomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics with (14)C-carbon as... | 450 |
35677905 | PMC9168468 | pmc | 7,343 | {
"abstract": "Salinization poses great threats to soil fungal communities that would cause the losses of ecosystems services. Soil fungal communities are composed of different functional guilds such as saprotrophic, symbiotrophic, and pathotrophic fungi, and each guild includes many rare taxa and a few abundant taxa... | 6,015 |
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