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PMC4713113
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{ "abstract": "Dark septate endophytes (DSE) are distributed worldwide as root-colonising fungi, and frequent in environments with strong abiotic stress. DSE is not a taxon, but constitutes numerous fungal taxa belonging to several orders of Ascomycota . In this study we investigate three unidentified DSE lineages b...
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PMC5226080
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Microbes provide an intriguing system to study social interaction among individuals within a population. The short generation times and relatively simple genetic modification procedures of microbes facilitate the development of the sociomicrobiology field. To assess the fitness of certain microbial spe...
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{ "abstract": "The long short term memory (LSTM) is a second-order recurrent neural network architecture that excels at storing sequential short-term memories and retrieving them many time-steps later. LSTM's original training algorithm provides the important properties of spatial and temporal locality, which are mis...
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PMC9802271
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The intertwining of strands into 3D spirals is ubiquitous in biology, enabling functions from information storage to maintenance of cell structure and directed locomotion. In synthetic systems, entwined fibers can provide superior mechanical properties and act as artificial muscle or structura...
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PMC8320212
pmc
9,725
{ "abstract": "Background The intracellular ATP level is an indicator of cellular energy state and plays a critical role in regulating cellular metabolism. Depletion of intracellular ATP in (facultative) aerobes can enhance glycolysis, thereby promoting end product formation. In the present study, we examined this s ...
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PMC11144244
pmc
9,728
{ "abstract": "Miniaturized passive fliers based on smart materials face challenges in precise control of shape-morphing for aerodynamics and contactless modulation of diverse gliding modes. Here, we present the optical control of gliding performances in azobenzene-crosslinked liquid crystal networks films through ph...
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PMC11194708
pmc
9,730
{ "abstract": "The enzymatic decarboxylation of α,β-unsaturated acids using the ferulic acid decarboxylase (Fdc1) enzyme and prenylated flavin mononucleotide (prFMN) cofactor is a potential, environmentally friendly reaction for the biosynthesis of styrene and its derivatives. However, experiments showed that the enz...
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{ "abstract": "The brain, which uses redundancy and continuous learning to overcome the unreliability of its components, provides a promising path to building computing systems that are robust to the unreliability of their constituent nanodevices. In this work, we illustrate this path by a computing system based on p...
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PMC3324691
pmc
9,732
{ "abstract": "Excitation–emission fluorescence matrices of phytoplankton communities were simulated from laboratory-grown algae and cyanobacteria cultures, to define the optical configurations of theoretical fluorometers that either minimize or maximize the representation of these phytoplankton groups in community v...
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PMC8226481
pmc
9,733
{ "abstract": "The root endophyte community of the grass species Elymus repens was investigated using both a culture-dependent approach and a direct amplicon sequencing method across five sites and from individual plants. There was much heterogeneity across the five sites and among individual plants. Focusing on on...
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{ "abstract": "Myxococcus xanthus is a common soil bacterium with an intricate multicellular lifestyle that continues to challenge the way in which we conceptualize the capabilities of prokaryotic organisms. Myxococcus xanthus is the preferred laboratory representative from the Myxobacteria, a family of organisms dis...
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PMC9182583
pmc
9,736
{ "abstract": "Despite the widespread occurrence of fungal endophytes (FE) in plants inhabiting arid ecosystems, the environmental and soil factors that modulate changes in FE diversity and community composition along an aridity gradient have been little explored. We studied three locations along the coast of the Ata...
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{ "abstract": "Spore-forming, Gram-positive sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) represent a group of SRB that dominates the deep subsurface as well as niches in which resistance to oxygen and dessication is an advantage. Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1 is one of the few cultured representatives of that group with a...
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PMC10445776
pmc
9,738
{ "abstract": "Abstract Standing genetic variation is a major driver of fitness and resilience and therefore of fundamental importance for threatened species such as stony corals. We analyzed RNA-seq data generated from 132 Montipora capitata and 119 Pocillopora acuta coral colonies collected from Kāneʻohe Bay, O...
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PMC6443080
pmc
9,740
{ "abstract": "Plant range expansion is occurring at a rapid pace, largely in response to human-induced climate warming. While the movement of plants along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients is well documented, effects on the belowground microbial communities remains largely unknown. Further, in range expansion no...
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PMC10058380
pmc
9,741
{ "abstract": "Crop pathogenic fungi may originate from reservoir pools including wild vegetation surrounding fields, and it is thus important to characterize any potential source of pathogens. We therefore investigated natural vegetation’s potential for hosting a widespread pathogenic group, Colletotrichum gloeospo...
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PMC6051221
pmc
9,742
{ "abstract": "Abstract Soft actuators have demonstrated potential in a range of applications, including soft robotics, artificial muscles, and biomimetic devices. However, the majority of current soft actuators suffer from the lack of real‐time sensory feedback, prohibiting their effective sensing and multitask func...
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PMC8258234
pmc
9,745
{ "abstract": "Abstract The high number and diversity of microbial strains circulating in host populations have motivated extensive research on the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. However, much of this work focuses on strain‐specific and cross‐immunity interactions. Another less explored mode of pairwise inter...
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PMC10205512
pmc
9,747
{ "abstract": "Soft robots have received a lot of attention because of their great human-robot interaction and environmental adaptability. Most soft robots are currently limited in their applications due to wired drives. Photoresponsive soft robotics is one of the most effective ways to promote wireless soft drives. ...
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PMC8442876
pmc
9,750
{ "abstract": "Living plants are turned into light-storing and emitting photonic devices by infiltrating them with phosphorescent nanoparticles.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION There has been substantial interest in using living plants to create functional devices that replace those fabricated from plastic and circ...
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PMC9075744
pmc
9,751
{ "abstract": "Thanks to the advent of the random laser, new light applications have opened up, ranging from biophotonic to security devices. Here, by using the well-known but unexplored light-harvesting bio-pigment of butterfly pea ( Clitoria ternatea , CT) flower extract, generation of continuous-wave (CW) random l...
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PMC9069711
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Memristors, which feature small sizes, fast speeds, low power, CMOS compatibility and nonvolatile modulation of device resistance, are promising candidates for next-generation data storage and in-memory computing paradigms. Compared to the binary logics enabled by memristor devices, ternary logics with...
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PMC8121099
pmc
9,753
{ "abstract": "SUMMARY Harnessing the microbiota for beneficial outcomes is limited by our poor understanding of the constituent bacteria, as the functions of most of their genes are unknown. Here, we measure the growth of a barcoded transposon mutant library of the gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron on 48 ...
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PMC4951719
pmc
9,755
{ "abstract": "The global decline of reef-building corals is understood to be due to a combination of local and global stressors. However, many reef scientists assume that local factors predominate and that isolated reefs, far from human activities, are generally healthier and more resilient. Here we show that coral ...
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PMC3542253
pmc
9,756
{ "abstract": "Background Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is able to synthesize large amounts of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs). To reduce the substrate cost, which represents nearly 50% of the total PHA production cost, xylose, a hemicellulose derivate, was tested as the growth carbon source in an e...
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{ "abstract": "The 3-(3-hydroxyalkanoyloxy)alkanoate (HAA) synthase RhlA is an essential enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of HAAs in Pseudomonas and Burkholderia species. RhlA modulates the aliphatic chain length in rhamnolipids, conferring distinct physicochemical properties to these biosurfactants exhibiting pro...
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PMC3246358
pmc
9,758
{ "abstract": "Microbial heterotrophic activity was investigated in oxic sub-seafloor sediments at North Pond, a sediment pond situated at 23°N on the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The North Pond sediments underlie the oligotrophic North Atlantic Gyre at 4580-m water depth and cover a 7–8 million-year-old ...
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms are structured communities of bacteria that are held together by an extracellular matrix consisting of protein and exopolysaccharide. Biofilms often have a limited lifespan, disassembling as nutrients become exhausted and waste products accumulate. D-amino acids were previously identified as a...
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PMC5561297
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT During the 1960s, small quantities of radioactive materials were codisposed with chemical waste at the Little Forest Legacy Site (Sydney, Australia) in 3-meter-deep, unlined trenches. Chemical and microbial analyses, including functional and taxonomic information derived from shotgun metagenom...
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PMC2860127
pmc
9,765
{ "abstract": "Proteins are the most versatile among the various biological building blocks and a mature field of protein engineering has lead to many industrial and biomedical applications. But the strength of proteins—their versatility, dynamics and interactions—also complicates and hinders systems engineering. The...
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PMC4594533
pmc
9,766
{ "abstract": "What bees learn during pollen collection, and how they might discriminate between flowers on the basis of the quality of this reward, is not well understood. Recently we showed that bees learn to associate colors with differences in pollen rewards. Extending these findings, we present here additional e...
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{ "abstract": "Yeast whole cells have been widely used in modern biotechnology as biocatalysts to generate numerous compounds of industrial, chemical, and pharmaceutical importance. Since many of the biocatalysis-utilizing manufactures have become more concerned about environmental issues, seawater is now considered ...
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PMC11632070
pmc
9,770
{ "abstract": "Cyanobacterial photosynthesis (to produce ATP and NADPH) might have played a pivotal role in the endosymbiotic evolution to chloroplast. However, rather than meeting the ATP requirements of the host cell, the modern-day land plant chloroplasts are suggested to utilize photosynthesized ATP predominantly...
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{ "abstract": "Embiopterans produce silken galleries and sheets using exceptionally fine silk fibers in which they live and breed. In this study, we use electron microscopy (EM), Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) tec...
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PMC11220791
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPs) are valuable\nconstruction\nmaterials owing to their strength, durability, and design flexibility;\nhowever, conventional FRPs utilize petroleum-based polymer matrices\nwith limited recyclability. Furthermore, fiber reinforcements are\nmade from nonrenewable f...
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