Here we report the results of an unusually early springtime study of pelagic microbial activity in the coastal Alaskan Arctic. |
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The fungi also coat tree roots, protecting against microbial pathogens and drought. |
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Dog feces naturally contain bacteria called methanogens, which use hydrogen to break down carbon dioxide into microbial food. |
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When a worm dines on one of these microbial strains, the microbe's RNA is freed to turn off the corresponding worm gene. |
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This helps establish healthy microbial populations in the gut much quicker than would otherwise occur. |
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These restrictions help prevent certified organic products from coming into contact with microbial contaminants. |
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Intense microbial competition further retards regrowth of the pathogenic bacteria in the final product. |
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The containment facility is the largest research facility where we can work with whole plants in a microbial quarantine greenhouse. |
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Beneficial microbial populations outcompete decay-causing microbes for nutrients at a critical early stage in the pathogens' development. |
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Rapid microbial degradation is more likely when the same pesticide is used repeatedly in a field. |
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This research illustrates microbial instability in hospital water line from point of heterotroph bacteria amplification. |
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The increasing level of bioactive nitrogen is also being cited as a cause of dead zones in the ocean due to microbial overgrowth. |
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Misuse of antibiotics and antimicrobial drugs that results in microbial adaptation is the main reason for antimicrobial resistance. |
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Resistance to antimicrobial agents enters microbial populations through mutation or immigration. |
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This solution has no antimicrobial properties and may allow microbial growth. |
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If even microbial life exists on Mars, it would produce methane, and would need water to survive. |
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Persistent antimicrobial activity, measured in hours, helps decrease rebound microbial growth after surgical hand antisepsis. |
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The ligatures were kept in position to cause accumulation of microbial dental plaque during the experimental period. |
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If riparian vegetation is left undisturbed, organic matter accumulates in the soil and enhances microbial activity. |
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The physiologic measurements and cytokine concentrations were log-normally distributed, whereas the other microbial variables were highly skewed. |
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While evidence for microbial life on Mars is mounting, far more work needs to be done before any conclusions can be made. |
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Classical perspectives of microbial polysaccharide degradation are currently being augmented by recent advances. |
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There is no microbial encrustation of the surface, as reported, for example, in Devonian palaeokarsts of the Canning Basin. |
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Similarly, many surveys have identified an inverse relationship between prior microbial exposure and the development of atopy. |
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Helps plants withstand attacks by disease and insects by enhancing naturally occurring microbial agents. |
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Simple electrometric methods were tested to estimate microbial activity in hypereutrophic aquaculture ponds. |
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Profuse sweating can result in skin maceration and secondary microbial infections. |
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Three types of pesticide degradation are microbial, chemical, and photodegradation. |
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The neckline, underarms, sleeve cuffs, and gown back are areas that experience friction and are not considered effective microbial barriers. |
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One potential consequence of increased intestinal permeability is microbial translocation. |
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The use of physical or chemical means to destroy all microbial life including highly resistant bacterial endospores. |
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Our cuticles are already as barren of microbial life as the underside of an arctic glacier. |
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The waters contain an abundant, but low diversity, microbial population of thermophilic filamentous and coccoid bacteria. |
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It commands cells at the site of infection to kill themselves, which helps cordon off the microbial invader. |
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Even good materials can have a negative effect on the soil by disrupting the microbial balance. |
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Research that improved microbial insecticide formulations also led to environmentally friendly chemical formulations. |
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Reports of odors could be an indication of dampness or microbial growth that should be verified by technical and microbiological investigation. |
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The importance of microbial spatial relationships for the functioning of the termite gut microbiota have recently been discussed in detail. |
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In addition, antibiotic treatment deranges protective flora and antibiotic resistant microbial strains emerge. |
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Pattern recognition receptors recognise structures common to many microbial pathogens. |
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The changes in lung tissue suggest that part of the lung damage is due to cytokines induced by the microbial agent. |
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Some of the material is organic in nature and is easily dealt with by microbial action. |
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Oral health is influenced by dental plaque, the oral microbial flora, and oral immunity. |
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This property results from product adherence to the stratum corneum layer of the skin, inhibiting microbial recolonization. |
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Antibiotics might bring benefit to individuals with mild infections while harming public health by increasing microbial resistance. |
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This phenomenon is widespread, occurring in nearly all the major taxa of the plant, animal, and microbial worlds. |
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Breaks in aseptic technique can introduce microbial contamination into the vial via the needle, syringe, or rubber stopper. |
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Antibiotic use, disease, aging and other factors can negatively alter the microbial landscape, paving the way for a number of health problems. |
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Antibiotics and antifungals are added to the culture to limit the microbial proliferation, including neomycin and streptomycin. |
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The remaining processes that could account for the rapid depletion of riverine nitrate are denitrification and microbial assimilation. |
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It accumulates in plaque, where it decreases microbial acid production and enhances enamel remineralization. |
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Concerns about water quality are most commonly related to its microbial contamination. |
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The primary agent responsible for respiratory disease is obviously microbial. |
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Most microbial degradation of pesticides occurs in the soil. |
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A multidisciplinary group of ecologists, acarologists, and microbiologists at IU and Ball State University are investigating tick-borne microbial communities. |
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The tight junctions between cells help to prevent microbial invasion. |
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Well-rounded clasts include lava, volcaniclastic sandstones and bioclastic limestones with nummulites, bryozoa, microbial carbonate and bivalve material. |
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Control of moisture and nutrient matter inside the home includes dehumidifying and circulating indoor air to eliminate conditions conducive to microbial growth. |
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The equilibrium between species of resident bacteria provides stability in the microbial population within the same individual under normal conditions. |
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In Europe and Asia, consumers are buying prebiotic products formulated to boost populations of Bifidobacterium bacteria and other microbial colonists of the human gut. |
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Not only do microbial frugivores consume fruits and fail to disperse seeds, but they often render fruits unattractive to vertebrate frugivores that do disperse seeds. |
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They can attach to solid surfaces and form biofilms that are defined as matrix-enclosed microbial populations adherent to each other and to surfaces or interfaces. |
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With these microbial systems in the Pilbara, you can see these things in the field and under the microscope. |
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My research forced me to look at human societies from a microbial point of view, and they looked remarkably fragile. |
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Awareness of the threat of microbial spread has increased because biowarfare has challenged our mind-set and made us realize that we no longer can take our safety for granted. |
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Change the microbial population in your body from bad to good by eating a probiotic diet rich in fermented foods and beverages like kefir and cultured veggies. |
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They probably developed both as ecological disaster forms and as a consequence of unusual marine chemistry that promoted inorganic and microbial calcification. |
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Seep communities are also based on microbial chemosynthetic primary production and share a few species and many genera with hydrothermal vent communities. |
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Going straight from the microbial to the human genome was a big step because when we set this up we didn't know for sure that the DNA sequencers would work. |
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The high nutrient demands of microbial degradation imply furthermore a competition for nutrients between heterotrophic degradative and phototrophic productive processes. |
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He and coworkers developed a method, using a chamber with microbial air samplers, to collect and quantify culturable cough-generated aerosols of M. tuberculosis. |
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They have antioxidant properties, antidiarrheal effects, and are toxic to a wide range of microbial organisms including parasites and some common viruses. |
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Recent interest in alternatives to traditional synthetic pesticides has resulted in numerous products containing botanicals, oils, soaps and microbial materials. |
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The bovine stomach bacteria add to a growing list of cheap, plentiful, and non-polluting substances that run devices known as microbial fuel cells. |
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Sterilization studies allow a more direct, but technically challenging, means to test for effects of microbial associates on bark beetle development and reproduction. |
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This chapter contains excellent information on host and microbial factors, bacteriostatic versus bactericidal agents, and indications for combination therapy. |
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One possibility would be to look for preserved hyphae in Ediacaran fossils and in associated microbial mats, specifically hyphae with perforate cell walls. |
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The amount of microbial purines absorbed was estimated from the excretion of total purines, using the equation proposed by Belenguer et al. |
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Infants may be limited in their counteradaptations to maternally influenced microbial manipulation, especially at younger ages. |
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Conditioning treatments are employed to clean, detartrate, and discourage microbial growth. |
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Antibiotics inhibit the growth or the metabolic activities of bacteria and other microorganisms by a chemical substance of microbial origin. |
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The fossil record includes a progression from early biogenic graphite, to microbial mat fossils, to fossilized multicellular organisms. |
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Soil millipedes possess a specific gut microbiota that differs from microbial communities in soil and leaf litter. |
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Naturally occurring methane is mainly produced by microbial methanogenesis. |
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As inhabitants of the largest environment on Earth, microbial marine systems drive changes in every global system. |
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Terrestrial ecosystems rely on microbial nitrogen fixation to convert N2 into other forms such as nitrates. |
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Not only does microbial growth affect the safety of food, but also the preservation and shelf life of food. |
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Earthworms from the mainland are altering the unique ecosystem and microbial communities on San Clemente Island. |
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Recent investigations of the thanatomicrobiome and cadaver soil seek to elucidate the microbial flora found after death. |
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The ideal bioweapon is hard to detect from the usual microbial flora, has person-to-person spread, and is easy to aerosolize. |
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Wood ants incorporate an antimicrobial resin from conifer trees into their nests, preventing microbial growth in the colony. |
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Quorum sensing is a biochemical signalling process many microbial species use to control their metabolism according to environmental conditions. |
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This study examined the influence of three types of phosphate apatites and two microbial amendments on Pb availability. |
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Correlations between soil geochemical properties and Fe reduction suggest microbial reducibility of iron in different soils from Southern China. |
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One difficulty stems from microbial infidelity known as horizontal or lateral gene transfer. |
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Quantitative microbial risk assessment techniques are helping to advance the scientific basis of food safety regulation. |
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The PHB used was produced from microbial fermentation using saccharose from sugarcane as the carbon source to the bacteria. |
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Bioburden and biofilm management is a significant aspect of microbial control strategies. |
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Mud that's been churned up, or bioturbated, would be softer, freed of the stiff microbial mat that covered much of the seafloor. |
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A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. |
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The design and construction of a DNA microarray for any given microbial genome are straightforward. |
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These rodents had low levels of a fatty acid called butyrate, one of the by-products of microbial fermentation. |
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The researchers also looked at microbial production of the short-chain fatty acids butyric acid and acetic acid. |
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Effects of pulp and paper mill effuents on the microplankton and microbial self-purification capabilities of the Biobio River, Chile, Sci. |
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This type of cold microfiltration could also minimize any microbial fouling of the membrane and prevent the germination of thermophilic spores. |
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Mole rats rely on microbial assistance, too, but their microbial richness lies beyond the stomach in a section of their gut called the cecum. |
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Such a lake would provide perfect conditions for simple microbial life such as chemolithoautotrophs to thrive in. |
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Like the artist's bits of objects, microbial ultrastructures can reassort, recombine, and reassemble into brand new entities. |
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Finally, combined with a multibarrier approach, the Pall Aria system achieves high levels of microbial, cyst and oocyst reduction. |
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When prebiotics are ingested, the beneficial gut microbial population increases and outcompetes any undesirable microbes in the gut. |
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The team's discovery of a protein called Butyrophilin 3A1 shows how it binds to microbial antigens and hence activates human gamma delta cells. |
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Phenazine content in the cystic fibrosis respiratory tract negatively correlates with lung function and microbial complexity. |
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Some observers question whether such wide-scale use might enhance microbial resistance to the coating, a concern Lewis plays down. |
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Increased coverage has also been given to important topics such as exudate gums and microbial polysaccharides. |
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The higher fecal N was most probably due to the higher hindgut fermentation which resulted in higher microbial N production. |
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However, in spite of high enantioselectivity, the yield of the applied microbial Baeyer-Villiger reaction was low. |
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When Lewandowski's group set up its microbial fuel cell in Hyalite Creek near Bozeman, Mont. |
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Effect of propargyl bromide and 1,3-dichloropropene on microbial communities in an organically amended soil. |
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Dungan RS, Ibekwe AM, Yates SR Effect of propargyl bromide and 1,3-dichloropropene on microbial communities in an organically amended soil. |
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Pyrogens are a heterogeneous group of contaminants comprised of microbial and non-microbial substances. |
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Fenestrae contain the remains of a low-diversity cryptic microbial community. |
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Nutrient digestibilities, microbial populations, and protein catabolites as affected by fructan supplementation of dog diets. |
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Soil microbial respiration rates were measured using manometric respirometers, which allow determination of sample oxygen consumption. |
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Soil biochemical characteristics examined were anaerobically mineralisable N, soil microbial biomass C, soil respiration and denitrifying enzyme activity. |
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A calibration curve is produced for each organism, in which the time to detection is directly proportional to the growth rate and indicative of real time microbial activity. |
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By not ploughing, beneficial fungi and microbial life can develop that will eventually bring air into the soil, retain water and build up nutrients. |
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The antimicrobial impact of cinnamaldehyde in suggested to arise through its carbonyl group interaction with proteins in the periplasm and inactivation microbial enzymes. |
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In one study, 99 percent of velvetleaf seeds underwent microbial decay after 3 months, particularly when they were the only source of carbon available as food. |
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The main advantage resulting from the microbial consortium formed by acclimated activated sludge is the interaction between all the species present in flocs. |
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Decreased of canopy cover, understorey, brown waste, also plant roots and microbial diversities are affected by forest use change into rubber and oil palm plantations. |
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We analysed the phospholipid fatty acid profile, an index of both microbial biomass and community composition, in association with vegetational and edaphic factors. |
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Over 400 strains of microbial cells function as immunological peacekeepers and collectively promote the proper digestion of food for optimal cellular and ECM nutriture. |
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A salt-water stromatolite begins with a microbial community rich in filamentous cyanobacteria that arrange themselves around grains of sand, trapping the sand in a biofilm. |
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Natural killer cells originate in the bone marrow and go through a maturation process that enables them to participate in early control of microbial infections and cancers. |
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They compared this approach with using acidified sodium chlorite, peroxyacetic acid and chlorine against Salmonella and indigenous microbial populations. |
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Because it targets fatty molecules in the cell wall instead of proteins it is also much less likely than most antibiotics to induce microbial resistance. |
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Scientists in South Korea examined the potential of a carnauba wax and lemongrass oil nanoemulsion coating to increase the microbial safety and shelf life of plums. |
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Metagenomic sequencing of an in vitro-simulated microbial community. |
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A biodegradation process of heavy oil from the Nakhodka oil spill by indigenous microbial consortia was monitored over the 429-day at laboratory scale. |
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Germany-based InterMed Discovery has acquired unique microbial omega 3 fatty acid production strains and related know-how from the University of Saarland. |
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Recently we have developed cutting edge abilities to access a plasmid population of a given microbial community, and applied them to rumen microbial communities. |
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The method uses quaternary ammonium compounds for inhibiting the attachment of and for removing foodborne microbial contamination from poultry and meat products. |
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Despite the valuable ecosystem services provided by microbial communities, environmental conservation policies usually neglect microbial diversity. |
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Steiner C, Das K, Garcia M, Forster B, Zech W Charcoal and smoke extract stimulate the soil microbial community in a highly weathered xanthic Ferralsol. |
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In addition, bogs, like all wetlands, develop anaerobic soil conditions, which produces slower anaerobic decay rather than aerobic microbial action. |
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In the early 2000s, the Sargasso Sea was sampled as part of the Global Ocean Sampling survey, to evaluate its diversity of microbial life through metagenomics. |
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Preservative food additives reduce the risk of foodborne infections, decrease microbial spoilage, and preserve fresh attributes and nutritional quality. |
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In a microbial culture, a growth medium is provided for a specific agent. |
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Rather than consume electricity to treat industrial wastewater, Emefcy's electrogenic bioreactor uses microbial fuel cell technology to produce electricity. |
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These specimens, particularly ALH84001 discovered by ANSMET, are at the centre of the controversy about possible evidence of microbial life on Mars. |
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Beyond the protection offered by a standard HEPA filter, Donaldson also offers an enhanced microbial barrier in its BIOAdvantage Antimicrobial HEPA Filtration Technology. |
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Antarctic sponges are long lived, and sensitive to environmental changes due to the specificity of the symbiotic microbial communities within them. |
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Aerobiology has been little studied, but there is evidence of nitrogen fixation in clouds, and less clear evidence of carbon cycling, both facilitated by microbial activity. |
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Before the Cambrian, the sea floor was covered by microbial mats. |
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One of the strategies for the prevention of such microbial adhesion is to modify the biomaterials by creating micro or nanofeatures on their surface. |
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The pilot tests demonstrated that the Pall Aria UF membrane system successfully and efficiently removed microbial pathogens and particulate contaminants from the source water. |
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By cataloging microbial genes in the gut, researchers have found that communities of bacteria can differ dramatically even between identical twins. |
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