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I stress one more time the urgency to better connect molecular epidemiology and evolutionary biology. I show how much population genetics and phylogenetic analyses can confer a considerable added value to all attempts to characterize strains and species of pathogens. The problems dealing with the me...
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PMID: 19521862
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We have developed a framework for understanding the emergence of living systems from the underlying atomic chaos....
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PMID: 19349253
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In response to stressful conditions like supra-optimal salinity in the growth medium or temperature, many microorganisms accumulate low-molecular-mass organic compounds known as compatible solutes. In contrast with mesophiles that accumulate neutral or zwitterionic compounds, the solutes of hyperthe...
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PMID: 18822412
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Jared Leadbetter explains why the termite-gut microbial community is an excellent system for studying the complex interactions between microbes. The symbiotic relationship existing between the host insect and lignocellulose-degrading gut microbes is explained, as well as the industrial uses of these...
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PMID: 18979001
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Jared Leadbetter takes us for a nature walk through the diversity of life resident in the termite hindgut--a microenvironment containing 250 different species found nowhere else on Earth. Jared reveals that the symbiosis exhibited by this system is multi-layered and involves not only a relationship...
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PMID: 18979002
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We have applied soft lithographic fabrication techniques to develop 2 microfluidic devices, which we have used to create (i) microscale nutrient patches with dimensions and diffusive characteristics relevant to oceanic processes and (ii) microscale vortices, with shear rates corresponding to those e...
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PMID: 18979007
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