Philippa Kaur

Sampling Six species were selected, which are characteristic, widespread, abundant, and often co-occurring elements of the Eurasian steppes. In addition, heteroploid, taxonomically difficult species were avoided, the exception being A. onobrychis. Samples of the plant species A. onobrychis L. (Fabaceae), E. seguieriana Neck. (Euphorbiaceae), and S. capillata L. (Poaceae), and the animal species P. taurica Santschi, […] More

1. Pekar, S. F., Hucks, A., Fuller, M. & Li, S. Glacioeustatic changes in the early and middle Eocene (51–42 Ma): Shallow-water stratigraphy from ODP Leg 189 Site 1171 (South Tasman Rise) and deep-sea δ18O records. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 117, 1081–1093 (2005). 2. Miller, K. G., Wright, J. D. & Browning, J. V. Visions […] More

To the Editor — It has been argued that that we are currently facing the sixth mass extinction event1, and the ubiquitous use of chemicals is one major driver for this loss of biodiversity2. Ecotoxicology, the estimation of environmental risks imposed by chemicals, is therefore an essential backbone for adequate mitigation efforts by stakeholders. However, […] More

Construction of tricolor fluorescent reporter strains Tricolor fluorescent reporters were constructed in the marine model organism R. pomeroyi DSS-3 (wild-type strain, a gift from Prof. M. A. Moran, University of Georgia) to visually report expression of DMSP degradation genes (dddW and dmdA). DddW was chosen due to its strong upregulation response to DMSP reported in […] More

1. Heluf, G. Soil and water conservation practices (tied ridges and planting methods) on cultivated lands of Eastern Ethiopian Highlands: Experience of soil and water research program, Alemaya University. Soil Science Technical Bulletin No. 2. Department of Plant Sciences, Alemaya (2005). 2. Asnakew,W. Soil Fertility and Management in the Drylands. 1. National Workshop on Dryland […] More

Genomic similarity within bacterial populations is spatially organized across a meadow Starting with an undereplicated but quality filtered dataset of 3215 draft quality genomes assembled from samples collected from across the meadow [29], we calculated all pairwise genome-wide average nucleotide identities (ANI) and alignment coverages (roughly analogous to shared gene content; Fig. 1b). We observed a […] More

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Caroline Mahendra , Beatriz A. Osuna , Rafael Pinilla-Redondo  & Joseph Bondy-Denomy Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Kathleen A. Christie  & Benjamin P. Kleinstiver Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Kathleen A. Christie  & Benjamin P. Kleinstiver […] More

In March 2011, large amounts of radionuclides were released into the environment as a result of an accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). Approximately 13–15 PBq of caesium-137 (hereinafter, 137Cs, physical half-life of 30 years) was released from the FDNPP accident1,2, and as a result, 137Cs became a major […] More