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    Population genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae

    1. Adeolu, M., Alnajar, S., Naushad, S. & Gupta, R. S. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the ‘Enterobacteriales’: proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 66, 5575–5599 (2016). […] More

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    Does sediment composition sort kinorhynch communities? An ecomorphological approach through geometric morphometrics

    Meiofaunal organisms are tremendously dependent of sediment and therefore reveal the effect of sediment structure and composition on morphology as crucial to better understand animals-habitat interactions. For our group of study, the allomalorhagid families Dracoderidae and Pycnophyidae and the cyclorhagid genus Echinoderes (phylum Kinorhyncha), we found relationships between body and LTS shape with some of […] More

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    Monospecific Biofilms of Pseudoalteromonas Promote Larval Settlement and Metamorphosis of Mytilus coruscus

    1. Thorson, G. Reproductive and larval ecology of marine bottom invertebrates. Biol. Rev. 25, 1–45 (1950). 2. Crisp, D. J. Factors influencing the settlement of marine invertebrate larvae, chap. Chemoreception in marine organisms (ed. Mackie, P. G.) 177–265 (Academic Press, (1974). 3. Satuito, C. G., Natoyama, K., Yamazaki, M. & Fusetani, N. Induction of attachment […] More

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    The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens

    1. Larson, G. et al. Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 6139–6146 (2014). 2. Barton, L. et al. Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 5523–5528 (2009). 3. Bettinger, R. L., Barton, L. […] More

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    Full annual monitoring of Subantarctic Emiliania huxleyi populations reveals highly calcified morphotypes in high-CO2 winter conditions

    1. Orr, J. C. et al. Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms. Nature 437, 681–686 (2005). 2. Brewer, P. G. Ocean chemistry of the fossil fuel CO2 signal: The haline signal of “business as usual”. Geophysical Research Letters 24, 1367–1369, https://doi.org/10.1029/97GL01179 (1997). 3. Raven, J. et al. Ocean […] More

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    Effects of Compound Sand Barrier for Habitat Restoration on Sediment Grain-size Distribution in Ulan Buh Desert

    1. Li, X. R. et al. Sand barriers of straw checkerboards for habitat restoration in extremely arid desert regions. Ecological Engineering 28(2), 149–157 (2006). Article Google Scholar 2. Zhengyi, Y., Xiaoying, L. & Jianhua, X. Driving Mechanism of Sandy Desertification around the Qinghai Lake. Journal of Desert Research, 35(6), 1429–1437, (in Chinese with English abstract) […] More

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    Cryptic species in the parasitic Amoebophrya species complex revealed by a polyphasic approach

    Origin of Amoebophrya strains and single infected dinoflagellate cells We based our analyses either on Amoebophrya strains or directly on infected host cells isolated by micromanipulation from environmental samples (hereafter called single-cells). Strains and single-cells were isolated during monitoring for the toxic dinoflagellate species Alexandrium minutum. Monitoring was performed over five years (2007, 2009, 2010–2012) […] More

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    5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange

    1. Jones, M. et al. Food globalization in prehistory. World Archaeol. 43, 665–675 (2011). Article Google Scholar 2. Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., Staff, R. A., Hunt, H. V., Liu, X. & Jones, M. K. The early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe. Antiquity 87, 1073–1085 (2013). Article Google Scholar 3. Spengler, R. N. III Fruit […] More