Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Jillian M. Rickly, Elizabeth S. Vidon, Daniel C. Knudsen
Summary: This paper challenges tourism research that tries to integrate existential authenticity and ethics. By examining existential thinkers, it is revealed that although there is a contradiction between existential authenticity and ethics, future research should focus more on the concepts of freedom, ambiguity, and intentionality.
ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Fang Wang, Ke Wang, Lei Cai, Mingjun Zhao, Paul M. Kirk, Guomei Fan, Qinglan Sun, Bo Li, Shuai Wang, Zhengfei Yu, Dong Han, Juncai Ma, Linhuan Wu, Yijian Yao
Summary: Fungal taxonomy is a complex and rapidly changing field, posing challenges for taxonomists in naming fungi. Fungal Names is a registration platform with a standardized and integrated database, providing powerful tools for research in fungal taxonomy. It encompasses a vast collection of taxon names and specimen records since 1596, along with other related information, serving as a summary of the history and recent advances in fungal taxonomy.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Medical Laboratory Technology
Nathan P. Wiederhold
Summary: This article introduces the importance of emerging fungal infections, antifungal resistance, and fungal co-infections with respiratory pathogens. These infections are challenging for both clinicians and laboratory personnel, and may lead to poor clinical outcomes.
CLINICAL CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Shuai Peng, Peninah Cheptoo Rono, Jia-Xin Yang, Jun-Jie Wang, Guang-Wan Hu, Qing-Feng Wang
Summary: A new species of Impatiens from western Sichuan Province in China is described and illustrated based on morphological and molecular data. Molecular analysis confirmed its placement in a specific section, while inspection of protologues and type specimens of allied species led to the designation of lectotypes for two names within the group.
Article
Microbiology
Tingting Liu, Lin Kang, Jinglin Xu, Jing Wang, Shan Gao, Yanwei Li, Jiaxin Li, Yuan Yuan, Bing Yuan, Jinglin Wang, Baohua Zhao, Wenwen Xin
Summary: This study developed a new in-house database called PVBase, which significantly improved the accuracy and scoring of Vibrio strains identification and successfully discriminated closely related species. Additionally, the study found that MSP characteristics of Vibrio species were unrelated to their region or source.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kerstin Doerner, Chiara Ruggeri, Ivo Zemp, Ulrike Kutay
Summary: The assembly of ribosomal subunits is a highly coordinated process involving many accessory factors. Most of these factors have been identified through genetic screening and proteomic approaches in yeast, and their requirement is conserved in evolution. However, the function and mechanism of action of many factors remained unknown until recently, when structural, biochemical, and cellular studies provided a detailed understanding of their role in ribosome maturation.
Article
Zoology
Peter G. Allsopp, Stanislav Jakl, Antonio Rey
Summary: This article reviews the taxonomy of three genus-level taxa of Cetoniinae from Southeast Asia. The replacement names Emas Allsopp, Jakl & Rey and Legrandetia Allsopp, Jakl & Rey are proposed for the preoccupied subgenus names Aurelia Thomson, 1880 and Legrandia Jakl, 2019, respectively. Additionally, Walsternoplus Allsopp, Jakl & Rey is proposed as the replacement name for the preoccupied genus name Sternoplus Wallace, 1867.
Article
Microbiology
Hana Sevcikova, Ekaterina Malysheva, Giuliano Ferisin, Francesco Dovana, Egon Horak, Jacob Kalichman, Oguzhan Kaygusuz, Renee Lebeuf, Guillermo Munoz Gonzalez, Andrew M. Minnis, Stephen D. Russell, Michal Sochor, Balint Dima, Vladimir Antonin, Alfredo Justo
Summary: This study focused on the taxonomy of Pluteus romellii and morphologically similar species in the romellii clade of section Celluloderma. Morphological and molecular data were used to identify and classify these species. Several new species were discovered, and the current classification status of several other species was discussed.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Md. Humaun Kabir, Faruk Ahmad, Md. Al Mehedi Hasan, Jungpil Shin
Summary: Individuals' names have significant meaning and gender differences. This research focuses on gender prediction based on Bengali names using DL-based methods. Experimental results show that Conv1D achieves the highest accuracy of 91.18%.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Guangman Song, Quan Wang
Summary: Information on plant species is crucial for forest ecosystems, including biodiversity monitoring and forest management. Traditional plant species inventory methods are inefficient in terms of cost and performance, necessitating the development of a quick and feasible approach. Remote sensing has emerged as an active approach for plant species classification, but only a few studies have utilized hyperspectral information. This study effectively classifies plant species using hyperspectral leaf information and machine learning models, optimized through Bayesian optimization, leading to improved classification accuracy.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Xu Zhu, Lili Zhao, Lihong Huang, Wenxian Yang, Liansheng Wang, Rongshan Yu
Summary: We developed the cgMSI tool for nanopore metagenomic pathogen detection within species. The tool utilizes a two-stage maximum a posteriori probability estimation method to accurately detect strains and estimate relative abundance at low computational cost.
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Billie Martiniello, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
Summary: This study examines the perception of names from an intersectional perspective in a West-European context. The findings suggest that people tend to distinguish between Belgian and non-Belgian names rather than perceiving a specific ethnic-national origin. Additionally, names also signal information about a person's gender, religiosity, social class, and educational level.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Davide Andreatta, Christoph Bachofen, Michele Dalponte, Valentin H. Klaus, Nina Buchmann
Summary: Understanding the impacts of climate change on plant phenology is crucial for predicting ecosystem responses. However, accurately tracking the flowering phenology of individual plant species in grassland species mixtures is challenging. This study presents a workflow using near-surface time-lapse cameras to extract flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures. The proposed method shows potential for studying the effects of species richness on flowering phenology.
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel A. Zhigila, Emmanuel I. Aigbokhan, A. Muthama Muasya
Summary: The article describes and illustrates Tinnea gombea, an endemic species in the Sudan savanna grasslands in northern Nigeria, using integrative evidence from morphology, ecology, and molecular phylogenetics. The new species is similar to T. barteri and T. aethiopica in terms of morphology and ecology but can be distinguished by unique characters. The distribution, habitat, and molecular evidence also support T. gombea as a distinct species. However, due to its small population and limited conservation prioritization, T. gombea is assessed as Critically Endangered.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Filipe Monteiro, Vasco Bexiga, Paulo Chaves, Joaquim Godinho, David Henriques, Pedro Melo-Pinto, Tiago Nunes, Fernando Piedade, Nelson Pimenta, Luis Sustelo, Armando M. Fernandes
Summary: This work presents a low-cost fish species identification tool using a custom-made multispectral camera and a trained classification algorithm. By classifying the spectra of small fish neighborhoods, the tool can estimate the percentage of each fish species captured. The best classification results are achieved with support vector machines, with a balanced accuracy of 63.8%.
Article
Ecology
David A. Baltrus, Meara Clark, Caitlin Smith, Kevin L. Hockett
Article
Microbiology
Prem P. Kandel, David A. Baltrus, Kevin L. Hockett
JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Microbiology
David A. Baltrus, Caitlin Smith, MacKenzie Derrick, Courtney Leligdon, Zoe Rosenthal, Madison Mollico, Andrew Moore, Meara Clark
Summary: Horizontal gene transfer can lead to both increased sensitivity and resistance to antibiotics in different strains of Pseudomonas bacteria. These effects are not simply due to overall fitness changes, and highlight the importance of genomic and environmental contexts in determining the outcomes of gene transfer events. The results suggest that the impacts of plasmid acquisition on bacterial fitness are complex and can vary depending on the specific genetic background and environmental conditions.
Article
Plant Sciences
David A. Baltrus, Meara Clark, Kevin L. Hockett, Madison Mollico, Caitlin Smith, Savannah Weaver
Summary: This study investigates the prophylactic application of tailocins to prevent infection by Pseudomonas syringae in Nicotiana benthamiana. The results demonstrate that multiple strains of tailocins can prevent infection, and the target specificity of tailocins is responsible for this protective effect. Furthermore, heritable resistance mutations do not explain the failure of tailocins to prevent infection in some cases.
Article
Microbiology
David A. Baltrus, Aaron White, Caitlin Smith, Meara Clark
Summary: The study presents draft genome sequences of eight Streptomyces strains isolated from multiple sky islands in Arizona, known for their distinctive physiology and prolific production of antibiotics. The sequencing was performed using Oxford Nanopore Technologies' Flongle adapter and MinION system.
MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Brian A. Smith, Kevin Dougherty, Meara Clark, David A. Baltrus
Summary: Horizontally transferred elements, like plasmids, can impose costs on host cells and result in detrimental effects; laboratory passage of Pseudomonas stutzeri populations containing pMPPla107 can lead to resistance to inhibitory substances; compensating for the costs and changes associated with horizontal gene transfer can be achieved through single mutational events and allele exchange.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Biology
James P. J. Hall, Joao Botelho, Adrian Cazares, David A. Baltrus
Summary: This article provides an overview of the distribution, diversity, biology, and gene content of megaplasmids, emphasizing their widespread existence and often overlooked importance as mobile genetic elements.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Editorial Material
Biology
James P. J. Hall, Ellie Harrison, David A. Baltrus
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Patrick T. Stillson, David A. Baltrus, Alison Ravenscraft
Summary: Many plants and animals form intricate associations with bacteria, which can be mediated by genomic islands. Recently, a putative symbiotic island was found in Burkholderia symbionts of insects, suggesting a symbiotic relationship between the two.
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Justin P. Shaffer, Morgan E. Carter, Joseph E. Spraker, Meara Clark, Brian A. Smith, Kevin L. Hockett, David A. Baltrus, A. Elizabeth Arnold
Summary: Interactions between microbes and their hosts have important outcomes for host and environmental health. This study focuses on the bacterial-fungal interactions in a foliar fungal endophyte and a facultative endohyphal bacterium. The research provides insights into the gene expression patterns and potential roles of the fungus in providing organic sulfur to the bacterium and the involvement of a bacterial type VI secretion system in symbiosis establishment.
Article
Microbiology
Savannah L. Weaver, Libin Zhu, Sadhana Ravishankar, Meara Clark, David A. Baltrus
Summary: The study shows that tailocins from the P. syringae strain USA011R have broad killing activity against agriculturally significant phytopathogens and the human pathogen Salmonella enterica. Additionally, the efficiencies of targeting different species vary across closely related strains.
Article
Microbiology
David A. Baltrus, Gi Yoon Shin, Teresa Coutinho, Brian H. Kvitko, John J. Dennehy
Summary: In this study, draft genome sequences for two bacterial isolates from the genus Pantoea are described. Pantoea ananatis ATCC 35400 was originally isolated from honeydew melon and Pantoea stewartii subspecies indologenes ICMP 10132 was originally isolated from sugarcane. However, reclassification of the latter species is supported by average nucleotide identity and discriminatory PCR analysis.
MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
David A. Baltrus, Meara Clark, Parris T. Humphrey, Noah K. Whiteman
MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
(2020)
Article
Microbiology
David A. Baltrus, Meara Clark
MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
(2020)
Article
Microbiology
David A. Baltrus, Meara Clark, Patrik Inderbitzin, Daniela Pignatta, Victoria Knight-Connoni, A. Elizabeth Arnold
MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
(2019)