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Shinykgode: An Interactive Application For Ode Parameter Inference Using Gradient Matching, J Wandy, M Niu, D Giurghita, Et Al
Shinykgode: An Interactive Application For Ode Parameter Inference Using Gradient Matching, J Wandy, M Niu, D Giurghita, Et Al
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
MOTIVATION: Mathematical modelling based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is widely used to describe the dynamics of biological systems, particularly in systems and pathway biology. Often the kinetic parameters of these ODE systems are unknown and have to be inferred from the data. Approximate parameter inference methods based on gradient matching (which do not require performing computationally expensive numerical integration of the ODEs) have been getting popular in recent years, but many implementations are difficult to run without expert knowledge. Here, we introduce ShinyKGode, an interactive web application to perform fast parameter inference on ODEs using gradient matching. RESULTS: ShinyKGode …
No Evidence For Sex-Specific Effects Of The Maternal Social Environment On Offspring Development In Japanese Quail (Coturnix Japonica), E Langen, Nb Von Engelhardt, V Goerlich-Jansson
No Evidence For Sex-Specific Effects Of The Maternal Social Environment On Offspring Development In Japanese Quail (Coturnix Japonica), E Langen, Nb Von Engelhardt, V Goerlich-Jansson
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Citizen Scientists Monitoring The Establishment And Expansion Of Pterois Miles (Bennett, 1828) In The Aegean Sea, Greece, I Giovos, P Kleitou, V Paravas, Et Al
Citizen Scientists Monitoring The Establishment And Expansion Of Pterois Miles (Bennett, 1828) In The Aegean Sea, Greece, I Giovos, P Kleitou, V Paravas, Et Al
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
The introduction of the lionfish in the western Atlantic has been considered as one of the world's most detrimental invasions. However, in the Mediterranean Sea, the devil firefish Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) long after its first record in 1991, has only recently shown a rapid expansion. Citizen scientists have played a significant role in reporting the presence and monitoring the expansion of several invasive species around the world. In 2016 the environmental non- governmental Greek organisation "iSea", initiated the citizen science project "Is it alien to you…Share it", for the monitoring of alien species in the Greek waters. Between May …
Postoperative Remote Automated Monitoring: Need For And State Of The Science, Mh Mcgillion, Protect Network Investigators
Postoperative Remote Automated Monitoring: Need For And State Of The Science, Mh Mcgillion, Protect Network Investigators
Peninsula Medical School
Worldwide, more than 230 million adults have major noncardiac surgery each year. Although surgery can improve quality and duration of life, it can also precipitate major complications. Moreover, a substantial proportion of deaths occur after discharge. Current systems for monitoring patients postoperatively, on surgical wards and after transition to home, are inadequate. On the surgical ward, vital signs evaluation usually occurs only every 4-8 hours. Reduced in-hospital ward monitoring, followed by no vital signs monitoring at home, leads to thousands of cases of undetected/delayed detection of hemodynamic compromise. In this article we review work to date on postoperative remote automated …
Reducing Urban Pollution From Coastal Settlements With Green Roofs, Alexander Phillips
Reducing Urban Pollution From Coastal Settlements With Green Roofs, Alexander Phillips
The Plymouth Student Scientist
It was identified that traditional infrastructural methods for solving coastal pollution were becoming too costly and insufficient in combatting the effects of climate change. This report investigates the sustainable drainage method of green roofing as a possible approach to reducing coastal pollution. A generic computational hydraulic model was created, using Plymouth as a design template, to represent 3 different scenarios in which a combined sewage system would require overflow relief. Storm simulations were run through the scenarios to determine a set of baseline sewage spilling results. The simulations were rerun after allowances for green roofs, with substrates of 50mm and …
How Does Individual Quality And Mate Attractiveness Affect Courtship And Mating Behaviour?, Laura Cook
How Does Individual Quality And Mate Attractiveness Affect Courtship And Mating Behaviour?, Laura Cook
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Courtship and mating are costly and as a result, organisms are faced with trade-off decisions between the costs and benefits which arise from them. Individuals use information on their own quality and the attractiveness of their potential mate to determine whether to court and mate, and if so how much energy to invest in these activities. An individual’s quality can affect its ability to perform sexual activities and determine the energy the individual is able to invest in such activities. Organisms assess one another on their relative attractiveness, which allows them to determine the relative benefits they will receive from …
The Construction And Validation Of The Severe Asthma Questionnaire, Michael E. Hyland, Rupert C. Jones, Joseph W. Lanario, Matthew Masoli
The Construction And Validation Of The Severe Asthma Questionnaire, Michael E. Hyland, Rupert C. Jones, Joseph W. Lanario, Matthew Masoli
School of Psychology
BACKGROUND: The USA's Food and Drug Administration's procedure for scale validation requires a documented stepwise process of qualitative and quantitative data. The aim of this paper is to provide the final quantitative validating data. METHODS: The severe asthma questionnaire (SAQ), asthma control test (ACT), MiniAQLQ, and EQ-5D-5L were completed by 160 patients attending a severe asthma clinic; 51 patients completed the SAQ on two occasions for test-retest reliability analysis. The SAQ produces two scores, an SAQ score based on the average of 16 items and a SAQ-global score from a single 100-point global quality of life scale. RESULTS: Construct validity …
Business Ecosystem Research Agenda: More Dynamic, More Embedded, And More Internationalized, Lh Butel, K Rong, Y Lin, T Burstrom, J Yu
Business Ecosystem Research Agenda: More Dynamic, More Embedded, And More Internationalized, Lh Butel, K Rong, Y Lin, T Burstrom, J Yu
Plymouth Business School
We explore the emerging body of research focusing on business ecosystems (BEs). The study of inter-organizational relationships has evolved from a focus at the level of firm, to the supply chain, the platform, and now towards the BE. The co-evolution of inter-related organizations is an essential element of BE research, rather than static structure. The success of leading internet companies in Asia, such as Alibaba in China, Naver in South Korea, Baharti Airtel in India, and Rakuten in Japan, reflects their strategies and practices of leveraging BEs within a fast-changing age. In order to better understand the mechanisms of BEs, …
Fathers’ Experiences Of Their Child’S Life Limiting Condition: An Attachment Narrative Perspective, Rudi Dallos, - Pearce O Bailey, Jacqui Stedmon
Fathers’ Experiences Of Their Child’S Life Limiting Condition: An Attachment Narrative Perspective, Rudi Dallos, - Pearce O Bailey, Jacqui Stedmon
More Faculty of Health Research
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Application Of A New Targeted Low Density Microarray And Conventional Biomarkers To Evaluate The Health Status Of Marine Mussels: A Field Study In Sardinian Coast, Italy, Susanna Sforzini, Caterina Oliveri, A Orru, Giannina Chessa, Beniamina Pacchioni, Caterina Millino, Awadhesh N. Jha, Aldo Viarengo, Mohamed Banni
Application Of A New Targeted Low Density Microarray And Conventional Biomarkers To Evaluate The Health Status Of Marine Mussels: A Field Study In Sardinian Coast, Italy, Susanna Sforzini, Caterina Oliveri, A Orru, Giannina Chessa, Beniamina Pacchioni, Caterina Millino, Awadhesh N. Jha, Aldo Viarengo, Mohamed Banni
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Synchronization Of The Astronomical Time Scales In The Early Toarcian: A Link Between Anoxia, Carbon-Cycle Perturbation, Mass Extinction And Volcanism, Fatima Zahra Ait-Itto, Mathieu Martinez, Gregory D. Price, Addi A Ait
Synchronization Of The Astronomical Time Scales In The Early Toarcian: A Link Between Anoxia, Carbon-Cycle Perturbation, Mass Extinction And Volcanism, Fatima Zahra Ait-Itto, Mathieu Martinez, Gregory D. Price, Addi A Ait
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Proteomic Study Of The Exponential-Stationary Growth Phase Transition In The Haloarchaea Natrialba Magadii And Haloferax Volcanii, M Cerletti, Mi Giménez, C Tröetschel, C D’Alessandro, Et Al
Proteomic Study Of The Exponential-Stationary Growth Phase Transition In The Haloarchaea Natrialba Magadii And Haloferax Volcanii, M Cerletti, Mi Giménez, C Tröetschel, C D’Alessandro, Et Al
School of Biomedical Sciences
The dynamic changes that take place along the phases of microbial growth (lag, exponential, stationary, and death) have been widely studied in bacteria at the molecular and cellular levels, but little is known for archaea. In this study, a high-throughput approach was used to analyze and compare the proteomes of two haloarchaea during exponential and stationary growth: the neutrophilic Haloferax volcanii and the alkaliphilic Natrialba magadii. Almost 2000 proteins were identified in each species (˜50% of the predicted proteome). Among them, 532 and 432 were found to be differential between growth phases in H. volcanii and N. magadii, respectively. Changes …
The Aspergillus Nidulans Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinases Are Essential To Integrate Carbon Source Metabolism, Laure Nicolas Annick Ries, De Assis L José, Fernando José Santos Rodrigues, Camila Caldana, Marina Campos Rocha, Iran Malavazi, Özgür Bayram, Gustavo H. Goldman
The Aspergillus Nidulans Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinases Are Essential To Integrate Carbon Source Metabolism, Laure Nicolas Annick Ries, De Assis L José, Fernando José Santos Rodrigues, Camila Caldana, Marina Campos Rocha, Iran Malavazi, Özgür Bayram, Gustavo H. Goldman
School of Biomedical Sciences
The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDH), that converts pyruvate to acetyl-coA, is regulated by pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases (PDHK) and phosphatases (PDHP) that have been shown to be important for morphology, pathogenicity and carbon source utilization in different fungal species. The aim of this study was to investigate the role played by the three PDHKs PkpA, PkpB and PkpC in carbon source utilization in the reference filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans, in order to unravel regulatory mechanisms which could prove useful for fungal biotechnological and biomedical applications. PkpA and PkpB were shown to be mitochondrial whereas PkpC localized to the mitochondria in a …
Climate Forcing Of Regionally-Coherent Extreme Storm Impact And Recovery On Embayed Beaches, Olivier Burvingt, Gerd Masselink, Tim Scott, Mark Davidson, Paul Russell
Climate Forcing Of Regionally-Coherent Extreme Storm Impact And Recovery On Embayed Beaches, Olivier Burvingt, Gerd Masselink, Tim Scott, Mark Davidson, Paul Russell
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
© 2018 The effective management of sedimentary coastlines demands a good understanding of the seasonal and inter-annual cycles in beach volumes, as well as the potential impact of extreme events. This paper uses a 10-year time series (2007–2017) of supra- and intertidal beach volume from exposed and cross-shore transport-dominated sites to examine the extent to which beach behaviour is coherent over a relatively large region (100-km stretch of coast) and predictably coupled to incident wave forcing. Over the study period, 10 beaches, exposed to similar wave/tide conditions, but having different sediment characteristics, beach lengths and degrees of embaymentisation, showed coherent …
A British Society For Haematology Good Practice Paper On The Diagnosis And Investigation Of Patients With Mantle Cell Lymphoma, P Mckay, M Leach, B Jackson, S Robinson, Saj Rule
A British Society For Haematology Good Practice Paper On The Diagnosis And Investigation Of Patients With Mantle Cell Lymphoma, P Mckay, M Leach, B Jackson, S Robinson, Saj Rule
Peninsula Medical School
No abstract provided.
Guideline For The Management Of Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Saj Rule, P Mckay, M Leach, R Jackson, S Robinson
Guideline For The Management Of Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Saj Rule, P Mckay, M Leach, R Jackson, S Robinson
Peninsula Medical School
No abstract provided.
Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Attenuate Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion From Ins-1e Insulinoma Cells By Restricting Mitochondrial Pyruvate Oxidation Capacity - Novel Mechanistic Insight From Real-Time Analysis Of Oxidative Phosphorylation., Jonathan Barlow, Thomas P.J. Solomon, Charles Affourtit
Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Attenuate Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion From Ins-1e Insulinoma Cells By Restricting Mitochondrial Pyruvate Oxidation Capacity - Novel Mechanistic Insight From Real-Time Analysis Of Oxidative Phosphorylation., Jonathan Barlow, Thomas P.J. Solomon, Charles Affourtit
School of Biomedical Sciences
Pro-inflammatory cytokines cause pancreatic beta cell failure during the development of type 2 diabetes. This beta cell failure associates with mitochondrial dysfunction, but the precise effects of cytokines on mitochondrial respiration remain unclear. To test the hypothesis that pro-inflammatory cytokines impair glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) by inhibiting oxidative ATP synthesis, we probed insulin release and real-time mitochondrial respiration in rat INS-1E insulinoma cells that were exposed to a combination of 2 ng/mL interleukin-1-beta and 50 ng/mL interferon-gamma. We show that 24-h exposure to these cytokines dampens both glucose- and pyruvate-stimulated insulin secretion (P < 0.0001 and P < 0.05, respectively), but does not affect KCl-induced insulin release. Mirroring secretory defects, glucose- and pyruvate-stimulated mitochondrial respiration are lowered after cytokine exposure (P < 0.01). Further analysis confirms that cytokine-induced mitochondrial respiratory defects occur irrespective of whether fuel oxidation is coupled to, or uncoupled from, ATP synthesis. These observations demonstrate that pro-inflammatory cytokines attenuate GSIS by restricting mitochondrial pyruvate oxidation capacity. Interleukin-1-beta and interferon-gamma also increase mitochondrial superoxide levels (P < 0.05), which may reinforce the inhibition of pyruvate oxidation, and cause a modest (20%) but significant (P < 0.01) loss of INS-1E cells. Cytokine-induced INS-1E cell failure is insensitive to palmitoleate and linoleate, which is at odds with the cytoprotection offered by unsaturated fatty acids against harm caused by nutrient excess. Our data disclose a mitochondrial mechanism for cytokine-impaired GSIS in INS-1E cells, and suggest that inflammatory and nutrient-related beta cell failure emerge, at least partly, through distinct paths.
Acoustic Features Of Auditory Medical Alarms - An Experimental Study Of Alarm Volume, Schlesinger, Jj, Sh Baum, K Nash, M Bruce, D Ashmead, Ms Shotwell, Mt Wallace, Mb Weinger, J Edworthy
Acoustic Features Of Auditory Medical Alarms - An Experimental Study Of Alarm Volume, Schlesinger, Jj, Sh Baum, K Nash, M Bruce, D Ashmead, Ms Shotwell, Mt Wallace, Mb Weinger, J Edworthy
School of Psychology
No abstract provided.
Restriction Associated Dna-Genotyping At Multiple Spatial Scales In Arabidopsis Lyrata Reveals Signatures Of Pathogen-Mediated Selection, James Buckley, Eric B. Holub, Marcus A. Koch, Philippine Vergeer, Barbara K. Mable
Restriction Associated Dna-Genotyping At Multiple Spatial Scales In Arabidopsis Lyrata Reveals Signatures Of Pathogen-Mediated Selection, James Buckley, Eric B. Holub, Marcus A. Koch, Philippine Vergeer, Barbara K. Mable
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
A New Terrestrial Palaeoenvironmental Record From The Bering Land Bridge And Context For Human Dispersal, Mj Wooller, É Saulnier-Talbot, Ba Potter, S Belmecheri, Et Al
A New Terrestrial Palaeoenvironmental Record From The Bering Land Bridge And Context For Human Dispersal, Mj Wooller, É Saulnier-Talbot, Ba Potter, S Belmecheri, Et Al
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
© 2018 The Authors. Palaeoenvironmental records from the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge (BLB) covering the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present are needed to document changing environments and connections with the dispersal of humans into North America. Moreover, terrestrially based records of environmental changes are needed in close proximity to the re-establishment of circulation between Pacific and Atlantic Oceans following the end of the last glaciation to test palaeo-climate models for the high latitudes. We present the first terrestrial temperature and hydrologic reconstructions from the LGM to the present from the BLB’s south-central margin. We find that the timing …
Chip-Seq Experiment And Data Analysis In The Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803, J Giner-Lamia, M Hernández-Prieto, Em Futschik
Chip-Seq Experiment And Data Analysis In The Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803, J Giner-Lamia, M Hernández-Prieto, Em Futschik
School of Biomedical Sciences
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all living organisms. In cyanobacteria, a group of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, nitrogen homeostasis is maintained by an intricate regulatory network around the transcription factor NtcA. Although mechanisms controlling NtcA activity appear to be well understood, the sets of genes under its control (i.e., its regulon) remain poorly defined. In this protocol, we describe the procedure for chromatin immunoprecipitation using NtcA antibodies, followed by DNA sequencing analysis (ChIP-seq) during early acclimation to nitrogen starvation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (hereafter Synechocystis). This protocol can be extended to analyze any DNA-binding protein in cyanobacteria …
Towards Improved Bioaerosol Model Validation And Verification, Ben Williams, Enda Hayes, Zaheer Nasir, Catherine Rolph, Simon Jackson, Shagun Khera, Alan Bennett, Toni Gladding, Gillian Drew, James Longhurst, Sean Tyrrel
Towards Improved Bioaerosol Model Validation And Verification, Ben Williams, Enda Hayes, Zaheer Nasir, Catherine Rolph, Simon Jackson, Shagun Khera, Alan Bennett, Toni Gladding, Gillian Drew, James Longhurst, Sean Tyrrel
School of Biomedical Sciences
No abstract provided.
Genomic Dissection Of Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes, Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia Working Group Of The Psychicatric Genomics Consortium
Genomic Dissection Of Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes, Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia Working Group Of The Psychicatric Genomics Consortium
School of Biomedical Sciences
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two distinct diagnoses that share symptomology. Understanding the genetic factors contributing to the shared and disorder-specific symptoms will be crucial for improving diagnosis and treatment. In genetic data consisting of 53,555 cases (20,129 bipolar disorder [BD], 33,426 schizophrenia [SCZ]) and 54,065 controls, we identified 114 genome-wide significant loci implicating synaptic and neuronal pathways shared between disorders. Comparing SCZ to BD (23,585 SCZ, 15,270 BD) identified four genomic regions including one with disorder-independent causal variants and potassium ion response genes as contributing to differences in biology between the disorders. Polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses identified several …
Social Contact Patterns Can Buffer Costs Of Forgetting In The Evolution Of Cooperation, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Jan K. Woike, Lael J. Schooler, Stefan Lindner, Thorsten Pachur
Social Contact Patterns Can Buffer Costs Of Forgetting In The Evolution Of Cooperation, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Jan K. Woike, Lael J. Schooler, Stefan Lindner, Thorsten Pachur
School of Psychology
Analyses of the evolution of cooperation often rely on two simplifying assumptions: (i) individuals interact equally frequently with all social network members and (ii) they accurately remember each partner's past cooperation or defection. Here, we examine how more realistic, skewed patterns of contact—in which individuals interact primarily with only a subset of their network's members—influence cooperation. In addition, we test whether skewed contact patterns can counteract the decrease in cooperation caused by memory errors (i.e. forgetting). Finally, we compare two types of memory error that vary in whether forgotten interactions are replaced with random actions or with actions from previous …
Climate Structuring Of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis Infection In The Threatened Amphibians Of The Northern Western Ghats, India, Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis, Matthew C. Fisher, Claudia J. Wierzbicki, Siddharth Kulkarni, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, Aparna Watve, Mairi E. Knight
Climate Structuring Of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis Infection In The Threatened Amphibians Of The Northern Western Ghats, India, Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis, Matthew C. Fisher, Claudia J. Wierzbicki, Siddharth Kulkarni, David Pryce, Lewis Davies, Aparna Watve, Mairi E. Knight
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a pathogen killing amphibians worldwide. Its impact across much of Asia is poorly characterized. This study systematically surveyed amphibians for Bd across rocky plateaus in the northern section of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India, including the first surveys of the plateaus in the coastal region. These ecosystems offer an epidemiological model system since they are characterized by differing levels of connectivity, edaphic and climatic conditions, and anthropogenic stressors. One hundred and eighteen individuals of 21 species of Anura and Apoda on 13 plateaus ranging from 67 to 1179 m above sea level and 15.89 to …
Correction: Social Environment During Egg Laying: Changes In Plasma Hormones With No Consequences For Yolk Hormones Or Fecundity In Female Japanese Quail, Coturnix Japonica, Esther M.A. Langen, Nikolaus Von Engelhardt, Vivian C. Goerlich-Jansson
Correction: Social Environment During Egg Laying: Changes In Plasma Hormones With No Consequences For Yolk Hormones Or Fecundity In Female Japanese Quail, Coturnix Japonica, Esther M.A. Langen, Nikolaus Von Engelhardt, Vivian C. Goerlich-Jansson
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Plant Controls On Late Quaternary Whole Ecosystem Structure And Function, E Jeffers, Nj Whitehouse, A Lister, G Plunkett, Et Al
Plant Controls On Late Quaternary Whole Ecosystem Structure And Function, E Jeffers, Nj Whitehouse, A Lister, G Plunkett, Et Al
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plants and animals influence biomass production and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; however their relative importance remains unclear. We assessed the extent to which megaherbivore species controlled plant community composition and nutrient cycling, relative to other factors during and after the Late Quaternary extinction event in Britain and Ireland, when two-thirds of the region’s mega-herbivore species went extinct. Warmer temperatures, plant-soil and plantplant interactions, and reduced burning contributed to the expansion of woody plants and declining nitrogen availability in our five study ecosystems. Shrub biomass in particular was consistently one of the strongest predictors of ecosystem change, equaling or exceeding …
Changes To Polychlorinated Biphenyl (Pcb) Signatures And Enantiomer Fractions Across Different Tissue Types In Guillemots, D Megson, Ta Brown, G O'Sullivan, M Robson, Et Al
Changes To Polychlorinated Biphenyl (Pcb) Signatures And Enantiomer Fractions Across Different Tissue Types In Guillemots, D Megson, Ta Brown, G O'Sullivan, M Robson, Et Al
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Two Guillemot carcases were dissected, each providing 12 discrete tissue samples and 3 samples of partially digested food. One hundred and five PCBs from the 209 PCBs determined by GCxGC-ToFMS were detected. The relative proportions of individual PCBs did not vary greatly within tissue types, although the PCB profile from undigested food could be distinguished. Enantiomer fractions (EFs) were determined for CB-95, CB-136 and CB-149 by GC-HRqToFMS. EFs in the partially digested food were near racemic, with high levels of enrichment for E1 CB-95 in the kidneys and liver (EF of 0.80 and 0.84 respectively). This provides some of the …
Global-Scale Comparisons Of Human Land Use: Developing Shared Terminology For Land-Use Practices Of Significance For Global Change., Kd Morrison, E Hammer, L Popova, Et Al
Global-Scale Comparisons Of Human Land Use: Developing Shared Terminology For Land-Use Practices Of Significance For Global Change., Kd Morrison, E Hammer, L Popova, Et Al
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Although archaeological data are needed to understand the impacts of past human land use on the Earth system, synthesis is hampered by a lack of consistent categories. We develop hierarchical and scalable land-use classifications for use across the globe. Human land-use practices have been highly variable over the course of the Holocene, a diversity evident in the differentiated effects of human activity on land cover. Historically, agriculture was one of the most significant forms of land use, but even mobile hunter-gatherers transformed land cover through landscape-scale burning (Bliege Bird 2008). Livestock-keeping, plowing, irrigation, and the production of metal, ceramics, and …
Evaluation Of The Genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) Emend. Aruga Et Al. 2002: Reclassification Of Thiothrix Disciformis To Thiolinea Disciformis Gen. Nov., Comb. Nov., And Of Thiothrix Flexilis To Thiofilum Flexile Gen. Nov., Comb Nov., With Emended Description Of Thiothrix., Rich Boden, Kathleen M. Scott
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Thiothrix is the type genus of the Thiotrichaceae in the Thiotrichales of the 21 Gammaproteobacteria, comprising nine species of sulfur-oxidising filamentous Bacteria, 22 which are variously autotrophic, heterotrophic or have mixed metabolic modes. Within the 23 genus, 4 species show 16S rRNA gene identities lower the Yarza threshold for the rank of 24 genus (94.5 %) – Thiothrix disciformis, Thiothrix flexilis, Thiothrix defluvii and Thiothrix 25 eikelboomii – as they show no affiliation to extant genera, a polyphasic study was undertaken 26 including biochemical, physiological and genomic properties and phylogeny based on the 27 16S rRNA gene (rrs), recombination protein …