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Microbial Communities in Nature: a Postgenomic Perspective
The term microbial community often comes up in the context of natural microbial assemblages (NMAs) being analyzed. Because the majority of microbes in such NMAs show no detectable activity or growth, researchers use molecular techniques to characterize microbes in these NMA—while assuming that nu...
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Insect and Mammalian Innate Immune Responses Are Much Alike
Insects are found in almost every habitat on Earth, with as many as 1018 live individuals belonging to perhaps 1 million separate species. In terms of evolution, although insects and vertebrates diverged approximately 500 million years ago, many components of their biochemistries and p...
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Who Killed the Worm and Other Fungal Pathogenesis Insights
Many pathogens depend on the same virulence factors to cause disease in mammals such as mice and in nonmammalian hosts, thus sharing a fundamental set of molecular mechanisms across a widely divergent array of hosts. This approach to evaluating virulence factors by seeking them among divergent mo...
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