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  • Investment into the future of microbial resources: culture collection funding models and BRC business plans for biological resource centres 

    Smith, David; McCluskey, Kevin, 1961-; Stackebrandt, Erko (2014-02-12)
    Through their long history of public service, diverse microbial Biological Resource Centres (mBRCs) have made myriad contributions to society and science. They have enabled the maintenance of specimens isolated before ...
  • Global catalogue of microorganisms (gcm): a comprehensive database and information retrieval, analysis, and visualization system for microbial resources 

    Wu, Linhuan; Sun, Qinglan; Sugawara, Hideaki; Yang, Song; Zhou, Yuguang; McCluskey, Kevin; Vasilenko, Alexander; Suzuki, Ken-Ichiro; Ohkuma, Moriya; Lee, Yeonhee; Robert, Vincent; Ingsriswang, Supawadee; Guissart, François; Philippe, Desmeth; Ma, Juncai (2013-12-30)
    Abstract Background Throughout the long history of industrial and academic research, many microbes have been isolated, characterized and preserved (whenever possible) in culture collections. With ...
  • Site-specific genomic (SSG) and random domain-localized (RDL) mutagenesis in yeast 

    Gray, Misa; Kupiec, Martin; Honigberg, Saul M (2004-04-16)
    Abstract Background A valuable weapon in the arsenal available to yeast geneticists is the ability to introduce specific mutations ...
  • Diabetes (db/db) mutation-induced endometrial epithelial lipoapoptosis: Ultrastructural and cytochemical analysis of reproductive tract atrophy 

    Garris, David R (2005-04-27)
    Abstract Background The diabetes (db/db) mutation in C57BL/KsJ mice promotes a progressive cytolipidemia within the endometrial ...
  • Influences of obese (ob/ob) and diabetes (db/db) genotype mutations on lumber vertebral radiological and morphometric indices: Skeletal deformation associated with dysregulated systemic glucometabolism 

    Burkemper, Katherine M; Garris, David R (2006-02-01)
    Abstract Background Both diabetes and obesity syndromes are recognized to promote lumbar vertebral instability, premature ...
  • CPP-ZFN: A potential DNA-targeting anti-malarial drug 

    Nain, Vikrant; Sahi, Shakti; Verma, Anju (2010-09-16)
    Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant Plasmodium is of major concern today. Effective vaccines or successful applications of RNAi-based strategies for the treatment of malaria are currently unavailable. An unexplored ...
  • The role of Candida albicans homologous recombination factors Rad54 and Rdh54 in DNA damage sensitivity 

    Hoot, Samantha J; Zheng, Xiuzhong; Potenski, Catherine J; White, Theodore C; Klein, Hannah L (2011-09-27)
    Abstract Background The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is frequently seen in immune suppressed patients, and resistance to one of the most widely used antifungals, fluconazole (FLC), can evolve rapidly. In recent years ...
  • A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants 

    Talbert, Paul B; Ahmad, Kami; Almouzni, Geneviève; Ausió, Juan; Berger, Frederic; Bhalla, Prem L; Bonner, William M; Cande, W Z; Chadwick, Brian P; Chan, Simon W L; Cross, George A M; Cui, Liwang; Dimitrov, Stefan I; Doenecke, Detlef; Eirin-López, José M; Gorovsky, Martin A; Hake, Sandra B; Hamkalo, Barbara A; Holec, Sarah; Jacobsen, Steven E; Kamieniarz, Kinga; Khochbin, Saadi; Ladurner, Andreas G; Landsman, David; Latham, John A; Loppin, Benjamin; Malik, Harmit S; Marzluff, William F; Pehrson, John R; Postberg, Jan; Schneider, Robert; Singh, Mohan B; Smith, M M; Thompson, Eric; Torres-Padilla, Maria-Elena; Tremethick, David J; Turner, Bryan M; Waterborg, Jakob H; Wollmann, Heike; Yelagandula, Ramesh; Zhu, Bing; Henikoff, Steven (2012-05-31)
    AbstractHistone variants are non-allelic protein isoforms that play key roles in diversifying chromatin structure. The known number of such variants has greatly increased in recent years, but the lack of naming conventions ...
  • Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma 

    Kubicek, Christian P; Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo; Seidl-Seiboth, Verena; Martinez, Diego A; Druzhinina, Irina S; Thon, Michael; Zeilinger, Susanne; Casas-Flores, Sergio; Horwitz, Benjamin A; Mukherjee, Prasun K; Mukherjee, Mala; Kredics, Laszlo; Alcaraz, Louis D; Aerts, Andrea; Antal, Zsuzsanna; Atanasova, Lea; Cervantes-Badillo, Mayte G; Challacombe, Jean; Chertkov, Olga; McCluskey, Kevin; Coulpier, Fanny; Deshpande, Nandan; von Doehren, Hans; Ebbole, Daniel J; Esquivel-Naranjo, Edgar U; Fekete, Erzsebet; Flipphi, Michel; Glaser, Fabian; Gomez-Rodriguez, Elida Y; Gruber, Sabine; Han, Cliff; Henrissat, Bernard; Hermosa, Rosa; Hernandez-Onate, Miguel; Karaffa, Levente; Kosti, Idit; Le Crom, Stephane; Lindquist, Erika; Lucas, Susan; Lubeck, Mette; Lubeck, Peter S; Margeot, Antoine; Metz, Benjamin; Misra, Monica; Nevalainen, Helena; Omann, Markus; Packer, Nicolle; Perrone, Giancarlo; Uresti-Rivera, Edith E; Salamov, Asaf; Schmoll, Monika; Seiboth, Bernhard; Shapiro, Harris; Sukno, Serenella; Tamayo-Ramos, Juan A; Tisch, Doris; Wiest, Aric; Wilkinson, Heather H; Zhang, Michael; Coutinho, Pedro M; Kenerley, Charles M; Monte, Enrique; Baker, Scott E; Grigoriev, Igor V (2011-04-18)
    Abstract Background Mycoparasitism, a lifestyle where one fungus is parasitic on another fungus, has special relevance when the prey is a plant pathogen, providing a strategy for biological control of pests for plant ...
  • GAL1-SceI directed site-specific genomic (gsSSG) mutagenesis: a method for precisely targeting point mutations in S. cerevisiae. 

    Piccirillo, Sarah; Wang, Hsiao-Lin; Fisher, Thomas J.; Honigberg, Saul M. (2011-12-05)
    Abstract Background Precise targeted mutations are defined as targeted mutations that do not require the retention of other genetic changes, such as marker genes, near the mutation site. In the yeast, S. cerevisiae, ...
  • Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution 

    Kelley, Tanya (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
    It has long been debated whether the scientific writing of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) provided the seeds for the theory of evolution. Scholars have argued both sides with equal passion. German biologist ...