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2018 Australia fish microbiome study
Atl salmon study ABSTRACT Successful rearing of fish in hatcheries is critical for conservation, recreational fishing, and commercial fishing through wild stock enhancements,... -
DNA extraction comparison testing 2019-2020
Our DNA extraction protocol is years old, and we want to compare new extraction methods to address outstanding issues. For more details, check out the motivation and... -
Impacts of Evolution on the Response of Phytoplankton Populations to Rising CO2
Human activities are driving up atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at an unprecedented rate, perturbing the ocean's carbonate buffering system, lowering oceanic pH, and... -
Earth Microbiome Project Multi-omics (EMP500)
The Earth Microbiome Project Multi-omics component (EMP500) involves amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing and metabolomic profiling of over five hundred microbial... -
Cultivation of bacteria from Aplysina aerophoba: effects of oxygen and nutrie...
To cultivate bacteria derived from the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba, nine novel media formulations were created based on the predicted genomic potential of the prevalent... -
Genome resequencing of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough mutant culture ad...
A culture of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough lacking the gene encoding sulfate adenylyl transferase was adapted by serial passaging to be resistant to molybdate. The... -
Fish microbiota 101: host traits, ecology, and environmental factors influenc...
Fish are the most diverse and widely distributed vertebrates, yet little is known about the microbial ecology of fishes nor the biological and environmental factors that... -
Tijuana River pollution at Imperial Beach 2019
Rain events increase Tijuana river flow to levels that the international water treatment plant in the Mexico-US border can not process. Therefore, rain runoff and sewage... -
Transcriptomic responses of Phaeodactylum tricornutum PhoD_45757 mutant under...
Transcriptomic responses of Phaeodactylum tricornutum PhoD_45757 mutant under DIP-replete, P-depleted, and DOP-replete conditions. Phytic acid was used to represent DOP here. -
Triplicate PCR reactions for 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing are unnecessary
Conventional wisdom holds that PCR amplification for sequencing should employ pooled replicate reactions to reduce bias due to jackpot effects and chimera formation. However,... -
Genome sequencing of Desulfovibrio vulgaris JW710
The genome was sequenced of the Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough strain, JW710, a mutant lacking the uracil phosphoribosyltransferase gene (gene locus DVU1025). This mutant...