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MARPLE: Real-Time Plant Disease Diagnostics

Diane Saunders and colleagues describe the development of a portable, genomics-based, point-of-care approach tailored to rapidly identify individual strains of fungal plant pathogens.

Functional Annotation of the Cattle Genome

George Liu, Cong-jun Li and colleagues provide a complete global landscape of regulatory elements in cattle and explore the dynamics of chromatin states in rumen cells induced by the rumen developmental regulator—butyrate.

A Molecular Signature of Sex, Age and Species

In their new paper, Rob Beynon and colleagues describe a new method for the rapid identification of the species, sex and maturity of animals based on the spectrometric analysis of their faeces.

The Visual System of a Model Crustacean

A comprehensive characterization of the visual system of the genetically tractable crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis by Michalis Averof, Ana Patricia Ramos and colleagues, reveals the organisation of a sensory system for low-resolution vision.

The Microbiome of a Soda Lake

Gerard Muyzer and colleagues identify the uncultured prokaryotes growing in a Siberian soda lake, and their adaptations to the hypersaline and alkaline extreme environment.

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Our Series on Cancer Metabolism highlights advances in our understanding of cancer metabolism through commissioned Reviews and Q&As from leaders in the field.

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Viral hijacking of cellular metabolism

Shivani K. Thaker, James Ch’ng & Heather R. Christofk

Published on: 18 July 2019

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Content type: Research article
| 22 August 2019

Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake

Authors: Charlotte D. Vavourakis, Maliheh Mehrshad, Cherel Balkema, Rutger van Hall, Adrian-Ştefan Andrei, Rohit Ghai, Dimitry Y. Sorokin and Gerard Muyzer
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| 16 August 2019

Functional annotation of the cattle genome through systematic discovery and characterization of chromatin states and butyrate-induced variations

Authors: Lingzhao Fang, Shuli Liu, Mei Liu, Xiaolong Kang, Shudai Lin, Bingjie Li, Erin E. Connor, Ransom L. Baldwin VI, Albert Tenesa, Li Ma, George E. Liu and Cong-jun Li
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| 15 August 2019

Analysis of the genetically tractable crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis reveals the organisation of a sensory system for low-resolution vision

Authors: Ana Patricia Ramos, Ola Gustafsson, Nicolas Labert, Iris Salecker, Dan-Eric Nilsson and Michalis Averof
Content type: Research article
| 15 August 2019

Sodium channels enable fast electrical signaling and regulate phagocytosis in the retinal pigment epithelium

Authors: Julia K. Johansson, Viivi I. Karema-Jokinen, Satu Hakanen, Antti Jylhä, Hannu Uusitalo, Maija Vihinen-Ranta, Heli Skottman, Teemu O. Ihalainen and Soile Nymark
Content type: Methodology article
| 14 August 2019

Rapid identification of species, sex and maturity by mass spectrometric analysis of animal faeces

Authors: Nicola B. Davidson, Natalie I. Koch, Joscelyn Sarsby, Emrys Jones, Jane L. Hurst and Robert J. Beynon

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The golden death bacillus Chryseobacterium nematophagum is a novel matrix digesting pathogen of nematodes
Antony P. Page, Mark Roberts, Marie-Anne Félix, Derek Pickard, Andrew Page and William Weir
Published on: 28 February 2019

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Ancient role of vasopressin/oxytocin-type neuropeptides as regulators of feeding revealed in an echinoderm
Esther A. Odekunle, Dean C. Semmens, Nataly Martynyuk, Ana B. Tinoco, Abdullah K. Garewal, Radhika R. Patel, Liisa M. Blowes, Meet Zandawala, Jérôme Delroisse, Susan E. Slade, James H. Scrivens, Michaela Egertová & Maurice R. Elphick
Published on: 31 July 2019

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Ontogenetic and phylogenetic simplification during white stripe evolution in clownfishes
Pauline Salis, Natacha Roux, Olivier Soulat, David Lecchini, Vincent Laudet and Bruno Frédérich
Published on: 5 September 2018

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The impact of skin care products on skin chemistry and microbiome dynamics
Amina Bouslimani, Ricardo da Silva, Tomasz Kosciolek, Stefan Janssen, Chris Callewaert, Amnon Amir, Kathleen Dorrestein, Alexey V. Melnik, Livia S. Zaramela, Ji-Nu Kim, Gregory Humphrey, Tara Schwartz, Karenina Sanders, Caitriona Brennan, Tal Luzzatto-Knaan, Gail Ackermann, Daniel McDonald, Karsten Zengler, Rob Knight & Pieter C. Dorrestein
Published on: 12 June 2019

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RNA processing errors triggered by cadmium and integrator complex disruption are signals for environmental stress
Cheng-Wei Wu, Keon Wimberly, Adele Pietras, William Dodd, M. Blake Atlas & Keith P. Choe
Published on: 16 July 19

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Synthetic Biology Goes Cell-Free
Aidan Tinafar, Katariina Jaenes & Keith Pardee
Pubished on: 8 August 2019

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Viral hijacking of cellular metabolism
Shivani K. Thaker, James Ch’ng & Heather R. Christofk
Published on: 18 July 2019

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Multiple levels of the unknown in microbiome research
Andrew Maltez Thomas & Nicola Segata
Published on: 12 June 2019

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Mitochondrial DNA: the overlooked oncogenome?
Payam A. Gammage & Christian Frezza
Published on: 08 July 2019

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Horizons in the evolution of aging
Thomas Flatt and Linda Partridge
Published on: 20 August 2018

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| 24 September 2009

scribblemutants promote aPKC and JNK-dependent epithelial neoplasia independently of Crumbs

Authors: Gregory R Leong, Karen R Goulding, Nancy Amin, Helena E Richardson and Anthony M Brumby
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| 28 October 2011

Molecular dynamics simulations and drug discovery

Authors: Jacob D Durrant and J Andrew McCammon
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| 30 September 2011

Q&A: What is the Golgi apparatus, and why are we asking?

Authors: Sean Munro
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| 23 November 2009

Mapping cortical hubs in tinnitus

Authors: Winfried Schlee, Nadia Mueller, Thomas Hartmann, Julian Keil, Isabel Lorenz and Nathan Weisz
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| 12 November 2014

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

Authors: Susannah J Salter, Michael J Cox, Elena M Turek, Szymon T Calus, William O Cookson, Miriam F Moffatt, Paul Turner, Julian Parkhill, Nicholas J Loman and Alan W Walker

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Focus: the Gut Microbiome

Read the latest papers on the gut microbiome across BMC flagship journals.

Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus attenuates behavioural deficits and immune changes in chronic social stress
Aadil Bharwani, M. Firoz Mian, Michael G. Surette, John Bienenstock & Paul Forsythe
Published in BMC Medicine 11^th January 2017

Bile acid is a significant host factor shaping the gut microbiome of diet-induced obese mice
Xiaojiao Zheng, Fengjie Huang, Aihua Zhao, Sha Lei, Yunjing Zhang, Guoxiang Xie, Tianlu Chen, Chun Qu, Cynthia Rajani, Bing Dong, Defa Li & Wei Jia
Published in BMC Biology 14^th December 2017

Distinct microbes, metabolites, and ecologies define the microbiome in deficient and proficient mismatch repair colorectal cancers
Vanessa L. Hale, Patricio Jeraldo, Jun Chen, Michael Mundy, Janet Yao, Sambhawa Priya, Gary Keeney, Kelly Lyke, Jason Ridlon, Bryan A. White, Amy J. French, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Christian Diener, Osbaldo Resendis-Antonio, Jaime Gransee, Tumpa Dutta, Xuan-Mai Petterson, Jaeyun Sung, Ran Blekhman, Lisa Boardman, David Larson, Heidi Nelson & Nicholas Chia
Published in Genome Medicine 31^st October 2018

Isolation of novel gut bifidobacteria using a combination of metagenomic and cultivation approaches
Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Christian Milani, Sabrina Duranti, Giulia Alessandri, Francesca Turroni, Leonardo Mancabelli, Danilo Tatoni, Maria Cristina Ossiprandi, Douwe van Sinderen & Marco Ventura
Published in Genome Biology 16^th May 2019