Cyanobacterial Toxin Degrading Bacteria: Who Are They?

Cyanobacterial Toxin Degrading Bacteria: Who Are They?

Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous in nature and are both beneficial and detrimental to humans. Benefits include being food supplements and producing bioactive compounds, like antimicrobial and anticancer substances, while their detrimental effects are evident by toxin production, causing major ecological problems at the ecosystem level. To date, there are several ways to degrade or transform these t...

Who do they think they are?

Attached Recreationists... Who Are They?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Building on previous conceptual and empirical work, the purpose of this investigation was to examine place attachment’s effect on several variables purportedly related to the construct. The place attachment construct has been used by recreation researchers and managers to explain a variety of leisure behaviors (e.g., recreationists’ setting preferences, management preferences...

Nondaily smokers: who are they?

OBJECTIVE We sought to understand who constitutes the sizable population of nondaily, or some-day (SD), smokers. METHODS We analyzed descriptive statistics and regression results using the 1998-1999 Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplement to determine the prevalence of SD smokers, their sociodemographic characteristics, and the smoking patterns and histories of groups differentiated ...

Acyl-homoserine lactone degrading marine bacteria: Do they exist?

Acyl-homoserine lactones (acyl-HSL) are small molecules that are used in density dependent regulation in some bacteria. These molecules freely diffuse from the cell into the outside environment. Hence, it may be advantageous for other bacteria to utilize these molecules as a carbon source. The aim of this study is to look for acyl-HSL-utilizing bacteria in the marine environment. One strain, a ...