We report the 2.9-Mb draft genome sequence of an actinobacterium, Kocuria palustris PEL, of the family Micrococcaceae.

For testing stationarity of a given spatial point pattern, Guan (2008) proposed a model-free statistic, based on the deviations between observed and expected counts of points in expanding regions within the sampling window. This article extends his method to a general class of statistics by incorporating also such information when points are projected to the axes and by allowing different ways ...

Recently we isolated the purple photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodopseudomonas sp. Rits, which was phylogenetically related to Rhodopseudomonas (Rps.) palustris. In this study, the light-dependent and time-dependent changes in the carotenoid composition were investigated by HPLC analysis of extracts from the cultures. All seven carotenoids in the biosynthetic pathway from lycopene to spirilloxanthi...

Building off of Dean Kelley’s and Laurence Iannaccone’s earlier work, we develop a path model of the strictness thesis that investigates and compares how congregational strictness, evangelical theology, demographic characteristics, and denominational identity variously contribute to congregational growth and decline. Using the U.S. Congregational Life Survey (2001), we test this model at the co...

The material studied consisted of laboratory-bred specimens of 2 species of Prostriata and 8 species of Metastriata. Jxodes ricinus and / . hexagonus (Prostriata) have XX:XY sex-determining mechanisms with diploid complements of 28 and 26 acrocentric chromosomes respectively. All the species of Metastriata studied have XX:XO sex-determining mechanisms with diploid complements of 21 and 22 chrom...

Rhodopseudomonas palustris strain 42OL was isolated in 1973 from a sugar refinery waste treatment pond. The strain has been prevalently used for hydrogen production processes using a wide variety of waste-derived substrates, and cultured both indoors and outdoors, either freely suspended or immobilized. R. palustris 42OL was suitable for many other applications and capable of growing in very di...