Bacillus pumilus strain CCMA-560 was isolated from an oil-contaminated mangrove swamp and was shown to produce biosurfactants. The strain appears to be capable of degrading some plant cell wall-related compounds, including hemicelluose and pectin. Genes for biopolymer export and polysaccharide intercellular adhesin synthesis were also annotated.

In this paper, we describe a non-linear feature normalization based on Riemannian differential geometry. This feature normalization will yield parameters that are invariant under any bijective stationary transformation. Moreover, it is robust to additive noise that is uncorrelated with speech and quasi-stationary. The only requirement is that of ergodicity. The frontend is called SWAMP (Sweepin...

How does auxin affect so many different aspects of plant growth and development? Recent evidence from localization of auxin efflux carriers and the effects of auxin on degradation of transcription factors has begun to reveal a possible mechanism for auxin action.

INFECTIOUS ANEMIA, or swamp fever, also known in some sections of the United States as malarial fever, slow fever, and mountain fever, is one of the most serious maladies of the horse, and because of its insidious nitture and widespread distribution it has become a problem of world-wide concern. Infectious anemia is an acute or chronic disease of equines, caused by a filtrable virus that poison...

Wetland and floodplain soils in the East African Rift of Kenya provide a record of changing palaeoclimate and palaeohydrology compatible with climate records for the mid-Holocene through the late Holocene Medieval Warm Period (~AD 800–1270) and Little Ice Age (~AD 1270–1850), documented previously in nearby lacustrine sites. Soils forming from volcaniclastic source materials in both Loboi Swamp...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of carbohydrate source and cottonseed meal level in the concentrate on feed intake, nutrient digestibility, rumen fermentation and microbial protein synthesis in swamp buffaloes. Four, 4-yr old rumen fistulated swamp buffaloes were randomly assigned to receive four dietary treatments according to a 2×2 factorial arrangement in a 4×4 Lati...

We examined the effects of land cover type on survivorship and productivity of Anopheles gambiae in Kakamega in the western Kenyan highlands (elevation = 1,420-1,580 meters above sea level). Under natural conditions, An. gambiae sensu lato adults emerged only from farmland habitats, with an estimated productivity of 1.82 mosquitoes/meter(2)/week, but not from forest and swamp habitats. To deter...

Species originally from alpine wetland and alpine meadow communities now coexist in a novel 'alpine swamp meadow' community as a consequence of wetland drying in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Considering the projected increase in the fluctuation of water supply from precipitation during the growing season in this area in the future, it is important to investigate the responses of the species tha...