Small RNAs (sRNAs) are important biomolecules that exert vital functions in organismal health and disease, from viruses to plants, animals, and humans. Given the ever-increasing amounts of sRNA deep sequencing data in online repositories and their potential roles in disease therapy and diagnosis, it is important to enable federated sRNA expression querying across samples, organisms, tissues, ce...

Numerous factors affect the distribution of mangrove plants. Most mangrove species are typically dispersed by. water-buoyant propagules, allowing them to take advantage of estuarine, coastal and ocean currents both to replenish existing stands and to establish new ones. The direction they travel depends on sea currents and land barriers, but the dispersal distance depends on the time that propa...

RNA viruses infect marine organisms from bacteria to whales, but RNA virus communities in the sea remain essentially unknown. Reverse-transcribed whole-genome shotgun sequencing was used to characterize the diversity of uncultivated marine RNA virus assemblages. A diverse assemblage of RNA viruses, including a broad group of marine picorna-like viruses, and distant relatives of viruses infectin...

During the course of investigations on the metabolism of hexosamines in animal tissues, absorption spectra of the color produced in the hexosamine method of Elson and Morgan (1) revealed the presence of interfering chromogens. Similar types of interference have been noted in studies on the jelly coat of sea-urchin eggs (2), Neurospora (3), and pineapple plants (4). Hexosamines were found to pro...

place a cutting had been sent in 1867. On inquiry about the present state of the cultivation, Mr. Clarke, now acting for Dr. Anderson, has kindly placed the following information at our disposal, which we give in his own "Words:?" When I took charge of the Gardens in May 1869, there were seven plants?three here, four at the Bungbee, a narrow tropical valley, 2,000 feet above the sea, 15 miles f...

Seasonal, monthly and hourly activity patterns of nine bat species were studied based on their capture rates at the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Feliciano Miguel Abdala (RPPN-FMA), Caratinga, Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil. The frugivorous and nectarivorous bat species have their activity closely related to the availability of food. Divergence in monthly and hourly activity...

Genes without introns are a characteristic feature of prokaryotes, but there are still a number of intronless genes in eukaryotes. To study these eukaryotic genes that have prokaryotic architecture could help to understand the evolutionary patterns of related genes and genomes. Our analyses revealed a number of intronless genes that reside in 6 deuterostomes (sea urchin, sea squirt, zebrafish, ...

The objective of this work is studying the use of chemicals to enhance primary treatment in municipal wastewater treatment plants, thereby reducing the cost of the secondary treatment stage. Jar tests using chemicals, polymers and sea water have been conducted to determine the best performing chemicals, alone and in combinations. The process performance parameters studied were pH, type and dosa...

Minute amounts of photosynthesis in marine plants can be accurately measured by adding a little phenolphthalein to the sea water, and observing changes in the color of the indicator. In the case of fresh water aquatics bicarbonates are added. By this method it is found that Ulva which has been kept in the dark begins photosynthesis as soon as it is exposed to sunlight and that the rate steadily...

Dell’s supply chain for desktops involves Asian vendors shipping components by sea to several U.S. plants. While suppliers are responsible for shipping enough inventory, Dell can re-route and expedite their shipments while in transit and also transfer on-hand inventory in order to balance supply across sites. This paper describes the development, implementation and impact of the process and opt...