Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is an acute toxic illness in humans resulting from ingestion of shellfish contaminated with a suite of neurotoxins (saxitoxins) produced by marine dinoflagellates, most commonly in the genus Alexandrium. Poisoning also has been sporadically suspected and, less often, documented in marine wildlife, often in association with an outbreak in humans. Kittlitz's Mu...

Phytoremediation is a promising technique for reducing mercury (Hg) pollution. Little known about the phytoremediation potential of ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud.) and response its rhizosphere soil microbiome to Hg contamination. In this study, we planted in three plots contaminated with different levels pollution evaluated accumulation translocation. We also analyzed abundance, composition, p...

Most of the plants employed to remove metals from contaminated soils are annuals and have a seed-to-seed life cycle of a few months, usually over spring and summer. Consequently, for most of the year, fields are not actively cleaned but are completely bare and subject to erosion by water and wind. The objective of this study was to evaluate the benefits of using Lupinus albus as a winter crop i...

Longitudinal repeated measures data has often been visualized with spaghetti plots for continuous outcomes. For large datasets, this often leads to over-plotting and consequential obscuring of trends in the data. This is primarily due to overlapping of trajectories. Here, we suggest a framework called lasagna plotting that constrains the subject-specific trajectories to prevent overlapping and ...