Bacillus subtilis PS216, a strain isolated in Slovenia, has been sequenced. PS216 is transformable and forms robust biofilms, making it useful for the study of competence regulation in an undomesticated bacterium.

The best ground-based astronomical sites in terms of telescope sensitivity at infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths are located on the Antarctic plateau – where high atmospheric transparency and low sky emission are observed due to the extremely cold and dry air; these benefits are well characterised at the South Pole station. The relative advantages offered by three potentially superior site...

Lava domes are one of the conspicuous topographic features on volcanoes. The subsurface structure of the lava dome is important to discuss its formation mechanism. In the 1944 eruption of Volcano Usu, Hokkaido, a new lava dome was formed at its eastern foot. After the completion of the lava dome, various geophysical methods were applied to the dome to study its subsurface structure, but resulte...

Dome-shaped macula is described as an inward bulge of the macula within a posterior staphyloma in highly myopic eyes. Choroidal neovascularization is a known complication that can cause visual loss in dome-shaped macula. Herein, we describe a patient who presented with features of polypoidal choroidal neovascularization that developed on a background of high myopia with dome-shaped macula.

Perry, Dennis (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.) and Hutton D. Slade. Transformation of streptococci to streptomycin resistance. J. Bacteriol. 83:443-449. 1962.-A total of 43 strains of streptococci, belonging to serological groups A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, O, and Q, and three ungroupable strains were exposed to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extracted from streptomy...

Populations of Pneumococcus (1)) Haemophilus inJEuenxae (2)) and Bacillus subtilis (3, 4) develop the capacity to incorporate and to be modified genetically by deoxyribonucleic acid during the latter portion of the logarithmic phase of growth. In 1946 McCarty, Taylor, and Avery (5) suggested that this rapid development of sensitivity to transforming DNA might be related to a reversible alterati...

Introduction: Lunar concentric craters represent an anomalous type of impact structures on the Moon [1]. The concentric crater Archytas G in mare Frigoris has first been catalogued as a concentric crater in [2]. According to Fig. 1, it is located on top of a large lunar intrusive dome, termed Ar1 in [3]. The dome Ar1 is the only lunar dome known to date with a concentric crater on its surface. ...

Here, we present the complete genome sequence of Actinomyces naeslundii strain ATCC 27039, isolated from an abdominal wound abscess. This strain is genetically transformable and will thus provide valuable information related to its crucial role in oral multispecies biofilm development.