Disease relevance of Biodiversity

• Valine transport and biodiversity of Leuconostoc wild strains from French raw milk cheeses [1].
• In this study, the different expression patterns of OPN in endometrial tumors could additionally support the biological diversity of endometrioid and serous carcinomas together with other markers [2].
• The taxonomical identification by 16S rRNA sequence confirmed a large biodiversity related to raw milk microbiota and only five strains of S. macedonicus, Lactobacillus plantarum, 21 Lb. paracasei ssp. paracasei, Lactobacillus fermentum and E. faecium were detected in both cheeses [3].
• Traditional medicine and HIV/AIDS in Africa: a report from the International Conference on Medicinal Plants, Traditional Medicine and Local Communities in Africa (a parallel session to the Fifth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nairobi, Kenya, May 16-19, 2000) [4].

High impact information on Biodiversity

• Our findings point to a high regulatory and biological diversity among Myc-target genes [5].
• Biodiversity at the edge: a test of the importance of spatial "mass effects" in the Rothamsted Park Grass experiments [6].
• Ten years after the key Earth Summit in Rio, a key group of influential politicians in Britain are flagging up the need to support research into taxonomy as a basis for biodiversity studies ahead of this summer's meeting in South Africa. Nigel Williams reports [7].
• Repeated tectonic collisions may be one of the most important phenomena promoting continental biodiversity [8].
• Biodiversity of apidaecin-type peptide antibiotics. Prospects of manipulating the antibacterial spectrum and combating acquired resistance [9].

Biological context of Biodiversity

• Although designed to use invertebrates as a bio-indicator of water quality for human use, these programmes could be extended to monitor the 2010 biodiversity targets of the World Summit on Sustainable Development [10].
• Analysis of the distribution and allelic variations of the three genes in 30 strains representative of the biodiversity of R. solanacearum established that popP genes are distributed widely among strains from two of the three phyla previously defined on the basis of the structure of the core genome [11].
• Study of a hexane-degrading consortium in a biofilter and in liquid culture: biodiversity, kinetics and characterization of degrading strains [12].
• This leads to a series of environmental impacts, including: (1) nitrate (NO3) contamination of drinking water, (2) eutrophication of freshwater lakes, (3) acidification and biodiversity impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, (4) ozone and particle formation affecting human health, and (5) global climate change induced by emissions of N2O [13].

Anatomical context of Biodiversity

• In this study, RNA was isolated from the brains and skeletal muscles of the limbs of adult BALB/c and SJL/J mice to determine whether there were alternate transcripts which could account for the biological diversity of Pax7 [14].

Associations of Biodiversity with chemical compounds

• The biodiversity of the amoxicillin-resistant microbiota was similar among the isolates from children with and without previous antibiotic use [15].
• Here, we explore morphological disparity of shell architecture in gastropods from lower bathyal and abyssal environments of the western North Atlantic as a new dimension of deep-sea biodiversity [16].
• The biodiversity of lactic acid bacteria in Greek traditional wheat sourdoughs is reflected in both composition and metabolite formation [17].
• Recent studies have considered a variety of naturally occurring gradients associated with climate, CO2, disturbance and biodiversity gradients, as well as anthropogenic gradients such as those created by biological invasions, habitat fragmentation and land abandonment [18].
• Fishing for biodiversity: novel methanopterin-linked C transfer genes deduced from the Sargasso Sea metagenome [19].

Gene context of Biodiversity

• Built-in biological diversity and selectivity of CRF system function is provided by multiple endogenous ligands and receptors which are heterogeneously distributed in both brain and peripheral tissues across species [20].
• Biodiversity of the P450 catalytic cycle: yeast cytochrome b5/NADH cytochrome b5 reductase complex efficiently drives the entire sterol 14-demethylation (CYP51) reaction [21].
• We also used environmental polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the rbcL gene to sample Cyanidiales biodiversity at five ecologically distinct sites at Pisciarelli in the Phlegrean Fields in Italy [22].
• The biodiversity of microbial cytochromes P450 [23].
• The Cape Floral Kingdom is an area of unique plant biodiversity in South Africa with exceptional concentrations of rare and endemic species and experiencing drastic habitat loss [24].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Biodiversity

• Despite the two in situ lysis procedures resulted in significantly different DNA yields (highest with the SDS in situ lysis), estimates of bacterial diversity provided a not significantly different ribotype richness, as well as similar values of the Shannon-Wiener (H') and Margalef (d) indices of biodiversity and of evenness (Pielou index, J) [25].
• Thus, the ability to detect biodiversity at the DNA level was greater in this study for DFP than for RAPD-PCR [26].

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