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Ryan P. Bourbour Breanna L. Martinico Megan M. Crane Angus C. Hull Joshua M. Hull 《Ecology and evolution》2019,9(3):1452-1457
Complex coevolutionary relationships among competitors, predators, and prey have shaped taxa diversity, life history strategies, and even the avian migratory patterns we see today. Consequently, accurate documentation of prey selection is often critical for understanding these ecological and evolutionary processes. Conventional diet study methods lack the ability to document the diet of inconspicuous or difficult‐to‐study predators, such as those with large home ranges and those that move vast distances over short amounts of time, leaving gaps in our knowledge of trophic interactions in many systems. Migratory raptors represent one such group of predators where detailed diet studies have been logistically challenging. To address knowledge gaps in the foraging ecology of migrant raptors and provide a broadly applicable tool for the study of enigmatic predators, we developed a minimally invasive method to collect dietary information by swabbing beaks and talons of raptors to collect trace prey DNA. Using previously published COI primers, we were able to isolate and reference gene sequences in an open‐access barcode database to identify prey to species. This method creates a novel avenue to use trace molecular evidence to study prey selection of migrating raptors and will ultimately lead to a better understanding of raptor migration ecology. In addition, this technique has broad applicability and can be used with any wildlife species where even trace amounts of prey debris remain on the exterior of the predator after feeding. 相似文献
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Acyl carrier protein from Escherichia coli I. Aspects of the solution structure as evidenced by proton nuclear Overhauser experiments at 500 MHz 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The downfield aromatic (6-8 ppm) and upfield ring current shifted methyl regions (1-0 ppm) in the proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of acyl carrier protein (ACP) from Escherichia coli have been examined at 500 MHz by using nuclear Overhauser methods. The data are analyzed in terms of the secondary structural model of Rock & Cronan (1979) [Rock, C. O., & Cronan, J. E., Jr. (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254, 9778-9785], which suggests the existence of four alpha-helical segments joined by three beta-turns, and a short coil at the C terminus of the protein. Nuclear Overhauser effects among Tyr-71, Ile-69, Ile-72, and His-75 allow refinement of the secondary structure of the C terminus. Nuclear Overhauser effects among Tyr-71, Phe-28, and three Ile's also place stringent limitations on the folding of the four alpha-helices. These data allow the proposal of a tertiary structural model for ACP. 相似文献
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John S. Choy Eileen O'Toole Breanna M. Schuster Matthew J. Crisp Tatiana S. Karpova James G. McNally Mark Winey Melissa K. Gardner Munira A. Basrai 《Molecular biology of the cell》2013,24(17):2753-2763
How subunit dosage contributes to the assembly and function of multimeric complexes is an important question with implications in understanding biochemical, evolutionary, and disease mechanisms. Toward identifying pathways that are susceptible to decreased gene dosage, we performed a genome-wide screen for haploinsufficient (HI) genes that guard against genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This led to the identification of all three genes (SPC97, SPC98, and TUB4) encoding the evolutionarily conserved γ-tubulin small complex (γ-TuSC), which nucleates microtubule assembly. We found that hemizygous γ-TuSC mutants exhibit higher rates of chromosome loss and increases in anaphase spindle length and elongation velocities. Fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, electron tomography, and model convolution simulation of spc98/+ mutants revealed improper regulation of interpolar (iMT) and kinetochore (kMT) microtubules in anaphase. The underlying cause is likely due to reduced levels of Tub4, as overexpression of TUB4 suppressed the spindle and chromosome segregation defects in spc98/+ mutants. We propose that γ-TuSC is crucial for balanced assembly between iMTs and kMTs for spindle organization and accurate chromosome segregation. Taken together, the results show how gene dosage studies provide critical insights into the assembly and function of multisubunit complexes that may not be revealed by using traditional studies with haploid gene deletion or conditional alleles. 相似文献
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Driving plasticity in human adult motor cortex is associated with improved motor function after brain injury 总被引:28,自引:0,他引:28
Fraser C Power M Hamdy S Rothwell J Hobday D Hollander I Tyrell P Hobson A Williams S Thompson D 《Neuron》2002,34(5):831-840
Changes in somatosensory input can remodel human cortical motor organization, yet the input characteristics that promote reorganization and their functional significance have not been explored. Here we show with transcranial magnetic stimulation that sensory-driven reorganization of human motor cortex is highly dependent upon the frequency, intensity, and duration of stimulus applied. Those patterns of input associated with enhanced excitability (5 Hz, 75% maximal tolerated intensity for 10 min) induce stronger cortical activation to fMRI. When applied to acutely dysphagic stroke patients, swallowing corticobulbar excitability is increased mainly in the undamaged hemisphere, being strongly correlated with an improvement in swallowing function. Thus, input to the human adult brain can be programmed to promote beneficial changes in neuroplasticity and function after cerebral injury. 相似文献
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Abhineet M. Sharma Breanna Baraff John T. Hutchins Michelle K. Wong G. Kai Blaisdell Monica L. Cooper Kent M. Daane Rodrigo P. P. Almeida 《PloS one》2015,10(11)
Some diseases manifest as one characteristic set of symptoms to the host, but can be caused by multiple pathogens. Control treatments based on plant symptoms can make it difficult to effectively manage such diseases, as the biology of the underlying pathogens can vary. Grapevine leafroll disease affects grapes worldwide, and is associated with several viral species in the family Closteroviridae. Whereas some of the viruses associated with this disease are transmitted by insect vectors, others are only graft-transmissible. In three regions of California, we surveyed vineyards containing diseased vines and screened symptomatic plants for all known viral species associated with grapevine leafroll disease. Relative incidence of each virus species differed among the three regions regions, particularly in relation to species with known vectors compared with those only known to be graft-transmitted. In one region, the pathogen population was dominated by species not known to have an insect vector. In contrast, populations in the other surveyed regions were dominated by virus species that are vector-transmissible. Our survey did not detect viruses associated with grapevine leafroll disease at some sites with characteristic disease symptoms. This could be explained either by undescribed genetic diversity among these viruses that prevented detection with available molecular tools at the time the survey was performed, or a misidentification of visual symptoms that may have had other underlying causes. Based on the differences in relative prevalence of each virus species among regions and among vineyards within regions, we expect that region and site-specific management strategies are needed for effective disease control. 相似文献
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Lisa Jacobsen Lisa Durso Tyrell Conway Kenneth W. Nickerson 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2009,75(13):4633-4635
Escherichia coli isolates (72 commensal and 10 O157:H7 isolates) were compared with regard to physiological and growth parameters related to their ability to survive and persist in the gastrointestinal tract and found to be similar. We propose that nonhuman hosts in E. coli O157:H7 strains function similarly to other E. coli strains in regard to attributes relevant to gastrointestinal colonization.Escherichia coli is well known for its ecological versatility (15). A life cycle which includes both gastrointestinal and environmental stages has been stressed by both Savageau (15) and Adamowicz et al. (1). The gastrointestinal stage would be subjected to acid and detergent stress. The environmental stage is implicit in E. coli having transport systems for fungal siderophores (4) as well as pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent periplasmic glucose utilization (1) because their presence indicates evolution in a location containing fungal siderophores and pyrroloquinoline quinone (1).Since its recognition as a food-borne pathogen, there have been numerous outbreaks of food-borne infection due to E. coli O157:H7, in both ground beef and vegetable crops (6, 13). Cattle are widely considered to be the primary reservoir of E. coli O157:H7 (14), but E. coli O157:H7 does not appear to cause disease in cattle. To what extent is E. coli O157:H7 physiologically unique compared to the other naturally occurring E. coli strains? We feel that the uniqueness of E. coli O157:H7 should be evaluated against a backdrop of other wild-type E. coli strains, and in this regard, we chose the 72-strain ECOR reference collection originally described by Ochman and Selander (10). These strains were chosen from a collection of 2,600 E. coli isolates to provide diversity with regard to host species, geographical distribution, and electromorph profiles at 11 enzyme loci (10).In our study we compared the 72 strains of the ECOR collection against 10 strains of E. coli O157:H7 and six strains of E. coli which had been in laboratory use for many years (Table (Table1).1). The in vitro comparisons were made with regard to factors potentially relevant to the bacteria''s ability to colonize animal guts, i.e., acid tolerance, detergent tolerance, and the presence of the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway (Table (Table2).2). Our longstanding interest in the ED pathway (11) derives in part from work by Paul Cohen''s group (16, 17) showing that the ED pathway is important for E. coli colonization of the mouse large intestine. Growth was assessed by replica plating 88 strains of E. coli under 40 conditions (Table (Table2).2). These included two LB controls (aerobic and anaerobic), 14 for detergent stress (sodium dodecyl sulfate [SDS], hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide [CTAB], and benzalkonium chloride, both aerobic and anaerobic), 16 for acid stress (pH 6.5, 6.0, 5.0, 4.6, 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, and 4.0), four for the ability to grow in a defined minimal medium (M63 glucose salts with and without thiamine), and four for the presence or absence of a functional ED pathway (M63 with gluconate or glucuronate). All tests were done with duplicate plates in two or three separate trials. The data are available in Tables S1 to S14 in the supplemental material, and they are summarized in Table Table22.
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Open in a separate windowaEight LB controls were run, two for each set of LB experiments: SDS, CTAB, benzalkonium chloride (BAC), and pH stress.bGrowth was measured as either +++, +, or 0 (good, poor, and none, respectively), with +++ being the growth achieved on the LB control plates. “Variable” means that two or three replicates did not agree. All experiments were done at 37°C.c“Anaerobic” refers to use of an Oxoid anaerobic chamber. Aerobic and anaerobic growth data are presented together when the results were identical and separately when the results were not the same or the anaerobic set had not been done. LB plates were measured after 1 (aerobic) or 2 (anaerobic) days, and the M63 plates were measured after 2 or 3 days.dCTAB used at 0.05, 0.2%, and 0.4%.eM63 defined medium (3) was supplemented with glucose, gluconate, or glucuronate, all at 0.2%.fIdentical results were obtained with and without 0.0001% thiamine.gND, not determined. 相似文献
TABLE 1.
E. coli strains used in this studyE. coli strain (n) | Source |
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ECOR strains (72) | Thomas Whittman |
Laboratory adapted (6) | |
K-12 Davis | Paul Blum |
CG5C 4401 | Paul Blum |
K-12 Stanford | Paul Blum |
W3110 | Paul Blum |
B | Tyler Kokjohn |
AB 1157 | Tyler Kokjohn |
O157:H7 (10) | |
FRIK 528 | Andrew Benson |
ATCC 43895 | Andrew Benson |
MC 1061 | Andrew Benson |
C536 | Tim Cebula |
C503 | Tim Cebula |
C535 | Tim Cebula |
ATCC 43889 | William Cray, Jr. |
ATCC 43890 | William Cray, Jr. |
ATCC 43888 | Willaim Cray, Jr. |
ATCC 43894 | William Cray, Jr. |
TABLE 2.
Physiological comparison of 88 strains of Escherichia coliGrowth medium or condition | Oxygenc | No. of strains with type of growthb
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Good | Poor | None | Variable | Good | Poor | None | Variable | Good | Poor | None | Variable | ||
LB controla | Both | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1% SDS | Aerobic | 69 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
5% SDS | Aerobic | 68 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
1% SDS | Anaerobic | 53 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 |
5% SDS | Anaerobic | 0 | 68 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
CTABd (all) | Both | 0 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
0.05% BAC | Aerobic | 3 | 11 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
0.2% BAC | Aerobic | 0 | 1 | 71 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
0.05% BAC | Anaerobic | 2 | 3 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
0.2% BAC | Anaerobic | 0 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
pH 6.5 | Both | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
pH 6 | Both | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
pH 5 | Both | 70 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
pH 4.6 | Both | 70 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
pH 4.3 | Aerobic | 14 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
pH 4.3 | Anaerobic | 69 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
pH 4.1 or 4.2 | Aerobic | 0 | 0 | 72 | 0 | NDg | ND | ||||||
pH 4.0 | Both | 0 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
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Glucose | Aerobicf | 69 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Glucose | Anaerobicf | 70 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Gluconate | Both | 69 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Glucuronate | Aerobic | 68 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Glucuronate | Anaerobic | 69 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |