The dynamics of the persistence of human DNA in soil are poorly understood, though increasingly crucial to genomics. Human DNA recovered from soil and sediments can be used in identifying the presence of human burial and...
关键词:
DNA persistence, forensic genomics, and soil taphonomy
学科:
DNA, Genomics, Forensic genetics, Taphonomy, and Soils
Forest communities experience disturbances, such as fire and canopy removal, which create light gradients and microclimates that affect establishment, carbon gain, and height of native and invasive pioneer tree species that...
Kalmia buxifolia (sand-myrtle, Ericaceae) exhibits a highly disjunct distribution across the high-elevation rock outcrops of the southern Appalachians, upper monadnocks of the North Carolina Piedmont, pine savannas of the...
关键词:
ecophysiology, Kalmia buxifolia, phylogeography, rock outcrop, and water-use efficiency
学科:
Kalmia -- Cladistic analysis, Kalmia -- Habitat -- South Atlantic States, Kalmia -- Habitat -- New Jersey, Phylogeography, Water efficiency, and Plant diversity
The Oconaluftee River is a moderate to large sized stream located in the Little Tennessee River basin of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The Little Tennessee River basin is home to six different species of Redhorse, three...
关键词:
Black, Cherokee, Golden, Oconaluftee, Redhorse, and Sicklefin
学科:
Redhorses -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River, Fish populations -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River, and Fishes -- Seasonal distribution -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River
Numerous pathogenic bacterial species have been found in many freshwater systems around the world. These pathogens affect the overall water quality of these systems and may cause diseases in both aquatic and terrestrial animals...
关键词:
bacterial pathogens, pathogens, Smoky Mountains National Park, and streams
学科:
Bacterial pollution of water -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), Bacterial genetics, Bacteria -- Phylogeny, and Freshwater microbiology -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)
Isotria medeoloides (Pursh) Raf. or small whorled pogonia is one of the rarest orchids in the eastern U.S. and is currently threatened by habitat loss in the southern Appalachians. The purpose of this study was to improve our...
关键词:
biodiversity conservation, habitat model, Isotria medeoloides, Maxent, southern Appalachians, and threatened and endangered
学科:
Small whorled pogonia -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Geographical distribution -- Mathematical models and Small whorled pogonia -- Habitat -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Mathematical models
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and are characteristically specific for their bacterial hosts with preferences rarely traversing genus boundaries. Mycobacteriophages – bacteriophages that infect Mycobacterial...
关键词:
Bacteriophages, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Microbiology, and Virology
学科:
Bacteriophages, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Microbiology, Virology, Lysogeny, and Mycobacterium
Microhexura spiders are the northernmost members of the family Diplurid, and are the smallest mygalomorph spiders, ranging from 2.5 to 5.6 mm in adult body length.There are two species, Microhexura idahoana and Microhexura...
Microhexura spiders are the northernmost members of the family Diplurid, and are the smallest mygalomorph spiders, ranging from 2.5 to 5.6 mm in adult body length.There are two species, Microhexura idahoana and Microhexura...
G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) encompass a large number of protein receptors within the human genome. Because GPCRs are involved in numerous pathways including serotonin signaling in the brain, the receptors are often...
学科:
Spatial analysis (Statistics), G proteins, Muridae, Olfactory receptors, and Proteins—Research
