Some practitioners of alternative medicine identify overgrowth of the fungus Candida as the cause of eczema, psoriasis, and conditions like fibromyalgia, depression, and chronic migraines. These naturopathic physicians may...
关键词:
Candida, Candida albicans, and Candida cleanse diet
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Candida -- Health aspects, Mycoses -- Diet therapy -- Evaluation, and Mycoses -- Alternative treatment -- Evaluation
Research on the post-mortem human microbiome, or thanatomicrobiome, is a rapidly developing topic in the field of forensic science. To date, the study of the thanatomicrobiome has primarily been centered on utilizing the...
关键词:
16S, community, decomposition, post-mortem, succession, and thanatomicrobiome
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Postmortem changes, Mouth -- Microbiology, Bacterial communities, and Death -- Time of
Rabies is a highly preventable disease that is still claiming thousands of lives every year. An edible rabies vaccine for animals would reduce the cost and resources needed for the vaccine to reach less developed regions by...
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Rabies virus, Glycoproteins, Vaccines, and Soybean
Most research on song complexity has mainly focused on repertoire size. However, the way various song structures within a repertoire function in male-male interactions is less well understood. In this study, I have explored the...
关键词:
Agonistic, Repertoire, Song, Sparrow, and Trill
学科:
Song sparrow -- Vocalization -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee, Song sparrow -- Behavior -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee, Birdsongs -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee, and Social behavior in animals -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee
There are many different reasons why a non-native plant species might become invasive in a novel habitat. Some studies have focused on trying to determine the genetic structure of an invasive species. Other studies have...
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Cold Stratification, Common Garden, and Invasive plants
For over two decades, scientists and land managers in the eastern United States have had concerns about the loss of early seral habitat resulting from changes in land use and disturbance regimes. Forest harvest can create early...
关键词:
early seral forest, functional traits, southern Appalachians, vertical structure, and woody vegetation
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Plants -- Effect of logging on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest and Plant succession -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest
Mussels are an indicator species for water quality due to exposure to acute water pollutants from their filter feeding life style (Augspurger 2003). Mussels are also more susceptible to trace metal exposure than many other...
关键词:
Biology, Geochemistry, Little Tennessee River, NC, Water Quality, and Water Resource
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Freshwater mussels -- Little Tennessee River (Ga.-Tenn.), Freshwater mussels -- Effect of water pollution on -- Little Tennessee River (Ga.-Tenn.), and Water quality -- Little Tennessee River (Ga.-Tenn.)
Foodborne bacterial pathogens like Salmonella genera remain of interest to regulatory agencieslike the FDA and CDC. As a foodborne pathogen, capable of causing serious illness in bothhuman and non-human animals, the CDC has...
Fire can impact an ecosystem by changing environmental factors and small mammal abundances. Historically, wildfires have been uncommon in high elevation northern hardwood forests of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In...
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Mammal populations -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Mammals -- Habitat -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Mammals -- Effect of fires on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Mammals -- Behavior -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, and Wildfires -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest
The winter firefly, Photinus corruscus (Linnaeus, 1767), is a diurnal species commonly found throughout Eastern North America. This species has unique ecology – adults diapause through the winter on the sunny side of trees,...
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Photinus, Entomology, Fireflies, Insect populations, and Ecological zones
