Correlation of methane production with physiological traits in IMS 101 grown with methylphosphonate at different temperatures.

The diazotrophic cyanobacterium has been recognized as a potentially significant contributor to aerobic methane generation via several mechanisms including the utilization of methylphophonate (MPn) as a source of phosphorus. Currently, there is no information about how environmental factors regulate methane production by . Here, we grew IMS101 at five temperatures ranging from 16 to 31°C, and found that its methane production rates increased with rising temperatures to peak (1.

Isolated Male Epispadias Repair: Long-Term Outcomes.

Isolated male epispadias is one of the most severe congenital genital anomalies that require surgical correction. The goals of the surgery are to reach good aesthetic and functional outcomes. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the long-term outcomes of surgical reconstruction of male epispadias.

Experimental warming promotes phytoplankton species sorting towards cyanobacterial blooms and leads to potential changes in ecosystem functioning.

A positive feedback loop where climate warming enhances eutrophication and its manifestations (e.g., cyanobacterial blooms) has been recently highlighted, but its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are not fully understood.

Adult non-urethral complications after hypospadias repair in childhood: presentation, treatment and outcomes.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate a group of adult patients with non-urethral complications after hypospadias repair in childhood, their surgical treatment, and outcomes.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed 97 patients, mean age 22.5 years, who were treated in our center between January 2009 and December 2020, for non-urethral complications after previous hypospadias repair in childhood.

Multivariate Interaction Analysis of L. Genotypes Growth Productivity in Different Environmental Conditions.

Evaluating maize genotypes under different conditions is important for identifying which genotypes combine stability with high yield potential. The aim of this study was to assess stability and the effect of the genotype-environment interaction (GEI) on the grain yield traits of four maize genotypes grown in field trials; one control trial without nitrogen, and three applying different levels of nitrogen (0, 70, 140, and 210 kg ha, respectively). Across two growing seasons, both the phenotypic variability and GEI for yield traits over four maize genotypes (P0725, P9889, P9757 and P9074) grown in four different fertilization treatments were studied.

Cave Thiovulum (Candidatus Thiovulum stygium) differs metabolically and genomically from marine species.

Thiovulum spp. (Campylobacterota) are large sulfur bacteria that form veil-like structures in aquatic environments. The sulfidic Movile Cave (Romania), sealed from the atmosphere for ~5 million years, has several aqueous chambers, some with low atmospheric O (~7%).

Metoidioplasty in Gender Affirmation: A Review.

Metoidioplasty is a variant of the gender affirmation technique neophalloplasty, where a hormonally enlarged clitoris is reconstructed to become a small penis. The goals of metoidioplasty are male appearance of the genitalia, voiding in standing position, and completely preserved erogenous sensation of the neophallus. However, it does not enable penetrative sexual intercourse due to the small dimensions of the neophallus.

Treatment of Urethral Intercourse and Impact on Female Sexual Function.

Background: Urethral intercourse is a very rare entity which usually presents as urinary incontinence during and after intercourse and is most commonly seen in patients with vaginal agenesis (Mayer-Rokitansky-Hauser Syndrome) or hypoplasia, or other rear vaginal anomalies.

Aim: To evaluate management and outcomes for vaginal and urethral consequences of urethral intercourse, including urinary incontinence.

Methods: Between February 2006 and March 2021, 8 women aged from 17 to 22 years underwent genital and urethral reconstruction due to consequences of urethral sexual intercourse.

Laparoscopy Assisted Peritoneal Pull-Through Vaginoplasty in Transgender Women.

Background: Penile inversion vaginoplasty still remains the gold standard in genital gender affirming surgeries in transwomen. However, insufficiency of the penile skin due to either radical circumcision or puberty blockers presents great challenge in vaginal reconstruction. Peritoneal pull-through vaginoplasty is well known technique for the treatment of vaginal absence in cis-woman due to vaginal agenesis or trauma.

Land-use type temporarily affects active pond community structure but not gene expression patterns.

Changes in land use and agricultural intensification threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of small water bodies. We studied 67 kettle holes (KH) in an agricultural landscape in northeastern Germany using landscape-scale metatranscriptomics to understand the responses of active bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic communities to land-use type. These KH are proxies of the millions of small standing water bodies of glacial origin spread across the northern hemisphere.

ESSM Position Statement "Sexual Wellbeing After Gender Affirming Surgery".

Introduction: Much has been published on the surgical and functional results following Gender Affirming Surgery ('GAS') in trans individuals. Comprehensive results regarding sexual wellbeing following GAS, however, are generally lacking.

Aim: To review the impact of various GAS on sexual wellbeing in treatment seeking trans individuals, and provide a comprehensive list of clinical recommendations regarding the various surgical options of GAS on behalf of the European Society for Sexual Medicine.

Metoidioplasty: Surgical Options and Outcomes in 813 Cases.

Introduction: Metoidioplasty is a variant of phalloplasty for transmen that includes the creation of the neophallus from a hormonally enlarged clitoris, urethral lengthening and scrotoplasty. The procedure results in male appearance of genitalia, voiding in standing position and preserved sexual arousal, but without possibility for penetrative intercourse. We evaluated outcomes of metoidioplasty at our center, based on latest surgical refinements.

Heterozygous, Polyploid, Giant Bacterium, Achromatium, Possesses an Identical Functional Inventory Worldwide across Drastically Different Ecosystems.

Achromatium is large, hyperpolyploid and the only known heterozygous bacterium. Single cells contain approximately 300 different chromosomes with allelic diversity far exceeding that typically harbored by single bacteria genera. Surveying all publicly available sediment sequence archives, we show that Achromatium is common worldwide, spanning temperature, salinity, pH, and depth ranges normally resulting in bacterial speciation.

Overview on metoidioplasty: variants of the technique.

Number of gender dysphoric people increased over the last few decades with positive social acceptance of transpopulation. Genital gender affirming surgeries are of utmost importance in order to adjust body to the mind of these individuals. Creation of the phallus is usually the last step in transmen transition, which remains demanding and challenging for surgeons, with different options for phalloplasty available.

Psychosexual Functioning Outcome Testing after Hypospadias Repair.

Self-confidence plays an important role in both genders' sexual functioning. Lack of genital self-esteem may have negative effects on psychosexual development, especially in males, where deviations from a standardized normal penile appearance can lead to inhibitions in entering into sexual relationships. The aim of our study was to evaluate the informativeness of studied domains of the Global Sexual Functioning (GSF) questionnaire and sexual functioning of patients surgically treated in childhood for different types of hypospadias.

Aquatic and terrestrial cyanobacteria produce methane.

Evidence is accumulating to challenge the paradigm that biogenic methanogenesis, considered a strictly anaerobic process, is exclusive to archaea. We demonstrate that cyanobacteria living in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments produce methane at substantial rates under light, dark, oxic, and anoxic conditions, linking methane production with light-driven primary productivity in a globally relevant and ancient group of photoautotrophs. Methane production, attributed to cyanobacteria using stable isotope labeling techniques, was enhanced during oxygenic photosynthesis.

"Watch" Shaped Buccal Mucosa Graft for Simultaneous Correction of Severe Chordee and Urethroplasty as a One-Stage Repair of Scrotal Hypospadias.

Objective: Scrotal hypospadias still presents a challenge for reconstructive urologists. We present a novel and 1-stage technique of using a specially shaped buccal mucosa graft for simultaneous ventral tunica grafting and urethroplasty for severe hypospadias repair.

Methods: A 14-month old boy underwent repair of scrotal hypospadias with severe chordee.

Contribution of oxic methane production to surface methane emission in lakes and its global importance.

Recent discovery of oxic methane production in sea and lake waters, as well as wetlands, demands re-thinking of the global methane cycle and re-assessment of the contribution of oxic waters to atmospheric methane emission. Here we analysed system-wide sources and sinks of surface-water methane in a temperate lake. Using a mass balance analysis, we show that internal methane production in well-oxygenated surface water is an important source for surface-water methane during the stratified period.

Outcomes and special techniques for treatment of penile amputation injury.

Introduction: Management of severe penile trauma presents great challenges for reconstructive urologists since these injuries vary from abrasions to total emasculation. A review of our case experience with penile amputation is presented, emphasizing techniques used to salvage or reconstruct the most difficult of penile injury cases.

Materials And Methods: A total of 13 patients with penile amputation injury referred to us between 2007 and 2016 were analyzed.

Metoidioplasty.

Gender affirmation surgery for transmale patients is still challenging, as creation of the neophallus is one of the most demanding steps in surgical treatment. Metoidioplasty, as a one-stage procedure, can be considered in patients who desire gender affirmation surgery without undergoing a complex, multistage procedure with creation of an adult-sized neophallus. Metoidioplasty presents one of the variants of phalloplasty for patients in whom the clitoris is large enough under testosterone treatment.

Metoidioplasty: techniques and outcomes.

Phalloplasty represents the latest step in female-to-male transitioning and still remains a great challenge for transgender surgeons. Since we have two options in this transitioning-metoidioplasty and total phalloplasty-the transgender surgeon has to fully inform the individual about all aspects such as surgical steps, outcomes, advantages and disadvantages, possible complications, and expectations. Total phalloplasty with the creation of a neophallus of a similar volume to that in genetic males, is a complex and multi-staged procedure.