Publications by authors named "Frederick Kinyua Kamanu"
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- Mangroves are crucial and endangered coastal ecosystems, yet there's a lack of detailed information about their microbial communities, which are key to understanding their health and resilience.
- A metagenomic study in Saudi Arabia compared the microbial communities in mangrove sediment and the rhizosphere of Avicennia marina, revealing similarities in taxonomic profiles but distinct differences from bulk soil samples.
- The study found dominant microbial groups like Proteobacteria and methanogens in the rhizosphere, with significant functional enrichments related to metabolism, indicating a complex and specialized microbiome associated with gray mangroves in the Red Sea.
Mutations in any genome may lead to phenotype characteristics that determine ability of an individual to cope with adaptation to environmental challenges. In studies of human biology, among the most interesting ones are phenotype characteristics that determine responses to drug treatments, response to infections, or predisposition to specific inherited diseases. Most of the research in this field has been focused on the studies of mutation effects on the final gene products, peptides, and their alterations.
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