Impacts of a DUF2207 Family Protein on Stress Tolerance Responses and Biofilm Formation.

Locus SMU.243 in was annotated as a member of the DUF2207 family proteins highly conserved in all bacteria but with unknown function. To investigate its role in physiology, a SMU.

Phytobiomes are compositionally nested from the ground up.

Plant-associated microbes are critical players in host health, fitness and productivity. Despite microbes' importance in plants, seeds are mostly sterile, and most plant microbes are recruited from an environmental pool. Surprisingly little is known about the processes that govern how environmental microbes assemble on plants in nature.

Entrainment of the Circadian Rhythm in Egg Hatching of the Crab Dyspanopeus sayi by Chemical Cues from Ovigerous Females.

The subtidal crab Dyspanopeus sayi has a circadian rhythm in larval release with a free-running period of 24.1 h. Under constant conditions, eggs hatch primarily in the 4-h interval after the time of sunset.