Improving the Quality and Intelligibility of Electrolaryngeal Speech during Mobile Communication with Landline Analogous Bandpass Filtering.

The normal functioning of the larynx or voicebox gives humans the ability to converse with others effortlessly. However, if the larynx is permanently removed due to injury or illness, speech cannot be produced. The electrolarynx, a noninvasive device used to produce speech for such persons, has a motor-induced hum which hinders telephone-based communication among electrolaryngeal speakers.

Description of n. sp. (Rhabditidae: Nematoda) from India.

A new amphimictic species n. sp. is described and illustrated with morphological and molecular data.

Nematode Genome Announcement: A Draft Genome for Rice Root-Knot Nematode, .

The rice root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola has emerged as a devastating pest of rice in South-East Asian countries. Here we present a draft genome sequence for M. graminicola , assembled using data from short and long insert libraries sequenced on Illumina GAIIx sequencing platform.

A comprehensive annotation for the root-knot nematode proteome data.

Root-knot nematodes are devastating pathogens of crop plants. The draft genome of southern root-knot nematode was published in 2008 and additional genome and transcriptome data became available later on. However, lack of a publically available annotation for genome and transcriptome(s) limits the use of this data for functional and comparative genomics by the interested researchers.