A 2.91-billion base pair (bp) consensus sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human
genome was generated by the whole-genome shotgun sequencing method. The 14.8-billion …

Recently, researchers in several areas of ecology and evolution have begun to change the
way in which they analyze data and make biological inferences. Rather than the traditional …

Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are characterized by the expression of distinctive
bacterial properties, products, or structures referred to as virulence factors because they help …

… of life that James Weldon Johnson recounts in Along This Way. Johnson's personal narrative
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Statistical fluctuation of electric charge exists in all conductors, producing random variation
of potential between the ends of the conductor. The effect of these fluctuations has been …

Recent advances in theoretical geochemistry permit calculation of the standard molal
thermodynamic properties of a wide variety of minerals, gases, aqueous species, and reactions …

Alternative pre–messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing plays important roles in development,
physiology, and disease, and more than half of human genes are alternatively spliced. To …

From entrepreneurial start-ups to multinationals, charities to government agencies, this book
raises the big questions about organisations-how they grow, how they innovate and how …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of noncoding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate
gene expression in plants and animals 1 , 2 . To investigate the influence of miRNAs on …

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS),
marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as …