Background The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a complex network where sympathetic
and parasympathetic domains interact inside and outside of the network. Correlation-based …

Aim To investigate the differences between the subgingival microbiota of healthy subjects
(HS) and periodontitis patients (PP) from four different countries through a metagenomic …

Animal carcasses introduce large amounts of nitrates and ammonium into the soil
ecosystem. Some of this ammonium is transformed from nitrite through the nrfA-type …

Septoria brown spot, caused by Septoria glycines, is Illinois' most prevalent soybean
disease. It is common to use foliar fungicides to control Septoria brown spot and other late …

Despite the increasing recognition and importance surrounding bacterial and fungal
interactions, and their critical contributions to ecosystem functioning and host fitness, studies …

Invertebrates such as termites feeding on nutrient-poor substrate receive essential nitrogen
by biological nitrogen fixation of gut diazotrophs. However, the diversity and composition of …

Emerging biological risk factors have been recognized as one of the main potential risk
factors in water environment. The emergence of infectious waterborne diseases mediated by …

16S rRNA gene sequencing has been the most prevalent method to characterize microbial
community. However, this has limitations in both technical and computational aspects such …

Septoria brown spot (SBS), caused by Septoria glycines is the most prevalent soybean foliar
disease in Illinois and often co-occurs with other late-season diseases, such as Cercospora …