Four hundred seventy-six students (biology majors n =237, nonmajors n =239) at a secular liberal arts private university in Northeastern United States responded to a five-question survey to assess their views about: (1) evolution, creationism, and intelligent design in the science class; (2)...
Class II bacteriocins in theStreptococcus salivariuspan-genome were bioinformatically identified based on conserved sequence properties. These diverse “salivaricins” show antibacterial activity against Gram-positive pathogens. Julien Damoczi Adrien Knoops ...
respectively, across a number of alleles. For the class I analysis, we applied NetMHCPan with default parameters to the VH and VL sequences of the wild-type sequences as well as the VH and
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution is a college-level class being offered simultaneously to new students at Duke University. The course gives interested people a very basic overview of some principles behind these very fundamental areas of biology. We often hear about new "genome sequences," co...
One protein we’ve studied is called Nhl-2. It’s an example of an emerging class of proteins that can modulate, positively or negatively, the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) that inhibits mRNAs targeted by microRNAs. This class of genes may have either general effects on RISC activity...
Conservation of class C function of floral organ development during 300 million years of evolution from gymnosperms to angiosperms W.Tan,Keng‐HockPwee.Conservation of class C function of floral organ development during 300 million years of evolution from gymnosperms to angiosperms[J]... Pingyu,Zha...
Evolution is considered the unifying concept in biology and is also a key theory underlying many areas of human knowledge. Teaching evolution from as early as kindergarten allows children to better understand concepts related with the biological world and prevents the development of negative feelings an...
Evolution is the central comprehensive explanatory framework not only in biology but also in all of the life sciences (e.g., German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina2017; National Research Council2012). It has the power to explain the diversity of life and to foster the understanding of ...
The prediction accuracy can be further improved by applying a posterior probability (PP) threshold to the class predictions, only making vegetation inferences for predictions that exceed this threshold. In separate sensitivity analyses, we show that applying PP thresholds, and thereby masking low-...
A very large proportion of the predicted proteins (48.9%) had no similarity to any COG class and lacked any conserved domain allowing their functional annotation (Fig.2b). Thus, as for other CPR bacteria, a significant part of their cellular functions remains inaccessible. A comparison with thre...