W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes
... bioreactor programmed with at least 800 different species of bacteria." "Fortunately, these microbes endow u... for mining genome sequence data so that bacterial species can be more rapidly and accurately classified. A large publicly accessible database will be establis...Termites feed through good vibrations
... a form of sonar. Dr Evans says different termite species are known to prefer eating particular sizes of woo... food very carefully. The palatability of the wood species and hardness is important as are defensive chemicals made by the plant. But our work shows that this...Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering
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...though many odorant-receptor proteins appear to be species specific, there is a high degree of evolutionary conservation of the Or83b coding sequence among the fruit fly, the medfly (a citrus pest), the corn earworm moth (which damages corn and tobacco), and Anopheles gambiae, the malaria mosquito. When the ...Mouse Anti-Salmonella typhimurium Monoclonal Antibody, Unconjugated, Clone 6331 from GeneTex
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