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    Growth promotion and antibiotic induced metabolic shifts in the chicken gut microbiome

    Antimicrobial growth promoters (AGP) have played a decisive role in animal agriculture for over half a century. Despite mounting concerns about antimicrobial resistance and demand for antibiotic alternatives, ...

    Germán Plata, Nielson T. Baxter, Dwi Susanti in Communications Biology (2022)

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    The rate of the molecular clock and the cost of gratuitous protein synthesis

    The nature of the protein molecular clock, the protein-specific rate of amino acid substitutions, is among the central questions of molecular evolution. Protein expression level is the dominant determinant of ...

    Germán Plata, Max E Gottesman, Dennis Vitkup in Genome Biology (2010)

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    Sequencing analysis of 20,000 full-length cDNA clones from cassava reveals lineage specific expansions in gene families related to stress response

    Cassava, an allotetraploid known for its remarkable tolerance to abiotic stresses is an important source of energy for humans and animals and a raw material for many industrial processes. A full-length cDNA li...

    Tetsuya Sakurai, Germán Plata, Fausto Rodríguez-Zapata, Motoaki Seki in BMC Plant Biology (2007)