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Open AccessGeologically younger ecosystems are more dependent on soil biodiversity for supporting function
Soil biodiversity contains the metabolic toolbox supporting organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling in the soil. However, as soil develops over millions of years, the buildup of plant cover, soil car...
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Role of minerals in regulating the mineralization of cover crop residue and native organic matter and the community and necromass of microbes in flooded paddy soils
The application of cover crop residue is an important means in managing paddy soil. This study was to investigate the influences of minerals on the mineralization of organic matter and the community and necrom...
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Open AccessMetabolic coupling between soil aerobic methanotrophs and denitrifiers in rice paddy fields
Paddy fields are hotspots of microbial denitrification, which is typically linked to the oxidation of electron donors such as methane (CH4) under anoxic and hypoxic conditions. While several anaerobic methanotrop...
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Open AccessHuman genetic associations of the airway microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Little is known about the relationships between human genetics and the airway microbiome. Deeply sequenced airway metagenomics, by simultaneously characterizing the microbiome and host genetics, provide a uniq...
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Stochastic community assembly of abundant taxa maintains the relationship of soil biodiversity-multifunctionality under mercury stress
• Soil abundant taxa diversity positively related to multifunctionality under Hg stress.
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Salinity-triggered homogeneous selection constrains the microbial function and stability in lakes
Climate change and anthropogenic exploitation have led to the gradual salinization of inland waters worldwide. However, the impacts of this process on the prokaryotic plankton communities and their role in bio...
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Open AccessProphylactic antibiotics for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: a pairwise and Bayesian network meta-analysis
The role of prophylactic antibiotics in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) remains unclear. This network meta-analysis compared the ef...
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Open AccessThe origin of suspended particulate matter in the Great Barrier Reef
River run-off has long been regarded as the largest source of organic-rich suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), contributing to high turbidity, pollutant exposure and increasing ...
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Open AccessCooperative microbial interactions drive spatial segregation in porous environments
The role of microbial interactions and the underlying mechanisms that shape complex biofilm communities are poorly understood. Here we employ a microfluidic chip to represent porous subsurface environments and...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide
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Patterns and drivers of soil net nitrogen mineralization and its temperature sensitivity across eastern China
Soil net nitrogen mineralization (Nmin) rate and its temperature sensitivity (Q10) are critical parameters for predicting nitrogen availability under global warming. However, the controlling factors of the net Nm...
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Open AccessSoil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide
Soil contamination is one of the main threats to ecosystem health and sustainability. Yet little is known about the extent to which soil contaminants differ between urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems. He...
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Open AccessCircular RNA hsa_circ_0023404 promotes the proliferation, migration and invasion in endometrial cancer cells through regulating miR-217/MAPK1 axis
Emerging studies indicated that circular RNA hsa_circ_ 0023404 and its target miR-217/MARK1 axis play a critical role in cancer progression such as non-small cell lung cancer and cervical cancer. However, the ...
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Zooming in to acquire micro-reaction: Application of microfluidics on soil microbiome
Microfluidics confers unique advantages in microbiological studies as these devices can accurately replicate the micro- and even nano-scale structures of soil to simulate the habitats of bacteria. It not only ...
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Clinicopathological characteristics, risk factors and renal outcome in IgA nephropathy with crescents
The aim of the study was to investigate the clinicopathological characteristics, risk factors and renal outcome in IgA nephropathy (IgAN) patients with crescents.
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Niche overlap is a predictor of the interspecies correlations detected by microbial network analysis in soil micro-aggregates
Given the vast microorganisms and infertile resources in the soil, nutritional resources would be a focal point of bacterial competition. Microbes could quickly capture the nutrition to outcompete their compet...
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Open AccessSoil microbial trait-based strategies drive metabolic efficiency along an altitude gradient
Trait-based approaches provide a candidate framework for linking soil microbial community to ecosystem processes, yet how the trade-offs in different microbial traits regulate the community-level metabolic eff...
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Long-term partial substitution of chemical fertilizer with green manure regulated organic matter mineralization in paddy soil dominantly by modulating organic carbon quality
The purpose of this study was to investigate the response characteristics and potential mechanisms of soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization to the ten years partial substitution of chemical fertilizer with ...
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Open AccessDiagnosis of pulmonary nodules by DNA methylation analysis in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. The alteration of DNA methylation plays a major role in the development of lung cancer. Methylation biomarkers become a possible method for lung ca...
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Study on principles and mechanisms of new biochar passivation of cadmium in soil
At present, many researchers have studied the modification of biochar and explored the adsorption of cadmium by modified biochar. The adsorption capacity of cadmium for general modified biochar is about 30–150...
