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  1. Redundancy in microbiota-mediated suppression of the soybean cyst nematode

    Background

    Soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) as animal parasites of plants are not usually interested in killing the host but are rather focused on...

    Muzammil Hussain, Peixue Xuan, ... Meichun **ang in Microbiome
    Article Open access 15 July 2024

  3. The Material-Independent Signatures of Life.Forensic Tools of Astrobiology

    Biological life is intimately related to the geochemical conditions on Earth and is fit for this planet’s energy flux. It has often been suggested...
    Popa Radu in Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life
    Chapter

  4. The Early History of Bioenergy

    Energy is most commonly defined as the potential to do work. The maintenance of the living state requires a constant flow of energy through the...
    Popa Radu in Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life
    Chapter

  5. Assembling the Early Puzzle of Life

    So far no theory, no approach, no set of formulas, and no blackboard scheme have been found satisfactory in explaining the origin of life. The...
    Popa Radu in Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life
    Chapter

  6. 12 Baker’s Yeast: a rising foundation for eukaryotic sphingolipid-mediated cell signaling

    Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been an invaluable tool for the dissection of sphingolipid metabolic pathways and cloning of enzymes involved in...
    L. Ashley Cowart, Yusuf A. Hannun in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  7. 1 Phospholipid synthesis in mammalian cells

    Phospholipids are the main components of biological membranes and as such act as the major permeability barrier between cells and the extracellular...
    Christopher R. McMaster, Trevor R. Jackson in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  8. 2 Phospholipid synthesis and dynamics in plant cells

    Phospholipids represent the second family of lipids after the galactolipids in photosynthetic tissues and the first in non-photosynthetic tissues....
    Jean-Jacques Bessoule, Patrick Moreau in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  9. The Early History of Bio-Information

    In a general sense, the information level of a structure equals the minimum number of instructions needed to specify the structure (Orgel 1973). The...
    Popa Radu in Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life
    Chapter

  10. 11 Plant sphingolipids

    Plants contain a multiplicity of sphingolipid metabolites, such as long-chain bases, long-chain base phosphates, ceramides, glycosylceramides,...
    Petra Sperling, Dirk Warnecke, Ernst Heinz in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  11. 5 Sterol metabolism and functions in higher plants

    Higher plants synthesize a bewildering array of sterols, with sitosterol, stigmasterol, and 24-methylcholesterol as major compounds. All plant...
    Marie-Andrée Hartmann in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  12. 6 Sterol biochemistry and regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been a major model system for the study of sterol biosynthesis and function. All of the genes encoding the enzymes...
    N. Douglas Lees, Martin Bard in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  13. 7 Mammalian ACAT and DGAT2 gene families

    Mammalian isozymes of ACAT, DGAT, and MGAT are encoded by the ACAT and DGAT2 gene families. These enzymes catalyze the synthesis of neutral lipid...
    Dong Cheng, Jay Liu, ... Ta-Yuan Chang in Lipid Metabolism and Membrane Biogenesis
    Chapter

  14. Deconvolution Microscopy

    Since its introduction in 1983, deconvolution microscopy has become a key image-processing tool for visualizing the cellular structures of fixed and...
    Jean-Baptiste Sibarita in Microscopy Techniques
    Chapter

  15. Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy in Single Molecule Nanobioscience

    Recent development in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) has made it possible to directly monitor the behaviors of...
    Tetsuichi Wazawa, Masahiro Ueda in Microscopy Techniques
    Chapter

  16. Tracking Movement in Cell Biology

    This article is an overview of techniques for measuring movement of proteins, vesicles and cells using digital image processing. Diverse techniques...
    Kota Miura in Microscopy Techniques
    Chapter

  17. Taxonomy and phylogenetic diversity among the yeasts

    Yeasts are among the economically and scientifically most important eukaryotic microorganisms known. At present, there are 1,500 recognized species,...
    Cletus P. Kurtzman, Jure Piškur in Comparative Genomics
    Chapter

  18. Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)

    Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a technique to map the spatial distribution of nanosecond excited state lifetimes within...
    Erik B. van Munster, Theodorus W. J. Gadella in Microscopy Techniques
    Chapter

  19. Spectral Imaging and Linear Unmixing in Light Microscopy

    Fluorescence microscopy is an essential tool for modern biological research. The wide range of available fluorophores and labeling techniques allows...
    Timo Zimmermann in Microscopy Techniques
    Chapter

  20. Comparative genomics and gene finding in fungi -- Supplement

    Online Supplement to Chapter 1
    Marina Axelson-Fisk, Per Sunnerhagen in Comparative Genomics
    Chapter
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