Abstracts: Comparison of methods for detection and enumeration of airborne microorganisms collected by liquid impingement
Abstracts: Comparison of methods for isolation of mycobacteria from water. Isolation of Mycobacteria from frozen fish destined for human consumption
Abstracts: Comparison of methods of extracting Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis DNA from environmental substrates and quantification of organisms by using a general internal procedural control
Abstracts: Comparison of multilocus RFLPs and PCR-base marker systems for genetic analysis of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genetic mapping of Z chromosome and identification of W chromosome-specific markers in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Abstracts: Comparison of MultiMap and TSP/CONCORDE for constructing radiation hybrid maps. Establishing appropriate genome-wide significance levels for canine linkage analyses
Abstracts: Comparison of PCR and cell culture for detection of enteroviruses in sludge-amended field soils and determination of their transport
Abstracts: Comparison of PCR and plaque assay for detection and enumeration of colphage in polluted marine wasters. Molecular assays for targeting human and bovine enteric viruses in coastal waters and their application for library-independent source tracking
Abstracts: Comparison of prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibilities of Campylobacter spp. isolates from organic and conventional dairy herds in Wisconsin
Abstracts: Comparison of primers and optimization of PCR conditions for detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia in water
Abstracts: Comparison of proteins expressed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains representing initial and chronic isolates from a cystic fibrosis patient: an analysis by 2-D gel electrophoresis and capillary column liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
Abstracts: Comparison of quantitative genetic variation and allozyme diversity within and between populations of Scabiosa canescens and S. columbaria
Abstracts: Comparison of quasielastic light scattering and laser diffractometry as nondestructive probes into the structure of Bacillus sphaericus spores produced at different temperatures
Abstracts: Comparison of ribotyping and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR for characterization of Vibrio vulnificus
Abstracts: Comparison of selected methods for the enumeration of fecal coliforms and Escherichia coli in shellfish. Three-year study to assess human enteric viruses in shellfish
Abstracts: Comparison of sensitivity of immunofluorescent microscopy to that of a combination of immunofluorescent microscopy and immunomagnetic separation for detection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in adult bovine feces
Abstracts: Comparison of statistical methods for identification of Streptococcus thermophilus, Enterococcus faecalis, and Enterococcus faecium from randomly amplified polymorphic DNA patterns
Abstracts: Comparison of the bile salts and sodium dodecyl sulfate stress responses in Enterococcus faecalis. Changes in protein synthesis and morphology during acid adaptation of Propionibacterium freudenreichii
Abstracts: Comparison of the cellular fatty acid composition of a bacterium isolated from a human and alleged to be Bacillus sphaericus with that of Bacillus sphaericus isolated from a mosquito larvicide
Abstracts: Comparison of the power and accuracy of biallelic and microsatellite markers in population-based gene-mapping methods
Abstracts: Comparison of the proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv with clinical isolate CDC 1551. Proteome analysis of extracellular proteins regulated by the las and rhl quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Abstracts: Comparison of the recoveries of Escherichia coli and total coliforms from drinking water by the MI agar method and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved membrane filter method
Abstracts: Comparison of the thermostability properties of three acid phosphatases from molds: Aspergillus fumigatus phytase, A. niger phytase, and A. niger pH 2.5 acid phosphatase
Abstracts: Comparison of Tn5397 from Clostridium difficile, Tn916 from Enterococcus faecalis and the CW459tet(M) element from Clostridium perfringens shows that they have similar conjugation regions but different insertion and excision modules
Abstracts: Comparison of toxinotyping and PCR ribotyping of Clostridium difficile strains and description of novel toxinotypes
Abstracts: Comparison of vero cell assay and PCR as indicators of the presence of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in bovine and human fecal samples
Abstracts: Comparison of vertical distribution of prokaryotic assemblages in the anoxic Cariacio Basin and Black Sea by use of fluorescence in situ hybridization
Abstracts: Comparison of virulence gene profiles of Escherichia coli strains isolated from healthy and diarrheic swine. Identification of a novel Cryptosporidium genotype in pigs
Abstracts: Compartmentalized expression of the alpha- and gamma-subunits of the acetylcholine receptor in recently fused myofibers
Abstracts: Compatible solutes protect against chaotrope (ethanol)-induced, nonosmotic water stress. Expression of a temperature-sensitive esterase in a novel chaperone-based Escherichia coli strain
Abstracts: Competition affects gene flow from oilseed rape to Brassica rapa. Progressive introgression between Brassica napus (oilseed rape) and B. rapa
Abstracts: Competition for ammonium between nitrifying and heterotrophic bacteria in continuously percolated soil columns
Abstracts: Competition for cellobiose among three predominant ruminal cellulolytic bacteria under substrate-excess and substrate-limited conditions
Abstracts: Competition for cellulose among three predominant ruminal cellulolytic bacteria under substrate-excess and substrate-limited conditions
Abstracts: Competition for factors and cellular resources as a principle of pattern formation in Hydra. II. Assistance of foot formation by heads and buds and a new model of pattern control
Abstracts: Competition for factors and cellular resources as a principle of pattern formation in Hydra. I. Increase of the potentials for head and bud formation and rescue of the regeneration-deficient mutant reg-16 by treatment with diacylglycerol and arachidonic acid
Abstracts: Competitive interactions in mixed-species biofilms containing the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata
Abstracts: Competitive metagenomic DNA hybridization identifies host-specific microbial genetic markers in cow fecal samples
Abstracts: Complementary and mutually exclusive activities of decapentaplegic and wingless organize axial patterning during Drosophila leg development
Abstracts: Complementary chromatic adaptation alters photosynthetic strategies in the cyanobacterium Calothrix. Chlorophyll fluorescence analysis of cyanobacterial photosynthesis and acclimation
Abstracts: Complementation of a Clostridium perfringens spo0A mutant with wild-type spo0A from other Clostridium species
Abstracts: Complementation rescue of Pdx1 null phenotype demonstrates distinct roles of proximal and distal cis-regulatory sequences in pancreatic and duodenal expression
Abstracts: Complete biological reductive transformation of tetrachloroethene to ethane. Transformation of low concentrations of 3-chlorobenzoate by Pseudomonas sp. strain B13: kinetics and residual concentrations
Abstracts: Complete genome sequence of the marine, chemolithoautotrophic, ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosococcus oceani ATCC 19707
Abstracts: Complete lack of NF-(kappa)B activity in IKK1 and IKK2 double-deficient mice: aditional defect in neurulation
Abstracts: Complete migration cycle of Golden Eagles breeding in northern Quebec. Effects of electromagnetic fields on the growth of nestling American Kestrels
Abstracts: Complete oxidation of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate by bacterial communitiesselected from coastal seawater. Possible interactions within a methanotrophic-heterotrophic groundwater community able to transform linear alkylbenzenesulfonates
Abstracts: Complete oxidation of toluene under strictly anoxic conditions by a new sulfate-reducing bacterium. Degradative capacities an 16S rRNA-targeted whole-cell hybridization of sulfate-reducing bacteria in an anaerobic enrichment culture utilizing alkylbenzenes from crude oil
Abstracts: Complete reductive dechlorination of 1,2-Dichloropropane by anaerobic bacteria. Populations implicate in anaerobic reductive dechlorination of 1,2-dichloropropane in highly enriched bacterial communities
Abstracts: Complexity of bacterial communities in a river-floodplain system (Danube, Austria). Use of transposon-transposase complexes to create stable insertion mutant strains of Francisella tularensis LVs
Abstracts: Complex segregation analysis of canine hip dysplasia in German shepherd dogs. Inheritance of guttural pouch tympany in the Arabian horse
Abstracts: Components and dynamics of DNA replication complexes in S. cerevisiae: redistribution of MCM proteins and Cdc45p during S phase
Abstracts: Components of an SCF ubiquitin ligase localize to the centrosome and regulate the centrosome duplication cycle
Abstracts: Composition and biophysical properties of lipids in Xenorhabdus nematophilus and Photorhabdus luminescens, symbiotic bacteria associated with entomopathogenic nematodes
Abstracts: Composition and diversity of microbial communities recovered from surrogate minerals incubated in an acidic uranium-contaminated aquifer
Abstracts: Composition and dynamics of bacterial communities of a drinking water supply system as assessed by RNA- and DNA-based 16S rRNA gene fingerprinting
Abstracts: Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia
Abstracts: Composition and susceptibility to chlorhexidine of multispecies biofilms of oral bacteria. An in vitro study of the effect of fluoridated milk on oral bacterial biofilms
Abstracts: Composition of non-microbially reducible Fe(III) in aquatic sediments. Acetate oxidation by dissimilatory Fe(III) reducers
Abstracts: Composition, variation, and dynamics of major osmotic solutes in Methanohalophilus strain FDF1. Halotolerance in Methanosarcina spp.: role of N(super epsilon)-acetyl-beta-lysine, alpha-glutamate, glycine betaine, and K+ as compatible solutes for osmotic adaptation
Abstracts: Compound-specific isotopic fractionation patterns suggest different carbon metabolisms among Chloroflexus-like bacteria in hot-spring microbial mats
Abstracts: Comprehensive human genetic maps: individual and sex-specfic variation in recombination. A new method for detecting human recombination hotspots and its applications to the HapMap ENCODE data
Abstracts: Comprehensive mutation analysis of TSC1 (ital) and TSC2 (ital)--and phenotypic correlations in 150 families with tuberous sclerosis
Abstracts: Computational definition of sequence motifs governing constitutive exon splicing. Imprinting mechanisms-it only takes two
Abstracts: Computer-assisted laser scanning and video microscopy for analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in soil, sediment, and feces
Abstracts: Concerted evolution: molecular mechanism and biological implications. When less is more: gene loss as an engine of evolutionary change
Abstracts: Concordance between dispersal and mitochondrial gene flow: isolation by distance in a tropical teleost, Lates calcarifer (Australian barramundi)
Abstracts: Condensin is required for chromosome arm cohesion during mitosis. Phosphorylation of RCC1 in mitosis is essential for producing a high RanGTP concentration on chromosomes and for spindle assembly in mammalian cells
Abstracts: Conditional expression of Mycobacterium smegmatis ftsZ, an essential cell division gene. Author's reply
Abstracts: Conditions for vigorous growth on sulfide and reactor-scale cultivation protocols for the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum
Abstracts: Conditions of formation, purification, and characterization of an alpha-galactosidase of Trichoderma reesei RUT C-30
Abstracts: Conflicts and alliances in insect families. Microsatellite variation in ringed seals (Phoca hispida): genetic structure and history of the Baltic Sea population
Abstracts: Congenital end-plate acetylcholinesterase deficiency caused by a nonsense mutation and an A-->G splice-donor-site mutation at position +3 of the collagenlike-tail-subunit gene (COLQ): How does G at position +3 result in aberrant splicing?
Abstracts: Congo red binding by Porphyromonas gingivalis is mediated by a 66 kDa outer-membrane protein. Development of a steady-state oral microbial biofilm community using the constant-depth film fermenter
Abstracts: Congruence between allozyme and cytochrome b gene sequence data in assessing genetic differentiation within the Iberian endemic Chondrostoma lemmingii (Pisces: Cyprinidae)
Abstracts: Congruence between allozyme and RAPD data in assessing macrogeographical genetic variation in the periwinkle Littorina striata (Mollusca, Gastropoda)
Abstracts: Conidial hydrophobins of Aspergillus fumigatus. Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored Ecm33p influences conidial cell wall biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus
Abstracts: Conjugal TOL transfer from Pseudomonas putin to Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Effects of restriction proficiency, toxicant exposure, cell density ratios, and conjugation detection method on observed transfer efficiencies
Abstracts: Conjugal transfer in Lactococcus lactis of a 68-kilobase-pair chromosomal fragment containing the structural gene for the peptide bacteriocin nisin
Abstracts: Conjugal type IV macromolecular transfer systems of Gram-negative bacteria: organismal distribution, structural constraints and evolutionary conclusions
Abstracts: Conjugated linoleic acid accumulation via 10-hydroxy-12-octadecaenoic acid during microaerobic transformation of linoleic acid by Lactobacillus acidophilus
Abstracts: Conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli: genetic analysis of recombinant formation in Hfr X F- crosses
Abstracts: Conjugative plasmid transfer between bacteria under simulated marine oligotrophic conditions. Plasmid transfer between narine bacteria in the aqueous phase and biofilms in reactor microcosms
Abstracts: Conjugative transfer of chromosomal genes between fluorescent Pseudomonads in the rhizosphere of wheat. Effect of starvation and the viable-but-nonculturable state on green fluorescent protein (GFP) fluorescence in GFP-tagged Pseudomonas fluorescens A506
Abstracts: Conjugative transfer of tet(S) between strains of Enterococcus faecalis is associated with the exchange of large fragments of chromosomal DNA
Abstracts: Conjugative transposons: an unusual and diverse set of integrated gene transfer elements. Identification and characterization of conjugative transposons CTn86 and CTn9343 in Bacterroides fragilis strains
Abstracts: Connecting cancer to the asymmetric division of stem cells. Bacterial mitotic machineries. Coordination of cell division and chromosome segregation by a nucleoid occlusion protein in Bacillus subtilis
Abstracts: Connecting cell behavior to patterning: lessons from the cell cycle. Qualifying for the licence to replicate
Abstracts: Connecting two-component regulatory systems by a protein that protects a response regulator from dephosphorylation by its cognate sensor
Abstracts: Connexin46 mutations in autosomal dominant congenital cataract. CHMP4B, a novel gene for autosomal dominant cataracts linked to chromosome 20q
Abstracts: Consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers for amplification of priming glycosyltransferase genes of the exopolysaccharide locus in strains of the Lactobacillus casei group
Abstracts: Consequences of cytonuclear epistasis and assortative mating for the genetic structure of hybrid populations. Identification of native and hybrid elms in Spain using isozyme gene markers
Abstracts: Consequences of prairie fragmentation on the progeny sex ratio of a gynodioecious species, Lobelia spicata (Campanulaceae)
Abstracts: Conservation and antigenic cross-reactivity of the transferrin-binding proteins of Haemophilus influenzae, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis
Abstracts: Conservation of ornamental stone by Myxococcus xanthus-induced carbonate biomineralization. Precipitation of barite by Myxococcus xanthus: possible implications for the biogeochemical cycle of barium
Abstracts: Conservation of palsmid-encoded dibenzothiophene desulfurization genes in several rhodococci. Improvement of the thermostability and activity of a pectate lyase by single amino acid substitutions, using a strategy based on melting-temperature-guided sequence alignment
Abstracts: Conservation status and habitat preferences of the Cozumel curassow. Habitat use by three breeding insectivorous birds in declining maple forests
Abstracts: Conserved co-regulation and promoter sharing of hoxb3a and hoxb4a in zebrafish. FGF2 plays a key role in embryonic cerebrospinal fluid trophic properties over chick embryo neuroepithelial stem cells
Abstracts: Conserved MYC transcription factors play a key role in jasmonate signaling both in tomato and Arabidopsis. Environmental regulation operating at the promoter clearance step of bacterial transcription
Abstracts: Conserved role of a complement-like protein in phagocytosis revealed by dsRNA knockout in cultured cells of the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae
Abstracts: Conserved seed pairing, often flanked by adenosines, indicates that thousands of human genes are microRNA targets