Abstracts: Factors influencing germination of Bacillus subtilis spores via activation of nutrient receptors by high pressure
Abstracts: Factors influencing numbers of Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and other mycobacteria in drinking water distribution systems
Abstracts: Factors limiting microbial growth and activity at a proposed high-level nuclear repository, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Abstracts: Failure of megakaryopoiesis and arrested erythropoiesis in mice lacking the GATA-1 transcriptional cofactor FOG
Abstracts: Failure to differentiate Cryptosporidium parvum from C. meleagridis based on PCR amplification of eight DNA sequences
Abstracts: Familial osteoarthritis of the hip joint associated with acetabular dysplasia maps to chromosome 1 3q. A functional polymorphism in COL11A1, which encodes the [alpha]1 chain of type XI collagen, is associated with susceptibility to lumbar disc herniation
Abstracts: Familial porphyria cutanea tarda: characterization of seven novel uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase mutations and frequency of common hemochromatosis alleles
Abstracts: Familial progressive sensorineural deafness is mainly due to the mtDNA A1555G mutation and is enhanced by treatment with aminoglycosides
Abstracts: Familial risk of high blood pressure in the Canadian population. Familial resemblance in fatness and fat distribution
Abstracts: FAN, a novel WD-repeat protein, couples the p55 TNF-receptor to neutral sphingomyelinase. Mice deficient for the 55kd tumor necrosis factor receptor are resistant to endotoxic shock, yet succumb to L. monocytogenes infection
Abstracts: Fanconi anemia (cross)linked to DNA repair. Role of the sigma factor in transcription initiation in the absence of core RNA polymerase
Abstracts: FAR1 links the signal transduction pathway to the cell cycle machinery in yeast. MAP kinase pathways in yeast: for mating and more
Abstracts: Farewell to Babel. Bird flu madness. Goodbye to oranges?
Abstracts: Farnesol concentrations required to block germ tube formation in Candida albicans in the presence and absence of serum
Abstracts: Fat distribution during childhood and adolescence: implications for later health outcomes. Variation in subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution associated with age, sex, and maturation
Abstracts: Fate of Enterobacter cloacae JP120 and Alcaligenes eutrophus AEO106(pRO101) in soil during water stress: effects on culturability and viability
Abstracts: Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7 as affected by pH or sodium chloride and in fermented dry sausage. Fate of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in apple cider with and without preservatives
Abstracts: Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on fresh-cut apple tissue and its potential for transmission by fruit flies. Growth of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in bruised apple (Malus domestica) tissue as influenced by cultivar, date of harvets, and source
Abstracts: Fate of fumonisin B1 naturally contaminated corn during ethanol fermentation. Stabilization of pet operon plasmids and ethanol production in Escherichia coli strains lacking lactate dehydrogenase and pyruvate formate-lyase activities
Abstracts: Fate of residual lignin during delignification of kraft pulp by Trametes versicolor. Lignin peroxidase activity is not important in biological bleaching and delignification of unbleached kraft pulp by Trametes versicolor
Abstracts: Fatty acid-oxidizing consortia along a nutrient gradient in the Florida everglades. Production of novel tetrahydroxyfuranyl fatty acids from alpha-linolenic acid by Clavibacter sp. strain ALA2
Abstracts: Fawn-2: a dominant plumage color mutation in Japanese quail. Light down-dominant plumage color mutation with homozygous lethality in Japanese quail
Abstracts: F-box proteins are receptors that recruit phosphorylated substrates to the SCF ubiquitin-ligase complex. SKP1 connects cell cycle regulators to the ubiquitin proteolysis machinery through a novel motif, the F-box
Abstracts: Fecal sdedding of Campylobacter and Arcobacter spp. in dairy cattle. Detection of human and animal rotavirus sequences in drinking water
Abstracts: Feedback control of mammalian Hedgehog signaling by the Hedgehog-binding protein, Hip1, modulates Fgf signaling during branching morphogenesis of the lung
Abstracts: Feed deprivation affects crop environment and modulates Salmonella enteritidis colonization and invasion of leghorn hens
Abstracts: Felix Bernstein and the first human marker locus. N.I. Vavilov, martyr to genetic truth. Erwin Schrodinger and the hornless cattle problem
Abstracts: Female fertility and mating type distribution in a South African population of Fusarium sugblutinans f. sp. pini
Abstracts: Female hooded merganser body mass during nesting. Does male-like coloration of female hooded warblers increase nest predation?
Abstracts: Fermentation and sulfur reduction in the mat-building cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes. Modeling the dynamic regulation of nitrogen fixation in the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium sp
Abstracts: Fermentation of fructooligosaccharides by lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria. Antibiosis between ruminal bacteria and ruminal fungi
Abstracts: Fermentation, purification, and characterization of protective antigen from a recombinant, avirulent strain of Bacillus anthracis
Abstracts: Ferrihydrite-dependent growth of Sulfurospirillum deleyianum through electron transfer via sulfur cycling. Growth yields in bacterial denitrification and nitrate ammonification
Abstracts: Ferrioxamine-mediated iron(III) utilization by Salmonella enterica. Diversity of phage types among archived cultures of the Demerec collection of salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains
Abstracts: Ferritin heavy chain upregulation by NF-KappaB inhibits TNF alpha-induced apoptosis by suppressing reactive oxygen species
Abstracts: Fertility, migration, and mortality in an Old Order Amish community. Field test of self-paced work capacity: Ifugao rice farmers
Abstracts: Fertility versus disease resistance, a hard choice. Cancer-associated mutations in chromatin remodeler hSNF5 promote chromosomal instability by compromising the mitotic checkpoint
Abstracts: Fetal origins of developmental plasticity: Are fetal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments?
Abstracts: Fetal programming: Adaptive life-history tactics or making the best of a bad start? . Fluctuating asymmetry predicts human reactive aggression
Abstracts: FGF22 and its close relatives are presynaptic organizing molecules in the mammalian brain. After the Holy Grail: establishing a molecular basis for mammalian olfaction
Abstracts: Fgf8 expression in the Tbx1 domain causes skeletal abnormalities and modifies the aortic arch but not the outflow tract phenotype of Tbx1 mutants
Abstracts: Fgf8 expression in the Tbx1 domain causes skeletal abnormalities and modifies the aortic arch but not the outflow tract phenotype of Tbx1 mutants. part 2
Abstracts: FGF8, Wnt8 and Myf5 are target genes of Tbx6 during anteroposterior specification in Xenopus embryo. Semaphorin3D regulates invasion of cardiac neural crest cells into the primary heart field
Abstracts: FGF can induce outgrowth of somatic mesoderm both inside and outside of limb-forming regions. Kruppel acts as a gap gene regulating expression of hunchback and even-skipped in the intermediate germ cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
Abstracts: FGF-dependent Notch signaling maintains the spinal cord stem zone. Primitive neural stem cells from the mammalian epiblast differentiate to definitive neural stem cells under the control of Notch signaling
Abstracts: FGF is essential for both condensation and mesenchymal-epithelial transition stages of pronephric kidney tubule development
Abstracts: FGF signaling inhibits chrondrocyte proliferation and regulates bone development through the STAT-1 pathway. The subcellular localization of PBX1 and EXD proteins depends on nuclear import and export signals and is modulated by association with PREP1 and HTH
Abstracts: Fiber-degrading systems of different strains of the genus fibrobacter. Correlations between morphological, molecular biological, and physiological characteristics in clinical and nonclinical isolates of Acanthamoeba spp
Abstracts: Fibrinogen, homocyst(e)ine, and C-reactive protein concentrations relative to sex and socioeconomic status in British young people
Abstracts: Fibroblast growth factors, depolarization, and substratum interact in a combinatorial way to promote neuronal survival
Abstracts: Fibulin-4: A novel gene for an autosomal recessive cutis laxa syndrome. Mutation in the auxiliary calcium-channel subunit CACNA2D4 causes autosomal recessive cone dystrophy
Abstracts: Fidelity of select restriction endonucleases in determining microbial diversity by terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism
Abstracts: Fidelity of select restriction endonucleases in determining microbial diversity by terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism. part 2
Abstracts: FIERY1 encoding an inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase is a negative regulator of abscisic acid and stress signaling in Arabidopsis
Abstracts: Fifty ways to love your lever myosin motors. Nuclear movement regulated by Cdc42, MRCK, myosin, and actin flow establishes MTOC polarization in migrating cells
Abstracts: Fifty years with interferons. Expanding evolutionary history. A biologist realtor
Abstracts: FIH-1: a novel protein that interacts with HIF-1alpha and VHL to mediate repression of HIF-1 transcriptional activity
Abstracts: Filamentous "Epsilonproteobacteria" dominate microbial mats from sulfidic cave springs. Specific detection of Dehalococcoides species by fluorescence in situ hybridization with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes
Abstracts: FILAMENTOUS FLOWER (ital), a meristem and organ identity gene of Arabidopsis, encodes a protein with a zinc finger and HMG-related domains
Abstracts: FIN219, an auxin-regulated gene, defines a link between phytochrome A and the downstream regulator COP1 in light control of Arabidopsis development
Abstracts: Fine mapping of the diabetes-susceptibility locus, IDDM4 (ital), on chromosome 11q13. A novel Alu (ital)-like element rearranged in the dystrophin gene causes a splicing mutation in a family with X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy
Abstracts: Fine mapping of the diabetes-susceptibility locus, IDDM4 (ital), on chromosome 11q13. part 2 Inflation of sibling recurrence-risk ratio, due to ascertainment bias and/or overreporting
Abstracts: Fine-scale genetic structure and fire-created habitat patchiness in the Australian Allodapine bee, Exoneura nigrescens (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Abstracts: Fingerprinting microbial assemblages from the oxic/anoxic chemocline of the Black Sea. Allelic diversity and population structure in Oenococcus oeni as determined from sequence analysis of housekeeping genes
Abstracts: Fingerprinting of Campylobacter jejuni by using resolution-optimized binary gene targets derived from comparative genome hybridization studies
Abstracts: Fingerprinting of Campylobacter jejuni by using resolution-optimized binary gene targets derived from comparative genome hybridization studies. part 2
Abstracts: Fire blight protection with avirulent mutants of Erwinia amylovora. Molecular comparison of pathogenic bacteria from pear trees in Japan and the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora
Abstracts: Fire fly. Decoding the brain. Physics meets the brain
Abstracts: Fire fly. Writing on the fly. Making pretty pictures
Abstracts: First archaeal inorganic polyphosphate/ATP-dependent NAD kinase, from hyperthermophilic archaeon pyrococcus horikoshii: Cloning, expression, and characterization
Abstracts: First blood vessels in the avian neural tube are formed by a combination of dorsal angioblast immigration and ventral sprouting of endothelial cells
Abstracts: First breeding records of Whooper Swan and Brambling in North America at Attu Island, Alaska. Copulation behavior in the Osprey in relation to breeding density
Abstracts: First detection of mycobacteria in African rodents and insectivores, using stratified pool screening. Potential role of fish in transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer): an environmental study
Abstracts: Fishing for prostanoids: deciphering the developmental functions of cyclooxygenase-derived prostaglandins. Loss of orphan nuclear receptor GCNF function disrupts forebrain development and the establishment of the isthmic organizer
Abstracts: Fission yeast condensin complex: essential roles of non-SMC subunits for condensation and Cdc2 phosphorylation of Cut3/SMC4
Abstracts: Fitness advantage and cytoplasmic incompatibility in Wolbachia single- and superinfected Aedes albopictus. Population structure of Aedes albopictus (Skuse): the mosquito which is colonizing Mediterranean countries
Abstracts: Fitness and microsatellite diversity estimates were not correlated in two outbred anuran populations. Fine-scale genetic structure and gene flow within Costa Rican populations of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla)
Abstracts: Fitness of F1 hybrids between weedy Brassica rapa and oilseed rape (B. napus). RAPD of controlled crosses and clones from the field suggests that hybrids are rare in the Salix alba-Slaix fragilis complex
Abstracts: Five things not to forget when forecasting. Shire Pharmaceuticals: a study in exponential growth. For the hottest jobs, go regulatory
Abstracts: FKBP12.6 deficiency and defective calcium release channel (ryanodine receptor) function linked to exercise-induced sudden cardiac death
Abstracts: FKF1, a clock-controlled gene that regulates the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis. ZEITLUPE encodes a novel clock-associated PAS protein from Arabidopsis
Abstracts: Flamingo, a seven-pass transmembrane cadherin, regulates planar cell polarity under the control of Frizzled. Synaptic transmission persists in synaptotagmin mutants of Drosophila
Abstracts: Flavohaemoglobin HmpX: a new pathogenicity determinant in Erwinia chrysanthemi strain 3937. Overproduction of the secretin OutD suppresses the secretion defect of an Erwinia chrysanthemi outB mutant
Abstracts: Flexing DNA: HMG-box proteins and their partners. Ataxia-telangiectasia: identification and detection of founder-effect mutations in the ATM gene in ethnic populations
Abstracts: Flight distances of Black-billed Magpies in different regimes of human density and persecution. Egg recognition in Yellow-billed and Black-billed Magpies in the absence of interspecific parasitism: implications for parasite-host coevolution
Abstracts: Floor plate and motor neuron induction by different concentrations of the amino-terminal cleavage product of sonic hedgehog autoproteolysis
Abstracts: Flow cytometric analysis of the in situ accessibility of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA for fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes
Abstracts: Flow cytometry and cell sorting of heterogeneous microbial populations: the importance of single-cell analyses
Abstracts: Flow cytometry detection of infectious rotaviruses in environmental and clinical samples. Development and evaluation of a broadly reactive TaqMan assay for rapid detection of hepatitis A virus
Abstracts: Flow sorting of microorganisms for molecular analysis. Improved sensitivity of whole-cell hybridization by the combination of horseradish peroxidase-labeled oligonucleotides and tyramide signal amplification
Abstracts: Fluctuating asymmetry and genetic variability in the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus): a test of the developmental stability hypothesis in mammals using neutral molecular markers
Abstracts: Fluctuating populations of house wrens and Bewick's wrens in foothills of the Western Sierra Nevada of California
Abstracts: Fluoranthene metabolism in Mycobacterium sp. strain KR20: identity of pathway intermediates during degradation and growth
Abstracts: Fluorescence in situ hybridization-flow cytometry-cell sorting-based method for separation and enrichment of type I and type II metanotroph populations
Abstracts: Fluorescence in situ hybridization using 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides reveals localization of methanogens and selected uncultured bacteria in mesophilic and thermophilic sludge granules
Abstracts: Fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis isolates
Abstracts: Fluorescent in situ hybridization with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes to identify small phytoplankton by flow cytometry
Abstracts: Flux distributions in anaerobic, glucose-limited continuous cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Physiological effects of nitrogen starvation in an anaerobic batch culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstracts: Flux limitations in the ortho pathway of benzoate degradation of Alcaligenes eutrophus: metabolite overflow and induction of the meta pathway at high substrate concentrations
Abstracts: FNDC3A is required for adhesion between spermatids and Sertoli cells. The 5? UTR and 3? UTR of the sperm mitochondria-associated cysteine-rich protein mRNA regulate translation in spermatids by multiple mechanisms in transgenic mice