Nutrient cycling characteristics along a chronosequence of forest primary succession in the Hailuogou Glacier retreat area, eastern Tibetan Plateau by Danli Yang, Ji Luo, Shumiao Shu, Yan Hu, Hongsong Tang, Xuemei Li

“…Results Our findings indicated that: (1) Nutrient pools, excluding the soil C layer, increased with forest primary succession, reaching 5,995.71 kg hm−2 N, 461.83 kg hm−2 P, 3,798.09 kg hm−2 K, 7,559.81 kg hm−2 Ca and 1,948.13 kg hm−2 Mg at site S6; however, the pools of P, K, and Mg in the Oa layer, and Ca and Mg in the tree layer, attained their peak levels at sites S3 to S4. (2) The pools of N, Ca, and Mg in the organic soil were significantly greater than vegetation. …”
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Osteoarticular Infection in Three Young Thoroughbred Horses Caused by a Novel Gram Negative Cocco-Bacillus by Bernard J. Hudson, Catherine Chicken, Anna Blishen, Kristen H. Todhunter, Angela P. Begg, Leonie Chan, Thomas Karagiannis, Benjamin Raymond, Daniel Bogema, Angus R. Adkins, Christopher B. O’Sullivan, Brendon A. O’Rourke, Piklu Roy Chowdhury, Steven P. Djordjevic, Ian G. Charles, Andrew Edgar, Katerina Mitsakos

“…Analysis by 16S rRNA PCR enabled construction of a phylogenetic tree that placed the isolates closer to Simonsiella and Alysiella species, rather than Kingella species. …”
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Coexistence of multiple leaf nutrient resorption strategies in urban forests by Pin Li, Zejin Wang, Kun Ran

“…The resorption activity of evergreen needle-leaf trees and ectomycorrhizal trees was found to primarily rely on stoichiometric control rather than nutrient limitation, whereas stoichiometry and nutrient limitation control strategies were both employed by deciduous broadleaf trees and arbuscular mycorrhizal trees, supporting their ability to adapt to changing environmental nutrient availability. …”
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Genomic characterization of Escherichia coli with a polyketide synthase (pks) island isolated from ulcerative colitis patients by Chao Lv, Mohd Abdullah, Chun-Li Su, Weiye Chen, Nan Zhou, Zile Cheng, Yiwen Chen, Min Li, Kenneth W. Simpson, Ahmed Elsaadi, Yongzhang Zhu, Steven M. Lipkin, Yung-Fu Chang

“…The maximum likelihood tree based on the core genome of pks + isolates revealed horizontal gene transfer across sequence types and serotypes. …”
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Analysis of DNA cox1 barcoding revealed novel haplotype in Schistosoma haematobium isolated from Western Sudan by Ishraga Adam Elzain, Abeer Babiker Idris, Abdul Aziz Karim, Nagla Mohamed Ahmed, Salaheldein G. Elzaki, Semih Yılmaz, Mohamed A. Hassan, Hamid Suliman Abdalla

“…A neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree was generated by MEGA software, and a haplotype network was constructed using PopART v.1.7 with the median-joining network method. …”
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Competing sexual-asexual generic names in Agaricomycotina (Basidiomycota) with recommendations for use by Joost A. Stalpers, Scott A. Redhead, Tom W. May, Amy Y. Rossman, Jo Anne Crouch, Marc A. Cubeta, Yu-Cheng Dai, Roland Kirschner, Gitta Jutta Langer, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Jonathan Mack, Lorelei L. Norvell, Franz Oberwinkler, Viktor Papp, Peter Roberts, Mario Rajchenberg, Keith A. Seifert, R. Greg Thorn

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Experimental prosopis management practices and grassland restoration in three Eastern African countries by René Eschen, Ketema Bekele, Yohana Jumanne, Staline Kibet, Fernadis Makale, John Richard Mbwambo, Berhanu Megersa, Mahamood Mijay, Francis Moyo, Linus Munishi, Mickfanaka Mwihomeke, Winnie Nunda, Moses Nyangito, Arne Witt, Urs Schaffner

“…., the most economically efficient and effective way to remove trees and the most effective way to restore or rehabilitate the cleared land, are not developed for many species. …”
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Progress in phase field research of dead lithium in lithium batteries by Jing LIU, Huiyi CHEN, Huiyu LIU, Shu LI

“…Lithium dendrites are tree-like structures formed by uneven lithium deposition during the charging of lithium metal. …”
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Evaluation of current gene pool of Kholmogor and Black-and-white cattle breeds based on whole genome SNP analysis by A. V. Dotsev, A. A. Sermyagin, A. V. Shakhin, I. A.  Paronyan, K. V. Plemyashov, H. Reyer, K. Wimmers, G. Brem, N. A. Zinovieva

“…PLINK 1.07, Admixture 1.3, SplitsTree 4.14.6 and R package StAMPP were used to infer genetic relationship between the studied groups. …”
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The Regulatory Effect of Se-Cd Interaction on Tea Plants (<i>Camellia sinensis</i> (L.) O. Kuntze) Under Cadmium Stress by Yanyun Sun, Yueling Zhao, Hongyu Zhou, Faxing Li, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Du

“…The findings are as follows: (1) Cd stress notably elevated the electrical conductivity, MDA content, and proline content of tea plants, whereas the Cd + Se₁ treatment significantly reduced the MDA and proline content under Cd stress; (2) the Cd stress treatment significantly increased the content of peroxides in the tea tree leaves and significantly decreased the activities of four antioxidant enzymes, SOD, POD, CAT, and Apx; the Cd + Se treatment significantly reduced the peroxide content in tea trees under cadmium stress and significantly increased the activities of SOD, POD, CAT, and Apx; (3) the Cd stress treatment significantly increased the values of certain chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and had no significant impact on the distribution of light energy, whereas the Cd + Se treatment significantly elevated the values of some chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and induced an uneven distribution of light energy; (4) the order of accumulation of Cd in different organs of the tea plants was as follows: root > stem > leaf, and the Cd + Se treatment significantly reduced the Cd content in various organs under Cd stress. …”
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Predicting Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Low Back Pain Using Gene Signature-Based Machine Learning Models by Youzhi Lian, Yinyu Shi, Haibin Shang, Hongsheng Zhan

“…These key genes were then used to train 45 machine learning models by combining nine different algorithms: Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting Machine, Multilayer Perceptron, Naive Bayes, and Linear Discriminant Analysis. …”
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Genome-Wide Scans for Selection Signatures in Haimen Goats Reveal Candidate Genes Associated with Growth Traits by Zhen Zhang, Jiafeng Lu, Yifei Wang, Zhipeng Liu, Dongxu Li, Kaiping Deng, Guomin Zhang, Bingru Zhao, Peihua You, Yixuan Fan, Feng Wang, Ziyu Wang

“…The principal component analysis (PCA) and neighbor-joining (N-J) tree results demonstrated significant genetic differentiation between the Haimen and Boer goats. …”
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Gellan Gum Enhances the Quality of Egg-Based Yoghurt by Changing the Water Phase Distribution and Improving the Gel Texture by Yuanyuan Zhang, Jianwei Zang, Shutong Liu, Bingxu Yan, Daobang Tang, Jiguang Chen, Dongwen Li, Dayong Peng, Zebo Liu, Zhongping Yin

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The Exocyst Subunits EqSec5 and EqSec6 Promote Powdery Mildew Fungus Growth and Pathogenicity by Jinyao Yin, Xuehuan Zhu, Yalong Chen, Yanyang Lv, Jiaxin Shan, Yuhan Liu, Wenbo Liu, Weiguo Miao, Xiao Li

“…To verify the functions of the exocyst in powdery mildew fungus, we identified two exocyst subunits, EqSec5 and EqSec6, from <i>Erysiphe quercicola</i>, a powdery mildew fungus that infects the rubber tree <i>Hevea brasiliensis</i>. When GFP-fused EqSec5 and EqSec6 were introduced into <i>E. quercicola</i> and another phytopathogenic fungus, <i>Magnaporthe oryzae</i>, they primarily localized to the hyphal tip region. …”
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Clinical and imaging features of co-existent pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer: a population-based matching study in China by Fan Zhang, Fei Qi, Yi Han, Hongjie Yang, Yishuo Wang, Guirong Wang, Yujie Dong, Hongxia Li, Yuan Gao, Hongmei Zhang, Tongmei Zhang, Liang Li

“…Additionally, radiological features such as nodules (p = 0.007), tree-in-bud (p < 0.001), cavitation (p < 0.001), and calcification (p < 0.001) were significantly more prevalent in APTB-LC patients compared to the other groups. …”
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Differences in Characteristics of Peripartum Patients Who Did and Did Not Require an Upgrade to the Intensive Care Unit: A Propensity Score Matching Study by Jennifer A. Walker, Jerry M. Yang, Saad Pirzada, Manahel Zahid, Samantha Asuncion, Amanda Tuchler, Gillian Cooper, Allison Lankford, Emad Elsamadicy, Quincy K. Tran

“…The Classification And Regression Tree, a machine learning algorithm, was used to identify significant predictors of ICU upgrade. …”
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Relationship between stress hyperglycemia ratio and progression of non target coronary lesions: a retrospective cohort study by Shiqi Liu, Ziyang Wu, Gaoliang Yan, Yong Qiao, Yuhan Qin, Dong Wang, Chengchun Tang

“…Logistic regression models, restricted cubic spline analysis, and machine learning algorithms (LightGBM, decision tree, and XGBoost) were utilized to analyse the relationship of stress hyperglycemia ratio and non target lesion progression. …”
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Study on the multidrug resistance and transmission factors of Staphylococcus aureus at the ‘animal–environment–human’ interface in the broiler feeding cycle by Fangyuan Hu, Fangyuan Hu, Yaopeng Liu, Yaopeng Liu, Lin Wang, Juan Wang, Na Liu, Yan Li, Xiaoxiao Duan, Junwei Wang, Mingzhe Lu, Junhui Liu, Zhina Qu, Keguang Han

“…ST398 (79.13%) was the dominant strain in both stages, which was prevalent in 11 types of samples from 3 sources and clustered in the same sub-branch of the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) evolutionary tree. The loci difference between the strains ranged from 1 to 541, with SNPs of less than 10 between the human strains of stage 1 and the three sources in stage 2. …”
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The Climate-forming role of the production process of the forests of Ukraine by Platon Tretyak, Nelia Lukianchuk, Hryhoriy Krynytskyy

“…This can be achieved by increasing the presence of elite, large-sized, fast-growing trees, which will lead to an increase in the total basal area of tree trunks and the total standing volume of forest stands, as well as their annual increment.…”
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Forestry features of regionalization of forest reproductive material by Oleg Danchuk, Vasyl Blystiv, Zinovii Yurkiv, Vitaly Vovchanskyi

“…The theoretical basis for the development of methodological foundations for improving forest seed zoning in Ukraine is the natural intraspecific variability of tree species, which was formed in the process of evolution under the influence of mutations, recombinations and natural selection as a result of the adaptation of local populations to the conditions of their functioning. …”
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