† Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States ‡ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland ...

Plants are open systems that constantly acquire water and nutrients from the soil and interact with the vast biological diversity of the surroundings (Médiène et al., 2011). This diversity encompasses ...

Cattle nutrition changes fundamentally from birth to adulthood. Cattle are typical foregut fermenters undergoing considerable changes in anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal tract during the ...

Ecological and evolutionary investigations require accurate and high-resolution biodiversity information. Conventional morphological approaches to identifying species in species-rich tropical ...

Boreal forest soils function as a terrestrial net sink in the global carbon cycle. The prevailing dogma has focused on aboveground plant litter as a principal source of soil organic matter. Using ...

The treatment of obesity is challenging. Bariatric surgery is currently the only available treatment for morbid obesity that consistently achieves and sustains substantial weight loss (8). Various ...

The assessment of species distribution is a first critical phase of biodiversity studies and is necessary to many disciplines such as biogeography, conservation biology and ecology. However, several ...

We constructed error-correcting DNA barcodes that allow one run of a massively parallel pyrosequencer to process up to 1,544 samples simultaneously. Using these barcodes we processed bacterial 16S ...