Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Bacteria detect neutrophils via a system that responds to hypochlorous acid and flow

   Ilona P Foik, Summer J Kasallis ... Albert Siryaporn
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Ecology

   Central carbon metabolism switching in lytic versus temperate coral reef viral communities

   Jacob Kelman, Meena Khan ... Ben Knowles
3. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Virus-specific impacts on honey bee flight performance are mediated by the octopamine pathway

   Naomi G Kaku, Michelle L Flenniken

   Differential virus-specific impacts on honey bee flight performance involve octopamine signaling, and chemical stressors affecting this pathway may impact colony health.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   High-dimensional Characterization of Genome–Environment Fitness Landscapes in Klebsiella pneumoniae

   Ge Zhou, Georgia Williams ... Danesh Moradigaravand
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A novel mechanism for morphological change during bacterial sporulation based on programmed peptidoglycan degradation

   Carlos A Ramirez Carbo, Oihane Irazoki ... Beiyan Nan

   The rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus forms spherical spores by degrading its peptidoglycan cell wall using two mutually regulating enzymes.
6. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Transition of Staphylococcus aureus tetracycline resistance plasmid pT181 from independent multicopy replicon to predominantly integrated chromosomal element over 65 years

   Megan A Phillips, Robert A Petit ... Timothy D Read
7. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A novel high-throughput single-cell DNA sequencing method reveals hidden genomic heterogeneity in the unicellular eukaryote Leishmania

   Gabriel H Negreira, Pieter Monsieurs ... Malgorzata A Domagalska
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Tracking West Nile virus dynamics using viral loads from trapped mosquitoes

   Punya Alahakoon, Ian Marchinton ... James A Hay

   Mosquito-pool Ct values reflect biologically meaningful variation in viral load, while integrating viral kinetics improves prevalence estimates and helps distinguish potentially infectious from non-infectious mosquitoes.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses protective Th17 responses during infection

   Alex Zilinskas, Amir Balakhmet ... Sarah A Stanley

   Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses its type VII secretion system and surface lipid phthiocerol dimycocerosate to suppress protective host Th17 cell responses.
10. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bird Flu: The cow udder as an influenza mixing ground

    Silke Rimaux, Robert P de Vries

    Bovine mammary tissue can support infection and replication of diverse influenza A viruses and may provide an environment in which different viral strains can co-infect cells.