Background Cachexia accounts for about 20% of all cancer-related deaths and it is indicative of poor prognosis and progressive functional impairment. The role of the gut microbiome in the development of cachexia in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients has not been established. Methods Pre-surgical stool samples from n = 103 stage I–III CRC patients in the ColoCare Study were analyzed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing (Illumina) to ch...

Understanding the relationship between fire activity and climate variability is a major concern for the scientific community and is essential for reducing economic losses and life-threatening fire hazards. However, the drivers of fire activity and the influence of climate variability remain uncertain. Here, we show that the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)—a dominant tropical subseasonal variability—influences fire activity by...

The evolutionary concurrence of intraspecies self‐incompatibility ( SI ) and explosive angiosperm radiation in the Cretaceous have led to the hypothesis that SI was one of the predominant drivers of rapid speciation in angiosperms. Interspecies unilateral incompatibility ( UI ) usually occurs when pollen from a self‐compatible ( SC ) species is rejected by the pistils of a SI species, while the reciprocal pollination is compat...