Rhodothalassium ( Rts. ) salexigens is a halophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium and the sole species in the genus Rhodothalassium , which is itself the sole genus in the family Rhodothalassiaceae and sole family in the order Rhodothalassiales (class Alphaproteobacteria ). The genome of this phylogenetically unique phototroph comprises 3.35 Mb and is highly chimeric, with nearly half of its genes originating from families other...

Weeds are a significant threat to agricultural productivity and the environment. The increasing demand for sustainable weed control practices has driven innovative developments in alternative weed control technologies aimed at reducing the reliance on herbicides. The barrier to adoption of these technologies for selective in-crop use is availability of suitably effective weed recognition. With the great success of deep learnin...

Structural and functional changes in cortical and subcortical regions have been reported in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), however, a multimodal approach may provide deeper insights into the neural correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms. In this multicenter study, we measured cortical thickness (CTh) and subcortical volumes to identify structural abnormalities in 37 bvFTD patients, and 37 age- and sex-mat...

Summary The natural habitats and potential reservoirs of the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii are poorly defined. Here, we put forth and tested the hypothesis of avian reservoirs of A . baumannii . We screened tracheal and rectal swab samples from livestock (chicken, geese) and wild birds (white stork nestlings) and isolated A . baumannii from 3% of sampled chicken ( n = 220), 8% of geese ( n = 40) and 25% of white...