Pei-Yuan Qian

TL;DR: The primers recommended in this report shall facilitate a comprehensive and reliable survey of bacterial diversity in metagenomic studies, and the three predominant phyla, Firmicutes, Gemmatimonadetes and Proteobacteria, are best covered by the predicted primers.

TL;DR: It is suggested that extreme vulnerability at the onset of luvenile life is a shared t r a ~ t hat is largely responsible for the surv~vorship trend Natural variation within this trend would be largely due to variation in intensity of mortality factors.

TL;DR: This mini-review describes important AF compounds discovered from a variety of organisms from 2004 until mid 2009, and discusses recent and general trends in the discovery of AF compounds.

TL;DR: This review provides a brief account of existing knowledge of marine biofilms that are relevant to settlement mediation, biotechnological application ofBiofilms with respect to developing non-toxic antifouling technologies and improving the operation of aquaculture facilities, and challenges and future directions for advancing the understanding of settlement-mediating functions of biofilm.

TL;DR: The results suggest that V4-V6 might be optimal sub-regions for the design of universal primers with superior phylogenetic resolution for bacterial phyla.