Shaun Heaphy

TL;DR: The roles of phages in different host systems are described and how modeling, microscopy, isolation, genomic and metagenomic based approaches have come together recently to provide unparalleled insights into these small but vital constituents of the microbial world are shown.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of the sequenced amplicons indicated that sequences were related to the haloarchaeal, Bacillus/Clostridium, Rhodobacterium/Thioalcalovibrio/ Methylobacter, and Cytophaga/Flavob bacteria/Bacteroides groups and the enterobacteria/Aeromonas/Vibrio part of the γ3 subdivision of the Proteobacteria.

TL;DR: A genomic DNA library was made from the alkaliphilic cellulase-producing Bacillus agaradhaerans in order to prove the technologies for gene isolation prior to using them with samples of DNA isolated directly from environmental samples.

TL;DR: The results suggest that sequences involved in forming a guanine tetrad are not important for HIV-1 RNA dimerisation, and sequences involved of forming a kissing loop complex are not absolutely required, but are important in formulating a stable HIV- 1 RNA dimers.

TL;DR: C cultivation-independent methods were used to investigate the prokaryotic biogeography of the water column in six salt lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a salt lake in Argentina to discover which factors significantly influenced biotic similarity.