Trent Rector

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that phage have evolved to use upregulated host genes, leading to their stable incorporation into phage genomes and their subsequent transfer back to hosts in genome islands, and activation of host genes during infection may be directing the co-evolution of gene content in both host and phages genomes.

TL;DR: The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus MED4 has the smallest genome and cell size of all known photosynthetic organisms, and its transitions between photosynthesis during the day and catabolic consumption of energy reserves at night appear to be tightly choreographed at the level of RNA expression.

TL;DR: Using probe sequences matched at the exon level improved consistency of measurements across the different microarray platforms compared to annotation-based matches, and generally, consistency was good for highly expressed genes, and variable for genes with lower expression values as confirmed by quantitative real-time (QRT)-PCR.

TL;DR: There were interstrain similarities in N regulation such as the activation of a putative NtcA regulon during N stress and important differences between the strains such as in the expression patterns of carbon metabolism genes, suggesting that the two strains integrate N and C metabolism in fundamentally different ways.

TL;DR: It is shown that the signal transduction pathways initiated by FGF-23–Klotho prevent tissue atrophy by stimulating proliferation and preventing apoptosis caused by excessive systemic vitamin D.