The study of islands as model systems has played an important role in the development of
evolutionary and ecological theory. The 50th anniversary of MacArthur and Wilson's (…

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has been recognized as the greatest
single unmet need in cardiovascular medicine. Indeed, the morbi-mortality of HFpEF is high …

Over the past few decades, the interest in lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been steadily growing.
This is mainly due to their industrial use, their health benefits as probiotic bacteria and …

Aims The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island
Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review and …

Bacteriophage transfer (lysogenic conversion) promotes bacterial virulence evolution. There
is limited understanding of the factors that determine lysogenic conversion dynamics within …

In this paper, we propose a multiscale strategy for crack propagation which enables one to
use a refined mesh only in the crack’s vicinity where it is required. Two techniques are used …

Background Viral metagenomic studies have suggested a role for bacteriophages in
intestinal dysbiosis associated with several human diseases. However, interpretation of viral …

Main conclusion The derivation of two sensitive monoclonal antibodies directed to heteroxylan
cell wall polysaccharide preparations has allowed the identification of potential inter-…

A major question in plant biology concerns the specification and functional differentiation of
cell types. This is in the context of constraints imposed by networks of cell walls that both …

Many species distribution models (SDMs) are built with precise but geographically restricted
presence–absence data sets (eg, a country) where only a subset of the environmental …