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DATA: Diversity of extracellular vesicles derived from calli, cell culture and apoplastic fluid of tobacco
<p><span>The data includes .jpg files with fluorescence readings and .csv files with results of concentration and size measurements.</span></p>
Data for: A path forward: creating an academic culture of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
<p>Institutions of higher education (IHE) throughout the United States have a long history of acting out various levels of commitment to diversity advancement, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Despite decades of DEI "<em>efforts</em>," the academy is fraught with legacies of racism that uphold white supremacy and prevent marginalized populations from full participation. Furthermore, politicians have not only weaponized education but passed legislation to actively ban DEI programs and censor general education curricula (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/antiDEI">https://tinyurl.com/antiDEI</a>). Ironically, systems of oppression are particularly apparent in the fields of Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (EECB)–which recognize biological diversity as essential for ecological integrity and resilience. Yet, amongst EECB faculty, people who do not identify as cis-heterosexual, non-disabled, affluent white males are poorly represented. Furthermore, IHE lack metrics to quantify DEI as a priority. Here we show that only 30.3% of US-faculty positions advertised in EECB from Jan 2019-May 2020 required a diversity statement; diversity statement requirements did not correspond with state-level diversity metrics. Though many announcements "encourage women and minorities to apply," empirical evidence demonstrates that hiring committees at most institutions did not prioritize an applicant's DEI advancement potential. We suggest a model for change and call on administrators and faculty to implement SMART (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely) strategies for DEI advancement across IHE throughout the United States. We anticipate our quantification of diversity statement requirements relative to other application materials will motivate institutional change in both policy and practice when evaluating a candidate's potential "fit". IHE must embrace a leadership role to not only shift the academic culture to one that upholds DEI, but to educate and include people who represent the full diversity of our society. In the current context of political censure of education including book banning and backlash aimed at Critical Race Theory, which further reinforce systemic white supremacy, academic integrity and justice are more critical than ever. </p>
Genome of the isolates: Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities
<p>The draft genome of the isolates in Mouse Intestinal Bacteria Collection (miBC)</p> <p> </p> <p>Microbiome research is hampered by the fact that many bacteria are still unknown and by the lack of publicly available isolates. Fundamental and clinical research is in need of comprehensive and well-curated repositories of cultured bacteria from the intestine of mammalian hosts. Due to host-specific features of the gut microbiota, it is sound to establish collections of isolates from single host species. Hence, this project established a collection of bacterial strains isolated from the intestine of mice.</p> <p>The original version of the collection published in 2016 (Lagkouvardos, et. al. 2016.<em> Nat. Microbiol.</em>). was doubled by the addition of 112 strains, representing a total of 141 species across 6 phyla and 35 families for the entire collection. As we aimed to create a well-curated resource, all bacterial species within miBC have been taxonomically described and are publicly available.</p> <p> </p>
FIG. 3 in The Bacterial Diversity Lurking in Protist Cell Cultures
FIG. 3. Relative abundance of each bacterial scaffold in Illumina sequencing libraries, represented as proportion of length normalized read pairs for the portion of each sequencing library mapping to the bacterial scaffolds. The two Alcanivorax sp. DSM 26293 scaffolds are marked with asterisks (*).
Data for: A path forward: creating an academic culture of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
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Code and Data for Manuscript "How raw milk-based adjunct cultures influence the microbial diversity in cheese"
<p>This repository contains the data and code used in the study "How raw milk-based adjunct cultures influence the microbial diversity in cheese" by Dreier et al. (2024). The study investigates the impact of raw milk-based adjunct cultures (NMAC) on the microbial diversity of cheese. The data includes 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequences from cheese samples, as well as metadata and code used for data analysis.</p>
Reviving diversity: cryoprotectants and culturing methods enhance recovery of mammalian gut microbes from field samples
<p>Welcome!</p> <p>Here you will find the codes used in the analysis we ran for our manuscript titled "Reviving diversity: cryoprotectants and culturing methods enhance recovery of mammalian gut microbes from field samples". We would be happy to help in way we can, so please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or suggestions.</p> <p>In summary, we developed this study in response to challenges encountered in our own field research. Recent advancements in culturomics and microbiology are enabling us to further explore the realm of microbiome science. We aspire for this study to serve as a foundational step toward identifying preservation methods that can help protect the microbial communities of wild animals.</p> <p>Our study aims are:</p> <ol> <li>The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of various preservation solutions in maintaining microbial integrity of gut samples during collection and for a short duration, simulating transportation conditions, prior to long-term storage at -80°C. We cultivated the samples in three distinct culture media to maximize the recovery of microbial diversity.</li> <li>The second objective was to compare the inventory of the preserved and cultured microbial community to that of the original uncultured samples, aiming to determine whether the preservation solutions retained unique taxa absent in the frozen original samples.</li> </ol> <p>Notes to keep in mind:</p> <ol> <li>We chose preservation solutions that have already been described for microbial culturing.</li> <li>We chose culture media that have already been described for microbial culturing, especially gut microbiome samples.</li> </ol> <p><em>As you go through the Rmd document included here, please make sure all documents have been properly downloaded. Additionally, please make sure to change the names of the alpha diversity metric files in the Rmd to that of the files here as they were modified for proper uploading methods here. </em></p>
Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment
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Data from: Loss of cultural song diversity and the convergence of songs in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community
The effects of population decline on culturally transmitted behaviors in animals has rarely been described, but may have major implications to population viability. Learned vocal signals in birds are of critical importance to behaviors associated with reproduction, intrasexual interactions, and group cohesion, and the complexity of vocal signals such as song can serve as an honest signal of an individual's quality as well as the viability of a population. In this study, we examined how rapid population declines recently experienced by Hawaiian honeycreepers on the island of Kaua'i (USA) may have influenced the diversity, complexity, and similarity of learned honeycreeper songs. We analyzed the acoustic characteristics of songs recorded during 3 time periods over a 40-year time frame for three species of declining Kaua'i honeycreepers. We detected a loss of song complexity and diversity over the 40-year time period that paralleled dramatic population declines. Concurrent with the loss of complexity we also found that the acoustic characteristics of the three honeycreepers' songs became more similar to another. To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of convergence of acoustic characteristics among rapidly declining species. The reduction of song complexity and diversity and convergence of songs not only signals a loss of culturally transmitted behaviors in these endemic Hawaiian honeycreepers, but also potential challenges to recovery of these rapidly declining species. Moreover, the present study highlights that there is a "hidden" cost to declining populations beyond just the loss of individuals that is not often considered, the loss of culturally transmitted social behaviors.
Institutions and Cultural Diversity: Effects of Democratic and Propaganda Processes on Local Convergence and Global Diversity.
<p>In a connected world where people influence each other, what can cause a globalized monoculture, and which measures help to preserve the coexistence of cultures? Previous research has shown that factors such as homophily, population size, geography, mass media, and type of social influence play important roles. In the present paper, we investigate for the first time the impact that institutions have on cultural diversity. In our first three studies, we extend existing agent-based models and explore the effects of institutional influence and agent loyalty. We find that higher institutional influence increases cultural diversity, while individuals' loyalty to their institutions has a small, preserving effect. In three further studies, we test how bottom-up and top-down processes of institutional influence impact our model. We find that bottom-up democratic practices, such as referenda, tend to produce convergence towards homogeneity, while top-down information dissemination practices, such as propaganda, further increase diversity. In our last model – an integration of bottom-up and top-down processes into a feedback loop of information – we found that when democratic processes are rare, the effects of propaganda are amplified, i.e. more diversity emerges; however, when democratic processes are common, they are able to neutralize or even reverse this propaganda effect. Importantly, our models allow for control over the full spectrum of diversity, so that a manipulation of our variables can result in preferred levels of diversity, which will be useful for the study of other factors in the future. We discuss possible mechanisms behind our results, possible applications, and implications for political and social sciences.</p>
Supplementary material 3 from: Osawa T, Ueno Y, Nishida T, Nishihiro J (2020) Do both habitat and species diversity provide cultural ecosystem services? A trial using geo-tagged photos. Nature Conservation 38: 61-77. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.38.36166
: Explanation note: Table S1. All plants and main habitats in the study area. Table S2. All birds and main habitats in the study area. Table S3. All butterflies and main habitats in the study area. Table S4. All dragonflies and main habitats in the study area. Table S5. List of threatened plants in the study area. Table S6. Picture objects list which took in area with threatened species from spring to autumn.
Cultural diversity self-assessment model - Questionnaire dataset
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Fig. 6 in Sesquiterpenes with diverse skeletons from histone deacetylase inhibitor modified cultures of the basidiomycete Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni HFG134
Fig. 6. (A) The four possible stereoisomers of 9. (B), (C) The comparisons of the experimental CD and calculated ECD of 9.
Assessment of Cultural Acceptability of Long Acting Contraception in a Diverse, Urban Population
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03486743. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 15.
Data from: Characterization of unexplored deadwood mycobiome in highly diverse subtropical forests using culture-independent molecular technique
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Mapping the diversity of cetacean and primate cultural heritage
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Data from: Loss of cultural song diversity and the convergence of songs in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community
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Figure 6 from: Li J-L, Sun X, Zheng Y, Lü P-P, Wang Y-L, Guo L-D (2020) Diversity and community of culturable endophytic fungi from stems and roots of desert halophytes in northwest China. MycoKeys 62: 75-95. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.62.38923
Figure 6 Preferences observed in the plant-fungus associations. A Preference scores. The standardized d' estimate of preferences for fungal taxon is shown for each halophyte (column), and the standardized d' estimate of preferences for plant species is indicated for each of the fungal taxon (row). Each cell in the matrix indicates a two-dimensional preference (2DP) estimate, which measures to what extent the association of a focal plant-fungus pair was observed more/less frequently than expected by chance. P values were shown as false discovery rates (FDRs) in the plant/fungus analysis. B Relationship between 2DP and FDR-adjusted P values, 2DP values larger than 2.5 and those smaller than -2.5 represented strong preference and avoidance, respectively (PFDR < 0.05). Significance: *, P < 0.05, **, P < 0.01, ***, P < 0.001.
Figure 5 from: Li J-L, Sun X, Zheng Y, Lü P-P, Wang Y-L, Guo L-D (2020) Diversity and community of culturable endophytic fungi from stems and roots of desert halophytes in northwest China. MycoKeys 62: 75-95. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.62.38923
Figure 5 Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) ordination plot of endophytic fungal communities of stem and root tissues (A) and halophyte species (B). Dotted ellipses indicate 95% confidence intervals around centroids of tissue type (A) and plant species (B), B. dasyphylla = Bassia dasyphylla, C. arenarius = Ceratocarpus arenarius, K. foliatum = Kalidium foliatum, Sa. nitraria = Salsola nitraria, Su. acuminata = Suaeda acuminata, Su. salsa = Suaeda salsa, E. minor = Eragrostis minor, R. songarica = Reaumuria songarica, Se. santolinum = Seriphidium santolinum, and P. harmala = Peganum harmala.
Figure 3 from: Li J-L, Sun X, Zheng Y, Lü P-P, Wang Y-L, Guo L-D (2020) Diversity and community of culturable endophytic fungi from stems and roots of desert halophytes in northwest China. MycoKeys 62: 75-95. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.62.38923
Figure 3 Relative abundance of endophytic fungi in the stem and root tissues of the ten halophyte species.
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