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  1. Jun 2025
    1. We find that venom composition and arsenal of toxin-producing cells change dramatically between developmental stages of this species.

      Interesting that venom changes as the animal grows.

    1. holometabolous,

      Other insects that are considered holometabolous include some common ones such as: house flies, mosquitoes, gnats, monarch butterflies and some moths. Both the larvae and adults occupy the decaying source at different time frames which allows the interactions between the microbes.

    2. D. melanogaster do not live alone. Their decaying host resources are also home to many microbes, as well as to other arthropods, including other Drosophila species, all of which they interact with (see Video 1, 2). Some microbes in the decaying material themselves provide food for D. melanogaster, being selectively consumed by larvae or adults

      The microbes not only live in this environment, but also serve as a food source for the flies. This explains how the D. melanogaster depend on other organisms in their habitat.

    1. taking fully advantage of our algorithm might involve coordination between multiple colleagues in a lab who are constructing plasmids with different expected sequences.

      This is something a local core like GCEC can help with

    2. it could be further reduced by executing time-consuming dynamic programming only for some query-reference pairs that necessitate high levels of accuracy and by introducing parallel computing

      Nice, Any other ideas to reduce RAM use?

    3. theoretical minimum number of reads that is required for the reliable consensus calculation is 30 reads per plasmid

      Does this depend on the plasmid length and the preperation kit before sequencing that determines fragmentation?