Sentence examples for microbial scale from inspiring English sources

Like the starship Enterprise, the rover will be looking for signs of life — but will be looking on a microbial scale.

Moreover, since many stress response mechanisms are broadly conserved, data obtained at the microbial scale may facilitate the comprehension of complex phenomena, such as aging, evolution of neurological diseases and cancer.

Scaling information from small-scale point measurements to larger areas and time periods is a great challenge in many areas of environmental science but is especially challenging for denitrification due to inherently high variability at the microbial scale of the process.

Fungal rots at the microbial scale have massive agricultural chemical companies chasing increasingly expensive and dangerous solutions that pit hubris, genetic engineering against evolution.

Environmental conditions on early Earth (reviewed in Westall, 2012) were similar to those of Mars on a microbial scale, but there were significant differences on a global scale.

Westall et al. (2006a, 2011a) studied a 5 cm section of these sediments in detail, analyzing each 2 6 mm thick layer on a microbial scale.

The pertinence of these few statistics is that colony size, frequency, and distribution are extremely variable within one and the same microbial-scale habitat.

With the application of slow release fertilizers, design of immobilization techniques and development of microbial consortia, scale-up studies and in situ applications have been possible.

Comparison of the fraction of correctly predicted lethal knockouts (i.e., specificities) of microbial genome-scale metabolic models against the yeast iMM904 model for single gene mutation experiments.

The platform provides customizable data exchange mechanisms using the SBML format, an integrated version control system, and it currently holds six microbial genome-scale metabolic models.

Rapid increases in sequencing capacity are greatly expanding our ability to understand the microbial world: scaling from a handful of samples to hundreds, or thousands, allows a rich picture of trends over temporal and spatial scales that were previously unattainable.