Project description:Comparison between the multi-drug resistance Salmonella enteric serotype Newport strains from the US and the pan-susceptible strains from the UK
Project description:We carried out genome wide transcriptome analyses in different organs and developmental stages of the olive tree using the NimbleGen Array oligonucleotide probe sets. Cluster analyses of the genes showed that samples collected from different organs could be sorted into separate groups. The nutritional control had a particularly remarkable impact on the alternate bearing for O. europaea, as shown by the differential expressions of transcripts under different developmental phases and organs Six sample sets were prepared for array analyses: i) unripe fruit (UF); ii) ripe fruit (RF); iii) “on-year” mature leaf (November sample, ON-M); iv) “on-year” juvenile leaf (July sample, ON-J); v) “off-year” mature leaf (November samples, OFF-M); and vi) “off-year” juvenile leaf (July sample, OFF-J).
Project description:Buds were collected at equivalent branch positions and always at the same time of the day. Samples corresponding to May (MAY), June (JUN), July (JUL), September (SEP), November (NOV), January (JAN), March (MAR) and April (APR) buds were analyzed. ****[PLEXdb(http://www.plexdb.org) has submitted this series at GEO on behalf of the original contributor, Jose Diaz-Riquelme. The equivalent experiment is VV36 at PLEXdb.]
Project description:Silver nanoparticles (NPs) are extensively used due to their antimicrobial activity and, therefore, their input into the ecosystem will increase. Silver can be bioaccumulated by low trophic level organisms and, then, incorporated into the food chain, reaching high level predators. The objectives of this study were to test the acute toxicity of N-vynil-2-pirrolidone/polyethylenimine (PVP-PEI) coated Ag NPs of 5 nm to brine shrimp (Artemia sp) larvae and to assess bioaccumulation and effects of silver transferred by the diet. For the later, brine shrimps were exposed to two different concentrations of Ag NPs, 100 ng/L as an environmentally relevant concentration and 100 µg/L as a likely effective concentration, in parallel with an unexposed control group and, then, used to feed zebrafish during 21 days in order to simulate two trophic levels of a simplified food web. For brine shrimp larvae, EC50 values ranged from 7.39 mg Ag/L (48 h post hatch larvae (hph) exposed for 48 h) to 19.63 mg Ag/L (24 hph larvae exposed for 24 h. Silver accumulation was measured in brine shrimps exposed to 0.1 and 1 mg/L of Ag NPs for 24 h. In zebrafish fed with brine shrimps exposed to Ag NPs, intestine showed higher metal accumulation than liver, although both organs presented the same pattern of dose and time-dependent metal accumulation as revealed by autometallography. Feeding of zebrafish for 3 days with brine shrimps exposed to 100 ng/L of Ag NPs was enough to impair fish health as reflected by the significant reduction of the lysosomal membrane stability and the presence of several histopathological conditions in the liver. Overall, results showed that Ag NPs were able to exert toxic effects on zebrafish through dietary exposure, even at an environmentally relevant concentration, which should act as concern of the need of studies in further detail about real impact of nanomaterials in the environment.