A new study reveals that the Ontong Java Plateau in the western Pacific Ocean, known as the largest Oceanic Plateau on Earth, may have been formed by a thermochemical plume.
06 12, 2026A research group from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the enzymatic mechanism for xanthone formation in actinomycetes .And a broad substrate binding cavity in the resolved crystal structure of FlsO1 explained the func...
09 16, 2022July 19 was the hottest day ever recorded in the United Kingdom , with temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius ( about 104 degrees Fahrenheit ) .The heatwave serves as an early preview of what climate forecasters theorized will be typical summer weather in the U . K . in.Th...
07 22, 2022Coral is a complicated holobiont , harboring an array of life forms at different scales , including coral cells , zooxanthellae , and associated bacteria , archaea , and viruses .Galaxea fascicularis ( also known as galaxy coral ) is a massive reef-building coral and is common...
07 01, 2022( DOI : 10.1021 / acs . joc . 0c02517 ) and Journal of Nature Products ( DOI : 10.1021 / acs . jnatprod . 1c00461 ) .Important natural products with antibacterial , antitumor and enzyme inhibition activities , a number of redox enzymes were found but their biosynthetic functio...
08 25, 2021From Singapore and Germany ? lifts the veil on seadragons ’ mysterious looks , and sheds light on a sex-determination locus shared by seadragons and alligator.In these studies , the researchers knocked out a P/Q - rich SCPP gene , scpp5 , in zebrafish .Analysis has shown tha...
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