Colonization

Now this has been puzzling me for sometime.The following is from the paper titled "Quorum-sensing system influences root colonization and biological control ability in Pseudomonas fluorescens 2P24" (Hai-Lei Wei,and Li-Qun Zhang).can anyone help me out with this? the trouble ...

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... The function of the capsule in virulence is not entirely clear. Although it does impede phagocytosis in the absence of complement, it also impedes colonization of damaged heart valves, perhaps by masking adhesins. http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/staph.html

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Plants didn't need to be on land to affect atmospheric oxygen - long before land colonization, there is evidence in the fossil record of a great rise in oxygen in the oceans, and since water doesn't hold oxygen very well, the atmosphere would have taken much of ...

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... why havent they developed longer thicker eyelashes to combat the sun? in relation to african noses, i think their lifestyle before european colonization was largely active and so more air coming into the lungs was needed. i think that in colder climates bigger noses were better to warm the ...

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... UV light. Fig. 1. Effectiveness of Vortex Water Machine. Vortex says that this last step is critical because of studies that have revealed the colonization of bacteria on and around granular carbon filters. Vortex says that one study found such filters discharging water with more bacteria than ...

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