Litter inputs, but not litter diversity, maintain soil processes in degraded tropical forests—a cross-continental comparison by Kerdraon, Deirdre, Drewer, Julia, Chung, Arthur Y. C., Majalap, Noreen, Slade, Eleanor M., Bréchet, Laëtitia, Wallwork, Abby, Castro-Trujillo, Biancolini, Sayer, Emma J.

“…In each habitat, we installed mesocosms and litterbags with litter collected from old-growth forest, secondary forest or an introduced species: Elaeis guineensis in Borneo and Saccharum spontaneum in Panama. …”
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Engineered lysins with customized lytic activities against enterococci and staphylococci by Hana Sakina Muhammad Jai, Dam, Linh Chi, Tay, Lowella Servito, Koh, Jodi Jia Wei, Loo, Hooi Linn, Kline, Kimberly A., Goh, Boon Chong

“…While there are many studies that extended the lytic spectrum of a lysin by domain swapping, few have managed to introduce species specificity in a chimeric lysin. In this work, we constructed two chimeric lysins by swapping the CBDs of two parent lysins with different lytic spectra against enterococci and staphylococci. …”
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