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VirClust-A Tool for Hierarchical Clustering, Core Protein Detection and Annotation of ( Prokaryotic ) Viruses by Moraru, Cristina

“…Recent years have seen major changes in the classification criteria and taxonomy of viruses. The current classification scheme, also called "megataxonomy of…”
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VIRIDIC-A Novel Tool to Calculate the Intergenomic Similarities of Prokaryote-Infecting Viruses by Moraru, Cristina, Varsani, Arvind, Kropinski, Andrew M

“…Nucleotide-based intergenomic similarities are useful to understand how viruses are related with each other and to classify them. Here we have developed…”
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Understanding the Factors Influencing Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles-Protein Corona Interaction and Drug Delivery Applications by Moraru, Cristina, Mincea, Manuela, Menghiu, Gheorghita, Ostafe, Vasile

“…Chitosan is a polymer that is extensively used to prepare nanoparticles (NPs) with tailored properties for applications in many fields of human activities…”
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Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee by Turner, Dann, Shkoporov, Andrey N., Lood, Cédric, Millard, Andrew D., Dutilh, Bas E., Alfenas-Zerbini, Poliane, van Zyl, Leonardo J., Aziz, Ramy K., Oksanen, Hanna M., Poranen, Minna M., Kropinski, Andrew M., Barylski, Jakub, Brister, J Rodney, Chanisvili, Nina, Edwards, Rob A., Enault, François, Gillis, Annika, Knezevic, Petar, Krupovic, Mart, Kurtböke, Ipek, Kushkina, Alla, Lavigne, Rob, Lehman, Susan, Lobocka, Malgorzata, Moraru, Cristina, Moreno Switt, Andrea, Morozova, Vera, Nakavuma, Jesca, Reyes Muñoz, Alejandro, Rūmnieks, Jānis, Sarkar, BL, Sullivan, Matthew B., Uchiyama, Jumpei, Wittmann, Johannes, Yigang, Tong, Adriaenssens, Evelien M.

“…This article summarises the activities of the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses for the period of March…”
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Editorial: Advances in viromics: new tools, challenges, and data towards characterizing human and environmental viromes by Džunková, Mária, Moraru, Cristina, Anantharaman, Karthik

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Aminoglycoside Antibiotics Inhibit Phage Infection by Blocking an Early Step of the Infection Cycle by Kever, Larissa, Hardy, Aël, Luthe, Tom, Hünnefeld, Max, Gätgens, Cornelia, Milke, Lars, Wiechert, Johanna, Wittmann, Johannes, Moraru, Cristina, Marienhagen, Jan, Frunzke, Julia

“…In response to viral predation, bacteria have evolved a wide range of defense mechanisms, which rely mostly on proteins acting at the cellular level. Here, we…”
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Developmental changes in the influence of conventional and instrumental cues on over-imitation in 3- to 6-year-old children by Moraru, Cristina-Andreea, Gomez, Juan-Carlos, McGuigan, Nicola

“…•The pre-demonstration instruction was presented instrumentally or conventionally.•The post-demonstration task instruction varied in the level of…”
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Lytic archaeal viruses infect abundant primary producers in Earth’s crust by Rahlff, Janina, Turzynski, Victoria, Esser, Sarah P., Monsees, Indra, Bornemann, Till L. V., Figueroa-Gonzalez, Perla Abigail, Schulz, Frederik, Woyke, Tanja, Klingl, Andreas, Moraru, Cristina, Probst, Alexander J.

“…The continental subsurface houses a major portion of life’s abundance and diversity, yet little is known about viruses infecting microbes that reside there…”
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Direct‐geneFISH: a simplified protocol for the simultaneous detection and quantification of genes and rRNA in microorganisms by Barrero‐Canosa, Jimena, Moraru, Cristina, Zeugner, Laura, Fuchs, Bernhard M., Amann, Rudolf

“…Summary Although fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with specific ribosomal RNA (rRNA)‐targeted oligonucleotides is a standard method to detect and…”
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Single-cell and population level viral infection dynamics revealed by phageFISH, a method to visualize intracellular and free viruses by Allers, Elke, Moraru, Cristina, Duhaime, Melissa B., Beneze, Erica, Solonenko, Natalie, Barrero-Canosa, Jimena, Amann, Rudolf, Sullivan, Matthew B.

“…Summary Microbes drive the biogeochemical cycles that fuel planet Earth, and their viruses (phages) alter microbial population structure, genome repertoire,…”
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Imaging Techniques for Detecting Prokaryotic Viruses in Environmental Samples by Turzynski, Victoria, Monsees, Indra, Moraru, Cristina, Probst, Alexander J

“…Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth with an estimate of 10 viral particles across all ecosystems. Prokaryotic viruses-bacteriophages and…”
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efam: an expanded, metaproteome-supported HMM profile database of viral protein families by Zayed, Ahmed A, Lücking, Dominik, Mohssen, Mohamed, Cronin, Dylan, Bolduc, Ben, Gregory, Ann C, Hargreaves, Katherine R, Piehowski, Paul D, White III, Richard A, Huang, Eric L, Adkins, Joshua N, Roux, Simon, Moraru, Cristina, Sullivan, Matthew B

“…Abstract Motivation Viruses infect, reprogram and kill microbes, leading to profound ecosystem consequences, from elemental cycling in oceans and soils to…”
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Roseobacter clade bacteria are abundant in coastal sediments and encode a novel combination of sulfur oxidation genes by Lenk, Sabine, Moraru, Cristina, Hahnke, Sarah, Arnds, Julia, Richter, Michael, Kube, Michael, Reinhardt, Richard, Brinkhoff, Thorsten, Harder, Jens, Amann, Rudolf, Mußmann, Marc

“…Roseobacter clade bacteria (RCB) are abundant in marine bacterioplankton worldwide and central to pelagic sulfur cycling. Very little is known about their…”
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Visualizing microbial interactions and CRISPR-Cas interference using FISH applied to environmental archaeal biofilms by Banas, Indra, Esser, Sarah P., Moraru, Cristina, Probst, Alexander J.

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Visualization of Viral Infection Dynamics in a Unicellular Eukaryote and Quantification of Viral Production Using Virus Fluorescence in situ Hybridization by Castillo, Yaiza M., Sebastián, Marta, Forn, Irene, Grimsley, Nigel, Yau, Sheree, Moraru, Cristina, Vaqué, Dolors

“…One of the major challenges in viral ecology is to assess the impact of viruses in controlling the abundance of specific hosts in the environment. To this end,…”
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A Meta-Analysis on Randomised Controlled Clinical Trials Evaluating the Effect of the Dietary Supplement Chitosan on Weight Loss, Lipid Parameters and Blood Pressure by Moraru, Cristina, Mincea, Manuela Maria, Frandes, Mirela, Timar, Bogdan, Ostafe, Vasile

“…Erratic results have been published concerning the influence of the dietary supplement chitosan used as a complementary remedy to decrease the body weight of…”
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Non-conventional expression of recombinant chitinase A originated from Bacillus licheniformis DSM8785, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae INVSc1 by Menghiu, Gheorghita, Prodanovic, Radivoje, Blazic, Marija, Mincea, Manuela, Moraru, Cristina, Ostafe, Vasile

“…Chitinases are glycosyl hydrolases, that cleave the ?-1,4 linkage between N-acetyl glucosamines present in chitin chains. Chitin is the second most abundant…”
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Virus-Host Dynamics in Archaeal Groundwater Biofilms and the Associated Bacterial Community Composition by Turzynski, Victoria, Griesdorn, Lea, Moraru, Cristina, Soares, André R, Simon, Sophie A, Stach, Tom L, Rahlff, Janina, Esser, Sarah P, Probst, Alexander J

“…Spatial and temporal distribution of lytic viruses in deep groundwater remains unexplored so far. Here, we tackle this gap of knowledge by studying viral…”
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Study Regarding the Dimensions of Personal Autonomy Among Students Aged 13-14 Years Old by Mihaela, Bogdan, Cristina Elena, Moraru

“…Personal autonomy is crucial in developing the personality of teenagers. The COVID-19 pandemic constrained adolescents' wishes and choices by imposing…”
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GeneFISH - an in situ technique for linking gene presence and cell identity in environmental microorganisms by Moraru, Cristina, Lam, Phyllis, Fuchs, Bernhard M., Kuypers, Marcel M. M., Amann, Rudolf

“…Summary Our knowledge concerning the metabolic potentials of as yet to be cultured microorganisms has increased tremendously with the advance of sequencing…”
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