HeMiBio Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the project we made the following advances beyond the state of the art:
1. CELLS: We characterized for the first ...
Tarwe (Triticum aestivum L.) is één van de belangrijkste graansoorten die gebruikt wordt als bron van energie in vleeskuikenvoeders in Europa. De dieetvezelfractie van deze voeders bestaat echter uit niet-zetmeelhoudende koolhydraten, voornamelijk arabinoxylanen (AX), die gekend zijn voor het opwekken van antinutritionele effecten in het maag-darmstelsel van vleeskuikens. Om deze antinutritionele effecten te voorkomen, worden ...
Metazoans are ubiquitously associated with microbial symbionts, which can provide direct benefits to their hosts, such as nutrients provisioning, protection against environmental stress, or enhancement of host digestive abilities. These microbial mutualists have the ability to adapt rapidly to changing environments, and could potentially play a key role in the local adaptation of their host, especially in the context of rapid environmental ...
Modern metagenomics has opened our eyes to the immense bacterial diversity that exists both among and within us. Despite this diversity, all bacteria share the basic challenge of organizing the various processes that ensure their faithful replication. All bacterial cells need to metabolize nutrients, generate building blocks, maintain their shape and size, replicate and segregate their chromosomes, synthesize cell walls and membranes, and ...