scholarly journals Pseudomonas Phage PaBG—A Jumbo Member of an Old Parasite Family

Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Evseev ◽  
Nina Sykilinda ◽  
Anna Gorshkova ◽  
Lidia Kurochkina ◽  
Rustam Ziganshin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stability ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Lake Baikal ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Phage Therapy ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Limited Diffusion

Bacteriophage PaBG is a jumbo Myoviridae phage isolated from water of Lake Baikal. This phage has limited diffusion ability and thermal stability and infects a narrow range of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Therefore, it is hardly suitable for phage therapy applications. However, the analysis of the genome of PaBG presents a number of insights into the evolutionary history of this phage and jumbo phages in general. We suggest that PaBG represents an ancient group distantly related to all known classified families of phages.

scholarly journals Phage phiKZ—The First of Giants

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Victor Krylov ◽  
Maria Bourkaltseva ◽  
Elena Pleteneva ◽  
Olga Shaburova ◽  
Sergey Krylov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Phage Therapy ◽  
Phage Genome ◽  
Lytic Activity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dna Packing ◽  
Characteristic Manner

The paper covers the history of the discovery and description of phiKZ, the first known giant bacteriophage active on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It also describes its unique features, especially the characteristic manner of DNA packing in the head around a cylinder-shaped structure (“inner body”), which probably governs an ordered and tight packaging of the phage genome. Important properties of phiKZ-like phages include a wide range of lytic activity and the blue opalescence of their negative colonies, and provide a background for the search and discovery of new P. aeruginosa giant phages. The importance of the phiKZ species and of other giant phage species in practical phage therapy is noted given their broad use in commercial phage preparations.

The evolutionary history of two species of Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia)

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 171-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyubov S. Kravtsova ◽  
Tatiana E. Peretolchina ◽  
Tatiana I. Triboy ◽  
Dmitry Yu. Sherbakov
Keyword(s):  
Lake Baikal ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
History Of

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

State-by-State Use of AMA Guides

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-7, 16
Keyword(s):  
Expert Testimony ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
The United States ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Federal Employees ◽  
Permanent Disability ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Provinces

Abstract This article presents a history of the origins and development of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), from the publication of an article titled “A Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment of the Extremities and Back” (1958) until a compendium of thirteen guides was published in book form in 1971. The most recent, sixth edition, appeared in 2008. Over time, the AMA Guides has been widely used by US states for workers’ compensation and also by the Federal Employees Compensation Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, as well as by Canadian provinces and other jurisdictions around the world. In the United States, almost twenty states have developed some form of their own impairment rating system, but some have a narrow range and scope and advise evaluators to consult the AMA Guides for a final determination of permanent disability. An evaluator's impairment evaluation report should clearly document the rater's review of prior medical and treatment records, clinical evaluation, analysis of the findings, and a discussion of how the final impairment rating was calculated. The resulting report is the rating physician's expert testimony to help adjudicate the claim. A table shows the edition of the AMA Guides used in each state and the enabling statute/code, with comments.

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