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Nature ; 553(7686): 51-54, 2018 01 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29211721

RESUMEN

According to the current understanding of cosmic structure formation, the precursors of the most massive structures in the Universe began to form shortly after the Big Bang, in regions corresponding to the largest fluctuations in the cosmic density field. Observing these structures during their period of active growth and assembly-the first few hundred million years of the Universe-is challenging because it requires surveys that are sensitive enough to detect the distant galaxies that act as signposts for these structures and wide enough to capture the rarest objects. As a result, very few such objects have been detected so far. Here we report observations of a far-infrared-luminous object at redshift 6.900 (less than 800 million years after the Big Bang) that was discovered in a wide-field survey. High-resolution imaging shows it to be a pair of extremely massive star-forming galaxies. The larger is forming stars at a rate of 2,900 solar masses per year, contains 270 billion solar masses of gas and 2.5 billion solar masses of dust, and is more massive than any other known object at a redshift of more than 6. Its rapid star formation is probably triggered by its companion galaxy at a projected separation of 8 kiloparsecs. This merging companion hosts 35 billion solar masses of stars and has a star-formation rate of 540 solar masses per year, but has an order of magnitude less gas and dust than its neighbour and physical conditions akin to those observed in lower-metallicity galaxies in the nearby Universe. These objects suggest the presence of a dark-matter halo with a mass of more than 100 billion solar masses, making it among the rarest dark-matter haloes that should exist in the Universe at this epoch.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 121(18): 188001, 2018 Nov 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30444412

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Spontaneous self-organization (clustering) in magnetically oriented bacteria arises from attractive pairwise hydrodynamics, which are directly determined through experiment and corroborated by a simple analytical model. Lossless compression algorithms are used to identify the onset of many-body self-organization as a function of experimental tuning parameters. Cluster growth is governed by the interplay between hydrodynamic attraction and magnetic dipole repulsion, leading to logarithmic time dependence of the cluster size. The dynamics of these complex, far-from-equilibrium structures are relevant to broader phenomena in condensed matter, statistical mechanics, and biology.


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Bacterias/citología , Hidrodinámica , Modelos Biológicos , Movimiento , Suspensiones
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Science ; 292(5520): 1360-3, 2001 May 18.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11359008

RESUMEN

Force microscopy has been used to quantitatively measure the infinitesimal forces that characterize interactions between Shewanella oneidensis (a dissimilatory metal-reducing bacterium) and goethite (alpha-FeOOH), both commonly found in Earth near-surface environments. Force measurements with subnanonewton resolution were made in real time with living cells under aerobic and anaerobic solutions as a function of the distance, in nanometers, between a cell and the mineral surface. Energy values [in attojoules (10(-18) joules)] derived from these measurements show that the affinity between S. oneidensis and goethite rapidly increases by two to five times under anaerobic conditions in which electron transfer from bacterium to mineral is expected. Specific signatures in the force curves suggest that a 150-kilodalton putative iron reductase is mobilized within the outer membrane of S. oneidensis and specifically interacts with the goethite surface to facilitate the electron transfer process.


Asunto(s)
Adhesión Bacteriana , FMN Reductasa , Sedimentos Geológicos/microbiología , Compuestos de Hierro/metabolismo , Microscopía de Fuerza Atómica , Shewanella/metabolismo , Aerobiosis , Anaerobiosis , Transporte de Electrón , Sedimentos Geológicos/química , Compuestos de Hierro/química , Minerales , NADH NADPH Oxidorreductasas/metabolismo , Shewanella/enzimología , Factores de Tiempo
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Phys Rev E ; 95(6-1): 062612, 2017 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28709362

RESUMEN

Magnetotactic bacteria are a group of motile prokaryotes that synthesize chains of lipid-bound, magnetic nanoparticles called magnetosomes. This study exploits their innate magnetism to investigate previously unexplored facets of bacterial hydrodynamics at surfaces. Through use of weak, uniform, external magnetic fields and local, micromagnetic surface patterns, the relative strength of hydrodynamic, magnetic, and flagellar force components is tuned through magnetic control of the bacteria's orientation. The resulting swimming behaviors provide a means to experimentally determine hydrodynamic parameters and offer a high degree of control over large numbers of living microscopic entities. The implications of this controlled motion for studies of bacterial motility near surfaces and for micro- and nanotechnology are discussed.


Asunto(s)
Hidrodinámica , Campos Magnéticos , Magnetospirillum/fisiología , Modelos Biológicos , Movimiento , Torque
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Geobiology ; 6(3): 242-4, 2008 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18430155

RESUMEN

Terrance J. Beveridge (TJB) was a professor at the University of Guelph for nearly three decades. He died on September 10, 2007. TJB was a pioneer who pushed the frontier of microbiology and bacteriology. His legacy includes 22 postdoctoral scholars and 24 graduate students. His two dozen graduate student progeny have, in turn, mentored at least 52 additional graduate students. This paper presents TJB's pedagogical tree and touches on many of the topics that he studied during his life including: bacteria cell surfaces, biomineralization, biofilms, and geomicrobiology.


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Mentores/historia , Microbiología/educación , Microbiología/historia , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI
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