Elizabeth Kimbrough

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Should a microbe that can grow in both 0ppt and 200ppt salinity be called extremely halotolerant or an extreme halophile?

I have isolated 4 bacterial and 2 fungal endophytes that are able to grow in media amended with 0ppt, 35ppt, and 200ppt salt. Should these be described as halophiles or just as exhibiting extreme...

10 October 2018 4,791 1 View

Bray-Curtis vs Unifrac: How might I interpret different results from using these matrices in the same type of analysis?

I conducted a Distance-based redundancy analysis (similar to RDA or PCoA) in the R package vegan (Oksanen et al. 2016) on both on both a Bray-Curtis and on a weighted, rooted, Unifrac matrix of...

09 September 2018 8,530 3 View

How do I calculate growth rate based on growth area measurements?

I plated endophytic fungi and bacteria on agar. At 3 time periods, I traced the outline of the growth area on the outside of the plate. I used ImageJ to calculate the area for each measurement. Is...

08 August 2018 7,540 11 View