Browsing Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute) by UP Author "Cowan, Don A."

Browsing Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute) by UP Author "Cowan, Don A."

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  • Meeting report : 1st International Functional Metagenomics Workshop May 7–8, 2012, St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada 
    Engel, Katja; Ashby, Deborah; Brady, Sean F.; Cowan, Don A.; Doemer, John; Edwards, Elizabeth A.; Fiebig, Klaus; Martens, Eric C.; McCormac, Dennis; Mead, David A.; Miyazaki, Kentaro; Moreno-Hagelsieb, Gabriel; O'gara, Fergal; Reid, Alexandra; Rose, David R.; Simonet, Pascal; Sjoling, Sara; Smalla, Kornelia; Streit, Wolfgang R.; Tedman-Jones, Jennifer; Valla, Svein; Wellington, Elizabeth; Wu, Cheng-Cang; Liles, Mark R.; Neufeld, Josh D.; Sessitsch, Angela; Charles, Trevor C. (2013)
    This report summarizes the events of the 1st International Functional Metagenomics Work-shop. The workshop was held on May 7 and 8, 2012, in St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada and was focused on building an international functional ...
  • Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century middle iron age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome 
    Rifkin, Riaan F.; Vikram, Surendra; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Rey-Iglesia, Alba; Brand, Tina B.; Porraz, Guillaume; Val, Aurore; Hall, Grant; Woodborne, Stephan M.; Le Bailly, Matthieu; Potgieter, Marnie; Underdown, Simon J.; Koopman, Jessica E.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Willerslev, Eske; Hansen, Anders J. (BioMed Central, 2020-05-06)
    BACKGROUND : The archaeological incidence of ancient human faecal material provides a rare opportunity to explore the taxonomic composition and metabolic capacity of the ancestral human intestinal microbiome (IM). Here, ...
  • Namib Desert primary productivity is driven by cryptic microbial community N-fixation 
    Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Woodborne, Stephan M.; Hall, Grant; Seely, Mary; Cowan, Don A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-05-02)
    Carbon exchange in drylands is typically low, but during significant rainfall events (wet anomalies) drylands act as a C sink. During these anomalies the limitation on C uptake switches from water to nitrogen. In the ...
  • South African research in the Southern Ocean : new opportunities but serious challenges 
    Treasure, Anne M.; Moloney, Coleen L.; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; McQuaid, Christopher D.; Findlay, Kenneth Pierce; Best, Peter B.; Cowan, Don A.; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Dorrington, Rosemary A.; Fagereng, Ake; Froneman, P. William; Grantham, Geoff H.; Hunt, Brian P. V.; Meiklejohn, K.I. (Ian); Pakhomov, Evgeny A.; Roychoudhury, Alakendra N.; Ryan, Peter G.; Smith, Valdon R.; Chown, Steven Loudon; Ansorge, Isabelle J. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-03)
    South Africa has a long track record in Southern Ocean and Antarctic research and has recently invested considerable funds in acquiring new infrastructure for ongoing support of this research. This infrastructure includes ...