A5076271495- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
2015-2024
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
2014-2024
University of Giessen
2021-2024
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
2012-2024
Goethe University Frankfurt
2012-2023
University of Göttingen
2023
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
2023
Google (Switzerland)
2016-2021
NTT (Japan)
2019
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M
2017-2018
November 2020 marked 2 y since the launch of Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which aims to sequence all known eukaryotic species in a 10-y timeframe. Since then, significant progress has been made across aspects EBP roadmap, as outlined 2018 article describing project’s goals, strategies, and challenges (1). The phase ended clock started on reaching EBP’s major milestones. This Special Feature explores many facets EBP, including review progress, description scientific exemplar projects,...
Progress in genome sequencing now enables the large-scale generation of reference genomes. Various international initiatives aim to generate genomes representing global biodiversity. These provide unique insights into genomic diversity and architecture, thereby enabling comprehensive analyses population functional genomics, are expected revolutionize conservation genomics.
This paper presents a computationally efficient machine-learned method for natural language response suggestion. Feed-forward neural networks using n-gram embedding features encode messages into vectors which are optimized to give message-response pairs high dot-product value. An search finds suggestions. The is evaluated in large-scale commercial e-mail application, Inbox by Gmail. Compared sequence-to-sequence approach, the new system achieves same quality at small fraction of...
Foliar fungal communities of plants are diverse and ubiquitous. In grasses endophytes may increase host fitness; in trees, their ecological roles poorly understood. We investigated whether the genotype tree influences community structure foliar fungi. sampled leaves from genotyped balsam poplars across species' range, applied 454 amplicon sequencing to characterize communities. At time sampling had been growing a common garden for two years. found associated with poplar leaves. Linear...
In this paper we propose and investigate a novel end-to-end method for automatically generating short email responses, called Smart Reply. It generates semantically diverse suggestions that can be used as complete responses with just one tap on mobile. The system is currently in Inbox by Gmail responsible assisting 10% of all mobile responses. designed to work at very high throughput process hundreds millions messages daily. exploits state-of-the-art, large-scale deep learning.
In this paper we propose and investigate a novel end-to-end method for automatically generating short email responses, called Smart Reply. It generates semantically diverse suggestions that can be used as complete responses with just one tap on mobile. The system is currently in Inbox by Gmail responsible assisting 10% of all mobile responses. designed to work at very high throughput process hundreds millions messages daily. exploits state-of-the-art, large-scale deep learning. We describe...
High-throughput metabarcoding studies on fungi and other eukaryotic microorganisms are rapidly becoming more frequent complex, requiring researchers to handle ever increasing amounts of raw sequence data. Here, we provide a flexible pipeline for pruning analyzing fungal barcode (ITS rDNA) data generated as paired-end reads Illumina MiSeq sequencers. The presented includes specific steps fine-tuned ITS, that mostly missing from pipelines developed prokaryotes. It (1) employs state the art...
Micro-organisms associated with plants and animals affect host fitness, shape community structure influence ecosystem properties. Climate change is expected to microbial communities, but their reactions are not well understood. Host-associated micro-organisms influenced by the climate of hosts, which may undergo range shifts due climatic niche tracking, or be actively relocated mitigate effects change. We used a common-garden experiment rDNA metabarcoding examine effect relocation...
This paper addresses the fundamental problem of computing stable medial representations 3D shapes. We propose a spatially adaptive classification geometric features that yields robust algorithm for generating at different levels abstraction. The recently introduced continuous scale axis transform serves as mathematical foundation our algorithm. show how and topological properties setting carry over to discrete shape representations. Our method combines scaling operations balls simplification...
We introduce the scale axis transform, a new skeletal shape representation for bounded open sets O ⊂ Rd. The transform induces family of skeletons that captures important features in scale-adaptive way and yields hierarchy successively simplified skeletons. Its definition is based on medial simplification under multiplicative scaling: s-scaled Os union balls with radii scaled by factor s. s-scale Os, back 1/s. prove topological properties we describe evolution s → defining distance function...
Taxonomy offers precise species identification and delimitation thus provides basic information for biological research, e.g. through assessment of richness. The importance molecular taxonomy, i.e., the taxa based on markers, has increased in past decade. Recently developed exploratory tools now allow estimating species-level diversity multi-locus datasets. Here we use that either quantify differences intra- interspecific variability loci, or divergence times within between species, perform...
Late glacial and early Holocene summer temperatures were reconstructed based on fossil chironomid assemblages at Lake Brazi (Retezat Mountains) with a joint Norwegian"Swiss transfer function, providing an important addition to the late quantitative climate reconstructions from Europe. The pattern of temperature changes in show both similarities some differences NGRIP δ 18 O record other European chironomid-based reconstructions. Our reconstruction indicates that (1740 m a.s.l.) air increased...
Rapid environmental change in highly biodiverse tropical regions demands efficient biomonitoring programmes. While existing metrics of species diversity and community composition rely on encounter-based survey data, eDNA recently emerged as alternative approach. Costs ecological value eDNA-based methods have rarely been evaluated regions, where high richness is accompanied by functional (e.g., the use different microhabitats life stages). We first tested whether estimation frogs' structure...