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Duncan W Thomas

Biology faculty, Washington State University
Verified email at wsu.edu
Cited by 11947

CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

A review of the scientific evidence for biofilms in wounds

SL Percival, KE Hill, DW Williams… - Wound repair and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Both chronic and acute dermal wounds are susceptible to infection due to sterile loss of the
innate barrier function of the skin and dermal appendages, facilitating the development of …

The role of energy availability in mammalian hibernation: a cost-benefit approach

MM Humphries, DW Thomas… - Physiological and …, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
Hibernation is widely regarded as an adaptation to seasonal energy shortage, but the actual
influence of energy availability on hibernation patterns is rarely considered. Here we review …

Clinical development success rates for investigational drugs

M Hay, DW Thomas, JL Craighead… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
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Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome

DG Gibson, GA Benders, C Andrews-Pfannkoch… - science, 2008 - science.org
We have synthesized a 582,970–base pair Mycoplasma genitalium genome. This synthetic
genome, named M. genitalium JCVI-1.0, contains all the genes of wild-type M. genitalium …

Acute liver failure in children: the first 348 patients in the pediatric acute liver failure study group

RH Squires Jr, BL Shneider, J Bucuvalas… - The Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To determine short-term outcome for children with acute liver failure (ALF) as
it relates to cause, clinical status, and patient demographics and to determine prognostic …

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

W Hubau, SL Lewis, OL Phillips, K Affum-Baffoe… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon
uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic …

The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6

AJ Mungall, SA Palmer, SK Sims, CA Edwards… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Chromosome 6 is a metacentric chromosome that constitutes about 6% of the human
genome. The finished sequence comprises 166,880,988 base pairs, representing the …

Global importance of large‐diameter trees

JA Lutz, TJ Furniss, DJ Johnson… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and
species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century …

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

JWF Slik, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, SI Aiba… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains
substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a …