Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 6. Get ready for quorum sensing for bacterial engineering, an antibiotic-resistant microbe on ice, a new scimitar-crested spinosaurid, planetesimal snowmen, sheepox viral evolution, the fate of horizontally acquired genes, the R Journal Volume 17/4, and a grant for Feed the Future innovation labs. Science On.

References:

Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia

Construction and Functional Characterization of a Heterologous Quorum Sensing Circuit in Clostridium sporogenes

First genome sequence and functional profiling of Psychrobacter SC65A.3 preserved in 5,000-year-old cave ice: insights into ancient resistome, antimicrobial potential, and enzymatic activities

Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation

Direct contact binary planetesimal formation from gravitational collapse

Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor

Exocometary physics: material release and tails

Searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model in hyperon sector

3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes

The fate of horizontally acquired genes: rapid initial turnover followed by long-term persistence

The R Journal: Volume 17/4

Comparing flavor characteristics of Scotch whiskies: A principal component analysis

Little useless-useful R functions – Typing speed benchmark

Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems

Feed the Future Innovation Labs

R Packages:

bigMICE: Multiple Imputation of Big Data

bracketeer: Tournament Generator

phymapnet: Phylogeny-Guided Bayesian Microbial Network Inference

tReeTraits: Calculate Tree Traits from Terrestrial Lidar

ort: Create a Data Frame Representation of an Image

tinyimg: Optimize and Compress Images