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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"novel weapons"”.
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Novel weapons: the invasion of fake news and the evolution of political news ecosystems
… how fake news producers use social media as a novel weapon to help fake news invade and thrive within political news ecosystems, and develop new terminology to discuss large-scale trolling tactics used to disrupt political news ecosystems. To develop the novel weapons framework for this study, …
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Invasion of Alliaria petiolata on a small fragmented central Illinois woodland: a test of the novel weapons hypothesis
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NO SIMPLE TRADEOFFS: CENTAUREA PLANTS FROM AMERICA ARE BETTER COMPETITORS AND DEFENDERS THAN PLANTS FROM THE NATIVE RANGE
… herbivore consumers in their invaded range. The 'novel weapons' hypothesis posits that exotic invaders explode in abundance because they possess biochemicals that are more effective against evolutionarily naïve plants, microbes, and generalist herbivores than against those species that have …
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NO SIMPLE TRADEOFFS: CENTAUREA PLANTS FROM AMERICA ARE BETTER COMPETITORS AND DEFENDERS THAN PLANTS FROM THE NATIVE RANGE
… herbivore consumers in their invaded range. The 'novel weapons' hypothesis posits that exotic invaders explode in abundance because they possess biochemicals that are more effective against evolutionarily naïve plants, microbes, and generalist herbivores than against those species that have …
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MECHANISMS OF SUCCESS: PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTIONS AND THE INVASION OF NON-NATIVE LONICERA SPECIES IN NORTH AMERICA
… in their native range, but dominant in their novel range including the enemy release and novel weapons hypotheses. Additionally, many invasive species are characterized as being tolerant and/or resistant to both damage and limitations in abiotic resources. These hypotheses are based on …
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Expanding the Horizons of Enzybiotic Identification
… Consequently, lysins have been proposed as novel enzybiotic (i.e. enzyme-antibiotic) molecules that could serve as novel weapons in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Most lysins characterized to date were initially identified through either recombinant screening or DNA-sequencing of …