Phytophthora species and riparian alder tree damage in western Oregon

TL;DR: Phytophthora chlamydospora is found in streams and wet soil worldwide and is a pathogen of some riparian tree species, and produces persistent non-papillate sporangia, usually on unbranched sporangiophores.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 1 liter water sample was collected from each stream and vacuum-filtered with Nuclepore and Durapore membrane filters, and wound or non-wounded leaves of Rhododendron maximum were used as baits.

Abstract: Comparative studies of the nucleotide sequences of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes provide a means for analyzing phylogenetic relation­ ships over a wide range of taxonomic levels (Woese and Olsen 1986; Zimmer et al 1988; Medlin et al 1988; Jorgensen and Cluster 1989). The nuclear small-subunit rDNA sequences (16S-like) evolve rela­ tively slowly and are useful for studying distantly related organisms, whereas the mitochondrial rRNA genes evolve more rapidly and can be useful at the ordinal or family level. The internal transcribed spacer region and intergenic spacer of the nuclear rRNA repeat units evolve fastest and may vary among species within a genus or among populations.

TL;DR: The focus is on applied inference for Bayesian posterior distributions in real problems, which often tend toward normal- ity after transformations and marginalization, and the results are derived as normal-theory approximations to exact Bayesian inference, conditional on the observed simulations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a tour of categorical data analysis for Contingency Tables and Logit and Loglinear models for contingency tables, as well as generalized linear models for Matched Pairs.