The Rights Fight Against Fair Maps: How Michigan Republicans and right-wing groups have opposed independent redistricting, nonpartisan maps, and an equal voice for all voters.

Spending millions, filing lawsuits, spreading misinformation, and telling lies: how Michigan Republicans and right-wing groups have fought the historic effort to bring transparency and fairness to our state through an Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. They have opposed and continue to oppose independent redistricting, nonpartisan maps, and an equal voice for all voters

Secure MI Vote: Creating Insecurity for Community Polling Places

How a Republican ballot initiative could eliminate 20 percent of Michigan polling places by prohibiting the use of donated spaces: an analysis of religious spaces used as polling places in the 2020 election. This report includes an outline of how communities across the state could be affected and the challenges this would present to local clerks and voters, based on interviews with local clerks

Michigan GOP Election Protection (Insurrection) Effort: The Michigan Republican Party partners with conspiracy theorists and insurrectionists to recruit election workers

The Michigan Republican Party has teamed up with a coalition of national and local Republican and right-wing groups to recruit paid election workers and credentialed volunteer poll challengers. These groups include an alarming combination of Big Lie conspiracy theorists, people who worked to overturn the 2020 election results, groups involved with the January 6 insurrection, and people who have celebrated political violence

Comparison of RAST annotations of <i>Thermus</i> chromosomes.

<p>Abbreviations: Taq, <i>T</i>. <i>aquaticus</i> Y51MC23; Tsc, <i>T</i>. <i>scotoductus</i> SA-01; Tth HB8, <i>T</i>. <i>thermophilus</i> HB8; Tth HB27, <i>T</i>. <i>thermophilus</i> HB27.</p><p>Comparison of RAST annotations of <i>Thermus</i> chromosomes.</p

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of <i>Thermus</i> species by maximum likelihood method using 16S rRNA gene sequences.

<p>The tree with the highest log likelihood (-3496.7463) is shown. The percentage of trees in which the associated taxa clustered together is shown next to the branches.</p

Features of the <i>Thermus aquaticus</i> Y51MC23 chromosome and plasmids.

<p>Tracks from outside to inside: CDs forward strand, CDs reverse strand, tRNA genes, rRNA genes, prophage, CRISPRs, GC plot, and GC skew. Prepared using DNA Plotter software [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0138674#pone.0138674.ref046" target="_blank">46</a>].</p

Micrograph of <i>Thermus aquaticus</i> Y51MC23 from anaerobic cultures.

<p>Culture sample was stained with SYTO® 9 fluorescent stain in sterile water (Molecular Probes). Dark field fluorescence microscopy was performed using a Nikon Eclipse TE2000-S epifluorescence microscope at 200X magnification (left) or 2000X magnification (right) and a high-pressure Hg light source (484 nm excitation and 500 nm emission filters).</p

Predicted Transporter systems present in the <i>T</i>. <i>aquaticus</i> Y51MC23 genome.

<p>Predicted Transporter systems present in the <i>T</i>. <i>aquaticus</i> Y51MC23 genome.</p

Micrograph of <i>Thermus aquaticus</i> Y51MC23 cells from aerobic cultures.

<p>Culture samples were stained with SYTO® 9 fluorescent stain in sterile water (Molecular Probes). Dark field fluorescence microscopy was performed using a Nikon Eclipse TE2000-S epifluorescence microscope at 2000× magnification and a high-pressure Hg light source.</p

Peptidoglycan staining of Y51MC23 culture.

<p>Clumps of cells were re-suspended in sterile water and stained with SYTOX Green (green fluroescence) using 484 nm excitation and 500 nm emission filters (right panel) or Texas Red-X dye–labeled WGA (red fluorescence) using 536 nm excitation and 617 nm emission filters (left panel). Dark field fluorescence microscopy was performed using a Nikon Eclipse TE2000-S epifluorescence microscope at 2000X magnification and a high-pressure Hg light source.</p