Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution

M Juhas, JR Van Der Meer, M Gaillard… - FEMS microbiology …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer.
Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also …

Search for charm

MK Gaillard, BW Lee, JL Rosner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1975 - APS
A systematic discussion of the phenomenology of charmed particles is presented with an
eye to experimental searches for these states. We begin with an attempt to clarify the …

The standard model of particle physics

MK Gaillard, PD Grannis, FJ Sciulli - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1999 - APS
… will remain an excellent approximation to nature at distance scales as small as 10 18 m. …
or 10 15 m. The weak force responsible for radioactive decay, with a range of 10 17 m, is about …

The TeV physics of strongly interacting W's and Z's

MS Chanowitz, MK Gaillard - Nuclear Physics B, 1985 - Elsevier
… general arguments reqmre [1, 2] longitudinally polarized W's and Z's to have strong interactions
with one another m this energy range. We concentrate m this paper on the most general …

A phenomenological profile of the Higgs boson

J Ellis, MK Gaillard, DV Nanopoulos - Current Physics–Sources and …, 1991 - Elsevier
… A comprehensive discussion of the phenomenology of conventional charm has been given
by Gaillard, Lee and Rosner [4]. At the time of writing, the discovery of charm has not been …

Rare decay modes of the mesons in gauge theories

MK Gaillard, BW Lee - Physical Review D, 1974 - APS
… of KL→ γ γ, it is found necessary to assume m P m P′<< 1, where m P is the mass of the
proton quark and m P′, the mass of the charmed quark, and m P′< 5 GeV. We present a …

Aspects of the grand unification of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions

AJ Buras, J Ellis, MK Gaillard, DV Nanopoulos - Nuclear Physics B, 1978 - Elsevier
… We see that the grand unification mass M~ 2 X 1016 GeV to within a factor of 2 or 3, …
However, since we are seeking a solution with m~t >> m 2 it is not a priori obvious that …

Rule for Nonleptonic Decays in Asymptotically Free Field Theories

MK Gaillard, BW Lee - Physical Review Letters, 1974 - APS
… may be neglected, since they are of order (m/m~)' compared to the W exchange, where m is
a characteristic mass scale of hadrons and m~ the mass of the charged vector meson S'. It is …

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

…, W Finsinger, D Foster, J Frechette, MJ Gaillard… - Climate dynamics, 2008 - Springer
Fire activity has varied globally and continuously since the last glacial maximum (LGM) in
response to long-term changes in global climate and shorter-term regional changes in climate, …

A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11. 2

…, MP Lemaitre, AE Ambresin, A Brioschi, M Gaillard… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Obesity has become a major worldwide challenge to public health, owing to an interaction
between the Western ‘obesogenic’ environment and a strong genetic contribution 1 . Recent …