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Ancestral hydrocarbon metabolism enables PET degradation by a natural bacterial consortium

ABSTRACT Plastic biodegradation in natural environments is increasingly recognized as a multi-organism process, yet the mechanisms enabling coordinated depolymerization and metabolism of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) remain poorly understood. Previously, we demonstrated that a...

Properties of Multidimensional Vector Zeckendorf Representations

A generalization of Zeckendorf’s theorem states for integer k≥3, every nonnegative integer has a unique k-Zeckendorf representation as a sum of distinct k-bonacci numbers, where no k consecutive k-bonacci numbers are present in the representation. Anderson and Bicknell Johnson ex...