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Biogeography and global flows of 100 major alien fungal and fungus‐like oomycete pathogens (2023)
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Schertler, A., Lenzner, B., Dullinger, S., Moser, D., Bufford, J., Ghelardini, L., Santini, A., Capinha, C., Monteiro, M., Reino, L., Wingfield, M. J., Seebens, H., Thines, M., Dawson, W., van Kleunen, M., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., & Essl, F. (2024). Biogeography and global flows of 100 major alien fungal and fungus‐like oomycete pathogens. Journal of Biogeography, 51(4), 599-617. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14755

Aim: Spreading infectious diseases associated with introduced pathogens can have devastating effects on native biota and human livelihoods. We analyse the global distribution of 100 major alien fungal and oomycete pathogens with substantial socio‐eco... Read More about Biogeography and global flows of 100 major alien fungal and fungus‐like oomycete pathogens.

Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion (2023)
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Grether, G. F., Finneran, A. E., & Drury, J. P. (2024). Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion. Ecology Letters, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14350

Understanding species distributions and predicting future range shifts requires considering all relevant abiotic factors and biotic interactions. Resource competition has received the most attention, but reproductive interference is another widesprea... Read More about Niche differentiation, reproductive interference, and range expansion.

A critical role for iron and zinc homeostatic systems in the evolutionary adaptation of Escherichia coli to metal restriction (2023)
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Paterson, J. R., Wadsworth, J. M., Hu, P., & Sharples, G. J. (2023). A critical role for iron and zinc homeostatic systems in the evolutionary adaptation of Escherichia coli to metal restriction. Microbial Genomics, 9(12), Article 001153. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001153

Host nutritional immunity utilizes metal deprivation to help prevent microbial infection. To investigate bacterial adaptation to such restrictive conditions, we conducted experimental evolution with two metal sequestering agents. Ethylenediaminetetra... Read More about A critical role for iron and zinc homeostatic systems in the evolutionary adaptation of Escherichia coli to metal restriction.

The major inducible small heat shock protein HSP20-3 in the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus forms filament-like structures and is an active chaperone. (2023)
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Al-Ansari, M., Fitzsimons, T., Wei, W., Goldberg, M. W., Kunieda, T., & Quinlan, R. A. (2024). The major inducible small heat shock protein HSP20-3 in the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus forms filament-like structures and is an active chaperone. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 29(1), 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstres.2023.12.001

The tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus has remarkable resilience to a range of environmental stresses. In this study, we have characterised two members of the small heat shock protein (sHSP) family in R. varieornatus, HSP20-3 and HSP20-6. These are... Read More about The major inducible small heat shock protein HSP20-3 in the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus forms filament-like structures and is an active chaperone..

Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term (2023)
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Roth, N., Baxter, R., Furness, M., Kimberley, A., & Cousins, S. A. O. (online). Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 16(5-6), 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2023.2286229

Background
Winters are expected to warm more than summers in central and northern Europe, with largely unknown effects on grassland plant communities.

Aims
By studying the interactions between winter warming and summer grazing, we aimed to disen... Read More about Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term.

The m6A reader ECT1 drives mRNA sequestration to dampen salicylic acid–dependent stress responses in Arabidopsis (2023)
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Lee, K. P., Liu, K., Kim, E. Y., Medina-Puche, L., Dong, H., Di, M., Singh, R. M., Li, M., Qi, S., Meng, Z., Cho, J., Zhang, H., Lozano-Duran, R., & Kim, C. (2023). The m6A reader ECT1 drives mRNA sequestration to dampen salicylic acid–dependent stress responses in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 36(3), 746-763. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad300

Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene (2023)
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Holmes, R., Pelser, P., Barcelona, J., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S. S., Wahyuni, I., van Kleunen, M., Pyšek, P., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Dawson, W., Wijedasa, L., Kortz, A., Hejda, M., Berrio, J. C., Siregar, I., & Williams, M. (2024). Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene. Journal of Biogeography, 51(3), 394-408. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14766

Aim:
Worldwide, floras are becoming homogenized at global scales, but regional patterns vary. Here, we present the first assessment for the Malesian phytogeographical region in terms of the timing of introductions, direction, magnitude and drivers... Read More about Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene.

Why cuckoos remove host eggs: Biting eggs facilitates faster parasitic egg‐laying (2023)
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Wang, L., Zhao, H., Yan, H., Feeney, W. E., & Liang, W. (2023). Why cuckoos remove host eggs: Biting eggs facilitates faster parasitic egg‐laying. Ecology and Evolution, 13(12), Article e10762. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10762

Brood parasitism by cuckoos relies on manipulating hosts to raise their offspring and has evolved stunning adaptations to aid in their deception. The fact that cuckoos usually but not always, remove one or two host eggs while laying their eggs has be... Read More about Why cuckoos remove host eggs: Biting eggs facilitates faster parasitic egg‐laying.

Using energy to go downhill—a genoprotective role for ATPase activity in DNA topoisomerase II (2023)
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Bandak, A. F., Blower, T. R., Nitiss, K. C., Shah, V., Nitiss, J., & Berger, J. (2024). Using energy to go downhill—a genoprotective role for ATPase activity in DNA topoisomerase II. Nucleic Acids Research, 52(3), 1313–1324. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1157

Type II topoisomerases effect topological changes in DNA by cutting a single duplex, passing a second duplex through the break, and resealing the broken strand in an ATP-coupled reaction cycle. Curiously, most type II topoisomerases (topos II, IV and... Read More about Using energy to go downhill—a genoprotective role for ATPase activity in DNA topoisomerase II.

Construction of Host Plant Insect‐Resistance Mutant Library by High‐Throughput CRISPR/Cas9 System and Identification of A Broad‐Spectrum Insect Resistance Gene (2023)
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Sun, L., Alariqi, M., Wang, Y., Wang, Q., Xu, Z., Zafar, M. N., Yang, G., Jia, R., Hussain, A., Chen, Y., Ding, X., Zhou, J., Wang, G., Wang, F., Li, J., Zou, J., Zhu, X., Yu, L., Sun, Y., Liang, S., …Jin, S. (2024). Construction of Host Plant Insect‐Resistance Mutant Library by High‐Throughput CRISPR/Cas9 System and Identification of A Broad‐Spectrum Insect Resistance Gene. Advanced Science, 11(4), Article 2306157. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202306157

Insects pose significant challenges in cotton‐producing regions. Here, they describe a high‐throughput CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated large‐scale mutagenesis library targeting endogenous insect‐resistance‐related genes in cotton. This library targeted 502 prev... Read More about Construction of Host Plant Insect‐Resistance Mutant Library by High‐Throughput CRISPR/Cas9 System and Identification of A Broad‐Spectrum Insect Resistance Gene.