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The effect of physical barriers under a raised house on mosquito entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia (2024)
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Carrasco-Tenezaca, M., Jawara, M., Bradley, J., D’Alessandro, U., Jeffries, D., Knudsen, J. B., & Lindsay, S. W. (2024). The effect of physical barriers under a raised house on mosquito entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia. Malaria Journal, 23, Article 100. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-04889-z

Background: Anopheles gambiae, the major malaria mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa, feed largely indoors at night. Raising a house off the ground with no barriers underneath reduces mosquito-house entry. This experiment tested whether walling off the sp... Read More about The effect of physical barriers under a raised house on mosquito entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia.

Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change (2024)
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Omer, A., Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Lenzner, B., García‐Rodríguez, A., Moser, D., Fristoe, T., Dawson, W., Weigelt, P., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M., & Wessely, J. (2024). Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change. Ecography, 2024(6), Article e07010. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07010

Alien species can have massive impacts on native biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human livelihoods. Assessing which species from currently cultivated alien floras may escape into the wild and naturalize is essential for efficient and proacti... Read More about Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change.

Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography (2024)
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Kemppinen, J., Lembrechts, J. J., Van Meerbeek, K., Carnicer, J., Chardon, N. I., Kardol, P., Lenoir, J., Liu, D., Maclean, I., Pergl, J., Saccone, P., Senior, R. A., Shen, T., Słowińska, S., Vandvik, V., von Oppen, J., Aalto, J., Ayalew, B., Bates, O., Bertelsmeier, C., …De Frenne, P. (2024). Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(6), Article e13834. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13834

Brief introduction: What are microclimates and why are they important?
Microclimate science has developed into a global discipline. Microclimate science is increasingly used to understand and mitigate climate and biodiversity shifts. Here, we provid... Read More about Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography.

Cell Senescence-Independent Changes of Human Skin Fibroblasts with Age (2024)
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Fullard, N., Wordsworth, J., Welsh, C., Maltman, V., Bascom, C., Tasseff, R., …Shanley, D. (2024). Cell Senescence-Independent Changes of Human Skin Fibroblasts with Age. Cells, 13(8), Article 659. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13080659

Skin ageing is defined, in part, by collagen depletion and fragmentation that leads to a loss of mechanical tension. This is currently believed to reflect, in part, the accumulation of senescent cells. We compared the expression of genes and proteins... Read More about Cell Senescence-Independent Changes of Human Skin Fibroblasts with Age.

Methionine biosynthetic genes and methionine sulfoxide reductase A are required for Rhizoctonia solani AG1‐IA to cause sheath blight disease in rice (2024)
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Das, J., Ghosh, S., Tyagi, K., Sahoo, D., & Jha, G. (2024). Methionine biosynthetic genes and methionine sulfoxide reductase A are required for Rhizoctonia solani AG1‐IA to cause sheath blight disease in rice. Microbial Biotechnology, 17(4), Article e14441. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14441

Rhizoctonia solani is a polyphagous necrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes sheath blight disease in rice. It deploys effector molecules as well as carbohydrate‐active enzymes and enhances the production of reactive oxygen species for killing host t... Read More about Methionine biosynthetic genes and methionine sulfoxide reductase A are required for Rhizoctonia solani AG1‐IA to cause sheath blight disease in rice.

Introduced species infiltrate recent stages of succession after glacial retreat on sub-Antarctic South Georgia (2024)
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Tichit, P., Brickle, P., Newton, R. J., Convey, P., & Dawson, W. (2024). Introduced species infiltrate recent stages of succession after glacial retreat on sub-Antarctic South Georgia. NeoBiota, 92, 85-110. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.92.117226

Biological invasions are one of the main drivers of global biodiversity decline. At the same time, glacial retreat induced by climate warming is occurring at an alarming rate across the globe, threatening unique taxa and ecosystems. However, we know... Read More about Introduced species infiltrate recent stages of succession after glacial retreat on sub-Antarctic South Georgia.

Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species (2024)
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Buffry, A. D., Currea, J. P., Franke-Gerth, F. A., Palavalli-Nettimi, R., Bodey, A. J., Rau, C., …Kittelmann, M. (2024). Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species. BMC Biology, 22(1), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01864-7

Background: Insects have evolved complex visual systems and display an astonishing range of adaptations for diverse ecological niches. Species of Drosophila melanogaster subgroup exhibit extensive intra- and interspecific differences in compound eye... Read More about Evolution of compound eye morphology underlies differences in vision between closely related Drosophila species.

A predictive model for ethylene-mediated auxin and cytokinin patterning in the Arabidopsis root (2024)
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Moore, S., Jervis, G., Topping, J., Chen, C., Liu, J., & Lindsey, K. (2024). A predictive model for ethylene-mediated auxin and cytokinin patterning in the Arabidopsis root. Plant communications, 5(7), Article 100886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2024.100886

The interaction between auxin and cytokinin is important in many aspects of plant development. Experimental measurements of both auxin and cytokinin concentration and reporter gene expression clearly show the coexistence of auxin and cytokinin concen... Read More about A predictive model for ethylene-mediated auxin and cytokinin patterning in the Arabidopsis root.

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape (2024)
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Burton, A. C., Beirne, C., Gaynor, K. M., Sun, C., Granados, A., Allen, M. L., Alston, J. M., Alvarenga, G. C., Calderón, S. Á., Amir, Z., Anhalt-Depies, C., Appel, C., Stephanny, Balme, G., Bar-Massada, A., Barcelos, D., Barr, E., Barthelmess, E. L., Baruzzi, C., Basak, S. M., …Kays, R. (2024). Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(5), 924–935. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02363-2

Wildlife must adapt to human presence to survive in the Anthropocene, so it is critical to understand species responses to humans in different contexts. We used camera trapping as a lens to view mammal responses to changes in human activity during th... Read More about Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape.

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and Retinitis Pigmentosa: Novel RPGR Variant and Possible Modifier Gene (2024)
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Baz-Redón, N., Sánchez-Bellver, L., Fernández-Cancio, M., Rovira-Amigo, S., Burgoyne, T., Rai, R., Aquino, V., Toro-Barrios, N., Carmona, R., Polverino, E., Cols, M., Moreno-Galdó, A., Camats-Tarruella, N., & Marfany, G. (2024). Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and Retinitis Pigmentosa: Novel RPGR Variant and Possible Modifier Gene. Cells, 13(6), Article 524. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13060524

We report a novel RPGR missense variant co-segregated with a familial X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) case. The brothers were hemizygous for this variant, but only the proband presented with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). Thus, we aimed to el... Read More about Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and Retinitis Pigmentosa: Novel RPGR Variant and Possible Modifier Gene.