Anthropogenic and natural stressors often interact to affect organisms. Amphibian populations are undergoing unprecedented declines and extinctions with pesticides and emerging infectious diseases implicated as causal factors. Although these factors often co-occur, their effects on amphibians are usually examined in isolation. We hypothesized that exposure of larval and metamorphic amphibians...
Meta-analyses of field studies have shown that biomass, density, species richness, and size of organisms protected by no-take marine reserves generally increase over time. The magnitude and timing of changes in these response variables, however, vary greatly and depend upon the taxonomic groups protected, size and type of reserve, oceanographic...
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Marine diseases are becoming more frequent, and tools for identifying pathogens and disease
reservoirs are needed to help prevent and mitigate epizootics. Meta-transcriptomics
provides insights into disease etiology by cataloguing and comparing sequences from suspected
pathogens. This method is a powerful approach to simultaneously evaluate both the
viral and bacterial...
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Strigamia maritima (Myriapoda; Chilopoda) is a species from the soil-living order of geophilomorph
centipedes. The Geophilomorpha is the most speciose order of centipedes with
over a 1000 species described. They are notable for their large number of appendage bearing
segments and are being used as a laboratory model to study...
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Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly applied in conservation management
to predict suitable habitat for poorly known populations. High predictive performance of
SDMs is evident in validations performed within the model calibration area (interpolation),
but few studies have assessed SDM transferability to novel areas (extrapolation), particularly
across large spatial scales...
Climate change is expected to change the distribution of species. For long-lived, sessile
species such as trees, tracking the warming climate depends on seedling colonization of
newly favorable areas. We compare the distribution of seedlings and mature trees for all but
the rarest tree species in California, Oregon and Washington,...
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Understanding how intra-specific differences in plant traits mediate vulnerability to herbivores of relevant habitat-forming plants is vital to attain a better knowledge on the drivers of the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Such studies, however, are rare in seagrass-mesograzer systems despite the increasingly recognized relevance of mesograzers as seagrass consumers....
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defences against herbivory.
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The differentiation of precursor cells into mature adipocytes (adipogenesis) has been an area of increased focus, spurred by a rise in obesity rates. Though our understanding of adipogenesis and its regulation at the cellular level is growing, many questions remain, especially regarding the regulation of the metabolome. The 3T3-L1 cell...
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A number of researchers have attempted to estimate salmonid smolt survival during outmigration through an estuary. However, it is currently unclear how the design of such studies influences the accuracy and precision of survival estimates. In this simulation study we consider four patterns of smolt survival probability in the estuary,...
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Our objective was to identify the biological response and the cross-talk between liver and mammary tissue after intramammary infection (IMI) with Escherichia coli (E. coli) using RNAseq technology. Sixteen cows were inoculated with live E. coli into one mammary quarter at ~4–6 weeks in lactation. For all cows, biopsies were...
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mammary tissue.
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