Caribbean coral reefs have deteriorated substantially over the past 30 years, which
is broadly attributable to the effects of global climate change. In the same time,
Indo-Pacific reefs maintain higher coral cover and typically recover rapidly after
disturbances. This difference in reef resilience is largely due to much higher
coral...
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Davies, S. W., Meyer, E., Guermond, S. M., & Matz, M. V. (2014). A cross-ocean
comparison
Cryptococcus, a major cause of disseminated infections in immunocompromised patients, kills over 600,000 people per year
worldwide. Genes involved in the virulence of the meningitis-causing fungus are being characterized at an increasing rate, and to
date, at least 648 Cryptococcus gene names have been published. However, these data are scattered...
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Vamathevan J, Miranda M, Anderson IJ, Fraser JA
Global change and its associated temperature increase has directly or indirectly changed the distributions of hosts and
pathogens, and has affected host immunity, pathogen virulence and growth rates. This has resulted in increased disease in
natural plant and animal populations worldwide, including scleractinian corals. While the effects of temperature increase...
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that...
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Farwig82, Tom M. Fayle4,83,84, Antonio Felicioli85, Annika M.
Felton86, Gentile F. Ficetola87, Bruno K. C
Most pathogen detection tests are imperfect, with a sensitivity < 100%, thereby resulting in the potential for a false negative, where a pathogen is present but not detected. False negatives in a sample inflate the number of non-detections, negatively biasing estimates of pathogen prevalence. Histological examination of tissues as a...
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• Premise of the study: The dramatic advances offered by modern DNA sequencers continue to redefine the limits of what can be accomplished in comparative plant biology. Even with recent achievements, however, plant genomes present obstacles that can make it difficult to execute large-scale population and phylogenetic studies on next-generation...