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Parasites play a critical yet understudied role in Arctic ecosystems, particularly within key subsistence species such as Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus ). As the Arctic undergoes rapid climate-driven change, establishing baseline parasite biodiversity is essential for monitoring ecological shifts and anticipating emerging health and conservation concerns. This study provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of Arct...
Collection, handling and care of cephalopod eggsNARA Subscribed
Research on cephalopod early ontogeny has significantly advanced in recent decades, including embryo organogenesis and neurogenesis and early behavioural adaptations, particularly in commercially important and coastal species. Within this context, here we compiled current knowledge on the collection, handling and care under experimental conditions and monitoring in the field of cephalopod eggs and egg masses. It covers field o...
Morays need to get a grip!—The California moray (Gymnothorax mordax) uses its body and the environment for leverage during feedingNARA Subscribed
Many predatory fishes hunt and feed in structurally complex environments making their feeding behaviors challenging to observe. We designed a transparent microhabitat to document how the California moray ( Gymnothorax mordax ) uses its elongated body to apply leverage during crevice foraging within the rocky reef. To generate leverage, these predatory fish use complex behaviors to extract prey from tight spaces. Morays form an...
Assessment of two minimally invasive methodologies for sex identification in the European eel, Anguilla anguillaNARA Subscribed
Sex is an important driver of variation in behaviour, ecology and physiology. Sex identification in the Critically Endangered European eel ( Anguilla anguilla ) currently requires fish sacrifice, or the use of morphological differences such as body length, which can be inaccurate in certain habitats and at intermediate body lengths. Non‐lethal tools for accurate sex identification in this species are therefore required. Here,...
Development and Evaluation of Foundational Cancer Science Graduate Courses in the Evolving Landscape of Cancer ResearchNARA Subscribed
Roswell Park is a free-standing Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York and serves as the academic home to a doctoral program in Cancer Sciences. To meet the evolving cancer research landscape, we developed and implemented a series of sequential Integrated Cancer Sciences (ICS-I, ICS-II, and ICS-III) courses that provide a strong, multi-disciplinary foundational knowledge to graduate trainees, regardless of their even...
Passive acoustic monitoring reveals surprising patterns of avian community antipredator behavior at a regional scaleNARA Subscribed
Passive acoustic monitoring has underutilized potential for studying animal behavior at a landscape scale. We used passive acoustic recordings collected across the entire western slope of the Sierra Nevada, USA, and the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm BirdNET to investigate avian vocal responses to a predator (American goshawks) throughout this ecosystem. We found a significant decrease in total avian vocal output follo...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...