Incidental catch (bycatch) of sharks in commercial fisheries is driving global population declines. In this review we assess the efficacy of a comprehensive list of technical bycatch mitigation measures for all major commercial fishing gears. We structured our review around the three stages of capture where opportunities exist to mitigate bycatch: preventing capture; increasing escape probability; and decreasing at-vessel/post...

Ongoing concerns about the impact of climate change on Australia’s oceans has driven a request from fisheries managers for improved science communication to the seafood sector. Despite these concerns, translating climate science into management and industry action at regional and sectoral scales remains a challenge. We developed a reporting structure for communicating climate and ecosystem status to fisheries management, indus...

Microbes frequently exist as biofilm-embedded multi-species communities where their interactions may establish or exacerbate chronic infection. Recently, fungi and bacteria have been associated with various human tumor microenvironments, suggesting that dynamic cross-kingdom interactions may directly or indirectly contribute to tumor-associated processes. Here, we aimed to investigate whether cell-free supernatants from mono-...

Weiss-Kruszka syndrome (WSKA; OMIM 618619) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by haploinsufficiency of ZNF462, a zinc-finger transcription factor involved in chromatin regulation and early embryonic development. WSKA is characterized by developmental delay, hypotonia, craniofacial dysmorphic features (around 8) and variable congenital anomalies. Genome-wide DNAm profiling was performed on periphera...

We evaluated endolithic fungal diversity associated with rocks sampled at the polyextreme Brazilian São Pedro and São Paulo archipelago using a DNA amplicon metagenomics approach. We detected 808,547 fungal DNA reads grouped into 92 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). The rocks sampled were geologically characterized as mylonitized peridotites, serpentinized peridotites, and carbonate-matrix sedimentary breccias. Ascomycota was...