Plants display a range of temporal patterns of inter‐annual reproduction, from relatively constant seed production to “mast seeding,” the synchronized and highly variable interannual seed production of plants within a population. Previous efforts have compiled global records of seed production in long‐lived plants to gain insight into seed production, forest and animal population dynamics, and the effects of global change on m...

Mast seeding, the synchronous and highly variable production of seed crops by perennial plants, is a population‐level phenomenon and has cascading effects in ecosystems. Mast seeding studies are typically conducted at the population/species level. Much less is known about synchrony in mast seeding between species because the necessary long‐term data are rarely available. To investigate synchrony between species within communit...

Young blood plasma is known to confer beneficial effects on various organs in mice and rats. However, it was not known whether plasma from young adult pigs rejuvenates old rat tissues at the epigenetic level; whether it alters the epigenetic clock, which is a highly accurate molecular biomarker of aging. To address this question, we developed and validated six different epigenetic clocks for rat tissues that are based on DNA m...

Purpose Heterogeneity assessment can be applied for medical imaging analysis. Here, we evaluated first-order and texture analysis (TA) metrics in 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose ( 18 F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for classification of metastatic and benign bone lesions in patients with cervical cancer. Methods The data of 18 F-FDG PET studies performed on a specific PET/CT system from 2016 to 2018 in patients with...