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As environmental pressures intensify, sustaining ecologically and economically important marine species such as the American lobster has become an increasing challenge. Climate-driven stressors are expected to disproportionately affect early life stages of the American lobster (Homarus americanus), as sea surface temperatures are warming more rapidly than benthic habitats. In addition, environmental pollutants, including micro...
Ticks harbour diverse microbial communities, but opportunistic and environmentally associated bacteria within these systems remain poorly understood. During attempts to establish primary cell cultures from surface-sterilized embryos of the dog tick Rhipicephalus linnaei , we detected the presence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia , a multidrug-resistant environmental bacterium and emerging opportunistic pathogen. Microscopic exa...
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...
Addressing urgent conservation issues, such as the drastic declines of North American migratory birds, requires creative, evidence‐based, efficient, and collaborative approaches. The abundance of over 50% of monitored North American shorebird populations has declined by over 50% since 1980. To address these declines, we developed a partnership of scientists and practitioners called the Shorebird Science and Conservation Collec...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women and carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), yet little is known about how sex and APOE interact to influence white matter (WM) integrity during disease progression. We integrated diffusion MRI and matched blood transcriptomic data to investigate these interactions and their underlying biological mechanisms. WM microstructure was quantified using diffusion te...
The updated distribution of clay minerals in the World OceanNARA Subscribed
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...