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Introduction Understanding how coastal communities perceive environmental change is critical for designing effective and locally supported marine management strategies. This study examined perceptions of environmental changes over the past 10 years and expectations for the next 10 years among coastal residents of the Cù Lao Chàm–Hội An Biosphere Reserve in central Vietnam. Methods Face-to-face surveys were conducted with 252 a...
Bottom‐tow gear fisheries (trawls and dredges) produce ~24 million mt of harvest annually, representing a globally important animal‐sourced food system. While many are currently sustainably managed, growing concern over the potential for ecosystem impacts from bottom‐tow gears has increased pressure to improve these fisheries. We assembled an international working group of > 30 contributors, including fishing industry particip...
Pannexin-1 is present in a subpopulation of bovine milk–derived small extracellular vesiclesNARA Subscribed
Pannexin-1 (Panx1) is a large-pore membrane channel protein implicated in diverse physiological and pathological processes, yet its presence in extracellular vesicles has not been fully characterized. In this study, we investigated small extracellular vesicles derived from bovine milk to determine whether they contain Panx1. Using multiple complementary approaches, we show that Panx1 is present in a distinct subpopulation of m...
The Black Array of Broadband Absolute Radiometers Earth Radiation Imager (BABAR-ERI) is a small, adaptable nadir-pointed pushbroom imager to measure Earth-leaving broadband radiance from 0.3 µm to 100 µm with higher information content than is currently measured by reducing radiometric uncertainty and enabling cloud-resolving spatial resolution. The three-instrument BABAR-ERI suite fits a 12U CubeSat form factor and contains c...
Genetic Variations in EIF2AK3 are Associated with Neurocognitive Impairment in People Living with HIVNARA Subscribed
Based on emerging evidence on the role for specific single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in EIF2AK3 encoding the integrated stress response kinase PERK, in neurodegeneration, we assessed the association of EIF2AK3 SNVs with neurocognitive performance in people with HIV (PWH) using a candidate gene approach. This retrospective study included the CHARTER cohort participants, excluding those with severe neuropsychiatric comorbiditie...
Feminization of a mixed-stock foraging aggregation of immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas), 1975–2018NARA Subscribed
Marine turtles exhibit temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), and there is widespread concern that global warming is raising nest incubation temperatures, resulting in increasingly female-skewed sex ratios in “feminized” populations. We assessed the sex ratio of a mixed-stock aggregation of immature green turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) at a midocean developmental foraging ground in the Northwest Atlantic from 1975 to 2018....
Ecologists and conservation biologists increasingly rely on spatial capture–recapture (SCR) and movement modeling to study animal populations. Historically, SCR has focused on population‐level processes (e.g., vital rates, abundance, density, and distribution), whereas animal movement modeling has focused on the behavior of individuals (e.g., activity budgets, resource selection, migration). Even though animal movement is clea...
A spatial capture–recapture model for group‐living speciesNARA Subscribed
Group living in species can have complex consequences for individuals, populations, and ecosystems. Therefore, estimating group density and size is often essential for understanding population dynamics, interspecific interactions, and conservation needs of group‐living species. Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) has been used to model both individual and group density in group‐living species, but modeling either individual‐level...
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disab...
Conservation benefits from incorporating genomics to explore the impacts of population declines, inbreeding, loss of genetic variation and hybridization. Here we use the near‐extinct Mariana Islands reedwarbler radiation to showcase how ancient DNA approaches can allow insights into the population dynamics of extinct species and threatened populations for which historical museum specimens or material with low DNA yield (e.g.,...