The current generation of sequencing technologies can produce terabases of data with exceptional accuracy and speed, at a fraction of the cost of older methods. Despite this unprecedented power, adoption into aquaculture health management presents several challenges, including identifying where such capability may be optimally deployed. Here we synthesise discussions from a structured expert workshop held at the 2025 Aotearoa...

Rationale Antipsychotic medications are the first-line treatment for schizophrenia. Around 40% of people who are treated with antipsychotics could develop extrapyramidal side-effects (EPSE) including: (1) Dyskinesia, (2) Parkinsonism, (3) Akathisia, and (4) Dystonia. Objectives This study aimed to identify genetic risk factors for EPSE presence following antipsychotic treatment. Methods We conducted Genome-wide association (GW...

Coastal estuaries are hotspots of biogeochemical cycling, biodiversity, and sediment processing, yet the drivers of carbon cycle processes remain poorly constrained. Here, we elucidate the influence of hydrological connectivity on carbon biogeochemistry in the Indian Sundarban over successive monsoon seasons by comparing hydrologically connected channels with perennial freshwater flow to channels isolated from feeding rivers....

Shared polymorphisms, loci with identical alleles across species, are of unique interest in evolutionary biology as they may represent cases of selection maintaining ancient genetic variation post‐speciation, or contemporary selection promoting convergent evolution. In this study, we investigate the abundance of shared polymorphism between two members of the Daphnia pulex species complex. We test whether the presence of shared...

Seaweeds account for nearly 30% of global aquaculture production by volume, and their cultivation provides important opportunities for employment and wealth generation, particularly in rural coastal communities. Eucheumatoids ( Kappaphycus and Eucheuma spp.) are tropical red algae commercially cultivated as raw material for production of carrageenans, particularly in South‐East Asia and the Western Indian Ocean region. Disease...

Summary A recent large‐scale assessment of bacterial communities across a range of UK soil types showed that bacterial community structure was strongly determined by soil pH. We analysed a data set of eukaryotic 454 sequencing 18S rDNA from the surveyed samples and showed significant differences in eukaryotic assemblages according to pH class, mostly between low pH and higher pH soils. Soil eukaryote communities (per sample) d...

Summary Although protists are critical components of marine ecosystems, they are still poorly characterized. Here we analysed the taxonomic diversity of planktonic and benthic protist communities collected in six distant E uropean coastal sites. Environmental deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) and ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) from three size fractions (pico‐, nano‐ and micro/mesoplankton), as well as from dissolved DNA and surface sedi...