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Local and Landscape‐Level Environmental Conditions Drive Habitat Selection Across Terrestrial Mammal SpeciesNARA Subscribed
Aim Animal movements are a fundamental process affecting communities and ecosystems. Quantifying habitat selection across species and habitats is key for understanding how animals respond to environmental change. Currently, we lack comparative studies that examine how habitat selection varies across species traits and landscapes. We aim to quantify global patterns of habitat selection to help understand the fundamental drivers...
Francesco Di Virgilio, one of the giants of purinergic signalling, died suddenly on September 22, 2024, which is an immense loss to so many friends and colleagues and especially to his beloved wife, Dorianna. Here, 1 year on, we pay tribute to him and his immense contribution to our field. Francesco graduated in medicine from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1979, with what became a lifelong interest in inflammation. He the...
Mycotoxins pose a major health risk for humans in many parts of the world. For exposure assessment human biomonitoring (HBM) based on the analysis of serum, plasma, whole blood, urine or breast milk samples is a powerful approach which has been extensively used. However, there are several major challenges and pitfalls to be considered to achieve reliable and standardized data which can be used for risk assessment. These challe...
Pathogens in the garden dormouse Eliomys quercinusNARA Subscribed
Wild rodents are important reservoirs and vectors of various pathogens, and play a crucial role in the spread of zoonotic pathogens. The garden dormouse ( Eliomys quercinus ), an arboreal nocturnal rodent species native to Europe, has declined throughout much of its natural range in recent decades. The reason for this ongoing decline is not yet fully understood, but infectious diseases may play a role. This study aimed to revi...
Background Cachexia accounts for about 20% of all cancer-related deaths and it is indicative of poor prognosis and progressive functional impairment. The role of the gut microbiome in the development of cachexia in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients has not been established. Methods Pre-surgical stool samples from n = 103 stage I–III CRC patients in the ColoCare Study were analyzed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing (Illumina) to ch...
AIS Explorer: Intervention Impact—an application for planning more cost-effective AIS prevention programsNARA Subscribed
Overland transport of recreational boats facilitates movement of aquatic invasive species (AIS) between waterbodies. Once established, AIS can have detrimental and difficult-to-manage ecological impacts. Prevention, the most cost-effective AIS management strategy, is one strategy in which management agencies focus on reducing spread by implementing programs like boater education, watercraft inspection, and hot water decontamin...
The Mediterranean Sea is warming at a rate exceeding the global average. Long‐term, high‐resolution data are essential for contextualizing changes within broader temporal scales, and coral skeletons provide valuable environmental archives, especially in data‐sparse regions or as supplements to existing records. While coral‐based reconstructions are well established in tropical settings, they remain limited in temperate areas....
Role of Neo-Sinus on Thrombogenicity of Aortic Valve Prostheses: Experimental Proof-of-Concept StudyNARA Subscribed
Purpose Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is the standard treatment for patients with aortic diseases at high surgical risk. Transcatheter heart valve prostheses (THV) are inserted into the aortic valve, creating a new area between the native and artificial leaflets. This area, known as neo-sinus, increases the thrombogenicity of THVs. But there is a lack of testing methods that evaluate thrombogenicity in vitro. M...
Quantifying Experimental Variability in Shear-Induced Hemolysis to Support Uncertainty-Aware Hemolysis ModelsNARA Subscribed
Purpose Numerical hemolysis models rely on experimental data to fit parameters and predict hemolysis under various conditions. However, existing experiments often use few replicates per condition, leaving inherent variability largely unaddressed. This can lead to oversimplified models that fail to capture the true nature of hemolysis. Here, we quantify intra- and inter-donor variability at a single, well-defined shear stress a...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
Purinergic system in cancer stem cellsNARA Subscribed
Accumulating evidence supports the idea that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are those with the capacity to initiate tumors, generate phenotypical diversity, sustain growth, confer drug resistance, and orchestrate the spread of tumor cells. It is still controversial whether CSCs originate from normal stem cells residing in the tissue or cancer cells from the tumor bulk that have dedifferentiated to acquire stem-like characteristics....
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking DataNARA Subscribed
Aim To identify the broad‐scale oceanic migration routes (‘marine flyways’) used by multiple pelagic, long‐distance migratory seabirds based on a global compilation of tracking data. Location Global. Time Period 1989–2023. Major Taxa Studied Seabirds (Families: Phaethontidae, Hydrobatidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Laridae and Stercorariidae). Methods We collated a comprehensive global tracking dataset that included the mig...
Environmental stochasticity is a key determinant of population viability. Decades of work exploring how environmental stochasticity influences population dynamics have highlighted the ability of some natural populations to limit the negative effects of environmental stochasticity, one of the strategies being demographic buffering. Whilst various methods exist to quantify demographic buffering, we still do not know which enviro...