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Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ) is a leading cause of bacteraemia and infective endocarditis worldwide, posing significant public health challenges in resource-limited low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, whether specific genomic factors influence the development of S. aureus infective endocarditis (SAIE) during S. aureus bacteraemia (SAB) remains unclear. Thus, the study aimed to determine whether clinical S...
Presence of non-regulated Elsinoë species on citrus fruits and their impact on regulatory plant health diagnosticsNARA Subscribed
Citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, and tangerines are economically significant crops worldwide. The EU is a net importer of citrus fruits to meet consumer demand, with the Netherlands functioning as main distribution hub. Citrus fruit imports may pose a risk to EU production, particularly through the introduction of regulated plant pathogens. Considering that only the three regulated Elsinoë species wer...
Combined resistance mechanisms leading to high-level of cefiderocol resistance among NDM-like producing E. coli ST167 clinical isolatesNARA Subscribed
Summary Purpose A series of NDM-producing Escherichia coli ST167 clinical isolates exhibiting resistance to cefiderocol (FDC), with no previous exposure to this antibiotic, were analyzed in this study. Methods The antimicrobial susceptibility testing and phenotypic detection of resistance patterns (Rapid Cefiderocol NP test and MIC determination) were performed for all tested isolates. Their entire genomes were sequenced by us...
Biotic Mechanisms Strengthen Functional and Phylogenetic Convergence of Reef Fish Assemblages at Higher LatitudesNARA Subscribed
Aim How communities of organisms come together has long fascinated scientists, with renewed interest in using functional and evolutionary patterns to infer mechanisms of community assembly. Ecological theory predicts that biotic interactions could lead to either divergence in the event of niche partitioning or convergence through the exclusion of competitively inferior species, but most macroecological studies attribute the la...
Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this...
Soil Fertility and Phosphorus Leaching in Irrigated Calcareous Soils of the Mediterranean RegionNARA Subscribed
To ensure soil quality and soil health, it is necessary to improve fertilization practices while minimizing environmental impacts. The aim of this study was to record the state of the art on soil fertility related to fertilization management (organic and/or mineral) and to detect environmental challenges in highly productive fields. A soil survey was set up in a new irrigated area ( c . 20 years old), in the north-eastern part...
Oribatid mites in different Mediterranean crop rotations fertilized with animal droppingsNARA Subscribed
Unsustainable soil management is one of the drivers of soil degradation, but impact assessment requires the development of indicators. Oribatids might be considered as early indicators of disturbances due to the stability of their community. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of oribatids as bioindicators of sustainable agricultural practices. Under a dry Mediterranean climate, three fertilization experim...
In agricultural ecosystems, bees are exposed to combinations of pesticides that may have been applied at different times. For example, bees visiting a flowering crop may be chronically exposed to low concentrations of systemic insecticides applied before bloom and then to a pulse of fungicide, considered safe for bees, applied during bloom. In this study, we simulate this scenario under laboratory conditions with females of th...
Seven years of pig slurry fertilization: impacts on soil chemical properties and the element content of winter barley plantsNARA Subscribed
Intensive pig farming produces large amounts of slurry, which is applied to agricultural soils as fertilizer. A 7-year field study was performed to check the effect of pig slurry on soil properties and on the accumulation of some essential nutrients and heavy metals in a calcareous silty-loam soil (0–0.3 m) and in barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) plants in two cropping seasons with contrasting amounts of rainfall. Five fertilizati...
Extreme climatic events can reshape the functional structure of ecological communities, potentially altering ecological interactions and ecosystem functioning. While these shifts have been widely documented, evidence of their persistence and potential flow‐on effects on ecosystem structure following relaxation of extreme events remains limited. Here, we investigate changes in the functional trait structure – encompassing dimen...
Microbial anhydrobiosisNARA Subscribed
Summary The loss of cellular water (desiccation) and the resulting low cytosolic water activity are major stress factors for life. Numerous prokaryotic and eukaryotic taxa have evolved molecular and physiological adaptions to periods of low water availability or water‐limited environments that occur across the terrestrial Earth. The changes within cells during the processes of desiccation and rehydration, from the activation (...
Phenotypic plasticity masks range‐wide genetic differentiation for vegetative but not reproductive traits in a short‐lived plantNARA Subscribed
Genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity jointly shape intraspecific trait variation, but their roles differ among traits. In short‐lived plants, reproductive traits may be more genetically determined due to their impact on fitness, whereas vegetative traits may show higher plasticity to buffer short‐term perturbations. Combining a multi‐treatment greenhouse experiment with observational field data throughout the rang...