Cardiac viral diseases are among the major causes of economic losses in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.) aquaculture. These include cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) caused by piscine myocarditis virus (PMCV) and pancreas disease (PD) caused by Atlantic salmonid alphavirus (SAV). The resulting cardiomyopathies impact fish stock in terms of mortality, quality, growth performance and economic loss. Diagnosis of these diseases is cu...

Understanding drivers of variability in oceanic primary productivity is essential to increase our understanding of the functioning of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Here, interannual variability of satellite-derived chlorophyll- a (CHL) and its underlying oceanographic processes are analyzed in six coastal regions of the tropical and south Atlantic. Along the South American coast, sea-surface height (SSH) and alo...

Effective conservation of migratory species relies on habitat protection throughout their annual cycle. Although protected areas (PAs) play a central role in conservation, their effectiveness at conserving habitats across the annual cycle of migratory species has rarely been assessed. We developed seasonal ecological niche models for 418 migratory butterfly species across their global distribution to assess whether they were a...

Retinal image registration is of utmost importance due to its wide applications in medical practice. In this context, we propose ConKeD, a novel deep learning approach to learn descriptors for retinal image registration. In contrast to current registration methods, our approach employs a novel multi-positive multi-negative contrastive learning strategy that enables the utilization of additional information from the available t...