Common whelk is a neo-gastropod that is intensively fished on the west and east temperate Atlantic with baited pots. The UK hosts the largest Whelk fishery contributing 10–15% to the national Shellfish landings, worth 15–27 million £ a year. The fishery is regulated by a minimum conservation reference size (MCRS) which for most areas is set at 45 mm total shell length. However, scientific information quantifying the size selec...

Increasing evidence suggests that reactivation of latent EBV in patients with COVID-19 may be linked to the development of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, colloquially known as Long COVID. However, the reason for this co-occurrence of primary infection and reactivation of latent viruses remains elusive. During the first wave of COVID-19, we assessed all major immune cell populations by flow cytometry in a cohort of 61 patient...

Merkel-cell carcinoma (MCC) is known for its high metastatic potential. Studies in several tumor types have proposed a role for up- or downregulation of nuclear A- and B-type lamins in facilitating the process of invasion and metastasis, but such studies are lacking for MCC. Therefore, lamin expression levels were examined in 38 tissue samples from 28 patients with MCC using immunohistochemistry. The series comprised primary t...

The 3-min all-out test is considered a time-efficient alternative for estimating critical power (CP) and curvature constant (Wʹ), by means of endtest power (EP) and work done above endtest power (WEP), respectively. This review aims to assess its reliability and validity with respect to methodology. Following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, a systematic literature search was conducted on June 20th 2025, using a specified search te...

Aim The Indo‐Pacific is the world's largest marine biogeographic region. It is characterised by different degrees of connectivity among its subregions and harbours the majority of demosponge species currently known to science. Comparisons between regional sponge faunas have been undertaken in the past, mostly based on morphological species identification. The Sponge Barcoding Project, in tandem with regional DNA taxonomy campa...

Organisms living in arid environments are predicted to be at increased risk of extinction under climatic and anthropogenic change. Response to past climate change can provide some insights into these risks; however, our understanding of the diversification and evolutionary history of many arid‐adapted species is still limited, particularly in Australia. Here, we evaluate the demographic and evolutionary history of a widespread...

Nitrification is a key process in the aquatic nitrogen (N) cycle, but its products, nitrate (NO 3 − ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O), contribute to eutrophication and greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in eutrophic lakes. Variations in in‐lake N cycling and N 2 O production pathways, as a function of seasonality and artificial oxygenation, remain poorly understood. We investigated nitrification in the artificially oxygenated eu...

Translocation programmes are increasingly being informed by genetic data to monitor and enhance conservation outcomes for both natural and established populations. These data provide a window into contemporary patterns of genetic diversity, structure and relatedness that can guide managers in how to best source animals for their translocation programmes. The inclusion of historical samples, where possible, strengthens monitori...

Mitochondrial introgression is common among animals and is often first identified through mitonuclear discordance—discrepancies between evolutionary relationships inferred from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear DNA (nuDNA). Over recent decades, genomic data have also revealed extensive nuclear introgression in many animal groups, with implications for genetic and phenotypic diversity. However, the extent to which mtDNA int...

Purpose Companies need to enhance their understanding of the environmental impacts of their products and services. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has become a prevalent method for evaluating these impacts. Despite significant advancements in LCA methodology and data availability, several challenges persist. Digital technologies may offer solutions to these challenges in LCA. Therefore, it is crucial to explore how digital technol...

Rifampicin and rifabutin can activate the pregnane X receptor (PXR, NR1I2 ), thereby inducing pharmacokinetically important genes/proteins and reducing exposure to co-administered drugs. Because induction effects vary considerably between these antibiotics, differences could be due to unequal rifamycin-induced activation or tissue expression of the three major NR1I2 splice variants, PXR.1 (NM_003889), PXR.2 (NM_022002), and PX...