Plagiosaurids form a small but highly disparate clade of Triassic temnospondyls that are characterized by extremely flattened and wide skulls, large orbits and a knobby to pustular ornamentation. The largest European taxon is Plagiosternum granulosum from the Middle Triassic of Germany. Originally known from fragmentary bonebed material only, recent finds add well-preserved specimens that reveal the structure of the skull, man...

Accurate forecasts of ecological dynamics are critical for ecosystem management and conservation, yet the drivers of forecastability are poorly understood. Environmental change and diversity are considered major challenges to ecological forecasting. This assumption, however, has never been tested experimentally because forecasts have high data requirements. In a long‐term microcosm experiment, we manipulated the species richne...

The CoA thioester of 2‐(carboxymethyl)cyclohexane‐1‐carboxylic acid has been identified as a metabolite in anaerobic naphthalene degradation by the sulfate‐reducing culture N47. This study identified and characterised two acyl‐CoA dehydrogenases (ThnO/ThnT) and an intramolecular CoA‐transferase (ThnP) encoded within the substrate‐induced thn operon, which contains genes for anaerobic degradation of naphthalene. ThnP is a CoA t...

Climate change is anticipated to lead to an increase in the occurrence and intensity of drought and fluctuations in insect cycles that will challenge modern pasture systems. Feeding by root aphids such as Aploneura lentisci Pass. can be a significant challenge to pastures. These below-ground living aphids are commonly found in New Zealand and Australia, feeding year-round on the roots of graminaceous plants such as perennial r...

A thermodynamic potential is derived for seawater as a function of Conservative Temperature, Absolute Salinity and pressure. From this thermodynamic potential, all the equilibrium thermodynamic properties of seawater can be found, just as all these thermodynamic properties can be found from the TEOS-10 (the International Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater – 2010; IOC et al., 2010) Gibbs function (which is a function of in situ...

GenX (hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid) belongs to the group of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) compounds introduced to replace perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which has been phased out in industrial and consumer product formulations. While GenX has been investigated in lab animals, there is limited information available regarding its uptake and translocation in wheat and rice. This study reports on a greenhouse...

Epidemiological studies demonstrate an association between migraine and chronic kidney disease (CKD), while the genetic basis underlying the phenotypic association has not been investigated. We aimed to help avoid unnecessary interventions in individuals with migraine through the investigation of phenotypic and genetic relationships underlying migraine, CKD, and kidney function. We first evaluated phenotypic associations using...

Biodiversity may increase ecosystem resilience. However, we have limited understanding if this holds true for ecosystems that respond to gradual environmental change with abrupt shifts to an alternative state. We used a mathematical model of anoxic–oxic regime shifts and explored how trait diversity in three groups of bacteria influences resilience. We found that trait diversity did not always increase resilience: greater dive...

Changes in marine ecosystems from human stressors, and concerns over how species will respond to these changes have emphasized the importance of understanding and monitoring crucial demographic parameters for population models. Long-lived, migratory, marine vertebrates such as sea turtles are particularly vulnerable to changes. Life-history parameters like growth-in-body size can be largely influenced by environmental processe...