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Practice and legislation of felling residue management to prevent forest pests in European forestsNARA Subscribed
In the last few decades, bark beetle outbreaks have increased in European forests, triggered by extreme weather events, such as drought and windstorms. A core element of integrated pest management to control outbreaks are salvage logging and sanitation felling, i.e., the timely removal or treatment of potential brood material and already infested trees after disturbance events. Associated with these management operations as we...
Tracking biodiversity in changing Arctic waters: insights from eDNA metabarcoding in SvalbardNARA Subscribed
Monitoring biodiversity patterns and their changes in Arctic coastal ecosystems is critical under ongoing climate change. However, common current approaches require high effort and expertise and this in turn limits the spatial and temporal scale of these monitoring efforts. Here, we investigated both the fish and the marine invertebrate communities across Svalbard using a multi-marker environmental DNA metabarcoding approach....
Sleep During NICU Care Is Associated With Proportional Cerebellar Size at Term-Equivalent Age in Extremely Preterm InfantsNARA Subscribed
Background Infants born extremely preterm (< 28 weeks’ gestation) are born during a phase of rapid cerebellar growth, when disturbances in brain maturation are common and reduced cerebellar size has been linked to unfavorable neurodevelopment. During late gestation, sleep is the dominant brain state and provides structured endogenous activity supporting circuit formation. In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), sleep may b...
Divergent Transcriptional Architectures Beyond Core CAM Genes in Facultative and Constitutive CAM Species in Tillandsia L.NARA Subscribed
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a water‐efficient photosynthetic strategy involving a coordinated suite of complex traits including metabolic, anatomical and regulatory aspects that shift across the diel cycle. While CAM has evolved repeatedly in land plants, the evolutionary routes enabling this convergence remain elusive. Whereas the same core CAM (de)carboxylation genes are consistently involved, a key question is whe...
Candidozyma auris in The Netherlands: No Evidence of Nosocomial Transmission Supported by Effective Infection Control PoliciesNARA Subscribed
The yeast Candidozyma auris has emerged globally as a major threat to public health. Outbreaks are frequently reported and difficult to control. In the Netherlands, C. auris is rarely detected although national surveillance has been set up. Here, we present all Dutch C. auris cases reported from March 2018 until April 2025. Antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) using broth microdilution and whole genome sequencing (WGS) wer...
Aspergillosis is one of the most common human fungal infections. The invasive form of this infectious disease has high mortality rates. Moreover, antifungal resistance has been increasing, thereby limiting treatment options. In Iran, limited species distribution, genotyping and susceptibility data regarding aspergillosis is available, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the current study, 124 patients with proven (n =...
An increase in biotic interactions towards lower latitudes is one of the most consistent patterns in ecology. Higher temperatures and more stable climatic conditions at low latitudes are thought to enhance biotic interactions, accelerating biological evolution and leading to stronger anti-herbivore defences in plants. However, some studies report contradictory findings, highlighting the need for further investigation into the...
Short Tandem Repeat Genotyping of Medically Important Fungi: A Comprehensive Review of a Powerful Tool with Extensive Future PotentialNARA Subscribed
Fungal infections pose an increasing threat to public health. New pathogens and changing epidemiology are a pronounced risk for nosocomial outbreaks. To investigate clonal transmission between patients and trace the source, genotyping is required. In the last decades, various typing assays have been developed and applied to different medically important fungal species. While these different typing methods will be briefly discu...
The largest light-harvesting antenna in nature, the chlorosome, is a heterogeneous helical BChl self-assembly that has evolved in green bacteria to harvest light for performing photosynthesis in low-light environments. Guided by NMR chemical shifts and distance constraints for Chlorobaculum tepidum wild-type chlorosomes, the two contrasting packing modes for syn-anti parallel stacks of BChl c to form polar 2D arrays, with dipo...
Susceptibility Testing of Environmental and Clinical Aspergillus sydowii Demonstrates Potent Activity of Various AntifungalsNARA Subscribed
The genus Aspergillus consists of a vast number of medically and environmentally relevant species. Aspergillus species classified in series Versicolores are ubiquitous in the environment and include the opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus sydowii , which is associated with onychomycosis and superficial skin infections. Despite frequent clinical reports of A. sydowii and related series Versicolores species, antifungal susceptibi...
Decomposing drivers in avian insectivory: Large‐scale effects of climate, habitat and bird diversityNARA Subscribed
Aim Climate is a major driver of large‐scale variability in biodiversity, as a likely result of more intense biotic interactions under warmer conditions. This idea fuelled decades of research on plant‐herbivore interactions, but much less is known about higher‐level trophic interactions. We addressed this research gap by characterizing both bird diversity and avian predation along a climatic gradient at the European scale. Loc...
Foundation species that modify their habitat can facilitate other species, including other foundation species. Most studies focus solely on a single foundation species, overlooking such facilitation cascades. In this study, we investigated the interactions between the two coastal foundation species Mytilus edulis (blue mussel) and Lanice conchilega (sand mason worm). We investigated whether these species engage in facilitative...