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Virus‐Dependent Geographic Structure of Co‐Circulating Viruses in a Single Bat SpeciesNARA Subscribed
Understanding the spatial spread of viruses within wildlife populations is often a key component of disease management efforts. Viral spread is likely constrained by host ecology, but inter‐virus differences in infection strategy might allow some viruses to overcome these constraints, leading to divergent population structures within a common host environment. We studied the phylogeographic structure of six virus taxa (dependo...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2024 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Motivation and retrospective appraisal of psychedelic study participation: a qualitative study in healthy volunteersNARA Subscribed
Rationale Little is known about motives of healthy volunteers to participate in psychedelic trials and how they appraise their study experience retrospectively. Objectives This paper explored reasons why healthy people register for psychedelic trials, factors that they considered to contribute to either positive or negative study experiences, and under which circumstances they would seek a psychedelic experience again. Methods...
Climate‐driven shifts in herbivores, temperature, and nutrient runoff threaten coastal ecosystem resilience. However, ecological resilience, particularly for foundation species, remains poorly understood due to the scarcity of field experiments conducted across appropriate spatial and temporal scales that investigate multiple stressors. This study evaluates the resilience of a widespread tropical marine plant (turtlegrass) to...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2023 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Microorganisms uniquely capture and predict stony coral tissue loss disease and hurricane disturbance impacts on US Virgin Island reefsNARA Subscribed
Coral reef ecosystems are now commonly affected by major climate and disease disturbances. Disturbance impacts are typically recorded using reef benthic cover, but this may be less reflective of other ecosystem processes. To explore the potential for reef water‐based disturbance indicators, we conducted a 7‐year time series on US Virgin Island reefs where we examined benthic cover and reef water nutrients and microorganisms fr...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2022 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Diverging trends and drivers of Arctic flower production in Greenland over space and timeNARA Subscribed
The Arctic is warming at an alarming rate. While changes in plant community composition and phenology have been extensively reported, the effects of climate change on reproduction remain poorly understood. We quantified multidecadal changes in flower density for nine tundra plant species at a low- and a high-Arctic site in Greenland. We found substantial changes in flower density over time, but the temporal trends and drivers...
NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES : A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
The Neotropical region hosts 4225 freshwater fish species, ranking first among the world's most diverse regions for freshwater fishes. Our NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set is the first to produce a large‐scale Neotropical freshwater fish inventory, covering the entire Neotropical region from Mexico and the Caribbean in the north to the southern limits in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay. We compiled 185,787 distri...
Machine learning techniques to characterize functional traits of plankton from image dataNARA Subscribed
Plankton imaging systems supported by automated classification and analysis have improved ecologists' ability to observe aquatic ecosystems. Today, we are on the cusp of reliably tracking plankton populations with a suite of lab‐based and in situ tools, collecting imaging data at unprecedentedly fine spatial and temporal scales. But these data have potential well beyond examining the abundances of different taxa; the individua...
Flashback phenomena after administration of LSD and psilocybin in controlled studies with healthy participantsNARA Subscribed
Background LSD and psilocybin are increasingly used in phase I trials and evaluated as therapeutic agents for mental disorders. The phenomenon of reoccurring drug-like experiences after the acute substance effects have worn off was described for both substances and especially attributed to LSD. According to the DSM-V, the persisting and distressing manifestation of these experiences is called hallucinogen-persisting perception...
Prochlorococcus extracellular vesicles: molecular composition and adsorption to diverse microbesNARA Subscribed
Summary Extracellular vesicles are small (~50–200 nm diameter) membrane‐bound structures released by cells from all domains of life. While vesicles are abundant in the oceans, their functions, both for cells themselves and the emergent ecosystem, remain a mystery. To better characterize these particles – a prerequisite for determining function – we analysed the lipid, protein, and metabolite content of vesicles produced by the...