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Purpose To determine if the developed Know Your Risk (KYR) intervention is similar to conventional genetic counseling; we evaluated participants’ knowledge of cancer genetics, breast cancer risk perception, attitudes about genetic counseling and testing, and satisfaction with genetic counseling. Methods Women ( n = 866) who screened at elevated risk for breast cancer were randomized to the KYR intervention or conventional gene...
Kinship Analysis Confirms Tolerant Galapagos Mockingbirds Are a Source of Nest Flies That Threaten Darwin's FinchesNARA Subscribed
Host species have evolved different strategies for dealing with parasites. ‘Vulnerable’ hosts, which suffer reduced fitness from parasites, are under selection to evolve defences. ‘Tolerant’ hosts, by contrast, avoid reductions in fitness by mitigating parasite damage. When tolerant and vulnerable hosts co‐occur, tolerant hosts may pose an indirect threat to vulnerable hosts by serving as a source of parasite infestation. Avia...
The Relationship Between Subjective and Objective Fatigue Assessment Approaches in Multiple Sclerosis: A Meta-AnalysisNARA Subscribed
Fatigue is one of the most debilitating symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The importance of fatigue management to quality of life, and challenges in measuring this construct, suggest a need to better understand and assess fatigue. The measurement of fatigue has historically been comprised of self-report scales, but recent research literature has begun reporting attempts to objectively measure fatigue using performance durin...
Realistic representation of monthly sea level anomalies in coastal regions has been a challenge for global ocean reanalyses. This is especially the case in coastal regions where sea levels are influenced by western boundary currents such as near the U.S. Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. For these regions, most ocean reanalyses compare poorly to observations. Problems in reanalyses include errors in data assimilation and...
Researchers often examine symbiont host specificity as a species‐level pattern, but it can also be key to understanding processes occurring at the population level, which are not as well understood. The specialist–generalist variation hypothesis (SGVH) attempts to explain how host specificity influences population‐level processes, stating that single‐host symbionts (specialists) exhibit stronger population genetic structure th...
Climate change is fundamentally altering marine and coastal ecosystems on a global scale. While the effects of ocean warming and acidification on ecology and ecosystem functions and services are being comprehensively researched, less attention is directed toward understanding the impacts of human‐driven ocean salinity changes. The global water cycle operates through water fluxes expressed as precipitation, evaporation, and fre...
Many corals form intimate symbioses with photosynthetic dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae. These symbioses have been deeply studied, particularly in reef-forming corals. The complex microbial community that is associated with corals contains other members that have also been well characterized such as bacteria. However, our understanding of the coral holobiont and subsequently coral reef ecosystems is not complete...
The reef-building coral Galaxea fascicularis: a new model system for coral symbiosis researchNARA Subscribed
Reef-building corals owe their evolutionary success to their symbiosis with unicellular algae (Symbiodiniaceae). However, increasingly frequent heat waves lead to coral mass-bleaching events and pose a serious threat to the survival of reef ecosystems. Despite significant efforts, a mechanistic understanding of coral–algal symbiosis functioning, what leads to its breakdown and what can prevent it, remains incomplete. The main...
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disab...
Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species‐level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for all birds, includi...