Urban green spaces (UGSs) have been promoted as nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Most UGS planning and studies use vegetation cover as a proxy for soil ecosystem function, yet management practices may alter aboveground-belowground interactions that underpin soil biodiversity and biogeochemical processes, limiting the effectiveness of UGSs in delivering ecosystem services. Here...

Cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive a perturbed wound microenvironment and impaired healing in aged skin have not been fully delineated. To obtain a comprehensive understanding of cell-intrinsic changes acquired during ageing that impact early responses to injury, we performed single-cell RNA sequencing in young and aged intact female murine skin and wounds 3 days post-injury. We observed that substantial changes in t...

The phylum Acanthocephala is a ubiquitous group of zooparasites, with major socio‐economic importance. The true diversity of the Acanthocephala is obscured by the phenomena of cryptic speciation and a large degree of intraspecific variation. In this study we describe an example of extreme phenotypic variation in neck morphology. The pomphorhynchid acanthocephalans, Longicollum pagrosomi and Pomphorhynchus zhoushanensis were or...

In one of the earliest reports from China during COVID-19, it was noted that over 20% of patients hospitalized with the disease had significant elevations of troponin, a marker of myocardial tissue damage, that put them at a higher risk. In a hypothesis-independent whole exome sequencing (WES) study in hospitalized COVID-19 patients of diverse ancestry, we observed putative enrichment in pathogenic variants in genes known to b...

Identification of fish larvae based on morphology is typically limited to higher taxonomic ranks (e.g., family or order), as larvae possess few morphological diagnostic characters for precise discrimination to species. When many samples are presented at any one time, the use of morphology to identify such specimens can be laborious and time‐consuming. Using a reverse workflow for specimen sorting and identification leveraging...