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Heterospecific social behavior in primates: insights into the evolutionary roots of pet-keepingNARA Subscribed
Primate interspecific interactions with both other primates and non-primate species range from predator–prey dynamics to affiliative behaviors such as grooming, play, and carrying. While many primates participate in interspecific associations or commensal relationships, to our knowledge interspecific social interactions have never been systematically synthesized. Here, we present the first comprehensive review of such interact...
Integrated Reanalysis of Global Riverine Fish eDNA Datasets Shows Robustness and Congruence of Biodiversity ConclusionsNARA Subscribed
The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized biodiversity assessments in aquatic ecosystems, enabling non‐invasive monitoring of fish communities across diverse regions. However, the global comparability of these eDNA datasets remains ambiguous due to heterogeneous sampling protocols and bioinformatic workflows across studies, making it difficult to assess how robust and comparable the biodiversity patterns infe...
Effective management of vulnerable species requires a precise understanding of life history. In 2024, Fadool et al. published the first von Bertalanffy growth model for the nurse shark ( Ginglymostoma cirratum ), reporting an asymptotic maximum length L ∞ of 303.28 cm and a growth coefficient k of 0.04 yr −1 for the population in Bimini, The Bahamas. We investigated whether nurse shark growth varies in nearby Biscayne Bay, Flo...
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
Functional diversity of Brazilian bees: revealing the unique patterns of the NeotropicsNARA Subscribed
Bees are essential for ecosystem functioning, pollinating many wild and crop plant species. Predicting which species are most vulnerable to global changes, and how their loss may impact ecosystems and human well-being, is critical. Comprehensive information on bee response and effect traits is fundamental to these assessments. However, the Raunkiærian shortfall—insufficient trait data—remains significant for bees, particularly...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2024 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Seabirds face a trade-off between offspring provisioning and foraging effort. The hormone corticosterone regulates energy balance, while stable isotopes are proxies for diet composition. Measurements of Mercury (Hg), corticosterone (CORT f ) and stable isotope values of C (δ 13 C) and N (δ 15 N), integrated during feather growth in Yelkouan shearwater ( Puffinus yelkouan ) nestlings, were used to understand whether chick provi...
BMP9 knockout impairs pulmonary vessel muscularisation and confers aberrant tamoxifen sensitivityNARA Subscribed
Deleterious mutations in the GDF2 gene, encoding BMP9, are causative of pulmonary arterial hypertension and hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. Paradoxically, BMP9 germ-line knockout ( Gdf2 −/− ; Bmp9 KO) and double Bmp9 KO / conditional Bmp10 cKO (dKO) mice exhibit an attenuated response to PAH-inducing stimuli. We asked whether this contradiction is due to the pathological, physiological, or genetic consequences of BMP9...
Granite-related mineral deposits are major primary sources of the critical metals tin (Sn) and lithium (Li). The utility of accessory minerals such as zircon and apatite as pathfinders to these ore deposits has been a subject of great interest in recent years, with a number of geochemical discriminants having been developed to distinguish barren from metal-fertile and mineralised intrusions. Here, we study the potential of apa...