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The jewelled splitfin fish Xenotoca variata have speckles, made up of iridescent scales with UV reflectance as an important component. The males of this freshwater viviparous species develop a greater number of speckles than females. Previous work has found that the speckles play a role in both mate choice and agonistic interactions. Females presented with two males often prefer the male with more speckles. Speckled males tend...
Remote Sensing With Machine Learning to Monitor Seagrass Meadows: Long‐Term Trends in Tauranga Harbour, New ZealandNARA Subscribed
Seagrass meadows play critical roles in coastal ecosystems by stabilising sediments, supporting biodiversity and sequestering carbon, yet monitoring their recovery at scale is often constrained by the lack of scalable and repeatable approaches. This study applies an open‐source remote‐sensing framework to track long‐term changes in Zostera muelleri in Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand, from 1959 to 2024. Using supervised machine l...
Along the Benthic to Holoplanktonic Continuum: Seafloor Affinity Increases Distance‐Decay Rates Among Abyssal CommunitiesNARA Subscribed
Aim Marine species ranges are often large, contributing to relatively high community similarity over space, with decreased ranges expected among taxa that have lower dispersal and/or higher substrate requirements. We tested for a weakening of biogeographic structuring among dispersing abyssal taxa along the benthic to holoplanktonic habitat continuum by comparing geographic ranges and rates of community dissimilarity across th...
Calibration of the species threat abatement and restoration metric's threat abatement component in a Costa Rican landscapeNARA Subscribed
Achieving global conservation policy goals requires the ability to set and measure progress toward science‐based targets for biodiversity. The species threat abatement and restoration (STAR) metric was developed to enable actors to set science‐based targets for species. STAR scores quantify the potential contribution of actions to abate threats and restore habitat to reduce species extinction risk in a particular place and can...
DHX37 protein and mRNA expression patterns in breast and ovarian cancer and their prognostic implicationsNARA Subscribed
DEAH-box RNA helicase 37 (DHX37) is a highly conserved RNA helicase involved in ribosome biogenesis, RNA metabolism and immune regulation. Dysregulation of RNA helicases has been implicated in tumourigenesis; however, the clinical significance of DHX37 expression in tumours is still emerging and requires further study. This study investigated the expression of DHX37 in large breast and ovarian cancer patient cohorts using immu...
Cell alignment on novel polymeric micro-hollow fiber membranes for neural and musculoskeletal tissue engineeringNARA Subscribed
Precise positioning and alignment of specific cell types, such as those in the central nervous system and the muscular system, is essential for their functional integration, their migration, and proliferation in vivo. Cell alignment in physiologically relevant tissue models and constructs is challenging to reproduce in vitro unless a three-dimensional scaffold is used. This study demonstrates that cell alignment can be guided...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of speci...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women and carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), yet little is known about how sex and APOE interact to influence white matter (WM) integrity during disease progression. We integrated diffusion MRI and matched blood transcriptomic data to investigate these interactions and their underlying biological mechanisms. WM microstructure was quantified using diffusion te...
Assessing the impact of climate change on verticillium wilt and the implications for cotton production in AustraliaNARA Subscribed
Climate change poses significant challenges for agricultural production, potentially altering crop distribution, productivity, and the prevalence of plant diseases. This study focuses on the fungus Verticillium dahliae which causes disease in over 400 plant species, significantly impacting cotton in most major cotton producing countries. We investigate how climate suitability for V. dahliae could change in the future, using Ne...
Two-step drying of soya bean seed germplasm often improves subsequent storage longevityNARA Subscribed
It is recommended that seeds for genebank storage are dried to low moisture content at 10–25 °C, 10–15% RH, but in some crops, an initial warmer drying temperature may provide better longevity. Seeds of diverse accessions of soyabean ( Glycine max (L.) Merr.) produced in three seasons and harvested shortly before or at harvest maturity were initially dried at 17, 30 or 40 °C with 15% RH and subsequently at 17 °C with 15% RH; s...
Fan shells (Family Pinnidae) have high ecological importance but are facing global declines including in New Zealand. Given the scarcity of data regarding the degree of these losses, understanding current population spatial extents and distributional drivers is needed for restoration management. A subtidal towed underwater camera survey was conducted at 62 sites to elucidate Atrina zelandica extent in Tauranga Harbour, Bay of...