Abstract Introduction Failure in the mechanism of self-tolerance in T or B cells can lead to autoimmunity. One of the autoimmune diseases is rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause and is characterized by systemic inflammation, autoantibodies and joint destruction. Serology is crucial for the classificati...
The aim of this study was to investigate how well the biological indexes in the north of Sweden matches with the physicochemical conditions in streams, and to evaluate whether the deformations of diatom shells has a connection to heavy metal conditions in streams. The sampling areas include nineteen different locations. As the water-chemical condit...
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Accepted. Paper 4: Manuscript.
The world’s most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated their sophisticated behaviour and cognitive skills...
In "Retrotransposons Are the Major Contributors to the Expansion of the Drosophila ananassae Muller F Element," Leung et al. (2017) improved contigs attributed to the Muller F element from the original CAF1 assembly, and used them to conclude that most of the sequence expansion of the fourth chromosome of D. ananassae is due to a higher transposon ...
This article belongs to the Special Issue Aquatic Organisms for Environmental Monitoring
Populations of fishes provide valuable services for billions of people, but face diverse and interacting threats that jeopardize their sustainability. Human population growth and intensifying resource use for food, water, energy and goods are compromising fish populations through a variety of mechanisms, including overfishing, habitat degradation a...
Background: With only 2 % of the human genome consisting of protein coding genes, functionality across the rest of the genome has been the subject of much debate. This has gained further impetus in recent years due to a rapidly growing catalogue of genomic elements, based primarily on biochemical signatures (e.g. the ENCODE project). While the asse...
Ämnen kopplade till sexualitet och relationer är populära att diskutera i samhället, och i och med kampanjen ”Metoo” så synliggjordes också vikten av kunskap om jämställdhet och respekt. Mycket ansvar ligger på skolan att utbilda demokratiska medborgare med sunda värderingar som kan ta kloka beslut. Sex och samlevnad är ett ämnesövergripande ämne, ...
