Benali Khodja, Malia Metouchi, Abdenacer Djoudar Hallal, Dahbia Khelfi, Mohamed El Amine Önsoy, Hizir Toumi, Samir
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Wadi Isser watershed (4149 km2), located in the North of Algeria, has experienced a significant rainfall variability during the last four decades. In order to characterize this variability and determine its spatial extension, by means of the analysis of the rainfall data measured in twenty-seven (27) stations, the following study was conducted. The...
Ichiyanagi, Kenji Saito, Kuniaki
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Mobile DNA
The fifth Japanese meeting on host–transposon interactions, titled “Biological Function and Evolution through Interactions between Hosts and Transposable Elements (TEs),” was held online on August 26–27, 2021. The meeting was supported by National Institute of Genetics and aimed to bring together researchers studying the diverse roles of TEs in gen...
Tyler, Jonathan Lu, Yining Dunlap, Jay Forger, Daniel B.
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Genome Biology
BackgroundCircadian (daily) timekeeping is essential to the survival of many organisms. An integral part of all circadian timekeeping systems is negative feedback between an activator and repressor. However, the role of this feedback varies widely between lower and higher organisms.ResultsHere, we study repression mechanisms in the cyanobacterial a...
Ghosh, Saheli Purohit, Hemant. J. Qureshi, Asifa
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Archives of Microbiology
Pseudomonas simiae EGD-AQ6 is capable of utilizing chloroaromatic compound i.e., 2–4-D efficiently in its biofilm phenotype. The differential accumulation of intermediate 4-chlorocatechol rates were significant in planktonic and biofilm phenotypes, as well as in the increased biofilm adapted cell numbers. Interestingly, response surface analysis de...
Angosto-Bazarra, Diego Alarcón-Vila, Cristina Hurtado-Navarro, Laura Baños, María C. Rivers-Auty, Jack Pelegrín, Pablo
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BMC Biology
BackgroundGasdermins are ancient (>500million-years-ago) proteins, constituting a family of pore-forming proteins that allow the release of intracellular content including proinflammatory cytokines. Despite their importance in the immune response, and although gasdermin and gasdermin-like genes have been identified across a wide range of animal and...
Xie, Bing Dashevsky, Daniel Rokyta, Darin Ghezellou, Parviz Fathinia, Behzad Shi, Qiong Richardson, Michael K. Fry, Bryan G.
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BMC Biology
BackgroundThe explosive radiation and diversification of the advanced snakes (superfamily Colubroidea) was associated with changes in all aspects of the shared venom system. Morphological changes included the partitioning of the mixed ancestral glands into two discrete glands devoted for production of venom or mucous respectively, as well as change...
Jordan, N. R. Golabek, K. A. Behr, D. M. Walker, R. H. Plimpton, L. Lostrom, S. Claase, M. Van der Weyde, L. K. McNutt, J. W.
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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
AbstractPatterns of food sharing in collectively hunting species are likely to influence social dynamics and evolution. Despite this, little is known about competition within social groups at carcasses and other food sources, making the social drivers and implications of food sharing difficult to assess. We quantified carcass access and feeding beh...
Feng, Shiqian Pozzi, Andrea Stejskal, Vaclav Opit, George Yang, Qianqian Shao, Renfu Dowling, Damian K. Li, Zhihong
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BMC Biology
BackgroundA single circular mitochondrial (mt) genome is a common feature across most metazoans. The mt-genome includes protein-coding genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation, as well as RNAs necessary for translation of mt-RNAs, whose order and number are highly conserved across animal clades, with few known exceptions of alternative mt-gene o...
Mühlenhaupt, Max Baxter-Gilbert, James Makhubo, Buyisile G. Riley, Julia L. Measey, John
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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
AbstractAnimals are increasingly challenged to respond to novel or rapidly changing habitats due to urbanization and/or displacement outside their native range by humans. Behavioral differences, such as increased boldness (i.e., propensity for risk-taking), are often observed in animals persisting in novel environments; however, in many cases, it i...
Destoumieux-Garzón, Delphine Matthies-Wiesler, Franziska Bierne, Nicolas Binot, Aurélie Boissier, Jérôme Devouge, Anaïs Garric, Jeanne Gruetzmacher, Kim Grunau, Christoph Guégan, Jean-François
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Environment international
The implementation of One Health/EcoHealth/Planetary Health approaches has been identified as key (i) to address the strong interconnections between risk for pandemics, climate change and biodiversity loss and (ii) to develop and implement solutions to these interlinked crises. As a response to the multiple calls from scientists on that subject, we...
