Heyse, Jasmine Props, Ruben Kongnuan, Pantipa De Schryver, Peter Rombaut, Geert Defoirdt, Tom Boon, Nico
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Environmental microbiology
The development of effective management strategies to reduce the occurrence of diseases in aquaculture is hampered by the limited knowledge on the microbial ecology of these systems. In this study, the dynamics and dominant community assembly processes in the rearing water of Litopenaeus vannamei larviculture tanks were determined. Additionally, th...
Delnat, Vienna; 91659; Swaegers, Janne; 71923; Asselman, Jana; Stoks, Robby; 34380;
There is a pressing need to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying the, often magnifying, interactive effects between contaminants and natural stressors. Here we test our hypothesis that lower general stress defence responses contribute to synergistic interactions between stressors. We focus on the widespread pattern that many contaminants ar...
Asem, Alireza Eimanifar, Amin Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah Hontoria, Francisco De Vos, Stephanie Van Stappen, Gilbert Sun, Shi-Chun
The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 is a cosmopolitan halophilic crustacean, consisting of bisexual species and obligate parthenogenetic populations. Asia is rich in Artemia biodiversity. More than 530 Artemia sites have been recorded from this area and more than 20 species/subspecies/variety names have been used for them. There exist various problems in...
Meng, Shandong; 119909; Delnat, Vienna; 91659; Stoks, Robby; 34380;
The exposure order may strongly affect the impact of stressors, yet is largely ignored for the frequently occurring combinations of toxicants with natural stressors. We tested how exposure order shaped the interactive effects of serial exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos and to a heat spike in the larvae of the mosquito Culex pipiens. Notably, t...
Van den Eynde, Renik Van Leeuwen, Thomas Haesaert, Geert
Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) is one of the most important viral diseases of small grains worldwide. An understanding of its epidemiology is crucial to control this disease in a sustainable way. The virus moves through the agricultural landscape via cereal aphids as vectors. Understanding movement of these aphids in space and time is of key impo...
Leonardi, Pamela Murat, Claude Puliga, Federico Iotti, Mirco Zambonelli, Alessandra
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Environmental microbiology
Tuber borchii (the Bianchetto truffle) is a heterothallic Ascomycete living in symbiotic association with trees and shrubs. Maternal and paternal genotype dynamics have already been studied for the black truffles Tuber melanosporum and Tuber aestivum but not yet for T. borchii. In this study, we analysed maternal and paternal genotypes in the first...
Van Bocxlaer, Bert Ortiz-Sepulveda, Claudia M. Gurdebeke, Pieter R. Vekemans, Xavier
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BackgroundEcological speciation is a prominent mechanism of diversification but in many evolutionary radiations, particularly in invertebrates, it remains unclear whether supposedly critical ecological traits drove or facilitated diversification. As a result, we lack accurate knowledge on the drivers of diversification for most evolutionary radiati...
Wolz, Marina Klockmann, Michael Schmitz, Torben Pekár, Stano Bonte, Dries Uhl, Gabriele
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Movement Ecology
BackgroundDispersal and reproduction are key life-history traits that jointly determine species’ potential to expand their distribution, for instance in light of ongoing climate change. These life-history traits are known to be under selection by changing local environmental conditions, but they may also evolve by spatial sorting. While local natur...
Duysburgh, Cindy Ossieur, Wendy P De Paepe, Kim Van den Abbeele, Pieter Vichez-Vargas, Ramiro Vital, Marius Pieper, Dietmar H Van de Wiele, Tom Hesta, Myriam Possemiers, Sam
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Journal of animal science
Whereas a wide variety of in vitro models have been developed and validated to assess the effect of specific food ingredients on the human gut microbiome, such models have only been developed and applied to a limited extent for companion animals. Since the use of pre- and probiotics to improve gut health is an emerging research topic in the field o...
El Rahi, Joe Weeber, Marc P. Serafy, Ghada El
Jellyfish behavior and physiology significantly influence spatial distribution and aggregations in the marine environment. However, current models used to study these transport patterns have a limited incorporation of these physiological and behavioral variables. In this paper, the life cycle and movement of the mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is...
