Mignotte, Antoine Garros, Claire Dellicour, Simon Jacquot, Maude Gilbert, Marius Gardès, Laetitia Balenghien, Thomas Duhayon, Maxime Rakotoarivony, Ignace de Wavrechin, Maïa
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundIn the last two decades, recurrent epizootics of bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus have been reported in the western Palearctic region. These viruses affect domestic cattle, sheep, goats and wild ruminants and are transmitted by native hematophagous midges of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Culicoides dispersal is ...
Chang, Jinfeng Ciais, Philippe Gasser, Thomas Smith, Pete Herrero, Mario Havlík, Petr Obersteiner, Michael Guenet, Bertrand Goll, Daniel S. Li, Wei
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Nature Communications
Grasslands, and the livestock that live there, are dynamic sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, but what controls these fluxes remains poorly characterized. Here the authors show that on the global level, grasslands are climate neutral owing to the cancelling effects of managed vs. natural systems.
Zou, Y.-Q. Bakkali-Hassani, B. Maury, C. Le Cerf, É. Nascimbene, S. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, J.
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Nature Communications
Here the authors use Ramsey interferometry to study Tan’s contact in uniform two-dimensional Bose gas of 87Rb atoms across the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless superfluid transition. They find that the two-body contact is continuous across the critical point.
Unicomb, Samuel Iñiguez, Gerardo Gleeson, James P. Karsai, Márton
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Nature Communications
Temporal networks in which interaction events are distributed heterogeneously in time are complex to model. Unicomb et al. propose an analytical framework for the analysis of cascading dynamics in such networks, relevant for spin interactions, epidemic spreading, and language dynamics.
Duenk, Pascal Bijma, Piter Wientjes, Yvonne C. J. Calus, Mario P. L.
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Genetics Selection Evolution
BackgroundThe genetic correlation between purebred and crossbred performance (rpc\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${r}_{pc}$$\end{document}) is an importa...
Gauvain, Gregory Akolkar, Himanshu Chaffiol, Antoine Arcizet, Fabrice Khoei, Mina A. Desrosiers, Mélissa Jaillard, Céline Caplette, Romain Marre, Olivier Bertin, Stéphane
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Communications Biology
Gauvain et al demonstrate that optogenetic therapy using the AAV2.7m8- ChR-tdT construct can partially restore vision in non-human primates to levels above those considered legally-blind. This study enables the identification of the most suitable construct for ongoing clinical trials attempting vision restoration in patients with retinitis pigmento...
Pistorius, Arthur M. A. Blokker, Ineke
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Genetics Selection Evolution
BackgroundFor many years, breeders of companion animals have applied inbreeding or line breeding to transfer desirable genetic traits from parents to their offspring. Simultaneously, this resulted in a considerable spread of hereditary diseases and phenomena associated with inbreeding depression.ResultsOur cluster analysis of kinship and inbreeding...
Schuwerk, Lukas Hoeltig, Doris Waldmann, Karl-Heinz Valentin-Weigand, Peter Rohde, Judith
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Veterinary Research
Serotyping is the most common method to characterize field isolates of Actinobacillus (A.) pleuropneumoniae, the etiological agent of porcine pleuropneumonia. Based on serology, many farms seem to be infected and antibodies against a wide variety of serovars are detectable, but, so far it is unknown to what degree respective serovars contribute to ...
Yuan, Zehu Sunduimijid, Bolormaa Xiang, Ruidong Behrendt, Ralph Knight, Matthew I. Mason, Brett A. Reich, Coralie M. Prowse-Wilkins, Claire Vander Jagt, Christy J. Chamberlain, Amanda J.
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Genetics Selection Evolution
BackgroundVariants that regulate transcription, such as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL), have shown enrichment in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for mammalian complex traits. However, no study has reported eQTL in sheep, although it is an important agricultural species for which many GWAS of complex meat traits have been conducted...
Bélondrade, Maxime Nicot, Simon Mayran, Charly Bruyere-Ostells, Lilian Almela, Florian Di Bari, Michele A. Levavasseur, Etienne Watts, Joel C. Fournier-Wirth, Chantal Lehmann, Sylvain
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Scientific Reports
Unlike variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease prions, sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease prions have been shown to be difficult to amplify in vitro by protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA). We assessed PMCA of pathological prion protein (PrPTSE) from 14 human sCJD brain samples in 3 substrates: 2 from transgenic mice expressing human prion prot...
