Ciani, Elena Mastrangelo, Salvatore Da Silva, Anne Marroni, Fabio Ferenčaković, Maja Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo Baird, Hayley Barbato, Mario Colli, Licia Delvento, Chiara
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Genetics Selection Evolution
BackgroundIn the Neolithic, domestic sheep migrated into Europe and subsequently spread in westerly and northwesterly directions. Reconstruction of these migrations and subsequent genetic events requires a more detailed characterization of the current phylogeographic differentiation.ResultsWe collected 50 K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prof...
Brackx, Gwennhaël Guinoiseau, Damien Duponchel, Ludovic Gélabert, Alexandre Reichel, Victoria Zrig, Samia Meglio, Jean-Marc Di Benedetti, Marc F. Gaillardet, Jérôme Charron, Gaëlle
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Scientific Reports
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has been widely praised for its extreme sensitivity but has not so far been put to use in routine analytical applications, with the accessible scale of measurements a limiting factor. We report here on a frugal implementation of SERS dedicated to the quantitative detection of Zn2+ in water, Zn being an eleme...
Schophuizen, Martine Kalz, Marco
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International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
Understanding the process of initiation, design, implementation and embedding of educational innovations in higher education is necessary to develop better strategies for sustainable, large-scale educational innovation. Often early initiated educational innovation projects are not evaluated well enough, making it hard to identify lessons learned. T...
Berlamont, Helena De Witte, Chloë Bauwens, Eva Min Jou, Hannah Ducatelle, Richard De Meester, Ellen Gansemans, Yannick Deforce, Dieter Van Nieuwerburgh, Filip Haesebrouck, Freddy
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Veterinary Research
The porcine Helicobacter suis and canine-feline H. heilmannii are gastric Helicobacter species with zoonotic potential. However, little is known about the pathogenesis of human infections with these Helicobacter species. To gain more insight into the interactions of both zoonotic Helicobacter species with human gastric epithelial cells, we investig...
Senevirathne, Amal Hewawaduge, Chamith Lee, John Hwa
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Veterinary Research
The present study employs the Brucella abortus L7/L12 antigen in a Salmonella secretion platform and investigates its ability to induce protective immune responses against wild type challenge in BALB/c mice. The highly conserved L7/L12 open reading frame was PCR amplified from B. abortus and cloned into a prokaryotic expression vector, pJHL65, dire...
Andrade, Ricardo Doostmohammadi, Mahdi Santos, João L. Sagot, Marie-France Mira, Nuno P. Vinga, Susana
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BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundIn this paper, we explore the concept of multi-objective optimization in the field of metabolic engineering when both continuous and integer decision variables are involved in the model. In particular, we propose a multi-objective model that may be used to suggest reaction deletions that maximize and/or minimize several functions simultan...
Tang, Wenjie Chen, Daiwen Yu, Bing He, Jun Huang, Zhiqing Zheng, Ping Mao, Xiangbing Luo, Yuheng Luo, Junqiu Wang, Quyuan
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Veterinary Research
Early weaning-induced stress causes diarrhoea, thereby reducing the growth performance of piglets. Gut bacterial dysbiosis has emerged as a leading cause of post-weaning diarrhoea. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of capsulized faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) on the gut bacterial community, immune response and gut barrier f...
Logares, Ramiro Deutschmann, Ina M. Junger, Pedro C. Giner, Caterina R. Krabberød, Anders K. Schmidt, Thomas S. B. Rubinat-Ripoll, Laura Mestre, Mireia Salazar, Guillem Ruiz-González, Clara
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Microbiome
BackgroundThe ocean microbiota modulates global biogeochemical cycles and changes in its configuration may have large-scale consequences. Yet, the underlying ecological mechanisms structuring it are unclear. Here, we investigate how fundamental ecological mechanisms (selection, dispersal and ecological drift) shape the smallest members of the tropi...
Bassene, Hubert Niang, El Hadji Amadou Fenollar, Florence Doucoure, Souleymane Faye, Ousmane Raoult, Didier Sokhna, Cheikh Mediannikov, Oleg
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Scientific Reports
Biological control against malaria and its transmission is currently a considerable challenge. Plant-associated bacteria of the genus Asaia are frequently found in nectarivorous arthropods, they thought to have a natural indirect action on the development of plasmodium in mosquitoes. However, virtually nothing is known about its natural cycle. Here...
Dennis, Alice B. Ballesteros, Gabriel I. Robin, Stéphanie Schrader, Lukas Bast, Jens Berghöfer, Jan Beukeboom, Leo W. Belghazi, Maya Bretaudeau, Anthony Buellesbach, Jan
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundParasitoid wasps have fascinating life cycles and play an important role in trophic networks, yet little is known about their genome content and function. Parasitoids that infect aphids are an important group with the potential for biological control. Their success depends on adapting to develop inside aphids and overcoming both host aphi...
