Clé, Marion Constant, Orianne Barthelemy, Jonathan Desmetz, Caroline Martin, Marie France Lapeyre, Lina Cadar, Daniel Savini, Giovanni Teodori, Liana Monaco, Federica
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Journal of Neuroinflammation
BackgroundUsutu virus (USUV) is an emerging neurotropic arthropod-borne virus recently involved in massive die offs of wild birds predominantly reported in Europe. Although primarily asymptomatic or presenting mild clinical signs, humans infected by USUV can develop neuroinvasive pathologies (including encephalitis and meningoencephalitis). Similar...
Lagou, Vasiliki Mägi, Reedik Hottenga, Jouke- Jan Grallert, Harald Perry, John R. B. Bouatia-Naji, Nabila Marullo, Letizia Rybin, Denis Jansen, Rick Min, Josine L.
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Nature Communications
Sex differences in fasting glucose and insulin have been identified, but the genetic loci underlying these differences have not. Here, the authors perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to detect sex-specific and sex-dimorphic loci associated with fasting glucose and insulin.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...