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Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardised immune challenge in a wild rodent (2020)
Journal Article
Wanelik, K., Begon, M., Arriero, E., Bradley, J., Friberg, I., Jackson, J., …Paterson, S. (2020). Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardised immune challenge in a wild rodent. Scientific reports, 10(1), 7444. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64307-7

Individuals vary in their immune response and, as a result, some are more susceptible to infectious disease than others. Little is known about the nature of this individual variation in natural populations, or which components of immune pathways are... Read More about Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardised immune challenge in a wild rodent.

Vacuolar ATPase depletion contributes to dysregulation of endocytosis in bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, Z., Li, F., Hide, G., Lun, Z., & Lai, D. (2020). Vacuolar ATPase depletion contributes to dysregulation of endocytosis in bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei. Parasites and Vectors, 13(1), 214. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04068-4

BACKGROUND Vacuolar H-ATPase (V-ATPase) is a highly conserved protein complex which hydrolyzes ATP and pumps protons to acidify vacuolar vesicles. Beyond its role in pH maintenance, the involvement of V-ATPase in endocytosis is well documented in... Read More about Vacuolar ATPase depletion contributes to dysregulation of endocytosis in bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei.

Marine social sciences : looking towards a sustainable future (2020)
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McKinley, E., Acott, T., & Yates, K. (2020). Marine social sciences : looking towards a sustainable future. Environmental Science and Policy, 108, 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.015

Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically been lacking. As efforts... Read More about Marine social sciences : looking towards a sustainable future.

Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future (2020)
Journal Article
McKinley, E., Acott, T., & Yates, K. (2020). Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future. Environmental Science and Policy, 108, 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.015

Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically been lacking. As efforts t... Read More about Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future.

Ecosystem (dis)benefits arising from formal and informal land-use in Manchester (UK); a case study of urban soil characteristics associated with local green space management (2020)
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Dennis, M., Beesley, L., Hardman, M., & James, P. (2020). Ecosystem (dis)benefits arising from formal and informal land-use in Manchester (UK); a case study of urban soil characteristics associated with local green space management. Agronomy, 10(4), 552. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10040552

Urban soils are subject to anthropogenic influences and, reciprocally, provide benefits and dis-benefits to human wellbeing; for example carbon storage, nutrient cycling and the regulation trace element and contaminant mobility. Collective stewardshi... Read More about Ecosystem (dis)benefits arising from formal and informal land-use in Manchester (UK); a case study of urban soil characteristics associated with local green space management.

Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula (2020)
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Lacerda, A., Proietti, M., Secchi, E., & Taylor, J. (2020). Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula. Molecular Ecology, 29(10), 1903-1918. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15444

Marine plastic pollution has a range of negative impacts for biota and the colonization of plastics in the marine environment by microorganisms may have significant ecological impacts. However, data on epiplastic organisms, particularly fungi, is sti... Read More about Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Positive association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with chronic exposure to drinking water Arsenic (As) at concentrations below the WHO provisional guideline value : a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020)
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Xu, L., Mondal, D., & Polya, D. (2020). Positive association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with chronic exposure to drinking water Arsenic (As) at concentrations below the WHO provisional guideline value : a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2536. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072536

To the best of our knowledge, a dose-response meta-analysis of the relationship between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and arsenic (As) exposure at drinking water As concentrations lower than the WHO provisional guideline value (10 µg/L) has not been p... Read More about Positive association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with chronic exposure to drinking water Arsenic (As) at concentrations below the WHO provisional guideline value : a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Kith or kin? Familiarity as a cue to kinship in social birds (2020)
Journal Article
Leedale, A., Li, J., & Hatchwell, B. (2020). Kith or kin? Familiarity as a cue to kinship in social birds. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8(77), https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00077

Interacting with relatives provides opportunities for fitness benefits via kin-selected cooperation, but also creates potential costs through kin competition and inbreeding. Therefore, a mechanism for the discrimination of kin from non-kin is likely... Read More about Kith or kin? Familiarity as a cue to kinship in social birds.

Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels (2020)
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Barth, J., Gubili, C., Matschiner, M., Torresen, O., Watanabe, S., Egger, B., …Schabetsberger, R. (2020). Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels. Nature communications, 11, 1433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15099-x

Genomic evidence is increasingly underpinning that hybridization between taxa is commonplace, challenging our views on the mechanisms that maintain their boundaries. Here, we focus on seven catadromous eel species (genus Anguilla) and use genome-wide... Read More about Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels.

Fishing for mammals : landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems (2020)
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Sales, N., McKenzie, M., Drake, J., Harper, L., Browett, S., Coscia, I., …McDevitt, A. (2020). Fishing for mammals : landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(4), 707-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13592

1. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has revolutionised biomonitoring in both marine and freshwater ecosystems. However, for semi-aquatic and terrestrial animals, the application of this technique remains relatively untested. 2. We first ass... Read More about Fishing for mammals : landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems.

Genetic tools in the management of invasive mammals : recent trends and future perspectives (2020)
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Browett, S., O'Meara, D., & McDevitt, A. (2020). Genetic tools in the management of invasive mammals : recent trends and future perspectives. Mammal Review, 50(2), 200-210. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12189

1. Invasive non-native species are now considered to be one of the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Therefore, efficient and cost-effective management of species invasions requires robust knowledge of their demography, ecology and impacts,... Read More about Genetic tools in the management of invasive mammals : recent trends and future perspectives.

Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful (2020)
Book
Miah, A. (2020). Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful. Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781838679859

Against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world, driven by rapid digital innovation and technological advances, drones are becoming prolific within society. In this book, Andy Miah delivers a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applicat... Read More about Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful.

A phylogenetic comparative analysis on the evolution of sequential hermaphroditism in seabreams (Teleostei : Sparidae) (2020)
Journal Article
Pla, S., Benvenuto, C., Capellini, I., & Piferrer, F. (2020). A phylogenetic comparative analysis on the evolution of sequential hermaphroditism in seabreams (Teleostei : Sparidae). Scientific reports, 10, 3606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60376-w

The Sparids are an ideal group of fish in which to study the evolution of sexual systems since they exhibit a great sexual diversity, from gonochorism (separate sexes) to protandrous (male-first) and protogynous (female-first) sequential hermaphrod... Read More about A phylogenetic comparative analysis on the evolution of sequential hermaphroditism in seabreams (Teleostei : Sparidae).

Tracking forest biophysical properties with automated digital repeat photography: a fisheye perspective using digital hemispherical photography from below the canopy (2020)
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Brown, L., Ogutu, B., & Dash, J. (2020). Tracking forest biophysical properties with automated digital repeat photography: a fisheye perspective using digital hemispherical photography from below the canopy. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 287, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107944

In recent years, digital repeat photography has received increasing attention as an inexpensive means by which seasonal changes in vegetation canopies can be monitored. Offering automation and an increased measurement frequency, colour indices derive... Read More about Tracking forest biophysical properties with automated digital repeat photography: a fisheye perspective using digital hemispherical photography from below the canopy.

Agrowaste derived biochars impregnated with ZnO for removal of arsenic and lead in water (2020)
Journal Article
Mondal, D., Cruz, G., Rimaycuna, J., Soukup, K., Gomez, M., Solis, J., & Lang, J. (2020). Agrowaste derived biochars impregnated with ZnO for removal of arsenic and lead in water. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 8(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2020.103800

Using residual biomass for biochar production to be applied for water treatment is a cost effective and environmental-friendly alternative to activated carbon. However, biochars are materials with low textural properties (total specific area and tota... Read More about Agrowaste derived biochars impregnated with ZnO for removal of arsenic and lead in water.

Honey bee pathogens and diseases (2020)
Book Chapter
Martin, S., & Allsop, M. (2020). Honey bee pathogens and diseases. In C. Starr (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_59-1

Honey bees are the most intensively studied of all social insects – quite possibly the most studied of any invertebrate animal. As such their diseases and pests have become well-known. It is unlikely that any other social insect is affected by such a... Read More about Honey bee pathogens and diseases.

Phylogeographical structure of the pygmy shrew : revisiting the roles of southern and northern refugia in Europe (2020)
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Vega, R., McDevitt, A., Stojak, J., Mishta, A., Wójcik, J., Kryštufek, B., & Searle, J. (2020). Phylogeographical structure of the pygmy shrew : revisiting the roles of southern and northern refugia in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129(4), 901-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz209

Southern and northern glacial refugia are considered paradigms that explain the complex phylogeographical patterns and processes of European biota. Here, we provide a revisited statistical phylogeographical analysis of the pygmy shrew Sorex minutus L... Read More about Phylogeographical structure of the pygmy shrew : revisiting the roles of southern and northern refugia in Europe.

Fine-scale seascape genomics of an exploited marine species, the common cockle Cerastoderma edule, using a multi-modelling approach (2020)
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Coscia, I., Wilmes, S., Ironside, J., Goward-Brown, A., O'Dea, E., Malham, S., …Robins, P. (2020). Fine-scale seascape genomics of an exploited marine species, the common cockle Cerastoderma edule, using a multi-modelling approach. Evolutionary Applications, 13(8), 1854-1867. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12932

Population dynamics of marine species that are sessile as adults are driven by oceanographic dispersal of larvae from spawning to nursery grounds. This is mediated by life-history traits such as the timing and frequency of spawning, larval behaviour... Read More about Fine-scale seascape genomics of an exploited marine species, the common cockle Cerastoderma edule, using a multi-modelling approach.