Implementing a rapid geographic range expansion - the role of behavior changes by Logan, Corina, McCune, Kelsey, LeGrande-Rolls, Christa, Marfori, Zara, Hubbard, Josephine, Lukas, Dieter

“…We compared behavior in wild-caught grackles from two populations across their range (an older population in the middle of the northern expansion front: Tempe, Arizona, and a more recent population on the northern edge of the expansion front: Woodland, California) to investigate whether certain behaviors (flexibility, innovativeness, exploration, and persistence) have higher averages and variances in the newer or older population. …”
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Inheritance of effective juvenile leaf rust resistance in six accessions of Aegilops speltoides Tausch by M. A. Kolesova, L. G. Tyryshkin

“…An important source of such genes are wild relatives of Triticum aestivum L., including Aegilops L. species. …”
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Distribution of morphological traits in ornamental peach cultivars according to their priority by L. D. Komar-Tyomnaya

“…Ornamental peach cultivars have their original features, especially as far as quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the flower are concerned. The use of wild peach and almond species in breeding for decorative purposes significantly widened the range of morphological variation in cultivars and invoked new gradations of their morphological traits. …”
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Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs)2-9 knockout mice exhibit reduced wakefulness and disrupted REM sleep by Sunmee Park, Jasmine Heu, Gavin Scheldrup, Ryan K. Tisdale, Yu Sun, Meghan Haire, Shun-Chieh Ma, Marius C. Hoener, Thomas S. Kilduff

“…IntroductionThis study aimed to investigate the role of TAAR2-9 in sleep/wake regulation, given TAAR1's known involvement in modulating neurotransmitter release and sleep patterns.MethodsMale TAAR2-9 knockout (KO) and wild-type (WT) mice were compared using baseline sleep/wake patterns, responses to sleep deprivation, effects of TAAR1 agonists, and dopaminergic markers. …”
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Image Recognition as a “Dialogic AI Partner” Within Biodiversity Citizen Science—an empirical investigation by Nirwan Sharma, Laura Colucci-Gray, Poppy Lakeman-Fraser, Annie Robinson, Julie Newman, René Van der Wal, Stefan Rueger, Advaith Siddharthan

“…We study this in the context of a biodiversity monitoring project that relies on volunteers to identify biological species from images taken in the wild. Guided by the idea of Bakhtin’s dialogism and Bayesian inference principles, we developed a web interface that integrated an image recognition model, fine-tuned for classifying 22 UK bumblebee species, into an interactive interface based on visual feature keys to enable real-time dialogue between humans and AI. …”
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Ablation of the deubiquitinating enzyme cylindromatosis (CYLD) augments STAT1-mediated M1 macrophage polarization and fosters Staphylococcus aureus control by Christina Schmidt, Kunjan Harit, Stephan Traidl, Michael Naumann, Thomas Werfel, Thomas Werfel, Lennart M. Roesner, Lennart M. Roesner, Gopala Nishanth, Dirk Schlüter, Dirk Schlüter

“…Infection of Cyld-deficient and wild-type mice with S. aureus confirmed the protective CYLD function. …”
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The Global Secondary Metabolite Regulator <i>AcLaeA</i> Modulates <i>Aspergillus carbonarius</i> Virulence, Ochratoxin Biosynthesis, and the Mode of Action of Biopesticides and Ess... by Maria K. Iliadi, Maria Varveri, Anastasia E. Kapetanakou, Panagiotis N. Skandamis, Dimitrios I. Tsitsigiannis

“…The goal of this study was to investigate the role of the regulatory gene <i>AclaeA</i> in physiology, virulence, and ochratoxin A (OTA) production by deleting this gene from the genome of a wild-type <i>A. carbonarius</i> strain. The evaluation data on the morphological characteristics, virulence experiments in three different grape varieties, and OTA analysis of Δ<i>AclaeA</i> mutants showed that the growth and the OTA production by Δ<i>AclaeA</i> strains were significantly reduced. …”
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Modulation of iron metabolism by new chemicals interacting with the iron regulatory system by Yoshiaki Tsuji, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Maurice Y.F. Shen, Benjamin R. DiFrancesco

“…To guide the development of new chemical probes to modulate the IRP-IRE regulatory system, we used an artificial intelligence (AI)-based ligand design and screened a chemical library composed of cysteine-reactive warheads. Using wild type and mutant IRE-luciferase reporter cells, we identified new IRP-IRE inhibitors such as V004-0872 harboring chloroacetamide, while its analog V011-6261 with chloropropanamide completely lost the inhibitory activity. …”
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Study of the expression of oncoprotein p53, EGFR in colorectal carcinomas with different proliferative activity by I.S. Shponka, I.K. Kharkhalis, O.V. Poslavska

“…The distribution of p53 expression variants - wild type (0<p53 <10%) or "mutant" (overexpression ≥10% or completely negative samples) showed no significant difference in any group (all p>0.05), despite that among men, mutant expression of p53 was significantly higher than among women – 72.72% (16 out of 22) versus 53.33% (8 out of 15), and all patients under the age of 50 years had a mutant type of p53 expression 9 out of 9 (100%), while the number of such observations after 50 years already decreased to about half – 15 out of 28 (53.57%). …”
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Wildlife Authority Revenue sharing Scheme and Women Empowerment; A Case Study of Mghahinga Conservation area Kisoro District, Uganda by Iradunkunda, Sam, Moses, Agaba

“…Revenue sharing is currently a popular approach to wild life conservation in Uganda; it involves all communities around the national parks of Uganda and was introduced to change attitudes of communities around the national parks. …”
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Transcriptome analysis and cytochrome P450 monooxygenase reveal the molecular mechanism of Bisphenol A degradation by Pseudomonas putida strain YC-AE1 by Adel, Eltoukhy, Yang, Jia, Imane, Lamraoui, M. A., Abo‑Kadoum, Omar, Mohammad Atta, Ruth, Nahurira, Junhuan, Wang, Yanchun, Yan

“…Subsequently, CYP‑ 450bisdB deficient YC‑AE1 strain △ bisdB lost its ability toward BPA transformation comparing with the wild type. Furthermore, Transformation of E. coli with pET‑32a‑bisdAB empowers it to degrade 66 mg l−1 of BPA after 24 h. …”
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Rational design of a triple-type HPV53/56/66 vaccine with one preferable base particle incorporating two identified immunodominant sites by Ciying Qian, Jie Chen, Yurou Yang, Yihan Lu, Tianyu Ren, Yanan Jiang, Yang Huang, Xin Chi, Shuyue Zhang, Chengzong Zhang, Kewei Li, Jingjia Shen, Sibo Zhang, Daning Wang, Lizhi Zhou, Tingting Li, Qingbing Zheng, Hai Yu, Ying Gu, Ningshao Xia, Shaowei Li

“…By incorporating two identified immunodominant sites into the preferable base particle, the study constructed a triple-type chimera H66-56HI-53FG, which could efficiently self-assemble into VLPs in vitro that closely resembled the wild-type HPV66 VLP and, induced balanced triple-type neutralization titers (~ 3 log unites), as contrast to none observable HPV53 neutralization titer and lower HPV56 titer elicited by the immunization of the wild-type HPV66 alone. …”
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Toxicity of standing milkvetch infected with Alternaria gansuense in white mice by Bo Yang, Zhi Biao Nan, Yan Zhong Li

“…IntroductionStanding milkvetch (Astragalus adsurgens) is widely distributed in the wild in Eurasia and North America and has been bred for cultivated forage in China. …”
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Toll-Like Receptor 9 Promotes Cardiac Inflammation and Heart Failure during Polymicrobial Sepsis by Ralph Lohner, Markus Schwederski, Carolin Narath, Johanna Klein, Georg D. Duerr, Alexandra Torno, Pascal Knuefermann, Andreas Hoeft, Georg Baumgarten, Rainer Meyer, Olaf Boehm

“…Sepsis was induced via colon ascendens stent peritonitis (CASP) in C57BL/6 wild-type (WT) and TLR9-deficient (TLR9-D) mice. …”
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Genome-Wide Analysis of the <i>PLATZ</i> Gene Family in <i>Oryza</i> Genus: Evolution, Expression During Inflorescence Development and Stress Responses by Hongwei Chen, Xiufang Ma, Guilan Lv, Zheng Wang, Lili Wang, Bowen Yan, Wenqi Shang, Xianju Wang, Zuobin Ma, Wenjing Zheng

“…In this study, we undertook a comprehensive identification and analysis of the <i>PLATZ</i> gene family across 10 <i>Oryza</i> genus species, including both cultivated and wild rice varieties. A total of 144 <i>PLATZ</i> genes were identified, demonstrating their widespread distribution. …”
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Advantageous Extraction, Cleanup, and UHPLC-MS/MS Detection of Patulin Mycotoxin in Dietary Supplements and Herbal Blends Containing Hawberry from Crataegus spp. by Anna Przybylska, Grzegorz Bazylak, Robert Kosicki, Iwona Altyn, Magdalena Twaruzek, Jan Grajewski, Anna Soltys-Lelek

“…Moreover, the PAT content was determined in the hawberry collected from the mature wild hawthorn trees belonging to three botanical species, Crataegus monogyna Jacq., Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC, and Crataegus rhipidophylla Gand, growing in the recreational forest areas and in the law-protected state national forest park in Poland. …”
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Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Synthesis Induce PPARα-Regulated Fatty Acid β-Oxidative Genes: Synergistic Roles of L-FABP and Glucose by Huan Huang, Avery L. McIntosh, Gregory G. Martin, Anca D. Petrescu, Kerstin K. Landrock, Danilo Landrock, Ann B. Kier, Friedhelm Schroeder

“…High (20 mM) but not physiological (6 mM) glucose conferred on both TOFA and C75 the ability to induce PPARα transcription of the fatty acid β-oxidative enzymes CPT1A, CPT2, and ACOX1 in cultured primary hepatocytes from wild-type (WT) mice. However, L-FABP gene ablation abolished the effects of TOFA and C75 in the context of high glucose. …”
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Long-term correction of hemophilia A via integration of a functionally enhanced FVIII gene into the AAVS1 locus by nickase in patient-derived iPSCs by Do-Hun Kim, Sang-Hwi Choi, Jin Jea Sung, Sieun Kim, Hanui Yi, Sanghyun Park, Chan Wook Park, Young Woo Oh, Jungil Lee, Dae-Sung Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim, Chul-Yong Park, Dong-Wook Kim

“…Compared with mice transplanted with wild-type BDD-FVIII-containing ECs, immunocompetent HA mice intravenously transplanted with FE-KI ECs presented a 2.12-fold increase in FVIII activity in the blood and an approximately 20% greater survival rate after hemorrhagic tail injury. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification of miRNAs in Oily Persimmon (<i>Diospyros oleifera</i> Cheng) and Their Functional Targets Associated with Proanthocyanidin Metabolism by Meng Zhang, Rong Wu, Xinlong Hu, Zhengrong Luo, Qinglin Zhang, Sichao Yang

“…Cultivated persimmon (<i>Diosspyros kaki</i> Thunb.) is a hexaploid (mostly) or a nonaploid with high heterozygosity, hindering molecular genetic studies on proanthocyanidin (PA) metabolism, which is a major trait for persimmon astringency. Recently, one of its wild diploid relative species, oily persimmon (<i>Diospyros oleifera</i>), has been assembled with a chromosome-level reference. …”
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Exploiting gasdermin-mediated pyroptosis for enhanced antimicrobial activity of phage endolysin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Dorota Kuc-Ciepluch, Karol Ciepluch, Daria Augustyniak, Grzegorz Guła, Barbara Maciejewska, Artur Kowalik, Ewelina Jop, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, Michał Arabski

“…Our findings demonstrated that recombinant GSDMD alone exhibited antibacterial effects against wild-type P. aeruginosa with smooth LPS, while recombinant GSDMDNterm efficiently permeabilized both smooth LPS-bearing and O-chain-deficient P. aeruginosa potentially synergizing with endolysin KP27. …”
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