Nutritional state-dependent modulation of insulin-producing cells in Drosophila by Rituja S Bisen, Fathima Mukthar Iqbal, Federico Cascino-Milani, Till Bockemühl, Jan M Ache

“…IPC activity decreased with increasing periods of starvation. Refeeding flies with glucose or fructose, two nutritive sugars, significantly increased IPC activity, whereas non-nutritive sugars had no effect. …”
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Research progress on climate change adaptation strategies to control invasive crop pest in sub-Saharan Africa: a bibliometric and systematic review by Eméline Sêssi Pélagie Assèdé, Eméline Sêssi Pélagie Assèdé, Calvince Ouko Othoo, Calvince Ouko Othoo, Ahmadou Ly, Gobena Bayisa, Temesgen Gashaw Tarkegn, Temesgen Gashaw Tarkegn, Mègnissè Zohoun, Anje-Jokebed N’goran

“…Findings indicated that pests such as armyworms, fruit flies and coffee berry borer cause huge losses. Communities are adopting integrated pest management, water harvesting, drip irrigation, resistant varieties, and improving production efficiency. …”
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Transcription factor DREF regulates expression of the microRNA gene <i>bantam in Drosophila melanogaster</i> by M. B.  Schwartz, M. M. Prudnikova, O. V. Andreenkov, E. I. Volkova, I. F. Zhimulev, O. V. Antonenko, S.  A. Demakov

“…Using transgenic lines containing a fulllength bantam lethality-rescuing deletion fragment and a fragment with a disrupted DREF binding site, we show that these motifs are functionally significant because their disruption at the bantam locus reduces expression levels in the larvae and ovaries of homozygous flies, which correlates with reduced vitality and fertility. …”
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Impact of reduced sonic boom exposure on introspective judgments and annoyance, pleasantness and loudness ratings for simulated booms presented in a realistic indoor environment by Marmel Frédéric, Cretagne Léo, Thuong Linh-Thao, Coulouvrat François, Fritz Claudia

“…This paper reports on a project that quantified the effects of sonic boom exposure on human responses, in situations representative of the daily life of European citizens, to inform policy, and develop protection concepts for a new generation of supersonic commercial aircraft that should emit a reduced but perceivable boom while flying overland. Two reduced boom simulators were affixed to the bedroom windows of a house located on our university campus. …”
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Ulcerative Colitis and Its Association with Salmonella Species by Manish Kumar Tripathi, Chandra Bhan Pratap, Vinod K. Dixit, Tej Bali Singh, Sunit K. Shukla, Ashok K. Jain, Gopal Nath

“…Nested PCR was performed targeting fliC, staA, and stkG gene for Typhi and Paratyphi A, respectively. …”
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GENOME POLITICS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS by Jonas Rubikas

“…For better realization of information in some cases the genome changes the usual way of expression, that is, the genome uses some tactical approaches: at the DNA level - restructuring of the genome (mating type in yeasts, sex determination in some flies and worms, V(D)J recombination in immunoglobulin genes in human B lymphocytes); at the RNA level - gene splicing, alternative and self splicing, RNA editing; at the protein level - protein splicing. …”
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Molecular Epidemiology of Salmonella enterica in Poultry in South Africa Using the Farm-to-Fork Approach by Melissa A. Ramtahal, Anou M. Somboro, Daniel G. Amoako, Akebe L. K. Abia, Keith Perrett, Linda A. Bester, Sabiha Y. Essack

“…All isolates harboured the misL, orfL, pipD, stn, spiC, hilA, and sopB virulence genes, while pefA, spvA, spvB, and spvC were absent. In addition, fliC was only present among the wastewater isolates. …”
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Threats and the active protection of birds in a riverbed: postulates for the strategy of the preservation of the middle Vistula River avifauna by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…While in 1985-1994 the main risks for their breeding were found to be flood waters, predation by the hooded crow Corvus corone cornix and the Eurasian magpie Pica pica, as well as, locally, uncontrolled livestock grazing, in 2005-2014 they were primarily predation pressure from the American mink Neovision vision and the red fox Vulpes vulpes and massive outbreaks of black flies Simuliidae. These threats led to a reproductive outcome of nearly zero and increased the mortality of adults in their breeding areas. …”
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Antifilarial Activity of the Methanolic Extract of Indigofera tinctoria (Fabaceae) on Bovine Parasites (Onchocerca ochengi) by Enock Enock Rakwa, Benoît Bargui Koubala, Bertrand Ndou Mando, Mathieu Djongra, Francis Nveikoueing, Dieudonné Ndjonka

“…Onchocerciasis is a major public health problem caused by Onchocerca volvulus parasite and transmitted to humans via black flies (simulium) bites. The control of onchocerciasis relies much on the use of the chemical drug ivermectin, which is only effective against microfilariae and has led to drug resistance. …”
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Emergence and flight routes of the lesser horseshoe bats Rhinolophus hipposideros (Bechstein, 1800) from a church at Ljubljansko barje, central Slovenia by Veronika Ramovš, Simon Zidar, Maja Zagmajster

“…The lesser horseshoe bats flew few metres above the ground into the nearby forest Gulč on the northwestern side of the church. We observed flying bats at nine locations in this forest and at three locations on the forest edge, where they probably foraged. …”
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A Drosophila melanogaster mitotype may have an adaptive meaning by D. V. Petrovskii, L. P. Zakharenko

“…If the energy expenditure during the sleep in flies with different locomotor activity is the same, then an individual with the same overall energy expenditure can move a greater distance or be active longer. …”
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The spectrum-efficacy correlation of Kai-Xin-San for cognition of Aβ42 transgenic Drosophila and verification of its active ingredients by Jinfu Wu, Hang Sun, Yiyang Zhao, Lian Lian, Hongsheng Bian, Yong Guo, Dan Li, Lili Huang

“…Treatment with KXS (1%, for 4 days) significantly enhanced the performance index of Aβ42 flies in the olfactory experiment. Both spectrum-effect analysis and validation tests indicated that polygalaxanthone III, ginsenoside Rg1, ginsenoside Rb1, β-asarone, and α-asarone were positively correlated with the performance index and improved the performance index in the olfactory experiment. …”
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Prevalence and genomic insights of carbapenem resistant and ESBL producing Multidrug resistant Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections by Vidhyalakshmi Sivarajan, Amirtha Varshini Ganesh, Pavithra Subramani, Priyanka Ganesapandi, R. N. Sivanandan, Sneha Prakash, Nithyasri Manikandan, Arunasalam Dharmarajan, Frank Arfuso, Sudha Warrier, Marquess Raj, Kumar Perumal

“…Virulence factors of CREC 3 (fliC, shuA), CREC 4 (spaS), CREC 5 (iucA, papH, papG, iucB, yigF), and plasmids (IncFIA, IncFIB) were identified to be significant. …”
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Transitive reasoning in the adult domestic hen in a six-term series task by R. Degrande, O. Amichaud, B. Piégu, F. Cornilleau, P. Jardat, V. H.B. Ferreira, V. Colson, L. Lansade, L. Calandreau

“…We suggest that TI is based on the same cognitive processes in poultry (Galloanserae) than in modern flying birds (Neoaves), and that the cognitive strategy to solve the task might be driven mainly by individual parameters within species. …”
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Drone imagery dataset for early-season weed classification in maize and tomato cropsDIGITAL.CSIC by Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, José M. Peña, Ana I. de Castro, José Dorado

“…This paper presents a dataset of RGB images captured with a Sony ILCE-6300L camera mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying at an altitude of 11 m above ground level. …”
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LIM-kinase 1 effects on memory abilities and male courtship song in Drosophila depend on the neuronal type by A. V. Zhuravlev, E. S. Zalomaeva, E. S. Egozova, A. D. Emelin, V. V. Sokurova, E. A. Nikitina, E. V. Savvateeva-Popova

“…The hybrid strain with limk1 interference in MB lobes and glia showed an increase in 3-h short-term memory (STM), without significant effects on long-term memory. limk1 interference in cholinergic neurons (CHN) impaired STM, while its interference in DAN and serotoninergic neurons (SRN) also dramatically impaired the flies’ learning ability. By contrast, limk1 interference in fruitless neurons (FRN) resulted in increased 15–60 min STM, indicating a possible LIMK1 role in active forgetting. …”
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Non3 is an essential Drosophila gene required for proper nucleolus assembly by E. N. Andreyeva, A. A. Ogienko, A. A. Yushkova, J. V. Popova, G. A. Pavlova, E. N. Kozhevnikova, A. V. Ivankin, M. Gatti, A. V. Pindyurin

“…The strongest lethal allele (Non3∆600) is a genetically null allele that carries a large deletion of the gene and exhibits early lethality when homozygous. Flies heterozygous for Non3∆600 occasionally exhibit a mild reduction in the bristle size, but develop normally and are fertile. …”
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Drosophila melanogaster inhabiting northern regions of European Russia are infected with Wolbachia which adversely affects their life span by N. V. Roshina, A. V. Symonenko, A. V. Krementsova, Е. A. Tsybul’ko, V. E. Alatortsev, E. G. Pasyukova, D. V. Mukha

“…In this paper, we present data on the level of Wolbachia infection in two D. melanogaster populations from the northern regions of European Russia: Alexandrov (56.41° N, 38.72° E) and Valday (58.02° N, 33.24° E). The flies were collected in private apple gardens located in two small hamlets without supermarkets or fruit markets, from 2010 to 2015. …”
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SFMHANet: Surface Fitting Constrained Multidimensional Hybrid Attention Network for Aero-Optics Thermal Radiation Effect Correction by Yu Shi, ShanLin Niu, Lei Wang, Liang Ye, YaoZong Zhang, HanYu Hong

“…When an aircraft is flying at hypervelocity in the atmosphere, the airflow and the optical cowl rub against each other, and the airflow&#x0027;s kinetic energy in the boundary layer is transformed into thermal energy, which causes the cowl&#x0027;s surface temperature to rise nonuniformly and produces thermal radiation interference with the imaging system of the detector. …”
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The challenges of independence: ontogeny of at-sea behaviour in a long-lived seabird by Delord, Karine, Weimerskirch, Henri, Barbraud, Christophe

“…Naïve juveniles during their first month at sea after leaving their colony exhibited lower foraging effort (greater proportion of time spent sitting on water, longer and more numerous bouts on water, shorter and fewer flying bouts). Patterns of activity parameters in juveniles after independence suggested a progressive change of foraging performances during the first two months after fledging. …”
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