An Assay System for Plate-based Detection of Endogenous Peptide:N-glycanase/NGLY1 Activity Using A Fluorescence-based Probe by Hiroto Hirayama, Tadashi Suzuki

“…Cytosolic peptide: N-glycanase (PNGase/NGLY1 in mammals), an amidase classified under EC:3.5.1.52, is a highly conserved enzyme across eukaryotes that catalyzes the removal of N-glycans from glycoproteins, converting N-glycosylated asparagine residues into aspartic acid. …”
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Immunofluorescence for Detection of TOR Kinase Activity In Situ in Photosynthetic Organisms by Ana Lando, María De Marco, Andrea Cumino, Giselle Martínez-Noël

“…However, at the tissue/cell-specific level, there is a huge gap in plants due to the lack of alternative techniques for the evaluation of TOR activity as there are for other organisms such as mammals. Here, we describe an in vivo protocol to detect S6K phosphorylation in tissues/cells of model photosynthetic organisms such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. …”
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Consistent individual positions within roosts in Spix’s disc-winged bats by Giacomini, Giada, Chaves-Ramírez, Silvia, Hernández-Pinsón, H. Andrés, Barrantes, José Pablo, Chaverri, Gloriana

“…In social bats, we would expect a similar consistent arrangement for groups at roost-sites, which is where these mammals spend the largest portion of their lives. …”
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Impervious surface cover and number of restaurants shape diet variation in an urban carnivore by Tal Caspi, Monica G. Serrano, Stevi L. Vanderzwan, Janet Kessler, Christopher J. Schell, Benjamin N. Sacks

“…The highest contributor to coyote diet overall was anthropogenic food followed by small mammals. The most frequently detected species were domestic chicken, pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae), domestic pig, and raccoon (Procyon lotor). …”
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Structure-activity relationship and in silico docking analysis of dicarboximide fungicides on 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 of human, rat, and pig by Huiqian Chen, Sailing Chen, Yunbing Tang, Yingfen Ying, Shaowei Wang, Yang Zhu, Yiyan Wang, Ren-shan Ge, Ping Duan

“…Dicarboximide fungicides, including captafol, captan, cyclohexylthiophthalimide, folpet, and procymidone, represent a distinct category of fungicides. 17β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (17β-HSD1) catalyzes the conversion of estrone to estradiol in mammals. Yet, the impact of these fungicides on 17β-HSD1 activity remains unknown. …”
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Generation of transgenic chicken through ovarian injection by Jinghua Jiang, Caiying Wang, Xuguang Du, Fei Gao, Sen Wu

“…Abstract Background Traditional DNA microinjection methods used in mammals are difficult to apply to avian species due to their unique reproductive characteristics. …”
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Frequency of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Synanthropic and Wild Rodents Captured in a Rural Community in Southeast of Mexico by Ivonne Hernández-Cortazar, Karla Cecilia Amaya Guardia, Marco Torres-Castro, Karla Acosta-Viana, Eugenia Guzmán-Marín, José Israel Chan-Pérez, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco, Roger I. Rodríguez-Vivas, Rodrigo Medina-Pinto, Matilde Jiménez-Coello

“…T. cruzi infect a great variety of domestic and wild mammals; rodents are considered one of the most important reservoirs of the parasite in the transmission cycles of T. cruzi. …”
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The Wildcat That Lives in Me: A Review on Free-Roaming Cats (<i>Felis catus</i>) in Brazil, Focusing on Research Priorities, Management, and Their Impacts on Cat Welfare by Luana S. Gonçalves, Daiana de Souza Machado, Maria Eduarda Caçador, Giovanne Ambrosio Ferreira, Christopher R. Dickman, Maria Camila Ceballos, Fabio Prezoto, Aline Cristina Sant’Anna

“…In Australia, for example, cats are responsible for the decline in many vertebrate populations and extinction of several native mammals. However, in Brazil, few studies have explored either direct impacts of predation on wildlife, or other indirect impacts, such as competition for resources, niche overlap, hybridization, and disease transmission. …”
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Camel tick species distribution in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates using MaxEnt modelling by Nighat Perveen, Sabir B. Muzaffar, Areej Jaradat, Olivier A. Sparagano, Arve L. Willingham, Ala Tabor

“…Ticks are important vectors and reservoirs of pathogens causing zoonotic diseases in camels and other livestock, rodents and other small mammals, birds and humans. Hyalomma dromedarii is the most abundant tick species in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) affecting primarily camels, and to a lesser extent, other livestock. …”
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Xenopus laevis neural stem progenitor cells exhibit a transient metabolic shift toward glycolysis during spinal cord regeneration by Paula G. Slater, Paula G. Slater, Miguel E. Domínguez-Romero, Guillermo Campos, Guillermo Campos, Vania Aravena, Vania Aravena, Javier Cavieres-Lepe, Verónica Eisner

“…Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in severe disruption of communication between the brain and body, causing motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunctions. While SCI in mammals leads to permanent impairment due to limited regenerative capacity, certain non-mammalian species, such as Xenopus laevis larval stages, exhibit remarkable regenerative abilities. …”
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Molecular Modulation of Fetal Liver Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization into Fetal Bone Marrow in Mice by Huihong Zeng, Jiaoqi Cheng, Ying Fan, Yingying Luan, Juan Yang, Feixuan Wang, Shuo Yang, Lijian Shao

“…The current review holds great potential to deeply understand the molecular regulations of HSCs in the fetal liver and bone marrow in mammals, which will be helpful to efficiently expand HSCs in vitro.…”
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Maternal exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics during gestation and lactation caused fertility decline in female mouse offspring by Xiu Cheng, Yue Xue, Houpeng Wang, Zhangqiang Ma, Na Hu, Chenchen Zhang, Yu Gao, Ruihong Fan, Liaoliao Hu, Jia Li, Dalei Zhang, Jian Huang, Sitian Fang, Runting Xiao, Yuanqiao He, Tao Luo, Liping Zheng

“…Overall, maternal exposure to PS-NPs induced profound and enduring effects on the reproductive functions of female offspring, raising critical alarms regarding the multigenerational reproductive toxicity risks associated with nanoplastic exposure in mammals.…”
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Functional Metaplasticity of Hippocampal Schaffer Collateral-CA1 Synapses Is Reversed in Chronically Epileptic Rats by Mirko Rehberg, Timo Kirschstein, Xiati Guli, Steffen Müller, Marco Rohde, Denise Franz, Tursonjan Tokay, Rüdiger Köhling

“…Spatial learning and associating spatial information with individual experience are crucial for rodents and higher mammals. Hence, studying the cellular and molecular cascades involved in the key mechanism of information storage in the brain, synaptic plasticity, has led to enormous knowledge in this field. …”
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Characterization and functional analysis of chicken hnRNP protein by Ke Wang, Manzi Huang, Qinghua Zeng, Huansheng Wu

“…While the role of hnRNP proteins in modulating interferon signaling and virus replication in mammals has been extensively studied, the impact of chicken hnRNPs on innate immune response and Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) replication remains largely unexplored. …”
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What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’ by Laymon Ball, Sheila Rodríguez-Machado, Diego Paredes-Burneo, Samantha Rutledge, David A. Boyd, David Vander Pluym, Spenser Babb-Biernacki, Austin S. Chipps, Rafet Ç. Öztürk, Yahya Terzi, Prosanta Chakrabarty

“…We examined global records of accessible natural history voucher collections (with publicly available data and reliable locality data) for terrestrial and freshwater vascular plants, fungi, freshwater fishes, birds, mammals, and herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) and highlight areas of the world that would be considered undersampled and sometimes called ‘unexplored’ (i.e., have relatively low, or no evidence of, past sampling efforts) under typical Western-scientific descriptions. …”
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Mice with NOP2/sun RNA methyltransferase 5 deficiency die before reaching puberty due to fatal kidney damage by Hongya Zhang, Xiaohui Li, Jing Bai, Cong Zhang

“…However, our knowledge of the biological functions of NSUN5 in mammals is very limited. Therefore, in this study, we investigate the role of NSUN5 in mice.Methods In the present research, we built a mouse model (Nsun5-/-) using the CRISPR/Cas9 system to investigated the specific role of NSUN5.Results We observed that Nsun5-/- mice had a reduced body weight compared to wild-type mice. …”
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PRMT7: A Pivotal Arginine Methyltransferase in Stem Cells and Development by Bingyuan Wang, Mingrui Zhang, Zhiguo Liu, Yulian Mu, Kui Li

“…To date, nine PRMT family members, namely, PRMT1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, have been identified in mammals. Among them, PRMT7 is a type III PRMT that can only catalyze the formation of monomethylarginine and plays pivotal roles in several kinds of stem cells. …”
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Three concepts: an academic ecologist’s view by Alexander Protasov

“…Anthropodependent biotic communities include not only agricultural plants, but also a full spectrum of organisms, from bacteria to mammals. It is pointed out that there is a contradiction between the idea of preserving biodiversity in ecosystems and the high productivity of certain significantly dominant populations. …”
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Effects of Selenium Supplement on B Lymphocyte Activity in Experimental Autoimmune Thyroiditis Rats by Yang Li, Xinhe Zuo, Chuan Hua, Yong Zhao, Xun Pei, Man Tian

“…Thyroid is the organ with the highest selenium content in mammals, and selenium is an essential micronutrient that has close relationship with thyroid autoimmunity. …”
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Individual differences in developmental trajectory leave a male polyphenic signature in bulb mite populations by Deere, Jacques A., Smallegange, Isabel M.

“…Instead, we suggest that juveniles mitigate their increased mortality risk by expediating ontogeny to forego the development of costly morphology and mature quicker but as a defenceless scrambler. If, like in mammals and birds where early-life stress effects are extensively studied, we account for such pre-adult viability selection in coldblooded species, it would allow us to (i) better characterise natural selection on trait development like male polyphenisms, (ii) understand how it can affect the response to other selections in adulthood, and (iii) understand how such trait dynamics influence, and are influenced by, population dynamics. …”
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