Primates in zoo stressed by the absence of visitors: A model provided by the covid-19 pandemic by Froylán Albarrán Tamayo, J. J. Barroso Padilla, M. A. Carpio Valdivia, A. E. Sandoval Higareda, Bernardo Bañuelos Hernández, Andrés Cruz Hernández

“… The stress suffered by other animal species has not been considered in many situations of interaction with humans. …”
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Fabrication of AChE/SnO2-cMWCNTs/Cu Nanocomposite-Based Sensor Electrode for Detection of Methyl Parathion in Water by Vikas Dhull

“…Developed sensor showed excellent analytical recovery of pesticide in water sample with negligible effect of interfering species. Also, AChE/SnO2-cMWCNTs/Cu was easily reactivated simply by varying pH of phosphate buffer. …”
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Induction of Cell Activation Processes by Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields by Myrtill Simkó

“…It is known that chronic activation of macrophages is associated with the onset of phagocytosis and leads to increased formation of reactive oxygen species, which themselves may cause DNA damage and are suggested to lead to carcinogenesis. …”
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The phytoremediator capacity of Quercus cerris L. against heavy metals contamination in the Ezer forest, Lebanon by Najib Rola, Houri Tarek, Khairallah Yara, Khalil Mahmoud I.

“…National strategies to raise public awareness and reduce heavy metal contamination in the forest are urgently needed to protect the rare Q. cerris species.…”
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Enhanced Transformation of Atrazine by High Efficient Visible Light-Driven N, S-Codoped TiO2 Nanowires Photocatalysts by Yanlin Zhang, Honghai Wu, Peihong Liu

“…The degradation of atrazine was driven mainly by •OH and holes during the photocatalytic process. Reactive species quantities such •OH and O2•- generated by N, S-codoped TiO2 nanowires under visible light irradiation were much more than those of S-doped TiO2 nanowires and N, S-codoped TiO2 nanoparticles. …”
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Heart morphology and function evaluation by transthoracic echocardiography in six captive crested gibbons (Nomascus spp.) by Irène Vonfeld, Anaïs Nowakowski, Brice Lefaux, Benoît Quintard

“…Conventional transthoracic echocardiograms were performed on six clinically healthy crested gibbons of three species (Nomascus siki, N. leucogenys and N. gabriellae) under general anesthesia using sevoflurane without premedication. …”
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A Pathological Analysis of Canaliculitis Concretions: More Than Just Actinomyces by Balaji Perumal, John Andrew Carlson, Dale Robert Meyer

“…Canaliculitis is classically associated with Actinomyces species, which are filamentous bacteria; the purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which nonfilamentous bacteria colonize canalicular concretions by using graded histopathological analysis. …”
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Modeling frequency-dependent selection with an application to cichlid fish by Sheree L. Arpin, J. M. Cushing

“…Negative frequency-dependent selection is a wellknown microevolutionary process that has been documented in a population ofPerissodus microlepis, a species of cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika(Africa). …”
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Segment Any Leaf 3D: A Zero-Shot 3D Leaf Instance Segmentation Method Based on Multi-View Images by Yunlong Wang, Zhiyong Zhang

“…However, the diversity and variability of plant morphology challenge existing methods, which often fail to generalize across species and require extensive annotated data, especially for 3D datasets. …”
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On the Environmental Factors Affecting the Structural and Cytotoxic Properties of IAPP Peptides by Marianna Flora Tomasello, Alessandro Sinopoli, Giuseppe Pappalardo

“…Other open questions are related to the nature of the IAPP toxic species and how exactly β-cells die. Over the last decades, there has been growing consensus about the notion that early molecular assemblies, notably small hIAPP oligomers, are the culprit of β-cells decline. …”
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Influence of Starkeya novella on Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Cement Mortars by Onesmus Mulwa Munyao, Joseph Karanja Thiong’o, Jackson Muthengia Wachira, Daniel Karanja Mutitu, Romano Mwirichia

“…This study reports an experimental work carried out to determine the effect of Starkeya novella bacteria species on mechanical and microstructural properties of cement mortars. …”
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Wound Healing and Omega-6 Fatty Acids: From Inflammation to Repair by Jéssica R. Silva, Beatriz Burger, Carolina M. C. Kühl, Thamiris Candreva, Mariah B. P. dos Anjos, Hosana G. Rodrigues

“…Wound healing is an evolutionarily conserved process that is essential for species survival. Wound healing involves a series of biochemical and cellular events that are tightly controlled, divided into 3 concomitant and overlapping phases: inflammation, proliferation, and remodelling. …”
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Available and unavailable decoys in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) decision-making by Marco Marini, Edoardo Colaiuda, Serena Gastaldi, Elsa Addessi, Fabio Paglieri

“…Decoy effects have been extensively studied both in humans and in several other species; however, evidence in non-human primates remains scant and inconclusive. …”
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Reducing Postharvest Loss of Stored Grains Using Plant-Based Biopesticides: A Review of Past Research Efforts by Getachew Bezabih, Neela Satheesh, Solomon Workneh Fanta, Melaku Wale, Minaleshewa Atlabachew

“…Alternative strategies focus on new forms of pesticides that are effective against a specific target species, have fewer residues in food, are unlikely to contaminate the environment, and have lower potential to produce resistance, are biodegradable, and are suitable for use in integrated pest management programs. …”
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Le jardin, lieu esthétique d’un (dés)ordre humain : la naturalisation du politique et du littéraire chez Claude Simon et Patrick Chamoiseau by Hannes De Vriese

“…The developed space always addresses the need for an equilibrium ; except that in this case it does not stem from an ordering and categorisation of species, but from a dynamic plant production, a biological profusion which landscapes the literary work in movement.…”
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Analysis of Antifungal Components in the Galls of Melaphis chinensis and Their Effects on Control of Anthracnose Disease of Chinese Cabbage Caused by Colletotrichum higginsianum by Ping-Chung Kuo, Ting-Fang Hsieh, Mei-Chi Lin, Bow-Shin Huang, Jenn-Wen Huang, Hung-Chang Huang

“…In our preliminary experimental results, the methanol extracts of four species of medicinal plants Melaphis chinensis, Eugenia caryophyllata, Polygonum cuspidatum, and Rheum officinale possessed antifungal activity to causal agent of cabbage anthracnose, Colletotrichum higginsianum. …”
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Augmenting flexibility: mutual inhibition between inhibitory neurons expands functional diversity by Belle Liu, Alexander James White, Chung-Chuan Lo

“…Summary: Recent advances in microcircuit analysis of nervous systems have revealed a plethora of mutual connections between inhibitory interneurons across many different species and brain regions. The abundance of these mutual connections has not been fully explained. …”
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Histomorphologic and Immunohistochemical Characterization of a Cardiac Purkinjeoma in a Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) by G. Krafsur, E. J. Ehrhart, J. Ramos-Vara, G. Mason, F. Sarren, B. Adams, C. Hanns, T. Spraker, C. Duncan

“…While cardiac rhabdomyomas are well described in human medical literature, limited information depicting the occurrence of cardiac rhabdomyomas in veterinary species exists. A case of multiple firm white nonencapsulated nodules in the heart of a bearded seal is described. …”
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Insulin Blocks Glutamate-Induced Neurotoxicity in Differentiated SH-SY5Y Neuronal Cells by Madhavan Nampoothiri, Neetinkumar D. Reddy, Jessy John, Nitesh Kumar, Gopalan Kutty Nampurath, Mallikarjuna Rao Chamallamudi

“…Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and morphological alterations were also measured. …”
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Comparison of Endometrial Microbiota Results Between Patients with Unexplained Infertility and Fertile Patients through 16s rRNA Sequencing by Gonca Ozten Dere, Cagman Tan, Sezcan Mumusoglu, Pinar Zarakolu, Gurkan Bozdag

“…RESULTS: Lactobacillus species represented the majority of the microbiome profile in both groups. …”
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