Effects of Clozapine, Haloperidol, and the NMDA Antagonist Ketamine on Novel Object Recognition in <i>Gnathonemus petersii</i>: A New Possible Model for Schizophrenia Research by Petra Horká, Josefina Mavrogeni, Veronika Langová, Pavel Horký, Jan Hubený, Ivana Chrtková, Karel Valeš, Martin Kuchař, Jiří Horáček

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Investigation of growth traits in Turkish Merino lambs using multi-locus GWAS approaches: Karacabey Merino by Yalçın Yaman, Ramazan Aymaz, Murat Keleş, Yiğit Emir Kişi, Ecem Hatipoğlu, Arzu Özdemir, Elif Çetinkaya

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Farmers’ knowledge and perception of finger millet blast disease and its control practices in western Kenya by Wilton Mbinda, Agnes Kavoo, Fredah Maina, Margaret Odeph, Cecilia Mweu, Naomi Nzilani, Mathew Ngugi

“…Abstract Background Finger millet blast disease, caused by Pyricularia oryzae, is a serious constrain of finger millet production which is threatening global food security especially to the resource poor smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid regions. …”
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Aeronautical Mutagenesis and Whole-genome Resequencing Reveal the Genetic Basis of Color Change in Naematelia aurantialba by Yukang Zeng, Zhenhui Shen, Yao Cao, Xiangying Luo, Linlei Yang, Rongping Li, Qingqing Lu, Rongchun Li

“…This study was designed to develop novel color-changing germplasm resources and to explore associated functional genes. …”
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Microplastics as an Emerging Potential Threat: Toxicity, Life Cycle Assessment, and Management by Sameh S. Ali, Mohammed Hussein M. Alsharbaty, Rania Al-Tohamy, Maha A. Khalil, Michael Schagerl, Majid Al-Zahrani, Jianzhong Sun

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CoreTIA: a modular, statistically robust transduction inhibition assay for AAV neutralization by Beatrix Kovács, Beatrix Kovács, Beatrix Kovács, Fanni Somogyi, Fanni Somogyi, Viktória Szabó, Zoltán Zsolt Nagy, István Hernádi, Ferenc Mátyás, Wim Vanduffel, Zsuzsanna Szemlaky, Balázs Rózsa, Balázs Rózsa, István Ulbert, István Ulbert, István Ulbert, István Ulbert, Dániel Hillier, Dániel Hillier, Dániel Hillier

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Barriers to and facilitators of rehabilitation according to socio-economic status, after acute respiratory distress syndrome due to COVID-19: A qualitative study in the RECOVIDS co... by Mathilde Kléber, Nicolas Meunier-Beillard, Isabelle Fournel, Eléa Ksiazek, Marine Jacquier, Fiona Ecarnot, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Pierre-Louis Declerq, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Marie Labruyère

“…<h4>Background</h4>The COVID-19 pandemic may have compounded social disparities in access to healthcare, with possible deleterious consequences on the functional prognosis of patients after a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). …”
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Mortalin overexpression predicts poor prognosis in early stage of non–small cell lung cancer by Jie Sun, Shuan-Long Che, Jun-Jie Piao, Ming Xu, Li-Yan Chen, Zhen-Hua Lin

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Genome-Wide Ultrabithorax Binding Analysis Reveals Highly Targeted Genomic Loci at Developmental Regulators and a Potential Connection to Polycomb-Mediated Regulation. by Daria Shlyueva, Antonio C A Meireles-Filho, Michaela Pagani, Alexander Stark

“…Furthermore, Ubx binding was detected at known Polycomb response elements (PREs) and was associated with significant enrichments of Pc and Pho ChIP signals in contrast to binding sites of other developmental TFs. …”
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Incorporating Non-Coding Annotations into Rare Variant Analysis. by Tom G Richardson, Colin Campbell, Nicholas J Timpson, Tom R Gaunt

“…<h4>Methods & results</h4>We conducted a candidate gene analysis using the UK10K sequence and lipids data, filtering according to functional annotations using the resource CADD (Combined Annotation-Dependent Depletion) and contrasting results with 'nonsynonymous' and 'loss of function' consequence analyses. …”
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Semantic distances of WAIS Similarities word pairs in non-demented adults: An item-level index of semantic memory granularity by Matteo De Marco, Satyam Chauhan, Martina Bocchetta, Annalena Venneri

“…LCH is a valuable construct that could help clinicians detect semantic memory decline in ageing adults with suspected neurodegeneration.…”
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Genomic Signatures of Positive Selection and Local Adaptation in Ethiopian Sheep Populations by B. E. Demissie, G. M. Tarekegn, H. Dadi, Z. Edea, A. A. Woldesemayat, K-S Kim, S. Girma, T. Seyoum, K. Melaku, S. Keskes

“…Fixation index (FST) and cross-population extended haplotype homozygosity (XPEHH) methods were used to detect signatures of positive selection. Functional analysis revealed genes related to plateau adaptation, immune response, and tail fat formation. …”
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Effect of PM2.5 exposure on susceptibility to allergic asthma in elderly rats treated with allergens by Lianlian Zhao, Xiaolin Ding, Li Zhou, Chenchen Song, Taisheng Kang, Yanfeng Xu, Yunpeng Liu, Yunlin Han, Wenjie Zhao, Boxiang Zhang, Dan Xu, Jianguo Guo

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Chromosome-level genome assembly of starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) by Weiwei Zheng, Changlin Liu, Shenglei Han, Tengteng Wang, Tao Yang, Zhihong Liu, Dong Xu, Huizong Han, Xiaoqing Xi, Changwei Shao, Kaiqiang Liu

“…Approximately 94.02% of assembled sequences were anchored into 24 pseudochromosomes, and a total of 18 telomeres were detected. Totally 22,835 protein-coding genes and 227.87 Mb repetitive sequences were identified. …”
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Genetic Basis and Exploration of Major Expressed QTL <i>qLA2-3</i> Underlying Leaf Angle in Maize by Yonghui He, Chenxi Wang, Xueyou Hu, Youle Han, Feng Lu, Huanhuan Liu, Xuecai Zhang, Zhitong Yin

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Chromosome-scale genome assembly and annotation of two geographically distinct strains of malaria vector Anopheles albimanus by Dieunel Derilus, Gareth D. Weedall, Michael W. Vandewege, Dhwani Batra, Mili Sheth, Lori A. Rowe, Ananias A. Escalante, Audrey Lenhart, Lucy Mackenzie Impoinvil

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Unraveling Fish Community Diversity and Structure in the Yellow Sea: Evidence from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Bottom Trawling by Jinyong Zhang, Xiaoyu Cui, Lin Lin, Yuan Liu, Jinqing Ye, Weiyue Zhang, Hongjun Li

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Characteristics of Land Use Change and Evaluation of Ecological Sensitivity in Chongqing by XIE Xianjian, GOU Qiantao, WU Han

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Large-scale RNA-Seq mining reveals ciclopirox olamine induces TDP-43 cryptic exons by Irika R. Sinha, Parker S. Sandal, Holly Spence, Grace D. Burns, Aswathy Peethambaran Mallika, Fatemeh Abbasinejad, Katherine E. Irwin, Anna Lourdes F. Cruz, Vania Wang, Shaelyn R. Marx, Josué Llamas Rodríguez, Ben Langmead, Jenna M. Gregory, Philip C. Wong, Jonathan P. Ling

“…We previously found that TDP-43 loss-of-function leads to transcriptome-wide inclusion of deleterious cryptic exons, a signature detected in presymptomatic biofluids and postmortem ALS-FTD brain tissue, but the upstream mechanisms that lead to TDP-43 dysregulation remain unclear. …”
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Insights from lncRNAs Profiling of MIN6 Beta Cells Undergoing Inflammation by Chuntao Sun, Lihua Xue, Ziyang Zhu, Fan Zhang, Ruixue Yang, Xuewen Yuan, Zhanjun Jia, Qianqi Liu

“…This study may be utilized as a background or reference resource for future functional studies on lncRNAs related to the diagnosis and development of new therapies for T1DM.…”
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