Total daily energy expenditure and elevated water turnover in a small-scale semi-nomadic pastoralist society from Northern Kenya by Amanda McGrosky, Zane S. Swanson, Rebecca Rimbach, Hilary Bethancourt, Emmanuel Ndiema, Rosemary Nzunza, David R. Braun, Asher Y. Rosinger, Herman Pontzer

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Using Faecal Cortisol Metabolites to Assess Adrenocortical Activity in Wild‐Living Alpine Marmot Marmota marmota: A Biological Validation Experiment by Friederike Zenth, Elena Morocutti, Rupert Palme, Sandro Nicoloso, Stefano Giacomelli, Sabine Macho‐Maschler, Ilse Storch, Luca Corlatti

“…Faeces samples collected at capture were assumed to return baseline FCM levels. Of the three EIAs tested, only the 11‐oxoetiocholanolone ‘72T’ EIA detected an increase in FCM levels about 18 h after capture. …”
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An Effective ABC-SVM Approach for Surface Roughness Prediction in Manufacturing Processes by Juan Lu, Xiaoping Liao, Steven Li, Haibin Ouyang, Kai Chen, Bing Huang

“…Experimental results indicate that the selected four evaluation indicators values that reflect prediction accuracy and adjustment time for ABC-SVM are better than DE-SVM, GA-SVM, and PSO-SVM except three indicator values of DE-SVM for AISI 1045 steel under the case that training set is enough to develop the prediction model. …”
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Genomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of Amorphophallus albus provides insights into the evolution and resistance to southern blight pathogen by Longfei Duan, Longfei Duan, Jianfeng Qin, Gaoxin Zhou, Chuan Shen, Baofu Qin

“…These findings not only advance the understanding of genetic and evolutionary characteristics of A. albus but also provide a foundation for future research on the resistance mechanisms of konjac against southern blight disease.…”
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Transcriptional Profiling of Caudal Fin Regeneration in Zebrafish by Michael Schebesta, Ching-Ling Lien, Felix B. Engel, Mark T. Keating

“…In order to validate our findings, we employed three approaches: (1) microarray expression analysis of genes previously implicated in fin regeneration, (2) RT-PCR analysis of genes newly identified as differentially expressed during regeneration, and (3) in situ hybridization of the up-regulated genes bambi, dlx5A, and her6. …”
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Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat by Ahana Aurora Fernandez, Nora Serve, Sarah-Cecil Fabian, Mirjam Knörnschild

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Genome wide analysis of stress responsive WRKY transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana by Shaiq Sultan, Muhammad Amjid Ali, Rana Muhammad Atif, Farrukh Azeem, Habibullah Nadeem, M. Hussnain Siddique, Ertuğrul Filiz, Khadim Hussain, Amjad Abbas

“…This analysis led to the classification of these WRKY family members into 3 major groups and subgroups and showed evolutionary relationship among these groups on the base of their functional WRKY domain, chromosomal localization and intron/exon structure. …”
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Abscisic acid pathway involved in the regulation of watermelon fruit ripening and quality trait evolution. by Yanping Wang, Shaogui Guo, Shouwei Tian, Jie Zhang, Yi Ren, Honghe Sun, Guoyi Gong, Haiying Zhang, Yong Xu

“…Our results not only demonstrate for the first time that ABA is involved in the regulation of watermelon fruit ripening, but also provide insights into the evolutionary mechanisms of this phenomenon.…”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of <i>Aspartic proteases</i> in <i>Populus euphratica</i> Reveals Candidates Involved in Salt Tolerance by Peiyang He, Lifan Huang, Hanyang Cai

“…In this research, 55 <i>Pe</i>APs were discovered and categorized into three distinct classes based on their conserved protein structures. …”
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Using convolutional neural networks to count parrot nest‐entrances on photographs from the largest known colony of Psittaciformes by Gabriel L. Zanellato, Gabriel A. Pagnossin, Mauricio Failla, Juan F. Masello

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Comparative study on chloroplast genome of Tamarix species by Yanlei Liu, Kuo Ding, Lixiong Liang, Zhan Zhang, Kai Chen, Haiwen Li

“…Abstract Tamaricaceae comprises about 120 species and has a long evolutionary history, Tamarix Linn accounts for approximately 75% of the total species in this family. …”
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Relationships between egg-recognition and egg-ejection in a grasp-ejector species. by Manuel Soler, Francisco Ruiz-Raya, Gianluca Roncalli, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo

“…Egg-recognition experiments have advanced our knowledge of the evolutionary and coevolutionary implications of egg recognition and rejection. …”
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Research hotspots and frontiers of glymphatic system and Alzheimer’s disease: a bibliometrics analysis by Shichao Liu, Lvping Zhuang, Xiaochun Li

“…High-frequency keyword analysis revealed three major research directions: anatomical mechanisms of the GS, (cerebrospinal fluid-interstitial fluid exchange, Aquaporin-4 polarization regulation), pathophysiological associations (amyloid-β/tau clearance, sleep-aging interactions), and clinical translational potential (diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) imaging biomarkers, targeted intervention strategies). …”
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Climate change-driven northward expansion of the mediterranean orchid Ophrys apifera from genetic and ecological perspectives by Aleksandra M. Naczk, Marcin Wilhelm, Anna Jakubska-Busse, Anna Kalinka, Magdalena Achrem, Piotr Androsiuk, Marcin Górniak, Magdalena Zarzycka, Marta Kolanowska

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Research status of roof water and sand bursting disaster in thick bedrock stope of coal seam by Zhaoxing Liu, Shuning Dong, Xiaoming Guo, Xiaolong Li, Dongliang Chen

“…Three principal research components essential for elucidating the disaster mechanism have been systematically established: the feedback characteristics and response relationships of water-induced deterioration in weakly cemented strata to influencing factors; The variation patterns of stress conditions in overlying hard rock strata and basic roof with the deterioration of weakly cemented formations; The dynamic mechanisms of inrush from deteriorated weakly cemented strata and channel evolution under incremental loading. …”
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Q-learning-based exponential distribution optimizer with multi-strategy guidance for solving engineering design problems and robot path planning by Fengbin Wu, Shaobo Li, Junxing Zhang, Liya Yu, Xuan Xiong, Libang Wu

“…To tackle these problems, we present a Q-learning and multi-strategy guidance-enhanced EDO (QMEDO), integrating three essential innovations into the EDO framework. …”
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Pollinator‐Mediated Interactions Affect Patterns of Selection on Floral Traits of Co‐Flowering Plants by Yan Ma, Xiaoli Wang, Yizhi Qiu, Zhigang Zhao

“…This highlights the evolutionary consequences of changes in community composition and biotic interactions in response to environmental shifts.…”
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<em>CORMOHIPPARION SOFULARENSIS</em> N. SP., A NEW HIPPARION SPECIES OF FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF SOFULAR (TÜRKİYE, EARLY TUROLIAN) by ÖZGE KAHYA PARILDAR, OKŞAN BAŞOĞLU, OMAR CIRILLI, ÖMER DAĞ, FERHAT KAYA, PINAR GÖZLÜK KIRMIZIOĞLU, CESUR PEHLEVAN, EMRAH ŞİMŞEK, RAYMOND L. BERNOR

“…We identify the presence of a new species, Cormohipparion sofularensis, with three other taxa which we refer to Hippotherium brachypus, Hipparion dietrichi and Cremohipparion moldavicum. …”
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First Report of a Migratory Pest, the Fall Armyworm, <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> (JE Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from Bulgaria by Szabolcs Szanyi, Marek Barta, Dimitar Velchev, Stoyan Beshkov, Stephen Mumford, Ivaylo Todorov, Antal Nagy, Zoltán Varga, Miklós Tóth, Teodora Toshova

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Comprehensive analysis of the CPP gene family in Moso bamboo: insights into their role in rapid shoot growth by Jiaqi Tan, Xueyun Xuan, Shiying Su, Yang Jiao, Hui Guo, Zhijun Zhang

“…Molecular phylogenetic relationships indicated that CPPs could be divided into three subfamilies and that CPP members of the same subfamily shared similar gene structures, motifs and conserved structural domains. …”
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