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Intraguild predation in winter wheat: prey choice by a common epigeal carabid consuming spiders (2012)
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Davey, J. S., Vaughan, I. P., King, R. A., Bell, J. R., Bohan, D. A., Bruford, M. W., …Symondson, W. O. (2013). Intraguild predation in winter wheat: prey choice by a common epigeal carabid consuming spiders. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(1), 271-279. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12008

Predators can provide a valuable ecosystem service by suppressing crop pests. However, intraguild predation, where predators compete for the same prey resource whilst consuming each other, may destabilize population dynamics and increase the risk of... Read More about Intraguild predation in winter wheat: prey choice by a common epigeal carabid consuming spiders.

Library of Apicomplexan Metabolic Pathways: a manually curated database for metabolic pathways of apicomplexan parasites. (2012)
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Wastling. (2012). Library of Apicomplexan Metabolic Pathways: a manually curated database for metabolic pathways of apicomplexan parasites. Nucleic acids research, D706 -D713. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks1139

The Library of Apicomplexan Metabolic Pathways (LAMP, http://www.llamp.net) is a web database that provides near complete mapping from genes to the central metabolic functions for some of the prominent intracellular parasites of the phylum Apicomplex... Read More about Library of Apicomplexan Metabolic Pathways: a manually curated database for metabolic pathways of apicomplexan parasites..

Comparative Analysis of Genome Sequences Covering the Seven Cronobacter Species (2012)
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Masood. (2012). Comparative Analysis of Genome Sequences Covering the Seven Cronobacter Species. PloS one, e49455 - e49455. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049455

Background Species of Cronobacter are widespread in the environment and are occasional food-borne pathogens associated with serious neonatal diseases, including bacteraemia, meningitis, and necrotising enterocolitis. The genus is composed of seven s... Read More about Comparative Analysis of Genome Sequences Covering the Seven Cronobacter Species.

Neuronal Toll-like receptor 4 signaling induces brain endothelial activation and neutrophil transmigration in vitro. (2012)
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Maysami, S., Bowie, A., Denes, A., Nilsson, O., Leow-Dyke, S., Allen, C., …Pinteaux, E. (2012). Neuronal Toll-like receptor 4 signaling induces brain endothelial activation and neutrophil transmigration in vitro. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 230 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-2094-9-230

BACKGROUND: The innate immune response in the brain is initiated by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) or danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPS) produced in response to central nervous system (CNS) infection or injury. These molecul... Read More about Neuronal Toll-like receptor 4 signaling induces brain endothelial activation and neutrophil transmigration in vitro..

Seasonal migration to high latitudes results in major reproductive benefits in an insect (2012)
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Chapman, J. W., Bell, J. R., Burgin, L. E., Reynolds, D. R., Pettersson, L. B., Hill, J. K., …Thomas, J. A. (2012). Seasonal migration to high latitudes results in major reproductive benefits in an insect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(37), 14924-14929. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207255109

Little is known of the population dynamics of long-range insect migrants, and it has been suggested that the annual journeys of billions of nonhardy insects to exploit temperate zones during summer represent a sink from which future generations seldo... Read More about Seasonal migration to high latitudes results in major reproductive benefits in an insect.

Analysis of gene expression from the Wolbachia genome of a filarial nematode supports both metabolic and defensive roles within the symbiosis. (2012)
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(2012). Analysis of gene expression from the Wolbachia genome of a filarial nematode supports both metabolic and defensive roles within the symbiosis. Genome Research, 2467 - 2477. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.138420.112

The a-proteobacterium Wolbachia is probably the most prevalent, vertically transmitted symbiont on Earth. In contrast with its wide distribution in arthropods, Wolbachia is restricted to one family of animal-parasitic nematodes, the Onchocercidae. Th... Read More about Analysis of gene expression from the Wolbachia genome of a filarial nematode supports both metabolic and defensive roles within the symbiosis..

Parasites, proteomes and systems: has Descartes' clock run out of time? (2012)
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(2012). Parasites, proteomes and systems: has Descartes' clock run out of time?. Parasitology, 1103 - 1118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182012000716

Systems biology aims to integrate multiple biological data types such as genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics across different levels of structure and scale; it represents an emerging paradigm in the scientific process which challenges the reduct... Read More about Parasites, proteomes and systems: has Descartes' clock run out of time?.

An attempt to develop an operant conditioning paradigm to test for magnetic discrimination behavior in a migratory songbird (2012)
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Kishkinev, D., Mouritsen, H., & Mora, C. V. (2012). An attempt to develop an operant conditioning paradigm to test for magnetic discrimination behavior in a migratory songbird. Journal of Ornithology, 153(4), 1165-1177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-012-0847-x

Birds are thought to possess two magnetosensory systems: (1) a chemical sensor in the bird’s eye, and (2) a magnetoreceptor innervated by the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (V1) and presumably located in the upper beak. It has been recentl... Read More about An attempt to develop an operant conditioning paradigm to test for magnetic discrimination behavior in a migratory songbird.

Comparative genomics of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia differing in host range and transmission strategy (2012)
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(2012). Comparative genomics of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia differing in host range and transmission strategy. PLOS pathogens a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, e1002567 -?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002567

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protozoan parasite which infects nearly one third of the human population and is found in an extraordinary range of vertebrate hosts. Its epidemiology depends heavily on horizontal transmission, especially between rode... Read More about Comparative genomics of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia differing in host range and transmission strategy.

Climatic change is advancing the phenology of moth species in Ireland (2012)
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O’Neill, B. F., Bond, K., Tyner, A., Sheppard, R., Bryant, T., Chapman, J., …Donnelly, A. (2012). Climatic change is advancing the phenology of moth species in Ireland. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 143(1), 74-88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2012.01234.x

Recent increases in global temperatures have contributed to advancing phenology of plants and animals. These increases in temperature have been shown to affect the phenological phases (phenophases) of plants and birds in Ireland, but less is known ab... Read More about Climatic change is advancing the phenology of moth species in Ireland.

Putting the brakes on a cycle: bottom-up effects damp cycle amplitude (2012)
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Bell, J. R., Burkness, E. C., Milne, A. E., Onstad, D. W., Abrahamson, M., Hamilton, K. L., & Hutchison, W. D. (2012). Putting the brakes on a cycle: bottom-up effects damp cycle amplitude. Ecology Letters, 15(4), 310-318. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01739.x

Pest population density oscillations have a profound effect on agroecosystem functioning, particularly when pests cycle with epidemic persistence. Here, we ask whether landscape-level manipulations can be used to restrict the cycle amplitude of the E... Read More about Putting the brakes on a cycle: bottom-up effects damp cycle amplitude.

Evidence for genetic differentiation at the microgeographic scale in Phlebotomus papatasi populations from Sudan. (2012)
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(2012). Evidence for genetic differentiation at the microgeographic scale in Phlebotomus papatasi populations from Sudan. Parasites and Vectors, 249 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-249

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in Sudan. It is caused by Leishmania major parasites and transmitted by Phlebotomus papatasi sandflies. Recently, uncommon clinical manifestations of CL have been reported. Moreover, L. donovani par... Read More about Evidence for genetic differentiation at the microgeographic scale in Phlebotomus papatasi populations from Sudan..

Comparison of the absolute and relative efficiencies of electroporation-based transfection protocols for Plasmodium falciparum. (2012)
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Horrocks. (2012). Comparison of the absolute and relative efficiencies of electroporation-based transfection protocols for Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria Journal, 210 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-210

BACKGROUND: Several electroporation protocols exist to transfect exogenous DNA into Plasmodium falciparum. To date, however, only a subjective analysis of their relative efficiencies has been reported. METHODS: A time-course of luciferase reporter ex... Read More about Comparison of the absolute and relative efficiencies of electroporation-based transfection protocols for Plasmodium falciparum..