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Interviewing Animals Through Animal Communicators

Society & Animals, 2023
Abstract Animal communicators worldwide employ intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) to engage in detailed, two-way communication with nonhuman animals. IIC’s potential for doing research with rather than on animals has been insufficiently explored, due to contingent onto-epistemological biases.
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Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats

Royal Society Open Science
Diverse information encoding systems, including human language, the vocal and gestural systems of non-human animals and the structure of DNA and proteins, have been found to conform to ‘Menzerath’s Law’—a negative relationship between the number of units
Stuart Kyle Watson, Mara Zali, Nikola Falk, Paul Widmer, Marta B Manser   +4 more
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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION AND EVOLUTION [PDF]

Evolution, 1997
The study of Animal Communication is a diverse endeavor encompassing disciplines from physics and chemistry to psychology and linguistics, traversing neurobiology, behavior and evolution along the way. No one treatment of this field could be definitive.
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Aggressive prostate cancer is associated with pericyte dysfunction

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Tumor‐produced TGF‐β drives pericyte dysfunction in prostate cancer. This dysfunction is characterized by downregulation of some canonical pericyte markers (i.e., DES, CSPG4, and ACTA2) while maintaining the expression of others (i.e., PDGFRB, NOTCH3, and RGS5).
Anabel Martinez‐Romero, Ane Martinez‐Larrinaga, Joaquim Grego‐Bessa, Saioa Garcia‐Longarte, Hielke van Splunder, Ianire Astobiza, Amaia Ercilla, Laura Bozal‐Basterra, Isabel Mendizabal, Pilar Villacampa, Arkaitz Carracedo, Mariona Graupera   +11 more
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Bottlenose Dolphins’ Clicks Comply with Three Laws of Efficient Communication

Algorithms
Bottlenose dolphins’ broadband click vocalisations are well-studied in the literature concerning their echolocation function. Their potential use for communication among conspecifics has long been speculated but has yet to be conclusively established. In
Arthur Stepanov, Hristo Zhivomirov, Ivaylo Nedelchev, Todor Ganchev, Penka Stateva   +4 more
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Liquid biopsy epigenetics: establishing a molecular profile based on cell‐free DNA

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) fragments in plasma from cancer patients carry epigenetic signatures reflecting their cells of origin. These epigenetic features include DNA methylation, nucleosome modifications, and variations in fragmentation. This review describes the biological properties of each feature and explores optimal strategies for harnessing cfDNA ...
Christoffer Trier Maansson, Anders Lade Nielsen, Boe Sandahl Sorensen   +2 more
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In vitro models of cancer‐associated fibroblast heterogeneity uncover subtype‐specific effects of CRISPR perturbations

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Development of therapies targeting cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) necessitates preclinical model systems that faithfully represent CAF–tumor biology. We established an in vitro coculture system of patient‐derived pancreatic CAFs and tumor cell lines and demonstrated its recapitulation of primary CAF–tumor biology with single‐cell transcriptomics ...
Elysia Saputra, Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal, Lixia Li, Hong Sun, Khoa Nguyen, Amber Montano, Suchitra Natarajan, Federica Piccioni, Alex Michael Tamburino, Xin Yu, Aleksandra Katarzyna Olow   +10 more
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Strength through diversity: how cancers thrive when clones cooperate

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Intratumor heterogeneity can offer direct benefits to the tumor through cooperation between different clones. In this review, Kuiken et al. discuss existing evidence for clonal cooperativity to identify overarching principles, and highlight how novel technological developments could address remaining open questions.
Marije C. Kuiken, Maartje Witsen, Emile E. Voest, Krijn K. Dijkstra   +3 more
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Quantifying degradation in animal acoustic signals with the R package baRulho

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Animal acoustic signals are shaped by selection to convey information based on their tempo, intensity, and frequency. However, sound signals degrade as they transmit over space and across physical obstacles (e.g., vegetation or infrastructure), which ...
Marcelo Araya‐Salas, Erin E. Grabarczyk, Marcos Quiroz‐Oliva, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Alejandro Rico‐Guevara   +4 more
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Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity

eLife, 2019
Warning signals displayed by defended prey are mimicked by both mutualistic (Müllerian) and parasitic (Batesian) species. Yet mimicry is often imperfect: why does selection not improve mimicry?
David William Kikuchi, Anna Dornhaus, Vandana Gopeechund, Thomas N Sherratt   +3 more
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