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Rice Stubble Provides Overwintering Microhabitats for Spiders in Winter-Fallowed Rice Fields

Agriculture
Spiders are among the predominant predatory arthropods in rice field ecosystems. Although the potential of spiders for controlling pests during the growth stages of rice is well known, few studies have focused on the overwintering habits of spiders after
Jie Sun, Xuhao Song, Jundong He, Dongmei Chen, Tingbang Yang, Aimin Shi   +5 more
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Insectivorous bats selectively source moths and eat mostly pest insects on dryland and irrigated cotton farms

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Insectivorous bats are efficient predators of pest arthropods in agroecosystems. This pest control service has been estimated to be worth billions of dollars to agriculture globally.
Heidi Kolkert, Rose Andrew, Rhiannon Smith, Romina Rader, Nick Reid   +4 more
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An Analysis of the Weight Watchers and Atkins Diets: The Effects of Calorie Restriction and Nutrition Levels [PDF]

, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a calorie-restricted diet versus one with restricted food groups. To accomplish this, a survey with 19 participants, age ranging from 25 to 74 years, was taken for people who attempted ...
Brown, Heather
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DNA-Based Diet Analysis for Any Predator

PLoS ONE, 2009
Prey DNA from diet samples can be used as a dietary marker; yet current methods for prey detection require a priori diet knowledge and/or are designed ad hoc, limiting their scope. I present a general approach to detect diverse prey in the feces or gut contents of predators.In the example outlined, I take advantage of the restriction site for the ...
openaire   +5 more sources

dUTPase is essential in zebrafish development and possesses several single‐nucleotide variants with pronounced structural and functional consequences

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
dUTPases are involved in balancing the appropriate nucleotide pools. We showed that dUTPase is essential for normal development in zebrafish. The different zebrafish genomes contain several single‐nucleotide variations (SNPs) of the dut gene. One of the dUTPase variants displayed drastically lower protein stability and catalytic efficiency as compared ...
Viktória Perey‐Simon, Angéla Békesi, Latifa Kazzazy, Jázmin Mihály, Máté Varga, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda, Satoru Sugimoto, Chiharu Cho, Madoka Konishi, Nozomi Inoue, Satoshi Miyagaki, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Takuro Okamura, Masahide Hamaguchi, Hisakazu Nakajima, Michiaki Fukui, Masakazu Shinohara, Tomoko Iehara   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological management of bird strike risk in Hangzhou Airport, based on field survey and diet analysis

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Bird strikes represent a significant hazard to aviation safety, with potential consequences including aircraft damage, operational disruptions, and safety risks.
Yixuan Ying, Guoheng Zhong, Lei Chen, Miaopin Lv, Shidi Qin, Xilai Zhou, Han Lv, Ke He   +7 more
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Prebiotic effects of wheat Arabinoxylan related to the increase in Bifidobacteria, Roseburia and bacteroides/Prevotella in diet-induced obese mice [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Alterations in the composition of gut microbiota - known as dysbiosis - has been proposed to contribute to the development of obesity, thereby supporting the potential interest of nutrients targeting the gut with beneficial effect for host ...
Neyrinck, Audrey M, Possemiers, Sam, Druart, Celine, Van de Wiele, Tom, De Backer, Fabienne, Cani, Patrice D, Larondelle, Yvan, Delzenne, Nathalie M   +7 more
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Establishing an assay to evaluate d‐amino acid oxidase enzyme kinetics and inhibition using WST‐8 redox dye

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study investigated a novel WST‐8‐based assay for evaluating d‐Amino acid oxidase (DAO) inhibitors. We confirmed its effectiveness using known inhibitors and found that uremic toxins possess relatively weak inhibitory activity compared to existing drugs.
Kahoko Miyake, Yuki Enoki, Yuka Nakazawa, Kazuaki Taguchi, Kazuaki Matsumoto   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diet Composition and Feeding Intensity of Four-Spotted Megrim, Lepidorhombus boscii (Risso, 1810), in the Eastern Adriatic Sea

Fishes
Feeding habits of the four-spotted megrim, Lepidorhombus boscii, from the eastern Adriatic Sea were examined. A total of 1070 individuals collected using a bottom trawl net between July 2020 and June 2021 were analyzed.
Nika Ugrin, Mate Šantić, Željka Trumbić, Svjetlana Krstulović Šifner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source