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Systemic dysregulation of apolipoproteins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis serum

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease that damages motor neurons. This study found that people with ALS show significant changes in blood fats and the proteins that carry them. Several apolipoproteins were higher, lipid balances were altered, and normal protein–lipid relationships were disrupted.
Finula I. Isik, Russell Pickford, Hannah C. Timmins, Olivier Piguet, Glenda M. Halliday, Matthew C. Kiernan, Woojin Scott Kim   +6 more
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Megafauna biogeography explains plant functional trait variability in the tropics

, 2020
Aim: Biomes can diverge substantially in plant functional traits and disturbance regimens among regions. Given that Neotropical and Afrotropical regions have contrasting histories of the megafauna (because of the Holocene megafaunal extinction in the ...
Pausas, J. G., Dantas, Vinícius de L., Juli G. Pausas, Vinicius L. Dantas   +3 more
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DataSheet_1_Plant functional diversity is affected by weed management through processes of trait convergence and divergence.pdf

, 2022
Weed management involving tillage and/or herbicides has generally led to a decline of plant diversity in agroecosystems, with negative impacts on ecosystem services provision.
Fernández-Quintanilla, César, Guerra, José G., Dorado, José, Félix Cabello (13921344), Peña Barragán, José Manuel, César Fernández-Quintanilla (13921347), José M. Peña (5664079), José Dorado (13921350), Cabello, Félix, Jose G. Guerra (13921341)   +9 more
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Comparison of the Pollen Deposition and Carrying Efficiency of Four Wild Pollinators for Oil-Seed Camellia Trees

Insects
To investigate how insect hair morphology influences pollination effectiveness, this study examined four common wild pollinators in Camellia oleifera plantations: two bee species (Colletes gigas and Apis cerana) and two hornet species (Vespa velutina and
Zijian Li, Yu Qiao, Mvchir Huyun, Yan Li, Wei Zhang, Yue Ying, Jinping Shu   +6 more
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Derivation and characterization of retinal pigment epithelium from urine‐derived iPSCs

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Age‐related macular degeneration causes vision loss via RPE dysfunction and loss. Traditional iPSC therapies rely on invasive biopsies, limiting scalability. Here, we utilize urine‐derived stem cells as an accessible source to generate u‐iPSCs, successfully differentiated into pigmented RPE. This “Urine‐to‐Retina” platform provides a promising path for
Daniella Beiner, Hainan Zhu, Carol Christine Bosholm, Heuy‐Ching Wang, Tracy Criswell, Anthony Atala, Jian‐Xing Ma, Yuanyuan Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inferential tests and modelling of functional trait convergence along environmental gradients

, 2013
The motivation for this paper comes from a recent study which indicated that the influence of environmental filtering should increase with decreasing soil fertility, based on the premise that individuals will employ a resource-retentive strategy in a ...
Laughlin, Daniel C., Brown, Paul T., Joshi, Chaitanya   +2 more
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Using functional trait diversity patterns to disentangle the scale‐dependent ecological processes in a subtropical forest

, 2018
1. Disentangling ecological processes that influence community assembly and species diversity across spatial scales remains a major goal of community ecology.
Zhang, Hui, Berninger, Frank, Han Y. H. Chen, Robert John, Hui Liu, Ye, Qing, Wanhui Ye, Juyu Lian, John, Robert, Frank Berninger, Li Ronghua, Qing Ye, Liu, Hui, Chen, Han Y. H., Ye, Wanhui, Hui Zhang, Lian, Juyu   +16 more
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Trait means predict performance under water limitation better than plasticity for seedlings of Poaceae species on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Water availability may be altered by changes in precipitation under global climate change in alpine areas. Trait means and plasticity are important for plants in response to a changing environment.
Honglin Li, Xilai Li, Xiaolong Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

Directed evolution of enzymes at the crossroads of tradition and innovation

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An iterative cycle of data‐driven enzyme optimization comprising four stages: genetic diversification of a template enzyme, expression of protein variants, high‐throughput evaluation, and machine‐learning‐guided redesign of the next variant library.
Maria Tomkova, Andrej Mirossay, Erik Sedlak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

pablosanchezmart/Sanchez-Martinez-etal-2024-A-framework-to-study-and-predict-functional-trait-syndromes: A framework to study and predict functional trait syndromes using phylogenetic and environmental data

<p>Code used in the paper titled A framework to study and predict functional trait syndromes using phylogenetic and environmental data published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution by Pablo Sanchez-Martinez, David D. Ackerly, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta,
Pablo Sanchez-Martinez
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