Gerbil: a fast and memory-efficient k-mer counter with GPU-support [PDF]
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 2017 Background A basic task in bioinformatics is the counting of k-mers in genome sequences. Existing k-mer counting tools are most often optimized for small k < 32 and suffer from excessive memory resource consumption or degrading performance for large k ...
Marius Erbert +2 more
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Unsupervised discovery of family specific vocal usage in the Mongolian gerbil [PDF]
eLifeIn nature, animal vocalizations can provide crucial information about identity, including kinship and hierarchy. However, lab-based vocal behavior is typically studied during brief interactions between animals with no prior social relationship, and under
Ralph E Peterson +7 more
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Great gerbil burrowing-induced microbial diversity shapes the rhizosphere soil microenvironments of Haloxylon ammodendron in temperate deserts [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 In the Gurbantunggut Desert of northwest China, the main habitat of Rhombomys opimus (great gerbil) is under the thickets of Haloxylon ammodendron, the main construction species.
Hanli Dang +6 more
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Environmental Limitations and Interspecific Interactions Across the Distribution Range of Gerbils [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTo elucidate the environmental adaptability and interspecific relationships of gerbil species, we analyzed the distribution data of seven species using the Maximum Entropy model (MaxEnt) and Joint Species Distribution Models (JSDMs) in relation to ...
Jiuqi Zhao +6 more
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Demographic response of the Gambian Gerbil to seasonal changes in Savannah fallow fields [PDF]
Folia Oecologica, 2019 The Savannah gerbil, Gerbilliscus gambianus (Muridae: Gerbillinae) is important to the ecological relations of the dry grassland ecosystem of West Africa, as well as, being a zoonotic agent of human diseases and potential crop pest.
Rabiu Safianu, Rose Robert K.
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Effects of gerbil disturbance on the ecological stoichiometric characteristics and nutrient uptake and utilization of H. ammodendron [PDF]
PeerJRodent activity is an important factor that affects the growth and development of Haloxylon ammodendron. Studying the effect of rodent disturbance on plant ecological stoichiometric ratios helps evaluate the mechanism by which rodent disturbance affects ...
Jinshun Shi +5 more
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Enhancement of de novo sequencing, assembly and annotation of the Mongolian gerbil genome with transcriptome sequencing and assembly from several different tissues [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background The Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) has historically been used as a model organism for the auditory and visual systems, stroke/ischemia, epilepsy and aging related research since 1935 when laboratory gerbils were separated from their ...
Shifeng Cheng +9 more
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Strongyloides species exhibit distinct behaviors on the skin of different mammals [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Skin-penetrating nematodes, including the human parasite Strongyloides stercoralis and the rat parasite Strongyloides ratti, are gastrointestinal parasites that infect when infective third-stage larvae (iL3s) invade host skin.
Courtney R. Abell +2 more
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Effects of Great Gerbil Disturbance on Photosynthetic Characteristics and Nutrient Status of Haloxylon ammodendron [PDF]
PlantsRodents, such as those that feed on plants and nest in plant roots, can significantly affect the growth and development of desert plants. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Rhombomys opimus disturbance on the photosynthetic ...
Jinshun Shi +6 more
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eLife, 2023 Listeners with hearing loss often struggle to understand speech in noise, even with a hearing aid. To better understand the auditory processing deficits that underlie this problem, we made large-scale brain recordings from gerbils, a common animal model ...
Shievanie Sabesan +4 more
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