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Natural selection and adaptive evolution of leptin in the ochotona family driven by the cold environmental stress. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND: Environmental stress can accelerate the evolutionary rate of specific stress-response proteins and create new functions specialized for different environments, enhancing an organism's fitness to stressful environments. Pikas (order Lagomorpha)
Jie Yang +7 more
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2300-2311, April 2025.Light‐emitting diode (LED)‐based treatments for enhancing crop production and pest management have primarily focused on continuous treatments. This study, using Tetranychus urticae and Phytoseiulus persimilis, demonstrates that the timing of LED supplementation is crucial for designing integrated pest management strategies that improve both plant ...
Patrice Savi +5 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on the adaptive transfer and the genre knowledge model as a conceptual framework, this research explores how English as a second language (ESL) learners transferred knowledge across genres (narration and argumentation) and media (print‐based writing and video) with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms ...
Meilu Liu +2 more
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Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionMarmots are recognized as host animals for plague caused by Yersinia pestis infection. It is unclear that why plague prevalent in marmot rather than other rodents like pikas in the same habitats.
Wenlong Zhao +5 more
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Suitable habitat of Himalayan wolf in Upper Mustang, Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Decades ago, the Himalayan wolf Canis lupus chanco, a genetically distinct sub‐species of the gray wolf Canis lupus, faced persecution by local communities in the Nepalese Himalayas. Recently, wolf populations have returned and recolonized, sparking concerns about conflicts over livestock depredation, and emphasizing the urgent need for comprehensive ...
Deu Bahadur Rana +5 more
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<h3>New features</h3> <ul> <li>Avoid unnecessary copies of CUDA streams and handles to improve profiling appearance. (<a href="https://github.com/pika-org/pika/pull/1056">#1056</a>)</li> <li>Avoid use of ...
Akhil Nair +13 more
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Cardiovascular Plasticity and Adaptation of High‐Altitude Birds and Mammals
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This schematic depicts the cardiovascular adaptations of mammals and birds to high‐altitude hypoxia. It highlights key phenotypic changes in oxygen transport and cardiac responses, driven by molecular mechanisms including transcriptional regulation and genetic modifications.
Huishang She, Yanhua Qu
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<h3>Bugfixes</h3> <ul> <li>Fix incorrect worker thread numbers when using more than one thread pool. (<a href="https://github.com/pika-org/pika/pull/1016">#1016</a>)</li> <li>Unrevert <a href="https ...
Akhil Nair +13 more
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, 2017 The complete SNP file for all the Pika samples we ...
Knowles, L. Lacey +5 more
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