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How do parasites and predators choose their victim? A trade‐off between quality and vulnerability across antagonistic interactions

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 2099-2115, October 2025.
ABSTRACT From blood‐sucking lice and food‐stealing gulls to pandemic‐inducing viruses and egg‐eating snakes: parasites and predators are ubiquitous in shaping ecology and evolution. Fundamental to these interactions is the way in which parasites and predators choose their victim. Here, I argue that a trade‐off between host quality and vulnerability can
Mairenn C. Attwood
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Extensive evolution of cereal ribosome-inactivating proteins translates into unique structural features, activation mechanisms, and physiological roles [PDF]

, 2017
Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a class of cytotoxic enzymes that can depurinate rRNAs thereby inhibiting protein translation. Although these proteins have also been detected in bacteria, fungi, and even some insects, they are especially ...
De Zaeytijd, Jeroen, Van Damme, Els
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Landscape of Aeroallergen Sensitization in Asia

Clinical &Experimental Allergy, Volume 55, Issue 10, Page 901-915, October 2025.
In Asia, aeroallergen sensitisation is driven by climate, geography, pollution, and demographic shifts, dominated by house dust mites indoors and varying pollen sensitisation. Allergen immunotherapy remains underutilised, especially in low‐ and middle‐income countries, due to standardisation gaps and limited access to AIT products, hindering equitable ...
Xiaoling Yin, Xiangling Zhang, Feng Xu, Hao Xiao, Juan Meng, Philip H. Li   +5 more
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B Cell Activating Factor Does Not Play a Pivotal Role in the Synthesis of Aberrantly Glycosylated IgA

Nephrology, Volume 30, Issue 10, October 2025.
This experimental study investigates the role of B cell activating factor (BAFF) in the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy using gddY mice. ABSTRACT Aim IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common primary glomerulonephritis worldwide, yet its pathogenesis remains incompletely understood.
Jin Sug Kim, Hitoshi Suzuki, Yusuke Fukao, Toshiki Kano, Maiko Nakayama, Yoshihito Nihei, Yusuke Suzuki   +6 more
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The Seasonal Activity of Ixodes ricinus Tick in Amol, Mazandaran Province, Northern Iran

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2015
Background: The present study aimed to demonstrate the seasonal activities of Ixodes ricinus at the pasture level and on the host. Methods: A vast pasture in Amol countryside (Mazandaran Province, Iran) which had the potential for a considera- ble number
Nasrollah Vahedi-Noori, Sadegh Rahbari, Saeed Bokaei   +2 more
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Similarities between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes inopinatus genomes and horizontal gene transfer from their endosymbionts

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
The taxa Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes inopinatus are sympatric in Tunisia. The genetics underlying their morphological differences are unresolved. In this study, ticks collected in Jouza-Amdoun, Tunisia, were morphologically identified and sequenced using ...
Valérie O. Baede, Oumayma Jlassi, Paulina M. Lesiczka, Hend Younsi, Hans J. Jansen, Khalil Dachraoui, Jane Segobola, Mourad Ben Said, Wouter J. Veneman, Ron P. Dirks, Hein Sprong, Elyes Zhioua   +11 more
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Cutaneous eccrine glands of the foot pads of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, Hyracoidea, mammalia) [PDF]

, 2002
In order to find correlations between skin gland morphology and specific ethological features, the cutaneous glands of the foot pads of Procavia capensis were studied by histological and various histochemical methods and by electron microscopy.
Stumpf, P., Welsch, U.
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Design of High‐Diacylglycerol and Lecithin Soybean Seed Oil Using GmPDATs and GmDGATs Knockout via a CRISPR‐Cas9 System

Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
Ying Zhao, Binshuo Zhang, Huilin Tian, Yang Liu, Yifan Cui, Sihui Wang, Zhenbang Hu, Mingliang Yang, Qingshan Chen   +8 more
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A new tool for engineering Phaeodactylum tricornutum: the METE promoter drives both high expression and B12‐tuneable regulation of transgenes

The Plant Journal, Volume 124, Issue 2, October 2025.
Significance Statement The promoter of the METE gene in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is repressed by nanomolar concentrations of vitamin B12. It can be used to tune the expression of genes for reporter proteins or metabolic enzymes and in the non‐permissive state (i.e., +B12) can suppress the expression of the lethal gene, barnase.
Patrick R. Hickland, Katrin Geisler, Shelby Newsad, Marcel Llavero Pasquina, A. Caroline Faessler, Gonzalo I. Mendoza‐Ochoa, Andre Holzer, Payam Mehrshahi, Alison G. Smith   +8 more
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Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in urban and suburban areas of Switzerland

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Throughout Europe, Ixodes ricinus transmits numerous pathogens. Its widespread distribution is not limited to rural but also includes urbanized areas. To date, comprehensive data on pathogen carrier rates of I.
Corinne P. Oechslin, Daniel Heutschi, Nicole Lenz, Werner Tischhauser, Olivier Péter, Olivier Rais, Christian M. Beuret, Stephen L. Leib, Sergei Bankoul, Rahel Ackermann-Gäumann   +9 more
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