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Asian house rats may facilitate their invasive success through suppressing brown rats in chronic interaction

Frontiers in Zoology, 2017
Background The Asian house rat (Rattus tanezumi) and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) are closely related species and are partially sympatric in southern China. Over the past 20 years, R.
Hong-Ling Guo, Hua-Jing Teng, Jin-Hua Zhang, Jian-Xu Zhang, Yao-Hua Zhang   +4 more
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Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels Decreases Cucumber Mosaic Virus Accumulation in Correlation with Greater Accumulation of rgs-CaM, an Inhibitor of a Viral Suppressor of RNAi

Plants, 2020
Plant viruses cause a range of plant diseases symptoms that are often responsible for significant crop production losses and the severity and spread of the symptoms may be affected by climate change.
Huijuan Guo, Panpan Ge, Jiahui Tong, Yanjing Zhang, Xinhong Peng, Zihua Zhao, Feng Ge, Yucheng Sun   +7 more
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Assessment of spatial learning and memory in the Barnes maze task in rodents—methodological consideration

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2018
Among the methods valuable for assessing spatial learning and memory impairments in rodents, the Barnes maze (BM) task deserves special attention.
Kinga Gawel, Ewa Gibuła, M. Marszałek-Grabska, Joanna Filarowska, J. Kotlinska   +4 more
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Increases in Genistein in Medicago sativa Confer Resistance against the Pisum Host Race of Acyrthosiphon pisum

Insects, 2019
Interspecific interaction with host plants have important consequences for the host race formation of herbivorous insects. Plant secondary metabolites, particularly those that are involved in host races specializing on plants, warrant the theory of host ...
Erliang Yuan, Hongyu Yan, Jing Gao, Huijuan Guo, Feng Ge, Yucheng Sun   +5 more
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Effects of Group Size on Behavior, Reproduction, and mRNA Expression in Brains of Brandt’s Voles

Brain Sciences, 2023
For social animals, a moderate group size is greatly important to maintain their reproductive success. However, the underlying neurobiological mechanism of group size on behavior and reproduction has rarely been investigated.
Wei Lu, Shuli Huang, Jing Liu, Erdenetuya Batsuren, Guoliang Li, Xinru Wan, Jidong Zhao, Zuoxin Wang, Wenxuan Han, Zhibin Zhang   +9 more
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The Gut Microbiota May Affect Personality in Mongolian Gerbils

Microorganisms, 2022
The “gut–microbiota–brain axis” reveals that gut microbiota plays a critical role in the orchestrating behavior of the host. However, the correlation between the host personalities and the gut microbiota is still rarely known.
Lin Gan, Tingbei Bo, Wei Liu, Dehua Wang
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Risk factors for human acute leptospirosis in northern Tanzania [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Leptospirosis is a major cause of febrile illness in Africa but little is known about risk factors for human infection. We conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate risk factors for acute leptospirosis and Leptospira ...
Allan, Kathryn J., Biggs, Holly M., Cash-Goldwasser, Shama, Cleaveland, Sarah, Crump, John A., Galloway, Renee L., Halliday, Jo E.B., Kazwala, Rudovick R., Lwezaula, Bingileki F., Maro, Venance P., Maze, Michael J., Mmbaga, Blandina T., Muiruri, Charles, Rubach, Matthew P., Saganda, Wilbrod, Shand, Michael C., Sharples, Katrina J.   +16 more
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A Review of Pain Assessment Methods in Laboratory Rodents.

Comparative medicine, 2019
Ensuring that laboratory rodent pain is well managed underpins the ethical acceptability of working with these animals in research. Appropriate treatment of pain in laboratory rodents requires accurate assessments of the presence or absence of pain to ...
P. Turner, D. Pang, J. Lofgren
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Genetic variation in PTPN1 contributes to metabolic adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in Tibetan migratory locusts

Nature Communications, 2018
Vertebrate adaptation to high-altitude life has been extensively investigated, while invertebrates are less well-studied. Here, the authors find signals of adaptive evolution in genomes of migratory locusts from the Tibetan Plateau, and implicate a PTPN1
Ding Ding, Guangjian Liu, Li Hou, Wanying Gui, Bing Chen, Le Kang   +5 more
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OTU7B Modulates the Mosquito Immune Response to Beauveria bassiana Infection via Deubiquitination of the Toll Adaptor TRAF4

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits devastating flaviviruses, such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever viruses. For more effective control of the vector, the pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana, a fungus commonly used for biological control of pest ...
Yanhong Wang, Mengmeng Chang, Mao Wang, Yannan Ji, Xiaomei Sun, Alexander S. Raikhel, Zhen Zou   +6 more
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