MycoNews 2022: editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news
IMA Fungus, 2023 This fourth annual edition of MycoNews starts with an editorial asking if mycology is approaching a tipping point, and note of the journal’s 2021 Impact Factor almost doubling from 2020. Updated information and new speakers for IMC12 in 2024 is presented.
David L. Hawksworth
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Stochastic dynamics of adaptive trait and neutral marker driven by eco-evolutionary feedbacks [PDF]
, 2014 How the neutral diversity is affected by selection and adaptation is investigated in an eco-evolutionary framework. In our model, we study a finite population in continuous time, where each individual is characterized by a trait under selection and a ...
Billiard, Sylvain +3 more
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Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG
Nature Genetics, 2017 We introduce multi-trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG), a method for joint analysis of summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of different traits, possibly from overlapping samples.
P. Turley +42 more
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Dealing with anxiety:Relationships among interpersonal attachment style, psychological wellbeing and trait anxiety [PDF]
, 2017 Anxiety is a major contributor to poor quality mental health for many people in our community, and is a leading cause of presentations at medical and health clinics.
Andrews, Emma, Hicks, Richard E.
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Genomic prediction and quantitative trait locus discovery in a cassava training population constructed from multiple breeding stages [PDF]
, 2020 Open Access Article; Published online: 11 Dec 2019Assembly of a training population (TP) is an important component of effective genomic selection‐based breeding programs.
Egesi, C. +11 more
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Trait and state anxiety are mapped differently in the human brain
Scientific Reports, 2020 Anxiety is a mental state characterized by an intense sense of tension, worry or apprehension, relative to something adverse that might happen in the future.
F. Saviola +5 more
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Survival processing versus self-reference : a memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding [PDF]
, 2017 Previous research has shown that rating words for their relevance to a survival scenario leads to better retention of the words than rating them for self-reference. Past studies have, however, relied exclusively on an autobiographical self-reference task
Anderson, Rachel J. +3 more
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Genetic mapping and evolutionary analysis of human-expanded cognitive networks
Nature Communications, 2019 Several cortical association areas have rapidly expanded in size during human evolution, including elements of the central cognitive default mode network (DMN).
Yongbin Wei +11 more
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The assessment of trait emotional intelligence: psychometric characteristics of the TEIQue-full form in a large Italian adult sample [PDF]
, 2019 Trait Emotional Intelligence (or trait emotional self-efficacy) is a constellation of emotional perceptions assessed through questionnaires and rating scales (Petrides et al., 2007b).
Chirumbolo, Antonio +3 more
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KCC2 expression levels are reduced in post mortem brain tissue of Rett syndrome patients
Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2019 Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the Methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Deficient K+-Cl—co-transporter 2 (KCC2) expression is suggested to play a key role in the neurodevelopmental delay in RTT patients’
Lisa Hinz +2 more
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