All Outputs (815)

Larval and juvenile fish abundance, habitat, water quality, flow and climate data from English rivers, 1984-2017 (2025)
Data
(2025). Larval and juvenile fish abundance, habitat, water quality, flow and climate data from English rivers, 1984-2017. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5285/c904c5f0-7f21-4759-a7d4-c262da230b53

This dataset contains monthly/annual time series of species-specific abundances and covariates for 137 targeted larval/juvenile fish surveys at sites in a range of English lowland rivers. Larval/juvenile fish data come from two different sources: The... Read More about Larval and juvenile fish abundance, habitat, water quality, flow and climate data from English rivers, 1984-2017.

LAMPrey: a standardised method for analysing quantitative LAMP (qLAMP) and qPCR reactions using the inflection cycle threshold iCt (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bates, A., Li, J., Rivero, F., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2025). LAMPrey: a standardised method for analysing quantitative LAMP (qLAMP) and qPCR reactions using the inflection cycle threshold iCt

Quantitative Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (qLAMP) is a relatively new method that has gained popularity in recent years, particularly in disease identification, including during the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Unlike conventional quantitati... Read More about LAMPrey: a standardised method for analysing quantitative LAMP (qLAMP) and qPCR reactions using the inflection cycle threshold iCt.

Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development (2025)
Journal Article
Feugere, L., Silva De Freitas, C., Bates, A., Storey, K. B., Beltran-Alvarez, P., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2025). Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development. FEBS Letters, https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.70047

Since stress can be transmitted to congeners via social metabolites, it is paramount to understand how the social context of abiotic stress influences aquatic organisms' responses to global changes. Here, we integrated the transcriptomic and phenotyp... Read More about Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development.

Role of Serotonin in crayfish anxiety and anti-predatory behaviour (2025)
Thesis
Khan, A. (2025). Role of Serotonin in crayfish anxiety and anti-predatory behaviour. (Thesis). The University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5179467

Encountering threatening situations is a common occurrence in the living world. When exposed to danger for extended periods, behavioural response manifests as stress-induced sustained alertness, which is known as anxiety. It is essential to understan... Read More about Role of Serotonin in crayfish anxiety and anti-predatory behaviour.

Simulated heat waves affect cell fate and fitness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (2025)
Journal Article
Rivero Crespo, F., Wollenberg-Valero, K., & Banu, S. (2025). Simulated heat waves affect cell fate and fitness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Microbial Ecology, 88, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02519-y

The effects of heatwaves at organism and population levels have been widely investigated; however, little is known about how they affect the development of cell populations and the fitness of the resulting organism. Disruptions caused by heatwaves ar... Read More about Simulated heat waves affect cell fate and fitness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

From tropical coral reefs to high latitude coral communities: insights into population dynamics along environmental gradients (2025)
Thesis
Chong, F. (2025). From tropical coral reefs to high latitude coral communities: insights into population dynamics along environmental gradients. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5089297

Anthropogenic climate change affects coral communities globally, exposing them to increasingly frequent disturbances. Thermal stress events might differentially compromise the recovery capacity of coral taxa across biogeographic scales. While changes... Read More about From tropical coral reefs to high latitude coral communities: insights into population dynamics along environmental gradients.

Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes (2025)
Journal Article
Almeida, M. V., Blumer, M., Yuan, C. U., Sierra, P., Price, J. L., Quah, F. X., Friman, A., Dallaire, A., Vernaz, G., Putman, A. L., Smith, A. M., Joyce, D. A., Butter, F., Haase, A. D., Durbin, R., Santos, M. E., & Miska, E. A. (2025). Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes. Genome Biology, 26(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03475-z

BACKGROUND: East African cichlid fishes have diversified in an explosive fashion, but the (epi)genetic basis of the phenotypic diversity of these fishes remains largely unknown. Although transposable elements (TEs) have been associated with phenotypi... Read More about Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes.

Responses of fish to nationwide improvements in the water quality of a densely populated and heavily modified country over four decades (2025)
Journal Article
Nunn, A. D., Ainsworth, R. F., Qu, Y., Keller, V. D., Bachiller-Jareno, N., Antoniou, V., Eastman, M., Rizzo, C., Peirson, G., Eley, F., Johnson, A. C., & Cowx, I. G. (2025). Responses of fish to nationwide improvements in the water quality of a densely populated and heavily modified country over four decades. Water Research, 274, Article 123163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123163

Globally, fish have been severely affected by the widespread, chronic degradation of fresh waters, with a substantial proportion of species declining in abundance or range in recent decades. This has especially been the case in densely populated coun... Read More about Responses of fish to nationwide improvements in the water quality of a densely populated and heavily modified country over four decades.

The influence of hydrodynamics on the behaviour of European Eel at anthropogenic structures (2025)
Thesis
Collier, S. (2025). The influence of hydrodynamics on the behaviour of European Eel at anthropogenic structures. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5086316

Highly fragmented river networks in the UK pose a serious threat to the viability of anadromous fish, including the critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla), thus necessitating remediation at anthropogenic riverine obstructions to resto... Read More about The influence of hydrodynamics on the behaviour of European Eel at anthropogenic structures.

Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations (2025)
Journal Article
Cowgill, C., Gilbert, J. D., Convery, I., & Lawson Handley, L. (2025). Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, Article 1473957. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1473957

Introduction: Rewilding, the facilitation of self-sustaining and resilient ecosystems by restoring natural processes, is an increasingly popular conservation approach and potential solution to the biodiversity and climate crises. Outcomes of rewildin... Read More about Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations.

RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts (2024)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. M., Cullen, D. A., Labonte, D., Sutton, G. P., Vanden Broeck, J. J., & Burrows, M. (2025). RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2415625121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415625121

Resilin, an elastomeric protein with remarkable physical properties that outperforms synthetic rubbers, is a near-ubiquitous feature of the power amplification mechanisms used by jumping insects. Catapult-like mechanisms, which incorporate elastic en... Read More about RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts.

Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front (2024)
Journal Article
Chong, F., Soong, G. Y., Hakim, A. A., Burke, C., De Palmas, S., Gösser, F., Hsiao, W. V., Kise, H., Nishijima, M., Iguchi, A., Sommer, B., Joyce, D., Beger, M., & Reimer, J. D. (in press). Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front. Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02601-w

Potential range expansion of scleractinian corals in high-latitude reefs is critically dependent on the coral host-symbiont relationship that determines coral growth and survival. Although increases in coral cover have been observed at higher latitud... Read More about Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front.

A genomic investigation of Meloidogyne javanica: genome assembly, comparative analysis, and virulence (2024)
Thesis
Winter, M. (2024). A genomic investigation of Meloidogyne javanica: genome assembly, comparative analysis, and virulence. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5088328

The Meloidogyne incognita group (MIG) of nematodes, including Meloidogyne javanica, contains some of the most destructive crop pathogens worldwide. Genetic resistance, such as through the Mi-1 gene, is used to limit M. javanica infection, but resista... Read More about A genomic investigation of Meloidogyne javanica: genome assembly, comparative analysis, and virulence.

Geographical distribution of freshwater fishes in Saudi Arabia (2024)
Journal Article
Alharthi, I. G., Cowx, I. G., & Harvey, J. P. (2024). Geographical distribution of freshwater fishes in Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE, 19(12 December), Article e0311743. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311743

Species presence/absence data in different water bodies in different regions of Saudi Arabia were collated from the literature and collected from field surveys to determine the geographical distribution of fish species in the country. Freshwater fish... Read More about Geographical distribution of freshwater fishes in Saudi Arabia.

Genotype But Not Body Shape Predicts River Migration Success in Atlantic Salmon (2024)
Journal Article
Moccetti, P., Bolland, J. D., Adams, C. E., Rodger, J. R., Honkanen, H. M., Newton, M., Lothian, A. J., Nunn, A. D., & Joyce, D. A. (2024). Genotype But Not Body Shape Predicts River Migration Success in Atlantic Salmon. Ecology and Evolution, 14(12), Article e70682. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70682

Migratory species typically undertake demanding long-distance journeys, across different habitat types during which they are exposed to multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors. Mortality during migration is typically high and may be human induce... Read More about Genotype But Not Body Shape Predicts River Migration Success in Atlantic Salmon.

Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees (2024)
Journal Article
Pimbblet, K. A., & Morrell, L. J. (2025). Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees. European Journal of Physics, 46(1), Article 015702. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/ad9874

The emergence of conversational natural language processing models presents a significant challenge for Higher Education. In this work, we use the entirety of a UK Physics undergraduate (BSc with Honours) degree including all examinations and coursew... Read More about Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees.

Two decades of body length measurements of larval and juvenile fish populations in English rivers (2024)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, R. F., Vickers, L. H., Bolland, J. D., Taylor, M. J., Harvey, J. P., Noble, R. A., Cowx, I. G., & Nunn, A. D. (2024). Two decades of body length measurements of larval and juvenile fish populations in English rivers. Scientific Data, 11, Article 1271. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04127-w

Long-term datasets provide context and understanding of complex ecological processes, including temporal variations in species diversity and ecosystem dynamics. This dataset is comprised of body length measurements (mm) of more than 380,000 larval or... Read More about Two decades of body length measurements of larval and juvenile fish populations in English rivers.

A paper-based analytical device for the on-site multiplexed monitoring of soil nutrients extracted with a cafetière (2024)
Journal Article
Giménez-Gómez, P., Priem, N., Richardson, S., & Pamme, N. (2025). A paper-based analytical device for the on-site multiplexed monitoring of soil nutrients extracted with a cafetière. Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical, 424, Article 136881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2024.136881

Sustainable agricultural production has the aim to maximise the yield and quality of harvests. For that, farmers need to monitor nutrient levels within soils to apply fertilizers accordingly and to prevent land degradation and soil exhaustion. Curren... Read More about A paper-based analytical device for the on-site multiplexed monitoring of soil nutrients extracted with a cafetière.

Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips (2024)
Journal Article
Gilbert, J. D. (2024). Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips. The journal of animal ecology, 93(12), 1960-1971. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14204

Behavioural variation among individuals is a hallmark of cooperative societies, which commonly contain breeders and non-breeders, helpers and non-helpers. In some cases, labour is divided with non-breeders “helping.” Conversely, in some societies, su... Read More about Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips.

Two decades of body length measurements in size-structured larval and juvenile fish populations in English rivers (2024)
Data
Ainsworth, R., Vickers, L., Bolland, J., Harvey, J., Taylor, M., Cowx, I., Noble, R., & Nunn, A. (2024). Two decades of body length measurements in size-structured larval and juvenile fish populations in English rivers. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10552216

Long term ecological datasets are valuable in providing context and understanding to complex ecological processes that occur over broad temporal scales, and provide a baseline for analysing change. Monitoring of fish populations in UK waterbodies and... Read More about Two decades of body length measurements in size-structured larval and juvenile fish populations in English rivers.