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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.

Airborne microplastic monitoring: developing a simplified outdoor sampling approach using pollen monitoring equipment (2024)
Journal Article
Chapman, E., Liddle, C. R., Williams, B., Hilmer, E., Quick, L. J., Garcia, A. G., Suárez, D. C., White, D., Bunting, M. J., Walker, P., Cabaneros, S. M. S., Kinnersley, R., Hansen, M. F., Atherall, C. A., & Rotchell, J. M. (2024). Airborne microplastic monitoring: developing a simplified outdoor sampling approach using pollen monitoring equipment. Journal of hazardous materials, 480, Article 136129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136129

A novel, yet simple, airborne microplastic (MP) sampling approach using global pollen monitoring equipment was applied to identify, characterise and quantify outdoor airborne MPs for the first time. Modification of Burkard spore trap tape adhesive pr... Read More about Airborne microplastic monitoring: developing a simplified outdoor sampling approach using pollen monitoring equipment.

Do Sex Ratio Distorting Microbes Inhibit the Evolution of Pesticide Resistance? An Experimental Test (2024)
Journal Article
Fisher, A., McKenzie, A., Price, T., Bonsall, M., & Knell, R. (2024). Do Sex Ratio Distorting Microbes Inhibit the Evolution of Pesticide Resistance? An Experimental Test. Evolutionary Applications, 17(10), Article e70003. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70003

We are still largely reliant on pesticides for the suppression of arthropod pests which threaten human health and food production, but the recent rise of evolved resistance among important pest species has reduced pesticide efficacy. Despite this, ou... Read More about Do Sex Ratio Distorting Microbes Inhibit the Evolution of Pesticide Resistance? An Experimental Test.

Inland Fisheries in a Basin Management Context (2024)
Book Chapter
Ainsworth, R., & Stokes, G. (2024). Inland Fisheries in a Basin Management Context. In R. Arthur (Ed.), Review of the state of the world fishery resources Inland fisheries (116-148). (4th ed.). The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and The African Development Bank. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd2169en

Gendered farmer perceptions towards soil nutrition and willingness to pay for a cafetière-style filter system for in-situ soil testing: evidence from Central Kenya (2024)
Journal Article
Kamau, P., Ndirangu, I., Richardson, S., Pamme, N., & Gitaka, J. (2024). Gendered farmer perceptions towards soil nutrition and willingness to pay for a cafetière-style filter system for in-situ soil testing: evidence from Central Kenya. Heliyon, 10(18), Article e37568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37568

Soil nutrition is a key pillar in agricultural productivity. However, point-of-need testing for soil nutrition is not readily available in resource-limited settings such as Kenya. We set out to study the perceived need for soil testing among farmers... Read More about Gendered farmer perceptions towards soil nutrition and willingness to pay for a cafetière-style filter system for in-situ soil testing: evidence from Central Kenya.

Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing (2024)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Barucg, Q., Garcia, A. A., Garcia-Merino, B., Akinmola, T., Okotie-Eboh, T., Francis, T., Bringas, E., Ortiz, I., Wade, M., Dowle, A., Joyce, D. A., Hardman, M. J., Wilkinson, H. N., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2024). Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing. Environmental pollution, 362, Article 124952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124952

This study investigates the effects of environmentally-relevant concentrations of fluoxetine (FLX, commercial name: Prozac) on wound healing. Pollution of water systems with pharmaceutical and personal care products, including antidepressants such as... Read More about Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing.

The epizootiology of avian influenza in wild birds and its risk to the UK poultry sector (2024)
Thesis
Wade, D. (2024). The epizootiology of avian influenza in wild birds and its risk to the UK poultry sector. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4910719

The understanding of avian influenza and its associated risk in the UK has changed considerably over the last five years, with new foci species being identified, and changes in our understanding of viral prevalence throughout a calendar year. Concurr... Read More about The epizootiology of avian influenza in wild birds and its risk to the UK poultry sector.

Inter-annual variation in movements and passage of seaward migrating European eels at a shrouded Archimedean screw pumping station (2024)
Journal Article
Evans, O. J., Carter, L. J., Hutchinson, T., Don, A., Wright, R. M., Baktoft, H., Pauwels, I. S., & Bolland, J. D. (2024). Inter-annual variation in movements and passage of seaward migrating European eels at a shrouded Archimedean screw pumping station. Ecological engineering, 209, Article 107389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2024.107389

The construction of less damaging (here called fish-friendly) pumping stations has taken place in recent years, but it is unknown if they provide efficient and timely passage to migratory fish, such as European eel (Anguilla anguilla (L.)). The pump... Read More about Inter-annual variation in movements and passage of seaward migrating European eels at a shrouded Archimedean screw pumping station.

Geohistorical insights into marine functional connectivity (2024)
Journal Article
Agiadi, K., Caswell, B. A., Almeida, R., Becheker, A., Blanco, A., Brito, C., León-Cobo, M. J., Cook, E. M. E., Costantini, F., Karakuş, M., Leprieur, F., López, C., López-López, L., Dea, A. O., Pallacks, S., Rabanal, I., Schultz, L., Tanner, S. E., Theodoropoulou, T., Thurstan, R. H., …Darnaude, A. M. (2024). Geohistorical insights into marine functional connectivity. ICES journal of marine science : journal du conseil, 81(10), 1884-1911. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae117

Marine functional connectivity (MFC) refers to the flows of organic matter, genes, and energy that are caused by the active and passive movements of marine organisms. Occurring at various temporal and spatial scales, MFC is a dynamic, constantly evol... Read More about Geohistorical insights into marine functional connectivity.

The genome sequence of the Eurasian minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758) (2024)
Journal Article
Nunn, A. D., Moccetti, P., & Hänfling, B. (in press). The genome sequence of the Eurasian minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758). Wellcome Open Research, 9, Article 504. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22867.1

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Phoxinus phoxinus (the Eurasian minnow; Chordata; Actinopteri; Cypriniformes; Leuciscidae). The genome sequence spans 950.50 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 25 chromosomal pseu... Read More about The genome sequence of the Eurasian minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Towards the conservation of the crucian carp in Europe: Prolific hybridization but no evidence for introgression between native and non-native taxa (2024)
Journal Article
Jeffries, D., Lawson-Handley, L., Lamatsch, D., Olsén, K. H., Sayer, C. D., & Hänfling, B. (2024). Towards the conservation of the crucian carp in Europe: Prolific hybridization but no evidence for introgression between native and non-native taxa. Molecular ecology, 33(19), Article e17515. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17515

Hybridization plays a pivotal role in evolution, influencing local adaptation and speciation. However, it can also reduce biodiversity, which is especially damaging when native and non-native species meet. Hybridization can threaten native species vi... Read More about Towards the conservation of the crucian carp in Europe: Prolific hybridization but no evidence for introgression between native and non-native taxa.

Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips (2024)
Data
Gilbert, J. (2024). Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zmp

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, s... Read More about Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips.

The origins of mammal growth patterns during the Jurassic mammalian radiation (2024)
Journal Article
Newham, E., Corfe, I. J., Brewer, P., Bright, J. A., Fernandez, V., Gostling, N. J., Hoffmann, S., Jäger, K. R., Kague, E., Lovric, G., Marone, F., Panciroli, E., Schneider, P., Schultz, J. A., Suhonen, H., Witchell, A., Gill, P. G., & Martin, T. (2024). The origins of mammal growth patterns during the Jurassic mammalian radiation. Science Advances, 10(32), eado4555. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado4555

We use synchrotron x-ray tomography of annual growth increments in the dental cementum of mammaliaforms (stem and crown fossil mammals) from three faunas across the Jurassic to map the origin of patterns of mammalian growth patterns, which are intrin... Read More about The origins of mammal growth patterns during the Jurassic mammalian radiation.

Diverse migration strategies of ariid catfishes along a salinity gradient in the Mekong River (2024)
Journal Article
Vu, A. V., Baumgartner, L. J., Limburg, K. E., Gillanders, B. M., Mallen-Cooper, M., Howitt, J. A., Thiem, J. D., Doran, G. S., Kewish, C. M., & Cowx, I. G. (2024). Diverse migration strategies of ariid catfishes along a salinity gradient in the Mekong River. Fisheries research, 279, Article 107133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.107133

Ariid catfishes (Ariidae family) are important migratory fish species in the Mekong River, with some species representing a major harvest component from the river. Limited biological information exists, and in particular their migration patterns are... Read More about Diverse migration strategies of ariid catfishes along a salinity gradient in the Mekong River.

Rethinking fish-friendliness of pumps by shifting focus to both safe and timely fish passage for effective conservation (2024)
Journal Article
Evans, O. J., Norman, J., Carter, L. J., Hutchinson, T., Don, A., Wright, R. M., Tuhtan, J. A., Toming, G., & Bolland, J. D. (2024). Rethinking fish-friendliness of pumps by shifting focus to both safe and timely fish passage for effective conservation. Scientific reports, 14(1), Article 17888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67870-5

Globally, catadromous freshwater eels of the genus Anguilla are of conservation concern, including critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla). Pumping stations that move river water to a higher elevation severely impact eels during their... Read More about Rethinking fish-friendliness of pumps by shifting focus to both safe and timely fish passage for effective conservation.

Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education (2024)
Journal Article
da Silva, S.-M., & Hubbard, K. (2024). Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 23(3), https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-10-0195

Society and education is inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of colour have required educators to des... Read More about Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education.

The genome sequence of the gudgeon, Gobio gobio (Linnaeus, 1758) [Version 1] (2024)
Journal Article
Nunn, A. D., Moccetti, P., Hänfling, B., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, & Darwin Tree of Life Consortium. (2024). The genome sequence of the gudgeon, Gobio gobio (Linnaeus, 1758) [Version 1]. Wellcome Open Research, 9, Article 409. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22742.1

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Gobio gobio (the gudgeon; Chordata; Actinopteri; Cypriniformes; Gobionidae). The genome sequence spans 1,460.70 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 25 chromosomal pseudomolecules.... Read More about The genome sequence of the gudgeon, Gobio gobio (Linnaeus, 1758) [Version 1].