[HTML][HTML] Microplastics in marine biota: A review

K Ugwu, A Herrera, M Gómez - Marine pollution bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastics are the most important component in marine debris. In turn, within plastics,
microplastics (< 5 mm) are those that most affect marine biota. Thus, this review has as its …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic potential for exopolysaccharide synthesis in activated sludge bacteria uncovered by genome-resolved metagenomics

MKD Dueholm, M Besteman, EJ Zeuner… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
A good floc formation of activated sludge (AS) is crucial for solid-liquid separation and
production of clean effluent during wastewater treatment. Floc formation is partly controlled …

Transcriptome mining expands knowledge of RNA viruses across the plant kingdom

JCO Mifsud, RV Gallagher, EC Holmes… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Our current understanding of plant viruses stems largely from those affecting economically
important plants. Yet plant species in cultivation represent a small and biased subset of the …

[HTML][HTML] A million kernels of truth: Insights into scalable satellite maize yield mapping and yield gap analysis from an extensive ground dataset in the US Corn Belt

JM Deines, R Patel, SZ Liang, W Dado… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Crop yield maps estimated from satellite data increasingly are used to understand drivers of
yield trends and variability, yet satellite-derived regional maps are rarely compared with …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with baseline mortality in Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming

VHS Oliveira, KR Dean, L Qviller, C Kirkeby… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In 2019, it was estimated that more than 50 million captive Atlantic salmon in Norway died in
the final stage of their production in marine cages. This mortality represents a significant …

[HTML][HTML] Profiling lariat intermediates reveals genetic determinants of early and late co-transcriptional splicing

Y Zeng, BJ Fair, H Zeng, A Krishnamohan, Y Hou… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Long introns with short exons in vertebrate genes are thought to require spliceosome
assembly across exons (exon definition), rather than introns, thereby requiring transcription …

A reference genome sequence for giant sequoia

AD Scott, AV Zimin, D Puiu, R Workman… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) of California are massive, long-lived trees
that grow along the US Sierra Nevada mountains. Genomic data are limited in giant sequoia …

Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity

CA Cansler, VR Kane, PF Hessburg, JT Kane… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigated the relative importance of daily fire weather, landscape position, climate,
recent forest and fuels management, and fire history to explaining patterns of remotely …

[HTML][HTML] Root angle, phosphorus, and water: Interactions and effects on durum wheat genotype performance in drought-prone environments

FJT van der Bom, A Williams, NS Raymond, S Alahmad… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Selection for root traits has become a target in (pre-) breeding programs aiming at
improving crop ability to capture soil resources. However, the benefit of selected traits in …

[HTML][HTML] Public perceptions and attitudes toward urban wildlife encounters–A decade of change

SM Basak, MS Hossain, DT O'Mahony… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Europe is currently undergoing dynamic land use changes causing the expansion of urban
habitat, which is driving wildlife species to colonise conurbations, resulting in an increased …