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Spatially restricted coral bleaching as an ecological manifestation of within-colony heterogeneity.

Voolstra, CR Schlotheuber, M Camp, EF Nitschke, MR Szereday, S Bejarano, S

Coral bleaching is a widespread stress response of reef-building corals to elevated sea temperatures, resulting in the loss of symbiotic algae and often leading to coral death and reef degradation....

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The Gut Microbiome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Results From a Large Population-Based Cohort

Mahbub, R Gacesa, R Weersma, R Oliver, B Vonk, J van den Berge, M Faiz, A

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Improving conservation outcomes for seadragons: data, knowledge gaps, and future directions

Tustison, CA Wilson, NG Rouse, GW Booth, DJ De Brauwer, M

Seadragons are charismatic fishes endemic to Australia’s Great Southern Reef and are flagships for marine biodiversity. Due to their unique appearances and behaviors, seadragons are of interest for...

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TREM2 promotes lung fibrosis via controlling alveolar macrophage survival and pro-fibrotic activity.

Cui, H Banerjee, S Xie, N Hussain, M Jaiswal, A Liu, H Kulkarni, T Antony, VB Liu, R-M Colonna, M Liu, G

Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in pulmonary fibrosis, with monocyte-derived alveolar macrophages driving disease progression. However, the mechanisms regulating their pro-fibrotic behavior an...

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Mapping 1-km soybean yield across China from 2001 to 2020 based on ensemble learning.

Zhang, M Xu, X Ou, J Zhang, Z Chen, F Shi, L Wang, B Zhang, M He, L Zhang, X Chen, Y Hu, K Feng, P

Soybean is a critical agricultural product in China, with domestic production unable to satisfy the substantial demand, leading to a huge reliance on imports. To support the scientific formulation ...

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Faster larval growth and shorter pelagic duration enhance the post-settlement persistence of a common range-extending coral-reef fish in a temperate ecosystem

Rigg, AL Fowler, AM Nagelkerken, I Booth, DJ

Climate-induced ocean warming facilitates the poleward range expansion of tropical marine species into temperate waters. Such tropicalisation is reshaping marine ecosystems globally and has ecologi...

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A pan-immune panorama of bacterial pneumonia revealed by a large-scale single-cell transcriptome atlas.

Xiao, K Cao, Y Han, Z Zhang, Y Luu, LDW Chen, L Yan, P Chen, W Wang, J Liang, Y Shi, X Wang, X Wang, F Hu, Y Wen, Z Chen, Y Yang, Y Yu, H Xie, L Wang, Y

Bacterial pneumonia is a significant public health burden, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Current therapeutic strategies beyond antibiotics and adjuvant the...

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High ciguatoxin-producing Gambierdiscus clade (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) as a source of toxins causing ciguatera poisoning

Murray, SA Verma, A Hoppenrath, M Harwood, DT Murray, JS Smith, KF Lewis, R Finch, SC Islam, SS Ashfaq, A De Azevedo, CD Bolch, CJS

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Transcriptomic Temperature Stress Responses Show Differentiation Between Biomes for Diverse Plants.

Andrew, SC Harris, RJ Coppin, C Nicotra, AB Leigh, A Mokany, K

Plants are foundational to terrestrial ecosystems, and because they are sessile, they are particularly reliant on physiological plasticity to respond to weather extremes. However, variation in cons...

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Climate Change Effects on Fishes

Nagelkerken, I Allan, B Booth, D Donelson, J Mellin, C Ravasi, T Rummer, J

Fishes comprise the most diverse group of aquatic vertebrates and are found across the world’s aquatic biomes and ecosystems — in freshwater, estuaries, as well as in the ocean. With this divers...

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