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Environment rather than breed or body site shapes the skin bacterial community of healthy sheep as revealed by metabarcoding

Christof Holliger, Alexander Mathis, Emmanuelle Rohrbach, Laetitia Janine Andrée Cardona

Background: The skin is inhabited by a variety of micro-organisms, with bacteria representing the predominant taxon of the skin microbiome. In sheep, the skin bacterial community of healthy animals has been addressed in few studies, only with culture-based ...

2023

The Urban Forum Dialogue Tool: Reflecting on a Designerly Apparoach to Transdisciplinary Research

Sonia Monique Curnier

With a view to working toward urban sustainability goals, two Swedish research platforms, SLU Urban Futures at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp (SLU) and the Urban Arena at Lund University, launched Urban Forum, a transdisciplinary dialogu ...

2023

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

What makes written text appealing? In this registered report, we study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website comparing multiple headline variant ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2023

Influence of Microplastics on Microbial Structure, Function, and Mechanical Properties of Stream Periphyton

Kristin Schirmer, Ahmed Tlili, Renata Behra

Periphyton is a freshwater biofilm composed of prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities that occupy rocks and sediments, forming the base of the food web and playing a key role in nutrient cycling. Given the large surface that periphyton comprises, it may al ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Response of alpine stream biofilms to climate change induced stressors

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Nicola Deluigi, David Touchette, Martina Gonzalez Mateu, Paraskevi Pramateftaki

Alpine streams are expected to face an intensification of environmental stressors due to climate change. At the vanishing cryosphere interface, alpine streams are particularly susceptible to increasing temperatures and to changing hydrology. As biofilms ar ...

2022

Microdiversity characterizes prevalent phylogenetic clades in the glacier-fed stream microbiome

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Massimo Bourquin, Tyler Joe Kohler, Jade Brandani, Stylianos Fodelianakis, Paraskevi Pramateftaki, Vincent Henri De Staercke, Matteo Tolosano, Michail Styllas

Glacier-fed streams (GFSs) are extreme and rapidly vanishing ecosystems, and yet they harbor diverse microbial communities. Although our understanding of the GFS microbiome has recently increased, we do not know which microbial clades are ecologically succ ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Thermal Stress Interacts With Surgeonfish Feces to Increase Coral Susceptibility to Dysbiosis and Reduce Tissue Regeneration

Leïla Ezzat

Dysbiosis of coral microbiomes results from various biotic and environmental stressors, including interactions with important reef fishes which may act as vectors of opportunistic microbes via deposition of fecal material. Additionally, elevated sea surfac ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Edge influence on understorey plant communities depends on forest management

Matteo Tolosano

Questions Does the influence of forest edges on plant species richness and composition depend on forest management? Do forest specialists and generalists show contrasting patterns? Location Mesic, deciduous forests across Europe. Methods Vegetation surveys ...

WILEY2020

Propagation of congestion using naturalistic data from a swarm of drones

This project takes place in the wider context of a first-of-its-kind large-scale open science traffic monitoring experiment nicknamed pNEUMA, that took place in the city of Athens : "pNEUMA is a large-scale dataset of naturalistic trajectories of half a mi ...

2020

Associations between usual diet and gut microbiota composition: results from the Milieu Interieur cross-sectional study

Jacques Fellay

Background: Diet is widely recognized as one of the main modifiable drivers of gut microbiota variability, and its influence on microbiota composition is an active area of investigation. Objective: The present work aimed to explore the associations between ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

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