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    • Biodiversity, ecology, and behavior of the recently discovered insect order Mantophasmatodea 

      Roth, Steffen; Molina, Jorge; Predel, Reinhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-10)
      The spectacular discovery of the new insect order Mantophasmatodea in 2002 was immediately followed by detailed studies on morphology and scattered information on different aspects of its behavior and general biology. A ...

    • Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome 

      Busch, Kathrin; Slaby, Beate M.; Bach, Wolfgang; Boetius, Antje; Clefsen, Ina; Colaço, Ana; Creemers, Marie; Cristobo, Javier; Federwisch, Luisa; Franke, Andre; Gavriilidou, Asimenia; Hethke, Andrea; Kenchington, Ellen; Mienis, Furu; Mills, Sadie; Riesgo, Ana; Ríos, Pilar; Roberts, Emyr Martyn; Sipkema, Detmer; Pita, Lucía; Schupp, Peter J.; Xavier, Joana R.; Rapp, Hans Tore; Hentschel, Ute (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In the deep ocean symbioses between microbes and invertebrates are emerging as key drivers of ecosystem health and services. We present a large-scale analysis of microbial diversity in deep-sea sponges (Porifera) from ...

    • Bioeconomic consequences of fishing-induced evolution: a model predicts limited impact on net present value 

      Zimmermann, Fabian; Jørgensen, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04)
      Fishing reduces stock size and shifts demographics, and selective mortality may also lead to evolutionary changes. Previous studies suggest that traits may change evolutionarily because of fishing on decadal time scales. ...

    • Bioenergetics modelling of growth processes in parasitized Eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua L.) 

      Ryberg, Marie Plambech; Christensen, Asbjørn; Jørgensen, Christian; Neuenfeldt, Stefan; Skov, Peter V.; Behrens, Jane W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Changes in physiological processes can reveal how individuals respond to environmental stressors. It can be difficult to link physiological responses to changes in vital rates such as growth, reproduction and survival. ...

    • Bioethical Implications of Globalization: An International Consortium Project of the European Commission 

      Novotny, Thomas E.; Mordini, Emilio; Chadwick, Ruth; Pedersen, J. Martin; Fabbri, Fabrizio; Lie, Reidar K.; Thanachaiboot, Natapong; Mossialos, Elias; Permanand, Govin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-01-24)
      The term “globalization” was popularized by Marshall McLuhan in War and Peace in the Global Village. In the book, McLuhan described how the global media shaped current events surrounding the Vietnam War [1] and also predicted ...

    • Biofilm and dental biomaterials 

      Øilo, Marit; Bakken, Vidar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-26)
      All treatment involving the use of biomaterials in the body can affect the host in positive or negative ways. The microbiological environment in the oral cavity is affected by the composition and shape of the biomaterials ...

    • Biofilm and planktonic lifestyles of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum. Proteomic analysis of bacteria grown as planktonic cells, mono- and dual species biofilm, and characterization of the biofilm extracellular polymeric matrix’ 

      Mohammed, Marwan (Doctoral thesis, 2018-04-06)
      Periodontitis is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases affecting humans. Periodontitis leads to the destruction of the dental support tissues, which in the terminal stage causes loss of teeth. Periodontitis is ...

    • Biofuel and food security: insights from a system dynamics model. The case of Ghana 

      Ansah, Isaac (Master thesis, 2014-06-02)
      Empirical evidence from research points to biofuel as a possible substitute to conventional fossil fuel-gasoline and diesel. Some countries USA and many in Europe are working towards mandates and legislations that impose ...

    • Biofuels and land politics: Connecting the disconnects in the debate about livelihood impacts ofjatropha biofuel land deals in Ghana 

      Boamah, Festus (Doctoral thesis, 2015-04-17)
      In the 2003-2006 period, the Ghanaian government supported jatropha biofuel initiatives on so-called degraded land areas to reduce Ghana’s high oil import bills and to generate employment opportunities. However, after ...

    • Biogeochemical Investigations on the Atlantic Meridional Transect of R/V Kronprins Haakon, 2018 

      Apelthun, Lise Bagne (Master thesis, 2019-12-11)

    • Biogeochemical Timescales of Climate Change Onset and Recovery in the North Atlantic Interior Under Rapid Atmospheric CO2 Forcing 

      Bertini, Leonardo; Tjiputra, Jerry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Anthropogenic climate change footprints in the ocean go beyond the mixed layer depth, with considerable impacts throughout mesopelagic and deep-ocean ecosystems. Yet, little is known about the timing of these environmental ...

    • Biogeography of jellyfish in the North Atlantic, by traditional and genomic methods 

      Licandro, P; Blackett, M; Fischer, A; Hosia, Aino; Kennedy, J; Kirby, RR; Raab, R; Stern, R; Tranter, P (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07-15)
      Scientific debate on whether or not the recent increase in reports of jellyfish outbreaks represents a true rise in their abundance has outlined a lack of reliable records of Cnidaria and Ctenophora. Here we describe ...

    • The biogeography of relative abundance of soil fungi versus bacteria in surface topsoil 

      Yu, Kailiang; van den Hoogen, Johan; Wang, Zhiqiang; Averill, Colin; Routh, Devin; Smith, Gabriel Reuben; Drenovsky, Rebecca E.; Scow, Kate M.; Mo, Fei; Waldrop, Mark P.; Yang, Yuanhe; Tang, Weize; de Vries, Franciska T.; Bardgett, Richard D.; Manning, Peter; Bastida, Felipe; Baer, Sara G.; Bach, Elizabeth; García, Carlos; Wang, Qingkai; Ma, Linna; Chen, Baodong; He, Xianjing; Teurlincx, Sven; Heijboer, Amber; Bradley, James A.; Crowther, Thomas W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Fungi and bacteria are the two dominant groups of soil microbial communities worldwide. By controlling the turnover of soil organic matter, these organisms directly regulate the cycling of carbon between the soil and the ...

    • Biogeography of the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida inferred by vapA genotyping 

      Gulla, Snorre; Bayliss, Sion; Björnsdóttir, Bryndís; Dalsgaard, Inger; Haenen, Olga; Jansson, Eva; McCarthy, Una; Scholz, Felix; Vercauteren, Maaike; Verner-Jeffreys, David; Welch, Tim; Wiklund, Tom; Colquhoun, Duncan John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-12)
      A recently described typing system based on sequence variation in the virulence array protein (vapA) gene, encoding the A-layer surface protein array, allows unambiguous subtyping of Aeromonas salmonicida. In the present ...

    • ¿Biografía o novela? Los límites y alcances de la invención narrativa en Hostos, el sembrador 

      Silverio, Gregorio Delgado (Master thesis, 2011-05-13)
      La presente tesis discute y analiza la obra Hostos, el sembrador de Juan Bosch a la luz de diferentes teorías biográficas y literarias. Los objetivos que me planteo son tres. El primero está orientado a discutir a qué tipo ...

    • BioHackathon series in 2011 and 2012: penetration of ontology and linked data in life science domains 

      Katayama, Toshiaki; Wilkinson, Mark D.; Aoki-Kinoshita, Kiyoko F.; Kawashima, Shuichi; Yamamoto, Yasunori; Yamaguchi, Atsuko; Okamoto, Shinobu; Kawano, Shin; Kim, Jin-Dong; Wang, Yue; Wu, Hongyan; Kano, Yoshinobu; Ono, Hiromasa; Bono, Hidemasa; Kocbek, Simon; Aerts, Jan; Akune, Yukie; Antezana, Erick; Arakawa, Kazuharu; Aranda, Bruno; Baran, Joachim; Bolleman, Jerven; Bonnal, Raoul J. P.; Buttigieg, Pier Luigi; Campbell, Matthew P.; Chen, Yi-an; Chiba, Hirokazu; Cock, Peter J. A.; Cohen, K. Bretonnel; Constantin, Alexandru; Duck, Geraint; Dumontier, Michel; Fujisawa, Takatomo; Fujiwara, Toyofumi; Goto, Naohisa; Hoehndorf, Robert; Igarashi, Yoshinobu; Itaya, Hidetoshi; Ito, Maori; Iwasaki, Wataru; Kalaš, Matúš; Katoda, Takeo; Kim, Taehong; Kokubu, Anna; Komiyama, Yusuke; Kotera, Masaaki; Laibe, Camille; Lapp, Hilmar; Lütteke, Thomas; Marshall, M. Scott; Mori, Takaaki; Mori, Hiroshi; Morita, Mizuki; Murakami, Katsuhiko; Nakao, Mitsuteru; Narimatsu, Hisashi; Nishide, Hiroyo; Nishimura, Yosuke; Nyström-Persson, Johan; Ogishima, Soichi; Okamura, Yasunobu; Okuda, Shujiro; Oshita, Kazuki; Packer, Nicki H; Prins, Pjotr; Ranzinger, Rene; Rocca-Serra, Philippe; Sansone, Susanna; Sawaki, Hiromichi; Shin, Sung-Ho; Splendiani, Andrea; Strozzi, Francesco; Tadaka, Shu; Toukach, Philip; Uchiyama, Ikuo; Umezaki, Masahito; Vos, Rutger; Whetzel, Patricia L.; Yamada, Issaku; Yamasaki, Chisato; Yamashita, Riu; York, William S.; Zmasek, Christian M.; Kawamoto, Shoko; Takagi, Toshihisa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-05)
      Abstract The application of semantic technologies to the integration of biological data and the interoperability of bioinformatics analysis and visualization tools has been the common theme of a series of annual BioHackathons ...

    • Bioimage analysis workflows: community resources to navigate through a complex ecosystem [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] 

      Paul-Gilloteaux, Perrine; Tosi, Sébastien; Hériche, Jean-Karim; Gaignard, Alban; Ménager, Hervé; Marée, Raphaël; Baecker, Volker; Klemm, Anna; Kalaš, Matúš; Zhang, Chong; Miura, Kota; Colombelli, Julien (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Workflows are the keystone of bioimage analysis, and the NEUBIAS (Network of European BioImage AnalystS) community is trying to gather the actors of this field and organize the information around them. One of its most ...

    • Bioinformatic analyses of miRNA-mRNA signature during hiPSC differentiation towards insulin-producing cells upon HNF4α mutation 

      Ghila, Luiza; Bjørlykke, Yngvild; Legøy, Thomas Aga; Vethe, Heidrun; Furuyama, Kenichiro; Chera, Simona; Ræder, Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (HNF4α) gene affect prenatal and postnatal pancreas development, being characterized by insulin-producing β-cell dysfunction. Little is known about the cellular and molecular ...

    • Bioinformatic and Genetic Association Analysis of MicroRNA Target Sites in One-Carbon Metabolism Genes 

      Stone, Nicole; Pangilinan, Faith; Molloy, Anne M.; Shane, Barry; Scott, John M.; Ueland, Per Magne; Mills, James L.; Kirke, Peader N.; Sethupathy, Praveen; Brody, Lawrence C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-07-12)
      One-carbon metabolism (OCM) is linked to DNA synthesis and methylation, amino acid metabolism and cell proliferation. OCM dysfunction has been associated with increased risk for various diseases, including cancer and neural ...

    • Biological and ecological effects of Ligula intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) in a fish host Engraulicypris sardella (Gütter, 1868) from Tanzanian side of Lake Nyasa 

      Gabagambi, Nestory Peter (Doctoral thesis, 2020-10-23)
      The current thesis investigates the epidemiological, behavioral and evolutionary effects of the tapeworm Ligula intestinalis in the ‘Nyasa sardine’ (Engraulicypris sardella), an intermediate fish host, endemic to Lake ...