• Method for cryopreservation of Paramoeba perurans 

  Trösse, Christiane; Nylund, Are; Blindheim, Steffen H.; Andersen, Linda; Kindt, Mats Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-07)

  Paramoeba perurans causes amoebic gill disease (AGD), which is a major problem in aquaculture worldwide. The parasite can be cultured in vitro, but to this date, no method for long-term storage of the clones exists. In ...

• Genetically similar temperate phages form coalitions with their shared host that lead to niche-specific fitness effects. 

  Basso, J.T.R; Ankrah, N.Y.D; Tuttle, M.J.; Grossman, A.S.; Sandaa, Ruth-Anne; Buchan, A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-02)

  Temperate phages engage in long-term associations with their hosts that may lead to mutually beneficial interactions, of which the full extent is presently unknown. Here, we describe an environmentally relevant model system ...

• Nutrient Digestibility, Growth, Mucosal Barrier Status, and Activity of Leucocytes From Head Kidney of Atlantic Salmon Fed Marine- or Plant-Derived Protein and Lipid Sources 

  Sørensen, Solveig Lysfjord; Park, Youngjin; Gong, Yangyang; Vasanth, Ghana Kalerammana; Dahle, Dalia; Korsnes, Kjetil; Phuong, Tran Ha; Kiron, Viswanath; Øyen, Sjur; Pittman, Karin; Sørensen, Mette (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-19)

  Nutrient digestibility, growth, and mucosal barrier status of fish skin, gills, and distal intestine were studied in Atlantic salmon fed feeds based on marine or plant-derived ingredients. The barrier status was assessed ...

• Decision-making from the animal perspective: Bridging ecology and subjective cognition 

  Budaev, Sergei; Jørgensen, Christian; Mangel, Marc; Eliassen, Sigrunn; Giske, Jarl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-14)

  Organisms have evolved to trade priorities across various needs, such as growth, survival, and reproduction. In naturally complex environments this incurs high computational costs. Models exist for several types of decisions, ...

• Joining forces for sustainability education – Sustainability Education Collective at the University of Bergen 

  Enberg, Katja; Harlap, Yael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have resulted in a heightened focus on sustainability in Norwegian – and global – academia. Sustainability Education requires innovative pedagogy and active, ...

• Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in the Central Pyrenees (Spain) 

  Leunda, Maria; Gil-Romera, Graciela; Daniau, Anne-Laure; Benito De Pando, Blas Manuel; González-Sampériz, Penélope (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Fire-vegetation relationships are critical to understand transient mountain ecosystems and their long-term landscape dynamics, which is essential for alpine forest conservation. In this paper we aim to (1) reconstruct the ...

• Host gill attachment causes blood-feeding by the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) chalimus larvae and alters parasite development and transcriptome 

  Heggland, Erna Irene; Dondrup, Michael; Nilsen, Frank; Eichner, Christiane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-06)

  Background: Blood-feeding is a common strategy among parasitizing arthropods, including the ectoparasitic salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis), feeding off its salmon host’s skin and blood. Blood is rich in nutrients, ...

• Me, myself and I -Teachers’ self-motivation and sense of responsibility determine the use of active learning methods 

  Enberg, Katja; Steen, Ida Helene; Ellingsen, Ståle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  Extended use of laboratory and field courses makes biology a discipline considering itself as a habitual practitioner of active learning strategies. We investigated how widely the faculty at the Department of Biological ...

• An interdisciplinary, student-active course on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life below water 

  Enberg, Katja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Educating student to respond to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for teaching and learning where students are at the centre of their own learning. Sustainability questions are ‘wicked problems’, where no single, ...

• Density-independent mortality at early life stages increases the probability of overlooking an underlying stock-recruitment relationship 

  Zimmermann, Fabian; Enberg, Katja; Mangel, Marc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Abstract Beverton and Holt’s (1957) monograph contributed a widely used stock–recruitment relationship (BH-SRR) to fisheries science. However, because of variation around a presumed relationship between spawning biomass ...

• Interleukin-1 ligands and receptors in lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.): molecular characterization, phylogeny, gene expression and transcriptome analyses 

  Eggestøl, Håvard Øritsland; Lunde, Harald Sæbø; Knutsen, Tim Martin; Haugland, Gyri Teien (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-02)

  The interleukin (IL)-1 family play a fundamental role as immune system modulators. Our previous transcriptome-analyses of leukocytes from lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) showed that IL-1β was among the most highly upregulated ...

• Does the thermal component of warm water treatment inflict acute lesions on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)? 

  Moltumyr, Lene; Gismervik, Kristine; Gu, Jinni; Gåsnes, Siri Kristine; Kristiansen, Tore S; Rønnestad, Ivar; Nilsson, Jonatan; Stien, Lars Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Warm water treatment, i.e. exposure to sea water at a temperature of 28–34 °C for 20–30 s, has in recent years been widely used for delousing of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in ...

• Drivers of Megabenthic Community Structure in One of the World’s Deepest Silled-Fjords, Sognefjord (Western Norway) 

  Meyer, Heidi Kristina; Roberts, Emyr Martyn; Mienis, Furu; Rapp, Hans Tore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-09)

  The Sognefjord is the longest (205 km) and deepest (1308 m) fjord in Norway, and the second-longest in the world. Coast-fjord exchange in Sognefjord is limited by a seaward sill at 170 m water depth, which causes a clear ...

• Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines 

  Camarero, Jesús Julio; Gazol, Antonio; Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl; Fajardo, Alex; McIntire, Eliot J. B.; Gutiérrez, Emilia; Batllori, Enric; Boudreau, Stephane; Carrer, Marco; Diez, Jeff; Dufour-Tremblay, Geneviève; Gaire, Narayan P.; Hofgaard, Annika; Jomelli, Vincent; Kirdyanov, Alexander V.; Lévesque, Esther; Liang, Eryuan; Linares, Juan Carlos; Mathisen, Ingrid Ertshus; Moiseev, Pavel A.; Sangüesa-Barreda, Gabriel; Shrestha, Krishna B.; Toivonen, Johanna M.; Tutubalina, Olga V.; Wilmking, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Climate warming is expected to positively alter upward and poleward treelines which are controlled by low temperature and a short growing season. Despite the importance of treelines as a bioassay of climate change, a global ...

• A Novel Moderately Thermophilic Type Ib Methanotroph Isolated from an Alkaline Thermal Spring in the Ethiopian Rift Valley 

  Islam, Tajul; Gessesse, Amare; Garcia-Moyano, Antonio; Murrell, J. Colin; Øvreås, Lise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-13)

  Aerobic moderately thermophilic and thermophilic methane-oxidizing bacteria make a substantial contribution in the control of global warming through biological reduction of methane emissions and have a unique capability ...

• Helminths associated with terrestrial slugs in some parts of Europe 

  Filipiak, Anna; Haukeland, Solveig; Zając, Kamila S.; Lachowska-Cierlik, Dorota; Hatteland, Bjørn Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  A survey of helminths associated with terrestrial slugs focusing on the invasive Arion vulgaris and the native A. ater was conducted on populations from France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Poland. In total, 648 ...

• Stocking density and its influence on the productivity of red cusk eel, Genypterus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848), in shallow raceways 

  Foss, Atle; Imsland, Albert; Briceño, Felipe A.; Magnolfi, Spartaco; Magnolfi, Piero; Gutiérrez, Xavier (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  We compared the growth properties of red cusk eel Genypterus chilensis with initial mean weight ± standard error, 106.2 ± 6.1 g reared in shallow raceways at three different stocking densities (28.5, 46.1, and 60.7 kg m-3) ...

• Reindeer trampling promotes vegetation changes in tundra heathlands: Results from a simulation experiment 

  Egelkraut, Dagmar Dorothea; Barthelemy, Hélène; Olofsson, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Question Herbivores exert strong influences on vegetation through activities such as trampling, defoliation, and fertilization. The combined effect of these activities on plant performance may cause dramatic vegetation ...

• High CO2 concentration and iron availability determine the metabolic inventory in an Emiliania huxleyi-dominated phytoplankton community 

  Mausz, Michaela A.; Segovia, María; Larsen, Aud; Berger, Stella Angela; Egge, Jorun Karin; Pohnert, Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Ocean acidification (OA), a consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, strongly impacts marine ecosystems. OA also influences iron (Fe) solubility, affecting biogeochemical and ecological processes. We ...

• Classification and phylogeny for the annotation of novel eukaryotic GNAT acetyltransferases 

  Krtenic, Bojan; Drazic, Adrian; Arnesen, Thomas; Reuter, Nathalie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The enzymes of the GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) superfamily count more than 870 000 members through all kingdoms of life and share the same structural fold. GNAT enzymes transfer an acyl moiety from acyl coenzyme ...

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