• Long-term welfare effects of repeated warm water treatments on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) 

  Moltumyr, Lene; Nilsson, Jonatan; Madaro, Angelico; Seternes, Tore; Winger, Fredrik Agerup; Rønnestad, Ivar; Stien, Lars Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Warm water treatment has in recent years become widely used for ridding salmonids of sea lice in aquaculture although the consequences of the treatment for fish welfare are not adequately investigated. The objective of ...

• Multiomics Provide Insights into the Key Molecules and Pathways Involved in the Physiological Adaptation of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) to Chemotherapeutic-Induced Oxidative Stress 

  Lazado, Carlo C.; Timmerhaus, Gerrit; Breiland, Mette Serine Wesmajervi; Pittman, Karin Anna; Hytterød, Sigurd (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Although chemotherapeutics are used to treat infections in farmed fish, knowledge on how they alter host physiology is limited. Here, we elucidated the physiological consequences of repeated exposure to the potent oxidative ...

• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons modulate the activity of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) vitamin D receptor paralogs in vitro 

  Goksøyr, Siri Øfsthus; Goldstone, Jed; Lille-Langøy, Roger; Lock, Erik Jan Robert; Olsvik, Pål Asgeir; Goksøyr, Anders; Karlsen, Odd André (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Vitamin D receptor (VDR) mediates the biological function of the steroid hormone calcitriol, which is the metabolically active version of vitamin D. Calcitriol is important for a wide array of physiological functions, ...

• Functional traits of alpine plant communities show long-term resistance to changing herbivore densities 

  Vuorinen, Katariina Elsa Maria; Austrheim, Gunnar; Mysterud, Atle; Gya, Ragnhild; Vandvik, Vigdis; Grytnes, John Arvid; Speed, James David Mervyn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Herbivores shape vegetation by suppressing certain plant species while benefitting others. By thus modifying plant species functional composition, herbivores affect carbon cycling, albedo, vegetation structure and species' ...

• Adaptive evolution of viruses infecting marine microalgae (haptophytes), from acute infections to stable coexistence 

  Sandaa, Ruth-Anne; Saltvedt, Marius Rydningen; Dahle, Håkon; Wang, Haina; Våge, Selina; Blanc-Mathieu, Romain; Steen, Ida Helene; Grimsley, Nigel; Edvardsen, Bente; Ogata, Hiroyuki; Lawrence, Janice (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Collectively known as phytoplankton, photosynthetic microbes form the base of the marine food web, and account for up to half of the primary production on Earth. Haptophytes are key components of this phytoplankton community, ...

• Ecological ramifications of adaptation to size-selective mortality 

  Evangelista, Charlotte; Dupeu, Julia; Sandkjenn, Joakim; Pauli, Beatriz Diaz; Herland, Anders; Meriguet, Jacques; Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn; Edeline, Eric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Size-selective mortality due to harvesting is a threat to numerous exploited species, but how it affects the ecosystem remains largely unexplored. Here, we used a pond mesocosm experiment to assess how evolutionary responses ...

• Investigating the Disordered and Membrane-Active Peptide A-Cage-C Using Conformational Ensembles 

  Dobrovolska, Olena; Strømland, Øyvind; Handegård, Ørjan Sele; Jakubec, Martin; Govasli Larsen, Morten Andreas; Skjevik, Åge Aleksander; Frøystein, Nils Åge; Teigen, Knut; Halskau, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The driving forces and conformational pathways leading to amphitropic protein-membrane binding and in some cases also to protein misfolding and aggregation is the subject of intensive research. In this study, a chimeric ...

• Utilization of dietary minerals in Atlantic salmon fed blue mussel silage 

  Forshei, Aksel Nytun (Master thesis, 2021-11-22)

• Coastal heathland vegetation is surprisingly resistant to experimental drought across successional stages and latitude 

  Haugum, Siri Vatsø; Thorvaldsen, Pål; Vandvik, Vigdis; Velle, Liv Guri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  In the last decade, several major dwarf-shrub dieback events have occurred in northern European coastal heathlands. These dieback events occur after extended periods with sub-zero temperatures under snow-free conditions ...

• Flow Cytometric Analysis of Bacterial Protein Synthesis: Monitoring Vitality After Water Treatment 

  Lindivat, Mathilde; Bratbak, Gunnar; Larsen, Aud; Hess-Erga, Ole-Kristian; Hoell, Ingunn Alne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Bacterial vitality after water disinfection treatment was investigated using bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) and flow cytometry (FCM). Protein synthesis activity and DNA integrity (BONCAT–SYBR ...

• Behavioural economics in fisheries: A systematic review protocol 

  Wieczorek, Alina; Schadeberg, Amanda; Hallin, Julie Krogh; van Putten, Ingrid; Kraak, Sarah B. M.; Richter, Andries Peter; Clay, Patricia; Aralucea, Leyre Goti; Pedreschi, Debbi; Hamon, Katell; Dankel, Dorothy Jane; Mackay, Mary (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Background The field of behavioural economics holds several opportunities for integrated fisheries management and conservation and can help researchers and managers alike understand fisher behaviour and decision-making. ...

• Mixture effects of environmental contaminants in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) : Combining experimental approaches to study contaminant-induced biological responses 

  Dale, Karina (Doctoral thesis, 2022-01-15)

  Release of chemicals from anthropogenic activities is considered a substantial threat to the global environment. Marine ecosystems are sinks for accumulation of contaminants, therefore marine organisms are highly susceptible ...

• Validation of a species-specific eDNA-based test system for detecting non-indigenous American lobster Homarus americanus 

  Sundt, Maud Ødegaard (Master thesis, 2021-11-22)

• Toxicity assessment of urban marine sediments from Western Norway using a battery of stress-activated receptors and cell-based bioassays from fish 

  Goksøyr, Siri Øfsthus; Sørensen, Helene; Grøsvik, Bjørn Einar; Pampanin, Daniela Maria; Goksøyr, Anders; Karlsen, Odd André (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  A luciferase reporter gene-based bioassay battery consisting of stress-activated receptors from fish, complemented with traditional fish cell-based bioassays, were used to assess the toxicity of marine sediment samples ...

• Structural and functional analyses of the neutral amino acid transporter SLC7A10 in adipocytes 

  Jonassen, Laura Roxana (Master thesis, 2021-11-22)

• The dystrophin-glycoprotein complex in the development of Nematostella vectensis: Expression analyses and generation of a mutant by genome editing 

  Velde, Susanne Grønnestad (Master thesis, 2021-12-03)

  The development and function of cells in the nervous system and the musculature require regulated interactions with the extracellular matrix. The dystrophin-glycoprotein complex is an important regulator of these interactions. ...

• Ion transporters and osmoregulation in the kidney of teleost fishes as a function of salinity 

  Takvam, Marius; Wood, Chris M.; Kryvi, Harald; Nilsen, Tom Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-20)

  Euryhaline teleosts exhibit major changes in renal function as they move between freshwater (FW) and seawater (SW) environments, thus tolerating large fluctuations in salinity. In FW, the kidney excretes large volumes of ...

• Quantification of grazing efficacy, growth and health score of different lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) families: possible size and gender effects 

  Imsland, Albert; Reynolds, Patrick; Hangstad, Thor Arne; Kapari, Lauri Teemu; Maduna, Simo; Hagen, Snorre B.; Jónsdóttir, Ólöf Dóra Bartels; Spetland, Frank; Lindberg, Ken Ståle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  To investigate the possible family influence on sea lice grazing of lumpfish on Atlantic salmon, ten families of lumpfish (N = 480) with a mean (± SD) weight of 54.8 ± 9.2 g were distributed among ten sea cages (5 × 5 × 5 ...

• The seasonally dry tropical forest species Cavanillesia chicamochae has a middle Quaternary origin 

  Bacon, Christine D.; Gutiérrez-Pinto, Natalia; Flantua, Suzette; Castellanos Suárez, Diego; Jaramillo, Carlos; Pennington, R. Toby; Antonelli, Alexandre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  We use DNA sequence data to understand the evolutionary history of the genus Cavanillesia (Malvaceae), with particular emphasis on C. chicamochae, an emblematic succulent-trunked tree endemic to seasonally dry tropical ...

• Characteristics of DNA polymerase I from an extreme thermophile, Thermus scotoductus strain K1 

  Saghatelyan, Ani; Panosyan, Hovik; Trchounian, Armen; Birkeland, Nils Kåre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Several native and engineered heat-stable DNA polymerases from a variety of sources are used as powerful tools in different molecular techniques, including polymerase chain reaction, medical diagnostics, DNA sequencing, ...

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