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    • Climate–ecosystem modelling made easy: The Land Sites Platform 

      Keetz, Lasse Torben; Lieungh, Eva; Karimi-Asli, Kaveh; Geange, Sonya Rita; Gelati, Emiliano; Tang, Hui; Yilmaz, Yeliz A.; Aas, Kjetil Schanke; Althuizen, Inge; Bryn, Anders; Falk, Stefanie; Fisher, Rosie; Fouilloux, Anne; Horvath, Peter; Indrehus, Sunniva; Lee, Hanna; Lombardozzi, Danica; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Pirk, Norbert; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vollsnes, Ane Victoria; Skarpaas, Olav; Stordal, Frode; Tallaksen, Lena M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) provide a state-of-the-art process-based approach to study the complex interplay between vegetation and its physical environment. For example, they help to predict how terrestrial ...

    • Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands 

      Hanz, Dagmar M.; Cutts, Vanessa; Barajas-Barbosa, Martha Paola; Algar, Adam C.; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Fernández-Palacios, José-María; Field, Richard; Kreft, Holger; Steinbauer, Manuel; Weigelt, Patrick; Irl, Severin D. H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Aim Functional traits can help us to elucidate biogeographical and ecological processes driving assemblage structure. We analysed the functional diversity of plant species of different evolutionary origins across an island ...

    • Climatic and environmental factors influencing occurrence and distribution of macroalgae – a fjord gradient revisited 

      Sjøtun, Kjersti; Husa, Vivian; Asplin, Lars; Sandvik, Anne Dagrun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      During the last decades, trends of increasing sea water temperatures and precipitation have been observed in the North Atlantic. Increasing sea water temperatures are expected to have strong effects on coastal benthic ...

    • Cloned and outbred Atlantic salmon display equal parasite dispersion when infected with the salmon louse 

      Glover, Kevin; Hansen, Tom Johnny; Besnier, Francois; Solberg, Monica Favnebøe; Fjelldal, Per Gunnar; Sørvik, Anne Grete Eide; Dalvin, Sussie; Nilsen, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11)
      The salmon louse is an ectoparasitic copepod that infects salmonids in the marine environment. This parasite causes a major economic and biological challenge to the Atlantic salmon farming industry, and efforts to increase ...

    • Cloning, expression and purification of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.) neuroglobin 

      Bjørlykke, Gry Aletta; Kvamme, Bjørn Olav; Slinde, Erik; Raae, Arnt Johan (Journal article, 2012)
      Neuroglobin (Ngb) exists only in small amounts in salmon brain. In order to study the protein in more detail salmon neuroglobin (sNgb) was cloned, hetereologously expressed in E.coli and purified. The protein had red color ...

    • Cloning, tissue and ontogenetic expression of the taurine transporter in the flatfish Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis) 

      Pinto, Wilson; Rønnestad, Ivar; Jordal, Ann-Elise Olderbakk; Gomes, Ana Silva; Dinis, Maria Teresa; Aragão, Cláudia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-04)
      Flatfish species seem to require dietary taurine for normal growth and development. Although dietary taurine supplementation has been recommended for flatfish, little is known about the mechanisms of taurine absorption in ...

    • Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education 

      Strømme, Christian Bianchi; Lane, A. Kelly; Halbritter, Aud Helen; Law, Elizabeth; Nater, Chloé Rebecca; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Boutouli, Grace D.; Egelkraut, Dagmar Dorothea; Telford, Richard James; Vandvik, Vigdis; Cotner, Sehoya Harris (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-21)
      The Open Science (OS) movement is rapidly gaining traction among policy-makers, research funders, scientific journals and individual scientists. Despite these tendencies, the pace of implementing OS throughout the scientific ...

    • A closer look into the microbiome of microalgal cultures 

      Steinrücken, Pia; Jackson, Steve; Müller, Oliver; Puntervoll, Pål; Kleinegris, Dorinde Mechtilde Meike (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Although bacteria are commonly co-occurring in microalgal cultivation and production systems, little is known about their community structure and how it might be affected by specific microalgal groups or growth conditions. ...

    • Clostridium thailandense sp. nov., a novel CO2-reducing acetogenic bacterium isolated from peatland soil 

      Chaikitkaew, Srisuda; In-Chan, Supattra; Singkhala, Apinya; Tukanghan, Wisarut; Mamimin, Chonticha; Reungsang, Alissara; Birkeland, Nils Kåre; O-Thong, Sompong (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Some species of the genus Clostridium are efficient acetate producers and have been deemed useful for upgrading industrial biogas. An acetogenic, strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-positive, subterminal endospore-forming ...

    • Co-infection with Norwegian Salmonid Alphavirus (NSAV) and Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) in Chinook Salmon Embryo Cells (CHSE-214). 

      Skotheim, Svenn Amund (Master thesis, 2009-06-02)
      Infectious pancreatic disease (IPN) and pancreas disease (PD) of salmon are viral diseases caused by Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) (Birnaviridae) and Salmonid Alphavirus (SAV) (Togaviridae). Both IPNV- and ...

    • Co-localization of clinically relevant antibiotic- and heavy metal resistance genes on plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae from marine bivalves 

      Håkonsholm, Fredrik; Hetland, Marit; Löhr, Iren Høyland; Lunestad, Bjørn Tore; Marathe, Nachiket Prakash (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen frequently associated with antibiotic resistance and present in a wide range of environments, including marine habitats. However, little is known about the development, ...

    • Co-operative learning in undergraduate mathematics and science education: A scoping review 

      Møgelvang, Anja; Nyléhn, Jorun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      To cope with an unpredictable future, higher education in mathematics and science (MS) needs to educate a knowledgeable and skilled workforce. Co-operative learning (CL) is a teaching method associated with increased ...

    • 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 ...

    • Cod spawning in the Borgundfjord Marine Protected Area 

      Aannø, William Aure (Master thesis, 2020-06-27)
      The Norwegian coastal cod population north of 62°N declined in the years from 1997 to 2005 and has since remained low. The Borgundfjord has since 2009 served as an extractive Marine Protected Area (MPA) for protecting the ...

    • Codium fragile in Norway: subspecies identity and morphology 

      Armitage, Caroline Susanne; Sjøtun, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The green alga Codium fragile consists of 10 subspecies, of which subspecies fragile is a well-known invasive seaweed. Morphological work carried out in the 1950s suggested that there were three subspecies along the Norwegian ...

    • Codium fragile subsp. fragile and Sargassum muticum: Non-native seaweeds in a changing environment 

      Armitage, Caroline Susanne (Doctoral thesis, 2017-11-17)
      Non-native species have received increasing scientific and public attention over the last three decades, and have been identified as a threat to biodiversity. However, coastal environments may also be affected by several ...

    • Coevolution between king crabs (Paguridae: Lithodinae) and parasitic barnacles (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) 

      Noever, Christoph (Doctoral thesis, 2017-01-27)
      Molecular evidence has established that king crabs (Lithodinae) are gigantic hermit crabs without a gastropod shell to protect their abdomen. Secondarily, the abdomen has become calcified and flexed, in a crab-like manner. ...

    • Cognition: Learning and Memory 

      Braithwaite, Victoria A.; Salvanes, Anne Gro Vea (Chapter, 2008)

    • A cohesin-independent role for NIPBL at promoters provides insights in CdLS 

      Zuin, Jessica; Franke, Vedran; van Ijcken, Wilfred F.J.; van der Sloot, Antoine A.J.; Krantz, Ian D.; van der Reijden, Michael I.J.A.; Nakato, Ryuichiro; Lenhard, Boris; Wendt, Kerstin S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-13)
      The cohesin complex is crucial for chromosome segregation during mitosis and has recently also been implicated in transcriptional regulation and chromatin architecture. The NIPBL protein is required for the loading of ...

    • Collective behaviour of herring during spawning 

      Skaret, Georg (Doctoral thesis, 2007-02-02)
      The thesis focuses on the collective behaviour of Norwegian spring spawning herring (NSS-herring; Clupea harengus L.) in the specific ecological context of reproduction. The major part of the work is based on field research ...