Publications by authors named "S Pell"
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- The common marmoset has become increasingly popular in neuroscience research over the past 20 years, especially for studying human brain diseases, but marmoset-specific research tools are often limited and must be created within labs.
- A team has designed and tested various imaging and measurement techniques for studying marmosets, including MRI, PET, CT, and electrophysiology, and has made these designs publicly accessible to help ease the burden on researchers.
- They provide numerous computer-aided design (CAD) files, software, and resources, including tools for neuroimaging and experimental stimuli, through the Marmoset Brain Connectome website to support further advancements in marmoset neuroscience.
As of 2024, SARS-CoV-2 continues to propagate and drift as an endemic virus, impacting healthcare for years. The largest sequencing initiative for any species was initiated to combat the virus, tracking changes over time at a full virus base-pair resolution. The SARS-CoV-2 sequencing represents a unique opportunity to understand selective pressures and viral evolution but requires cross-disciplinary approaches from epidemiology to functional protein biology.
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- Angiosperms are vital for ecosystems and human life, making it important to understand their evolutionary history to grasp their ecological dominance.
- The study builds an extensive tree of life for about 8,000 angiosperm genera using 353 nuclear genes, significantly increasing the sampling size and refining earlier classifications.
- The findings reveal a complex evolutionary history marked by high gene tree conflict and rapid diversification, particularly during the early angiosperm evolution, with shifts in diversification rates linked to global temperature changes.
Tens of millions of dried seahorses (genus Hippocampus) are traded annually, and the pressure from this trade along with their life history traits (involved parental care and small migration distances and home ranges) has led to near global population declines. This and other forms of overexploitation have led to all seahorse species being listed in Appendix II under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The signatory nations of CITES recommended a 10-cm size limit of seahorses to ensure harvested individuals have reached reproductive maturity, and have thus had the chance to produce offspring, to maintain a more sustainable global seahorse fishery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSapindales is an angiosperm order of high economic and ecological value comprising nine families, c. 479 genera, and c. 6570 species.
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