Publications by authors named "U Rasmussen"
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- - Horses transformed human mobility, but the timeline of their domestication and integration as transport is debated, with new genetic data being used to clarify this history.
- - Analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes indicates that modern domestic horses were shaped by human intervention around 2200 BCE, after a domestication bottleneck began around 2700 BCE, leading to a significant expansion across Eurasia.
- - Evidence also suggests that there was early horse husbandry in central Asia at Botai around 3500 BCE, prior to the establishment of contemporary horse bloodlines, challenging the notion of large herds being linked to migrations around 3000 BCE.
The neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) has emerged as an environmental factor related to neurodegenerative diseases. BMAA is produced by various microorganisms including cyanobacteria and diatoms, in diverse ecosystems. In the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, BMAA is known to inhibit growth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) is an environmental factor connected to neurodegenerative diseases. BMAA can be produced by various microorganisms (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Acromegaly is an insidious disease associated with severe somatic morbidity but data on socioeconomic status are scarce.
Objective: To study the socioeconomic status in acromegaly in a population-based follow-up study.
Methods: All incident cases of acromegaly (n = 576) during the period 1977-2010 were included.
The pleurocarpous feather moss is a ubiquitous moss species which plays a fundamental role in many terrestrial ecosystems, for instance within the boreal forest, the Earth's largest terrestrial biome, this species plays a significant role in driving ecosystem nitrogen and carbon inputs and fluxes. By hosting dinitrogen (N)-fixing cyanobacteria, the moss-cyanobacteria symbiosis constitutes the main nitrogen input into the ecosystem and by the high productivity and the low decomposability of the moss litter, contributes significantly to build-up soil organic matter, and therefore long-term C sequestration. Knowledge on genome will facilitate the development of 'omics' and system's biology approaches to gain a more complete understanding of the physiology and ecological adaptation of the moss and the mechanisms underpinning the establishment of the symbiosis.
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