Publications by authors named "V Savolainen"
An African perspective to biodiversity conservation in the twenty-first century.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
January 2025
Africa boasts high biodiversity while also being home to some of the largest and fastest-growing human populations. Although the current environmental footprint of Africa is low compared to other continents, the population of Africa is estimated at around 1.5 billion inhabitants, representing nearly 18% of the world's total population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNumerous reports have documented the occurrence of same-sex sociosexual behaviour (SSB) across animal species. However, the distribution of the behaviour within a species needs to be studied to test hypotheses describing its evolution and maintenance, in particular whether the behaviour is heritable and can therefore evolve by natural selection. Here we collected detailed observations across 3 yr of social and mounting behaviour of 236 male semi-wild rhesus macaques, which we combined with a pedigree dating back to 1938, to show that SSB is both repeatable (19.
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- The study investigates bat-borne coronaviruses in the UK, screening 48 faecal samples from various bat species.
- Researchers identified nine complete coronavirus genomes, including two new species, highlighting a range of coronaviruses such as alphacoronaviruses and a MERS-related betacoronavirus.
- One sarbecovirus was found to bind the human ACE2 receptor, indicating potential for human infection, but further mutations are needed for enhanced infectivity, stressing the importance of monitoring these viruses due to their zoonotic risk.
Background: Spread of SARS-CoV2 by aerosol is considered an important mode of transmission over distances >2 m, particularly indoors.
Objectives: We determined whether SARS-CoV2 could be detected in the air of enclosed/semi-enclosed public spaces.
Methods And Analysis: Between March 2021 and December 2021 during the easing of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions after a period of lockdown, we used total suspended and size-segregated particulate matter (PM) samplers for the detection of SARS-CoV2 in hospitals wards and waiting areas, on public transport, in a university campus and in a primary school in West London.