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Towards Farm Animal Welfare and Sustainability
(MDPI, 2018-05-25)As farm animal welfare becomes an increasingly important component of contemporary global livestock production, animal welfare science and animal welfare policy-making need to find new ways of entering global debates over ... -
Facilitating practice-led co-innovation for the improvement in animal welfare
(SAGE Publications, 2017-06-08)Using the egg-laying-hen sector as a case study, the European Union-funded ‘Hennovation’ thematic network has been testing mechanisms to enable practice-led innovation through the establishment of 19 innovation networks ... -
Predictors of nest growth: diminishing returns for subordinates in the paper wasp Polistes dominula
(Springer Verlag, 2018-05-11)In cooperative breeders, subordinates that have alternative reproductive options are expected to stay and help dominant breeders only as long as they contribute to group productivity, if their fitness is linked with colony ... -
Ancestral function and diversification of a horizontally acquired oomycete carboxylic acid transporter
(Oxford University Press (OUP) for Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2018-04-25)Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can equip organisms with novel genes, expanding the repertoire of genetic material available for evolutionary innovation and allowing recipient lineages to colonise new environments. However, ... -
Serial reversal learning in Gray Squirrels: learning efficiency as a function of learning and change of tactics
(American Psychological Association, 2015-10)Learning allows individuals to adapt their behaviors flexibly to a changing environment. When the same change recurs repeatedly, acquiring relevant tactics may increase learning efficiency. We examined this relationship, ... -
Community structure informs species geographic distributions
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)Understanding what determines species’ geographic distributions is crucial for assessing global change threats to biodiversity. Measuring limits on distributions is usually, and necessarily, done with data at large ... -
How well do farmers know their badgers? Relating farmer knowledge to ecological survey data.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-01-14)Knowledge of badger distribution is important for the management of bovine tuberculosis. At the farm level, typically the only information on badger activity available is from the farmers themselves. This study compares ... -
Behaviour of European badgers and non-target species towards candidate baits for oral delivery of a tuberculosis vaccine
(Elsevier, 2016-12-01)In the UK and the Republic of Ireland, the European badger (Meles meles) is a maintenance host for Mycobacterium bovis, and may transmit the infection to cattle causing bovine tuberculosis (TB). Vaccination of badgers using ... -
Halioticida noduliformans infection in eggs of lobster (Homarus gammarus) reveals its generalist parasitic strategy in marine invertebrates
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)A parasite exhibiting Oomycete-like morphology and pathogenesis was isolated from discoloured eggs of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) and later found in gill tissues of adults. Group-specific Oomycete primers were ... -
Ecological knowledge, leadership, and the evolution of menopause in killer whales
(Elsevier (Cell Press), 2015-03-05)Classic life-history theory predicts that menopause should not occur because there should be no selection for survival after the cessation of reproduction [1]. Yet, human females routinely live 30 years after they have ... -
Stepping-Up innovations in the water-energy-food nexus: A case study of Anaerobic Digestion in the UK
(Wiley, 2018)Grand societal challenges such as climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss call for rapid and radical changes to systems of production and consumption. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the dynamics of ... -
Quantitative Lipoproteomics in Clostridium difficile Reveals a Role for Lipoproteins in Sporulation
(Elsevier, 2015-11-12)Bacterial lipoproteins are surface exposed, anchored to the membrane by S-diacylglyceryl modification of the N-terminal cysteine thiol. They play important roles in many essential cellular processes and in bacterial ... -
Species traits suggest European mammals facing the greatest climate change are also least able to colonise new locations
(Wiley, 2018-05-16)Aim: The risk climate change poses to biodiversity is often estimated by forecasting the areas that will be climatically suitable for species in the future and measuring the distance of the “range shifts” species would ... -
Vibrio vulnificus Type 6 Secretion System 1 contains anti-Bacterial properties.
(Public Library of Science, 2016-10-31)Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium responsible for severe gastroenteritis, sepsis and wound infections. Gastroenteritis and sepsis are commonly associated with the consumption of raw oysters, whereas wound infection is often ... -
Head movements and the optic flow generated during the learning flights of bumblebees.
(Company of Biologists, 2014-08-01)Insects inform themselves about the 3D structure of their surroundings through motion parallax. During flight, they often simplify this task by minimising rotational image movement. Coordinated head and body movements ... -
Bees associate colour cues with differences in pollen rewards
(Company of Biologists, 2014-07-30)In contrast to the wealth of knowledge concerning sucrose-rewarded learning, the question of whether bees learn when they collect pollen from flowers has been little addressed. The nutritional value of pollen varies ... -
Healthy publics: Enabling cultures and environments for health
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-05-15)Despite extraordinary advances in biomedicine and associated gains in human health and well-being, a growing number of health and well-being related challenges have remained or emerged in recent years. These challenges ... -
Beliefs about dementia: development and validation of the Representations and Adjustment to Dementia Index (RADIX)
(Elsevier, 2018-02-26)OBJECTIVES: The Self-Regulation Model (SRM) identifies that the beliefs people hold about an illness can influence their responses to that illness. Although there are generic measures of illness representations, there is ... -
Soil microbial populations in deep floodplain soils are adapted to infrequent but regular carbon substrate addition
(Elsevier, 2018-04-12)Floodplain soils provide an important link in the land-ocean aquatic continuum. Understanding microbial activity in these soils, which can be many metres deep, is a key component in our understanding of the role of floodplains ... -
A ‘delivery-democracy dilemma’? Mapping and explaining policy change for public engagement with energy infrastructure
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-03-10)Understanding how governments orchestrate public engagement in energy infrastructure decisions has important implications for the relationship between energy transitions, democracy and justice, but existing research is ...