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    Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

    1. Parmesan, C. & Yohe, G. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature 421, 37–42 (2003). 2. Chen, I.-C., Hill, J. K., Ohlemüller, R., Roy, D. B. & Thomas, C. D. Rapid range shifts of species associated with high levels of climate warming. Science 333, 1024–1026 (2011). 3. Poloczanska, E. […] More

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    Large-scale genome-wide analysis links lactic acid bacteria from food with the gut microbiome

    Large-scale meta-analysis on food and human microbiomes We performed a large-scale meta-analysis on microbiomes from food sources and human body sites to investigate the prevalence and diversity of LAB species in the human microbiome and their overlap with species and strains found in food. To achieve this goal, we considered 303 food metagenomes (152 publicly […] More

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    Convergent molecular evolution among ash species resistant to the emerald ash borer

    1. Pautasso, M., Aas, G., Queloz, V. & Holdenrieder, O. European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) dieback – a conservation biology challenge. Biol. Conserv. 158, 37–49 (2013). Article Google Scholar 2. MacFarlane, D. W. & Meyer, S. P. Characteristics and distribution of potential ash tree hosts for emerald ash borer. For. Ecol. Manage. 213, 15–24 (2005). Article […] More

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    Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan

    1. Wang, M. et al. The great Atlantic Sargassum belt. Science 365, 83–87 (2019). 2. Field, C. B. Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components. Science 281, 237–240 (1998). 3. Krause-Jensen, D. & Duarte, C. M. Substantial role of macroalgae in marine carbon sequestration. Nat. Geosci. 9, 737–742 (2016). 4. Deniaud-Bouët, E. […] More

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    How lost lizards and Hurricane Irma are helping me get through coronavirus restrictions

    CAREER COLUMN 22 May 2020 When the coronavirus pandemic struck, field ecologist Nicholas Herrmann adopted a perspective inspired by experiences earlier in his PhD. Nicholas Herrmann Nicholas Herrmann is a PhD candidate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Search for this author […] More