Sex-Specific Effects of Social Environment on Behaviour and Their Correlations in .

Environmental and individual experiences can result in immediate and persistent changes in behaviour. Often, such effects are also sex-dependent. Intraspecific interactions can be one of the most important environments an individual faces.

Defining the limits of plant chemical space: challenges and estimations.

The plant kingdom, encompassing nearly 400,000 known species, produces an immense diversity of metabolites, including primary compounds essential for survival and secondary metabolites specialized for ecological interactions. These metabolites constitute a vast and complex phytochemical space with significant potential applications in medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology. However, much of this chemical diversity remains unexplored, as only a fraction of plant species has been studied comprehensively.

Energetic investigations of Acidianus ambivalens metabolism during anaerobic sulfur reduction and comparisons to aerobic sulfur oxidation.

Acidianus ambivalens is a metabolically flexible facultative anaerobe that can oxidize and reduce elemental sulfur with O and H, respectively. In this work, the growth energetics of Acidianus ambivalens were determined under anaerobic conditions at 76 °C with H oxidation by elemental sulfur serving as the energy-yielding catabolic reaction. The biomass yields (C-mol of biomass per mol of H consumed) ranged from approximately 0.

Characterizing Spatial Information Loss for Wastewater Surveillance Using crAssphage: Effect of Decay, Temperature, and Population Mobility.

Populations contribute information about their health status to wastewater. Characterizing how that information degrades in transit to wastewater sampling locations (e.g.

Energetics of Acidianus ambivalens growth in response to oxygen availability.

All life requires energy to drive metabolic reactions such as growth and cell maintenance; therefore, fluctuations in energy availability can alter microbial activity. There is a gap in our knowledge concerning how energy availability affects the growth of extreme chemolithoautotrophs. Toward this end, we investigated the growth of thermoacidophile Acidianus ambivalens during sulfur oxidation under aerobic to microaerophilic conditions.

Gender and Health: Beyond Binary Categorical Measurement.

This study leverages multiple measures of gender from a US national online survey (N = 1,508) to better assess how gender is related to self-rated health. In contrast to research linking feminine behaviors with good health and masculine behaviors with poor health, we find that masculinity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender men, whereas femininity is associated with better self-rated health for cisgender women. The patterns are similar whether we consider self-identification or how people feel others perceive their gender, though reflected appraisals are most strongly associated with health for cisgender women.

Use of an alarm pheromone against ants for gaining access to aphid/scale prey by the red velvet mite Balaustium sp. (Erythraeidae) in a honeydew-rich environment.

This study shows that honeydew prompts arrestment and reduced activity, but not attraction, by the mite Balaustium sp. nr. putmani.