As an island nation, Ireland needs to ensure effective management measures protect marine ecosystems and their services, such as the provision of fishery resources. The characterization waters using satellite data can contribute a better understanding variations in upper ocean and, consequently, effect changes on species populations. In this study, nineteen years (1998–2016) monthly essential c...

The synthetic association hypothesis proposes that common genetic variants detectable in genome-wide association studies may reflect the net phenotypic effect of multiple rare polymorphisms distributed broadly within the focal gene rather than, as often assumed, the effect of common functional variants in high linkage disequilibrium with the focal marker. In a recent study, Dickson and colleagu...

It is not clear which forms of plasticity in fitness-related traits are associated with invasive species. On one hand, it may be better to have a robust performance across environments. On the other, it may be beneficial to take advantage of limited favorable conditions. We chose to study a worldwide invasive species, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, and compare the plasticity of life-history traits o...

The control of Newcastle disease (ND) in South Africa has proved difficult since 2002 following the introduction of lineage 5d/VIId Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strain ("goose paramyxovirus" - GPMV) to which commercially available ND vaccines appeared less effective. Most of the ND infections, even in fully vaccinated hens were characterized consistently by a drop in egg production. In this st...

author wishes to extend thanks to Associate Professor Loane Skene, Dr. Charles Lawson and D r. Clive Turner for their helpful comm ents. Thanks is also owed to Sarah B arker and N atasha Ru ff. All errors and om issions remain the tha t of the author. These neu rotoxins a re know n as conotoxins or conotokins. This group is lead by Baldomero Olivera. See V.D. Monje et al., “A new Conu s Peptide...

Newcastle disease (ND), caused by virulent strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV), is a highly contagious disease of birds that is responsible for heavy economic losses for the poultry industry worldwide. However, little is known about host-virus interactions in waterfowl, goose. In this study, we aim to characterize the host immune response in goose, based on the previous reports on the host...