D. Phillips

Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate

The paper examines how reduced social connectedness in older primates can mitigate infection risks from a hypothetical pathogen, showing age-related changes in social behavior affect disease dynamics.

SbPIP2 Mediated Improvements in Plant Resilience: Physiological and Molecular Insights into Abiotic Stress Response

This study shows that overexpressing SbPIP2 improves plant resilience to abiotic stress by reducing ROS, enhancing growth, and modulating ABA signaling pathways.

The impact of kinship composition on social structure

This study investigates how kinship composition affects social structure in rhesus macaques but finds no significant difference, suggesting larger sample sizes or species comparisons may be needed.

Socioecological drivers of injuries in female and male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

The paper examines how group size and sex ratios affect injury risk in male and female rhesus macaques, finding sex-specific patterns linked to competition and aggression.

Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques

This study examines how early life adversity affects survival in male and female rhesus macaques, finding sex-dependent differences in mortality risk across the lifespan.

Multiple axes of visual system diversity in Ithomiini, an ecologically diverse tribe of mimetic butterflies

The paper examines visual system variation in four Ithomiini butterfly species, finding relaxed selection on opsins, interspecific physiological shifts, and sexual dimorphism in visual structures.

Cost and benefits of being social: examining the influence of sociality on faecal parasites in free-ranging rhesus macaques

This study examines how social relationships affect parasitic infection risk in rhesus macaques, finding that affiliative partners reduce protozoa infection risk, while social status does not.

A living conductive marine biofilm engineered to sense and respond to small molecules

This paper demonstrates that a marine bacterium can be genetically engineered to sense and respond to small molecules using an electrical signal.

Ageing in a collective: The impact of ageing individuals on social network structure

This study examines how ageing affects social network structure in rhesus macaques using empirical data and an agent-based model, finding age-related changes in indirect connectivity but no overall network structure age distribution relationship.

Within-individual changes reveal increasing social selectivity with age in rhesus macaques

This study shows that older female rhesus macaques reduce their social networks and prioritize previously beneficial partners, indicating social selectivity with age.

Reduced injury risk links sociality to survival in a group-living primate

The paper investigates how sociality affects injury risk and survival in rhesus macaques, finding that social integration reduces injury risk but not mortality after injury.

Remodeling of human colon plasma cell repertoire in ulcerative colitis

This study characterizes the remodeling of the human colon plasma cell repertoire in ulcerative colitis, showing clonal expansion, isotype skewing, and altered gene expression associated with inflammation.

Immunotherapy of glioblastoma explants induces interferon-γ responses and immune cell rearrangements in tumor center, but not periphery

Age, sex, and social environmental effects on immune cell composition in a free-ranging non-human primate.

This study examines how age, sex, and social status affect immune cell composition in rhesus macaques, revealing age-related immunosenescence and sex-dependent effects of social adversity.

Fauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography

The paper introduces fauxcurrence, a tool to generate null species occurrence data for biogeography and species distribution modeling, showing it outperforms existing methods in capturing spatial structure.

Genome-based targeted sequencing as a reproducible microbial community profiling assay.

The paper introduces MA-GenTA, a microbial community profiling method using genome-based targeted sequencing, showing it correlates well with mWGS and 16S rRNA data.

The use of nanovibration to discover specific and potent bioactive metabolites that stimulate osteogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stem cells

This study uses nanovibration to induce osteogenic differentiation in MSCs without exogenous growth factors, identifying cholesterol sulphate and fludrocortisone acetate as potent bioactive metabolites.

Modeling Epidemics in Seed Systems to Guide Management Strategies: The Case of Sweetpotato in Northern Uganda

The paper models epidemic spread in a sweetpotato seed system in Northern Uganda to evaluate quarantine effectiveness and identify key monitoring nodes.