J. Roy

A Novel Approach for Using Thermal Imaging to Study Behavioural Responses to Environmental Stressors in Passerines

This paper introduces a method to automatically detect feeding bouts in thermal videos by identifying temperature changes, enabling faster stress monitoring in passerines.

Urbanization Affects Nest Material Composition and Use of Anthropogenic Materials in Blue Tit Nests

This study examines how urbanization affects blue tit nest material composition and reproductive success, finding increased use of anthropogenic materials in urban nests.

Palmitoylation targets the Calcineurin phosphatase to the Phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase complex at the plasma membrane

This study identifies palmitoylation as a mechanism that localizes CNA{beta}1 to the plasma membrane and Golgi, enabling its interaction with the PI4KA complex and regulating PI4P production.

The VE-cadherin/AmotL2 mechanosensory pathway suppresses aortic inflammation and the formation of abdominal aortic aneurysms

This study identifies the VE-cadherin/AmotL2 mechanosensory pathway as a suppressor of aortic inflammation and abdominal aortic aneurysms through mechanotransduction in endothelial cells.

Systematic discovery of Short Linear Motifs decodes calcineurin phosphatase signaling

The paper identifies calcineurin (CN) substrates and interactors using a combination of experimental and computational methods, revealing novel roles for CN in regulating nuclear pore complex proteins.

Functional composition rather than species richness drive carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands

The paper investigates how functional composition, not species richness, influences carbon gain and allocation in grasslands using 13CO2 labeling.

Quantitative mapping of protein-peptide affinity landscapes using spectrally encoded beads

This study introduces MRBLE-pep, a method to quantify protein-peptide affinity landscapes, revealing critical factors influencing binding and identifying potential therapeutic peptides.

Evidence for subsoil specialization in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

The paper shows that certain arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa are specialized to subsoil layers, as evidenced by their presence in early stages of a chronosequence after soil mixing.

Subsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in arable soil differ from those in topsoil

The paper compares subsoil and topsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities, finding unique OTUs and structural differences in both depths.

Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study

This study tests whether introducing genotypic variability improves reproducibility in ecological experiments across multiple labs, finding it increases consistency in controlled environments but not in variable ones.