Search Results - "Charles Davis"
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The herbarium of the future
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-05-2023)“…Plants are the foundation of our terrestrial biota but an estimated 40% of plant species risk extinction.Herbaria, which have long been an essential tool for…”
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Collections are truly priceless
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-03-2024)“…Last month, Duke University in North Carolina announced that it was shuttering its herbarium. The collection consists of nearly 1 million specimens…”
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Is time an embodied property of concepts?
Published in PloS one (05-09-2023)“…A haircut usually lasts under an hour. But how long does it take to recognize that something is an instance of a haircut? And is this “time-to-perceive” a part…”
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The Impact of Missing Data on Species Tree Estimation
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-03-2016)“…Phylogeneticists are increasingly assembling genome-scale data sets that include hundreds of genes to resolve their focal clades. Although these data sets…”
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Life history, diversity, and distribution in parasitic flowering plants
Published in Plant physiology (Bethesda) (04-09-2021)“…A review of parasitic plant diversity and outstanding disjunct distributions according to an updated functional classification based on these plants’ life…”
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New world bats harbor diverse influenza A viruses
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-10-2013)“…Aquatic birds harbor diverse influenza A viruses and are a major viral reservoir in nature. The recent discovery of influenza viruses of a new H17N10 subtype…”
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Exploring biodiversity through museomics
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Antioxidant therapies in traumatic brain injury
Published in Neurochemistry international (01-01-2022)“…Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in traumatic brain injury (TBI) pathogenesis. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) formed in…”
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Mechanisms of time-restricted feeding-induced neuroprotection and neuronal plasticity in ischemic stroke as a function of circadian rhythm
Published in Experimental neurology (01-01-2025)“…Time-restricted feeding (TRF) is known to promote longevity and brain function, and potentially prevent neurological diseases. Animal studies show that TRF…”
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Emergence of Covid‐19 as a Novel Concept Shifts Existing Semantic Spaces
Published in Cognitive science (01-01-2023)“…Conceptual knowledge is dynamic, fluid, and flexible, changing as a function of contextual factors at multiple scales. The Covid‐19 pandemic can be considered…”
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Genes with minimal phylogenetic information are problematic for coalescent analyses when gene tree estimation is biased
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-11-2015)“…[Display omitted] •Genes with minimal phylogenetic information can compromise gene tree estimation.•Gene tree estimation using PhyML can be biased toward one…”
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Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-11-2018)“…Global change has become a central focus of modern biology. Yet, our knowledge of how anthropogenic drivers affect biodiversity and natural resources is…”
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Horizontal gene transfer in parasitic plants
Published in Current opinion in plant biology (01-08-2015)“…•Parasitic plants are exemplary systems for studying the dynamics of HGT.•Parasitic plants show high rates of HGT, especially involving mitochondrial…”
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A context-sensitive and non-linguistic approach to abstract concepts
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (13-02-2023)“…Despite the recent upsurge in research on abstract concepts, there remain puzzles at the foundation of their empirical study. These are most evident when we…”
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DNA damage and repair following traumatic brain injury
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-01-2021)“…Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to promote significant DNA damage irrespective of age, sex, and species. Chemical as well as structural DNA modification…”
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The unrealized potential of herbaria for global change biology
Published in Ecological monographs (01-11-2018)“…Plant and fungal specimens in herbaria are becoming primary resources for investigating how plant phenology and geographic distributions shift with climate…”
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Post-stroke depression: epigenetic and epitranscriptomic modifications and their interplay with gut microbiota
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-10-2023)“…Epigenetic and epitranscriptomic modifications that regulate physiological processes of an organism at the DNA and RNA levels, respectively, are novel…”
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The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in Andean bellflowers (Campanulaceae)
Published in The New phytologist (01-06-2016)“…The tropical Andes of South America, the world's richest biodiversity hotspot, are home to many rapid radiations. While geological, climatic, and ecological…”
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Coalescent versus Concatenation Methods and the Placement of Amborella as Sister to Water Lilies
Published in Systematic biology (01-11-2014)“…The molecular era has fundamentally reshaped our knowledge of the evolution and diversification of angiosperms. One outstanding question is the phylogenetic…”
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Estimating phylogenetic trees from genome-scale data
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (01-12-2015)“…The heterogeneity of signals in the genomes of diverse organisms poses challenges for traditional phylogenetic analysis. Phylogenetic methods known as “species…”
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