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Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts (2020)
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Cheney, J. A., Stevenson, J. P. J., Durston, N. E., Song, J., Usherwood, J. R., Bomphrey, R. J., & Windsor, S. P. (2020). Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1937), 20201748. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1748

Musculoskeletal systems cope with many environmental perturbations without neurological control. These passive preflex responses aid animals to move swiftly through complex terrain. Whether preflexes play a substantial role in animal flight is uncert... Read More about Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts.

Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition. (2020)
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Taib, N., Megrian, D., Witwinowski, J., Adam, P., Poppleton, D., Borrel, G., …Gribaldo, S. (2020). Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01299-7

The transition between cell envelopes with one membrane (Gram-positive or monoderm) and those with two membranes (Gram-negative or diderm) is a fundamental open question in the evolution of Bacteria. Evidence of the presence of two independent diderm... Read More about Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition..

Postnatal mechanical loading drives adaptation of tissues primarily through modulation of the non-collagenous matrix (2020)
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Zamboulis, D. E., Thorpe, C. T., Ashraf Kharaz, Y., Birch, H. L., Screen, H. R. C., & Clegg, P. D. (2020). Postnatal mechanical loading drives adaptation of tissues primarily through modulation of the non-collagenous matrix. eLife, 9,

Mature connective tissues demonstrate highly specialised properties, remarkably adapted to meet their functional requirements. Tissue adaptation to environmental cues can occur throughout life and poor adaptation commonly results in injury. However,... Read More about Postnatal mechanical loading drives adaptation of tissues primarily through modulation of the non-collagenous matrix.

Extracellular Nucleotides Regulate Arterial Calcification by Activating Both Independent and Dependent Purinergic Receptor Signaling Pathways (2020)
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Opdebeeck, B., Orriss, I., Neven, E., D’Haese, P. C., & Verhulst, A. (2020). Extracellular Nucleotides Regulate Arterial Calcification by Activating Both Independent and Dependent Purinergic Receptor Signaling Pathways. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(20), e7636

Arterial calcification, the deposition of calcium-phosphate crystals in the extracellular matrix, resembles physiological bone mineralization. It is well-known that extracellular nucleotides regulate bone homeostasis raising an emerging interest in t... Read More about Extracellular Nucleotides Regulate Arterial Calcification by Activating Both Independent and Dependent Purinergic Receptor Signaling Pathways.

Phenotypic Spectrum of α-Dystroglycanopathies Associated With the c.919T>a Variant in the FKRP Gene in Humans and Mice (2020)
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Brown, S. C., Fernandez-Fuente, M., Muntoni, F., & Vissing, J. (2020). Phenotypic Spectrum of α-Dystroglycanopathies Associated With the c.919T>a Variant in the FKRP Gene in Humans and Mice. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology,

Abstract Mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene, FKRP, are the most frequent single cause of α-dystroglycanopathy. Rare FKRP mutations are clinically not well characterized. Here, we review the phenotype associated with the rare c.919T>A mu... Read More about Phenotypic Spectrum of α-Dystroglycanopathies Associated With the c.919T>a Variant in the FKRP Gene in Humans and Mice.

Animal Research beyond the Laboratory: Report from a Workshop on Places Other than Licensed Establishments (POLEs) in the UK (2020)
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Palmer, A., Greenhough, B., Hobson-West, P., Message, R., Aegerter, J. N., Belshaw, Z., …Wolfensohn, S. (2020). Animal Research beyond the Laboratory: Report from a Workshop on Places Other than Licensed Establishments (POLEs) in the UK. Animals, 10(10), e1868

Research involving animals that occurs outside the laboratory raises an array of unique challenges. With regard to UK legislation, however, it receives only limited attention in terms of official guidelines, support, and statistics, which are unsurpr... Read More about Animal Research beyond the Laboratory: Report from a Workshop on Places Other than Licensed Establishments (POLEs) in the UK.

Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico) (2020)
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Bennett, M. R., Bustos, D., Odess, D., Urban, T. M., Lallensack, J. N., Budka, M., …Reynolds, S. C. (2020). Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico). Quaternary Science Reviews, 249, 106610

Human tracks at White Sands National Park record more than one and a half kilometres of an out- and-return journey and form the longest Late Pleistocene-age double human trackway in the world. An adolescent or small adult female made two trips separa... Read More about Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico).

Why are the fastest runners of intermediate size? Contrasting scaling of mechanical demands and muscle supply of work and power (2020)
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Usherwood, J. R., & Gladman, N. W. (2020). Why are the fastest runners of intermediate size? Contrasting scaling of mechanical demands and muscle supply of work and power. Biology Letters, 16(10), 20200579

The fastest land animals are of intermediate size. Cheetah, antelope, greyhounds and racehorses have been measured running much faster than reported for elephants or elephant shrews. Can this be attributed to scaling of physical demands and explicit... Read More about Why are the fastest runners of intermediate size? Contrasting scaling of mechanical demands and muscle supply of work and power.