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Improved estimates of growth for wild Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) off eastern-Australia using multiple data sources

Stewart, J Stuart, S Hughes, JM Booth, DJ

Unbiased growth functions are imperative for stock assessment and sustainable management of fisheries. We present a case-study demonstrating implications of data collection biases from fishery-depe...

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Towards a standard approach to investigating the Thermal Load Sensitivity of photosystem II via chlorophyll fluorescence

Arnold, PA Harris, RJ Aitken, SM Hoek, MM Cook, AM Leigh, A Nicotra, AB

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Influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on water relations in C3/C4 grasses under extreme heat and water stress

Jones, SL van der Merwe, M Leigh, A Robinson, SA Gluskie, CT French, K

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Handling the heat: Warming does not reduce alpine plant survival or reproduction under high precipitation conditions

Xirocostas, ZA Moles, AT Brown, FM Brown, ZA Chiarenza, GM Earle, R Leigh, A Mu, X Sumner, EE Venn, SE Williamson, VG Zeng, K Osmolovsky, I

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Basic Science and Pathogenesis

Cheng, GWY Ding, H Tse, KH Yoo, JS

BACKGROUND: Astrocytes are integral in maintaining tight junctions of the blood-brain barrier while supplying cholesterol to oligodendrocytes for myelination. It is well-recognized that vascular in...

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Morphological and heat-tolerance traits are associated with progression and impact of, but not vulnerability to, tree decline

Aitken, SM Arnold, PA Brookhouse, MT Cook, AM Danzey, LM Harris, RJ Leigh, A Nicotra, AB

Warming and drying climate trends have been linked to tree-dieback phenomena worldwide with broad-reaching impacts on ecosystem services. Studying tree decline is unavoidably a retrospective exerci...

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Complete structures of the YenTc holotoxin prepore and pore reveal the evolutionary basis for chitinase incorporation into ABC toxins.

Low, YS Roche, SG Aleksandrova, NA Foley, G Low, JK Box, JK Croll, TI Chassagnon, IR Lott, JS Deplazes, E Bodén, M Hurst, MR Piper, SJ Landsberg, MJ

ABC toxins are toxin-translocating, pore-forming proteins found in a wide range of insecticidal bacteria and some mammalian pathogens. The Yersinia entomopahaga toxin complex (YenTc) belongs to a d...

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Correction: Thomas Broome, S.; Castorina, A. Systemic Rotenone Administration Causes Extra-Nigral Alterations in C57BL/6 Mice. Biomedicines 2022, 10, 3174.

Thomas Broome, S Castorina, A

In the original publication [...].

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Rewiring Young Minds: Investigating the Cognitive Effects of Video Games on Learning and Their Potential as Digital Therapeutics for Mental Well-Being.

Lim, ECN Cheng, NCL Lim, CED

Video games are commonly integrated into the lives of childhood and adolescence, with their impact on cognition and mental health widely debated. Concerns about academic distraction are increasingl...

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The Diagnostic Odyssey of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Report of Prolonged Misrecognition.

Lim, ECN Lim, CED

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is characterised by two or more distinct personality states, often resulting from severe childhood trauma. The disorder is frequently misdiagnosed as depression...

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