Hobby drones, repurposed as peacekeepers, save Elephants
A study published in the journal Oryx finds off-the-shelf drones can be used to guard crops and keep elephants safe along the borders of Tanzanian parks.
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Black soldier fly as dietary protein source for broiler quails: apparent digestibility, excreta microbial load, feed choice, performance, carcass and meat traits
Photo credit: Antonella Dalle Zotte The animal article of the month for December is ‘Black soldier fly as dietary protein source for broiler quails: apparent digestibility, excreta microbial load, feed choice, performance, carcass and meat traits‘.…
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Cambodia’s Bengal Floricans Threatened by Planned Power Line Development
A proposed power transmission line at the edge of the Tonle Sap Floodplain Protected Landscape (TSFPL), which might be constructed as early as next year, would pose a new threat to the Critically Endangered Bengal Florican.
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Origin of a major infectious disease in vertebrates: The timing of Cryptosporidium evolution and its hosts
The latest Parasitology Paper of the Month is “Origin of a major infectious disease in vertebrates: The timing of Cryptosporidium evolution and its hosts” by Juan C.…
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Net food supply from livestock: a matter of quantity and quality
The animal article of the month for November is ‘An approach to including protein quality when assessing the net contribution of livestock to human food supply‘ Worldwide, livestock provide more than a quarter of the protein in human diets.…
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Locals positive towards tigers and conservation measures
A wildlife corridor facilitates tiger movement without the locals suffering, a new study published in Oryx shows.
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Rumen fluke now very common in Wales
A study by scientists at Aberystwyth University’s IBERS working with Wales YFC reveals that rumen fluke (Calicophoron daubneyi) is now prevalent on Welsh farms.…
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Does the level of organic food consumed affect your diet?
The organic food industry is gaining more and more market share worldwide, partly due to consumers’ concerns about food safety and food quality.
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Striking a balance between development and sustainability
A post from the new Cambridge Open Access title Global Sustainability Since the notion of Sustainable Development has become widespread with the publication of the UN Commission on Environment and Development in 1986, there has been the tension between the aspiration to develop on the one hand and to stay within ‘planetary boundaries’ on the other.…
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We have changed cattle husbandry more in 20 years than in the previous 10000
By the mid 1990s, after ten years of development, we had working robotic milkers. Once it launched on farms we could turn to the question “How do we monitor cows when there are no humans?”
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The integration of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) into scientific communities and the next generation applications
The animal article of the month for September is entitled “Precision livestock farming: a ‘per animal’ approach using advanced monitoring technologies”
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Tectonic evolution and understanding fold-and-thrust belts
In this blog Guest Editor Professor Olivier Lacombe discusses the latest thematic issue from Geological Magazine on Tectonic evolution and mechanics of basement-involved fold-and-thrust belts.…
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New publishing partnership with The Weed Science Society of America
The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the formation of a new publishing partnership beginning in January 2017.
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Appraisal of authorization of antioxidant feed additives in livestock production
The animal article of the month for August is entitled 'Review: In vivo and post-mortem effects of feed antioxidants in livestock: a review of the implications on authorization of antioxidant feed additives'
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New journal to sate hunger for knowledge on humanity’s future
We are at a remarkable point in human development. Until now, the perception of sustainability has primarily focused on environmental protection, morality and efficiency.…
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An Interview with 2016 Batchelor Prize winner Prof Raymond E. Goldstein
Watch an interview with Professor Raymond E. Goldstein
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What does an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions mean for light-duty vehicles in the United States?
Light-duty vehicles (LDV) are a huge source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. To avoid the worst effects of global climate change, we need to cut these emissions by 80% by 2050.
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Does increasing ovulation in sows effect embryonic and placental development?
In the past few years, pig farms around the world have seen an increase in the total number of piglets born per litter. This has been achieved by genetic selection for litter size and by improved management of the sows.
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Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
In this blog Professor Andy Fenton discusses the recent special issue of Parasitology on Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. The field of disease ecology – the study of the spread and impact of parasites and pathogens within their host populations and communities – has a long history of using mathematical models.…
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Hedging in the Anthropocene: the risks and rewards of a fossil fuel versus a photovoltaic energy supply
The climate is changing. We have left the Holocene and entered the Anthropocene, the era in which human enterprise is pushing the planetary functioning of essential cycles (e.g. of CO2) into a potentially unstable regime. Human enterprise, by burning fossil fuels for electrical, heat and motive power is the central cause of climate change, and is driven by an economic system that promotes insatiable consumption.
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Toxoplasmosis could be one of most important influences on human offspring sex ratio
The latest Parasitology Paper of the Month is Do differences in Toxoplasma prevalence influence global variation in secondary sex ratio? Preliminary ecological regression study by Madhukar S.…
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Prospects of life on Red Dwarf orbiting planets
In this blog post Joseph Gale and Amri Wandel discuss their recent review article in International Journal of Astrobiology, The potential of planets orbiting red dwarf stars to support oxygenic photosynthesis and complex life.…
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Genomic selection: threat or opportunity for small breeding programs?
The success of livestock breeding programs depends on the selection of the best animals to become the parents of the next generation of production animals. The more accurate and the faster this selection step takes place, the more genetic improvement can be made per generation.
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Solving classification questions in sponge biology
In this blog Dr Dirk Erpenbeck talks about his co-authored paper Nothing in (sponge) biology makes sense – except when based on holotypes which featured in the New Frontiers in Sponge Science special issue from Journal of the Marine Biological Association.…
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Amazon rainforest sponge found to have bioactive molecules
In this blog Dr Marcio Custódio talks about the co-authored paper Reduction of RBL–2H3 cells degranulation by nitroaromatic compounds from a Bacillus strain associated to the Amazonian sponge Metania reticulata which featured in the New Frontiers in Sponge Science special issue from Journal of the Marine Biological Association.…
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Experts query findings of recent paper in BJN highlighting nutritional benefits of organic milk
Two sets of scientists have written commentaries in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition querying the findings of a recent article published in the same journal by scientists from Newcastle University that suggested potential nutritional benefits of consuming organic milk.
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Analysing the Data: INRA’s work to improve Feed Unit Systems (FUS)
Feed unit systems (FUS) have been a major factor of progress in livestock production for calculating optimal diets. For more than a century and a half, these systems have been periodically updated to take account of advances in scientific knowledge and new demands of farm to fork chains.
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Extinct species as conservation champions
Extinct flagships: linking extinct and threatened species, by Peter M. Kyne and Vanessa M. Adams Extinct species as conservation champions The Earth is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction event.…
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Greater genetic diversity of tape worm in Australia discovered
The latest Parasitology Paper of the Month is Microdiversity of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto in Australia by C. A. Alvarez Rojas et al.…
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Taking a bite out of fisheries impact on sharks and rays
Kelsey's James' article addresses growing concern over the effects of fishery's non-target catch on sharks, rays and skates worldwide.
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Illegal pangolin trade – Preventing a shift in demand from Asian to African species
Wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business with hundreds of millions of specimens being traded annually. Hunted for their scales and meat, the pangolin has become the most trafficked mammal in the world.…
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The power of two: epigenetics and twins
Special Epigenetics issue of Twin Research and Human Genetics Twins are at the forefront of research into human health and disease.…
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Decreasing phosphorous excretion: A nutritional approach
The animal article of the month for April is entitled ‘Quantifying the consequences of nutritional strategies aimed at decreasing phopsphorus excretion from pig populations: a modelling approach‘ Although pigs need Phosphorus in their feed in order to thrive, this can pose environmental problems. …
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Welcome to Global Sustainability
In the past decade or so, sustainability research has expanded rapidly to explore how societies interact with Earth systems. This research is of tremendous importance: without major societal changes, the planet will become a considerably more hostile place to live.…
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Study says Alaska could lose massive icefield by 2200
Source: Study says Alaska could lose massive icefield by 2200 The study Modeling the evolution of the Juneau Icefield between 1971 and 2100 using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) by Florian A.…
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Blood parasites in Galápagos blue-footed boobies appear not to affect bird’s health
Prevalence of Haemoproteus sp. in Galápagos blue-footed boobies: effects on health and reproduction by Dr Larisa Lee-Cruz et al. is the Parasitology Open Paper of the Month for March.…
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Improving the survival rate of young farm animals: A review
For young farm animals, surviving birth and the neonatal period, is an important goal for the animal and the farmer, affecting animal welfare and farm profitability, yet still an average of 15% of sheep and goat neonates do not survive.
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The parasite within: understanding how cancer shapes life history
Cancer and life-history traits: lessons from host–parasite interactions is the March Parasitology Paper of the Month. Cancer is a disease associated with clonal evolution and cell competition within the body.…
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Eight million birds killed illegally at 20 Mediterranean locations each year
Scientists from BirdLife International estimate that 20 locations in the Mediterranean may be responsible for eight million individual birds being illegally killed or taken alive each year.…
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Understanding monkey to human malaria transmission
In this blog post, Paddy Brock discusses his co-authored review ‘Plasmodium knowlesi transmission: integrating quantitative approaches from epidemiology and ecology to understand malaria as a zoonosis’, which is the Parasitology article of the month.…
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Public health costs and the ocean
In this blog Veronica French describes the context for her co-authored paper An economic perspective on oceans and human health which features in the Oceans and Human Health special issue from Journal of the Marine Biological Association.…
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Coastal living found to improve health
In this blog Mathew White describes the context for his co-authored paper The ‘Blue Gym’: What can blue space do for you and what can you do for blue space?…
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Making the case; marine biology, law and human health
In this blog Thomas Appleby discusses his recent co-authored paper The marine biology of law and human health which features in the Oceans and Human Health special issue of Journal of the Marine Biological Association.…
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Naturally acquired immunity to malaria
This blog is an extract from the Editorial to the new Parasitology special issue on Naturally Acquired Immunity to Malaria by Alyssa Barry and Diana Hansen.…
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Giant iceberg decimates Adélie penguin colonies
Source: Study: Giant iceberg decimates Adélie penguin colonies – UNSW Science for society Adélie penguin numbers at Cape Denison in Antarctica have crashed from more than 160,000 birds in 2011 down to just a few thousand following the grounding of a giant 97-kilometre long iceberg in Commonwealth Bay.…
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Graphics for Conservation; a new guide
I am pleased to announce the launch of a new online guide to Graphics for Conservation. The aim of the guide is to provide advice on designing maps and data plots, advice on the wise use of graphics formats, and screencast demonstrations to help with drafting beautiful figures.…
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What’s the problem with militarising anti-poaching efforts?
What’s the problem with militarising anti-poaching efforts? The increasing calls for a more militarised and forceful approach to tackle poaching, especially of elephant and rhinos, demand more attention and interrogation
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Oceans and Human Health
Oceans and Human Health Special Issue from JMBA Marine Biology is undergoing a “sea change” in its outlook and approach. Driven by the need for us all to think more about the impact of our work and its relevance to the wider public, the marine sciences are now embracing ideas and establishing closer collaborative links with the Social Sciences – including economics and the law – , and the public health communities.…
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Algal blooms and the danger to human health
In this blog Elisa Berdalet discusses her recent Journal of the Marine Biological Association paper Marine harmful algal blooms, human health and wellbeing: challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.…
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Improving the palatability of meat: A review
The palatability of meat is mainly determined by marbling and tenderness. Tender meat, which contains more intramuscular fat and less connective tissue, is demanded by consumers and the presence and cross-linking of intramuscular connective tissue reduces meat tenderness and is mainly synthesized by fibroblasts.
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Roman innovations caused an increase in intestinal parasites
Archaeological evidence shows that intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman Period, despite the apparent improvements the empire brought in sanitation technologies.…
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Swimming bacteria, sperm increase speed through ‘corridors’ of low viscosity fluid
New research findings, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, are yielding insights into the physics behind the swimming behavior of bacteria and spermatozoa that could lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms affecting fertility and formation of bacterial biofilms that foul everything from implantable medical devices to industrial pipes.
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