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Early developmental pathways to childhood symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and autism spectrum disorder
(Wiley, 2018-07-02)Background Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have co-occurring symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or anxiety. It is unclear whether these disorders arise from shared or distinct ... -
Early embryogenesis and organogenesis in the annelid Owenia fusiformis
(BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Nature., 2021-05-10)Annelids are a diverse group of segmented worms within Spiralia, whose embryos exhibit spiral cleavage and a variety of larval forms. While most modern embryological studies focus on species with unequal spiral cleavage ... -
The Ecological Impacts of Contaminated Sediment from Abandoned Metal Mines
(Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2019-10-25)Pollution from abandoned non-coal (i.e. metal) mines is a serious impediment to rivers meeting the water quality targets set out in River Basin Management Plans. Recent work has identified the mines most likely to be causing ... -
Ecological pressures and the contrasting scaling of metabolism and body shape in coexisting taxa: cephalopods versus teleost fish.
(2019-08-05)Metabolic rates are fundamental to many biological processes, and commonly scale with body size with an exponent ( bR) between 2/3 and 1 for reasons still debated. According to the 'metabolic-level boundaries hypothesis', ... -
Ecosystem services provided by bromeliad plants: A systematic review.
(2019-06)The unprecedented loss of biological diversity has negative impacts on ecosystems and the associated benefits which they provide to humans. Bromeliads have high diversity throughout the Neotropics, but they have been ...