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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Graph-based reference genomes have become popular as they allow read mapping and follow-up analyses in settings where the exact haplotypes underlying a high-throughput sequencing experiment are ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Climate change is altering many aspects of local selection regimes. Which aspects of changing environments causing the strongest selective force, differ widely across species. Strong climatic and topographical heterogeneity ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The reconstruction of ancient metagenomes from archaeological material, and their implication in human health and evolution, is one of the most recent advances in paleomicrobiological studies. However, as for all ancient ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a species of great ecological and economical importance in the Baltic Sea. Here, two genetically differentiated stocks, the western and the eastern Baltic cod, display substantial mechanical ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background: Climate change potentially has important effects on distribution, abundance, transmission and virulence of parasites in wild populations of animals. Methodology/Principal Finding: Here we analyzed paired ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The second plague pandemic started in Europe with the Black Death in 1346 and lasted until the 19th century. Based on ancient DNA studies, there is a scientific disagreement over whether the bacterium, Yersinia pestis , ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Patchiness, defined as spatial heterogeneity in distribution of organisms, is a common phenomenon in zooplankton including ichtyoplankton. In heterogeneous landscapes, depending on the scale of prey and predatory distributions, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)The live poultry trade is thought to play an important role in the spread and maintenance of highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses (HP AIVs) in Asia. Despite an abundance of small-scale observational studies, the ...
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Assessment of inflammatory and cytotoxic effects of inhaled nickel nanoparticles using an advanced alveolar cell culture modelRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Exposure of nickel (Ni) particles has been linked to inflammatory responses in the human lung. The size of the particle has been shown to often correlate with the reactivity, entry and deposition of the particle in the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, or hypertension have a high risk of developing severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and of COVID-19 mortality. However, the association between ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Background: Increased plasma glucose levels in pregnancy or gestational diabetes may have implications for future maternal health, such as increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) developing within 10 years. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Continually emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern that can evade immune defenses are driving recurrent epidemic waves of COVID-19 globally. However, the impact of measures to contain the virus and their effect on lineage ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Until broad vaccination coverage is reached and effective therapeutics are available, controlling population mobility (ie, changes in the spatial location of a population that affect the spread and distribution ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)During the past decades, many high-latitude marine systems have experienced a strong warming trend with poorly understood consequences for trophic coupling and ecosystem functioning. A key knowledge gap is how timing and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Most of the current applications of acoustic cavitation use bubble clusters that exhibit multibubble dynamics. This necessitates a complete understanding of the mutual nonlinear coupling between individual bubbles. In this ...
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Atg8 Proteins in Autophagy and Death Receptor-Induced Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer CellsRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Autophagy and apoptosis are two important cellular processes, whose dysfunctions are involved in many severe diseases, including cancer. Bulk autophagy is typically mediated by the sequestration of cytoplasmic material ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II are crucial for the adaptive immune system because they are involved in peptide presentation to T cells. Until recently, it was believed that MHC genes and their ...