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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Pathogens in nature provide a fascinating lens for studying connections in an ecosystem. Tracing the movement of a pathogen between species and populations is like following a thread that ties together pieces of a tapestry. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The endosperm, the nutrient reservoir in the seed, account for 70% of the human caloric intake worldwide. Understanding the genetic regulation of, and influences of external factors on endosperm development is important ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases comprise diseases with different levels of contagiousness under natural conditions. The hypothesis has been raised that the chronic wasting disease (CWD) cases ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The Norwegian-Barents Sea (NBS) system is very productive; however, the extent to which this productivity varies remains uncertain for many species. Cod Gadus morhua , haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus , and capelin Mallotus ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The addition of a methyl group (CH3) to proteins, also known as protein methylation, is mediated by specialized enzymes named methyltransferases. One such enzyme is METTL13, which specifically trimethylates glycine 2 (G2me3) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
1. The state of sea trout in 1251 Norwegian watercourses was assessed based on a scoring system for human pressures, abundance data, and local knowledge. 2. Over 16,000 km of rivers and lakes were available to sea trout ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The secretion of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is a common process in Gram-negative bacteria and can be exploited for biotechnological applications. EVs pose a self-adjuvanting, non-replicative vaccine platform, where ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Wild boar Sus scrofa is increasing in numbers and extending its distribution across Europe and is difficult to control due to high reproductive potential. Dietary quality is a main determinant of wild boar population ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is well known among cervids in North America. Nevertheless, management faced different types and degrees of uncertainty when CWD was first detected in reindeer Rangifer tarandus in Nordfjella, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
Ratio ble satt til 76% rødalger, 17% brunalger og 7% grønnalger. 86 antall arter alger ble registrert. Stilklengde, laminalengde og total lengde for stortare var lenger om våren. På eksponerte områder ble det funnet flere ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Molecular phylogenetics has revolutionized the taxonomy of crustose lichens and revealed an extensive amount of cryptic diversity. Resolving the relationships between genera in the crustose lichen family Tephromelataceae ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The present study examined how climate changes may impact the concentrations of lipophilic organochlorines (OCs) in the blood of fasting High Arctic common eiders (Somateria mollissima) during incubation. Polychlorinated ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Most patients with advanced malignancies are treated with severely toxic, first-line chemotherapies. Personalized treatment strategies have led to improved patient outcomes and could replace one-size-fits-all therapies, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract
Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a rare B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder of the bone marrow, manifested by autoimmune hemolytic anemia caused by binding of monoclonal IgM autoantibodies to the I ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract
Objectives
We aimed to discover CpG sites with differential DNA methylation in peripheral blood leukocytes associated with body mass index (BMI) in pregnancy and gestational weight gain (GWG) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector worldwide but faces sustainability challenges that need to be addressed in many ways, including genetic enhancement. Atlantic cod has re-emerged as an aquaculture species and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Gram-negative bacterium Acinetobacter sp. Tol 5 exhibits high adhesiveness to various surfaces of general materials, from hydrophobic plastics to hydrophilic glass and metals, via AtaA, an Acinetobacter trimeric autotransporter ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Poly‐proline II helices are secondary structure motifs frequently found in ligand‐binding sites. They exhibit increased flexibility and solvent exposure compared to the strongly hydrogen‐bonded α‐helices or β‐strands and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Eradicating biofouling from implant surfaces is essential in treating peri-implant infections, as it directly addresses the microbial source for infection and inflammation around dental implants. This controlled laboratory ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Background: Biodegradable poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) (PACA) nanoparticles (NPs) are receiving increasing attention in anti-cancer nanomedicine development not only for targeted cancer chemotherapy, but also for modulation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Low-molecular-weight (LMW) thiols are involved in many processes in all organisms, playing a protective role against reactive species, heavy metals, toxins and antibiotics. Actinobacteria, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract Herbivorous rodents in boreal, alpine and arctic ecosystems are renowned for their multi‐annual population cycles. Researchers have hypothesised that these cycles may result from herbivore–plant interactions in ...
Using camera trapping to estimate small mammal occurrence Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Many species around the world have collapsed, yet only some have recovered. A key question is what happens to populations post collapse. Traditionally, marine fish collapses are linked to overfishing, poor climate, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract Over the last decades, mass mortality events have become increasingly common across taxa with sometimes devastating effects on population biomass. In the aquatic environment, fish are sensitive to mass mortality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Antimicrobial resistance is a major threat to human health and must be approached from a One Health perspective. Use of antimicrobials in animal husbandry can lead to dissemination and persistence of resistance in human ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The Atlantic cod possesses a unique immune system, with an evolutionary loss of key genes crucial for antibody responses to conventional vaccines and combating infectious diseases in other vertebrates. This work found an ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Background
Many pathogens and parasites can infect multiple host species, and the competence of different hosts as pathogen reservoirs is key to understanding their epidemiology. Small mammals are important ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Characterizing the genomes of living organisms increasingly involves extensive use of computational tools for data processing and analysis. During my PhD, I have developed and utilized computational tools to improve our ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Background
Parent-of-origin allele-specific gene expression (ASE) can be detected in interspecies hybrids by virtue of RNA sequence variants between the parental haplotypes. ASE is detectable by differential ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
In the future, pesticide transport and exposure in aquatic environments are expected to be altered by land-use and climate changes. These changes may lead to higher exposure concentrations and changes in agricultural ...
Turning off autophagy: Investigation of the role of TOR and the Ubiquitin Proteasome System. Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
ABSTRACT
Just over two decades ago, Bob Boutilier published a much-cited Review in this journal on the mechanisms of cell survival in hypoxia and hypothermia. Here, we celebrate this important Review by describing ...
The Effect on Mutated Tau Expression in Higher Visual Areas on Visual Discrimination Learning Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Pharmaceuticals are an important part of human pollution. Their use has been linked to several well-known wildlife crises, such as a population collapse of vultures in India and Pakistan, or the feminisation of fish ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Harmful algal blooms can be devastating to local ecosystems as well as have major impacts on economy and aquaculture. Chrysochromulina leadbeateri caused the death of an estimated seven and a half million farmed salmon in ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Research on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in tropical regions is scarce, with most efforts concentrated in the Global North. This disparity is concerning as new contaminants are being synthesized and old contaminants ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A molecular and in planta investigation of the Q-repeat of the A. thaliana transcription factor LRP1
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The three-dimensional organization of chromatin plays a crucial role in gene regulation and cellular processes like deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) transcription, replication and repair. Hi-C and related techniques provide ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The harbour porpoise is one of the most common toothed whales in European waters, with a population of more than 600,000 individuals. Despite their numbers, porpoises are severely threatened by commercial fisheries – they ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Electronic waste is a source of both legacy and emerging flame retardants to the environment, especially in regions where sufficient waste handling systems are lacking. In the present study, we quantified the occurrence ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Healthy insect populations are vital for maintaining natural ecosystems and essential to global food security. The ongoing dramatic loss of insect species and biomass is thus a global cause for concern, with much focus on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Arctic cod biomass are predicted. In most Arctic seas, the relative abundance of Arctic cod within the fish community will likely fluctuate in accordance with cold and warm periods. A reduced abundance of Arctic cod will ...
Transcriptional regulation of histone variants in breast cancer Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis sums up several approaches on how the threespine stickleback are handling salinity changes, both over long time periods, through population genetic and morphometric analysis, and over shorter time periods, by ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis explores the ecological transitions and evolutionary genomics of the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans and related species within the Serpulaceae family. Phylogenetics, evolutionary genomic approaches, as well ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
α-helical coiled-coils are ubiquitous protein structures in all living organisms. For decades, modified coiled-coils sequences have been used in biotechnology, vaccine development, and biochemical research to induce protein ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The proteins in all living organism are composed of 20 primary amino acids. These can be modified by a variety of chemical modifications. One of the most important ones is methylation, which can occur on some of the amino ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Background
Microbial interactions are fundamental for Earth’s ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling. Nevertheless, they are challenging to identify and remain barely known. Omics-based censuses ...
Blood Parasites, Fitness and MHC in the Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Cleaner fish are commonly used as a control measure against salmon lice infestations in salmonid farms. Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) is the most common cleaner fish species used in Norwegian farms. However, little is known ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Repetitive DNA make up a considerable fraction of most eukaryotic genomes. In fish, transposable element (TE) activity has coincided with rapid species diversification. Here, we annotated the repetitive content in 100 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Cell immobilization is an important technique for efficiently utilizing whole-cell biocatalysts. We previously invented a method for bacterial cell immobilization using AtaA, a trimeric autotransporter adhesin from the ...
Molecular Interaction of Heat-Labile Enterotoxin B-pentamer with Lipopolysaccharides Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) forårsaker alvorlig diaré som på verdensbasis dreper millioner av mennesker hvert år. Bakteriens virulensfaktor er det varmelabile enterotoksinet (LT), nært beslektet til koleratoksinet ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Innovative point-of-care (PoC) diagnostic platforms are desirable to surpass the deficiencies of conventional laboratory diagnostic methods for bacterial infections and to tackle the growing antimicrobial resistance crisis. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Lyme borreliosis, the most common vector‐borne disease in Europe and North America, is attracting growing concern due to its expanding geographic range. The growth in incidence and geographic spread is largely ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a group of closely linked loci that play an important role in the immune system within all jawed vertebrates, and it has been shown to yield a higher fitness with an intermediate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract The reproductive success of marine ectotherms is especially vulnerable in warming oceans due to alterations in adult physiology, as well as embryonic and larval survival prospects. These vital responses may, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
1. Surveillance of wildlife diseases poses considerable logistical challenges compared to that of humans or livestock. Citizen science can enable broader coverage, but building an efficient disease monitoring system that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including brominated flame retardants (BFRs), perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and metals, can accumulate in marine mammals and be transferred to offspring. In this study, we analyzed ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Seabird populations worldwide have been declining dramatically over the last decades as a result of a range of environmental and anthropogenic stressors. Nevertheless, management of threatened seabirds is arguably hampered ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract After stone tools, bone tools are the most abundant artefact type in the Early Pleistocene archaeological record. That said, they are still relatively scarce, which limits our understanding of the behaviours that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The field of ancient DNA (aDNA) typically uses between 50 and 200 mg of minimum input weight of bone material for the extraction of DNA from archaeological remains. While laboratory and analysis techniques have focused on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The management of infectious wildlife diseases often involves tackling pathogens that infect multiple host species. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that can infect most cervid species. CWD was detected in ...
EFFECTS OF EARLY LIFE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON ENDOCRINE AND CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY IN ATLANTIC SALMON Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Glacial cycles play important roles in determining the phylogeographic structure of terrestrial species, however, relatively little is known about their impacts on the distribution of marine biota. This study ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Sustainable fishery practices require accurate predictions of fish recruitment—the abundance of a new year class entering a fishery. A key driver of recruitment is the impact predator-prey dynamics experienced ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The complete mitogenome of the Atlantic spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus spinosus) was generated using the PacBio Sequel II HiFi sequencing platform. The mitogenome assembly has a length of 19,281 bp and contains 13 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Context The Complementary Habitat Hypothesis posits that animals access resources for different needs by moving between complementary habitats that can be seen as ‘resource composites’. These movements can occur over a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A growing need for food is causing increased interest for seaweed farming globally. This requires knowledge of the industry’s effects on the marine environment. We therefore aimed to explore the communities hosted by a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Cytotoxic and pro-inflammatory effects of endotoxincontaminated PET microplastic on human lung epithelial and neutrophil-like cells Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are of growing concern due to their widespread presence and persistence in the environment, including occupational settings. These particles could potentially cause harmful health effects in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The role of GCN2 in prostate cancer Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Although bacterial thioredoxin reductase-like ferredoxin/flavodoxin NAD(P)+ oxidoreductases (FNRs) are similar in terms of primary sequences and structures, they participate in diverse biological processes by catalyzing a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Wood decomposing fungi differ in their substrate affinities, but to what extent factors like wood properties influence host specialization, compared to climate, is largely unknown. In this study, we analysed British field ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Climate change has had a major impact on seasonal weather patterns, resulting in marked phenological changes in a wide range of taxa. However, empirical studies of how changes in seasonality impact the emergence and seasonal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data, we compared movements and road avoidance of ...
Characterizing the role of transcriptional cyclin-dependent kinases, CDK12 and CDK13 in regulating RNA Polymerase II phosphorylation and cell cycle Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Et essensielt tema innen økologi er at oppfostring av avkom hos mange arter krever tilgang på betydelige ressurser og at fødselstidspunktet synkroniseres for å treffe toppen til ressurstilgangen i sesongmessige miljøer. ...
Steering of SARS-CoV-2 Spike to different APC receptors will polarize immune formation in mice to different types Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has to date resulted in almost 7 million deaths worldwide and a much higher number of hospitalizations. Thanks to a global collective dedication and understanding of the need, new and efficient ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In this study I compared the detection sensitivity of qPCR and DNA-metabarcoding for lamprey in 45 locations, with two samples collected from each location. I compared if the samples were positive or negative for lamprey ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The European eel has a complex life history. They are widely distributed in Europe and northern Africa, but panmictic, meaning that co-management across the entire distributional range is of vital importance. In Norway, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Browning of Fennoscandian boreal lakes is raising concerns for negative ecosystem impacts as well as reduced drinking water quality. Declined sulfur deposition and warmer climate, along with afforestation, other climate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Phylogenetic studies and species delimitation in the genus Drimiopsis in East Africa Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This project contributes to the knowledge of the phylogeny and morphology of Drimiopsis, with special emphasis on the species D. maculata, D. botryoides and D. sp. A. The latter is a provisional name used in a previous ...