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Increase in oxidative stress levels following welding fume inhalation: a cont...
Abstract Background Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding represents one of the most widely used metal joining processes in industry. It has been shown to generate a large majority... -
Inbreeding and runs of homozygosity before and after genomic selection in Nor...
Abstract Background While autozygosity as a consequence of selection is well understood, there is limited information on the ability of different methods to measure true... -
Extra-pair paternity and antiparasitic defence
Abstract Background Extra-pair paternity (EPP) in birds provides benefits in terms of more offspring, and characteristics for maintenance of this behaviour have been the subject... -
Synergistic toxicity in an in vivo model of neurodegeneration through the co-...
Abstract Although it has been suggested that the co-expression of multiple pathological proteins associated with neurodegeneration may act synergistically to induce more... -
Archaic mitochondrial DNA inserts in modern day nuclear genomes
Abstract Background Traces of interbreeding of Neanderthals and Denisovans with modern humans in the form of archaic DNA have been detected in the genomes of present-day human...