R. Furrer

Divergence Between Clinician and Patient Perspectives on Polygenic Embryo Screening: A Qualitative Study

This study compares clinician and patient perspectives on polygenic embryo screening, finding divergent views on its use and ethical implications.

Terrestrial land cover shapes fish diversity in major subtropical rivers

The paper links terrestrial land cover changes to fish diversity in a subtropical river catchment, showing LULC effects up to 20 km upstream and explaining 60% of species richness variance.

Molecular control of endurance training adaptation in mouse skeletal muscle

The paper identifies molecular changes in mouse skeletal muscle due to endurance training and shows how training status affects transcriptional and proteomic responses to acute exercise.

Prey speed up, predators slow down: non-consumptive effects on movement behavior of a ciliate predator-prey pair

The paper examines non-consumptive and resource-availability effects on movement behavior in the ciliate predator-prey pair Didinium nasutum and Paramecium caudatum, showing predators slow down and prey speed up in response to each other.

Distinct and additive effects of calorie restriction and rapamycin in aging skeletal muscle

This study shows that calorie restriction and rapamycin have distinct and additive effects on aging skeletal muscle gene expression and function in mice.

rasterdiv - an Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: to the origin and back

The paper introduces an R package called rasterdiv for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity using remotely sensed data and demonstrates its application in revealing hidden heterogeneity patterns.

Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism is Regulated by ERRα in Primary Human Myotubes and is Further Impaired by Glucose Loading in Type 2 Diabetes

This study shows that type 2 diabetes impairs BCAA catabolism, which is regulated by ERRα via PGC-1 in human myotubes, and glucose loading worsens this impairment.

Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution

This paper introduces a method to generate optimal channel networks (OCNs) and provides an R-package, OCNet, for their application in ecological and evolutionary studies.