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Correlating denitrifying catabolic genes with N2O and N2 emissions from swine slurry composting
By Angnes et al. Abstract - This work evaluated N dynamics that occurs over time within swine slurry composting piles. Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) analyzes were conducted to estimate concentrati… more →
Correlating denitrifying catabolic genes with N2O and N2 emissions from swine slurry composting
wrote 3 hours ago: By Angnes et al. Abstract - This work evaluated N dynamics that occurs over time within swine slurry … more →
Groundnut improvement: use of genetic and genomic tools
wrote 2 months ago: Frontiers - Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), a self-pollinated legume is an important crop cultivate … more →
Porcine colonization of the Americas: a 60k SNP story
wrote 3 months ago: By W Burgos-Paz et al, Heredity Abstract - The pig, Sus scrofa, is a foreign species to the American … more →
Sharing papers
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wrote 3 months ago: Long time I do not write anything here. I think it is time to resurrect this space. Probably, from n … more →
Chicken domestication: an updated perspective based on mitochondrial genomes
wrote 3 months ago: Nature - Domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) fulfill various roles ranging from food and en … more →
Absolute vs relative poverty : what do people think?
wrote 3 months ago: In a recent post on the blog, we presented Martin Ravallion‘s discussion of absolute and relat … more →
The genome of Prunus mume
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wrote 3 months ago: Nature, Qixiang Zhang et al. Abstract - Prunus mume (mei), which was domesticated in China more than … more →
Different poverty lines in different countries: an explanation
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wrote 3 months ago: When a country wants to measure poverty in its population, it first needs to determine who should be … more →
Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution
wrote 4 months ago: Abstract - For 10,000 years pigs and humans have shared a close and complex relationship. From domes … more →
A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change
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wrote 4 months ago: Nature - Evidence is mounting that extinctions are altering key processes important to the productiv … more →
International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations
wrote 4 months ago: Nature - Human activities are causing Earth’s sixth major extinction event—an accelerating decline o … more →
Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization
wrote 4 months ago: Nature - In biophysical terms, humanity has never been moving faster nor further from sustainability … more →
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
wrote 4 months ago: Nature - The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary featu … more →
Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
wrote 4 months ago: Nature – Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one st … more →
Changing Family Structure and Poverty
wrote 5 months ago: It has long been well documented that family structure and poverty are interrelated. The best-known … more →
Rates of v.a.t. and child poverty
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wrote 5 months ago: Many citizens, economists, and policy makers share the view that it is legitimate to intervene in th … more →
Growing Latin American Science
wrote 5 months ago: Science - How can a country rapidly improve its capacity in science, technology, and innovation? Inv … more →
How to measure welfare in multiple dimensions: the case of India
wrote 5 months ago: It is now widely agreed that welfare is a multidimensional concept. That is, welfare does not reduc … more →
The Art of the Abstract
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wrote 6 months ago: I’m one of those old-fashioned types who still gets an email from the arXiv every morning noti … more →
