Chasing Biodiversity Off the Scientific and Conservation Tracks by Donald S. Maier

“…Identification of conservation with biodiversity conservation owes extensively to the idea that warrant for biodiversity's conservation is anchored in the empirical thesis that biodiversity causally determines ecosystem functioning, and thereby, somehow, important ecosystem services. …”
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Feature-Based Classification of Amino Acid Substitutions outside Conserved Functional Protein Domains by Branislava Gemovic, Vladimir Perovic, Sanja Glisic, Nevena Veljkovic

“…There are more than 500 amino acid substitutions in each human genome, and bioinformatics tools irreplaceably contribute to determination of their functional effects. We have developed feature-based algorithm for the detection of mutations outside conserved functional domains (CFDs) and compared its classification efficacy with the most commonly used phylogeny-based tools, PolyPhen-2 and SIFT. …”
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Conserved function of the HAUS6 calponin homology domain in anchoring augmin for microtubule branching by Martin Würtz, Giulia Tonon, Bram J. A. Vermeulen, Maja Zezlina, Qi Gao, Annett Neuner, Angelika Seidl, Melanie König, Maximilian Harkenthal, Sebastian Eustermann, Sylvia Erhardt, Fabio Lolicato, Elmar Schiebel, Stefan Pfeffer

“…Comparative sequence and functional analyses in vitro and in vivo reveal a highly conserved functional role of the HAUS6 CH domain in microtubule binding. …”
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Stone-walled terraces restoration: conserving biodiversity and promoting economic functions of farmlands in Lebanon by Alessio Martinoli, Pedro Regato, Farah Abdel Samad, Lara Kanso, Nijad Saed Eddine, Mirko Panichi, Alessandra Gagliardi, Lina Sarkis, Nizar Hani

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Functional conservation and divergence of arabidopsis VENOSA4 and human SAMHD1 in DNA repair by Raquel Sarmiento-Mañús, Sara Fontcuberta-Cervera, Kensuke Kawade, Akira Oikawa, Hirokazu Tsukaya, Víctor Quesada, José Luis Micol, María Rosa Ponce

“…Our study thus reveals functional conservation in DNA repair by VEN4 and SAMHD1.…”
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Functional divergence of conserved developmental plasticity genes between two distantly related nematodes by Sara Wighard, Hanh Witte, Ralf J. Sommer

“…Abstract Genes diverge in form and function in multiple ways over time; they can be conserved, acquire new roles, or eventually be lost. …”
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Highly conserved ion binding sites are not all functionally relevant in mouse KCC4 by Lisa Becker, Jens Hausmann, Rieke Wellpott, Anna-Maria Hartmann, Anna-Maria Hartmann

“…Three out of five residues (N131, Y216, and T432) are functionally relevant for potassium coordination. For chloride coordination in Cl1, all three residues (G134, V135, and I136) are important, whereas three out of four residues (G433, M435, and Y589) are relevant for chloride binding in Cl2. …”
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Adapting the concept of functionally dominant species for observational data by Audréanne Loiselle, Raphaël Proulx, Stéphanie Pellerin

“…Conservation ecologists often rely on surrogate species to identify biodiversity hotspots due to the high cost of monitoring programs. …”
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Arabahmet Neighbourhood: Historical Process and Current Protection, Use and Function Cycle by özge KIRMIZI

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Ecological portraits: Mapping functional spectra and space characteristics of birds in China by Fei Duan, Ming Gao, Shuyi Zhu, Xiaoli Shen, Sheng Li

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Divergent dimerization mechanisms and conserved DNA-binding function in PFam12 proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi by Kalvis Brangulis, Dagnija Tupina, Everita Elina Sinicina, Diana Zelencova-Gopejenko, Inara Akopjana, Janis Bogans, Kaspars Tars

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Conserved functional features of natural killer cell subsets in chicken, human, and murine immune systems by Seung Je Woo, Jaeryeong Kim, Hong Jo Lee, Kyung Youn Lee, Kyung Je Park, Jin-Kyoo Kim, Jin Lee Kim, Byung Chul Park, Minseok Seo, Jae Yong Han

“…While Natural killer (NK) cells' functions are conserved in humans and mice at the single-cell level, they remain unexplored in chickens due to technical limitations. …”
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Conservation laws that depend on functions and PDE reduction: Extending Noether $1\tfrac {1}{2}$ by Peter E. Hydon, John R. King

“…This paper develops methods for simplifying systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) that have families of conservation laws which depend on arbitrary functions of the independent or dependent variables. …”
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Water Conservation Service Assessment and Its Spatiotemporal Features in National Key Ecological Function Zones by Jun Zhai, Yuping Liu, Peng Hou, Tong Xiao, Guangzhen Cao

“…In order to improve ecosystem service and protect nation ecology security, the government had designated lots of important ecosystem service protection areas, named national key ecological function zones (NKEFZ) in China. Water conservation service had been assessed with the help of multisource remote sensing data, and spatiotemporal features were analyzed from 2000 to 2014 in these ecological services zones. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Evolution Pattern of Water Conservation Function of Ningxia Province and Its Attribution Analysis by WANG Peng, MA Yilun, CHENG Jing, XU Mingxiang, SU Shengliang, PU Yong, HAN Lei, YANG Fang

“…The change of water conservation function in Ningxia was not sustainable, and would face the risk of degradation in the future. …”
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The function of the conserved regulatory element within the second intron of the mammalian Csf1r locus. by Kristin A Sauter, M Amine Bouhlel, Julie O'Neal, David P Sester, Hiromi Tagoh, Richard M Ingram, Clare Pridans, Constanze Bonifer, David A Hume

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A functional analysis of 180 cancer cell lines reveals conserved intrinsic metabolic programs by Sarah Cherkaoui, Stephan Durot, Jenna Bradley, Susan Critchlow, Sebastien Dubuis, Mauro Miguel Masiero, Rebekka Wegmann, Berend Snijder, Alaa Othman, Claus Bendtsen, Nicola Zamboni

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A reporter assay in lamprey embryos reveals both functional conservation and elaboration of vertebrate enhancers. by Hugo J Parker, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Marianne Bronner, Greg Elgar

“…In this report, we describe the development of a transient transgenesis method for lamprey embryos. Focusing on conserved non-coding elements (CNEs), we use this method to investigate their functional conservation across the vertebrate subphylum. …”
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On non-conservative perturbations of three-dimensional integrable systems by Morozov, Kirill Евгеньевич

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A conserved protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTPN-22, functions in diverse developmental processes in C. elegans. by Shaonil Binti, Adison G Linder, Philip T Edeen, David S Fay

“…Here we identify novel functions for the conserved C. elegans phosphatase PTPN-22, establishing its role in nematode molting, cell adhesion, and cytoskeletal regulation. …”
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