BioSS Publications 2005-06
Methodology
Bierman, S. , Elston, D.A. , Lambin, X., Fairbairn, J.P., Tidhar, D. & Petty, S.J. 2006. Changes over time in the spatiotemporal dynamics of field voles ( Microtus agrestis L.). American Naturalist 167 , 583-590.
Brewer, M.J. , Filipe, J.A.N., Elston, D.A. , Dawson , L.A. , Mayes, R.W., Soulsby, C. & Dunn, S.M. 2005. A hierarchical model for compositional data analysis. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 10 , 19-34.
Coe, J.B. & Mao, X. 2005. Gompertz mortality law and scaling behavior of the Penna model. Physical Review E 72 , 051925.
Durban , J.W. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Mark-recapture with occasion and individual effects: abundance estimation through Bayesian model selection in a fixed dimensional parameter space. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 10 , 291-305.
Durban , J.W., Elston, D.A. , Ellifrit, D.K., Dickson, E., Hammond , P.S. & Thompson, P.M. 2005. Multisite mark-recaupture for cetaceans: population estimates with Bayesian model averaging. Marine Mammal Science 21 , 80-92.
Gibson, G., Otten, W., Filipe, J.A.N., Cook, A. , Marion , G. & Gilligan , C.A. 2006. Bayesian estimation for percolation models of disease spread in plant populations. Statistics and Computing 16 , 391-402.
Glasbey , C.A. 2006. Warping of electrophoresis gels using generalisations of dynamic programming. In Interdisciplinary Statistics and Bioinformatics , Eds. S. Barber, P.D. Baxter, K.V. Mardia and R.E. Walls, 71-74. Leeds University Press, Leeds .
Glasbey , C.A. & Khondoker, M.R. 2005. Correction for pixel censoring in cDNA microarrays. In Statistical Solutions to Modern Problems: Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling , Eds. A.R. Francis, K.M. Matawie, A. Oshlack, G.K. Smyth, 17-31. University of Western Australia , Sydney , Australia .
Glasbey , C.A. , Vali, L. & Gustafsson, J.S. 2005. A statistical model for unwarping of 1-D electrophoresis gels. Electrophoresis 26 , 4237-4242.
Holtrop, G. , Petrie, J., McElhiney, J. & Dennison, N. 2006. Can general anaesthesia be used for the Paralytic Shellfish Poison bioassay? Toxicon 47 , 336-347.
Horgan, G.W. 2005. Interpretation of two-stage experiments. Laboratory Animals 39 , 75-79.
Horgan, G.W. 2005. Optimising two-dye microarray designs for estimation. Journal of Biotechnology 118 , 1-8.
Horgan, G.W. & Ball, B.C. 2005. Modelling the effect of water distribution and hysteresis on air-filled pore space. European Journal of Soil Science 56 , 647-654.
Horgan, G.W. , Travis, A.J. & Liang, J. 2005. Automatic recognition of maize cell types using context information. Micron 36 , 163-167.
Hudson , I. , Keatley, M. & Roberts, A.M.I. 2005. Statistical methods in phenological research. In Statistical Solutions to Modern Problems: Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling , Eds. A.R. Francis, K.M. Matawie, A. Oshlack, G.K. Smyth, 259-270. University of Western Sydney , Sydney , Australia .
Husmeier, D. 2005. Discriminating between rate heterogeneity and interspecific recombination in DNA sequence alignments with phylogenetic factorial hidden Markov models. Bioinformatics 21 , ii166-ii172.
Husmeier, D. 2006. Detecting mosaic structures in DNA sequence alignments. In Biomathematics: Modelling and Simulation , Eds. Misra, J.C. 1-35, ISBN 981-238-110-4. World Scientific, London .
Husmeier, D. & Wright, F. 2005. Detecting recombination in DNA sequence alignments. In Probabilistic Modeling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics , Eds. Husmeier, D., Dybowski, R. & Roberts, S., 147-190. Springer Verlag.
Husmeier, D. , Wright, F. & Milne, I. 2005. Detecting interspecific recombination with a pruned probabilistic divergence measure. Bioinformatics 21 , 1797-1806.
Kedzierska, A. & Husmeier, D. 2006. A heuristic Bayesian method for segmenting DNA sequence alignments and detecting evidence for recombination and gene conversion. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 , Article 27.
Khondoker, M.R. , Glasbey , C.A. & Worton, B.J. 2006. Statistical estimation of gene expression using multiple laser scans of microarrays. Bioinformatics 22 , 215-219.
Krishnarajah, I. , Cook, A. , Marion , G. & Gibson, G. 2005. Novel moment closure approximations in stochastic epidemics. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 67 , 855-873.
Kühn, I., Bierman, S. , Durka, W. & Klotz, S. 2006. Relating geographical variation in pollination types to environmental and spatial factors using novel statistical methods. New Phytologist 72 , 127 - 139.
Lehrach, W.P. , Husmeier, D. & Williams, C.K.I. 2006. A regularized discriminative model for the prediction of protein-peptide interactions. Bioinformatics 22 , 532-540.
Lehrach, W.P. , Husmeier, D. & Williams, C.K.I. 2006. Probabilistic in silico prediction of protein-peptide interactions. In Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics , Eds. Eskin E., Ideker T., Raphael B. and Workman C, 188-197. Springer Verlag, San Diego, USA.
Marion, G. , Swain, D.L. & Hutchings, M.R. 2005. Understanding foraging behaviour in spatialy heterogenous environments. Journal of Theoretical Biology 232 , 127-142.
Mayer, C-D. & Glasbey, C.A. 2005. Statistical methods in microarray data analysis. In Probabilistic Modelling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics , Eds. D. Husmeier, R. Dybowski and S. Roberts, 211-238. Springer Verlag, London.
Paulo, M.J., van der Voet, H., Wood, J.C. , Marion, G. & van Klaveren, J.D. 2006. Analysis of multivariate extreme intakes of food chemicals. Food and Chemical Toxicology 44 , 994-1005.
Sims, M. , Wanless, S., Harris, M.P., Mitchell, I. & Elston, D.A. 2006. Evaluating the power of monitoring plot designs for detecting long-term trends in the numbers of common guillemots. Journal of Applied Ecology 43 , 537-546.
Small, M., Tse, C.K. & Walker, D.M. 2006. Super-spreaders and the rate of transmission of the SARS virus. Physica D 215 , 146-158.
Theobald, C.M. , Roberts, A.M.I. , Talbot, M. & Spink, J.H. 2006. Estimation of economically optimum seed rates for winter wheat from series of trials. Journal of Agricultural Science 144 , 303-316.
Walker, D.M. 2006. Parameter estimation using Kalman filters with constraints. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 16 , 1067-1078.
Walker, D.M. & Marion, G. 2006. Selecting nonlinear stochastic process rate models using information criteria. Physica D 213 , 190-196.
Walker, D.M. , Perez-Barberia, F.J. & Marion, G. 2006. Stochastic modelling of ecological processes using hybrid Gibbs samplers. Ecological Modelling 198 , 40-52.
Walker, D.M. & Small, M. 2006. Detecting unstable fixed points using Kalman filters with constraints. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I 53 , 2818-2827.
Webster, R., Welham, S.J., Potts, J.M. & Oliver, M.A. 2006. Estimating the spatial scales of regionalized variables by nested sampling, hierarchical analysis of variance and residual maximum likelihood. Computers and Geosciences 32 , 1320-1333.
Werhli, A.V. , Grzegorczyk, M., Chiang, M.T. & Husmeier, D. 2006. Improved Gibbs sampling for detecting mosaic structures in DNA sequence alignments. In Statistics in Genomics and Proteomics , Eds. Urfer W. and Turkman M. A, 23-34. Centro Internacional de Matematica, Coimbra, Portugal.
Werhli, A.V. , Grzegorczyk, M. & Husmeier, D. 2006. Comparative evaluation of reverse engineering gene regulatory networks with relevance networks, graphical Gaussian models and Bayesian networks. Bioinformatics 22 , 2523-2531.
Wood, J.C. , McKendrick, I.J. & Gettinby, G. 2006. A simulation model for the study of the within-animal infection dynamics of E. coli O157. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 74 , 180-193.
Wood, J.C. , McKendrick, I.J. & Gettinby, G. 2006. Assessing the efficacy of within-animal control strategies against E. coli O157: a simulation study. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 74 , 194-211.
Wood, J.C. , Spiers, D.C., Naylor, S.W., Gettinby, G. & McKendrick, I.J. 2006. A continuum model of the within-animal population dynamics of E. coli O157. Journal of Biological Systems 14 , 425-443.
Wood, M. , Jolliffe, I. & Horgan, G.W. 2005. Variable selection for discriminant analysis of fish sounds. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 10 , 321-336.
Plant Science
Begg, G.S., Hockaday, S., McNicol, J.W. , Askew, M. & Squire, G.R. 2006. Modelling the persistence of volunteer oilseed rape ( Brassica napus ). Ecological Modelling 198 , 195-207.
Bradshaw, J.E., Hackett , C.A. , Lowe, R., McLean, K., Stewart, H.E., Tierney, I. , Vilaro, M. & Bryan, G.J. 2006. Detection of a quantitative trait locus for both foliage and tuber resistance to late blight [ Phytophthora infestans ( Mont. ) de Bary] on chromosome 4 of a dihaploid potato clone ( Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum ). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 113 , 943-951.
Druka, A., Muehlbauer, G., Druka, I., Caldo, R., Baumann, U., Rostoks, N., Schreiber, A., Wise, R., Close, T., Kleinhofs, A., Graner, A., Schulman, A., Langridge, P., Sato, K., Hayes, P., McNicol, J.W. , Marshall, D. & Waugh, R. 2006. An atlas of gene expression from seed to seed through barley development. Functional Integrated Genomics 6 , 202-211.
Graham, J., Smith, K., Tierney, I., MacKenzie, K. & Hackett , C.A. 2006. Mapping gene H controlling cane pubescence in raspberry and its association with resistance to cane botrytis and spur blight, rust and cane spot. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 112 , 818-831.
Griffiths , B.S., Caul, S., Thompson, J., Birch, A.N.E., Scrimgeour, C.M., Cortet, J., Foggo, A., Hackett , C.A. & Krogh, P.H. 2006. Soil microbial and faunal community responses to Bt maize and insecticide in two soils. Journal of Environmental Quality 35 , 734-741.
Lehesranta, S.J., Davies, H.V., Shepherd, L.V.T., Koistinen, K.M., Massat, N. , Nunan , N.M. , McNicol, J.W. & Kärenlampi, S.O. 2006. Proteomic analysis of the potato tuber life cycle. Proteomics 6 , 6042-6052.
Lehesranta, S.J., Davies, H.V., Shepherd, L.V.T., Nunan , N.M. , McNicol, J.W. & Koistinen, K.M. 2005. Comparison of tuber proteomes of potato ( Solanum sp. ) varieties, landraces and genetically modified lines. Plant Physiology 138 , 1690-1699.
Liu, Z., Bos, J.I.B., Armstrong, M., Whisson , S.C. , da Cunha, L., Torto-Alalibo, T., Win, J., Avrova, A.V., Wright, F. , Birch, P.R.J. & Kamoun, S. 2005. Patterns of diversifying selection in the phytotoxin-like scr74 gene family of Phytophthora infestans . Molecular Biology and Evolution 22 , 659-672.
Nevo, E., Beharav, A., Meyer, R.C., Hackett , C.A. , Forster, B.P., Russell, J.R. & Powell, W. 2005. Genomic microsatellite adaptive divergence of wild barley by microclimatic stress in ' Evolution Canyon ', Israel . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 , 205-224.
Shepherd, L.V.T., McNicol, J.W. , Razzo, R., Taylor, M.A. & Davies, H.V. 2006. Assessing the potential for unintended effects in genetically modified potatoes perturbed in metabolic and developmental processes. Transgenic Research 15 , 409-425.
Tuomainen, M.H., Nunan , N.M. , Lehesranta, S.J., Tervahauta, A.I., Hassinen, V.H., Schat, H., Auriola, S., McNicol, J.W. & Kärenlampi, S.O. 2006. Multivariate analysis of protein profiles of metal hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens accessions. Proteomics 6 , 3696-3706.
Waugh, R., Rostoks, N., MacKenzie, K. , Milne, L., Svensson, J.T., Bhat, P., Stein, N., Varshney, R.K., Marshall, D., Graner, A. & Close, T.J. 2006. Recent history of artificial outcrossing facilitates whole-genome association mapping in elite inbred crop varieties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103 , 18656-18661.
Winfield, M., Lloyd, D., Griffiths, W., Bradshaw, J.E., Muir, D., Nevison, I.M. & Bryan, G.J. 2005. Assessing organoleptic attributes of Solanum tuberosum and S. phureja potatoes. Aspects of Applied Biology 76 , 127-135.
Woodhead, M., Russell, J.R., Squirrell, J., Habeshaw, D., MacKenzie, K. , Gale, M.D. & Powell, W. 2005. Comparative analysis of population genetic structure in Athyrium distentifolium (Pteridophyta) using AFLPs and SSRs from anonymous and transcribed gene regions. Molecular Ecology 14 , 1681-1695.
Wright, K.M., Wood, N., Roberts, A.G., Chapman, S., Boevink, P., MacKenzie, K. & Oparka, K.J. 2006. Targeting of the TMV movement protein to plasmodesmata requires the actin/ER network - evidence from FRAP. Traffic 8 , 21-31.
Animal Health & Welfare
Bailey, T.C., Carvalho, M.S., Lapa, T.M., Souza, W.V. & Brewer, M.J. 2005. Modeling of under-detection of cases in disease surveillance. Annals of Epidemiology 15 , 335-343.
Bartley, P.M., Wright, S.E., Sales, J. , Chianini, F., Buxton, D.A. & Innes, E.A. 2006. Long-term passage of tachyzoites in tissue culture can attenuate virulence of Neospora caninum in vivo . Parasitology 133 , 421-432.
Fontaine, M.C., Baird, G.D., Connor, K.M., Rudge, K., Sales, J. & Donachie, W. 2006. Vaccination confers significant protection of sheep against infection with a virulent United Kingdom strain of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis . Vaccine 24 , 5986-5996.
Halliday, J., Chase-Topping, M.E., Pearce, M.C., McKendrick, I.J. , Allison, L., Fenlon, D., Low, J.C., Mellor, D.J., Gunn, G.J. & Woolhouse, M.E.J. 2006. Herd-level risk factors associated with the presence of Phage type 21/28 E.coli O157 on Scottish cattle farms. BioMed Central Microbiology 6 , 99.
Johnson, D.R., Sales, J. & Matthews, J.B. 2005. Local cytokine responses in Dictyocaulus viviparus infection. Veterinary Parasitology 128 , 309-318.
Judge, J., Kyriazakis, I. , Greig, A., Allcroft, D.J. & Hutchings, M.R. 2005. Clustering of Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis in rabbits and the environmeht: how hot is a hot spot? Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 , 6033-6038.
Livingstone, M., Entrican, G., Wattegedera, S., Buxton, D.A., McKendrick, I.J. & Longbottom, D. 2005. Antibody responses to recombinant protein fragments of the Major Outer Membrane Protein and Polymorphic Outer Membrane Protein POMP90 in Chlamydophila abortus infected pregnant sheep. Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 12 , 770-777.
Logue, D.N., Offer, J.E. & Brocklehurst, S. 2006. Animal health impacts of early lactation management: the effect on lameness. UK Vet Livestock 11 .
Low, A.S., Dziva, F., Torres, A.G., Martinez , J.L., Rosser, T., Naylor, S.W., Spears, K.J., Holden, N., Mahajan, A., Findlay , J., Sales, J. , Smith, D.G.E., Low, J.C., Stevens, M.P. & Gally, D.L. 2006. Cloning, expression and characterisation of a fimbrial operon, F9, from enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Infection and Immunity 74 , 2233-44.
Low, J.C., McKendrick, I.J. , McKechnie, C., Fenlon, D., Naylor, S.W., Currie, C., Smith, D.G.E., Allison, L. & Gally, D.L. 2005. Rectal carriage of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 in slaughtered cattle. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 , 93-97.
Matthews, L., McKendrick, I.J. , Ternent, H., Gunn, G.J. & Woolhouse, M.E.J. 2006. Super-shedding cattle and the transmission dynamics of Escherichia coli O157. Epidemiology and Infection 134 , 131-142.
Milne, E., Crawshaw, W.M., Brocklehurst, S. , Wright, S.E., Maley, S.W. & Innes, E.A. 2006. Associations between Neospora caninum specific antibodies in serum and milk in two dairy herds in Scotland . Preventive Veterinary Medicine 77 , 31-47.
Navajas, E., Glasbey, C.A. , McLean, K.A., Fisher, A.V., Charteris, A.J.L., Lambe, N.R., Bunger, L. & Simm, G. 2006. In vivo measurements of muscle volume by automatic image analysis of spiral computed tomography scans. Animal Science 82 , 545-553.
Pearce, M.C., Evans, J., McKendrick, I.J. , Smith, A.W., Knight, H.I., Mellor, D.J., Woolhouse, M.E.J., Gunn, G.J. & Low, J.C. 2006. Prevalence and virulence factors of E. coli serogroups O26, O103, O111 and O145 shed by store and finishing cattle in Scotland . Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72 , 653-659.
Rhind, S.M., Kyle, C.E., Riach, D.J. & Duff, E.I. 2006. Effects of nutrition on hormone profiles and patterns of deiodinase activity in the skin and associated patterns of hair follicle activity and moult in cashmere goats. Animal Science 82 , 723-730.
Rhind, S.M., Kyle, C.E., Telfer, G., Duff, E.I. & Smith, A. 2005. Alkyl phenols and diethylhexyl phthalate in tissues of sheep grazing pastures fertilised with sewage sludge or inorganic fertiliser. Environmental Health Perspectives 113 , 447-453.
Sibbald, A.M., Elston, D.A. , Smith, D.J.F. & Erhard, H.W. 2005. A method for assessing the relative sociability of individuals within groups: an example with grazing sheep. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 91 , 57-73.
Rodger, S.M., Maley, S.W., Wright, S.E., Mackellar, A., Wesley, F., Sales, J. & Buxton, D.A. 2006. Role of endogenous transplacental transmission in toxoplasmosis in sheep. Veterinary Record 159 , 768-772.
Rutherford, K.M.D., Haskell, M.J., Glasbey , C.A. & Lawrence , A.B. 2006. The responses of growing pigs to a chronic-intermittent stress treatment. Physiology and Behaviour 89 , 670-680.
Savory, C.J., Kostal, L. & Nevison, I.M. 2006. Circadian variation in heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and EEG of immature broiler breeder chickens in restricted-fed and ad-libitum-fed stakes. British Poultry Science 47 , 599-606.
Scantlebury, M., Harris, S., Allcroft, D.J. & Hutchings, M.R. 2006. Individual trade-offs between nutrition and risk of interspecific transmission of disease by grazing: cows, badger latrines and bovine tuberculosis. Behaviour 143 , 141-158.
Toft, N., Innocent, G.T., McKendrick, I.J. , Ternent, H., Gunn, G.J. & Reid, S. 2005. Spatial distribution of Escherichia coli O157 positive farms in Scotland . Preventive Veterinary Medicine 71 , 45-56.
Urquhart, K.A. & McKendrick, I.J. 2006. Prevalence of "head shooting" and the properties of the wounds in culled wild Scottish red deer . Veterinary Record 159 , 75-79.
Ecology & Environmental Science
Augustin , N.H. , McNicol, J.W. & Marriott , C.A. 2006. Using the truncated Auto-Poisson model for spatially correlated counts of vegetation. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 11 , 1-23.
Barthram, G.T., Duff, E.I. , Elston, D.A. , Griffiths , J.H., Common, T.G. & Marriott , C.A. 2005. Frequency distributions of sward height under sheep grazing. Grass and Forage Science 60 , 4-16.
Barthram, G.T., Elston, D.A. , Griffiths , J.H., Bolton , G.R. & Wright, G.G. 2006. Within-year variation in the vegetative spread of five temperate grasses. Journal of Vegetation Science 17 , 315-322.
Barthram, G.T., Elston, D.A. & Mullins, C.E. 2005. The physical resistance of grass patches to invasion. Plant Ecology 176 , 79-85.
Bayfield, N.G., Conroy, J., Birnie, R.V., Geddes, A., Midgley, J.L., Shucksmith, M.D. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Current awareness, use and perceived priorities for rural databases in Scotland . Land Use Policy 22 , 153-162.
Birnie, R.V., Geddes, A., Bayfield, N.G., Midgley, J.L., Shucksmith, M.D. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Improving the rural data infrastructure of Scotland : an overview. Land Use Policy 22 , 145-152.
Brown, L.E., Hannah, D.M., Milner, A.M., Soulsby, C., Hodson, A.J. & Brewer, M.J. 2006. Water source dynamics in a glacierized alpine catchment (Taillon-Gabiétous, French Pyrénées). Water Resources Research 42 , W08404.
Bruneau, P.M.C., Davidson, D.A., Grieve, I.C., Young, I.M. & Nunan , N.M. 2005. The effects of soil horizons and faunal excrement on bacterial distribution in the surface horizons of an upland grassland soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology .
Bruneau, P.M.C., Davidson, D.A., Grieve, I.C., Young, I.M. & Nunan , N.M. 2005. The effects of soil horizons and faunal excrement on bacterial distribution in an upland grassland soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 52 , 139-144.
Duncan , A.J., Ginane, C., Elston, D.A. , Kunaver, A. & Gordon, I.J. 2006. How do herbivores trade-off the positive and negative consequences of diet selection decisions? Animal Behaviour 71 , 93-99.
Duncan, A.J., Reid, S.A., Thoss, V. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Browse selection in response to simulated seasonal change in diet quality through post-ingestive effects. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31 , 729-744.
Erhard, H.W., Elston, D.A. & Davidson, G.C. 2006. Habituation and extinction in an approach-avoidance test: an example with sheep. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 99 , 132-144.
Evans, D.M., Redpath, S., Elston, D.A. , Evans , S.A. , Mitchell, R.J. & Dennis, P. 2006. To graze or not to graze? Sheep, voles, forestry and nature conservation in the British uplands. Journal of Applied Ecology 43 , 499-505.
Evans, D.M., Redpath, S., Evans , S.A. , Elston, D.A. & Dennis, P. 2005. Livestock grazing affects the egg size of an insectivorous passerine. Biology Letters 1 , 322-325.
Evans, D.M., Redpath, S., Evans , S.A. , Gardner, C.J., Elston, D.A. , Dennis, P. & Pakeman, R.J. 2006. Low intensity, mixed livestock grazing improves the breeding abundance of a common insectivorous passerine. Biology Letters 2 , 636-638.
Gimona, A. & Brewer, M.J. 2006. Local environmental effects and spatial effects in macroecological studies using mapped abundance classes: the case of the rook Corvus frugilegus in Scotland . Journal of Animal Ecology 75 , 1140-1146.
Ginane, C., Duncan , A.J., Young , S.A. , Elston, D.A. & Gordon, I.J. 2005. Herbivore diet selection in response to simulated variation in nutrient rewards and plant secondary compounds. Animal Behaviour 69 , 541-550.
Green, J.J., Dawson , L.A. , Proctor, J., Duff, E.I. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Fine root dynamics in a tropical rain forest is influenced by rainfall. Plant and Soil 276 , 23-32.
Hendry, A.P., Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R., Ford, H.A., Brewer, M.J. & Podos, J. 2006. Possible human impacts on adaptive radiation: beak size bimodality in Darwin 's finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 , 1887-1894.
Iason, G.R., Lennon, J.J., Pakeman, R.J., Thoss, V., Beaton, J.K., Sim, D.A. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Does chemical composition of individual Scots pine trees determine the biodiversity of their associated ground vegetation? Ecology Letters 8 , 364-369.
Lewis, S., Wanless, S., Elston, D.A., Schultz, M.D., Mackley, E., du Toit, M., Underhill, J.G. & Harris, M.P.(2006). Determinants of quality in a long lived colonial species. Journal of Animal Ecology 75, 1304-1312.
MacMillan, D., Leinhoop, N., Potts, J.M. & Philip, L. 2005. New approaches to valuing environmental benefits using contingent valuation. In Environment, Information and Consumer Behaviour , Eds. C.S. Russell and S. Krarup , 249-262. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham .
Midgley, J.L., Shucksmith, M.D., Birnie, R.V., Geddes, A., Bayfield, N.G. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Rural development policy and community data needs in Scotland . Land Use Policy 22 , 163-174.
Nunan , N.M. , Daniell, T.J., Singh, B.K., Papert, A., McNicol, J.W. & Prosser, J.I. 2005. Links between plant and rhizoplane bacterial communities in grassland soils, characterized using molecular techniques. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 , 6748-6792.
Nunan , N.M. , Ritz, K., Rivers, M., Feeney, D.S. & Young, I.M. 2006. Investigating microbial micro-habitat structure using X-ray computed tomography. Geoderma 133 , 398-407.
Nunan, N.M. , Singh, B.K., Reid, E.J., Ord, B.G., Papert, A., Squires, J., Prosser, J.I., Wheatley, R.E., McNicol, J.W. & Millard, P. 2006. Sheep-urine-induced changes in soil microbial community structure. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 56 , 310-320.
Nussey, D.H., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Elston, D.A. , Albon , S.D. & Kruuk, L.E.B. 2005. Phenotypic plasticity in a maternal trait in red deer . Journal of Animal Ecology 74 , 387-396.
Redpath, S., Mougeot, F., Leckie, F.M., Elston, D.A. & Hudson, P.J. 2006. Testing the role of parasites in driving the cyclic population dynamics of a gamebird. Ecology Letters 9 , 410-418.
Roumet, C., Picon-Cochard, C., Dawson , L.A. , Joffre, R., Mayes, R.W., Blanchard, A. & Brewer, M.J. 2006. Quantifying species composition in root mixtures using two methods: NIR spectroscopy and plant wax markers. New Phytologist 170 , 631-638.
Sang, N.S., Birnie, R.V., Geddes, A., Bayfield, N.G., Midgley, J.L., Shucksmith, M.D. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Improving the rural data infrastructure: the problem of addressable spatial units in a rural context. Land Use Policy 22 , 175-186.
Settele, J., Hammen, V., Hulme, P., Karlson, U., Klotz, S., Kotarac, M., Kunin, W., Marion , G. , O'Connor, M., Petanidou, T., Peterson, K., Potts, S., Pritchard, H., Pysek, P., Rounsevell, M., Spangenberg, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Sykes, M., Vighi, M., Zobel, M. & Kuhn, I. 2005. ALARM:Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities, and Economics 14 , 69-72.
Singh, B.K., Munro, S., Reid, E.J., Ord, B.G., Potts, J.M. , Paterson , E. & Millard, P. 2006. Investigating microbial community structure in soils by physiological, biochemical and molecular fingerprinting methods. European Journal of Soil Science 57 , 72-82.
Stien, A., Bjorn, P.A., Heuch, P.A. & Elston, D.A. 2005. Population dynamics of salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis on Atlantic salmon and sea trout. Marine Ecology Progress Series 290 , 263-275.
Human Health & Nutrition
Andersen, H.S., Gambling, L., Holtrop, G. & McArdle, H.J. 2006. Maternal iron deficiency identifies critical windows for growth and cardiovascular development in the rat postimplantation embryo. Journal of Nutrition 136 , 1171-1177.
Belenguer, A., Duncan , S.H., Calder, A.G., Holtrop, G. , Louis, P., Lobley, G.E. & Flint, H.J. 2006. Two routes of metabolic cross-feeding between bifidobacteria and butyrateproducing anaerobes from the human gut. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72 , 3593-3599.
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