• Screening method for the detection of residues of amphenicol antibiotics in bovine milk by optical biosensor 

  Thompson, Colin; Traynor, Imelda; Fodey, Terence; Barnes, Paul; Faulkner, Dermot; Crooks, Steven (Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-10)

  An immunobiosensor assay was developed for multi-residue screening in bovine milk of the parent amphenicols, thiamphenicol and florfenicol, along with the metabolite florfenicol amine. A polyclonal antibody raised in a ...
• Elucidation of the Host Bronchial Lymph Node miRNA Transcriptome Response to Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus 

  Johnston, Dayle; Earley, Bernadette; McCabe, Matthew S.; Kim, Jaewoo; Taylor, Jeremy F.; Lemon, Ken; McMenamy, Michael; Duffy, Catherine; Cosby, S. Louise; Waters, Sinéad M. (Frontiers Media, 2021-04-22)

  Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) causes substantial morbidity and mortality, affecting cattle of all ages. One of the main causes of BRD is an initial inflammatory response to bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV). ...
• The state of the world’s urban ecosystems: What can we learn from trees, fungi, and bees? 

  Stevenson, Philip C.; Bidartondo, Martin I.; Blackhall-Miles, Robert; Cavagnaro, Timothy R.; Cooper, Amanda; Geslin, Benoît; Koch, Hauke; Lee, Mark A.; Moat, Justin; O’Hanlon, Richard; Sjöman, Henrik; Sofo, Adriano; Stara, Kalliopi; Suz, Laura M. (Wiley, 2020-09-29)

  Social Impact Statement: Positive interactions between people and nature inspire behaviours that are in harmony with biodiversity conservation and also afford physical and mental health benefits. Since most people live ...
• Detection and characterization of chicken astrovirus associated with hatchery disease in commercial day‑old turkeys in southwestern Nigeria 

  Adebiyi, Adebowale I.; Mcilwaine, Kerry; Oluwayelu, Daniel O.; Smyth, Victoria J. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-03-23)

  Infectious diseases are a major obstacle to profitable poultry production in Nigeria due to the mortality and severe economic losses they cause. In particular, they are a potent threat to attainment of the food security ...
• ATAC-Seq identifies regions of open chromatin in the bronchial lymph nodes of dairy calves experimentally challenged with bovine respiratory syncytial virus 

  Johnston, Dayle; JaeWoo, Kim; Taylor, Jeremy F.; Earley, Bernadette; McCabe, Matthew S.; Lemon, Ken; Duffy, Catherine; McMenamy, Michael; Cosby, S. Louise; Waters, Sinéad M. (BMC (Springer nature), 2021-01-06)

  Background: Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV) is a cause of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD). DNA-based biomarkers contributing to BRD resistance are potentially present in non-protein-coding regulatory regions ...
• A Bayesian analysis of a Test and Vaccinate or Remove study to control bovine tuberculosis in badgers (Meles meles) 

  Arnold, Mark E.; Courcier, Emily A.; Stringer, Lesley A.; McCormick, Carl M.; Pascual-Linaza, Ana V.; Collins, Shane F.; Trimble, Nigel A.; Ford, Tom; Thompson, Suzan; Corbett, David; Menzies, Frazer D. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-01-28)

  A novel five year Test and Vaccinate or Remove (TVR) wildlife research intervention project in badgers (Meles meles) commenced in 2014 in a 100km2 area of Northern Ireland. It aimed to increase the evidence base around ...
• Does Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. bovis survival in the environment confound bovine tuberculosis control and eradication? A literature review 

  Allen, Adrian; Ford, Tom; Skuce, Robin A. (Hindawi, 2021-02-05)

  Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one of the globe’s most common, multihost zoonoses and results in substantial socioeconomic costs for governments, farming industries, and tax payers. Despite decades of surveillance and ...
• Dysbiosis in the Development of Type I Diabetes and Associated Complications: From Mechanisms to Targeted Gut Microbes Manipulation Therapies 

  Pircalabioru, Gratiela Gradisteanu; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae; Gundogdu, Ozan; Chifiriuc, Mariana-Carmen; Marutescu, Luminita Gabriela; Ispas, Bogden; Savu, Octavian (MDPI, 2021-03)

  Globally, we are facing a worrying increase in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) incidence, with onset at younger age shedding light on the need to better understand the mechanisms of disease and step-up prevention. Given ...
• Development of polymorphic markers in the immune gene complex loci of cattle 

  Bakshy, K.; Heimeier, D.; Schwartz, J.C.; Glass, E.J.; Wilkinson, S.; Skuce, Robin A.; Allen, Adrian; Young, J.; McClure, J.C.; Cole, J.B.; Null, D.J.; Hammond, J.A.; Smith, T.P.L.; Bickhart, D.M. (Elsevier, 2021-03-06)

  The addition of cattle health and immunity traits to genomic selection indices holds promise to increase individual animal longevity and productivity, and decrease economic losses from disease. However, highly variable ...
• Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale 

  Kelly, Ruth; Healy, Kevin; Anand, Madhur; Baudraz, Maude E. A.; Bahn, Michael; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Cornelissen, Johannes H. C.; Dwyer, John M.; Jackson, Andrew L.; Kattge, Jens; Niinemets, Ülo; Penuelas, Josep; Pierce, Simon; Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; Buckley, Yvonne M. (John Wiley & Sons, 2021-02-27)

  Life history strategies are fundamental to the ecology and evolution of organisms and are 2 important for understanding extinction risk and responses to global change. Using global 3 datasets and a multiple response modelling ...
• The First Whole Genome Sequence and Characterisation of Avian Nephritis Virus Genotype 3 

  Lagan Tregaskis, Paula; Devaney, Ryan; Smyth, Victoria (MDPI, 2021-02-03)

  Avian nephritis virus (ANV) is classified in the Avastroviridae family with disease associations with nephritis, uneven flock growth and runting stunting syndrome (RSS) in chicken and turkey flocks, and other avian ...
• Co-infection status of novel parvovirus’s (PPV2 to 4) with porcine circovirus 2 in porcine respiratory disease complex and porcine circovirus-associated disease from 1997 to 2012 

  Lagan Tregaskis, Paula; Staines, Anthony; Gordon, Alan; Sheridan, Pauline; McMenamy, Michael; Duffy, Catherine; Collins, P. J.; Mooney, Mark H.; Lemon, Ken (Wiley, 2020-10-18)

  As global pig health diseases, porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) and porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) generate substantial economic losses despite pigs been vaccinated against the primary causative ...
• Pestivirus Apparent Prevalence in Sheep and Goats in Northern Ireland: A Serological Survey 

  Campbell, Emma; McConville, James; Clarke, Joe; Donaghy, Aoibheann; Moyce, Asa; Byrne, Andrew W.; Verner, Sharon; Strain, Sam; McKeown, Ignatius M.; Borne, Paul; Guelbenzu-Gonzalo, Maria (British Veterinary Association, 2021-01-12)

  Background: Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) and border disease virus (BDV) can cause significant health problems in ruminants and economic impacts for farmers. The aim of this study was to evaluate pestivirus exposure ...
• Editorial: Developments in Campylobacter, Helicobacter & Related Organisms Research – CHRO 2019 

  Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (Frontiers Media, 2021-01-08)
• Effect of space allowance and mixing on growth performance and body lesions of grower-finisher pigs in pens with a single wet-dry feeder 

  Camp Montoro, Jordi; Boyle, Laura Ann; Sola-Oriol, David; Muns, Ramon; Gasa, Josep; Garcia Manzanilla, Edgar (Springer Science and Business Media, 2021-01-06)

  Background: Low space allowance (SA) and mixing may result in reduced growth performance (GP) and animal welfare issues because of adverse social behaviours directed to pen mates. This could be exacerbated in pens ...
• Challenges and Opportunities for Management of Crop and Tree Diseases in Northern Ireland 

  Rao, Juluri R.; Moore, John; Martin, Trevor; Nelson, David; Fleming, Colin (Scholars.Direct, 2020-10-24)

  Phytopathogens have beleaguered the island of Ireland since the 19th century great famine caused by the potato blight oomycete, Phytophthora infestans and in recent times by cohorts of serious bacterial wilt diseases such ...
• The effect of natural antimicrobials against Campylobacter spp. and its similarities to Salmonella spp, Listeria spp., Escherichia coli, Vibrio spp., Clostridium spp. and Staphylococcus spp. 

  Balta, Igori; Linton, W. Mark R.; Pinkerton, Laurette; Kelly, Carmel A.; Stef, Lavinia; Pet, Ioan; Stef, Ducu; Criste, Adriana; Gundogdu, Ozan; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (Elsevier, 2020-11-13)

  The increased resistance of campylobacters to antibiotics required the identification and isolation of novel antimicrobials able to inhibit its virulence, to cause less or no resistance and display no host toxicity. Acquiring ...
• Impact of endophyte inoculation on the morphological identity of cultivars of Lolium perenne (L) and Festuca arundinacea (Schreb.) 

  Patterson, John; Lafaillette, F.; Woster, S.; Roulund, N.; Charrier, S.; Gilliland, T.J. (Nature Research, 2020-05-07)

  Grass endophytes have been shown to confer enhanced environmental resilience to symbiont cultivars with reports of modified growth. If inoculating with an endophyte (E+) made an accession morphologically distinct from its ...
• Microbiological assessments in a cut flower crop polytunnel field trial adopting soil covering and microbiocides for Fusarium wilt suppression 

  Rao, Juluri R.; Nelson, David W.V.A.; Fleming, Colin Craig; Martin, Trevor J.G. (Europa Publishing, 2020-09-04)

  Cut flower Matthiola incana were raised by local commercial cultivators in a polytunnel. The field soil beds were either left uncovered as normal or covered with polythene sheets (except a hole for plant plug space). ...
• Farm Diversification: Drivers, Barriers and Future Growth Potential 

  Jack, Claire; Ashfield, Austen; Adenuga, Adewale; Mullan, Conall (Wiley, on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society and the European Association of Agricultural Economists, 2020-10)

  Family farm businesses throughout Europe are facing new economic, environmental and social challenges. In order to deliver a more resilient primary agriculture sector national and regional governments are identifying ...

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