The AFBI Repository: Recent submissions

  • Achievable agricultural soil carbon sequestration across Europe from country-specific estimates 
    Rodrigues, Leonor; Hardy, Brieuc; Huyghebeart, Bruno; Fohrafellner, Julia; Fornara, Dario; Barancikova, Gabriela; Barcena, Teresa G.; De Boever, Maarten; Di Bene, Claudia; Feiziene, Dalia; Kaetterer, Thomas; Laszlo, Peter; O'Sullivan, Lilian; Seitz, Daria; Leifeld, Jens (Wiley, 2021-09-20)
    The role of soils in the global carbon cycle and in reducing GHG emissions from agriculture has been increasingly acknowledged. The ‘4 per 1000’ (4p1000) initiative has become a prominent action plan for climate change ...
  • Emergence of Salmonid Alphavirus Genotype 2 in Norway—Molecular Characterization of Viral Strains Circulating in Norway and Scotland 
    Hjortaas, Monika J.; Fringuelli, Elena; Monjane, Aderito L.; Mikalsen, Aase B.; Jonassen, Christine M.; Savage, Paul D. (MDPI, 2021-08-06)
    Pancreas disease (PD) and sleeping disease (SD), caused by an alphavirus, are endemic in European salmonid aquaculture, causing significant mortality, reduced growth and poor flesh quality. In 2010, a new variant of salmonid ...
  • Identifying the drivers and constraints to adoption of IPM amongst arable farmers in UK and Ireland. 
    Creissen, Henry E.; Jones, Philip J.; Tranter, Richard B.; Girling, Robbie D.; Jess, Stephen; Burnett, Fiona J.; Gaffney, Michael; Thorne, Fiona S.; Kildea, Steven (Wiley, 2021-05-02)
    BACKGROUND Arable crops in temperate climatic regions such as the UK and Ireland are subject to a multitude of pests (weeds, diseases and vertebrate/invertebrate pests) that can negatively impact productivity if not ...
  • Evidence of non-extractable florfenicol residues: The development and validation of a confirmatory method for total florfenicol content in kidney by UPLC-MS/MS 
    Faulkner, Dermot V.; Cantley, Lynne M.; Walker, Matthew; Crooks, Steven (Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-20)
    The parent compound florfenicol (FF) is a broad-spectrum antibacterial compound licensed in the UK for use in cattle, pigs and the aquaculture industry. The analysis of porcine tissues in this study demonstrates that ...
  • Timescale of reduction of long-term phosphorus release from sediment in lakes 
    Rippey, Brian; Campbell, Julie; McElarney, Yvonne; Thompson, James; Gallagher, Mary (Elsevier, 2021-05-25)
    It is important for lake management and policy to estimate the timescale of recovery from long-term P release from sediment after a reduction in the external load. To provide a scientific basis for this, a condensed model ...
  • Phenotypic plasticity masks range-wide genetic differentiation for vegetative but not reproductive traits in a short-lived plant 
    Villellas, Jesus; Ehrlén, Johan; Crone, Elizabeth E.; Csergő, Anna Mária; Garcia, Maria B.; Laine, Anna-Liisa; Roach, Deborah A.; Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; Wardle, Glenda M.; Childs, Dylan Z.; Elderd, Bret D.; Finn, Alain; Munné-Bosch, Sergi; Bachelot, Benedicte; Bódis, Judit; Bucharova, Anna; Caruso, Christina M.; Catford, Jane A.; Coghill, Matthew; Compagnoni, Aldo; Duncan, Richard P.; Dwyer, John M.; Ferguson, Aryana; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Griffoul, Emily; Groenteman, Ronny; Hamre, Liv Norunn; Helm, Aveliina; Kelly, Ruth; Laanisto, Lauri; Lonati, Michele; Münzbergová, Zuzana; Nuche, Paloma; Olsen, Siri Lie; Oprea, Adrian; Pärtel, Meelis; Petry, William K.; Ramula, Satu; Rasmussen, Pil U.; Enri, Simone Ravetto; Roeder, Anna; Roscher, Christiane; Schultz, Cheryl; Skarpaas, Olav; Smith, Annabel L.; Tack, Ayco J.M.; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Vesk, Peter A.; Vose, Gregory E.; Wandrag, Elizabeth; Wingler, Astrid; Buckley, Yvonne M. (Wiley, 2021-08-05)
    Genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity jointly shape intraspecific trait variation, but their roles differ among traits. In short-lived plants, reproductive traits may be more genetically determined due to ...
  • Small Non-coding RNA Expression Following Respiratory Syncytial Virus or Measles Virus Infection of Neuronal Cells 
    Bakre, Abhijeet A.; Duffy, Catherine; Abdullah, Hani’ah; Cosby, S. Louise; Tripp, Ralph A. (Frontiers Media, 2012-09-03)
    Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or measles virus (MeV) infection modifies host responses through small non-coding RNA (sncRNA) expression. We show that RSV or MeV infection of neuronal cells induces sncRNAs including ...
  • Diagnosis of sheep fasciolosis caused by Fasciola hepatica using cathepsin L enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) 
    Lopez Corrales, Jesús; Cwiklinski, Krystyna; De Marco Verissimo, Carolina; Dorey, Amber; Lalor, Richard; Jewhurst, Heather; McEvoy, Amanda; Diskin, Michael; Duffy, Catherine; Cosby, S. Louise; Keane, Orla M.; Dalton, John Pius (Elsevier, 2021-07-06)
    Fasciolosis, a global parasitic disease of agricultural livestock, is caused by the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica. Management and strategic control of fasciolosis on farms depends on early assessment of the extent of ...
  • Badger territoriality maintained despite disturbance of major road construction 
    Gaughran, Aoibheann; Mullen, Enda; MacWhite, Teresa; Maher, Peter; Kelly, David J.; Kelly, Ruth; Good, Margaret; Marples, Nicola M. (PLOS ( Public Library of Science), 2021-09-03)
    Road ecology has traditionally focused on the impact of in-situ and functional roads on wildlife. However, road construction also poses a major, yet understudied, threat and the implications for key aspects of animal ...
  • The long-term response of lake nutrient and chlorophyll concentrations to changes in nutrient loading in Ireland's largest lake, Lough Neagh 
    McElarney, Yvonne; Rippey, Brian; Miller, Claire; Allen, Michelle; Unwin, Antony (Royal Irish Academy, 2021-04-29)
    The long-term response of chlorophyll-a (chl-a) to changing lake water nutrient concentrations and increasing water temperature was investigated in Lough Neagh, a large, hypereutrophic lake in Northern Ireland. Trends ...
  • 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.; 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 ...
  • Energy requirements of beef cattle: current energy systems and factors influencing energy requirements for maintenancea 
    Cabezas-Garcia, Edward H.; Lowe, Denise; Lively, Francis O. (MDPI, 2021-06-01)
    The present review compared features of the UK system for predicting energy requirements in beef cattle with a number of feeding systems developed from research institutes consortiums around the world. In addition, energy ...
  • Effect of increasing the time between slurry application and first rainfall event on phosphorus concentrations in runoff 
    O'Rourke, Sharon M.; Foy, Robert H.; Watson, Catherine J.; Gordon, Alan Wesley; Higgins, Suzanne; Vadas, Peter A. (Wiley, 2021-07-12)
    Minimizing slurry phosphorus (P) losses in runoff requires careful management in the context of both soil P surpluses and changing patterns in rainfall. Increasing the time interval between slurry application and the first ...
  • Grass silage composition and nutritive value on Northern Ireland farms between 1998 and 2017 
    Patterson, John; Sahle, Biruk; Gordon, Alan Wesley; Archer, John E.; Yan, Tianhai; Grant, Nicholas William; Ferris, Conrad P. (Wiley, 2021-05)
    Grass silage is the predominant conserved forage offered to ruminant livestock within Northern Ireland (NI) when housed. This study involved the analysis of a dataset (n = 76,452 samples) comprising silage samples from ...
  • Laser methane detector-based quantification of methane emissions from indoor-fed Fogera dairy cows 
    Kobayashi, Nobuyuki; Hou, Fujiang; Tsunekawa, Atsushi; Yan, Tianhai; Tegegne, Firew; Tassew, Asaminew; Mekuriaw, Yeshambel; Mekuriaw, Shigdaf; Hunegnaw, Beyadglign; Mekonnen, Wondimeneh; Ichinohe, Toshiyoshi (AAAP, 2021-01-01)
    Objective: Portable laser methane detectors (LMDs) may be an economical means of estimating CH4 emissions from ruminants. We validated an LMD-based approach and then used that approach to evaluate CH4 emissions from ...
  • A new phylodynamic model of Mycobacterium bovis transmission in a multi-host system uncovers the role of the unobserved reservoir 
    O'Hare, Anthony; Balaz, Daniel; Wright, David M.; McCormick, Carl; McDowell, Stanley W.J.; Trewby, Hannah; Skuce, Robin A.; Kao, Rowland r. (Public Library of Science, 2021-06-25)
    For single host pathogens, pathogen genetic data have been transformative for understanding the transmission and control of many diseases, particuarly rapidly evolving RNA viruses. However garnering similar insights where ...
  • Contributions of tenderness, juiciness and flavor liking to overall liking of beef in Europe 
    Liu, Jingjing; Ellies-Oury, Marie-Pierre; Chriki, Sghaier; Legrand, Isabelle; Pogorzelski, Grzegorz; Wierzbicki, Jerzy; Farmer, Linda J.; Troy, Declan; Polkinghorne, Rod; Hocquette, Jean-Francois (Elsevier, 2020-05-19)
    This study evaluated the contributions of sensory traits to overall liking in Europe. Perceptions by untrained consumers of tenderness, juiciness, flavor liking and overall liking were determined using the Meat Standards ...
  • Bio-Fabrication of Human Amniotic Membrane Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and the Wet/Dry HAM Dressing Membrane for Wound Healing 
    Ramasamy, Palaniappan; Krishnakumar, Ramachandran; Rekha, Ravichandran; Vaseeharan, Baskaralingam; Saraswathi, K.; Raj, Mohan; Hanna, Robert E.B.; Brennan, Gerard P.; Dayanithi, Govindan; Vijayakumar, Sekar (Frontiers Media, 2021-07-28)
    The preparation of unique wet and dry wound dressing products derived from unprocessed human amniotic membrane (UP-HAM) is described. The UP-HAM was decellularized, and the constituent proteins were cross-linked and ...
  • The Promise, Practice, and State of Planning Tools to Assess Site Vulnerability to Runoff Phosphorus Loss 
    Kleinman, P.J.; Sharpley, A.N.; Buda, A.R.; Easton, Z.M.; Lory, J.A.; Osmond, D.L.; Radcliffe, D.E.; Nelson, N.O.; Veith, T.L.; Doody, Donnacha (Wiley, 2017-11-01)
    Over the past 20 yr, there has been a proliferation of phosphorus (P) site assessment tools for nutrient management planning, particularly in the United States. The 19 papers that make up this special section on P site ...
  • Bioinformatic Analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni Type VI Secretion System and Effector Prediction 
    Robinson, Luca; Liaw, Janie; Omole, Zahra; Xia, Dong; van Vliet, Arnoud H.M.; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae; Hachani, Abderrahman; Gundogdu, Ozan (Frontiers Media, 2021-06-29)
    The Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) has important roles relating to bacterial antagonism, subversion of host cells, and niche colonisation. Campylobacter jejuni is one of the leading bacterial causes of human gastroenteritis ...