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Connectomes, APOE, Age, Sex, and Diet in Mouse Models of Aging
<p>Brain networks and covariates for mouse models of aging. Includes APOE22/33/44 with and without HN, age, sex, and diet.</p> <p>Files:</p> <p>- connectomes.rda: a tensor of symmetric adjacency matrices corresponding to brain networks.</p> <p>- mice.rda: a dataframe containing mouse covariates.</p> <p>- mouse_anatomy.csv: a table containing scientific names for each brain region in connectomes.rda.</p>
DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats
<p>Inferences of the interactions between species’ ecological niches and spatial distribution have been historically based on simple metrics such as low-resolution dietary breadth and range size, which might have impeded the identification of meaningful links between niche features and spatial patterns. We analysed the relationship between dietary niche breadth and spatial distribution features of European bats, by combining continent-wide DNA metabarcoding of faecal samples with species distribution modelling. Our results show that while range size is not correlated with dietary features of bats, the homogeneity of the spatial distribution of species exhibits a strong correlation with dietary breadth. We also found that dietary breadth is correlated with bats’ hunting flexibility. However, these two patterns only stand when the phylogenetic relations between prey are accounted for when measuring dietary breadth. Our results suggest that the capacity to exploit different prey types enables species to thrive in more distinct environments and therefore exhibit more homogeneous distributions within their ranges.</p>
Data for: Predicting age and mass at maturity from feeding behavior and diet in M. sexta: An empirical test of a life history model
<p>Feeding for most animals involves bouts of active ingestion alternating with bouts of no ingestion. In insects, the temporal patterning of bouts varies widely with resource quality and is known to affect growth, development time, and fitness. However, the precise impacts of resource quality and feeding behavior on insect life history traits is poorly understood. To explore and better understand the connections between feeding behavior, resource quality and insect life history traits, we combined laboratory experiments with a recently proposed mechanistic model of insect growth and development for a larval herbivore, <em>Manduca sexta</em>. We ran feeding trials for 4<sup>th</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup> instar larvae across different diet types (two hostplants and artificial diet) and used these data to parameterize a joint model of age and mass at maturity that incorporates both insect feeding behavior and hormonal activity. We found that the estimated durations of both feeding and non-feeding bouts were significantly shorter on low- than on high-quality diets. We then explored how well the fitted model predicted historical out-of-sample data on age and mass of <em>M</em>.<em> sexta</em>. We found that the model accurately described qualitative outcomes for the out-of-sample data, notably that a low-quality diet results in reduced mass and later age at maturity compared to high-quality diets. Our results clearly demonstrate the importance of diet quality on multiple components of insect feeding behavior (feeding and non-feeding), and partially validate a joint model of insect life history. We discuss the implications of these findings with respect to insect herbivory and discuss ways in which our model could be improved or extended to other systems.</p>
Spatio-temporal variation in diet among age and sex cohorts of a model generalist bird species, the Great Tit Parus major: new insights revealed by DNA metabarcoding
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Data for: Predicting age and mass at maturity from feeding behavior and diet in M. sexta: An empirical test of a life history model
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Dynamics of leaching of POPs and additives from plastic in a Procellariiform gastric model: Diet and polymer dependent effects and implications for long-term exposure
<p>Procellariiform seabirds are known to have high rates of plastic ingestion. We investigated the bioaccessibility of plastic-associated chemicals [plastic additives and sorbed persistent organic pollutants (POPs)] leached from plastic over time using an in vitro Procellariiform gastric model. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), commonly ingested by Procellariiform seabirds, were manufactured with one additive [decabrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE-209) or bisphenol S (BPS)]. HDPE and PVC added with PBDE-209 were additionally incubated in salt water with 2,4,4'-trichloro-1,1'-biphenyl (PCB-28) and 2,2',3,4,4',5'-hexachlorobiphenyl (PCB-138) to simulate sorption of POPs on plastic in the marine environment. Our results indicate that the type of plastic (nature of polymer and additive), presence of food (i.e., lipids and proteins) and gastric secretions (i.e., pepsin) influence the leaching of chemicals in a seabird. In addition, 100% of the sorbed POPs were leached from the plastic within 100 hours, while only 2-5% of the additives were leached from the matrix within 100 hours, suggesting that the remaining 95% of the additives could continue to be leached. Overall, our study illustrates how plastic type, diet and plastic retention time can influence a Procellariform's exposure risk to plastic-associated chemicals.</p>
Data and code to replicate: Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie
<p>Diet analysis integrates a wide variety of visual, chemical and biological identification of prey. Samples are often treated as compositional data, where each prey is analyzed as a continuous percentage of the total. However, analyzing compositional data results in analytical challenges, e.g., highly parameterized models or prior transformation of data. Here, we present a novel approximation involving a Tweedie generalized linear model (GLM). We first review how this approximation emerges from considering predator foraging as a thinned and marked point process (with marks representing prey species and individual prey size). This derivation can motivate future theoretical and applied developments. We then provide a practical tutorial for the Tweedie GLM using new package <i>mvtweedie</i> that extends capabilities of widely used packages in R (<i>mgcv</i> and <i>ggplot2</i>) by transforming output to calculate prey compositions. We demonstrate this approach and software using two examples. Tufted puffins (<i>Fratercula cirrhata</i>) provisioning their chicks on a colony in the northern Gulf of Alaska show decadal prey switching among sand lance and prowfish (1980-2000) and then Pacific herring and capelin (2000-2020), while wolves (<i>Canis lupus ligoni</i>) in Southeast Alaska forage on mountain goats and marmots in northern uplands and marine mammals in seaward island coastlines. </p>
Proccessed Data for the Pipelines of the Project "Multiomics and quantitative modelling disentangle diet, host, and microbiota contributions to the host metabolome"
<p><strong>Proccessed and Input Data for the Pipelines of the Project "Multiomics and quantitative modelling disentangle diet, host, and microbiota contributions to the host metabolome"</strong></p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>Folder /ProcessedData/metabolomics/ contains processed metabolomics data from the project:</p> <p>/metabolomics/metabolites_allions_combined_norm_intensity.csv - file containing normalized intensities of ions detected across tissues with six measurement methods.<br> /metabolomics/metabolites_allions_combined_formulas_with_metabolite_filters_spatial100clusters_with_mean.csv - file containing metabolite attribution to spatial clusters and mean intensity values across tissues and conditions.</p> <p>Other files are described in README_ProcessedData.md.</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>Folder /ProcessedData/sequencing/ contains raw and normalized counts of metagenomics and metatransriptomics data mapped to bacterial genomes.</p> <p>Folder /ProccessedData/util/ contains files used for data preprocessing and attribution to chemical classes and pathways.</p> <p>Folder /ProcessedData/example_output/ contains example output of the pipelines:</p> <p>/output/model_results_SMOOTH_raw_2LIcoefHost1LIcoefbact_allions.csv - file containing estimated model parameters (intestinal flux and metabolic flux values) for the forward problem for metabolomics measurements in the GIT.<br> /output/model_results_SMOOTH_normbyabsmax_reciprocal_problem_allions.csv - file containing estimated model parameters for the reverse problem (metabolite intensities) for the parameters estimated with the forward problem.<br> /output/model_results_SMOOTH_normbyabsmax_2LIcoefHost1LIcoefbact_allions.csv - file containing estimated model parameters (intestinal flux and metabolic flux values) for the forward problem for metabolomics measurements in the GIT, normalized by absolute maximum value.<br> /output/model_results_SMOOTH_normbyabsmax_ONLYMETCOEF_2LIcoefHost1LIcoefbact_allions.csv - file containing estimated model parameters (only metabolic flux values) for the forward problem for metabolomics measurements in the GIT, normalized by absolute maximum value.<br> /output/table_hierarchical_clustering_groups.csv - file containing attribution of the annotated metabolites to groups according to hierarchical clustering of the normalized model parameters.<br> /output/cgo_clustergrams_of_model_coefficients.mat - matlab object containing clustergram of the normalized model parameters and manually derived sub-clustergrams corresponding to different largest parameter values.</p> <p>Description of other files is provided in the file README_ProcessedData.md.</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>Folder /InputData/ contains HMDB and KEGG tables used for metabolite annotations and chemical group analysis.</p> <p>Folder InputData_KEGGreaction_path contains matlab files with metabolite-metabolite paths calculated from KEGG reaction-pair information (Each matrix contains a subset of paths). These files are used by the script workflow_extract_keggECpathes_for_SPpairs_final.m.</p> <p>Folder InputData_metabolomics_data contains raw metabolomics data from six methods (three LC columns: C08, C18 and HILIC, and positive and negative acquisition modes) and file tissue_weights.txt with tissue weight information used for normalization.</p> <p>Folder InputData_sequencing_data contains folders ballgown_DNA and ballgown_RNA with results of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data analysis (raw counts, GetMM normalized counts, EdgeR and DeSeq2 analysis). </p> <p>Description of folders is provided in the file readme_InputData.md.</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
Diet quality impairs male and female reproductive performance and affects the opportunity for selection in an insect model
<p><span>Environmental factors can have profound effects on the strength and direction of selection and recent studies suggest that such environment-dependent selection can be sex-specific. Sexual selection theory predicts that male fitness is more condition dependent compared to female fitness, suggesting that male fitness is more sensitive to environmental stress. However, our knowledge about the effect of environmental factors on sex-specific reproductive performance and on sex differences in the opportunity for selection is still very limited. In the present study, we investigated the sex-specific effects of diet quality (yeast deprivation and flour type) in the red flour beetle <em>Tribolium castaneum</em>. Specifically, we manipulated yeast supplementation in wheat and whole-wheat flour in competition assays allowing to test for sex-specific effects of food quality (i) on reproductive success and (ii) on the opportunity for selection. Our data show that yeast deprivation in wheat flour had significantly negative effects on body mass and reproductive success of both sexes, while high quality flour (whole-wheat flour) was able to buffer the negative impact to a large extent. Importantly, our data suggest no sex-specific effect of dietary stress on reproductive success because the magnitude of the negative effect of yeast deprivation was similar for males and females. Moreover, our study demonstrates that low food quality inflated the opportunity for selection and did not differ between sexes neither under benign nor stressful dietary conditions. We discuss the implications of our findings for the adaptation to stressful environments.</span></p>
Diet quality impairs male and female reproductive performance and affects the opportunity for selection in an insect model
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Data and code to replicate: Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie
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Gradients in richness and turnover of a forest passerine’s diet prior to breeding: a mixed model approach applied to faecal metabarcoding data
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Gut alterations in a chronic kidney disease rat model with diet-induced vascular calcification
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Dynamics of leaching of POPs and additives from plastic in a Procellariiform gastric model: Diet and polymer dependent effects and implications for long-term exposure
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Bayesian stable isotope mixing models effectively characterize the diet of an Arctic raptor
<p>1. Bayesian stable isotope mixing models (BSIMMs) for δ13C and δ15N can be a useful tool to reconstruct diets, characterize trophic relationships, and assess spatiotemporal variation in food webs. However, use of this approach typically requires a priori knowledge on the level of enrichment occurring between the diet and tissue of the consumer being sampled (i.e., a trophic discrimination factor or TDF).</p> <p>2. TDFs derived from captive feeding studies are highly variable, and it is challenging to select the appropriate TDF for diet estimation in wild populations. We introduce a novel method for estimating TDFs in a wild population: a proportionally balanced equation that uses high-precision diet estimates from nest cameras installed on a subset of nests in lieu of a controlled feeding study (TDFCAM).</p> <p>3. We tested the ability of BSIMMs to characterize diet in a free-living population of gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) nestlings by comparing model output to high-precision nest camera diet estimates. We analyzed the performance of models formulated with a TDFCAM against other relevant TDFs and assessed model sensitivity to an informative prior. We applied the most parsimonious model inputs to a larger sample to analyze broad-scale temporal dietary trends.</p> <p>4. BSIMMs fitted with a TDFCAM and uninformative prior had the best agreement with nest camera data, outperforming TDFs derived from captive feeding studies. BSIMMs produced with a TDFCAM produced reliable diet estimates at the nest level and accurately identified significant temporal shifts in gyrfalcon diet within and between years.</p> <p>5. Our method of TDF estimation produced more accurate estimates of TDFs in a wild population than traditional approaches, consequently improving BSIMM diet estimates. We demonstrate how BSIMMs can complement a high-precision diet study by expanding its spatiotemporal scope of inference and recommend this integrative methodology as a powerful tool for future trophic studies. </p>
Evaluating Bayesian stable isotope mixing models of wild animal diet and the effects of trophic discrimination factors and informative priors
<blockquote> <p>1. Ecologists quantify animal diets using direct and indirect methods, including analysis of faeces, pellets, prey items and gut contents. For stable isotope analyses of diet, Bayesian stable isotope mixing models (BSIMMs) are increasingly used to infer the relative importance of food sources to consumers. Although a powerful approach, it has been hard to test BSIMM performance for wild animals because precise, direct dietary data are difficult to collect.<br> 2. We evaluated the performance of BSIMMs in quantifying animal diets when using δ13C and δ15N stable isotope ratios from the feathers and red blood cells of common buzzard Buteo buteo chicks. We analysed mixing model outcomes with various trophic discrimination factors (TDFs), with and without informative priors, and compared these to direct observations of prey provisioned to chicks by adults at nests, using remote cameras. <br> 3. Although BSIMMs with different TDFs varied markedly in their performance, the statistical package SIDER generated TDFs for both feathers and blood that resulted in model outputs that accorded well with direct observations of prey provisioning. Using feather TDFs derived from captive peregrines Falco peregrinus resulted in estimates of diet composition that were also similar to provisioned prey, though blood TDFs from the same study performed poorly. The inclusion of informative priors, based on conventional analysis of pellet and prey remains, markedly reduced model performance.<br> 4. BSIMMs can provide accurate assessments of diet in wild animals. TDF estimates from the SIDER package performed well. The inclusion of informative priors from conventional methods in Bayesian mixing models can transfer biases into model outcomes, leading to erroneous results.</p> </blockquote>
Data from: Are cranial biomechanical simulation data linked to known diets in extant taxa? A method for applying diet-biomechanics linkage models to infer feeding capability of extinct species
Performance of the masticatory system directly influences feeding and survival, so adaptive hypotheses often are proposed to explain craniodental evolution via functional morphology changes. However, the prevalence of "many-to-one" association of cranial forms and functions in vertebrates suggests a complex interplay of ecological and evolutionary histories, resulting in redundant morphology-diet linkages. Here we examine the link between cranial biomechanical properties for taxa with different dietary preferences in crown clade Carnivora, the most diverse clade of carnivorous mammals. We test whether hypercarnivores and generalists can be distinguished based on cranial mechanical simulation models, and how such diet-biomechanics linkages relate to morphology. Comparative finite element and geometric morphometrics analyses document that predicted bite force is positively allometric relative to skull strain energy; this is achieved in part by increased stiffness in larger skull models and shape changes that resist deformation and displacement. Size-standardized strain energy levels do not reflect feeding preferences; instead, caniform models have higher strain energy than feliform models. This caniform-feliform split is reinforced by a sensitivity analysis using published models for six additional taxa. Nevertheless, combined bite force-strain energy curves distinguish hypercarnivorous versus generalist feeders. These findings indicate that the link between cranial biomechanical properties and carnivoran feeding preference can be clearly defined and characterized, despite phylogenetic and allometric effects. Application of this diet-biomechanics linkage model to an analysis of an extinct stem carnivoramorphan and an outgroup creodont species provides biomechanical evidence for the evolution of taxa into distinct hypercarnivorous and generalist feeding styles prior to the appearance of crown carnivoran clades with similar feeding preferences.
Therapeutic Potential of Nigella sativa Extract against Inflammatory Markers Interleukin-1ß (IL-1ß) and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) in Rat Models with High Fat Diet
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Supplementary Data for the Project Multiomics and quantitative modelling disentangle diet, host, and microbiota contributions to the host metabolome
<p><strong>Supplementary Tables for the Project "Multiomics and quantitative modelling disentangle diet, host, and microbiota contributions to the host metabolome"</strong></p> <p>Supplementary Table 1. List of 18 genome-sequenced human gut bacteria with metabolic characteristics that were used for community assembly.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 2. Diet composition.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 3. Species relative abundance.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 4. Gene abundance and expression changes.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 5. Gene pathway enrichment results.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 6. Metabolomics data.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 7. Metabolite fold changes, clustering and model parameters.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 8. Description of the intestinal flux model.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 9. Enzymatic paths between substrates and products.</p> <p>Supplementary Table 10. Pearson's correlation coefficients between potential substrates and products, and metagenomics and metatranscriptomic measurements.</p>
The effect of dietary supplementation with blueberry, cyanidin-3-O-β-glucoside, yoghurt and its peptides on gene expression associated with glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle obtained from a high-fat-high-carbohydrate diet induced obesity model
<p><span>Obesity is a leading global health problem contributing to various chronic diseases, including type II diabetes mellitus</span> <span>(T2DM). The aim of this study was to investigate whether blueberries, yoghurt, and their respective bioactive components, Cyanidin-3-O-β-glucoside (C3G) and peptides alone or in combinations, alter the expression of genes related to glucose metabolism in skeletal muscles from diet-induced obese mice. In extensor digitorum longus (EDL), yoghurt up-regulated the expression of activation of 5'adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK), insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1), phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K) and glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4), and down-regulated the expression of angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AGTR-1). The combination of blueberries and yoghurt down-regulated the mRNA expression of AGTR-1 and Forkhead box protein O1 (FoxO1) in the EDL. Whereas the combination of C3G and peptides down-regulated AGTR-1 and up-regulated GLUT4 mRNA expression in the EDL. In the soleus, blueberries and yoghurt alone, and their combination down-regulated AGTR-1 and up-regulated GLUT4 mRNA expression. In summary blueberries and yoghurt, regulated multiple genes associated with glucose metabolism in skeletal muscles, and therefore may play a role in the management and prevention of T2DM.</span></p>
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