cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2bvq83bs9
title: InnovAfrica project baseline survey data for Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania

description: A data set was generated thorugh surveys to establish a baseline
 inforamtion for a project entitled "Innovations in Technology,
 Institutional and Extension Approaches towards Sustainable Agriculture and
 enhanced Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (Acronym -
 InnovAfrica)". The InnovAfrica is a consortium of 16 institutions
 comprising five institutions from Europe and eleven institutions from
 Africa and the project was implemented in six countries of eastern and
 southern Africa namely Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa and
 Tanzania from June 2017 to November 2021.
description: The baseline data was collected from 12 pilot sites (2 sites per
 country) with in the first 12 months of the project using structured
 questionnaire. Data was first collected using papper based printed
 questionnaire and later digitalized in KIPUS system (a smart data
 software).
description: There is no restriction to use these data set.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2280gbfh
title: Oral bacteria from a community-based generation study RHINESSA in Bergen, Norway

description: The oral cavity is the main gateway for oral bacteria and their components
 to enter the lungs. Disruption of the oral microbiota due to internal or
 external factors has been associated with respiratory diseases. This
 dataset is used to explore the association between oral bacteria, lung
 function, and lung inflammation in a generally healthy community-based
 generation study RHINESSA in Bergen, Norway. Study-specific metadata can
 be found in respective research articles linked to this dataset.
description: The dataset represents Illumina MiSeq sequenced bacterial 16S
 rRNA (V1-V2 region) amplicons from the gingival fluid samples collected
 during the community-based generation study RHINESSA (www.rhinessa.net) in
 Bergen, Norway. The study cohort included 621 subjects, both adults and
 adolescents, examined in 2014-2015 with questionnaires, interviews, and
 gingival fluid sampling. Gingival fluid was collected
 with sterile paper points (PROTAPER, Jacobsen Dental) from the gingival
 crevice (area between the gingiva crest and the neck of the tooth) at five
 per-protocol predetermined sites in the lower jaw; between the two frontal
 teeth, the left frontal tooth (lateral side), the right frontal tooth
 (lateral side), the left molar number 6 (facing molar 5), and the right
 molar number 6 (facing molar 5). The paper points were frozen immediately
 (at -80°C) after collection in 2 mL Safelock
 Biopur tubes without buffer.
description: The dataset includes (1) Casava 1.8 demultiplexed (paired-end)
 Illumina MiSeq reads for 621 samples (in fastq.gz); (2) metadata file
 (.txt); (3) README file (.txt).
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.547d7wmb4
title: No evidence that relatedness or familiarity modulate male harm in Drosophila melanogaster flies from a wild population

description: Sexual selection frequently promotes the evolution of aggressive
 behaviours that help males compete against their rivals, but which may
 harm females and hamper their fitness. Kin selection theory predicts that
 optimal male-male competition levels can be reduced when competitors are
 more genetically related to each other than to the population average,
 contributing to resolve this sexual conflict. Work in Drosophila
 melanogaster has spearheaded empirical tests of this idea, but
 studies so far have been conducted in lab-adapted populations in
 homogeneous rearing environments that may hamper kin recognition, and used
 highly skewed sex ratios that may fail to reflect average natural
 conditions. Here, we performed a fully factorial design with the aim of
 exploring how rearing environment (i.e. familiarity) and relatedness
 affect male-male aggression, male harassment, and overall male harm levels
 in flies from a wild population of Drosophila melanogaster, under
 more natural conditions. Namely, we: a) manipulated relatedness and
 familiarity so that larvae reared apart were raised in different
 environments, as is common in the wild, and b) studied the effects of
 relatedness and familiarity under average levels of male-male competition
 in the field. We show that, contrary to previous findings, groups of
 unrelated-unfamiliar males were as likely to fight with each other and
 harass females than related-familiar males, and that overall levels of
 male harm to females were similar across treatments. Our results suggest
 that the role of kin selection in modulating sexual conflict is yet
 unclear in Drosophila melanogaster, and call
 for further studies that focus on natural populations and realistic
 socio-sexual and ecological environments.
description: Please refere to README file and methods section in the
 paper.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.95x69p8n6
title: Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea

description: Salt marshes exist at the interface of the marine and the terrestrial
 system. Shore height differences and associated variations in inundation
 frequency result in altered abiotic conditions, plant communities and
 resource input into the belowground system. These factors result in three
 unique zones, the upper salt marsh (USM), the lower salt marsh (LSM) and
 the pioneer zone (PZ). Marine detritus, such as micro- and macroalgae, is
 typically flushed into the PZ daily, with storm surges moving both salt
 marsh detritus and marine detritus into higher salt marsh zones. Microbial
 assemblages are essential for the decomposition of organic matter and have
 been shown to sensitively respond to changes in abiotic conditions, such
 as oxygen supply and salinity. However, temporal and spatial dynamics of
 microbial communities of Wadden Sea salt marshes received little
 attention. We investigated the dynamics of soil microbial communities
 across horizontal (USM, LSM and PZ), vertical (0-5 and 5-10 cm sediment
 depth) and temporal (spring, summer and autumn) scales in the Wadden Sea
 salt marsh of the European North Atlantic coast using phospholipid fatty
 acid (PLFA) analysis. Our results show strong spatial dynamics both among
 salt marsh zones and between sediment depths, but temporal dynamics to be
 only minor. Despite varying in space and time, PLFA markers indicated that
 bacteria generally were the dominant microbial group across salt marsh
 zones and seasons, however, their dominance was most pronounced in the
 USM, whereas fungal biomass peaked in the LSM and algal biomass in the PZ.
 Only algal markers and the stress marker monounsaturated to saturated
 fatty acid ratio responded to seasonality. Overall, therefore the results
 indicate remarkable temporal stability of salt marsh microbial communities
 despite strong variability in abiotic factors.
description: Soil cores were collected along five transects across three
 back-barrier salt marsh zones (USM - upper salt marsh situated
 &gt;35cm above mean high-water level (MHWL), LSM - lower salt marsh
 situated 0-35 cm above MHWL and PZ - pioneer zone situated below MHWL) on
 the Wadden Sea island of Spiekeroog. Sampling took place in April
 (spring), July (summer) and October (autumn) 2019. (For details see
 methods of paper). Per zone and transect one soil core
 was taken (5 cm diameter 10 cm depth), each core was separated into two
 horizons: The upper five centimeters (0-5 cm) and below (5-10 cm). Soil
 cores were sieved and material other than soil removed prior to
 phospholipid fatty acid extraction, each horizon was extracted separately.
 (see methods of paper for details). Phospholipid data
 was calculated as nmol g<sup>-</sup><sup>1
 </sup>
description: Soil phospholipids were separated into marker groups for further
 analysis (see README file).
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18399427
title: Multidimensional Handwriting Data

description: The dataset contains multidimensional handwriting data (3D velocity, grip force, pressure, EMG signals) collected during a handwriting task (6 subjects, 7sessions). Each subject wrote the same set of 190 Chinese characters. These multidimensional handwriting data were used to establish a mapping to the neural signals recorded from a paralyzed subject during imagined writing of the same characters.

Each file includes:

- 3D velocity, grip force, pressure and EMG signals during handwriting

- Chinese characters used in the handwriting task (target_charac)

- index for strokes and pen lifts (break_ind)

- trial order (trial_target)

- character of each trial (trial_mask)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18399428
title: Multidimensional Handwriting Data

description: The dataset contains multidimensional handwriting data (3D velocity, grip force, pressure, EMG signals) collected during a handwriting task (6 subjects, 7sessions). Each subject wrote the same set of 190 Chinese characters. These multidimensional handwriting data were used to establish a mapping to the neural signals recorded from a paralyzed subject during imagined writing of the same characters.

Each file includes:

- 3D velocity, grip force, pressure and EMG signals during handwriting

- Chinese characters used in the handwriting task (target_charac)

- index for strokes and pen lifts (break_ind)

- trial order (trial_target)

- character of each trial (trial_mask)
DOI: 10.15468/dl.799n58
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 1013 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters 0.0-5000.0",
 "TaxonKey is Ficus hispida"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 1013 records from 33 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0003080-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7m0cfxpwm
title: Cloning and functional characterization of a Type 3 Diacylglycerol Acyltransferasegene (GmDGAT3-2) from soybean (Glycine max L.)

description: Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGAT) function as the key rate-limiting
 enzymes in de novo biosynthesis of triacylglycerol (TAG) by transferring
 an acyl group from acyl-CoA to sn-3 of diacylglycerol (DAG) to form TAG.
 Here, two members of type 3 DGAT gene family, GmDGAT3-1 and GmDGAT3-2,
 were identified from soybean (Glycine max) genome. Both of them were
 predicted to encode soluble cytosolic proteins containing the typical
 thioredoxin-like ferredoxin domain. Quantitative PCR analysis revealed
 that GmDGAT3-2 expression was much higher than GmDGAT3-1’s in various
 soybean tissues such as leaves, flowers and seeds. Functional
 complementation assay using TAG-deficient yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
 mutant H1246 demonstrated that GmDGAT3-2 fully restored TAG biosynthesis
 in the yeast and preferentially incorporated monounsaturated fatty acids
 (MUFAs), especially oleic acid (C18:1) into TAGs. This substrate
 specificity was further verified by feeding assays and in vitro enzyme
 activity characterization. Notably, transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana
 benthamiana) data showed that heterogeneous expression of GmDGAT3-2
 resulted in significant increase of seed oil and C18:1 levels, but little
 change in contents of protein and starch compared to the EV-transformed
 tobacco plants. Taken together, GmDGAT3-2 displayed a strong enzymatic
 activity to catalyze TAG assembly with high substrate specificity for
 MUFAs, particularly C18:1, playing an important role in the cytosolic
 pathway of TAG synthesis in soybean. The present findings provide a
 scientific reference for improving oil yield and FA composition in soybean
 through gene modification, further expanding our knowledge of TAG
 biosynthesis and its regulatory mechanism in oilseeds.
description: These
 two <em><strong>GmDGAT3 </strong></em>genes
 were identified from the soybean genome in Phytozome v12.1 (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info? Alias =Org _Gmax).  The accession number of <em>GmDGAT3-1</em> is Glyma.13G118300.1 (https://phytozome-next.jgi.doe.gov/report/gene/Gmax_ Wm82_a2_v1/Glyma.13G118300). The accession number of <em>GmDGAT3-2</em> is Glyma.17G041600.1 (https://phytozome-next.jgi.doe.gov/report/gene/Gmax_Wm82_a2_v1/Glyma.17G041600 ) A phylogenetic tree of GmDGAT3 and other DGAT3 proteins was constructed using the neighbor-joining method in the MEGA 6.0 (see Table S1 for protein information derived from different species and the sequence downloaded from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) ). All experiments were carried out at least in triplicate. The data was analyzed using IBS SPSS Statistics software Version 22. Duncan's test was employed to detect the statistical significance (P &lt; 0.05) when comparing differences between two groups.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8cz8w9gsn
title: Insulin sensitivity in mesolimbic pathways predicts and improves with weight loss in older dieters

description: Central insulin is involved in the regulation of hedonic feeding. Insulin
 resistance in overweight has recently been shown to reduce the inhibitory
 function of insulin in the human brain, but how this affects future weight
 management is unclear. Also unknown is the role of central insulin
 sensitivity on eating behavior of older people, who are highly vulnerable
 to hyperinsulinemia and in whom neural target systems of insulin action
 undergo age-related changes. Here, fifty overweight, pre-diabetic elderly
 participated in a double-blind, placebo-controlled pharmacological fMRI
 study before and after randomization to a 3-month caloric restriction or
 active waiting group. We show that treatment outcome in dieters can be
 predicted by baseline measures of individual intranasal insulin (INI)
 inhibition of value signals in the ventral tegmental area related to sweet
 food liking as well as, independently, by peripheral insulin sensitivity.
 At follow-up, both INI inhibition of hedonic value signals in the nucleus
 accumbens and whole-body insulin sensitivity improved with weight loss.
 These data highlight the critical role of central insulin function in
 mesolimbic systems for future weight management in humans and directly
 demonstrate that neural insulin function can be improved by weight loss
 even in older age, which may be essential for preventing metabolic
 disorders in later life.
DOI: 10.7489/1607-2
title: Girnock and Baddoch: Adult Return Rates

description: The Girnock and Baddoch catchments are long-term monitoring sites where the population dynamics of spring salmon have been assessed since 1966 and 1988 respectively. These long-term monitoring sites consist of a pair of fixed traps designed to catch emigrating juvenile salmon and returning adults. Trap protocols were similar, although not identical, over the monitoring period. See Soulsby et al. (2024) for a detailed description of the dataset and interpretation of trends. 

Soulsby C., Malcolm, I.A. & Tetzlaff, D. (2024). Six decades of ecohydrological research connecting landscapes and riverscapes in the Girnock Burn, Scotland: Atlantic salmon population and habitat dynamics in a changing world. Hydrological Processes 38:3:e15105. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15105.
description: Adult return rates are expressed as a ratio of returning adult female salmon to live juvenile emigrants released at the trap site (smolts and parr). The numbers, sex and ages of returning adult Atlantic salmon were recorded at the Girnock and Baddoch traps since 1966 and 1988 respectively. Juvenile salmon are caught in the descending emigrant traps at the Girnock and Baddoch Burns in autumn and spring. Adults were lagged to their respective year of emigration based on scale read sea ages, and counts of autumn emigrants were positively lagged by one year to reflect entry to seawater and the start of adult growth. Both adult and juvenile data were the focus of a detailed validation and correction procedure carried out between 2013 and 2014. The adult and smolt data at the Girnock and Baddoch are considered to be robust and have been collected in a similar way, with a similar level of effort over the monitoring period. Counts of autumn emigrants were affected by low trap effort at the Girnock in a few years in the 1980s. Counts from some of these years have been corrected for effort (see Bacon et al. for details), other years were affected by such low effort that they are considered unusable and adult return rates for these years have been removed from the dataset. Return rates are shown for emigrant years where all adults in the expected age range of 1 to 3SW could have returned. 

For full details of the data and the correction process, see Bacon PJ, Malcolm IA, Fryer RJ, Glover RS, Millar CP, and Youngson AF. (in press). Can conservation stocking enhance juvenile emigrant production in wild Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)? Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cfxpnvx77
title: Mutation, selection, and the prevalence of the C. elegans heat-sensitive mortal germline phenotype

description: C. elegans strains with the heat-sensitive mortal germline (Mrt) phenotype
 become progressively sterile over the course of a few tens of generations
 when maintained at temperatures near the upper range of C. elegans'
 tolerance. Mrt is transgenerationally-heritable, and proximately under
 epigenetic control. Previous studies have suggested that Mrt presents a
 relatively large mutational target, and that Mrt is not uncommon in
 natural populations of C. elegans. The Mrt phenotype is not monolithic.
 Some strains exhibit a strong Mrt phenotype, in which individuals
 invariably become sterile over a few generations, whereas other strains
 show a weaker (less penetrant) phenotype in which the onset of sterility
 is slower and more stochastic. We present results in which we (1) quantify
 the rate of mutation to the Mrt phenotype, and (2) quantify the frequency
 of Mrt in a collection of 95 wild isolates. Over the course of ~16,000
 meioses, we detected one mutation to a strong Mrt phenotype, resulting in
 a point estimate of the mutation rate UMrt≈ 6 10-5/genome/generation. We
 detected no mutations to a weak Mrt phenotype. 6/95 wild isolates have a
 strong Mrt phenotype, and although quantification of the weak Mrt
 phenotype is inexact, the weak Mrt phenotype is not rare in nature. We
 estimate a strength of selection against mutations conferring the strong
 Mrt phenotype ≈0.1%, similar to selection against mutations affecting
 competitive fitness. The appreciable frequency of weak Mrt variants in
 nature combined with the low mutation rate suggests that Mrt may be
 maintained by balancing selection.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.xwdbrv1ft
title: Seroprevalence of COVID-19 in Carabayllo Peru

description: Objectives: To measure the SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the Carabayllo
 district of Lima, Peru at the end of the first wave of the pandemic.
 Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of the district with random
 bi-stage cluster sampling. We collected socio-demographic and clinical
 data as well as serum samples for SARS-CoV2 antibody testing. Results:
 Among 2,014 subjects sampled, 59.93% were men. SAR-CoV-2 seropositivity
 was 24.88% (501/2014), and after adjusting for the sampling design effects
 and test performance, the seroprevalence in November/December 2020 was
 22.4% (95% CI 22.35 - 27.63). Seropositivity varied by age, with
 participants aged 30-59 years old having the highest prevalence.
 Seropositivity in symptomatic patients (32%) was 1.5 times more than in
 asymptomatic ones (23%), and work away of home, age &gt;18, COVID-19
 home contact, obesity were risk factors of SARS-CoV-2. Conclusions: The
 low seroprevalence after the first wave of pandemic in this community
 indicates that a high proportion of people remained susceptible. Infection
 was important among people who never reported symptoms. People with
 obesity had a higher risk of having SARS-Cov-2 infection.
description: This was a cross-sectional study of the district with random
 bi-stage cluster sampling. We collected socio-demographic and clinical
 data as well as serum samples for SARS-CoV2 antibody testing.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9p8cz8wjd
title: MPG Black Bear research encounter histories

description: Wildlife pedigrees provide insights into ecological and evolutionary
 processes. DNA obtained from non-invasively collected hair is often used
 to determine individual identities for pedigrees and other genetic
 analyses. However, detection rates associated with some non-invasive DNA
 studies can be relatively low and genetic data do not provide information
 on individual birth year. Supplementing hair DNA stations with video
 cameras should increase individual detection rate, assuming accurate
 identification of individuals via video data. Video data can also provide
 birth year information for individuals captured as young of the year,
 which can enrich population-level pedigrees. We placed video cameras at
 hair stations and combined genetic and video data to reconstruct an
 age-specific, population-level pedigree of wild black bears during
 2010-2020. Combining individual birth year with mother-offspring
 relatedness, we also estimated litter size, interlitter interval,
 primiparity, and fecundity. We used the Cormack-Jolly-Seber model in
 Program Mark to evaluate the effect of maternal identity on offspring
 apparent survival. We compared model rankings of apparent survival and
 parameter estimates based on combined genetic and video data with those
 based on only genetic data. We observed 42 mother-offspring relationships.
 Of these, 21 (50%) would not have been detected had we used hair DNA
 alone. Moreover, video data allowed for the cub and yearling age classes
 to be determined. Mean annual fecundity was 0.42 (95% CI: 0.27, 0.56).
 Maternal identity influenced offspring apparent survival, where offspring
 of one mother experienced significantly lower apparent survival (0.39; SE
 = 0.15) than that of offspring of four other mothers (0.89-1.00; SE =
 0.00–0.06). We video-documented cub abandonment by the mother whose
 offspring experienced low apparent survival, indicating individual
 behaviors (e.g., maternal care) may scale up to affect population-level
 parameters (e.g., cub survival). Our findings provide insights into
 evolutionary processes and are broadly relevant to wildlife ecology and
 conservation.
description: These data were collected using 56 trail camera stations and 33+
 hair snare stations installed on the MPG Ranch property. 
description: There are no missing values. The data are straight forward and
 ready for modeling annual apparent survival.