René S. Shahmohamadloo

3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mathilde L. Tissier |René S. Shahmohamadloo |Laura Guzmán

1 Reevaluating Toxicity Assessment for Biodiversity Ecological risk assessments (ERAs) assess the likelihood that stressors, such as chemicals or invasive species, will adversely affect ecosystems and biodiversity. For pesticides, ERAs currently rely on extrapolating the toxicological responses of a few surrogate species to entire taxonomic groups.

Aug 15, 2024 | biorxiv.org | René S. Shahmohamadloo |Amir Gabidulin |Ellie Andrews |John M. Fryxell

AbstractPhenotypic plasticity is a primary mechanism by which organismal phenotypes shift in response to the environment. Host-associated microbiomes often exhibit considerable shifts in response to environmental variation and these shifts could facilitate host phenotypic plasticity, adaptation, or rescue populations from extinction.