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Biodegradation of polyethylene by the marine fungus Parengyodontium album - ScienceDirect - 1 views

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  • UV light
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      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      If we were to use X or Gamma rays, would that speed up the process?
  • Graphical abstract
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      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      Why does it need the 9 day incubation period? Could we lower that
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      So, could we just do this with a plastic bottle?
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  • Other important plastic types afloat in the sea are polypropylene (PP) and to a lesser degree polystyrene (PS) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
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      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      Does/ Could this fungi degrade these as well
  • Zalerion maritimum (Paço et al., 2017), Alternaria alternata FB1 (Gao et al., 2022) and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (Vaksmaa et al., 2023a), while Cladosporium halotolerans 6UPA1 was shown to degrade PUR (Zhang et al., 2022).
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Frequent mowing puts poisonous weed into survival mode | ScienceDaily - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...240603195751.htm

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  • Solanum ptychanthum or black nightshade, and Solanum carolinense, or Carolina horsenettle, also produce toxic berries and are native to Arkansas.
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      emmarrogers on 04 Jun 24
       
      Could we possibly research different types of weeds similar to the silver Nightshade, like one of these plants?
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Acute fluoxetine exposure alters crab anxiety-like behaviour, but not aggressiveness | ... - 0 views

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  • fluoxetine
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      emmarrogers on 21 May 24
       
      This is an anxiety medicine in the Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
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Anxiety medication: List, types, and side effects - 0 views

www.medicalnewstoday.com/...323666

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  • chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
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      emmarrogers on 21 May 24
       
      This is the same medication used in a different study (https://www.aaas.org/news/science-crayfish-can-be-calmed-anti-anxiety-medication) Do only this group of Anti-anxiety medications work in crayfish?
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(PDF) Assessing the effect of different light conditions on crayfish welfare using a da... - 1 views

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  • (weak light: 38 lux; bright light: 761 lux) with 3 different light spectrums (cold white (CCT ≈ 5500K), warm white (CCT ≈ 2600 K) and neutral (CCT ≈ 3800 K)) over a period of six months
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Science: Crayfish Can Be Calmed With Anti-Anxiety Medication | American Association for... - 0 views

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  • "There have been very few studies of the crayfish brain,"
  • crayfish normally prefer darkness,
  • non-shocked, non-stressed crayfish did.
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  • chlordiazepoxide
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      emmarrogers on 21 May 24
       
      Do other drugs also work to calm the crayfish's anxiety. Also, in the future, could tests on crayfish be used to find more/ different anxiety medicines in humans. Also, do they show side affects just like humans, or similar that we could document the side affects?
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance - 1 views

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  • "But few studies have examined biotic impacts, such as pathogen infection, on thermal tolerance in natural populations in combination with abiotic factors," she explained.
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