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  • Surveying abundance and stand type associations of Formica aquilonia and F. lugubris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nest mounds over an extensive area : Trialing a novel method 

    Borkin, Kerry; Summers, Ron; Thomas, Len (2012-01-03) - Journal article
    Red wood ants are ecologically important members of woodland communities, and some species are of conservation concern. They occur commonly only in certain habitats in Britain, but there is limited knowledge of their numbers ...

  • Crambled : a Shiny application to enable intuitive resolution of conflicting cellularity estimates 

    Lynch, Andy (2015-12-07) - Journal article
    It is now commonplace to investigate tumour samples using whole-genome sequencing, and some commonly performed tasks are the estimation of cellularity (or sample purity), the genome-wide profiling of copy numbers, and the ...

  • Sequencing of prostate cancers identifies new cancer genes, routes of progression and drug targets 

    Wedge, David C.; Gundem, Gunes; Mitchell, Thomas; Woodstock, Dan J.; Martincorena, Inigo; Ghori, Mohammed; Zamora, Jorge; Butler, Adam; Whitaker, Hayley; Kote-Jarai, Zsofia; Alexandrov, Lumil B.; Van Loo, Peter; Massie, Charlie E.; Dentro, Stefan; Warren, Anne Y.; Verrill, Clare; Berney, Dan M.; Dennis, Nening; Merson, Sue; Hawkins, Steve; Howat, William; Lu, Yong-Jie; Lambert, Adam; Kay, Jonathan; Kremeyer, Barbara; Karaszi, Katalin; Camacho, Niedzica; Luxton, Hayley; Marsden, Luke; Edwards, Sandra; Matthews, Lucy; Bo, Valeria; Leongamornlert, Daniel; McLaren, Stuart; Ng, Anthony; Yu, Yongwei; Zhang, Hongwei; Dadaev, Tokhir; Thomas, Sarah; Easton, Douglas F.; Ahmed, Mahbubl; Bancroft, Elizabeth; Fisher, Cyril; Livni, Naomi; Nicol, David; Tavaré, Simon; Gill, Pelvender; Greenman, Christopher; Khoo, Vincent; Van As, Nicholas; Kumar, Pardeep; Ogden, Christopher; Cahill, Declan; Thompson, Alan; Mayer, Erik; Rowe, Edward; Dudderidge, Tim; Gnanapragasam, Vincent; Shah, Nimish C.; Raine, Keiran; Jones, David; Menzies, Andrew; Stebbings, Lucy; Teague, Jon; Hazell, Steven; Corbishley, Cathy; CamCaP Study Group; de Bono, Johann; Attard, Gerhardt; Isaacs, William; Visakorpi, Tapio; Fraser, Michael; Boutros, Paul C.; Bristow, Robert G.; Workman, Paul; Sander, Chris; The TCGA Consortium; Hamdy, Freddie C.; Futreal, Andrew; McDermott, Ultan; Al-Lazikani, Bissan; Lynch, Andy; Bova, G. Steven; Foster, Christopher S.; Brewer, Daniel S.; Neal, David E.; Cooper, Colin S.; Eeles, Rosalind A. (2018-04-16) - Journal article
    Prostate cancer represents a substantial clinical challenge because it is difficult to predict outcome and advanced disease is often fatal. We sequenced the whole genomes of 112 primary and metastatic prostate cancer ...

  • Understanding the population consequences of disturbance 

    Pirotta, Enrico; Booth, Cormac G.; Costa, Daniel P.; Fleishman, Erica; Kraus, Scott D.; Lusseau, David; Moretti, David; New, Leslie F.; Schick, Robert S.; Schwarz, Lisa K.; Simmons, Samantha E.; Thomas, Len; Tyack, Peter L.; Weise, Michael J.; Wells, Randall S.; Harwood, John (2018-09-12) - Journal item
    Managing the nonlethal effects of disturbance on wildlife populations has been a long-term goal for decision makers, managers, and ecologists, and assessment of these effects is currently required by European Union and ...

  • The role of TET-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation in prostate cancer 

    Smeets, E.; Lynch, A. G.; Prekovic, S.; Van den Broeck, T.; Moris, L; Helsen, C.; Joniau, S.; Claessens, F.; Massie, C. E. (2018-02-15) - Journal item
    Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins are recently characterized dioxygenases that regulate demethylation by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and further derivatives. The recent finding that 5hmC is ...

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