Using network theory to understand and predict biological invasions by Frost, Carol M., Allen, Warwick J., Courchamp, Franck, Jeschke, Jonathan M., Saul, Wolf-Christian, Wardle, David A.

“…Using networks to describe the relevant anthropogenic and ecological factors, from community-level to global scales, promises advances in understanding aspects of invasion from propagule pressure, through establishment, spread, and ecological impact of invaders. These insights could lead to development of new tools for prevention and management of invasions that are based on species' network characteristics and use of networks to predict the ecological effects of invaders. …”
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A simulation framework for measuring robustness of incentive mechanisms and its implementation in reputation systems by Liu, Yuan, Zhang, Jie, An, Bo, Sen, Sandip

“…In this article, we first propose a general robustness measure, inspired by research in evolutionary game theory, as the maximal percentage of invaders taking non-equilibrium strategies such that the agents sustain the desired equilibrium strategy. …”
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Erythrocyte tropism of malarial parasites: the reticulocyte appeal by Leong, Yew Wai, Russell, Bruce, Malleret, Benoit, Rénia, Laurent

“…In this review, we explore the erythrocyte tropism of malarial parasites, especially their predilection to invade reticulocytes, as shown from recent studies. …”
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Heterogeneous attenuation of sound waves in three-dimensional amorphous solids by Mahajan, Shivam, Ciamarra, Massimo Pica

“…As time progresses, the regions where sound is primarily attenuated invade the system via an apparent diffusive process.…”
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MYC overexpression leads to increased chromatin interactions at superenhancers and MYC binding sites by See, Yi Xiang, Chen, Kaijing, Fullwood, Melissa Jane

“…Since superenhancers are frequently dysregulated in cancer, we hypothesized that MYC preferentially invades into superenhancers and alters the cancer genome organization. …”
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Tertiary base triple formation in the SRV-1 frameshifting pseudoknot stabilizes secondary structure components by Yang, Lixia, Toh, Desiree-Faye Kaixin, Krishna, Manchugondanahalli Shivakumar, Zhong, Zhensheng, Liu, Yiyao, Wang, Shaomeng, Gong, Yubin, Chen, Gang

“…We made a short peptide nucleic acid (PNA) that is expected to invade stem 1 of the SRV-1 pseudoknot by PNA-RNA duplex formation to mimic the stem 1 unwinding process by a translating ribosome. …”
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RNA thermometers in bacterial pathogens by Loh, Edmund, Righetti, Francesco, Eichner, Hannes, Twittenhoff, Christian, Narberhaus, Franz

“…Temperature variation is one of the multiple parameters a microbial pathogen encounters when it invades a warm-blooded host. To survive and thrive at host body temperature, human pathogens have developed various strategies to sense and respond to their ambient temperature. …”
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Hyperspectral vision based probe for in situ corrosion monitoring in saline environments by Antony, Maria Merin, Suchand Sandeep, Chandramathi Sukumaran, Lim, Hoong-Ta, Vadakke Matham, Murukeshan

“…Early detection of corrosion helps in reducing the risk associated with the failure of metal structures invaded by corrosion. Though several techniques exist for monitoring corrosion, most of these techniques are contact-based and tend to be destructive in nature. …”
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Dual role of mechanisms involved in resistance to predation by protozoa and virulence to humans by Sun, Shuyang, Noorian, Parisa, McDougald, Diane

“…Intracellular pathogens rely on active invasion, blocking of the phagosome and lysosome fusion and resistance to phagocytic digestion to successfully invade host cells. In contrast, extracellular pathogens utilize toxin secretion and biofilm formation to avoid internalization by phagocytes. …”
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An antimicrobial helix A-derived peptide of heparin cofactor II blocks endotoxin responses in vivo by Papareddy, Praveen, Kalle, Martina, Morgelin, Matthias, Schmidtchen, Artur, Malmsten, Martin, Singh, Shalini

“…Host defense peptides are key components of the innate immune system, providing multi-facetted responses to invading pathogens. Here, we describe that the peptide GKS26 (GKSRIQRLNILNAKFAFNLYRVLKDQ), corresponding to the A domain of heparin cofactor II (HCII), ameliorates experimental septic shock. …”
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Unveiling the influence of tumor microenvironment and spatial heterogeneity on temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma using an advanced human in vitro model of the blood-brain bar... by Lam, Maxine S. Y., Aw, Joey J. Y., Tan, Damien, Vijayakumar, Ragavi, Lim, Grace Hui Yi, Yada, Swathi, Pang, Qing You, Barker, Nick, Tang, Carol, Ang, Beng Ti, Sobota, Radoslaw M., Pavesi, Andrea

“…The model recapitulates important clinical features such as a dense tumor core with tumor cells that invade along the perivascular space; and a perfusable BBB with a physiological permeability and morphology that is altered in the presence of a tumor spheroid. …”
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Fungal infections: immune defense, immunotherapies and vaccines by Loh, Jia Tong, Lam, Kong-Peng

“…In this review, we will summarize how host innate immune cells sense invading fungi through their pattern recognition receptors, and subsequently initiate a series of effector mechanisms and adaptive immune responses to mediate fungal clearance. …”
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Isolation and Activation of Murine Lymphocytes by Lim, Jun Feng, Berger, Heidi, Su, I-hsin

“…B and T cells, with their extremely diverse antigen-receptor repertoires, have the ability to mount specific immune responses against almost any invading pathogen1,2. Understandably, such intricate abilities are controlled by a large number of molecules involved in various cellular processes to ensure timely and spatially regulated immune responses3. …”
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The vertex-to-vertex contact analysis in the two-dimensional discontinuous deformation analysis by Bao, Huirong, Zhao, Zhiye

“…The second enhancement uses the trajectory of the vertex during a time step to find the entrance edge when the moving vertex invades into the target block. Examples show that these two enhancements to the standard DDA code work well.…”
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Absence of intestinal PPARγ aggravates acute infectious colitis in mice through a Lipocalin-2–dependent pathway by Bunte, Ralph M., Kundu, Parag, Ling, Teo Wei, Korecka, Agata, Li, Yinghui, D'Arienzo, Rossana, Berger, Thorsten, Arulampalam, Velmurugesan, Chambon, Pierre, Mak, Tak Wah, Wahli, Walter, Pettersson, Sven

“…To be able to colonize its host, invading Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium must disrupt and severely affect host-microbiome homeostasis. …”
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pIgR and PECAM-1 bind to pneumococcal adhesins RrgA and PspC mediating bacterial brain invasion by Iovino, Federico, Engelen-Lee, Joo-Yeon, Brouwer, Matthijs, van de Beek, Diederik, van der Ende, Arie, Valls Seron, Merche, Mellroth, Peter, Muschiol, Sandra, Bergstrand, Jan, Widengren, Jerker, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta

“…Pneumococci cause meningitis by invading the blood and penetrating the blood–brain barrier (BBB). …”
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Toxoplasma gondii infection induces dendritic retraction in basolateral amygdala accompanied by reduced corticosterone secretion by Vyas, Ajai, Sapolsky, Robert M., Mitra, Rupshi

“…The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii invades rat brain and removes the fear that rats have of cat odors, a change believed to be parasitic manipulation of host behavior aimed at increasing parasite transmission. …”
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Evaluating quality of screen content images via structural variation analysis by Gu, Ke, Qiao, Junfei, Min, Xiongkuo, Yue, Guanghui, Lin, Weisi, Thalmann, Daniel

“…With the quick development and popularity of computers, computer-generated signals have drastically invaded into our daily lives. Screen content image is a typical example, since it also includes graphic and textual images as components as compared with natural scene images which have been deeply explored, and thus screen content image has posed novel challenges to current researches, such as compression, transmission, display, quality assessment, and more. …”
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Rodent malaria erythrocyte preference assessment by an ex vivo tropism assay by Leong, Yew Wai, Lee, Erica Qian Hui, Rénia, Laurent, Malleret, Benoit

“…The human malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, have a preference to invade reticulocytes during blood-stage infection. …”
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INPP5K and Atlastin-1 maintain the nonuniform distribution of ER-plasma membrane contacts in neurons by Sun, Jingbo, Harion, Raihanah, Naito, Tomoki, Saheki, Yasunori

“…In mutants of CIL-1 or ATLN-1, ER sheets expand and invade into the axon. This is accompanied by the ectopic formation of axonal ER-PM contacts and defects in axon regeneration following laser-induced axotomy. …”
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