NS1 codon usage adaptation to humans in pandemic Zika virus by Caio César de Melo Freire, Giuseppe Palmisano, Carla T Braconi, Fernanda R Cugola, Fabiele B Russo, Patricia CB Beltrão-Braga, Atila Iamarino, Daniel Ferreira de Lima Neto, Amadou Alpha Sall, Livia Rosa-Fernandes, Martin R Larsen, Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto

“…Human infections were infrequently reported until 2007, when the first known epidemic occurred in Micronesia. After 2013, the Asian lineage of ZIKV spread along the Pacific Islands and Americas, causing severe outbreaks with millions of human infections. …”
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Snow cover as an indicator of cumulative land pollution by V. R. Alekseev

“…The heaviest pollution corresponds to West Europe (44.5% of its area), Micronesia (33.3%), and to the countries within the Caribbean basin (31.1%); the worst levels of land pollution correspond to Australia with New Zealand (2.1%), Melanesia (3.1%), and to Central Africa (3.8%). …”
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Pangium edule reinw: A promising non-edible oil feedstock for biodiesel production by Atabani, A.E., Badruddin, I.A., Masjuki, Haji Hassan, Chong, W.T., Lee, K.T.

“…Pangium is a tall tree native to the Micronesia, Melanesia and the mangrove swamps of South-East Asia. …”
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Post-fledging distribution of ’ua’u (Hawaiian petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis) from Kaua’i, Hawai’i and effectiveness of rehabilitation by AF Raine, S Driskill, H Raine, J Rothe, S Rossiter, T Anderson, M Bache

“…At this point, birds still transmitting turned west, passing through Micronesia before eventually reaching the Philippines. …”
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COVID-19 in the US-affiliated Pacific Islands: A timeline of events and lessons learned from March 2020–November 2022 by Haley L. Cash McGinley, W. Thane Hancock, Stephanie Kern-Allely, Melissa Jenssen, Emi Chutaro, Janet Camacho, Pedro Judicpa, Kazuhiro Okumura, Nick Muñoz, Oluwatomiloba M. Ademokun, Richard Brostrom

“…The initial surges of COVID-19 in the USAPIs ranged from August 2020 in Guam to August 2022 in the Federated States of Micronesia. This prolonged time between initial surges in the region was due to varying approaches regarding travel requirements, including fully closed borders, repatriation efforts requiring pre-travel quarantine and testing, quarantine requirements upon arrival only, and vaccine mandates. …”
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Traits, landmarks and outlines: Three congruent sides of a tale on coral reef fish morphology by Marita Quitzau, Romain Frelat, Vincent Bonhomme, Christian Möllmann, Leopold Nagelkerke, Sonia Bejarano

“…Here, we apply these three approaches to 111 individual coral reef fish of 40 species common in Micronesia. We investigate the major dimensions of morphological variability among individuals, families, and predefined feeding functional groups. …”
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Smokeless tobacco consumption and its association with tobacco control factors in the Western Pacific Region: results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2015-2019 by Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Anusha Manoharan

“…The prevalence of past 30-day ST consumption was highest in Kiribati (42.1%), the Marshall Islands (26.1%), Micronesia (21.3%), Palau (16.0%), and Papua New Guinea (15.2%). …”
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Persistence of phenotypic responses to short-term heat stress in the tabletop coral Acropora hyacinthus by Nia S. Walker, Brendan H. Cornwell, Victor Nestor, Katrina C. Armstrong, Yimnang Golbuu, Stephen R. Palumbi

“…We tested the reliability of short-term heat stress resistance, and linked resistance and recovery assays, by monitoring the phenotypic response of fragments from 101 Acropora hyacinthus colonies located in Palau (Micronesia) to short-term heat stress. Following short-term heat stress, bleaching and mortality were recorded after 16 hours, daily for seven days, and after one and two months of recovery. …”
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Molecular characterization and geographical distribution of Zika virus worldwide from 1947 to 2022 by Pirom Noisumdaeng, Worawat Dangsagul, Kantima Sangsiriwut, Jarunee Prasertsopon, Don Changsom, Sutee Yoksan, Pravech Ajawatanawong, Rome Buathong, Pilaipan Puthavathana

“…Our result suggested two independent routes of ZIKV spread from Southeast Asia to Micronesia in 2007 and French Polynesia in 2013 before further spreading to South American countries.…”
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Structure in the variability of the basic reproductive number (R0) for Zika epidemics in the Pacific islands by Clara Champagne, David Georges Salthouse, Richard Paul, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau, Benjamin Roche, Bernard Cazelles

“…We compare two compartmental models with different mosquito representations, using surveillance and seroprevalence data for several ZIKV outbreaks in Pacific islands (Yap, Micronesia 2007, Tahiti and Moorea, French Polynesia 2013-2014, New Caledonia 2014). …”
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Tobacco and electronic cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Vietnam between 2013 and 2019: prevalence and associated factors by Hoang Van Minh, Khuong Quynh Long, Do Van Vuong, Nguyen Manh Hung, Kidong Park, Momoe Takeuchi, Mina Kashiwabara, Nguyen Tuan Lam, Pham Thi Quynh Nga, Le Phuong Anh, Le Van Tuan, Tran Quoc Bao, Le Duong Minh Anh, Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh

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First estimates of fine root production in tropical peat swamp and terra firme forests of the central Congo Basin by Matteo Sciumbata, Yeto Emmanuel Mampouya Wenina, Mackline Mbemba, Greta C. Dargie, Andy J. Baird, Paul J. Morris, Suspense Averti Ifo, Rien Aerts, Simon L. Lewis

“…Furthermore, our hardwood peat swamp estimate is similar to the only other FRP study in tropical peatlands, also hardwood-dominated, from Micronesia. We also found that FRP decreased with depth and was the highest during the dry season. …”
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Assessment and Prediction of Sea Level and Coastal Wetland Changes in Small Islands Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence by Nawin Raj, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou

“…Hence, this study develops a new hybrid Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Multi-Layer Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) deep learning model with Multivariate Variational Mode Decomposition (MVMD) to predict the sea level for study sites in the Solomon Islands and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Three other artificial intelligence (AI) models (Random Forest (FR), multilinear regression (MLR) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) are used to benchmark the CNN-BiLSTM model. …”
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Middle Latitude Geomagnetic Disturbances Caused by Hall and Pedersen Current Circuits Driven by Prompt Penetration Electric Fields by Takashi Kikuchi, Kumiko K. Hashimoto, Takashi Tanaka, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Tsutomu Nagatsuma

“…We show that the midlatitude <i>H</i>/<i>D</i> is highly correlated with <i>EEJ</i> at Yap, Micronesia (0.38° S GML) in the same local time zone, meeting the Pedersen–Cowling current circuit between midlatitude and equator in the DP2 current system. …”
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Cytotoxic Scalarane Sesterterpenes from the Sponge <i>Hyrtios erectus</i> by Oh-Seok Kwon, Donghwa Kim, Chang-Kwon Kim, Jeongyoon Sun, Chung J. Sim, Dong-Chan Oh, Sang Kook Lee, Ki-Bong Oh, Jongheon Shin

“…Twelve new sesterterpenes along with eight known sesterterpenes were isolated from the marine sponge <i>Hyrtios erectus</i> collected off the coast of Chuuk Island, the Federated State of Micronesia. Based upon a combination of spectroscopic and computational analyses, these compounds were determined to be eight glycine-bearing scalaranes (<b>1</b>–<b>8</b>), a 3-keto scalarane (<b>9</b>), two oxidized-furan-bearing scalaranes (<b>10</b> and <b>11</b>), and a salmahyrtisane (<b>12</b>). …”
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Vírus Zika: Revisão para Clínicos by Vitor Laerte Pinto Junior, Kleber Luz, Ricardo Parreira, Paulo Ferrinho

“…A partir 2007 foram descritas epidemias na Micronésia e outras ilhas do Oceano Pacífico e, mais recentemente, no Brasil. …”
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Revision of Ardissoneaceae (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae) from Micronesian populations, with descriptions of two new genera, Ardissoneopsis and Grunowago, and new species in Ardi... by Christopher S. Lobban, Matt P. Ashworth, Terance Camacho, Daryl W. Lam, Edward C. Theriot

“…Eighteen taxa (11 new species) from Micronesia were compared with the literature and remnant material from Grunow’s Honduras Sargassum sample to address the concepts of Ardissonea and Ardissoneaceae. …”
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A Nonrandomized Phase 2 Trial of EG-Mirotin, a Novel, First-in-Class, Subcutaneously Deliverable Peptide Drug for Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Seunghoon Yoo, Dae Hyuk You, Jeongyoon Lee, H. Christian Hong, Sung Jin Lee

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Dynamics of Zika virus outbreaks: an overview of mathematical modeling approaches by Anuwat Wiratsudakul, Parinya Suparit, Charin Modchang

“…It was neglected until a major outbreak occurred on Yap Island, Micronesia, in 2007. Teratogenic effects resulting in microcephaly in newborn infants is the greatest public health threat. …”
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Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. by Ng, M, Fleming, T, Robinson, M, Thomson, B, Graetz, N, Margono, C, Mullany, E, Biryukov, S, Abbafati, C, Abera, S, Abraham, J, Abu-Rmeileh, N, Achoki, T, AlBuhairan, F, Alemu, Z, Alfonso, R, Ali, M, Ali, R, Guzman, N, Ammar, W, Anwari, P, Banerjee, A, Barquera, S, Basu, S, Bennett, D

“…In adults, estimated prevalence of obesity exceeded 50% in men in Tonga and in women in Kuwait, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Libya, Qatar, Tonga, and Samoa. Since 2006, the increase in adult obesity in developed countries has slowed down. …”