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    Piperidine alkaloids from fire ants are not sequestered by the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)

    Neotropical poison frogs possess alkaloid-based antipredator defenses which they sequester from a diet of arthropods such as oribatid mites and myrmicine ants. Alkaloid sequestration is still poorly understood...

    Ian Davison, Ralph A. Saporito, Lisa M. Schulte, Kyle Summers in Chemoecology (2021)

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    Clinical scientists’ early career choices and progression: an exploratory mixed methods study

    Understanding the influences on healthcare professionals’ career choices and progression can inform interventions to improve workforce retention. Retention of health professionals is a high priority worldwide,...

    Megan Smith, Jaimini Patel, Sandie Gay, Ian Davison in BMC Health Services Research (2021)

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    Factors affecting recruitment into General Practice: a double binary choice approach

    Recruitment to General Practice (GP) is currently low in many countries. Here we focus on two binary choices for junior doctors: first, whether to apply to GP; second, whether to accept a GP training place if ...

    Ian Davison, Chris McManus, Celia Brown in Advances in Health Sciences Education (2020)

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    Variation in pigmentation gene expression is associated with distinct aposematic color morphs in the poison frog Dendrobates auratus

    Color and pattern phenotypes have clear implications for survival and reproduction in many species. However, the mechanisms that produce this coloration are still poorly characterized, especially at the genomi...

    Adam M. M. Stuckert, Emily Moore, Kaitlin P. Coyle, Ian Davison in BMC Evolutionary Biology (2019)

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    Dorsolateral septum somatostatin interneurons gate mobility to calibrate context-specific behavioral fear responses

    Adaptive fear responses to external threats rely upon efficient relay of computations underlying contextual encoding to subcortical circuits. Brain-wide analysis of highly coactivated ensembles following conte...

    Antoine Besnard, Yuan Gao, Michael TaeWoo Kim, Hannah Twarkowski in Nature Neuroscience (2019)

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    Would changing the selection process for GP trainees stem the workforce crisis? A cohort study using multiple-imputation and simulation

    There is currently a shortage of qualified GPs in the UK and not all of the training posts available each year are filled. Changing the way in which GP trainees are selected could help increase the training po...

    Celia Taylor, I. C. McManus, Ian Davison in BMC Medical Education (2018)