Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. ...
Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is the most severe form of male infertility and typically incurable. Defining the genetic basis of NOA has proven chal lenging, and the most advanced classification of NOA subforms is not based on genetics, but simple description of testis histology. In this study, we exome sequenced over 1000 clinically diagnosed NOA cases and identified a plausible recessive Mendelian cause i...