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David W. Sims

- Verified email at mba.ac.uk - Cited by 23015

David Sims

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Sequencing depth and coverage: key considerations in genomic analyses

D Sims, I Sudbery, NE Ilott, A Heger… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Sequencing technologies have placed a wide range of genomic analyses within the
capabilities of many laboratories. However, sequencing costs often set limits to the amount …

The pericyte—a review

DE Sims - Tissue and Cell, 1986 - Elsevier
Pericytes are cells of mesodermal origin that envelop microvessels. There is now a rapidly
growing inventory of research data characterizing pericytes in the nerve, muscle and …

Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology

GC Hays, LC Ferreira, AMM Sequeira… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
It is a golden age for animal movement studies and so an opportune time to assess priorities
for future work. We assembled 40 experts to identify key questions in this field, focussing on …

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly

H Li, J Janssens, M De Waegeneer, SS Kolluru… - Science, 2022 - science.org
For more than 100 years, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most
studied model organisms. Here, we present a single-cell atlas of the adult fly, Tabula …

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

DW Sims, EJ Southall, NE Humphries, GC Hays… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Many free-ranging predators have to make foraging decisions with little, if any, knowledge of
present resource distribution and availability. The optimal search strategy they should use to …

Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

NE Humphries, N Queiroz, JRM Dyer, NG Pade… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
An optimal search theory, the so-called Lévy-flight foraging hypothesis, predicts that
predators should adopt search strategies known as Lévy flights where prey is sparse and …

Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species

RA Robinson, HQP Crick, JA Learmonth… - Endangered species …, 2009 - int-res.com
Long-distance migrations are among the wonders of the natural world, but this multi-taxon
review shows that the characteristics of species that undertake such movements appear to …

KDM2B links the Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) to recognition of CpG islands

AM Farcas, NP Blackledge, I Sudbery, HK Long… - elife, 2012 - elifesciences.org
CpG islands (CGIs) are associated with most mammalian gene promoters. A subset of CGIs
act as polycomb response elements (PREs) and are recognized by the polycomb silencing …

Sexual segregation in marine fish, reptiles, birds and mammals: behaviour patterns, mechanisms and conservation implications

VJ Wearmouth, DW Sims - Advances in marine biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Sexual segregation occurs when members of a species separate such that the sexes live
apart, either singly or in single‐sex groups. It can be broadly categorised into two types …

Selective foraging behaviour of basking sharks on zooplankton in a small-scale front

DW Sims, VA Quayle - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
The basking shark Cetorhinus maximus is the second largest fish species, attaining lengths
of up to 11 m. During summer months in temperate coastal waters circumglobally, these …