How weekly monitoring variables influence players’ and teams’ match performance in elite futsal players

This study aimed to investigate how weekly training load constrains the performance of players and teams in official futsal competitions. Data from a professional male team were collected during two seasons (46 weeks). The applied monitoring system analysed the training load (as measured by session perceived exertion, sRPE), the total recovery status (TQR), the well-being score (WBs) and the variability of neuromuscular performance during each week (CMJ-cv). In addition, the performance was assessed for all the matches. A path analysis model was performed to test the associations across variables. Results from the path analysis model revealed that it explains 31% of the teams’ performance. In general, the results show that previous team performance has no significant effects on the training week. A significant negative relationship was found between CMJ-cv and match performance (β = -.34; CI95% -.359 to -.070), as well as a significant negative relationship between players’ match performance and the team’s match performance (β = -.55; CI95% -.292 to .740). Regarding indirect effects, only a negative association between CMJ-cv and team match performance via players’ match performance (β = -.19; CI95% -.342 to -.049) was identified. The small variation of the weekly CMJ (CMJ-cv) seems to be a key variable to monitor and explain both player and team performance. Based on this model, and only looking at the physical variables, it was possible to explain 31% of the team’s performance. Longitudinal and multi-team studies should be conducted to integrate other technical, tactical and psychological variables that allow the level of understanding of players’ and teams’ performance to be improved.     

Repeated truncation of a modular antimicrobial peptide gene for neural context

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are host-encoded antibiotics that combat invading pathogens. These genes commonly encode multiple products as post-translationally cleaved polypeptides. Recent studies have highlighted roles for AMPs in neurological contexts suggesting functions for these defence molecules beyond infection. During our immune study characterizing the antimicrobial peptide gene Baramicin, we recovered multiple Baramicin paralogs in Drosophila melanogaster and other species, united by their N-terminal IM24 domain. Not all paralogs were immune-induced. Here, through careful dissection of the Baramicin family’s evolutionary history, we find that paralogs lacking immune induction result from repeated events of duplication and subsequent truncation of the coding sequence from an immune-inducible ancestor. These truncations leave only the IM24 domain as the prominent gene product. Surprisingly, using mutation and targeted gene silencing we demonstrate that two such genes are adapted for function in neural contexts in D. melanogaster. We also show enrichment in the head for independent Baramicin genes in other species. The Baramicin evolutionary history reveals that the IM24 Baramicin domain is not strictly useful in an immune context. We thus provide a case study for how an AMP-encoding gene might play dual roles in both immune and non-immune processes via its multiple peptide products. As many AMP genes encode polypeptides, a full understanding of how immune effectors interact with the nervous system will require consideration of all their peptide products.     

Über Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Moosen und Algen in Reinkultur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Antibiose

Ohne ZusammenfassungDissertation der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen 1960.     

Beiträge zur Lichtkeimung von Amarantus caudatus L. und Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth

Ohne ZusammenfassungMit 10 Textabbildungen.     

Untersuchungen über die Symbiose von Tieren mit Pilzen und Bakterien

Ohne ZusammenfassungEs ist mir eine angenehme Pflicht, auch an dieser Stelle der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, mit deren Unterstützung die vorliegenden Untersuchungen durchgeführt wurden, meinen besten Dank auszusprechen. Zu besonderem Dank fühle ich mich Herrn Prof. Dr. W. Schwartz für die Anregung zu dieser Arbeit, für viele Ratschläge und alle erhaltene Förderung verpflichtet.     

Der ultimobranchiale Körper der Knochenfische

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Untersuchungen an Chrysophyceen I–III

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