States

Language

Altered embryonic development in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) induced by pre-incubation oscillatory thermal stresses mimicking global warming predictions (open access)

Altered embryonic development in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) induced by pre-incubation oscillatory thermal stresses mimicking global warming predictions

This article describes the exposure of freshly laid bobwhite quail eggs to one of five thermal regimes during a 12 day pre-incubation period.
Date: March 31, 2017
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art therapy and music reminiscence activity in the prevention of cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (open access)

Art therapy and music reminiscence activity in the prevention of cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

This article explores the feasibility of using art therapy and music reminiscence activity to improve the cognition of community living elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
Date: July 12, 2017
Creator: Mahendran, Rathi; Rawtaer, Iris; Fam, Johnson; Wong, Jonathan; Kumar, Alan Prem; Gandhi, Mihir et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Association between CYP2D6 Genotypes and the Risk of Antidepressant Discontinuation, Dosage Modification and the Occurrence of Maternal Depression during Pregnancy (open access)

Association between CYP2D6 Genotypes and the Risk of Antidepressant Discontinuation, Dosage Modification and the Occurrence of Maternal Depression during Pregnancy

This article investigates the association between CYP2D6 genotype and the risk of antidepressant discontinuation, dosage modification, and the occurrence of maternal CYP2D6, Antidepressants, Depression during pregnancy.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Bérard, Anick; Gaedigk, Andrea; Sheehy, Odile; Chambers, Christina; Roth, Mark; Bozzo, Pina et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: Effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation (open access)

Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: Effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation

This article investigates the contributions of genetic and plastic components for differences in body shape in two species of Lake Malawi cichlids using wild-caught specimens and a common garden experiment.
Date: January 28, 2017
Creator: Husemann, Martin; Tobler, Michael; McCauley, Cagney; Ding, Baoqing & Danley, Patrick D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: Effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation (open access)

Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: Effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation

Article describes study which investigated the contributions of both genetic and plastic components for differences in body shape in two species of Lake Malawi cichlids using wild‐caught specimens and a common garden experiment.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Husemann, Martin; Tobler, Michael; McCauley, Cagney; Ding, Baoqing & Danley, Patrick D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brain Inflammation, Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and Neuronal Synaptophysin Decrease after Inhalation Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nano-aerosol in Aging Rats (open access)

Brain Inflammation, Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and Neuronal Synaptophysin Decrease after Inhalation Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nano-aerosol in Aging Rats

This article focuses on the consequences of TiO₂ distribution on the central nervous system and particularly on the blood-brain barrier functions.
Date: June 15, 2017
Creator: Disdier, Clémence; Chalansonnet, Monique; Gagnaire, François; Gaté, Laurent; Cosnier, Frédéric; Devoy, Jérôme et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress (open access)

Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress

This article focuses on recent advances in brassinosteroid-regulated cell wall biosynthesis and remodeling in response to stresses, comparing the authors' understanding of the mechanisms in grass species with those in the more studied dicots.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer Stem-Like Cells Are Inhibited by Diosgenin, a Steroidal Saponin, by the Attenuation of the Wnt β-Catenin Signaling via the Wnt Antagonist Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-4 (open access)

Breast Cancer Stem-Like Cells Are Inhibited by Diosgenin, a Steroidal Saponin, by the Attenuation of the Wnt β-Catenin Signaling via the Wnt Antagonist Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-4

This article describes findings that demonstrate the affect of diosgenin (DG) on inhibiting the resilient breast cancer stem cells (CSCs) which could provide a benchmark for the development of DG-based therapies in breast cancer treatment.
Date: March 20, 2017
Creator: Bhuvanalakshmi, G.; Basappa; Rangappa, Kanchugarakoppal S.; Dharmarajan, Arunasalam; Sethi, Gautam; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Brief History of Insecticides and Quail (open access)

A Brief History of Insecticides and Quail

This paper examines the types of insecticides that have been used in the United States, how quail could be exposed to these substances, and how they may have contributed to declining quail populations.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Gobeli, Amanda; Thompson, Caitlin & Reyna, Kelly S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cardiorespiratory physiological phenotypic plasticity in developing air-breathing anabantid fishes (Betta splendens and Trichopodus trichopterus) (open access)

Cardiorespiratory physiological phenotypic plasticity in developing air-breathing anabantid fishes (Betta splendens and Trichopodus trichopterus)

This article discusses development plasticity of cardiorespiratory physiology in two air-breathing anabantid fishes.
Date: June 16, 2017
Creator: Mendez-Sanchez, Jose F. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of UGT716A1 as a Multi-substrate UDP:Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase Gene in Ginkgo biloba (open access)

Characterization of UGT716A1 as a Multi-substrate UDP:Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase Gene in Ginkgo biloba

This article discusses the generation of a transcriptomic dataset of G. biloba leaf tissue by high-throughput RNA sequencing to better understand flavonoid glucosylation in G. biloba.
Date: December 7, 2017
Creator: Su, Xiaojia; Shen, Guoan; Di, Shaokang; Dixon, R. A. & Pang, Yongzhen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A chemical genetic screen uncovers a small molecule enhancer of the N-acylethanolamine degrading enzyme, fatty acid amide hydrolase, in Arabidopsis (open access)

A chemical genetic screen uncovers a small molecule enhancer of the N-acylethanolamine degrading enzyme, fatty acid amide hydrolase, in Arabidopsis

This article demonstrates the feasibility of using an unbiased chemical genetic approach to identify new pharmacological tools for manipulating FAAH- and NAE-mediated physiological processes in plants.
Date: January 23, 2017
Creator: Khan, Bibi Rafeiza; Faure, Lionel; Chapman, Kent D. & Blancaflor, Elison B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters (open access)

A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters

This article discusses the effectiveness of utilizing local spatial variations in environmental data to uncover the statistical relationships between West Nile Virus (WNV) risk and environmental factors.
Date: March 28, 2017
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.; Tiwari, Chetan; Mikler, Armin R. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational design of environmental sensors for the potent opioid fentanyl (open access)

Computational design of environmental sensors for the potent opioid fentanyl

This article describes the computational design of proteins that bind the potent analgesic fentanyl.
Date: September 19, 2017
Creator: Bick, Matthew J.; Greisen, Per J.; Morey, Kevin J.; Antunes, Mauricio S.; La, David; Sankaran, Banumathi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational Identification of Amino-Acid Mutations That Further Improve the Activity of a Chalcone-Flavonone Isomerase From Glycine Max (open access)

Computational Identification of Amino-Acid Mutations That Further Improve the Activity of a Chalcone-Flavonone Isomerase From Glycine Max

This article discusses a computational approach that combines multiple sequence alignment, positive selection detection, and molecular docking to identify and design beneficial amino-acid mutations that further improve the intramolecular-cyclization activity of a chalcone-flavonone isomerase from Glycine max (GmCHI).
Date: February 24, 2017
Creator: Yuan, Hui; Wu, Jiaqi; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Chen, Jiakuan; Zhong, Yang; Huang, Qiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concept Inventory Development Reveals Common Student Misconceptions about Microbiology (open access)

Concept Inventory Development Reveals Common Student Misconceptions about Microbiology

This article identifies misconceptions in microbiology held by undergraduate students upon entry into an introductory, general microbiology course.
Date: October 30, 2017
Creator: Briggs, Amy G.; Hughes, Lee E.; Brennan, R. E.; Buchner, John; Horak, Rachel E. A.; Katz-Amburn, D. Sue et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Developmental Windows for Morphology and Hematology Revealed by Intermittent and Continuous Hypoxic Incubation in Embryos of Quail (Coturnix Coturnix) (open access)

Critical Developmental Windows for Morphology and Hematology Revealed by Intermittent and Continuous Hypoxic Incubation in Embryos of Quail (Coturnix Coturnix)

This article describes the exposure of quail embryos in the intact egg to hypoxia during "early" or "late" incubation for their entire 16-18 day incubation to determine critical windows for viability and growth.
Date: November 14, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W. & Elmonoufy, Nourhan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deciphering pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance islands in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genomes (open access)

Deciphering pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance islands in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genomes

This article explores the use of an information-entropy-based gene clustering method for genomic island detection in MRSA.
Date: November 16, 2017
Creator: Jani, Mehul; Sengupta, Soham; Hu, Kelsey & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and use of a switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) transformation pipeline by the BioEnergy Science Center to evaluate plants for reduced cell wall recalcitrance (open access)

Development and use of a switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) transformation pipeline by the BioEnergy Science Center to evaluate plants for reduced cell wall recalcitrance

Article examines the creation of a transformation pipeline (TP) to produce plants with decreased recalcitrance and a laboratory information management system (LIMS) for data compilation from these plants. While many genes accepted into the TP resulted in transgenic switchgrass without modified lignin or biomass content, a group of genes with potential to improve lignocellulosic biofuel yields was identified. Results from transgenic lines targeting xyloglucan and lignin structure provide examples of the types of information available on switchgrass lines produced within BioEnergy Science Center (BESC).
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance (open access)

Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance

This article provides information on the organization and outcomes of the BioEnergy Science Center Transformation Pipeline, and supplies useful information when developing coordinated, large-scale, multi-institutional reverse genetic pipelines to improve crop traits.
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal, Jr.; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development, Validation, and Application of the Microbiology Concept Inventory (open access)

Development, Validation, and Application of the Microbiology Concept Inventory

This article describes the creation and validation of a new microbiology concept inventory using the American Society for Microbiology Curriculum Guidelines.
Date: October 5, 2017
Creator: Paustian, Timothy D.; Briggs, Amy G.; Brennan, R. E.; Boury, Nancy; Buchner, John; Harris, Shannon et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developmental Transcriptomic Analyses for Mechanistic Insights Into Critical Pathways Involved in Embryogenesis of Pelagic Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus) (open access)

Developmental Transcriptomic Analyses for Mechanistic Insights Into Critical Pathways Involved in Embryogenesis of Pelagic Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus)

This article characterizes the developmental transcriptome of mahi-mahi by means of high throughput sequencing at three critical developmental stages.
Date: July 10, 2017
Creator: Xu, Elvis Genbo; Mager, Edward M.; Grosell, Martin; Stieglitz, John D.; Hazard, E. Starr; Hardiman, Gary et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Pcr Amplification of Dna From Human Bloodstains, Saliva, and Touch Samples Collected With Microfloq® Swabs (open access)

Direct Pcr Amplification of Dna From Human Bloodstains, Saliva, and Touch Samples Collected With Microfloq® Swabs

This article investigates the efficacy of direct amplification of DNA from bloodstains, saliva stains, and touch samples using microFLOQ® Direct swabs and the GlobalFiler™ Express system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA).
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.; Wiley, Rachel; Novroski, Nicole & Budowle, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does flooding effect the apparent survival and body condition of a ground foraging migrant passerine? (open access)

Does flooding effect the apparent survival and body condition of a ground foraging migrant passerine?

This study demonstrates the vulnerability of species to extreme hydrological events, an increasing threat due to climate change.
Date: April 10, 2017
Creator: Reiley, Bryan M.; Benson, Thomas J.; Everitts, Jeremy & Bednarz, James C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library