Evaluation of a Chicken 600K SNP genotyping array in non-model species of grouse (open access)

Evaluation of a Chicken 600K SNP genotyping array in non-model species of grouse

This article tested the cross-species application of the Affymetrix 600K Chicken SNP array in five species of North American prairie grouse (Centrocercus and Tympanuchus genera). This study study provided evidence for successful cross-species application of the chicken SNP array in grouse which diverged ca. 37 mya from the chicken lineage. As far as the authors are concerned, this is the first reported application of a SNP array in non-passerine birds, and it demonstrates the feasibility of using commercial SNP arrays in research on non-model bird species.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Minias, Piotr; Dunn, Peter O.; Whittingham, Linda A.; Johnson, Jeff A. & Oyler-McCance, Sara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of MS222 on Hemostasis in Zebrafish (open access)

Effect of MS222 on Hemostasis in Zebrafish

Article studying the effect of MS222 on hemostasis in Zebrafish. The authors performed various assays and find that Hct values, the amount of blood collected, bleeding, and coagulation differ significantly between anesthetized and nonanesthetized fish. These results suggest that blood collected after MS222 anesthesia of zebrafish has altered hemostasis.
Date: May 1, 2019
Creator: Afnan, Deebani; Iyer, Neha; Raman, Revathi & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Arabidopsis PAD4 Lipase-Like Domain Is Sufficient for Resistance to Green Peach Aphid (open access)

The Arabidopsis PAD4 Lipase-Like Domain Is Sufficient for Resistance to Green Peach Aphid

Article exploring PAD4 functions in plant defense by expressing the N-terminal PAD4 lipase-like domain (PAD4ᴸᴸᴰ) without its C-terminal EDS1-PAD4 (EP) domain. The authors show that transgenic expression of PAD4ᴸᴸᴰ in Arabidopsis is sufficient for limiting GPA infestation but not for conferring basal and effector-triggered pathogen immunity. This suggests that the C-terminal PAD4 EP domain is necessary for EDS1-dependent immune functions but is dispensable for aphid resistance. Moreover, PAD4ᴸᴸᴰ is not sufficient to interact with EDS1, indicating the PAD4-EP domain is required for stable heterodimerization. These data provide molecular evidence that PAD4 has domain-specific functions.
Date: December 27, 2019
Creator: Dongus, Joram A.; Bhandari, Deepak D.; Patel, Monika; Archer, Lani; Dijkgraaf, Lucas; Shah, Jyoti et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting the pattern-triggered immunity pathway to enhance resistance to Fusarium graminearum (open access)

Targeting the pattern-triggered immunity pathway to enhance resistance to Fusarium graminearum

Article describes study which shows that resistance against fusarium graminearum, the primary casual agent of fusarium head blight (FHB), can be enhanced by flg22, a bacterial microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP).
Date: February 6, 2019
Creator: Sarowar, Sujon; Alam, Syeda T.; Makandar, Ragiba; Lee, Hyeonju; Trick, Harold N.; Dong, Yanhong et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Genome Sequence of the Cyanotroph Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3 (open access)

Draft Genome Sequence of the Cyanotroph Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3

This article reports the first draft genome of Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3, a cyanotroph isolated from sewage sludge.
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Jones, Lauren B. & Kunz, Daniel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The future of legume genetic data resources: Challenges, opportunities, and priorities (open access)

The future of legume genetic data resources: Challenges, opportunities, and priorities

This article is a commentary on the future of legume genetic data resources and summarizes the workshop held in March of 2019 by the Legume Genomic Data Working Group that addressed questions of data resources and priorities for legumes.
Date: August 5, 2019
Creator: Legume Genomic Data Working Group
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parental stressor exposure simultaneously conveys both adaptive and maladaptive larval phenotypes through epigenetic inheritance in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) (open access)

Parental stressor exposure simultaneously conveys both adaptive and maladaptive larval phenotypes through epigenetic inheritance in the zebrafish (Danio rerio)

This article is a study using crude oil as an example of an environmental stressor in adult zebrafish. The offspring obtained were then assessed for transgenerational epigenetic transfer of oil-induced phenotypes. The authors conclude that epigenetic transgenerational inheritance can lead to an immediate and simultaneous inheritance of both beneficial and maladaptive traits in a large proportion of the F1 larvae. The adaptive responses may help fish populations survive when facing transient environmental stressors.
Date: September 5, 2019
Creator: Bautista, Naim M. & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of blood flow in the pulmonary and systemic circuits during submerged swimming in common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) (open access)

Regulation of blood flow in the pulmonary and systemic circuits during submerged swimming in common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

This article is a study investigating the blood flow patterns and heart rate in surfacing and during graded, submerged swimming activity in common snapping turtles. The effects of beta-adrenergic and cholinergic receptor blockade on blood flow and heart rate during these activities are also studied.
Date: August 16, 2019
Creator: Reynolds Kirby, Amanda; Smith, Brandt R. & Crossley, Dane A., II
System: The UNT Digital Library
Embryonic developmental oxygen preconditions cardiovascular functional response to acute hypoxic exposure and maximal β-adrenergic stimulation of anesthetized juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) (open access)

Embryonic developmental oxygen preconditions cardiovascular functional response to acute hypoxic exposure and maximal β-adrenergic stimulation of anesthetized juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

Article investigating the effect of embryonic hypoxia on the cardiovascular phenotype of 4-year-old American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). The findings indicate that embryonic hypoxia in crocodilians alters the cardiovascular phenotype, changing the juvenile response to acute hypoxia and β-adrenergic stimulation.
Date: January 26, 2018
Creator: Smith, Brandt R.; Crossley, Janna; Elsey, Ruth M.; Hicks, James W. & Crossley, Dane A., II
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the left aorta provide proton-rich blood to the gut when crocodilians digest a meal? (open access)

Does the left aorta provide proton-rich blood to the gut when crocodilians digest a meal?

Article measuring blood parameters in the left aortae and atria of crocodilians. The findings do not support the hypothesis that a R–L shunt serves to deliver CO2 for the gastrointestinal system after feeding in crocodilians.
Date: February 4, 2019
Creator: Conner, Justin L.; Crossley, Janna; Elsey, Ruth M.; Nelson, Derek; Wang, Tobias & Crossley, Dane A., II
System: The UNT Digital Library
The osmorespiratory compromise in the euryhaline killifish: water regulation during hypoxia (open access)

The osmorespiratory compromise in the euryhaline killifish: water regulation during hypoxia

Article studying water regulation during hypoxia in euryhaline killifish.
Date: September 24, 2019
Creator: Mager, Edward M.; Wood, Chris M.; Ruhr, Ilan M.; Schauer, Kevin L.; Wang, Yadong; McDonald, M. Danielle et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase (SERCA) activity during the transition to endothermy in an altricial bird (open access)

Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase (SERCA) activity during the transition to endothermy in an altricial bird

Article describes SERCA activity in the pectoralis muscle and heart ventricle of red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) nestlings, fledglings and adults. Additionally, using a diet manipulation, the authors tested the hypothesis that muscle SERCA activity is affected by dietary fatty acid composition, as has been shown in some previous studies.
Date: June 28, 2019
Creator: Price, Edwin R.; Sirsat, Tushar S.; Sirsat, Sarah K. G. & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural analysis of a plant fatty acid amide hydrolase provides insights into the evolutionary diversity of bioactive acylethanolamides (open access)

Structural analysis of a plant fatty acid amide hydrolase provides insights into the evolutionary diversity of bioactive acylethanolamides

Article reporting the three-dimensional crystal structures of the signal-terminating enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) from Arabidopsis in its apo and ligand-bound forms at 2.1- and 3.2-Å resolutions, respectively.
Date: March 20, 2019
Creator: Aziz, Mina; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Tripathi, Ashutosh; Bankaitis, Vytas A. & Chapman, Kent Dean
System: The UNT Digital Library
One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants (open access)

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

Article describes the results of the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative's efforts to sequence the vegetative transcriptomes of 1,124 species that span the diversity of plants in a broad sense (Archaeplastida), including green plants (Viridiplantae), glaucophytes (Glaucophyta) and red algae (Rhodophyta).
Date: October 23, 2019
Creator: One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lignin biosynthesis: old roads revisited and new roads explored (open access)

Lignin biosynthesis: old roads revisited and new roads explored

Article presents several hypothetical models to illustrate information about lignin and the lignification process in plants.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Dixon, R. A. & Barros, Jaime
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Combined Metabolomics and Fluxomics Analysis Identifies Steps Limiting Oil Synthesis in Maize Embryos (open access)

A Combined Metabolomics and Fluxomics Analysis Identifies Steps Limiting Oil Synthesis in Maize Embryos

Article comparing the metabolism of embryos from two different maize lines, Alex and LH59, to test the hypothesis that directly changing their carbon metabolism may be the key to increasing oil content in maize kernels without affecting yield.
Date: September 17, 2019
Creator: Alonso, Ana Paula; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Koubaa, Mohamed; Kimmelfield, Rebecca & Ross, Zacchary
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network (open access)

Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network

This article proposes that a plant's ability to engage in many different metabolic and molecular networks as well as alter stomatal aperture in order to adapt to their environment is mediated through pulses of gene expression that are coordinated throughout the plant in a systemic manner by the ROS/Ca+2 waves.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Kollist, Hannes; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Nuhkat, Maris; Kangasjärvi, Jaakko & Mittler, Ron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altitudinal gradients in Magellanic sub-Antarctic lagoons: the effect of elevation on freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and distribution (open access)

Altitudinal gradients in Magellanic sub-Antarctic lagoons: the effect of elevation on freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and distribution

In this article, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity associated with lakes and ponds along the altitudinal gradient of a Magellanic sub-Antarctic watershed are assessed. A monotonic decline in species richness was observed with increasing elevation, with simpler and more even community composition at higher altitude. This pattern differs from the mid-peak trend found in streams of the same watershed. Functional feeding group structure also diminished with increasing elevation.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Rendoll Cárcamo, Javier; Contador, Tamara; Gañán, Melisa; Pérez Troncoso, Carolina; Maldonado Márquez, Alan; Convey, Peter et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retinal oxygen supply shaped the functional evolution of the vertebrate eye (open access)

Retinal oxygen supply shaped the functional evolution of the vertebrate eye

Article explores the hypothesis that oxygen diffusion limited the evolution of retinal morphology by reconstructing the evolution of retinal thickness and the various mechanisms for retinal oxygen supply, including capillarization and acid-induced haemoglobin oxygen unloading.
Date: December 10, 2019
Creator: Damsgaard, Christian; Lauridsen, Henrik; Funder, Anette MD; Thomsen, Jesper S.; Desvignes, Thomas; Crossley, Dane A., II et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mahi‐mahi (Coryphaena hippurus ) life development: morphological, physiological, behavioral and molecular phenotypes (open access)

Mahi‐mahi (Coryphaena hippurus ) life development: morphological, physiological, behavioral and molecular phenotypes

Article relates a study describing the development of cultured mahi‐mahi from the zygote stage to adult.
Date: March 18, 2019
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Stieglitz, John D.; Xu, Elvis Genbo; Magnuson, Jason T.; Pasparakis, Christina; Mager, Edward M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Efficient Synthesis of Deoxyrhapontigenin-3-O-β-d-glucuronide, a Brain-Targeted Derivative of Dietary Resveratrol, and Its Precursor 4′-O-Me-Resveratrol (open access)

An Efficient Synthesis of Deoxyrhapontigenin-3-O-β-d-glucuronide, a Brain-Targeted Derivative of Dietary Resveratrol, and Its Precursor 4′-O-Me-Resveratrol

Article discusses the identification of the brain-available phenol glucuronide metabolite deoxyrhapontigenin-3-O-β-d-glucuronide (5) in perfused rat brains following subacute treatment with the stilbene resveratrol.
Date: May 7, 2019
Creator: de Fátima, Ângelo; Docampo-Palacios, Maite; Alvarez-Hernandez, Anislay; Pasinetti, Giulio M. & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Campephiline detection: An experiment conducted with the Magellanic Woodpecker (open access)

Improved Campephiline detection: An experiment conducted with the Magellanic Woodpecker

Article describes a study which tried to determine which of three methods (useing a drumming device to simulate a double‐knock (i.e., territorial acoustical signal), broadcasting a territorial call, or passively listening) best results in a detection of Magellanic Woodpeckers (Campephilus magellanicus ), and if weather variables influence detection probability.
Date: September 27, 2019
Creator: Wynia, Amy L.; Rolland, Virginie & Jiménez, Jaime E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioinspired cellular sheath-core electrospun non-woven mesh (open access)

Bioinspired cellular sheath-core electrospun non-woven mesh

Article using preferential solubility of a polymer in supercritical CO2 to develop a new architecture using biocompatible polymers based on porous core-sheath fiber fabrication technique.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Rizvi, Hussain R.; D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967-; Ayre, Brian G. & Ramesh, Dinesh
System: The UNT Digital Library
IslandCafe: Compositional Anomaly and Feature Enrichment Assessment for Delineation of Genomic Islands (open access)

IslandCafe: Compositional Anomaly and Feature Enrichment Assessment for Delineation of Genomic Islands

Article discusses IslandCafe, a proposed method for genomic island detection.
Date: October 1, 2019
Creator: Jani, Mehul & Azad, Rajeev K.
System: The UNT Digital Library