Celebrating 20 Years of Genetic Discoveries in Legume Nodulation and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (open access)

Celebrating 20 Years of Genetic Discoveries in Legume Nodulation and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

This article is a review cataloging and contextualizing all of the plant genes currently known to be required for SNF in two model legume species, Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus, and two crop species, Glycine max (soybean) and Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean). The authors also briefly consider the future of SNF genetics in the era of pan-genomics and genome editing.
Date: October 24, 2019
Creator: Roy, Sonali; Liu, Wei; Nandety, Raja Sekhar; Crook, Ashley; Mysore, Kirankumar S.; Pislariu, Catalina I. et al.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simultaneous electrophysiological and morphological assessment of functional damage to neural networks in vitro after 30–300 g impacts (open access)

Simultaneous electrophysiological and morphological assessment of functional damage to neural networks in vitro after 30–300 g impacts

Article describes studying aiming to investigate and quantify network activity changes after simulated concussions in vitro and therewith develop a platform for simultaneous and direct observations of morphological and electrophysiological changes in neural networks.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Rogers, Edmond A. & Gross, Guenter W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding New Cell Wall Regulatory Genes in Populus trichocarpa Using Multiple Lines of Evidence (open access)

Finding New Cell Wall Regulatory Genes in Populus trichocarpa Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

Article describes study which searched for genes with putatively unknown roles in regulating cell wall biosynthesis using an extended network-based Lines of Evidence (LOE) pipeline to combine multiple omics data sets in P. trichocarpa, including gene coexpression, gene comethylation, population level pairwise SNP correlations, and two distinct SNP-metabolite Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) layers.
Date: October 8, 2019
Creator: Furches, Anna; Kainer, David; Weighill, Deborah; Large, Annabel; Jones, Piet; Walker, Angelica M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jasmonic Acid Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of High Light and Heat Stress (open access)

Jasmonic Acid Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of High Light and Heat Stress

Article studying the responses of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants to a combination of high light and heat stress (HL+HS) conditions. The study reveals that Jasmonic acid (JA) plays an important role in the acclimation of plants to a combination of HL+HS.
Date: October 8, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Soham; Azad, Rajeev K.; Balfagón, Damián; Gómez-Cadenas, Aurelio; Fritschi, Felix B.; Mittler, Ron et al.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus (open access)

Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus

This article investigates physiological responses of larval fish to interactions between anthropogenic crude oile xposure andn atural factors.
Date: October 17, 2018
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Mager, Edward M.; Pasparakis, Christina; Stieglitz, John D.; Benetti, Daniel D.; Grosell, Martin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the [2Fe–2S] Cluster-Binding Domain of NEET Proteins Reveal Key Molecular Determinants That Induce Their Cluster Transfer/Release (open access)

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the [2Fe–2S] Cluster-Binding Domain of NEET Proteins Reveal Key Molecular Determinants That Induce Their Cluster Transfer/Release

Article examines NEET proteins and aberrant cluster release, which is implicated in a variety of human diseases, including cancer.
Date: October 31, 2017
Creator: Pesce, Luca; Calandrini, Vania; Marjault, Henri-Baptiste; Lipper, Colin H.; Rossetti, Gulia; Mittler, Ron 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
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
Short-chain fatty acid receptors inhibit invasive phenotypes in breast cancer cells (open access)

Short-chain fatty acid receptors inhibit invasive phenotypes in breast cancer cells

This article evaluates the effects of enforced overexpression of two known G protein-coupled receptors in two phenotypically distinct breast cancer cell lines.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Thirunavukkarasan, Madhumathi; Wang, Chao; Rao, Angad; Hind, Tatsuma; Teo, Yuan Ru; Siddiquee, Abrar Al-Mahmood 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
Terrestrial herpetofauna of Limnos and Agios Efstratios (Northern Aegean, Greece), including new species records for Malpolon insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) and Pelobates syriacus Boettger, 1889 (open access)

Terrestrial herpetofauna of Limnos and Agios Efstratios (Northern Aegean, Greece), including new species records for Malpolon insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) and Pelobates syriacus Boettger, 1889

This article presents herpetofaunal observations from Limnos and Agios Efstratios, two Asia Minor continental shelf islands in the Aegean Sea. Comprehensive surveys over 88 days in total on Limnos, over a period of nine years, consisted mainly of visual encounter surveys and road cruised observations, revealed the presence of three species of amphibians and twelve species of reptiles, including two new species records for the island (Malpolon insignitus and Pelobates syriacus). The results of these surveys provide a clearer understanding of the extant herpetofauna on Limnos and Agios Efstratios and offer discussion on natural history, possible erroneous historical records and preliminary ecological understanding of the herpetofaunal assemblages residing on these islands.
Date: October 25, 2016
Creator: Strachinis, Ilias & Roussos, Stephanos Antonios
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interspecific Differences in Metabolic Rate and Metabolic Temperature Sensitivity Create Distinct Thermal Ecological Niches in Lizards (Plestiodon) (open access)

Interspecific Differences in Metabolic Rate and Metabolic Temperature Sensitivity Create Distinct Thermal Ecological Niches in Lizards (Plestiodon)

This article examines three congeneric lizards from the southeastern United States (Plestiodon fasciatus, P. inexpectatus, and P. laticeps) and hypothesizes that interspecific differences in metabolic temperature sensitivity locally segregates them across their total range.
Date: October 19, 2016
Creator: Watson, Charles M. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
More comprehensive forensic genetic marker analyses for accurate human remains identification using massively parallel DNA sequencing (open access)

More comprehensive forensic genetic marker analyses for accurate human remains identification using massively parallel DNA sequencing

This paper uses massively parallel sequencing (MPS) to characterize 140-year-old human skeletal remains discovered at a historical site in Deadwood, South Dakota, United States.
Date: October 17, 2016
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.; Churchill, Jennifer D.; King, Jonathan L.; Stoljarova, Monika; Gill-King, Harrell; Assidi, Mourad et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Differences between NAD-dependent malic enzyme and NADP-dependent malic enzyme Subtypes of C4 Photosynthesis: More than Decarboxylating Enzymes (open access)

The Differences between NAD-dependent malic enzyme and NADP-dependent malic enzyme Subtypes of C4 Photosynthesis: More than Decarboxylating Enzymes

Article addresses the differences in evolutionary scenario, leaf anatomy, and especially C4 metabolic flow, C4 transporters, and cell-specific function deduced from recently reported cell-specific transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolic analyses of NAD-dependent malic enzyme (NAD-ME) and NADP-dependent malic enzyme (NADP-ME) subtypes.
Date: October 13, 2016
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Novel aromatase inhibitors selection using induced fit docking and extra precision methods: Potential clinical use in ER-alpha-positive breast cancer (open access)

Novel aromatase inhibitors selection using induced fit docking and extra precision methods: Potential clinical use in ER-alpha-positive breast cancer

This article aims to identify new molecules which could block or suppress the activity of aromatase enzyme by molecular docking studies using Schrödinger-Maestro v9.3.
Date: October 10, 2016
Creator: Kumavath, Ranjith; Azad, Manan; Devarapalli, Pratap; Tiwari, Sandeep; Kar, Shreya; Barh, Debmalya et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developmental plasticity of mitochondrial function in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis (open access)

Developmental plasticity of mitochondrial function in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis

This article investigates the effects of chronic developmental hypoxia on cardiac mitochondrial function in embryonic and juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis).
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Galli, Gina L. J.; Crossley, Janna; Elsey, Ruth M.; Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael); Shiels, Holly A. & Crossley, Dane A., II
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing interval estimates for small sample ordinal CFA models (open access)

Comparing interval estimates for small sample ordinal CFA models

This article compares Bayesian, Robust maximum likelihood, and asymptotically generalized least squares interval estimates of factor correlations in ordinal confirmatory factor analysis models for small sample data.
Date: October 30, 2015
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in gastric carcinoma: A reality for personalized medicine? (open access)

Targeting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in gastric carcinoma: A reality for personalized medicine?

Article reviews the common dysregulation of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinases (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR pathway in gastric cancer (GC) and the various types of single or dual pathway inhibitors under development that might have a superior role in GC treatment.
Date: October 26, 2015
Creator: Singh, Shikha Satendra; Yap, Wei Ney; Arfuso, Frank; Kar, Shreya; Wang, Chao; Cai, Wanpei et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Viperatoxin-Ii: A Novel Viper Venom Protein as an Effective Bactericidal Agent (open access)

Viperatoxin-Ii: A Novel Viper Venom Protein as an Effective Bactericidal Agent

This article discusses purification and characterization of proteins from Indian Russell's viper snake venom.
Date: October 14, 2015
Creator: Samy, Ramar Perumal; Stiles, Bradley G.; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Zayed, M.E.; Ali Alharbi, Sulaiman; Franco, Octávio Luiz et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis (open access)

Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis

This article reports the first physiological 2Fe-2S cluster acceptor for both NEET proteins as human Anamorsin (also known as cytokine induced apoptosis inhibitor-1; CIAPIN-1).
Date: October 8, 2015
Creator: Lipper, Colin H.; Paddock, Mark L.; Onuchic, José N.; Mittler, Ron; Nechushtai, Rachel & Jennings, Patricia A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complete Genome Sequence of a Cyanotroph, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764, Employing Single-Molecule Real-Time Technology (open access)

Complete Genome Sequence of a Cyanotroph, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764, Employing Single-Molecule Real-Time Technology

This article reports the application of single-molecule real-time sequencing for determining the entire genome structure of the cyanotroph Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764.
Date: October 1, 2015
Creator: Jones, Lauren B. & Kunz, Daniel A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming (open access)

Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming

This article contains an analysis of 16 microstatellite loci from 300 Greater Sage-Grouse individuals to assess genetic structure among populations in Wyoming and southeast Montana.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Schulwitz, Sarah; Bedrosian, Bryan & Johnson, Jeff A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library