The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex (open access)

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

This article discusses the ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex.
Date: February 4, 2011
Creator: Colbourne, John K.; Pfrender, Michael E.; Gilbert, Donald; Thomas, W. Kelley; Tucker, Abraham; Oakley, Todd H. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cardiac and metabolic physiology of early larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) reflects parental swimming stamina (open access)

Cardiac and metabolic physiology of early larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) reflects parental swimming stamina

Article discussing research on cardiac and metabolic physiology of early larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) reflecting parental swimming stamina.
Date: February 24, 2012
Creator: Gore, Matthew & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to: Use of prior odds for missing persons identifications - author's reply (open access)

Response to: Use of prior odds for missing persons identifications - author's reply

This article is in response to an authors' reply to 'Use of prior odds for missing persons identifications.' This response is to the reply by Alex Biedermann, Franco Taroni, and Pierre Margot.
Date: February 1, 2012
Creator: Budowle, Bruce; Ge, Jianye; Chakraborty, Ranajit & Gill-King, Harrell
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental and Genetic Preconditioning for Long-Term Anoxia Responses Requires AMPK in Caenorhabditis elegans (open access)

Environmental and Genetic Preconditioning for Long-Term Anoxia Responses Requires AMPK in Caenorhabditis elegans

Article on environmental and genetic preconditioning for long-term anoxia responses requires AMPK in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Date: February 3, 2011
Creator: LaRue, Bobby L. & Padilla, Pamela A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial Mapping of Lipids at Cellular Resolution in Embryos of Cotton (open access)

Spatial Mapping of Lipids at Cellular Resolution in Embryos of Cotton

Article on the spatial mapping of lipids at cellular resolution in embryos of cotton.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Horn, Patrick J.; Korte, Andrew R.; Neogi, Purnima B.; Love, Ebony; Fuchs, Johannes; Strupat, Kerstin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Botulinum Toxin Suppression of CNS Network Activity In Vitro (open access)

Botulinum Toxin Suppression of CNS Network Activity In Vitro

Article on botulinum toxin suppression of CNS network activity in vitro.
Date: February 12, 2014
Creator: Pancrazio, Joseph J.; Gopal, Kamakshi V.; Keefer, Edward W. & Gross, Guenter W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantitative assessment of sad emotion (open access)

Quantitative assessment of sad emotion

Article on a quantitative assessment of sad emotion.
Date: February 12, 2015
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Garcinol sensitizes human head and neck carcinoma to cisplatin in a xenoraft mouse model despite downregulation of proliferative biomarkers (open access)

Garcinol sensitizes human head and neck carcinoma to cisplatin in a xenoraft mouse model despite downregulation of proliferative biomarkers

This article investigates whether garcinol, a polyisoprenylated benzophenone can chemosensitize HNSCC to cisplatin.
Date: February 28, 2015
Creator: Li, Feng; Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Wang, Fan; Ong, Tina H.; Loo, Ser Yue et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin (open access)

Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin

This article seeks to determine the effects of oral curcumin supplementation on muscle and activities of daily living soreness, creatine kinase, and inflammatory cytokines following exercise-induced muscle damage.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Venable, Adam S.; Henning, Andrea L.; Best Sampson, Jill N.; Pennel, Kathryn; Vingren, Jakob L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genome Sequences of Streptomyces Phages Amela and Verse (open access)

Genome Sequences of Streptomyces Phages Amela and Verse

This article describes Amela and Verse, two Streptomyces phages isolated by enrichment on Streptomyces venezuelae (ATCC 10712) from two different soil samples.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: Layton, Sonya R.; Hemenway, Ryan M.; Munyoki, Christine M.; Barnes, Emory B.; Barnett, Sierra E.; Bond, Alec M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing (open access)

Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing

This article demonstrates that whole genome sequencing is an efficient approach for identification of causative genes underlying symbiotic nitrogen fixation defective phenotypes in Medicago truncatula Tnt1 insertion mutants obtained via forward genetic screens.
Date: February 27, 2016
Creator: Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Jani, Mehul; Kadel, Khem; Troiani, Taylor; Gale, Ronny; Mayes, Tyler et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A toolbox of genes, proteins, metabolites and promoters for improving drought tolerance in soybean includes the metabolite coumestrol and stomatal development genes (open access)

A toolbox of genes, proteins, metabolites and promoters for improving drought tolerance in soybean includes the metabolite coumestrol and stomatal development genes

This article identifies metabolites, proteins, and genes that are strongly up or down regulated during rapid water stress following remove from a hydroponics system.
Date: February 9, 2016
Creator: Tripathi, Prateek; Rabara, Roel C.; Reese, R. Neil; Miller, Marissa A.; Rohila, Jai S.; Subramanian, Senthil et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3,5-Bis(4-chlorobenzylidene)-1-methyl-piperidin-4-one (open access)

3,5-Bis(4-chlorobenzylidene)-1-methyl-piperidin-4-one

In the title molecule, C₂₀H₁₇Cl₂NO, the central heterocyclic ring adopts a flattened boat conformation.
Date: February 23, 2011
Creator: Nesterov, Volodymyr V.; Sarkisov, Sergey S.; Shulaev, Vladimir & Nesterov, Vladimir N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epigenetics as a Source of Variation in Comparative Animal Physiology - or - Lamarck Is Lookin' Pretty Good These Days (open access)

Epigenetics as a Source of Variation in Comparative Animal Physiology - or - Lamarck Is Lookin' Pretty Good These Days

This article discusses the ecological and and evolutionary significance of such epigenetic inheritance in a comparative physiological context, and provides a number of caveats and warnings regarding the interpretation of transgenerational phenotype modification as a true epigenetic phenomenon.
Date: February 26, 2014
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Multifaceted Role of Curcumin in Cancer Prevention and Treatment (open access)

The Multifaceted Role of Curcumin in Cancer Prevention and Treatment

This review focuses on the diverse molecular targets modulated by curcumin that contribute to its efficacy against various human cancers.
Date: February 5, 2015
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Rane, Grishma; Mathi Kanchi, Madhu; Arfuso, Frank; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Zayed, M.E. et al.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins uncovers a link between a key gene duplication event and the evolution of vertebrates (open access)

Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins uncovers a link between a key gene duplication event and the evolution of vertebrates

This article describes the use of three members of the human NEET protein family (CISD1, mitoNEET; CISD2, NAF-1 or Miner 1; and CISD3, Miner2) as guides to conduct a phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins and their evolution.
Date: February 16, 2017
Creator: Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Sengupta, Soham; Nechushtai, Rachel; Jennings, Patricia A.; Onuchic, José N.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Replication Concepts for Bioenergy Research Experiments (open access)

Replication Concepts for Bioenergy Research Experiments

This article discusses examples and guidelines to form the general policy and guidelines for replication of bioenergy feedstock experiments to be published in BioEnergy Research.
Date: February 5, 2015
Creator: Casler, Michael D.; Vermerris, Wilfred & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lophozonia tree cavities used for nesting by Slender-billed Parakeets (Enicognathus leptorhynchus) in the central valley of southern Chile: a potentially vanishing keystone resource (open access)

Lophozonia tree cavities used for nesting by Slender-billed Parakeets (Enicognathus leptorhynchus) in the central valley of southern Chile: a potentially vanishing keystone resource

This article describes and quantifies characteristics of southern beech (Lophoonia obliqua) trees and their associated cavities used for nesting by Slender-billed Parakeets in the central valley of southern Chile.
Date: February 6, 2017
Creator: White, Thomas H., Jr. & Jiménez, Jaime E.
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
Archaeological Protein Residues: New Data for Conservation Science (open access)

Archaeological Protein Residues: New Data for Conservation Science

This article identifies several cases where archaeological protein residues may be of benefit, justifies the use of protein residues in particular, and discusses areas for improvement.
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Barker, Andrew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Phenoxyacyl-Ethanolamides and Their Effects on Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Activity (open access)

Synthesis of Phenoxyacyl-Ethanolamides and Their Effects on Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Activity

This article discusses the synthesis of two sets of phenoxyacyl-ethanolamides from natural products, 3-n-pentadecylphenolethanolamide and cardanolethanolamide, with structural similarity to N-Acylethanolamines and characterizes their effects on the hydroltic activity of fatty acid amide hydrolase.
Date: February 20, 2014
Creator: Faure, Lionel; Nagarajan, Subbiah; Hwang, Hyeondo; Montgomery, Christa L.; Khan, Bibi Rafeiza; John, George et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-distance communication and signal amplication in systemic acquired resistance (open access)

Long-distance communication and signal amplication in systemic acquired resistance

This review article summarizes the involvement and interaction between long-distance systemic acquired resistance (SAR) signals and details the recently discovered role of lysine catabolite pipecolic acid (Pip) in defense amplification and priming that allows plants to acquire immunity at the systemic level.
Date: February 22, 2013
Creator: Shah, Jyoti & Zeier, Jürgen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds (open access)

Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds

This article describes the use of matrix-assisted laser/desorption ionization-mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) to study the spatial distribution of two major lipid species, triacylglycerols and phosphatidylcholines.
Date: February 10, 2017
Creator: Woodfield, Helen K.; Sturtevant, Drew; Borisjuk, Ljudmilla; Munz, Eberhard; Guschina, Irina A.; Chapman, Kent D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance are affected by group interactions and sex in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): new data and a literature survey (open access)

Metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance are affected by group interactions and sex in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): new data and a literature survey

This article characterizes the effects of fly density and sex on both mass-specific routine oxygen consumption and hypoxia tolerance.
Date: February 14, 2017
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Souder, BriAnna M. & Ho, Dao H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library