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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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants (open access)

Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants

This article contains RNA sequencing analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana plants subjected to light stress in order to identify and characterize rapid changes in the steady-state level of different transcripts in response to light stress.
Date: September 26, 2015
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Devireddy, Amith R.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Baxter, Aaron; Miller, Gad; Song, Luhua et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Exposure to Macondo Oil Reflected in the Otolith Chemistry of Marsh-Resident Fish? (open access)

Is Exposure to Macondo Oil Reflected in the Otolith Chemistry of Marsh-Resident Fish?

This article evaluates otolith microchemistry as a method for assessing oil exposure history.
Date: September 28, 2016
Creator: López-Duarte, Paola C.; Fodrie, F. Joel; Jensen, Olaf P.; Whitehead, Andrew; Galvez, Fernando; Dubansky, Benjamin et al.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus) (open access)

Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus)

This article investigates how preincubation egg storage conditions (temperature, duration, hypoxia, and hypercapnia) affects viability, body mass, and physiological variables and functions in day 15 chicken embryos.
Date: January 23, 2016
Creator: Branum, Sylvia R.; Tazawa, Hiroshi & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology (open access)

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology

This article makes the argument for interdisciplinary teams that bring together scientists with different specialties as an efficient way--and perhaps the only way--to unravel highly complex biological effects of marine oil spills.
Date: December 17, 2015
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Dubansky, Benjamin; Roberts, Aaron & Alloy, Matthew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Characterization of the Arabidopsis AtSUC2 Sucrose/H+ Symporter by Tissue-Specific Complementation Reveals an Essential Role in Phloem Loading But Not in Long-Distance Transport (open access)

Functional Characterization of the Arabidopsis AtSUC2 Sucrose/H+ Symporter by Tissue-Specific Complementation Reveals an Essential Role in Phloem Loading But Not in Long-Distance Transport

This article discusses functional characterization of the Arabidopsis AtSUC2 Sucrose/H+ Symporter.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Srivastava, Avinash C.; Ganesan, Savita; Ismail, Ihab O. & Ayre, Brian G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristic Male Urine Microbiomes Associate with Asymptomatic Sexually Transmitted Infection (open access)

Characteristic Male Urine Microbiomes Associate with Asymptomatic Sexually Transmitted Infection

Article discussing research on characteristic male urine microbiomes associated with asymptomatic sexually transmitted infection.
Date: November 2010
Creator: Nelson, David E.; Van Der Pol, Barbara; Dong, Qunfeng; Revanna, Kashi V.; Fan, Baochang; Easwaran, Shraddha et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiple domains in MtENOD8 protein including the signal peptide target it to the symbiosome (open access)

Multiple domains in MtENOD8 protein including the signal peptide target it to the symbiosome

Article presenting evidence from GFP fusion experiments that the MtENOD8 protein contains at least three symbiosome targeting domains, including its N-terminal signal peptide (SP).
Date: May 2012
Creator: Meckfessel, Matthew H.; Blancaflor, Elison B.; Plunkett, Michael; Dong, Qunfeng & Dickstein, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens (open access)

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens

Article discussing the microbial communities in male first catch urine and how these are highly similar to those paired in urethral swab specimens.
Date: May 13, 2011
Creator: Dong, Qunfeng; Nelson, David E.; Toh, Evelyn; Diao, Lixia; Gao, Xiang; Fortenberry, J. Dennis et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Plant Genomics Resources at Plant GDB (open access)

Comparative Plant Genomics Resources at Plant GDB

Article on comparative plant genomics resources at plant GDB.
Date: October 2005
Creator: Dong, Qunfeng; Lawrence, Carolyn J.; Schlueter, Shannon D.; Wilkerson, Matthew D.; Kurtz, Stefan; Brendel, Volker et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gelsolin Induces Colorectal Tumor Cell Invasion via Modulation of the Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Cascade (open access)

Gelsolin Induces Colorectal Tumor Cell Invasion via Modulation of the Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Cascade

Article on gelsolin inducing colorectal tumor cell invasion via modulation of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator cascade.
Date: August 21, 2012
Creator: Zhuo, Jingli; Tan, Ee Hong; Yan, Benedict; Tochhawng, Lalchhandami; Jayapal, Manikandan; Koh, Shiuan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thymoquinone Inhibits Tumor Growth and Induces Apoptosis in a Breast Cancer Xenograft Mouse Model: The Role of p38 MAPK and ROS (open access)

Thymoquinone Inhibits Tumor Growth and Induces Apoptosis in a Breast Cancer Xenograft Mouse Model: The Role of p38 MAPK and ROS

Article on thymoquinone inhibiting tumor growth and inducing apoptosis in a breast cancer xenograft mouse model and the role of p38 MAPK and ROS.
Date: October 2, 2013
Creator: Woo, Chern Chiuh; Hsu, Annie; Kumar, Alan Prem; Sethi, Gautam & Tan, Benny K-H
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ursolic Acid Inhibits the Initiation, Progression of Prostate Cancer and Prolongs the Survival of TRAMP Mice by Modulating Pro-Inflammatory Pathways (open access)

Ursolic Acid Inhibits the Initiation, Progression of Prostate Cancer and Prolongs the Survival of TRAMP Mice by Modulating Pro-Inflammatory Pathways

Article on ursolic acid inhibiting the initiation, progression of prostate cancer and prolonging the survival of TRAMP mice by modulating pro-inflammatory pathways.
Date: March 12, 2012
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Ong, Tina H.; Kumar, Alan Prem; Chang, Kai Lun; Ho, Paul C.; Wong, Peter T. H. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpreting genomic data via entropic dissection (open access)

Interpreting genomic data via entropic dissection

Article on interpreting genomic data via entropic dissection.
Date: October 3, 2012
Creator: Azad, Rajeev K. & Li, Jing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Keel petal incision: a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula (open access)

Keel petal incision: a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula

Article on keel petal incision and a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula.
Date: January 9, 2014
Creator: Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Kadel, Khem; Alexis, Naudin; Scott, Ashley; Kryvoruchko, Igor; Sinharoy, Senjuti et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Identification of a Functional Homologue of the Mammalian Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase in Arabidopsis thaliana (open access)

Molecular Identification of a Functional Homologue of the Mammalian Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase in Arabidopsis thaliana

Article on the molecular identification of a functional homologue of the mammalian fatty acid amide hydrolase in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Date: June 24, 2003
Creator: Shrestha, Rhidaya; Dixon, R. A. & Chapman, Kent D.
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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interactions between mitoNEET and NAF-1 in cells (open access)

Interactions between mitoNEET and NAF-1 in cells

This article uses yeast two-hybrid to demonstrate through vivo bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC), direct coupling analysis (DCA), RNA-sequencing, ROS and iron imaging, and single and double shRNA lines with suppressed mNT, NAF-1 and mNT/NAF-1 expression, that mNT and NAF-1 directly interact in mammalian cells and could function in the same cellular pathway.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: Karmi, Ola; Holt, Sarah H.; Song, Luhua; Tamir, Sagi; Luo, Yuting; Bai, Fang et al.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prioritizing Riparian Cooridors for Water Quality Protection in Urbanizing Watersheds (open access)

Prioritizing Riparian Cooridors for Water Quality Protection in Urbanizing Watersheds

This article describes the design of a GIS and remote sensing based analysis tool called the Water Quality Corridor Management model to identify and prioritize highly functioning riparian ecosystems for the preservation of steam corridor conditions.
Date: May 21, 2010
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Hunter, Bruce & English, April
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demonstrating the Uses of the Novel Gravitational Force Spectrometer to Stretch and Measure Fibrous Proteins (open access)

Demonstrating the Uses of the Novel Gravitational Force Spectrometer to Stretch and Measure Fibrous Proteins

Article on demonstrating the uses of the novel gravitational force spectrometer to stretch and measure fibrous proteins.
Date: 2011
Creator: Dunn, James W. & Root, Douglas D.
System: The UNT Digital Library