Loss of Rare Fish Species from Tropical Floodplain Food Webs Affects Community Structure and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in a Mesocosm Experiment (open access)

Loss of Rare Fish Species from Tropical Floodplain Food Webs Affects Community Structure and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in a Mesocosm Experiment

Article on the loss of rare fish species from tropical floodplain food webs and how this affects community structure and ecosystem multifunctionality in a mesocosm experiment.
Date: February 3, 2012
Creator: Pendleton, Richard M.; Hoeinghaus, David; Gomes, Luiz C. & Agostinho, Angela A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
TrichOME: A Comparative Omics Database for Plant Trichomes (open access)

TrichOME: A Comparative Omics Database for Plant Trichomes

Article on TrichOME, a comparative omics database for plant trichomes.
Date: January 2010
Creator: Dai, Xinbin; Wang, Guodong; Yang, Dong Sik; Tang, Yuhong; Broun, Pierre; Marks, M. David 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
Dynamics of Epigenetic Phenomena: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Phenotype 'Washout' (open access)

Dynamics of Epigenetic Phenomena: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Phenotype 'Washout'

This review contains a discussion of epigenetic dynamics in comparative biology with a focus on a more organismal level perspective, befitting of comparative physiology, that considers complex phenotypic changes.
Date: January 7, 2015
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Review
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas (open access)

What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas

This paper discusses a survey of quail hunters in Texas in 2000 and 2011 to assess hunter demographics and spending habits.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Johnson, Jason L.; Rollins, Dale & Reyna, Kelly S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioinformatics tools for cancer metabolomics (open access)

Bioinformatics tools for cancer metabolomics

This review focuses on the use of different bioinformatics tools in cancer metabolomics studies.
Date: January 12, 2011
Creator: Blekherman, Grigoriy; Laubenbacher, Reinhard; Cortes, Diego F.; Mendes, Pedro; Torti, Frank M.; Akman, Steven et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment (open access)

Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment

This article determines the circulating leukocyte subset response to completing the 2013 Hotter'N Hell Hundred recreational 164-km road cycle event in a hot and humid environmental condition.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Luk, Hui-Ying; McKenzie, Amy L.; Duplanty, Anthony A.; Budnar, Ronald; Levitt, Danielle; Fernandez, Alex et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wnt signaling in triple-negative breast cancer (open access)

Wnt signaling in triple-negative breast cancer

This review summarizes the involvement of dysregulated Wnt signaling in the progression of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and TNBC stem cells, as well as the emerging therapies that are currently under investigation.
Date: January 24, 2017
Creator: Pohl, Sebastian Öther-Gee; Brook, N; Agostino, M.; Arfuso, Frank & Kumar, Alan Prem
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
ABA Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of Salt and Heat Stress (open access)

ABA Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of Salt and Heat Stress

This article highlights the important role abscisic acid plays in the acclimation of plants to a combination of two different abiotic stresses.
Date: January 29, 2016
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Bassil, Elias; Hamilton, Jason S.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Tripathy, Deesha et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evidence of Uncultivated Bacteria in the Adult Female Bladder (open access)

Evidence of Uncultivated Bacteria in the Adult Female Bladder

Article on evidence of uncultivated bacteria in the adult female bladder.
Date: January 25, 2012
Creator: Wolfe, Alan J.; Toh, Evelyn; Shibata, Noriko; Rong, Ruichen; Kenton, Kimberly S.; FitzGerald, MaryPat et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolic Allometry during Development and Metamorphosis of the Silkworm Bombyx mori: Analyses, Patterns, and Mechanisms (open access)

Metabolic Allometry during Development and Metamorphosis of the Silkworm Bombyx mori: Analyses, Patterns, and Mechanisms

This article studies the silkworm Bombyx mori, and hypothesizes that allometric relationships for metabolism both across all developmental stages and within each stage would not reflect conventional scaling coefficients.
Date: January 27, 2010
Creator: Blossman-Myer, Bonnie L. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering the Production of Conjugated Fatty Acids in Arabidopsis Thaliana Leaves (open access)

Engineering the Production of Conjugated Fatty Acids in Arabidopsis Thaliana Leaves

This article discusses whether the fatty acid composition of leaf oil could be engineered to accumulate unusual fatty acids.
Date: January 5, 2017
Creator: Yurchenko, Olga P.; Shockey, Jay M.; Gidda, Satinder K.; Silver, Maxwell I.; Chapman, Kent D.; Mullen, Robert T. et al.
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
Method of Enhancing Quality Factors in Cotton (open access)

Method of Enhancing Quality Factors in Cotton

Patent relating to a method of enhancing quality factors in cotton.
Date: June 9, 2006
Creator: Hake, Kater Davis; Chapman, Kent D.; Kerby, Thomas Arthur & Speed, Thomas Rainey
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Assessment of Peer Review: Project Outcomes Report (open access)

Comparative Assessment of Peer Review: Project Outcomes Report

This report discusses the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) project outcomes. The authors investigate the review process for agencies that fund scientific research.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Frodeman, Robert; Holbrook, J. Britt; Moen, William E.; Burggren, Warren W. & Mitcham, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Egg Yolk Environment Differentially Influences Physiological and Morphological Development of Broiler and Layer Chicken Embryos (open access)

Egg Yolk Environment Differentially Influences Physiological and Morphological Development of Broiler and Layer Chicken Embryos

This article investigates the effect of breed-specific yolk composition on embryonic broiler and layer chicken phenotypes, using an ex ovo, xenobiotic technique that allows the transfer of broiler and layer chicken embryos from their natural yolks to novel yolk environments.
Date: January 26, 2011
Creator: Ho, Dao H.; Reed, Wendy L. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Quail Index: Evaluating Predictors of Northern Bobwhite Productivity and Abundance Using Citizen Science (open access)

The Texas Quail Index: Evaluating Predictors of Northern Bobwhite Productivity and Abundance Using Citizen Science

This paper discusses the Texas Quail Index, a 5-year citizen science project that evaluated several indices as predictors of bobwhite productivity and abundance during the subsequent fall.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S.; Rollins, Dale & Ransom Jr., Dean
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Standardization of Switchgrasss Sample Collection for Cell Wall and Biomass Trait Analysis (open access)

Standardization of Switchgrasss Sample Collection for Cell Wall and Biomass Trait Analysis

Article on standardization of switchgrass sample collection for cell wall and biomass trait analysis.
Date: January 17, 2013
Creator: Hardin, C. Frank; Fu, Chunxiang; Hisano, Hiroshi; Xiao, Xirong; Shen, Hui; Stewart, C. Neal et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcriptome analysis of secondary cell wall development in Medicago truncatula (open access)

Transcriptome analysis of secondary cell wall development in Medicago truncatula

This article describes a transcriptome microarray assay and high through-put quantitative real time PCR analysis of Medicago truncatula.
Date: January 5, 2016
Creator: Wang, Huanzhong; Yang, Jung Hyun; Chen, Fang; Torres-Jerez, Ivone; Tang, Yuhong; Wang, Mingyi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting the STAT3 singaling pathway in cancer: Role of synthetic and natural inhibitors (open access)

Targeting the STAT3 singaling pathway in cancer: Role of synthetic and natural inhibitors

Article on targeting the STAT3 signaling pathway in cancer and the role of synthetic and natural inhibitors.
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Sikka, Sakshi; Surana, Rohit; Dai, Xiaoyun; Zhang, Jingwen; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of traits and recalcitrance reduction of field-grown COMT down-regulated switchgrass (open access)

Study of traits and recalcitrance reduction of field-grown COMT down-regulated switchgrass

This article discusses the fundamental features of why biomass is recalcitrant to conversion without pretreatment.
Date: January 3, 2017
Creator: Li, Mi; Pu, Yunqiao; Yoo, Chang Geun; Gjersing, Erica; Decker, Stephen R.; Doeppke, Crissa et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library