Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum (open access)

Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum

This article reports that in addition to the well-documented functional plasticity of the lingual salt glands, the middle of the three cloacal segments (i.e. the urodaeum) responds to increased ambient salinity to enhance solute-coupled water absorption in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus).
Date: July 16, 2019
Creator: Grosell, Martin; Heuer, Rachael M.; Wu, N. C.; Cramp, Rebecca L.; Wang, Yadong; Mager, Edward M. et al.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Childhood Asthma and Smoking: Moderating Effect of Preterm Status and Birth Weight (open access)

Childhood Asthma and Smoking: Moderating Effect of Preterm Status and Birth Weight

Article exploring the association between second-hand smoke exposure, asthma, and asthma severity in children ages 6-17 as well as the effect of birth weight and prematurity (BWP) on parental smoking and asthma. Results indicate that focused asthma interventions in children should inquire about BWP status as well as parental smoking and household smoke exposure to reduce asthma morbidity and mortality.
Date: April 17, 2021
Creator: Ogbu, Chukwuemeka E.; Ogbu, Stella C.; Khadka, Dibya & Kirby, Russell S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress (open access)

Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress

This article focuses on recent advances in brassinosteroid-regulated cell wall biosynthesis and remodeling in response to stresses, comparing the authors' understanding of the mechanisms in grass species with those in the more studied dicots.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants (open access)

Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants

Article presents data consistent with the positive effect that the expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana H+-PPase (AVP1) has on reduced carbon partitioning and yield increases in wheat.
Date: March 17, 2020
Creator: Regmi, Kamesh C.; Yogendra, Kalenahalli; Gomes Farias, Júlia; Li, Lin; Kandel, Raju; Yadav, Umesh P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Association between CYP2D6 Genotypes and the Risk of Antidepressant Discontinuation, Dosage Modification and the Occurrence of Maternal Depression during Pregnancy (open access)

Association between CYP2D6 Genotypes and the Risk of Antidepressant Discontinuation, Dosage Modification and the Occurrence of Maternal Depression during Pregnancy

This article investigates the association between CYP2D6 genotype and the risk of antidepressant discontinuation, dosage modification, and the occurrence of maternal CYP2D6, Antidepressants, Depression during pregnancy.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Bérard, Anick; Gaedigk, Andrea; Sheehy, Odile; Chambers, Christina; Roth, Mark; Bozzo, Pina et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetically engineered probiotic for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU); assessment of a novel treatment in vitro and in the PAHᵉⁿᵘ² mouse model of PKU (open access)

Genetically engineered probiotic for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU); assessment of a novel treatment in vitro and in the PAHᵉⁿᵘ² mouse model of PKU

This article describes the testing of a phenylalanine lyase gene from Anabaena variabilis (AvPAL) codon-optimized and cloned into a shuttle vector for expression in Lactobacillus reuteri 100-23C (pHENOMMenal).
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Durrer, Katherine E.; Allen, Michael S. & Hunt von Herbing, Ione
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
Tales of diversity: Genomic and morphological characteristics of forty-six Arthrobacter phages (open access)

Tales of diversity: Genomic and morphological characteristics of forty-six Arthrobacter phages

This article describes the isolation and genomic characterization of 46 phages from environmental samples at various geographic locations in the U.S. infecting a single Arthrobacter sp. strain.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Klyczek, Karen; Bonilla, J. Alfred; Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Adair, Tamarah; Afram, Patricia; Allen, Katherine G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of novel histone modifications in cancer (open access)

Role of novel histone modifications in cancer

This article briefly discusses post-translational modifications such as neddylation, sumoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, polyADP ribosylation, ubiquitination, and transcriptional regulation.
Date: October 11, 2017
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Arfuso, Frank; Arumugam, Surendar; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Jinsong, Bian; Warrier, Sudha R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of ribosomal RNA released from red cells in blood coagulation in zebrafish and humans (open access)

Role of ribosomal RNA released from red cells in blood coagulation in zebrafish and humans

This article identifies that an rRNA released in hemolysis activates clotting in human and zebrafish plasma. Furthermore, it shows that fish Hgfac plays a role in rRNA-mediated activation of coagulation.
Date: November 17, 2021
Creator: Alharbi, Abdulmajeed; Iyer, Neha; Al Qaryoute, Ayah; Raman, Revathi; Burks, David J.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans (open access)

The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

This article examines how the disruption of the cisd-1 gene function, using RNA interference (RNAi), or mutant alleles [cisd-1(tm4993) deletion mutant, cisd-1(pnIs27) insertion mutant] led to germline abnormalities including an increase in the number of cell corpses and distal tip cell migration defects.
Date: April 17, 2018
Creator: King, Skylar D.; Gray, Chipo F.; Song, Luhua; Nechushtai, Rachel; Gumienny, Tina L; Mittler, Ron et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phylogenetic Occurrence of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Lignin Biosynthesis in Plants (open access)

Phylogenetic Occurrence of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Lignin Biosynthesis in Plants

This article is a review summarizing recent progress in defining the lignin biosynthetic pathway in lycophytes, monilophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. This review provides new insights into the genetic engineering of the lignin biosynthetic pathway to overcome biomass recalcitrance in bioenergy crops.
Date: August 17, 2021
Creator: Yao, Tao; Feng, Kai; Xie, Meng; Barros, Jaime; Tschaplinski, Timothy J.; Tuskan, Gerald et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immunized Plants: An Answer to Global Hunger captions transcript

Immunized Plants: An Answer to Global Hunger

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Devasantosh Mohanty presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Mohanty, Devasantosh
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diabetes Treatment with Sunshine captions transcript

Diabetes Treatment with Sunshine

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Sujata Argawal presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Argawal, Sujata
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) (open access)

A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)

Article asserts that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; LEPC) is an iconic North American prairie grouse, renowned for ornate and spectacular breeding season displays, a species that has been declining in population across much of its historical range, with corresponding precipitous declines in contemporary population abundance, largely due to climatic and anthropogenic factors. The authors describe an annotated reference genome that was generated from a LEPC sample collected from the southern DPS.
Date: March 17, 2023
Creator: Black, Andrew N.; Bondo, Kristin J.; Mularo, Andrew; Hernandez, Alvaro; Yu, Yachi; Stein, Carleigh M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Time-resolved systems analysis of the induction of high photosynthetic capacity in Arabidopsis during acclimation to high light (open access)

Time-resolved systems analysis of the induction of high photosynthetic capacity in Arabidopsis during acclimation to high light

Article describes how induction of high photosynthetic capacity is a key acclimation response to high light for many herbaceous dicot plants. Here, a systems biology approach was utilized to characterize the induction of high photosynthetic capacity in strongly and weakly acclimating Arabidopsis thaliana accessions.
Date: October 17, 2023
Creator: Baker, Christopher R.; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Alonso, Ana Paula & Niyogi, Krishna K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library