Comparing Methods of Defining Priority Areas for Greater Sage-Grouse (open access)

Comparing Methods of Defining Priority Areas for Greater Sage-Grouse

Article comparing priority areas for wildlife species using different methods and data types. The authors used resource selection function (RSF) models to predict high priority areas and compared this to priority areas developed using two alternative methods: (1) modified conservation buffer, and (2) utilization distribution (UD) models.
Date: July 7, 2022
Creator: Parsons, Lindsey; Jenks, Jonathan; Runia, Travis & Gregory, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effective Mechanisms for Improving Seed Oil Production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Highlighted by Integration of Comparative Metabolomics and Transcriptomics (open access)

Effective Mechanisms for Improving Seed Oil Production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Highlighted by Integration of Comparative Metabolomics and Transcriptomics

Article presents comparative biomass, metabolomic, and transcriptomic analyses between a high oil accession (HO) and low oil accession (LO) of pennycress to assess potential factors required to optimize oil content.
Date: July 14, 2022
Creator: Johnston, Christopher; García Navarrete, Tatiana; Ortiz, Emmanuel; Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Guzha, Athanas; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoises (Testudo graeca) Have Optimal Speeds at Which They Can Minimise the Metabolic Cost of Transport, on a Treadmill (open access)

Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoises (Testudo graeca) Have Optimal Speeds at Which They Can Minimise the Metabolic Cost of Transport, on a Treadmill

Article experimentally quantifies the metabolic cost of transport in Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoises walking on a treadmill while also quantifying the kinematics of their movement. Results found that tortoises move more efficiently than predicted and presents the first data demonstrating a curvilinear cost of transport over their speed range. The authors conclude that tortoises have an optimum speed at which they move to minimise their metabolic cost of locomotion.
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Ewart, Heather; Tickle, Peter; Nudds, Robert; Sellers, William; Crossley, Dane A., II & Codd, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding new friends and revisiting old ones – how plant lipid droplets connect with other subcellular structures (open access)

Finding new friends and revisiting old ones – how plant lipid droplets connect with other subcellular structures

Article talks about how the number of described contact sites between different subcellular compartments and structures in eukaryotic cells has increased dramatically in recent years, which has substantially reinforced the well-known premise that these kinds of connections are essential for overall cellular organization. The authors discuss contact sites involving plant lipid droplets (LDs), including LD-endoplasmic reticulum (ER) connections that mediate the biogenesis of new LDs at the ER, LD-peroxisome connections.
Date: July 18, 2022
Creator: Scholz, Patricia; Chapman, Kent Dean; Mullen, Robert T. & Ischebeck, Till
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retraction Note: Gold Nanoparticles‑enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa cells (open access)

Retraction Note: Gold Nanoparticles‑enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa cells

The editors have retracted their article Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa cells. Concerns were brought to the attention of the Editors with respect to apparent inappropriate manipulation of the data in seven of the nine panels shown in Figure 7. The Editors no longer have confidence in the data reported in this Article.
Date: July 5, 2022
Creator: Farooq, Muhammad U.; Novosad, Valentyn; Rozhkova, Elena A.; Wali, Hussain; Ali, Asghar; Fateh, Ahmed A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library