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In Vivo Potentiation Of Muscle Torque Is Enhanced In Female Mice Through Estradiol-Estrogen Receptor Signaling, Gengyun Le, Cory W. Baumann, Dawn A. Lowe, Gordon L. Warren
In Vivo Potentiation Of Muscle Torque Is Enhanced In Female Mice Through Estradiol-Estrogen Receptor Signaling, Gengyun Le, Cory W. Baumann, Dawn A. Lowe, Gordon L. Warren
Biology Faculty Publications
Estradiol affects several properties of skeletal muscle in females including strength. Here, we developed an approach to measure in vivo posttetanic twitch potentiation (PTP) of the anterior crural muscles of anesthetized mice and tested the hypothesis that 17b-estradiol (E2) enhances PTP through estrogen receptor (ER) signaling. Peak torques of potentiated twitches were 40%–60% greater than those of unpotentiated twitches and such PTP was greater in ovary-intact mice, or ovariectomized (Ovx) mice treated with E2, compared with Ovx mice (P < 0.047). PTP did not differ between mice with and without ERa ablated in skeletal muscle fibers (P = 0.347). Treatment of ovary-intact and Ovx mice with ERb antagonist and agonist (PHTPP and DPN, respectively) did not affect PTP (P = 0.258). Treatment with G1, an agonist of the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER), significantly increased PTP in Ovx mice from 41 ± 10% to 66 ± 21% (means ± SD; P = 0.034). Collectively, these data indicate that E2 signals through GPER, and not ERa or ERb, in skeletal muscles of female mice to augment an in vivo parameter of strength, namely, PTP.
Solanum Scalarium (Solanaceae), A Newly-Described Dioecious Bush Tomato From Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Angela Mcdonnell, Tanisha Williams, Jonathan Hayes, Jason T. Cantley, Peter Jobson, Christine Martine
Solanum Scalarium (Solanaceae), A Newly-Described Dioecious Bush Tomato From Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Angela Mcdonnell, Tanisha Williams, Jonathan Hayes, Jason T. Cantley, Peter Jobson, Christine Martine
Biology Faculty Publications
A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum scalarium Martine & T.M.Williams, sp. nov., is a member of the taxonomically challenging “Kimberley dioecious clade” in Australia and differs from other species in the group in its spreading decumbent habit and conspicuously prickly male floral rachis. The species is so far known from one site in Judbarra/Gregory National Park in the Northern Territory. Ex situ crosses and confirmation of inaperturate pollen grains produced in morphologically cosexual flowers indicate that these flowers are functionally female and the species is functionally dioecious. The scientific name reflects …
Phylogenomic Discordance Suggests Polytomies Along The Backbone Of The Large Genus Solanum, Angela Mcdonnell, Edeline Gagnon, Rebecca Hilgenhof, Andres Orejuela, Gaurav Sablok, Xavier Aubriot, Leandro Giacomin, Yuri Gouvea, Thamyris Bragionis, Joao Renato Stehmann, Lynn Bohs, Steven Dodsworth, Christopher Martine, Peter Poczai, Sandra Knapp, Tiina Sarkinen
Phylogenomic Discordance Suggests Polytomies Along The Backbone Of The Large Genus Solanum, Angela Mcdonnell, Edeline Gagnon, Rebecca Hilgenhof, Andres Orejuela, Gaurav Sablok, Xavier Aubriot, Leandro Giacomin, Yuri Gouvea, Thamyris Bragionis, Joao Renato Stehmann, Lynn Bohs, Steven Dodsworth, Christopher Martine, Peter Poczai, Sandra Knapp, Tiina Sarkinen
Biology Faculty Publications
Premise
Evolutionary studies require solid phylogenetic frameworks, but increased volumes of phylogenomic data have revealed incongruent topologies among gene trees in many organisms both between and within genomes. Some of these incongruences indicate polytomies that may remain impossible to resolve. Here we investigate the degree of gene-tree discordance in Solanum, one of the largest flowering plant genera that includes the cultivated potato, tomato, and eggplant, as well as 24 minor crop plants.
Methods
A densely sampled species-level phylogeny of Solanum is built using unpublished and publicly available Sanger sequences comprising 60% of all accepted species (742 spp.) and nine regions …
Plant Phenology In Central Minnesota, Max Partch
Plant Phenology In Central Minnesota, Max Partch
Biology Faculty Publications
Phenological data in this study were collected between 1949 and 1980. Data were recorded on field trips with classes or while doing vegetation research in various plant communities, or from herbarium speciments or from dated slides. With some exceptions, which are noted, the records are mostly from central Minnesota. All records, for each species, include date, phenophase and location. The records have been obtained from several hundred locations. Some locations may have been visited only once. Some like the Cold Spring Heron Colony, the Waubun Prairie, the Partch Woods and others used for class field trips, or special research, were …