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Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna As A Method To Screen Metal-Tolerant Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.) Genotypes, Süleyman Cenkci̇, Nevra Doğan

Turkish Journal of Botany

Differentially responding genotypes are comparatively used to understand mechanisms of metal tolerance in higher plants. The feasibility of the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was evaluated to screen for metal tolerance within plants as an alternative to physiological growth parameters. Eight hydroponically grown barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes were exposed to different concentrations (75, 150, and 225 μM) of cadmium and copper for 7 days and subsequently harvested for determining metal tolerance indices by comparing dry biomass to genomic template stabilities based on their RAPD profiles. Dose- and genotype-dependent reductions in dry weights of shoot and root tissues were …

Generating Salt-Tolerant Nicotiana Tabacum And Identification Of Stress-Responsive Mirnas In Transgenics, Ferhunde Aysi̇n, Ayşe Eli̇f Erson Bensan, Füsun Eyi̇doğan, Hüseyi̇n Avni̇ Öktem

Turkish Journal of Botany

Identification of vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporters facilitates the basis of salt stress tolerance mechanisms. Na+ accumulation into the vacuole is crucial for the avoidance of cytoplasmic Na+ toxicity. In this study, we show that the introduction of AtNHX1 into tobacco generated more tolerant plants when compared to wild-type plants. Transgenic tobacco plants exhibited higher germination rates in the presence of increasing salt concentrations compared to wild-type plants. In addition, proline levels were higher under salt stress conditions in both the shoots and the roots of transgenics compared to wild-type plants. Increase in malondialdehyde production during lipid peroxidation by salinity was lower …

Effects Of Cobalt Nanoparticles On Artemisinin Production And Gene Expression In Artemisia Annua, Bita Ghasemi, Ramin Hosseini, Fatemeh Dehghan Nayeri

Turkish Journal of Botany

The low artemisinin content in Artemisia has caused this compound to be expensive among medicines. Several attempts have been made to increase its production by altering the expression of different genes. However, no approach has been cost-effective. In this study, the expression levels of SQS and DBR2 genes were quantified by qRT-PCR, and artemisinin content was measured by HPLC in Artemisia annua cell suspension culture under nano cobalt particles elicitation. For this purpose, nano cobalt particles were used in 0.25, 2.5, and 5 mg L-1 concentrations and samples were collected after 8, 24, 48, and 72 h. The highest artemisinin …

Relationships And Generic Delimitation Of Eurasian Genera Of The Subtribe Asterinae (Astereae, Asteraceae) Using Molecular Phylogeny Of Its, Elena Korolyuk, Alexey Makunin, Tatiana Matveeva

Turkish Journal of Botany

The subtribe Asterinae (Astereae, Asteraceae) includes highly variable, often polyploid species. Recent findings based on molecular methods led to revision of its volume. However, most of these studies lacked species from Eurasia, where a lot of previous taxonomic treatments of the subtribe exist. In this study we used molecular phylogenetics methods with internal transcribed spacer (ITS) as a marker to resolve evolutionary relations between representatives of the subtribe Asterinae from Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the European part of Russia. Our reconstruction revealed that a clade including all Asterinae species is paraphyletic. Inside this clade, there are species with unresolved basal positions, …

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Turkish Journal of Botany

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Turkish Journal of Biology

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Dairy Herd - Level Prevalence Of Johne's Disease And Bvd In The Intermountain West Of The U.S.A. And Farm Management Practices And Characteristics For Test-Positive Herds, David J. Wilson, Kerry A. Rood, C. Whitehouse, J. Bunnell, G. M. Goodell, T. M. Byrem

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Herd-level prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), causative agent of Johne’s disease (JD) and Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) virus were estimated on dairy farms in Utah. Duplicate milks were collected at 3-4 day intervals on 5 dates from each bulk tank on participating farms. Samples were tested at separate laboratories for BVD (real-time, RT-PCR) and for JD/MAP (ELISA and qPCR). 151/209 (72%) eligible dairy farms participated. Farms detected positive were: 58 JD (38%) and 14 BVD (9%); 5 farms had both diseases. Follow up visited farms’ (n=22) means, medians: 778,420 milking cows; 20,052 lbs, 20,311 lbs 305d milk; 175,545/ml, …

Pharmdigest Volume 2, Issue 2, Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine, School Of Pharmacy

PharmDigest

This issue of the Pharmacy Student Council newsletter includes the following articles:

• Journey to Pharmacy
• Live Your Why
• Daily Dose: Compounding
• Research Lab
• Let's Get Clinical

2014-2015 Biannual Report, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Foundation Annual Reports

The 2014-2015 Biannual Report from the SWOSU Foundation, Inc.

Good Questions About Families: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, And How Do We Use What We Know?, Virginia Rutter

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Naomi R. Cahn, The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families; J. Herbie DiFonzo and Ruth C. Stern, Intimate Associations: The Law and Culture of American Families; Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson, Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City; Kimberly D. Richman, License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples.

Living Dogma, Joseph R. Reisert

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Justin Buckley Dyer, Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, and David Lyons, Confronting Injustice: Moral History and Political Theory.

Trends In Midwinter Counts Of Bald Eagles In The Conterminous United States, 1986-2005, Karen Steenhof, Laura Bond, Leah L. Dunn

Biomedical Research Institute Publications and Presentations

Each January, several hundred individuals count eagles along standard, non-overlapping survey routes as part of a nationwide Midwinter Bald Eagle survey. Nationwide counts of eagles were coordinated by the National Wildlife Federation from 1979 until 1992, when the Bureau of Land Management’s Raptor Research and Technical Assistance Center assumed responsibility for overseeing the count. Responsibility for count coordination shifted to the National Biological Survey (1993-1996) and later to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Snake River Field Station.

Initial objectives of the survey were to establish an index to the total wintering Bald Eagle population …

Does Personality Affect The Probability That Piute Ground Squrriels (Urocitellus Mollis) Will Be Shot By Recreational Hunters?, Daniel Wolfe, Zoe Tinkle, Benjamin P. Pauli, Emily Sun, Romaric Mukuna, Jennifer S. Forbey, Julie Heath

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

Recreational shooting of Piute ground squirrels (Urocitellus mollis) in southern Idaho is an activity growing in popularity. One factor that may influence shooting success is the personality of individuals within a population. We hypothesized that bold individual ground squirrels would be more/less likely to be targeted by a hunter and would be more/less disturbed by gun fire. To test these hypotheses, we simulated recreational shooting to identify which personalities are more susceptible hunters and more responsive to gun fire. We preformed simulations in March of 2015 on a population of Piute ground squirrels with known personalities. Bold and …

Anthropogenic Noise Alters Bat Activity Levels And Echolocation Calls, Jessie P. Bunkley, Christopher J.W. Mcclure, Nathan J. Kleist, Clinton D. Francis, Jesse R. Barber

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Negative impacts from anthropogenic noise are well documented for many wildlife taxa. Investigations of the effects of noise on bats however, have not been conducted outside of the laboratory. Bats that hunt arthropods rely on auditory information to forage. Part of this acoustic information can fall within the spectrum of anthropogenic noise, which can potentially interfere with signal reception and processing. Compressor stations associated with natural gas extraction produce broadband noise 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With over half a million producing gas wells in the U.S. this infrastructure is a major source of noise pollution across …

Fearscapes: Mapping Functional Properties Of Cover For Prey With Terrestrial Lidar, Peter J. Olsoy, Jennifer S. Forbey, Janet L. Rachlow, Jordan D. Nobler, Nancy F. Glenn, Lisa A. Shipley

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Heterogeneous vegetation structure can create a variable landscape of predation risk—a fearscape—that influences the use and selection of habitat by animals. Mapping the functional properties of vegetation that influence predation risk (e.g., concealment and visibility) across landscapes can be challenging. Traditional ground-based measures of predation risk are location specific and limited in spatial resolution. We demonstrate the benefits of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) to map the properties of vegetation structure that shape fearscapes. We used TLS data to estimate the concealment of prey from multiple vantage points, representing predator sightlines, as well as the visibility of potential predators from the …

Gabapentin, Chelsea L. Eads

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

The medication, Gabapentin, is used for treatment of restless leg syndrome, and post-herpetic neuralgia. It can also be used as adjunctive therapy for partial seizures with or without secondary generalization in adults. This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and the the human body's response to it.

Prozac, Taylor M. Zirkle

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

Fluoxetine hdrochloride, more commonly known as Prozac, is classified as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and is used to treat depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, and bulimia nervosa. This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College provides the chemical makeup of the drug, and describes how the body reacts to the medication.

Kinesiology 181 Health Education Summer 2015, Joe Bails

Kinesiology Courses

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Genome-Wide Scan For Methylation Profiles In Keloids, Lamont R. Jones, William Young, George W. Divine, Indrani Datta, Kang-Mei Chen, David M. Ozog, Maria Worsham

Otolaryngology Articles

Keloids are benign fibroproliferative tumors of the skin which commonly occur after injury mainly in darker skinned patients. Medical treatment is fraught with high recurrence rates mainly because of an incomplete understanding of the biological mechanisms that lead to keloids. The purpose of this project was to examine keloid pathogenesis from the epigenome perspective of DNA methylation. Genome-wide profiling used the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip to interrogate DNA from 6 fresh keloid and 6 normal skin samples from 12 anonymous donors. A 3-tiered approach was used to call out genes most differentially methylated between keloid and normal. When compared to normal, …

Characteristics Of Child Sexual Assault Within A Child Advocacy Center Client Population, Faye M. Carlson, Jane Grassley, Janet Reis, Kelley Davis

Nursing Faculty Publications and Presentations

This descriptive study summarized data from a child advocacy center to illustrate how such information might be used to profile the scope and character of child sexual abuse (CSA) at the community level. This detailed information is not available from national or state data but is needed to understand the circumstances of the children receiving services and the type of care they may need. Variables included victim demographics, type of sexual abuse and relationship to the perpetrator, and the person to whom the victim was most likely to disclose their sexual assault. A total sample of 841 case reports was …

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 37, No. 1, Winter 2015, Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

Contents

1 -- Editor's Note

2 -- Annual Meeting Data

3 -- Response to David S. Lindsay re: Self archiving of publications from the Journal of Parasitology

6 -- NCP Meeting – Nadler report

8 -- Job - Wyoming - Parasitologist

9 -- Meetings / Course Announceme

15 -- Post Doc

17 -- Announcement – Manter Laboratory

One Environment, One Health, Margaret Baker, Sienna Cipriano, Madeline Clark, Kelli Green, Hope Hemme, Jessica Horn, Jenna Jenkins, Brooke Jindra, Valerie Kesterson, Ashley Maher, Colleene Marriott, Joshua Poore, Kelly Schnoor, Chelsea Taylor

Strategic Discussions for Nebraska

Nebraska’s place as an international agricultural epicenter is important for feeding a hungry world, but the work that makes that position possible is truly incredible. Thanks to research conducted at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln by many of the world’s finest scientists, discoveries are being made that improve the health of all kingdoms–plant, animal, human and the natural environment.

The UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources scientists are Growing a Healthy Future through their work in laboratories on campus and in the laboratories of the world – fields, rivers, pastures, feedlots, swine facilities, hen houses, zoos and public health clinics. …

Nebline, January 2015

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Extension 2014 Highlights

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Ncuwm Poster Abstracts 2015

Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

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Ncuwm Talk Abstracts 2015

Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

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Clique Topology Reveals Intrinsic Geometric Structure In Neural Correlations, Chad Giusti, Eva Pastalkova, Carina Curto, Vladimir Itskov

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

Detecting meaningful structure in neural activity and connectivity data is challenging in the presence of hidden nonlinearities, where traditional eigenvalue-based methods may be misleading. We introduce a novel approach to matrix analysis, called clique topology, that extracts features of the data invariant under nonlinear monotone transformations. These features can be used to detect both random and geometric structure, and depend only on the relative ordering of matrix entries. We then analyzed the activity of pyramidal neurons in rat hippocampus, recorded while the animal was exploring a 2D environment, and confirmed that our method is able to detect geometric organization using …

The Interplay Between Wnt Mediated Expansion And Negative Regulation Of Growth Promotes Robust Intestinal Crypt Structure And Homeostasis, Huijing Du, Qing Nie, William R. Holmes

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

The epithelium of the small intestinal crypt, which has a vital role in protecting the underlying tissue from the harsh intestinal environment, is completely renewed every 4–5 days by a small pool of stem cells at the base of each crypt. How is this renewal controlled and homeostasis maintained, particularly given the rapid nature of this process? Here, based on the recent observations from in vitro “mini gut” studies, we use a hybrid stochastic model of the crypt to investigate how exogenous niche signaling (from Wnt and BMP) combines with auto-regulation to promote homeostasis. This model builds on the sub-cellular …

Curatorial Implications Of Ophyra Capensis (Order Diptera, Family Muscidae) Puparia Recovered From The Body Of The Blessed Antonio Patrizi, Monticiano, Italy (Middle Ages), Johnica J. Morrow, Diesel A. Baldwin, Leon G. Higley, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Karl J. Reinhard

Karl Reinhard Publications

The discovery of dipteran remains on mummified individuals can lead to either cause for curatorial concern or to a better understanding of the individual’s post-mortem environment. The present study analyzed insect remains associated with the body of a unique medieval mummy of religious significance, that of the Blessed Antonio Patrizi da Monticiano. A total of 79 puparia were examined and all were identified as Ophyra capensis (Diptera: Muscidae). Additionally, a desiccated moth (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) was encountered. Puparia of O. capensis would be associated with normal decomposition shortly after the death of the mummified individual, and not an infestation beginning during …

Infanticide In Wolves: Seasonality Of Mortalities And Attacks At Dens Support Evolution Of Territoriality, Douglas Smith, Matthew C. Metz, Kira A. Cassidy, Erin E. Stahler, Richard T. Mcintyre, Emily S. Almberg, Daniel R. Stahler

United States National Park Service: Publications

Evidence for territoriality is usually correlative or post hoc as we observe the results of past selection that are challenging to detect. Wolves (Canis lupus) are considered territorial because of competition for food (resource defense), yet they exhibit classic intrinsic behaviors of social regulation (protection against infanticide). This emphasis on prey and infrequent opportunity to observe wild wolf behavior has led to little investigation into the causes of or competitive underpinnings in the evolution of wolf territoriality. We report 6 cases of territorial wolf packs attacking neighboring packs at or near their den; 2 attacks were observed in detail. In …

Global Patterns And Environmental Controls Of Perchlorate And Nitrate Co-Occurrence In Arid And Semi-Arid Environments, W. Andrew Jackson, J. K. Böhlke, Brian J. Andraski, Lynne Fahlquist, Laura Bexfield, Frank D. Eckardt, John B. Gates, Alfonso F. Davila, Christopher P. Mckay, Balaji Rao, Ritesh Sevanthi, Srinath Rajagopalan, Nubia Estrada, Neil Sturchio, Paul B. Hatzinger, Todd A. Anderson, Greta Orris, Julio Betancourt, David Stonestrom, Claudio Latorre, Yanhe Li, Gregory J. Harvey

United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Publications

Natural perchlorate (ClO₄^-) is of increasing interest due to its wide-spread occurrence on Earth and Mars, yet little information exists on the relative abundance of ClO₄^- compared to other major anions, its stability, or long-term variations in production that may impact the observed distributions. Our objectives were to evaluate the occurrence and fate of ClO₄^- in groundwater and soils/caliche in arid and semi-arid environments (southwestern United States, southern Africa, United Arab Emirates, China, Antarctica, and Chile) and the relationship of ClO₄^- to the more well-studied atmospherically deposited anions NO₃^{- …}