• Geometry, allometry and biomechanics of fern leaf petioles: their significance for the evolution of functional and ecological diversity within the Pteridaceae 

  Mahley, Mahley, Jennifer N.; Pittermann, Jarmila; Rowe, Nick; Baer, Baer, Alex; Watkins, James E.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Wheeler, James K.; Mehltreter, Klaus; Windham, Windham, Michael D.; Testo, Weston; Beck, James B. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-03-07)

  Herbaceous plants rely on a combination of turgor, ground tissues and geometry for mechanical support of leaves and stems. Unlike most angiosperms however, ferns employ a sub-dermal layer of fibers, known as a hypodermal ...

• The K-INBRE symposium: a 10-institution collaboration to improve undergraduate education 

  Velasquez, Sarah E.; Abraham, K.; Burnett, Tim G.; Chapin, Bridgett; Hendry, William J. III; Leung, Sam; Madden, Michael E.; Rider, Virginia; Stanford, John A.; Ward, Robert E.; Chapes, Stephen K. (American Physiological Society, 2018-03)

  The Kansas-IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) is an infrastructure-building program funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Undergraduate education, through undergraduate research, ...

• Can asexuality confer a short-term advantage? Investigating apparent biogeographic success in the apomictic triploid fern Myriopteris gracilis 

  Wickell, David A.; Windham, Michael D.; Wang, Xiaofei; Macdonald, Stuart J.; Beck, James B. (Botanical Society of America, 2017-08-16)

  PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Although asexual taxa are generally seen as evolutionary dead ends, asexuality appears to provide a short-term benefit in some taxa, including a wider geographic distribution compared to sexual ...

• Dynamic migration of dental pulp stem cell - derived chondrogenic cells in collagen hydrogels 

  Yao, Li; Flynn, Nikol (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2017-12)

  The biological approach targets therapy that preserves the intervertebral disc (IVD) function by regenerating the degenerated and damaged nucleus pulposus (NP). Biomaterial hydrogels that mimic the NP extracellular matrix ...

• Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities 

  Wilcox, Kevin R.; Tredennick, Andrew T.; Koerner, Sally E.; Grman, Emily; Hallett, Lauren M.; Avolio, Meghan L.; La Pierre, Kimberly J.; Houseman, Gregory R. (Wiley, 2017-12)

  Temporal stability of ecosystem functioning increases the predictability and reliability of ecosystem services, and understanding the drivers of stability across spatial scales is important for land management and policy ...

• Stream nifH sequence library 

  Santos-Caton, Ingrid R.; Caton, Todd M.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Wichita State University, 2008)

  Sequence library of nifH (nitrogenase) genes PCR-amplified and cloned from metagenomic extracts of sediments from three small prairie streams with different levels of chronic N loading. 4L4_KONZA = Kings Creek N4D (pristine); ...

• Effect of Scutellarin inhibits collagen-induced arthritis through TLR4/NF-kappa B-mediated inflammation 

  Zhang, Laibo; Sun, Shui; Li, Wei; Zhang, Wei; Wang, Xianquan; Yang, Shang-You (D.A. Spandidos, 2017-10)

  Scutellarin is the major effective constituent of the commonly used Chinese medicine Erigeron breviscapus. It has been applied in the clinic to treat various diseases, and is characterized by high content, a stable source, ...

• Altered microRNA expression patterns during the initiation and promotion stages of neonatal diethylstilbestrol-induced dysplasia/neoplasia in the hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) uterus 

  Padmanabhan, Ramesh; Hendry, Isabel R.; Knapp, Jennifer R.; Shuai, Bin; Hendry, William J. III (Springer Netherlands, 2017-10)

  Treatment of Syrian hamsters on the day of birth with the prototypical endocrine disruptor and synthetic estrogen, diethylstilbestrol (DES), leads to 100% occurrence of uterine hyperplasia/dysplasia in adulthood, a large ...

• Fabrication and characterization of microspheres encapsulating astrocytes for neural regeneration 

  Berndt, Marcus; Li, Yongchao; Seyedhassantehrani, Negar; Yao, Li (American Chemical Society, 2017-07)

  Astrocytes play a critical role in supporting the normal physiological function of neurons. Recent studies have revealed that astrocyte transplantation can promote axonal regeneration and functional recovery after spinal ...

• Prevalence of sucretolerant bacteria in common soils and their isolation and characterization 

  Fredsgaard, Casper; Moore, Donald B.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Springer, 2017-08)

  Sucretolerant microbes grow in the presence of sugar concentrations high enough to substantially lower water activities. Natural habitats high in sugars are mainly limited to dried fruit, floral nectar, honey, sugarcane, ...

• Bacterial growth tolerance to concentrations of chlorate and perchlorate salts relevant to Mars 

  Alsoudi, Amer F.; Farhat, Omar; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2017-07)

  The Phoenix lander at Mars polar cap found appreciable levels of (per)chlorate salts, a mixture of perchlorate and chlorate salts of Ca, Fe, Mg and Na at levels of similar to 0.6% in regolith. These salts are highly ...

• A new cryptic species and review of the east-Andean leaf chafer genus Mesomerodon Ohaus, 1905 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) 

  Seidel, Matthias; Jameson, Mary Liz; Stone, Rachel L. (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-26)

  The Neotropical scarab beetle genus Mesomerodon Ohaus (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) is distributed in the western (lowland) Amazonian region from Colombia to Bolivia. Based on our research, the genus includes three ...

• Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies 

  Moore, Matthew Robert; Jameson, Mary Liz; Garner, Beulah H.; Audibert, Cedric; Smith, Andrew B. T.; Seidel, Matthias (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-06)

  The pelidnotine scarabs (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) are a speciose, paraphyletic assemblage of beetles that includes spectacular metallic species ("jewel scarabs") as well as species that are ecologically important ...

• Phylogeny of the genus Yumtaax Boucher (Coleoptera, Passalidae, Proculini): taxonomic and evolutionary implications with descriptions of three new species 

  Beza-Beza, Cristian F.; Beck, James B.; Reyes-Castillo, Pedro; Jameson, Mary Liz (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-10)

  Yumtaax Boucher (Coleoptera: Passalidae) is an endemic genus from the temperate sierras of Mexico and includes six narrowly distributed species. Yumtaax species have been assigned to several genera of Passalidae throughout ...

• Relationships between sucretolerance and salinotolerance in bacteria from hypersaline environments and their implications for the exploration of Mars and the icy worlds 

  Fredsgaard, Casper; Moore, Donald B.; Alsoudi, Amer F.; Crisler, James D.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2017-04)

  The most extremely osmotolerant microbial isolates are fungi from high-sugar environments that tolerate the lowest water activity (0.61) for growth yet reported. Studies of osmotolerant bacteria have focused on halotolerance ...

• Assessing wind and mammals as seed dispersal vectors in an invasive legume 

  Zachary I., Quick; Houseman, Gregory R.; Bueyuektahtakin, I. Esra (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017-02)

  While some plants have modified seed structures to facilitate dispersal, many lack such specialised adaptations, making their mode of dispersal unclear. This can be particularly problematic for predicting shifts in species ...

• Boechera microsatellite website: an online portal for species identification and determination of hybrid parentage 

  Li, Fay-Wei; Rushworth, Catherine A.; Beck, James B.; Windham, Michael D. (Oxford University Press, 2017-02-27)

  Boechera (Brassicaceae) has many features to recommend it as a model genus for ecological and evolutionary research, including species richness, ecological diversity, experimental tractability and close phylogenetic proximity ...

• Differentiation of nerve-derived adult pluripotent stem cells into osteoblastic and endothelial cells 

  Yang, Shang-You; Strong, Nora; Gong, Xuan; Heggeness, Michael H. (Elsevier B.V., 2017-02)

  BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Stem cell-involved tissue engineering has gained dramatic attention as a therapeutic strategy for tissue regeneration including bone repair. However, the currently available possibilities to use embryonic ...

• Quiescent pluripotent stem cells reside within murine peripheral nerves that can be stimulated to proliferate by recombinant human bone morphogenic protein 2 or by nerve trauma 

  Heggeness, Michael H.; Strong, Nora; Wooley, Paul H.; Yang, Shang-You (Elsevier B.V., 2017-02)

  BACKGROUND: The clinical use of recombinant human bone morphogenic protein 2 (rhBMP2, Infuse) has been associated with nerve-related complications including new-onset sciatica, and retrograde ejaculation. PURPOSE: To ...

• Demographic structure and genetic variability throughout the distribution of Platte thistle (Cirsium canescens Asteraceae) 

  McMinn, Robby L.; Russell, F. Leland; Beck, James B. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017-02)

  AimUnderstanding spatial variation in the demographic and genetic structure of populations is central to explaining causes of species range limits and to species conservation. The Abundant Centre Hypothesis (ACH) predicts ...

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