• Are buffalograss (Buchloë dactyloides) cytotypes spatially and ecologically differentiated? 

  Hadle, Jacob J.; Russell, F. Leland; Beck, James B. (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-07-23)

  Premise: Although autopolyploidy is common among dominant Great Plains grasses, the distribution of cytotypes within a given species is typically poorly understood. This study aims to establish the geographic distribution ...

• Canopy gap regime as a function of woodland age in the Kansas Cross Timbers 

  Cory, Beverly J.; Russell, F. Leland; Keoshkerian, Noah (Springer Nature, 2019-09)

  Oaks (Quercus spp.) have low or intermediate shade-tolerances and forest canopy gaps can promote their regeneration. Current fire frequencies and/or intensities in eastern North America are less than they were historically, ...

• Discoveries through social media and in your own backyard: Two new species of Allographa (Graphidaceae) with pigmented lirellae from the Palaeotropics, with a world key to species of this group 

  Jatnika, Muhammad Feisal; Weerakoon, Gothamie; Arachchige, Omal; Noer, Iin Supartinah; Voytsekhovich, Anna A.; Lucking, Robert K. (Cambridge University Press, 2019-05)

  The genus Graphis sensu Staiger was recently divided into two genera, Graphis s. str. and Allographa. The latter contains mostly species with robust lirellae with a well-developed, often massively carbonized excipulum. ...

• Population sizes, rhinocyllus conicus use, and patterns of genetic variation of cirsium ownbeyi, a rare native thistle, in Wyoming 

  Russell, F. Leland; McMinn, Robby L.; Konrade, Lauren A.; Beck, James B. (Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 2019-04-22)

  Cirsium ownbeyi is a habitat-specific, endemic, polycarpic thistle in northwest Colorado, northeast Utah, and southwest Wyoming. In 1998, seven C. ownbeyi populations, which ranged from 4 to >30,000 plants, were known from ...

• Follicle-stimulating hormone glycobiology 

  Bousfield, George R.; Harvey, David J. (NLM (Medline), 2019-06-01)

  FSH glycosylation varies in two functionally important aspects: microheterogeneity, resulting from oligosaccharide structure variation, and macroheterogeneity, arising from partial FSHβ subunit glycosylation. Although ...

• Context dependency of insect and mammalian herbivore effects on tall thistle (Cirsium altissimum) populations 

  Russell, F. Leland; Houseman, Gregory R. (Oxford University Pres, 2019-06)

  Identifying factors that drive variation in herbivore effects on plant populations can provide insight for explaining plant distributions and for limiting weeds. Abiotic resource availability to plants is a key explanation ...

• Il-21 vector-tethering nanofibers for cancer treatment including osteosarcoma 

  Gong, Xuan; Jiang, Jianhao; Ceylan, Muhammet; Dart, Bradley; Asmatulu, Ramazan; Yang, Shang-You (Society for Biomaterials, 2019-05)

  The first line of treatment regime for bone cancers including osteosarcoma is surgical removal of the primary tumor, scaffold and/or bone fillers are required to fill the bone void during the surgery. Development and ...

• Chromosome number determinations in family compositae, tribe Astereae. IX. North American Taxa. II 

  Semple, John C.; Cook, Rachel E.; Morton, Gary H.; Beck, James B.; Laphitz, Rita Lopez (NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB, 2019-05-03)

  Chromosome numbers are reported for 349 individuals of 116 taxa and 2 hybrids in 13 genera from Canada and the United States. The majority of the reports are for asters listed in this paper under the generic names ...

• Landscape genetic inferences vary with sampling scenario for a pond-breeding amphibian 

  Seaborn, Travis; Hauser, Samantha S.; Konrade, Lauren A.; Waits, Lisette P.; Goldberg, Caren S. (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-04-15)

  A critical decision in landscape genetic studies is whether to use individuals or populations as the sampling unit. This decision affects the time and cost of sampling and may affect ecological inference. We analyzed 334 ...

• Silicon: Its role in vital processes 

  Tasch, Paul (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973-03-23)

  Author pointed that there is some proof of a silicon metabolism role in "vital processes in animals or man" pointing that data on the gastropod Oncidium planatum showing that its liver contained 11.3 percent silica.

• Effect of experimentally altered food abundance on fat reserves of wintering birds 

  Rogers, Christopher M.; Heath-Coss, Rejeana (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-08-15)

  1. Current models of adaptive fat regulation make opposing predictions concerning the effect of increased winter food supply on size of the avian winter fat reserve. To distinguish between models, food supply was varied ...

• Material characterization and bioanalysis of hybrid scaffolds of carbon nanomaterial and polymer nanofibers 

  Srikanth, Madhulika; Asmatulu, Ramazan; Cluff, Kim; Yao, Li (ACS, 2019-03-08)

  The interconnected porous structures that mimic the extracellular matrix support cell growth in tissue engineering. Nanofibers generated by electrospinning can act as a vehicle for therapeutic cell delivery to a neural ...

• Toxicity of nalidixic acid on Candida albicans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Kluyveromyces lactis 

  Sobieski, Rodney J.; Brewer, Alan R. (American Society for Microbiology, 1976-09-04)

  The antibacterial drug nalidixic acid (Nal) can suppress the growth of Candida albicans at levels of the drug normally found in urine. Growth suppression increases as drug levels are increased, and Nal also causes a similar ...

• Increased production of beta-lactamase under anaerobic conditions in some strains of Escherichia coli 

  Rashtchian, Ayoub; Nouravarsani, Roya; Miller, Glendon R.; Gerlach, E.H. (American Society for Microbiology, 1979-07-25)

  A simple biological assay to detect beta-lactamase activity exhibited by selected cultures of Escherichia coli was used to test enzyme production in cells incubated aerobically and anaerobically. Anaerobic incubation ...

• Depression of lactose hydrolysis by yeasts 

  Berman, D.A; Sobieski, Rodney J. (Microbiology Society, 1977-03-02)

  To investigate the role that the known disaccharidase depression may play in the aetiology of infant gastroenteritis caused by Candida albicans, C. albicans and the rarely pathogenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied ...

• Cultivation and characterization of the bacterial assemblage of epsomic Basque Lake, BC 

  Crisler, James D.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Springer Nature, 2019)

  Athalassohaline waters that are rich in divalent ions are good analogues for the chemical environments of Mars and the ocean worlds. Sulfate salts, along with chlorides, are important in Mars regolith with Ca, Fe, Mg, and ...

• Bacterial growth in saturated and eutectic solutions of magnesium sulphate and potassium chlorate with relevance to Mars and the ocean worlds 

  Wilks, Jonathan M.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2019-01-28)

  Liquid water on Mars might be created by deliquescence of hygroscopic salts or by permafrost melts, both potentially forming saturated brines. Freezing point depression allows these heavy brines to remain liquid in the ...

• Ganganomala Saltini Ratcliffe, Jameson, and Zorn, a new genus and species of Anomalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Bangladesh and Nepal, with a revised circumscription of the tribe 

  Ratcliffe, Brett C.; Jameson, Mary Liz; Zorn, Carsten (Coleopterists Society, 2018-12-28)

  Ganganomala saltini Ratcliffe, Jameson, and Zorn, a new genus and new species of Anomalini (subtribe Anomalina), is described fromBangladesh and Nepal. To place the new genus within the context of the tribe and subtribe, ...

• A rangewide herbarium-derived dataset indicates high levels of gene flow in black cherry (Prunus serotina) 

  Konrade, Lauren A.; Shaw, Joey; Beck, James B. (Wiley, 2019-01-08)

  Isolation by Distance (IBD) is a genetic pattern in which populations geographically closer to one another are more genetically similar to each other than populations which are farther apart. Black cherry (Prunus serotina ...

• Hierarchy theory reveals multiscale predictors of Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini) abundance in a Great Plains riverscape 

  Wellemeyer, Juju C.; Perkin, Joshuah S.; Jameson, Mary Liz; Costigan, Katie H.; Waters, Ryan (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-01-14)

  Landscape ecology and its emphasis on relationships between spatial heterogeneity, scale, and ecological processes can be applied to manage stream ecosystems as riverscapes. Hierarchy theory, a central tenet of riverscape ...

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