• Microbiological Values of Rainwater Harvested in Adelaide 

  Chubaka, Chirhakarhula Emmanuel; Whiley, Harriet; Edwards, John William; Ross, Kirstin Elizabeth (MDPI, 2018-02-08)

  In Australia, rainwater is an important source of water for many households. Unlike municipal water, rainwater is often consumed untreated. This study investigated the potential contamination of rainwater by microorganisms. ...

• Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Opportunist Waterborne Infections – Are There Too Many Gaps to Fill? 

  Bentham, Richard Henry; Whiley, Harriet (MDPI, 2018-06-01)

  Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) is a relatively new approach in identifying health risks associated with the ubiquitous presence of pathogens and opportunists in the human environment. The methodology builds ...

• Growth and stress axis responses to dietary cholesterol in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in brackish water 

  Xu, Chang; Li, Erchao; Xu, Zhixin; Su, Yujie; Lu, Minghui; Qin, Jian G; Chen, Li Qiao; Wang, Xiaodan (Frontiers Media, 2018-03-26)

  Six isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets were formulated to contain 0% (control), 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, 1.6, or 2.4% dietary cholesterol and fed to juvenile Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) (2.20 ± 0.12 g) twice daily to ...

• Brain Transcriptome Profiling Analysis of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Under Long-Term Hypersaline Stress 

  Liu, Yan; Li, Erchao; Xu, Chang; Su, Yujie; Qin, Jian G; Chen, Li Qiao; Wang, Xiaodan (Frontiers Media, 2018-03-15)

  The fish brain plays an important role in controlling growth, development, reproduction, and adaptation to environmental change. However, few studies stem from the perspective of whole transcriptome change in a fish brain ...

• Cross-Species Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomic Data in Combination With Supervised Machine Learning Models Identifies the Common Gene Signature of Lactation Process 

  Farhadian, Mohammad; Rafat, Seyed A; Hasanpur, Karim; Ebrahimi, Mansour; Ebrahimie, Esmaeil (Frontiers Media, 2018-07-12)

  Lactation, a physiologically complex process, takes place in mammary gland after parturition. The expression profile of the effective genes in lactation has not comprehensively been elucidated. Herein, meta-analysis, ...

• Two sugar beet chitinase genes, BvSP2 and BvSE2, analysed with SNP Amplifluor-like markers, are highly expressed after Fusarium root rot inoculations and field susceptibility trial 

  Yerzhebayeva, Raushan; Abekova, Alfiya; Konysbekov, Kerimkul; Bastaubayeva, Sholpan; Kabdrakhmanova, Aynur; Absattarova, Aiman; Shavrukov, Yuri (PeerJ, 2018-06-27)

  Background: The pathogens from Fusarium species can cause Fusarium root rot (RR) and other diseases in plant species including sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), and they have a strong negative impact on sugar beet yield and ...

• Artificial barriers prevent genetic recovery of small isolated populations of a low-mobility freshwater fish 

  Coleman, Rhys; Gauffre, B; Pavlova, Alexandra; Beheregaray, Luciano Bellagamba; Kearns, Joanne; Lyon, Jarod; Sasaki, Minami; Leblois, R; Sgro, C; Sunnucks, Paul (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-01-12)

  Habitat loss and fragmentation often result in small, isolated populations vulnerable to environmental disturbance and loss of genetic diversity. Low genetic diversity can increase extinction risk of small populations by ...

• Tetramerization of MADS family transcription factors SEPALLATA3 and AGAMOUS is required for floral meristem determinacy in Arabidopsis 

  Hugouvieux, Veronique; Silva, Catarina S; Jourdain, Agnes; Stigliani, Arnaud; Charras, Quentin; Conn, Vanessa; Conn, Simon; Carles, Cristel C; Parcy, Francois; Zubieta, Chloe (Oxford University Press, 2018-03-19)

  The MADS transcription factors (TF) constitute an ancient family of TF found in all eukaryotes that bind DNA as obligate dimers. Plants have dramatically expanded the functional diversity of the MADS family during evolution ...

• The role of Rhytidoponera metallica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in facilitating post-fire seed germination of three ant-dispersed legume species 

  Beaumont, Kieren P; Mackay, Duncan Alexander; Whalen, Molly Ann (Wiley, 2017-10-16)

  The fire avoidance hypothesis proposes that a benefit of seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) is to protect seeds from being killed during fire and to facilitate post-fire germination of seeds that require heat shock to ...

• A biolistic method for high-throughput production of transgenic wheat plants with single gene insertions 

  Ismagul, Ainur; Yang, Nannan; Maltseva, Elina; Iskakova, Gulnur; Mazonka, Inna; Skiba, Yuri; Bi, Huihui; Eliby, Serik; Jatayev, Satyvaldy; Shavrukov, Yuri; Borisjuk, Nikolai; Langridge, Peter (BioMed Central, 2018-06-26)

  Background The relatively low efficiency of biolistic transformation and subsequent integration of multiple copies of the introduced gene/s significantly complicate the genetic modification of wheat (Triticum ...

• Potential and application of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to estimate iron and zinc concentration in potato tubers 

  Sosa, Paola; Guild, Georgia Ellen; Burgos, G; Bonierbale, M; zum Felde, Thomas (Elsevier, 2018-07)

  Breeding efforts to develop high iron and zinc potatoes require a fast and inexpensive technique to evaluate mineral concentrations in large numbers of samples. In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of applying X-ray ...

• DNA Typing from Skeletal Remains: A Study of Inhibitors using Mass Spectrometry 

  Edson, Suni M (Elsevier, 2018-09-10)

  This project examines the materials co-extracting with DNA from skeletonized remains that have been in the environment for greater than 50 years. A total of 435 samples with known loss locations were collected for this ...

• DNA profiles generated from a range of touched sample types 

  Martin, Belinda; Blackie, Renee; Taylor, Duncan; Linacre, Adrian Matthew Thornton (Elsevier, 2018-06-02)

  Direct PCR from touch DNA has a range of potential applications in the field of forensic investigation for exhibit examination that, under standard extraction methods, rarely produce informative DNA profiles. Previous ...

• Dry stress decreases areas suitable for Neoleucinodes elegantalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) and affects its survival under climate predictions in South America 

  Siqueira da Silva, Ricardo; Kumar, Lalit; Shabani, Farzin; Ribeiro, Arthur Vieira; Picanco, Marcelo Coutinho (Elsevier, 2018-06-14)

  Projections of climate change show some regions of the world getting warmer, colder, dryer or wetter. Consequently, the effects of climate change on insect pests can alter the threat to agricultural systems. As a result ...

• Shedding Light on Shedders 

  Kanokwongnuwut, Piyamas; Martin, Belinda; Kirkbride, Paul; Linacre, Adrian Matthew Thornton (Elsevier, 2018-06-05)

  All previous examinations of the shedder status of individuals have been based on conclusions inferred from the amount of DNA deposited by donors after they have held an object for a fixed period of time. In all interpretations ...

• Time-elapsed Synchrotron-light Microstructural Imaging of Femoral Neck Fracture 

  Martelli, Saulo; Perilli, Egon (Elsevier, 2018-05-09)

  Time-elapsed micro-computed-tomography (μCT) imaging allows studying bone micromechanics. However, no study has yet performed time-elapsed μCT imaging of human femoral neck fractures. We developed a protocol for time-elapsed ...

• Metabolic response of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to acute and chronic hypoxia stress 

  Li, Mengxiao; Wang, Xiaodan; Qi, Changle; Li, Erchao; Du, Zhenyu; Qin, Jian G; Chen, Li Qiao (Elsevier, 2018-05-15)

  Hypoxia is a critical issue in aquaculture especially in intensive aquaculture systems. Acute hypoxia stress with dissolved oxygen (DO) 0.7±0.1 mg/L for 6 h and chronic hypoxia stress with DO 1.1±0.1 mg/L for 4 weeks ...

• Bioactivity of the Murex Homeopathic Remedy and of Extracts from an Australian Muricid Mollusc against Human Cancer Cells 

  Benkendorff, Kirsten; McIver, Cassandra; Abbott, Catherine Anne (Hindawi, 2010-10-20)

  Marine molluscs from the family Muricidae are the source of a homeopathic remedy Murex, which is used to treat a range of conditions, including cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro bioactivity of egg ...

• Random and systematic sampling error when hooking fish to monitor skin fluke (Benedenia seriolae) and gill fluke (Zeuxapta seriolae) burden in Australian farmed yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) 

  Fensham, J R; Bubner, Erin Jayde; D'Antignana, Trent; Landos, Matthew; Caraguel, Charles G B (Elsevier, 2018-02-24)

  The Australian farmed yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi, YTK) industry monitor skin fluke (Benedenia seriolae) and gill fluke (Zeuxapta seriolae) burden by pooling the fluke count of 10 hooked YTK. The random and ...

• Comparisons between Cambrian Lagerstätten assemblages using multivariate, parsimony and Bayesian methods 

  Holmes, James D; Garcia-Bellido, Diego C; Lee, Michael S Y (Elsevier, 2017-12-01)

  Exceptional fossil deposits exhibiting soft-part preservation, or Konservat-Lagerstätten, are prevalent in Cambrian rocks and provide detailed information on fossil assemblages not available from conventional deposits. It ...

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