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The formation channels of multiphase gas in nearby early-type galaxies

Description: Article describes how the processes responsible for the assembly of cold and warm gas in early-type galaxies (ETGs) are not well understood. The authors report on the multiwavelength properties of 15 non-central, nearby ETGs primary through Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and Chandra X-ray observations, to address the origin of their multiphase gas.
Date: October 21, 2023
Creator: Eskenasy, Ryan; Olivares, Valeria; Su, Yuanyuan & Li, Yuan
Partner: UNT College of Science
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ARKENSTONE – I. A novel method for robustly capturing high specific energy outflows in cosmological simulations

Description: Article describes how ARKENSTONE is a new model for multiphase, stellar feedback-driven galactic winds designed for inclusion in coarse resolution cosmological simulations. In this first paper of a series, the authors describe the features that allow ARKENSTONE to properly treat high specific energy wind components and demonstrate them using idealized non-cosmological simulations of a galaxy with a realistic circumgalactic medium (CGM) using the AREPO code.
Date: October 17, 2023
Creator: Smith, Matthew C.; Fielding, Drummond B.; Bryan, Greg L.; Kim, Chang-Goo; Ostriker, Eve C.; Somerville, Rachel S. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Delayed Antarctic melt season reduces albedo feedback

Description: Article discusses how Antarctica's response to climate change varies greatly both spatially and temporally. The authors used a 43-year record of Antarctic snow melt seasons from space-borne microwave radiometers with a machine-learning algorithm to show that both the onset and the end of the melt season are being delayed.
Date: May 27, 2023
Creator: Liang, Lei; Guo, Huadong; Liang, Shuang; Li, Xichen; Moore, John C.; Li, Xinwu et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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SUPREME: multiomics data integration using graph convolutional networks

Description: Article states that, to pave the road towards precision medicine in cancer, patients with similar biology ought to be grouped into same cancer subtypes. On breast cancer subtyping, unlike existing tools, SUPREME generates patient embeddings from multiple similarity networks utilizing multiomics features and integrates them with raw features to capture complementary signals.
Date: June 28, 2023
Creator: Kesimoglu, Ziynet Nesibe & Bozdag, Serdar
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)

Description: Article asserts that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; LEPC) is an iconic North American prairie grouse, renowned for ornate and spectacular breeding season displays, a species that has been declining in population across much of its historical range, with corresponding precipitous declines in contemporary population abundance, largely due to climatic and anthropogenic factors. The authors describe an annotated reference genome that was generated from a LEPC sample collect… more
Date: March 17, 2023
Creator: Black, Andrew N.; Bondo, Kristin J.; Mularo, Andrew; Hernandez, Alvaro; Yu, Yachi; Stein, Carleigh M. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Using CRISPR/Cas to enhance gene expression for crop trait improvement by editing miRNA targets

Description: Article states that gene editing tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 are often thought of as a means to prevent gene expression; however, a more subtle and yet powerful approach is the enhancement of gene expression by precise deletion of repressor sites within a gene of interest. Authors argue that gene editing of miRNA target sites is preferable over deletion of the miRNA genes themselves, given that it avoids the pitfalls of unspecific derepression of miRNA target(s) beyond the gene of interest.
Date: January 10, 2023
Creator: Ferreira, Savio S. & Reis, Rodrigo S.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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PPAD: a deep learning architecture to predict progression of Alzheimer’s disease

Description: Article asserts that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people worldwide. The authors of the article propose two deep learning architectures based on RNN, namely Predicting Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (PPAD) and PPAD-Autoencoder.
Date: June 30, 2023
Creator: Olaimat, Mohammad Al; Martinez, Jared; Saeed, Fahad & Bozdag, Serdar
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Fatty acid amide hydrolase and 9-lipoxygenase modulate cotton seedling growth by ethanolamide oxylipin levels

Description: Article asserts that polyunsaturated N-acylethanolamines (NAEs) can be hydrolyzed by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) or oxidized by lipoxygenase (LOX). Altogether, the authors conclude that the growth of cotton seedlings involves fine-tuning of 9-NAE-HOD levels via FAAH-mediated hydrolysis and LOX-mediated production, expanding the mechanistic understanding of plant growth modulation by NAE oxylipins to a perennial crop species.
Date: December 6, 2022
Creator: Gaguancela-Arias, Omar; Aziz, Mina & Chapman, Kent Dean
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Lipidomic Analysis of Arabidopsis T-DNA Insertion Lines Leads to Identification and Characterization of C-Terminal Alterations in FATTY ACID DESATURASE 6

Description: Article states that mass-spectrometry-based screening of lipid extracts of wounded and unwounded leaves from a collection of 364 Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA insertion lines produced lipid profiles that were scored on the number and significance of their differences from the leaf lipid profiles of wild-type plants. The analysis identified Salk_109175C, which displayed alterations in leaf chloroplast glycerolipid composition, including a decreased ratio between two monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MG… more
Date: June 21, 2022
Creator: Lusk, Hannah J.; Neumann, Nicholas; Colter, Madeline; Roth, Mary R.; Tamura, Pamela; Yao, Libin et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Spatial and temporal localization of SPIRRIG and WAVE/SCAR reveal roles for these proteins in actin-mediated root hair development

Description: Article shows that SPIRRIG (SPI), a beige and Chediak Higashi domain-containing protein involved in membrane trafficking, and BRK1 and SCAR2, subunits of the WAVE/SCAR (W/SC) actin nucleating promoting complex, display polarized localizations in Arabidopsis thaliana root hairs during distinct developmental stages. Authors' work uncovers a role for SPI in facilitating actin-dependent root hair development in Arabidopsis through pathways that might intersect with W/SC.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Chin, Sabrina; Kwon, Taegun; Khan, Bibi Rafeiza; Sparks, J. Alan; Mallery, Eileen L.; Szymanski, Daniel B. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Proteomic and metabolic disturbances in lignin-modified Brachypodium distachyon

Description: This article investigates global metabolic responses to lignin pathway perturbations in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon using a systems biology approach.
Date: June 7, 2022
Creator: Barros, Jaime; Shrestha, Him K.; Serrani-Yarce, Juan C.; Engle, Nancy L.; Abraham, Paul E.; Tschaplinski, Timothy J. et al.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Natural variation and improved genome annotation of the emerging biofuel crop field pennycress

Description: Article describing pennycress genome annotation improvements using a combination of long- and short-read transcriptome data obtained from RNA derived from embryos of 22 accessions, in addition to public genome and gene expression information.
Date: April 13, 2022
Creator: García Navarrete, Tatiana; Arias, Cintia Lucía; Mukundi, Eric; Alonso, Ana Paula & Grotewold, Erich
Partner: UNT College of Science
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MtGSTF7, a TT19-like GST gene, is essential for accumulation of anthocyanins, but not proanthocyanins in Medicago truncatula

Description: Article shows that the mechanism of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin (PA) accumulation in M. truncatula is different from that in A. thaliana, and provides a new target gene for engineering anthocyanins in plants.
Date: March 16, 2022
Creator: Wang, Ruoruo; Lu, Nan; Liu, Chenggang; Dixon, R. A.; Wu, Qing; Mao, Yawen et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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LBD29-Involved Auxin Signaling Represses NAC Master Regulators and Fiber Wall Biosynthesis

Description: This article uses a large-scale mutant screening to identify a dominant activation-tagging mutant, fiberless-d (fls-d), showing defective SCW development in stem fibers, similar to that of the nac secondary wall thickening promoting factor1-1 (nst1-1)nst3-3 double mutant. The results demonstrate auxin is upstream of LBD29 in repressing NAC master regulators, and therefore sheds new light on the regulation of SCW biosynthesis in Arabidopsis.
Date: August 3, 2019
Creator: Lee, Kwang-Hee; Du, Qian; Zhuo, Chunliu; Qi, Liying & Wang, Huanzhong
Partner: UNT College of Science
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A Simple Method for Measuring Apoplast Hydration and Collecting Apoplast Contents

Description: This article describes a refined method optimized for maize (Zea mays) seedling leaves, which not only provides a simple procedure for obtaining apoplast fluid, but also allows direct calculation of apoplast hydration at the time of harvest for every sample.
Date: March 1, 2019
Creator: Gentzel, Irene; Giese, Laura; Zhao, Wanying; Alonso, Ana Paula & Mackey, David
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Jasmonic Acid Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of High Light and Heat Stress

Description: Article studying the responses of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants to a combination of high light and heat stress (HL+HS) conditions. The study reveals that Jasmonic acid (JA) plays an important role in the acclimation of plants to a combination of HL+HS.
Date: October 8, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Soham; Azad, Rajeev K.; Balfagón, Damián; Gómez-Cadenas, Aurelio; Fritschi, Felix B.; Mittler, Ron et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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A Combined Metabolomics and Fluxomics Analysis Identifies Steps Limiting Oil Synthesis in Maize Embryos

Description: Article comparing the metabolism of embryos from two different maize lines, Alex and LH59, to test the hypothesis that directly changing their carbon metabolism may be the key to increasing oil content in maize kernels without affecting yield.
Date: September 17, 2019
Creator: Alonso, Ana Paula; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Koubaa, Mohamed; Kimmelfield, Rebecca & Ross, Zacchary
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Ectopic Defense Gene Expression Is Associated with Growth Defects in Medicago truncatula Lignin Pathway Mutants

Description: Article analyzing transposon insertion mutants resulting in independent loss of function of five enzymes of the monolignol pathway, as well as one double mutant, in the model legume Medicago truncatula, to address whether a common mechanism linking lignin modification with perturbations in plant growth and development exists.
Date: July 9, 2019
Creator: Ha, Chan Man; Fine, Dennis; Bhatia, Anil; Rao, Xiaolan; Martin, Madhavi Z.; Engle, Nancy L. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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VvLAR1 and VvLAR2 Are Bifunctional Enzymes for Proanthocyanidin Biosynthesis in Grapevine

Description: This article shows that both Cys-EC and 4β-(S-cysteinyl)-catechin (Cys-C) are present in grapevine. The data from this study advance knowledge of PA building blocks and LAR function and provide targets for grapevine breeding to alter PA composition.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Dixon, R. A.; Jun, Ji Hyung; Yu, Keji & Duan, Changqing
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Using an Adjunctive Treatment to Address Psychological Distress in a National Weight Management Program: Results of an Integrated Pilot Study

Description: Article examining weight loss and physical functioning of obese veterans with comorbid psychological symptoms when participating in weight management programs. The MOVE! program aims to increase healthy eating and physical activity to promote weight loss in obese veterans. Adequately addressing psychological barriers is necessary to maximize outcomes in MOVE! for veterans with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. This study examined the preliminary outcomes of administering the Healthy Emotions and I… more
Date: July 30, 2020
Creator: Evans-Hudnall, Gina; Odafe, Mary O.; Johnson, Adrienne; Armenti, Nicholas; O'Neil, Jennifer; Lawson, Evan et al.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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MYB30 Orchestrates Systemic Reactive Oxygen Signaling and Plant Acclimation

Description: This article explores the relationship among MYB30, the ROS wave, and systemic acclimation in Arabidopsis by determining the SAA response to HL stress of MYB30 mutants and wild-type plants.
Date: July 22, 2020
Creator: Fichman, Yosef; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Burks, David J.; Meyers, Ronald J., Jr.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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