Ecological and pest-management implications of sex differences in scarab landing patterns on grape vines
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Assessing pollinators’ use of floral resource subsidies in agri-environment schemes: An illustration usingPhacelia tanac...
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Scarcity of ecosystem services: an experimental manipulation of declining pollination rates and its economic consequence...
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Preference of a native beetle for “exoticism,” characteristics that contribute to invasive success ofCostelytra zealandi...
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Urinary microRNA can be concentrated, dried on membranes and stored at room temperature in vacuum bags.
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Urine accumulates traces of changes that occur in the body and can potentially serve as a better biomarker source. Urinary microRNA is a promising class of non-invasive disease biomarkers. However, long-term frozen human urine samples are not a good source for the extraction of urinary microRNA. In this paper, we demonstrate that urinary microRNA c...
Effects of anesthetics pentobarbital sodium and chloral hydrate on urine proteome.
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Urine can be a better source than blood for biomarker discovery since it accumulates many changes. The urine proteome is susceptible to many factors, including anesthesia. Pentobarbital sodium and chloral hydrate are commonly used anesthetics in animal experiments. This study demonstrated the effects of these two anesthetics on the rat urine proteo...
Responses to simulated nitrogen deposition by the neotropical epiphytic orchid Laelia speciosa.
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Potential ecophysiological responses to nitrogen deposition, which is considered to be one of the leading causes for global biodiversity loss, were studied for the endangered endemic Mexican epiphytic orchid, Laelia speciosa, via a shadehouse dose-response experiment (doses were 2.5, 5, 10, 20, 40, and 80 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1)) in order to assess the ...
A reproducible approach to high-throughput biological data acquisition and integration.
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Modern biological research requires rapid, complex, and reproducible integration of multiple experimental results generated both internally and externally (e.g., from public repositories). Although large systematic meta-analyses are among the most effective approaches both for clinical biomarker discovery and for computational inference of biomolec...
Affect-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression and anxiety through the Internet: a randomized controlled tria...
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Background. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a psychological treatment approach that has a growing empirical base. Research has indicated an association between therapist-facilitated affective experience and outcome in psychodynamic therapy. Affect-phobia therapy (APT), as outlined by McCullough et al., is a psychodynamic treatment that emphasizes a ...
Artifactual pyrosequencing reads in multiple-displacement-amplified sediment metagenomes from the Red Sea
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The Multiple Displacement Amplification (MDA) protocol is reported to introduce different artifacts into DNA samples with impurities. In this study, we report an artifactual effect of MDA with sediment DNA samples from a deep-sea brine basin in the Red Sea. In the metagenomes, we showed the presence of abundant artifactual 454 pyrosequencing reads ...
