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Novel monitoring systems to obtain dairy cattle phenotypes associated with sustainable production (2018)
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Bell, M. J., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2018). Novel monitoring systems to obtain dairy cattle phenotypes associated with sustainable production. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2, Article 31. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2018.00031

Improvements in production efficiencies and profitability of products from cattle are of great interest to farmers. Furthermore, improvements in production efficiencies associated with feed utilization and fitness traits have also been shown to reduc... Read More about Novel monitoring systems to obtain dairy cattle phenotypes associated with sustainable production.

Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily) (2018)
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Colonese, A., Lo Vetro, D., Landini, W., Di Giuseppe, Z., Hausmann, N., Demarchi, B., …Martini, F. (in press). Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.018

Marine faunal remains from Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana Island, NW Sicily) offer invaluable snapshots of human-coastal environment interaction in the central Mediterranean from the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. The long-term shellfish and f... Read More about Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily).

Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions (2018)
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Janes, G., von Wangenheim, D., Cowling, S., Kerr, I. D., Band, L. R., French, A. P., & Bishopp, A. (2018). Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, Article 735. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00735

Phosphorus is a crucial macronutrient for plants playing a critical role in many cellular signaling and energy cycling processes. In light of this, phosphorus acquisition efficiency is an important target trait for crop improvement, but it also provi... Read More about Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions.

Sumoylation and phosphorylation: hidden and overt links (2018)
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Tomanov, K., Nukarinen, E., Vicente, J., Mendiondo, G. M., Winter, N., Nehlin, L., …Bachmair, A. (in press). Sumoylation and phosphorylation: hidden and overt links. Journal of Experimental Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery167

Post-translational modifications are essential mediators between stimuli from development or the environment and adaptive transcriptional patterns. Recent data allow a first glimpse at how two modifications, phosphorylation and sumoylation, act inter... Read More about Sumoylation and phosphorylation: hidden and overt links.

Investigating the association between the caecal microbiomes of broilers and Campylobacter burden (2018)
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Sakaridis, I., Ellis, R. J., Cawthraw, S. A., van Vliet, A. H. M., Stekel, D. J., Penell, J., …Cook, A. J. (2018). Investigating the association between the caecal microbiomes of broilers and Campylobacter burden. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, Article 927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00927

One of the major transmission routes for the foodborne bacterial pathogen Campylobacter is undercooked poultry meat, contaminated from intestinal contents during processing. In broilers, Campylobacter can grow to very high densities in the caeca, and... Read More about Investigating the association between the caecal microbiomes of broilers and Campylobacter burden.

Gainfully employing descending controls in acute and chronic pain management (2018)
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White, K., Targett, M., & Harris, J. (2018). Gainfully employing descending controls in acute and chronic pain management. Veterinary Journal, 237, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2018.05.005

Specific primary afferent fibres termed nociceptors are responsible for transmitting nociceptive information. Centrally the axonal terminals of these fibres synapse with secondary projection neurones in the spinal dorsal horn to transmit nociceptive... Read More about Gainfully employing descending controls in acute and chronic pain management.

Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater (2018)
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Hendry, K. R., Pyle, K. M., Butler, G. B., Cooper, A., Fransson, A., Chierici, M., …Dodd, P. A. (2018). Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(5), 3507-3522. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017jc013668

Freshwater export from the Arctic is critical in determining the density of water at sites of North Atlantic deep water formation, which in turn influences the global flux of oceanic heat and nutrients. We need geochemical tracers and high-resolution... Read More about Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater.

Development of a direct transformation method by GFP screening and in vitro whole plant regeneration of Capsicum frutescens L. (2018)
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Chee, M. J. Y., Lycett, G. W., & Chin, C. F. (in press). Development of a direct transformation method by GFP screening and in vitro whole plant regeneration of Capsicum frutescens L. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejbt.2018.05.005

Background Capsicum is a genus of important spice crop that belongs to the chili lineage. However, many Capsicum species (family Solanaceae) are known to be recalcitrant to genetic transformation and in vitro regeneration, thus hampering the effor... Read More about Development of a direct transformation method by GFP screening and in vitro whole plant regeneration of Capsicum frutescens L..

“Fat is really a four-letter word”: exploring weight-related communication best practices in children with and without disabilities and their caregivers (2018)
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McPherson, A., Knibbe, T., Oake, M., Swift, J., Browne, N., Ball, G., & Hamilton, J. (2018). “Fat is really a four-letter word”: exploring weight-related communication best practices in children with and without disabilities and their caregivers. Child: Care, Health and Development, 44(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12575

Background: Health care professionals play a critical role in preventing and managing childhood obesity, but the American Academy of Pediatrics recently stressed the importance of using sensitive and nonstigmatizing language when discussing weight wi... Read More about “Fat is really a four-letter word”: exploring weight-related communication best practices in children with and without disabilities and their caregivers.

Hens ranked as highly feed efficient have an improved albumen quality profile and increased polyunsaturated fatty acids in the yolk (2018)
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Akter, Y., Greenhalgh, S., Islam, M., Hutchison, C., & O’Shea, C. J. (2018). Hens ranked as highly feed efficient have an improved albumen quality profile and increased polyunsaturated fatty acids in the yolk. Journal of Animal Science, 96(8), 3482-3490. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/sky188

© The Author(s) 2018. The shelf life of eggs that contain elevated levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is compromised due to the relative instability and therefore greater potential for lipid peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids (FA). Pou... Read More about Hens ranked as highly feed efficient have an improved albumen quality profile and increased polyunsaturated fatty acids in the yolk.

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate (2018)
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Hearing, T. W., Harvey, T. H., Williams, M., Leng, M. J., Lamb, A. L., Wilby, P. R., …Donnadieu, Y. (2018). An early Cambrian greenhouse climate. Science Advances, 4(5), Article eaar5690. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5690

The oceans of the early Cambrian (~541 to 509 million years ago) were the setting for a marked diversification of animal life. However, sea temperatures — a key component of the early Cambrian marine environment — remain unconstrained, in part becaus... Read More about An early Cambrian greenhouse climate.

Characterization of volatile aroma compounds after in-vial cooking of foxtail millet porridge with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (2018)
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Zhang, Y., Yang, N., Fray, R. G., Fisk, I., Liu, C., Li, H., & Han, Y. (in press). Characterization of volatile aroma compounds after in-vial cooking of foxtail millet porridge with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Cereal Science, 82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcs.2018.05.003

Foxtail millet has become popular over recent years for its nutritional value and ecological functions. The aroma of foxtail millet is not well characterized, which is critical for its eating quality and understanding the biochemistry and genetics of... Read More about Characterization of volatile aroma compounds after in-vial cooking of foxtail millet porridge with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Effect of olive oil in dairy cow diets on the fatty acid profile and sensory characteristics of cheese (2018)
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Vargas-Bello-Pérez, E., Geldsetzer-Mendoza, C., Morales, S., Toro-Mujica, P., Fellenberg, M., Ibáñez, R., …Garnsworthy, P. (in press). Effect of olive oil in dairy cow diets on the fatty acid profile and sensory characteristics of cheese. International Dairy Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idairyj.2018.04.006

The effect of dietary unrefined olive oil (OO) residues and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) on the fatty acid profiles of milk and cheese and the sensory characteristics of cheeses was determined. For 9 weeks, animals were fed a control diet with no... Read More about Effect of olive oil in dairy cow diets on the fatty acid profile and sensory characteristics of cheese.

Erratum: Author Correction: A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate (Nature communications (2018) 9 1 (1409)) (2018)
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Bhosale, R., Giri, J., Pandey, B. K., Giehl, R. F. H., Hartmann, A., Traini, R., …Swarup, R. (2018). Erratum: Author Correction: A mechanistic framework for auxin dependent Arabidopsis root hair elongation to low external phosphate (Nature communications (2018) 9 1 (1409)). Nature Communications, 9(1), 1818. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04281-x

The original version of this Article omitted the following from the Acknowledgements: 'We also thank DBT-CREST BT/HRD/03/01/2002.'This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

Magnesium deficiency heightens lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation and enhances monocyte adhesion in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (2018)
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Langley-Evans, S., Almousa, L., & Salter, A. (2018). Magnesium deficiency heightens lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation and enhances monocyte adhesion in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Magnesium Research, 31(2), 39-48. doi:10.1684/mrh.2018.0436

Given a possible anti-inflammatory role of magnesium in endothelial cells, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of magnesium on human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) viability, gene expression, and the pro-inflammatory respons... Read More about Magnesium deficiency heightens lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation and enhances monocyte adhesion in human umbilical vein endothelial cells.

Erratum: Author Correction: Rice auxin influx carrier OsAUX1 facilitates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate (Nature communications (2018) 9 1 (1408)) (2018)
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Giri, J., Bhosale, R., Huang, G., Pandey, B. K., Parker, H., Zappala, S., …Bennett, M. J. (2018). Erratum: Author Correction: Rice auxin influx carrier OsAUX1 facilitates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate (Nature communications (2018) 9 1 (1408)). Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 1810. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04280-y

The original version of this Article omitted the following from the Acknowledgements:'We also thank DBT-CREST BT/HRD/03/01/2002.'This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., …Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.

Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning (2018)
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Brown, C., Boyd, D., Sjögersten, S., Clewley, D., Evers, S., & Aplin, P. (2018). Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning. Remote Sensing, 10(5), Article 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050671

Accurate estimation of above ground biomass (AGB) is required to better understand the variability and dynamics of tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) ecosystem function and resilience to disturbance events. The objective of this work is to examine the... Read More about Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning.

Groundwater quality beneath an Asian megacity on a delta: Kolkata’s (Calcutta’s) disappearing arsenic and present manganese (2018)
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McArthur, J., Sikdar, P., Leng, M., Ghosal, U., & Sen, I. (in press). Groundwater quality beneath an Asian megacity on a delta: Kolkata’s (Calcutta’s) disappearing arsenic and present manganese. Environmental Science and Technology, 52(9), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b04996

Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal, exploits groundwater for public water-supply. The groundwater has been reported to be widely polluted by arsenic (As). Analysis for As in 280 groundwaters from across Kolkata, failed to detect As concentratio... Read More about Groundwater quality beneath an Asian megacity on a delta: Kolkata’s (Calcutta’s) disappearing arsenic and present manganese.

Symposium review: Uncertainties in enteric methane inventories, measurement techniques, and prediction models (2018)
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Hristov, A., Kebreab, E., Niu, M., Oh, J., Bannink, A., Bayat, A., …Yu, Z. (2018). Symposium review: Uncertainties in enteric methane inventories, measurement techniques, and prediction models. Journal of Dairy Science, 101(7), 6655-6674. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2017-13536

Ruminant production systems are important contributors to anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions, but there are large uncertainties in national and global livestock CH4 inventories. Sources of uncertainty in enteric CH4 emissions include animal invent... Read More about Symposium review: Uncertainties in enteric methane inventories, measurement techniques, and prediction models.