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Shender Lisa A. Cody Theresa Ruder Mark Fenton Heather Niedringhaus Kevin D. Blanton Jason Motes Jessy Schmedes Sarah Forys Elizabeth 《EcoHealth》2022,19(2):203-215
EcoHealth - Extreme weather events, particularly heavy rainfall, are occurring at greater frequency with climate change. Although adverse human health effects from heavy rainfall are often... 相似文献
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Effects of roads and land use on frog distributions across spatial scales and regions in the Eastern and Central United States 下载免费PDF全文
David M. Marsh Bradley J. Cosentino Kara S. Jones Joseph J. Apodaca Karen H. Beard Jane Margaret Bell Christine Bozarth Derrick Carper Julie F. Charbonnier Andreia Dantas Elizabeth A. Forys Miran Foster Jaquelyn General Kristen S. Genet Macie Hanneken Kyle R. Hess Shane A. Hill Faisal Iqbal Nancy E. Karraker Eran S. Kilpatrick Tom A. Langen James Langford Kathryn Lauer Alison J. McCarthy Joseph Neale Saumya Patel Austin Patton Cherie Southwick Nathaniel Stearrett Nicholas Steijn Mohammad Tasleem Joseph M. Taylor James R. Vonesh 《Diversity & distributions》2017,23(2):158-170
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Xiao Hu Solomon Duki Joseph Forys Jeffrey Hettinger Justin Buchicchio Tabbetha Dobbins Catherine Yang 《Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE》2014,(90)
Fibrous proteins display different sequences and structures that have been used for various applications in biomedical fields such as biosensors, nanomedicine, tissue regeneration, and drug delivery. Designing materials based on the molecular-scale interactions between these proteins will help generate new multifunctional protein alloy biomaterials with tunable properties. Such alloy material systems also provide advantages in comparison to traditional synthetic polymers due to the materials biodegradability, biocompatibility, and tenability in the body. This article used the protein blends of wild tussah silk (Antheraea pernyi) and domestic mulberry silk (Bombyx mori) as an example to provide useful protocols regarding these topics, including how to predict protein-protein interactions by computational methods, how to produce protein alloy solutions, how to verify alloy systems by thermal analysis, and how to fabricate variable alloy materials including optical materials with diffraction gratings, electric materials with circuits coatings, and pharmaceutical materials for drug release and delivery. These methods can provide important information for designing the next generation multifunctional biomaterials based on different protein alloys. 相似文献
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Functional Group Change within and across Scales following Invasions and Extinctions in the Everglades Ecosystem 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Cross-scale resilience theory predicts that the combination of functional diversity within scales and functional redundancy
across scales is an important attribute of ecosystems because it helps these systems resist minor ecological disruptions and
regenerate after major disturbances such as hurricanes and fire. Using the vertebrate fauna of south Florida, we quantified
how the loss of native species and invasion by nonnatives may alter functional group richness within and across scales. We
found that despite large changes in species composition due to potential extinctions and successful invasions by nonnative
species, functional group richness will not change significantly within scales, there will not be any significant loss of
overall redundancy of ecology function across scales, and overall body mass pattern will not undergo substantial change. However,
the types of functions performed will change, and this change may have profound effects on not only the Everglades ecosystem
but on the entire landscape of south Florida.
Received 14 November 2000; accepted 20 December 2001. 相似文献
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Civitello DJ Forys P Johnson AP Hall SR 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》2012,279(1741):3146-3153
Chemical contamination and disease outbreaks have increased in many ecosystems. However, connecting pollution to disease spread remains difficult, in part, because contaminants can simultaneously exert direct and multi-generational effects on several host and parasite traits. To address these challenges, we parametrized a model using a zooplankton-fungus-copper system. In individual-level assays, we considered three sublethal contamination scenarios: no contamination, single-generation contamination (hosts and parasites exposed only during the assays) and multi-generational contamination (hosts and parasites exposed for several generations prior to and during the assays). Contamination boosted transmission by increasing contact of hosts with parasites. However, it diminished parasite reproduction by reducing the size and lifespan of infected hosts. Multi-generational contamination further reduced parasite reproduction. The parametrized model predicted that a single generation of contamination would enhance disease spread (via enhanced transmission), whereas multi-generational contamination would inhibit epidemics relative to unpolluted conditions (through greatly depressed parasite reproduction). In a population-level experiment, multi-generational contamination reduced the size of experimental epidemics but did not affect Daphnia populations without disease. This result highlights the importance of multi-generational effects for disease dynamics. Such integration of models with experiments can provide predictive power for disease problems in contaminated environments. 相似文献
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Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, owes its continued success to freshwater snails that support production of prolific numbers of human-infective cercariae. Encounters between schistosomes and snails do not always result in the snail becoming infected, in part because snails can mount immune responses that prevent schistosome development. Fibrinogen-related protein 3 (FREP3) has been previously associated with snail defense against digenetic trematode infection. It is a member of a large family of immune molecules with a unique structure consisting of one or two immunoglobulin superfamily domains connected to a fibrinogen domain; to date fibrinogen containing proteins with this arrangement are found only in gastropod molluscs. Furthermore, specific gastropod FREPs have been shown to undergo somatic diversification. Here we demonstrate that siRNA mediated knockdown of FREP3 results in a phenotypic loss of resistance to Schistosoma mansoni infection in 15 of 70 (21.4%) snails of the resistant BS-90 strain of Biomphalaria glabrata. In contrast, none of the 64 control BS-90 snails receiving a GFP siRNA construct and then exposed to S. mansoni became infected. Furthermore, resistance to S. mansoni was overcome in 22 of 48 snails (46%) by pre-exposure to another digenetic trematode, Echinostoma paraensei. Loss of resistance in this case was shown by microarray analysis to be associated with strong down-regulation of FREP3, and other candidate immune molecules. Although many factors are certainly involved in snail defense from trematode infection, this study identifies for the first time the involvement of a specific snail gene, FREP3, in the phenotype of resistance to the medically important parasite, S. mansoni. The results have implications for revealing the underlying mechanisms involved in dictating the range of snail strains used by S. mansoni, and, more generally, for better understanding the phenomena of host specificity and host switching. It also highlights the role of a diversified invertebrate immune molecule in defense against a human pathogen. It suggests new lines of investigation for understanding how susceptibility of snails in areas endemic for S. mansoni could be manipulated and diminished. 相似文献
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Scale-specific patterns of resource distribution on landscapes entrain attributes of resident animal communities such that
species body-mass distributions are organized into distinct aggregations. Species within each aggregation respond to resources
over the same range of scale. This discontinuous pattern has predictive power: invasive species and extinct or declining species
in landscapes subject to human transformation tend to be located at the edge of body-mass aggregations (P < 0.01), which may be transition zones between distinct ranges of scale. Location at scale breaks affords species great opportunity,
but also potential crisis.
Received 19 May 1998; accepted 24 November 1998 相似文献
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Tsvetelina Paunova-Krasteva Emi Haladjova Petar Petrov Aleksander Forys Barbara Trzebicka Tanya Topouzova-Hristova 《Biofouling》2020,36(6):679-695
Abstract Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic Gram-negative pathogen often associated with biofilm infections. This study evaluated the capacity for biofilm destruction of a novel combination of cationic polymer micelles formed from poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA-PCL-PDMAEMA) triblock copolymer either alone, or loaded with silver nanoparticles (M_AgNPs). Pre-formed P. aeruginosa biofilms were incubated with either blank micelles, AgNO3, or M_AgNPs. Biofilm biomass (crystal violet assay), metabolic activity (Alamar blue reduction), structure (SEM) and viability (CLSM after Live/Dead staining, or plating for CFU) were checked. The results showed that the micelles alone loosened the biofilm matrix, and caused some alterations in the bacterial surface. AgNO3 killed the bacteria in situ leaving dead biofilm bacteria on the surface. M_AgNPs combined the two types of activities causing significant biofilm reduction, and alteration and death of biofilm bacteria. Therefore, the applied PDMAEMA-based micelles appear to be a successful candidate for the treatment of P. aeruginosa biofilm infections. 相似文献
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