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Recent progress in clock research has revealed major molecular components in the mechanisms responsible for circadian time keeping in mammals. The first vertebrate clock mutation (tau) was discovered in the Syrian hamster more than a decade ago and, using the power of comparative genomics, this gene has now been cloned. We now know that tau is the mammalian homologue of a Drosophila circadian clock component (double-time) that plays an important role in regulating clock protein turnover. 相似文献
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Hugh A. L. Henry Stephen D. Murphy Mhairi L. McFarlane Heather Barna Katelyn Dunning Alexandra Hood Jill C. Crosthwaite 《Restoration Ecology》2019,27(2):457-465
While best practices for evaluating restoration ecology projects are emerging rapidly, budget constraints often limit postrestoration monitoring, which emphasizes the need for practical and efficient monitoring strategies. We examined the postrestoration outcome for an ENGO (Nature Conservancy of Canada) project, to assess retroactively how variation in intensity and frequency of sampling would have affected estimates of plant species composition, diversity, and richness over time. The project restored four habitat types (mesic forest, oak woodland, wet meadow, and sand barren) using sculptured seeding of tallgrass prairie and woody species. Species‐level plant cover was monitored annually for 10 years in 168 2 × 2–m quadrats. We performed randomization tests to examine estimates of species diversity and richness as a function of the number of quadrats sampled, and assessed the necessity of annual sampling for describing changes in species composition and successional trajectories. The randomization tests revealed that sampling 10–17 quadrats, depending on habitat type, was sufficient to obtain estimates of species diversity that were at least 95% of values obtained from the whole dataset. Species richness as a function of number of quadrats sampled did not plateau, which suggests that rather than increasing the number of sampling quadrats, richness could be estimated more efficiently using nonquadrat based sampling techniques. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis revealed that plant species composition largely stabilized by 3–5 years postrestoration depending on habitat type. By that time, native, seeded species dominated the restoration, and the benefits of annual sampling for tracking changes in species composition diminished. 相似文献
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Stephanie Sobek-Swant Jill C. Crosthwaite D. Barry Lyons Brent J. Sinclair 《Biological invasions》2012,14(1):115-125
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is a wood-boring invasive pest devastating North American ash (Fraxinus spp.). A. planipennis overwinters primarily as a freeze-avoiding prepupa within the outer xylem or inner bark of the host tree. The range of this
species is expanding outward from its presumed introduction point in southwestern Michigan. We hypothesized that loss of cold
tolerance in response to mid-winter warm spells could limit survival and northern distribution of A. planipennis. We determined whether winter-acclimatised A. planipennis prepupae reduced their cold tolerance in response to mid-winter warm periods, and whether this plasticity was reversible
with subsequent cold exposure. Prepupae subjected to mid-winter warm spells of 10 and 15°C had increased supercooling points
(SCPs) and thus reduced cold tolerance. This increase in SCP was accompanied by a rapid loss of haemolymph cryoprotectants
and the loss of cold tolerance was not reversed when the prepupae were returned to −10°C. Exposure to temperatures fluctuating
from 0 to 4°C did not reduce cold hardiness. Only extreme warming events for several days followed by extreme cold snaps may
have lethal effects on overwintering A. planipennis populations. Thus, distribution in North America is likely to be limited by the presence of host trees rather than climatic
factors, but we conclude that range extensions of invasive species could be halted if local climatic extremes induce unidirectional
plastic responses. 相似文献
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Crosthwaite SK 《Essays in biochemistry》2011,49(1):37-51
At first, the saprophytic eukaryote Neurospora crassa and the photosynthetic prokaryote Synechococcus elongatus may seem to have little in common. However, in both organisms a circadian clock organizes cellular biochemistry, and each organism lends itself to classical and molecular genetic investigations that have revealed a detailed picture of the molecular basis of circadian rhythmicity. In the present chapter, an overview of the molecular clockwork in each organism will be described, highlighting similarities, differences and some as yet unexplained phenomena. 相似文献
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Chen D Vollmar M Rossi MN Phillips C Kraehenbuehl R Slade D Mehrotra PV von Delft F Crosthwaite SK Gileadi O Denu JM Ahel I 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2011,286(15):13261-13271
Sirtuins are a family of protein lysine deacetylases, which regulate gene silencing, metabolism, life span, and chromatin structure. Sirtuins utilize NAD(+) to deacetylate proteins, yielding O-acetyl-ADP-ribose (OAADPr) as a reaction product. The macrodomain is a ubiquitous protein module known to bind ADP-ribose derivatives, which diverged through evolution to support many different protein functions and pathways. The observation that some sirtuins and macrodomains are physically linked as fusion proteins or genetically coupled through the same operon, provided a clue that their functions might be connected. Indeed, here we demonstrate that the product of the sirtuin reaction OAADPr is a substrate for several related macrodomain proteins: human MacroD1, human MacroD2, Escherichia coli YmdB, and the sirtuin-linked MacroD-like protein from Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, we show that the cell extracts derived from MacroD-deficient Neurospora crassa strain exhibit a major reduction in the ability to hydrolyze OAADPr. Our data support a novel function of macrodomains as OAADPr deacetylases and potential in vivo regulators of cellular OAADPr produced by NAD(+)-dependent deacetylation. 相似文献
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Tralau T Lanthaler K Robson GD Crosthwaite SK 《Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B》2007,44(8):754-763
Following exposure to light and attainment of steady-state in the chemostat, Neurospora was grown in constant conditions of darkness at 25 degrees C for 6 days. Biomass samples were taken every 4h for the extraction of RNA and protein, and the state of the circadian clock was assessed by assaying the levels of three rhythmically expressed mRNAs; frequency (frq), antisense frq (qrf) and clock-controlled gene-14 (ccg-14), and by monitoring the clock-controlled rhythm of sporulation. Our results indicate that the Neurospora clock continued to run in the chemostat. This is the longest reported time that Neurospora has been grown in a chemostat in filamentous form and opens up the possibility of studying the response of Neurospora to a range of stimuli in the absence of confounding effects due to; alterations in growth rate, aging, and changing conditions of the growth medium. 相似文献
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Crosthwaite JC Sobek S Lyons DB Bernards MA Sinclair BJ 《Journal of insect physiology》2011,57(1):166-173
Ability to survive cold is an important factor in determining northern range limits of insects. The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is an invasive beetle introduced from Asia that is causing extensive damage to ash trees in North America, but little is known about its cold tolerance. Herein, the cold tolerance strategy and mechanisms involved in the cold tolerance of the emerald ash borer were investigated, and seasonal changes in these mechanisms monitored. The majority of emerald ash borers survive winter as freeze-intolerant prepupae. In winter, A. planipennis prepupae have low supercooling points (∼−30 °C), which they achieve by accumulating high concentrations of glycerol (∼4 M) in their body fluids and by the synthesis of antifreeze agents. Cuticular waxes reduce inoculation from external ice. This is the first comprehensive study of seasonal changes in cold tolerance in a buprestid beetle. 相似文献
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