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Recently identified bee viruses and their impact on bee pollinators
(2018-02)Bees are agriculturally and ecologically important plant pollinators. Recent high annual losses of honey bee colonies, and reduced populations of native and wild bees in some geographic locations, may impact the availability ... -
Heterogeneity and Power to Detect Trends in Moose Browse Utilization of Willow Communities
(2017-11)Monitoring of browse utilization of plant communities is consistently recommended as an important component of monitoring moose (Alces alces) populations across regions. We monitored winter browse utilization by moose ... -
Buildup of a highly twisted magnetic flux rope during a solar eruption
(2017-11)The magnetic flux rope is among the most fundamental magnetic configurations in plasma. Although its presence after solar eruptions has been verified by spacecraft measurements near Earth, its formation on the Sun remains ... -
Genome Context Viewer: visual exploration of multiple annotated genomes using microsynteny
(2017-12)The Genome Context Viewer is a visual data-mining tool that allows users to search across multiple providers of genome data for regions with similarly annotated content that may be aligned and visualized at the level of ... -
Semiochemicals to enhance herbivory by Diorhabda carinulata aggregations in saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) infestations
(2018-01)BACKGROUND: Semiochemicals for monitoring, attracting or repelling pest and beneficial organisms are increasingly deployed in agricultural and forest systems for pest management activities. However, the use of aggregation ... -
Competition between cheatgrass and bluebunch wheatgrass is altered by temperature, resource availability, and atmospheric CO2 concentration
(2017-12)Global change drivers (elevated atmospheric CO2, rising surface temperatures, and changes in resource availability) have significant consequences for global plant communities. In the northern sagebrush steppe of North ... -
Amanita alpinicola sp nov., associated with Pinus albicaulis, a western 5-needle pine
(2017-07)A new species, Amanita alpinicola, is proposed for specimens fruiting under high elevation pines in Montana, conspecific with specimens from Idaho previously described under the invalid name, Amanita alpina A.H. Sm., nom. ... -
Creation and Characterization of a Double Null Puroindoline Genotype in Spring Wheat
(2017-09)Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain hardness is controlled by the Ha locus, which is composed of two closely linked genes, Puroindoline a (Pina) and Puroindoline b (Pinb). Hard grain results from mutations in either of the ... -
Meta-analysis of the Age-Dependent Efficacy of Multiple Sclerosis Treatments
(2017-11)Objective: To perform a meta-analysis of randomized, blinded, multiple sclerosis (MS) clinical trials, to test the hypothesis that efficacy of immunomodulatory disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) on MS disability progression ... -
New Multiple Sclerosis Disease Severity Scale Predicts Future Accumulation of Disability
(2017-11)The search for the genetic foundation of multiple sclerosis (MS) severity remains elusive. It is, in fact, controversial whether MS severity is a stable feature that predicts future disability progression. If MS severity ... -
Principles and Patterns of Bat Movements: From Aerodynamics to Ecology
(2017-09)Movement ecology as an integrative discipline has advanced associated fields because it presents not only a conceptual framework for understanding movement principles but also helps formulate predictions about the consequences ... -
Mechanistic variables can enhance predictive models of endotherm distributions: the American pika under current, past, and future climates
(2017-03)How climate constrains species' distributions through time and space is an important question in the context of conservation planning for climate change. Despite increasing awareness of the need to incorporate mechanism ... -
Emergy and energy analysis as an integrative indicator of sustainability: A case study in semi-arid Canadian farmlands
(2018-01)Agricultural is essential to feed the human world but it can also degrade the physical world. Therefore, we need widely-accepted metrics to assess how prospective practices influence sustainability. We hypothesized that ... -
Foetal development of skeletal muscle in bovines as a function of maternal nutrition, foetal sex and gestational age
(2018-04)To determine the effects of maternal nutrition on modifications of foetal development of the skeletal muscle and possible increase in the potential of skeletal muscle growth in cattle, gestating cows were either fed 190% ... -
High-redshift Galaxies and Black Holes Detectable with the JWST: A Population Synthesis Model from Infrared to X-Rays
(2017-11)The first billion years of the Universe has been a pivotal time: stars, black holes (BHs), and galaxies formed and assembled, sowing the seeds of galaxies as we know them today. Detecting, identifying, and understanding ... -
Gravitational wave memory in Lambda CDM cosmology
(2017-09)We examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in Lambda CDM cosmology. We consider the case where the Universe can be highly inhomogeneous, but gravitational radiation is treated in the ... -
H/D exchange mass spectrometry and statistical coupling analysis reveal a role for allostery in a ferredoxin-dependent bifurcating transhydrogenase catalytic cycle
(2018-01)Recent investigations into ferredoxin-dependent transhydrogenases, a class of enzymes responsible for electron transport, have highlighted the biological importance of flavin-based electron bifurcation (FBEB). FBEB generates ... -
Requirement and Synergistic Contribution of Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolase Sse and Streptolysin S to Inhibition of Neutrophil Recruitment and Systemic Infection by Hypervirulent emm3 Group A Streptococcus in Subcutaneous Infection of Mice
(2017-09)Hypervirulent group A streptococcus (GAS) can inhibit neutrophil recruitment and cause systemic infection in a mouse model of skin infection. The purpose of this study was to determine whether platelet-activating factor ... -
Potato and potato virus Y: the effect of cultivar, seed type, and dfense-inducing agents differences in incidence
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2016)Potato (Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum) is an important crop grown worldwide. Propagated vegetatively, a sustainable potato industry relies on pathogen free, tissue culture-produced plantlets to maintain low disease ... -
Varying nonlinear dependencies in habitat selection: estimating instead of imposing functional forms
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2016)Spatial heterogeneity of habitats and different foraging strategies can result in dissimilar patterns of habitat selection among individuals in a population. Studies have demonstrated that incorporating individual variation ...
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