• Cultural Differences in Donation Decision-Making 

  Wang, Yan; Tang, Yi-Yuan (TTU); Wang, Jinjun (2015)

  Decisions to help those in need are essential for human development and survival. Previous studies have demonstrated the “identified effect”, in which one identifiable individual typically invokes stronger feelings of ...

• Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Complex Molecular Regulation in Cotton Genic Male Sterile Mutant Yu98-8A 

  Fang, Weiping; Zhao, Fu'an; Sun, Yao; Xie, Deyi; Sun, Li (TTU); Xu, Zhenzhen; Zhu, Wei; Yang, Lirong; Zhao, Yuanming; Lv, Shuping; Tang, Zhongjie; Nie, Lihong; Li, Wu; Hou, Jianan; Duan, Zhengzheng; Yu, Yuebo; Yang, Xiaojie (2015)

  Although cotton genic male sterility (GMS) plays an important role in the utilization of hybrid vigor, its precise molecular mechanism remains unclear. To characterize the molecular events of pollen abortion, transcriptome ...

• Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) Mitochondrial Population Genomics Reveals Structure, Divergence, and Evidence for Heteroplasmy 

  Halley, Yvette A.; Oldeschulte, David L.; Bhattarai, Eric K.; Hill, Joshua; Metz, Richard P.; Johnson, Charles D.; Presley, Steven M. (TTU); Ruzicka, Rebekah E.; Rollins, Dale; Peterson, Markus J.; Murphy, William J.; Seabury, Christopher M. (2015)

  Herein, we evaluated the concordance of population inferences and conclusions resulting from the analysis of short mitochondrial fragments (i.e., partial or complete D-Loop nucleotide sequences) versus complete mitogenome ...

• A Copula Based Approach for Design of Multivariate Random Forests for Drug Sensitivity Prediction 

  Haider, Saad (TTU); Rahman, Raziur (TTU); Ghosh, Souparno (TTU); Pal, Ranadip (TTU) (2015)

  Modeling sensitivity to drugs based on genetic characterizations is a significant challenge in the area of systems medicine. Ensemble based approaches such as Random Forests have been shown to perform well in both individual ...

• Identification and Functional Analysis of microRNAs Involved in the Anther Development in Cotton Genic Male Sterile Line Yu98-8A 

  Yang, Xiaojie; Zhao, Yuanming; Xie, Deyi; Sun, Yao; Zhu, Xunlu (TTU); Esmaeili, Nardana (TTU); Yang, Zuoren; Wang, Ye; Yin, Guo; Lv, Shuping; Nie, Lihong; Tang, Zhongjie; Zhao, Fu'an; Li, Wu; Mishra, Neelam (TTU); Sun, Li (TTU); Zhu, Wei; Fang, Weiping (2016)

  Hybrid vigor contributes in a large way to the yield and quality of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fiber. Although microRNAs play essential regulatory roles in flower induction and development, it is still unclear if microRNAs ...

• Comparison of High-Protein, Intermittent Fasting Low-Calorie Diet and Heart Healthy Diet for Vascular Health of the Obese 

  Zuo, Li; He, Feng; Tinsley, Grant M. (TTU); Pannell, Benjamin K.; Ward, Emery; Arciero, Paul J. (2016)

  Aim: It has been debated whether different diets are more or less effective in long-term weight loss success and cardiovascular disease prevention among men and women. To further explore these questions, the present study ...

• Revisiting the STEC Testing Approach: Using espK and espV to Make Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) Detection More Reliable in Beef 

  Delannoy, Sabine; Chaves, Byron D. (TTU); Ison, Sarah A. (TTU); Webb, Hattie E. (TTU); Beutin, Lothar; Delaval, José; Billet, Isabelle; Fach, Patrick (2016)

  Current methods for screening Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 and non-O157 in beef enrichments typically rely on the molecular detection of stx, eae, and serogroup-specific wzx or wzy gene fragments. As these ...

• Visual, Auditory, and Cross Modal Sensory Processing in Adults with Autism: An EEG Power and BOLD fMRI Investigation 

  Hames, Elizabeth' C. (TTU); Murphy, Brandi (TTUHSC); Rajmohan, Ravi (TTUHSC); Anderson, Ronald C. (TTU); Baker, Mary (TTU); Zupancic, Stephen (TTUHSC); O'Boyle, Michael (TTU); Richman, David (TTU) (2016)

  Electroencephalography (EEG) and blood oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance imagining (BOLD fMRI) assessed the neurocorrelates of sensory processing of visual and auditory stimuli in 11 adults with autism ...

• Mapping Smoking Addiction Using Effective Connectivity Analysis 

  Tang, Rongxiang; Razi, Adeel; Friston, Karl J.; Tang, Yi-Yuan (TTU) (2016)

  Prefrontal and parietal cortex, including the default mode network (DMN; medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), and posterior cingulate cortex, PCC), have been implicated in addiction. Nonetheless, it remains unclear which brain ...

• Challenges to the Pair Bond: Neural and Hormonal Effects of Separation and Reunion in a Monogamous Primate 

  Hinde, Katie; Muth, Chelsea; Maninger, Nicole; Ragen, Benjamin J.; Larke, Rebecca H.; Jarcho, Michael R.; Mendoza, Sally P.; Mason, William A.; Ferrer, Emilio; Cherry, Simon R.; Fisher-Phelps, Marina L. (TTU); Bales, Karen L. (2016)

  Social monogamy at its most basic is a group structure in which two adults form a unit and share a territory. However, many socially monogamous pairs display attachment relationships known as pair bonds, in which there is ...

• Breeding, Early-Successional Bird Response to Forest Harvests for Bioenergy 

  Grodsky, Steven M.; Moorman, Christopher E.; Fritts, Sarah R. (TTU); Castleberry, Steven B.; Wigley, T. Bently (2016)

  Forest regeneration following timber harvest is a principal source of habitat for early-successional birds and characterized by influxes of early-successional vegetation and residual downed woody material. Early-successional ...

• A Quantitative PCR Protocol for Detection of Oxyspirura petrowi in Northern Bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) 

  Kistler, Whitney M. (TTU); Parlos, Julie A. (TTU); Peper, Steven T. (TTU); Dunham, Nicholas R. (TTU); Kendall, Ronald J. (TTU) (2016)

  Oxyspirura petrowi is a parasitic nematode that infects wild birds. This parasite has a broad host range, but has recently been reported in high prevalences from native Galliformes species in the United States. In order ...

• Comparison of the Proximate Composition, Total Carotenoids and Total Polyphenol Content of Nine Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Varieties Grown in Bangladesh 

  Alam, Mohammad Khairul; Rana, Ziaul Hasan (TTU); Islam, Sheikh Nazrul (2016)

  In an attempt to develop the food composition table for Bangladesh, the nutritional composition of nine varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato was analyzed together with total carotenoids (TCC) and total polyphenol content ...

• Impact of Androstenone on Leash Pulling and Jumping Up in Dogs 

  Pirner, Glenna (TTU); McGlone, John (TTU) (2016)

  Dogs are relinquished to shelters due to behavioral problems, such as leash pulling and jumping up. Interomones are chemical cues produced by one species that elicit a response in a different species. We reported earlier ...

• Comparison of Intramuscular or Subcutaneous Injections vs. Castration in Pigs—Impacts on Behavior and Welfare 

  McGlone, John (TTU); Guay, Kimberly; Garcia, Arlene (TTU) (2016)

  Physical castration (PC) is painful and stressful for nursing piglets. One alternative to PC is immunological castration (IC), but the pain and stress of handling associated with injections have not been assessed. The ...

• A Novel Non-Cumbersome Approach Towards Biosynthesis of Pectic-Oligosaccharides by Non-Aflatoxigenic Aspergillus sp. Section Flavi Strain EGY1 DSM 101520 through Citrus Pectin Fermentation 

  Embaby, Amira M.; Melika, Ramy R.; Hussein, Ahmed (TTU); El-Kamel, Amal H.; Marey, Heba S. (2016)

  Pectic-Oligosaccharides (POS) have a growing potential in food and feed industries. To satisfy the demand of worldwide markets from POS and avoid the shortcomings of currently applied methodologies encountered in their ...

• Impact of Providing Feed and/or Water on Performance, Physiology, and Behavior of Weaned Pigs during a 32-h Transport 

  Garcia, Arlene (TTU); Sutherland, Mhairi; Pirner, Glenna (TTU); Picinin, Guilherme (TTU); May, Matthew (TTU); Backus, Brittany (TTU); McGlone, John (TTU) (2016)

  Transportation at weaning is a complex stressor made up of many factors, including withdrawal from feed and water, which can potentially negatively affect the health and welfare of pigs, especially those already experiencing ...

• Gene-rich UV sex chromosomes harbor conserved regulators of sexual development 

  Carey, Sarah B.; Jenkins, Jerry; Lovell, John T.; Maumus, Florian; Sreedasyam, Avinash; Payton, Adam C.; Shu, Shengqiang; Tiley, George P.; Fernandez-Pozo, Noe; Healey, Adam; Barry, Kerrie; Chen, Cindy; Wang, Mei; Lipzen, Anna; Daum, Chris; Saski, Christopher A.; McBreen, Jordan C.; Conrad, Roth E.; Kollar, Leslie M.; Olsson, Sanna; Huttunen, Sanna; Landis, Jacob B.; Burleigh, J. Gordon; Wickett, Norman J.; Johnson, Matthew G. (TTU); Rensing, Stefan A.; Grimwood, Jane; Schmutz, Jeremy; McDaniel, Stuart F. (2021)

  Nonrecombining sex chromosomes, like the mammalian Y, often lose genes and accumulate transposable elements, a process termed degeneration. The correlation between suppressed recombination and degeneration is clear in ...

• Unexpected Role of Sterol Synthesis in RNA Stability and Translation in Leishmania 

  Karamysheva, Zemfira N. (TTU); Moitra, Samrat (TTU); Perez, Andrea (TTU); Mukherjee, Sumit (TTU); Tikhonova, Elena B. (TTUHSC); Karamyshev, Andrey L. (TTUHSC); Zhang, Kai (TTU) (2021)

  Leishmania parasites are trypanosomatid protozoans that cause leishmaniasis affecting millions of people worldwide. Sterols are important components of the plasma and organellar membranes. They also serve as precursors for ...

• Mice with humanized immune system as novel models to study HIV-associated pulmonary hypertension 

  Rodriguez-Irizarry, Valerie J. (TTUHSC); Schneider, Alina C. (TTUHSC); Ahle, Daniel (TTUHSC); Smith, Justin M.; Suarez-Martinez, Edu B.; Salazar, Ethan A. (TTUHSC); McDaniel Mims, Brianyell (TTUHSC); Rasha, Fahmida (TTUHSC); Moussa, Hanna (TTU); Moustaid-Moussa, Naima (TTU); Pruitt, Kevin (TTUHSC); Fonseca, Marcelo; Henriquez, Mauricio; Clauss, Matthias A.; Grisham, Matthew B. (TTUHSC); Almodovar, Sharilyn (TTUHSC) (2022)

  People living with HIV and who receive antiretroviral therapy have a significantly improved lifespan, compared to the early days without therapy. Unfortunately, persisting viral replication in the lungs sustains chronic ...

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