Processing of Chlamydia abortus polymorphic membrane protein 18D during the chlamydial developmental cycle (2012)
Journal Article
Wheelhouse, N. M., Sait, M., Aitchison, K., Livingstone, M., Wright, F., McLean, K., Inglis, N. F., Smith, D. G. E., & Longbottom, D. (2012). Processing of Chlamydia abortus polymorphic membrane protein 18D during the chlamydial developmental cycle. PLOS ONE, 7, Article e49190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049190

BACKGROUND: Chlamydia possess a unique family of autotransporter proteins known as the Polymorphic membrane proteins (Pmps). While the total number of pmp genes varies between Chlamydia species, all encode a single pmpD gene. In both Chlamydia tracho... Read More about Processing of Chlamydia abortus polymorphic membrane protein 18D during the chlamydial developmental cycle.

Impact of typhoon disturbance on the diversity of key ecosystem engineers in a monoculture mangrove forest plantation, Can Gio Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam. (2012)
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Diele, K., Tran Ngoc, D. M., Geist, S. J., Meyer, F., Pham, Q. H., Saint-Paul, U., Triet, T., & Berger, U. (2013). Impact of typhoon disturbance on the diversity of key ecosystem engineers in a monoculture mangrove forest plantation, Can Gio Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam. Global and Planetary Change, 110(B), 236-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.09.003

Mangrove crabs as key ecosystem engineers may play an important role in the recovery process of storm-damaged forests. Yet, their response to storm disturbance is largely unknown. Here we compare the ground-dwelling brachyuran crab community of intac... Read More about Impact of typhoon disturbance on the diversity of key ecosystem engineers in a monoculture mangrove forest plantation, Can Gio Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam..

Floral visitors and ant scent marks: noticed but not used? (2012)
Journal Article
Ballantyne, G., & Willmer, P. (2012). Floral visitors and ant scent marks: noticed but not used?. Ecological Entomology, 37(5), 402-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01378.x

1. Bee behaviour when visiting flowers is mediated by diverse chemical cues and signals, from the flower itself and from previous visitors to the flower. Flowers recently visited by bees and hoverflies may be rejected for a period of time by subseque... Read More about Floral visitors and ant scent marks: noticed but not used?.

Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits? (2012)
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Ballantyne, G., & Willmer, P. (2012). Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits?. PLOS ONE, 7(8), Article e43869. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043869

As flower visitors, ants rarely benefit a plant. They are poor pollinators, and can also disrupt pollination by deterring other flower visitors, or by stealing nectar. Some plant species therefore possess floral ant-repelling traits. But why do parti... Read More about Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits?.

Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds (2012)
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Pack, A. A., Herman, L. M., Spitz, S. S., Craig, A. S., Hakala, S., Deakos, M. H., Herman, E. Y., Milette, A. J., Carroll, E., Levitt, S., & Lowe, C. (2012). Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds. Animal Behaviour, 84(4), 983-993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.024

Assortative pairing, and its relation to mate choice, has rarely been documented in mammals. Using data collected from 1998-2007, we investigated size-assortative pairing as it relates to discrimination amongst potential mates in humpback whale (Mega... Read More about Size-assortative pairing and discrimination of potential mates by humpback whales in the Hawaiian breeding grounds.

Increased excitability and altered action potential waveform in cerebellar granule neurons of the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome (2012)
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Usowicz, M. M., & Garden, C. L. P. (2012). Increased excitability and altered action potential waveform in cerebellar granule neurons of the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome. Brain Research, 1465, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.05.027

Down syndrome (DS) is characterized by intellectual disability and impaired motor control. Lack of coordinated movement, poor balance, and unclear speech imply dysfunction of the cerebellum, which is known to be reduced in volume in DS. The principal... Read More about Increased excitability and altered action potential waveform in cerebellar granule neurons of the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome.

Evaluation of the impact and control of enzootic abortion of ewes (2012)
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Longbottom, D., Entrican, G., Wheelhouse, N., Brough, H., & Milne, C. (2013). Evaluation of the impact and control of enzootic abortion of ewes. Veterinary Journal, 195(2), 257-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2012.06.018

Despite the availability of effective management and treatment strategies, Chlamydia abortus remains the single most frequently diagnosed cause of infectious ovine abortion (enzootic abortion of ewes, EAE) in the UK and one of the most significant ca... Read More about Evaluation of the impact and control of enzootic abortion of ewes.

Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social-ecological systems (2012)
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Glaser, M., Christie, P., Diele, K., Dsikowitzky, L., Ferse, S., Nordhaus, I., Schlüter, A., Schwerdtner Mañez, K., & Wild, C. (2012). Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social-ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4(3), 300-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2012.05.004

Tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems (CM-SES) are diverse, complex and dynamic, facing special challenges as hotspots of biodiversity and centres of population growth. Sustainability science focuses on the state of such systems and m... Read More about Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social-ecological systems.

Effects of geophysical cycles on the rhythm of mass mate searching of a harvested mangrove crab (2012)
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Schmidt, A. J., Bemvenuti, C. E., & Diele, K. (2012). Effects of geophysical cycles on the rhythm of mass mate searching of a harvested mangrove crab. Animal Behaviour, 84(2), 333-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.023

The harvested mangrove crab Ucides cordatus exhibits conspicuous cycles of searching for mates en masse. This phenomenon, called andada, always occurs at the syzygies, but the particular moon phase, full, new or rarely both, varies for unknown reason... Read More about Effects of geophysical cycles on the rhythm of mass mate searching of a harvested mangrove crab.

The SUMO Pathway Promotes Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proneural Factor Activity via a Direct Effect on the Zn Finger Protein Senseless (2012)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Powell, L. M., Huang, Y. C., Wang, P. Y., Kemp, S. E., & Jarman, A. P. (2012). The SUMO Pathway Promotes Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proneural Factor Activity via a Direct Effect on the Zn Finger Protein Senseless. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 32(14), 2849-2860. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.06595-11

During development, proneural transcription factors of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family are required to commit cells to
a neural fate. In Drosophila neurogenesis, a key mechanism promoting sense organ precursor (SOP) fate is the synergy betw... Read More about The SUMO Pathway Promotes Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proneural Factor Activity via a Direct Effect on the Zn Finger Protein Senseless.

How to halve ploidy during meiosis – Lessons from budding yeast (2012)
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Kerr, G., Sarkar, S., & Arumugam, P. (2012). How to halve ploidy during meiosis – Lessons from budding yeast. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 69(18), 3037-3051. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-012-0974-9

Maintenance of ploidy in sexually reproducing organisms requires a specialized form of cell division called meiosis that generates genetically diverse haploid gametes from diploid germ cells. Meiotic cells halve their ploidy by undergoing two rounds... Read More about How to halve ploidy during meiosis – Lessons from budding yeast.

Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland (2012)
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Howie, F., Gidlow, J., Greub, G., Wheelhouse, N., Dagleish, M., & Longbottom, D. (2012). Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland. Veterinary Journal, 193(2), 586-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2012.01.008

Bovine abortion represents a major animal welfare issue and a cause of substantial economic loss yet the rate of successful diagnosis remains low. Chlamydia-related organisms including Parachlamydia have recently emerged as putative cattle abortifaci... Read More about Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland.

User-Centric Biometrics: Authentication in a Self-Service Environment (2012)
Thesis
Riley, C. W. User-Centric Biometrics: Authentication in a Self-Service Environment. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4914

Biometric authentication is the process of establishing an individual's identity based on measurable characteristics of their anatomy, physiology or behavior. Biometrics do not share many of the limitations of traditional authentication mechanisms, a... Read More about User-Centric Biometrics: Authentication in a Self-Service Environment.

The impact of exercise, adiposity and persistent viral infection on blood T-Cell phenotype and function (2012)
Thesis
Spielmann, G. The impact of exercise, adiposity and persistent viral infection on blood T-Cell phenotype and function. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5682

Human ageing is associated with a progressive decline in the function of the immune system, commonly referred as immunosenescence. This is characterized by the shrinkage of the naïve T-cell repertoire and a concomitant accumulation of highly differen... Read More about The impact of exercise, adiposity and persistent viral infection on blood T-Cell phenotype and function.

Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations. (2011)
Journal Article
Kautz, M., Berger, U., Stoyan, D., Vogt, J., Khan, N. I., Diele, K., Saint-Paul, U., Triet, T., & Nam, V. N. (2011). Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations. Aquatic Botany, 95, 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2011.05.005

Plantations released from management are vulnerable to transient oscillations until cohort dynamics are broken and the vertical and horizontal structures of the plantation are transformed to those of more natural forests. Cohort-desynchronizing facto... Read More about Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations..

BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2011, October). BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets. The goal of the BioVis 2011 symposium is to create t... Read More about BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings..

New challenges for vaccination to prevent chlamydial abortion in sheep (2011)
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Entrican, G., Wheelhouse, N., Wattegedera, S. R., & Longbottom, D. (2012). New challenges for vaccination to prevent chlamydial abortion in sheep. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 35(3), 271-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cimid.2011.12.001

Ovine enzootic abortion (OEA) is caused by the obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium Chlamydia abortus. OEA remains a common cause of infectious abortion in many sheep-rearing countries despite the existence of commercially available vaccine... Read More about New challenges for vaccination to prevent chlamydial abortion in sheep.

Comparative assessment of a DNA and protein Leishmania donovani gamma glutamyl cysteine synthetase vaccine to cross-protect against murine cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L. major or L. mexicana infection (2011)
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Campbell, S., Campbell, S. A., Alawa, J., Doro, B., Henriquez, F., Roberts, C., Nok, A., Alawa, C., Alsaadi, M., Mullen, A., & Carter, K. (2012). Comparative assessment of a DNA and protein Leishmania donovani gamma glutamyl cysteine synthetase vaccine to cross-protect against murine cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L. major or L. mexicana infection. Vaccine, 30(7), 1357-1363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.12.067

Leishmaniasis is a major health problem and it is estimated that 12 million people are currently infected. A vaccine which could cross-protect people against different Leishmania spp. would facilitate control of this disease as more than one species... Read More about Comparative assessment of a DNA and protein Leishmania donovani gamma glutamyl cysteine synthetase vaccine to cross-protect against murine cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L. major or L. mexicana infection.

Integrins and extracellular matrix in mechanotransduction (2011)
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Ramage, L. (2011). Integrins and extracellular matrix in mechanotransduction. Cell Health and Cytoskeleton, 2012(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.2147/chc.s21829

Integrins are a family of cell surface receptors which mediate cell–matrix and cell–cell adhesions. Among other functions they provide an important mechanical link between the cells external and intracellular environments while the adhesions that the... Read More about Integrins and extracellular matrix in mechanotransduction.

Meiotic nuclear divisions in budding yeast require PP2ACdc55-mediated antagonism of Net1 phosphorylation by Cdk (2011)
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Kerr, G., Sarkar, S., Tibbles, K. L., Petronczki, M., Millar, J. B., & Arumugam, P. (2011). Meiotic nuclear divisions in budding yeast require PP2ACdc55-mediated antagonism of Net1 phosphorylation by Cdk. Journal of Cell Biology, 193(7), 1157-1166

During meiosis, one round of deoxyribonucleic acid replication is followed by two rounds of nuclear division. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, activation of the Cdc14 early anaphase release (FEAR) network is required for exit from meiosis I but does not... Read More about Meiotic nuclear divisions in budding yeast require PP2ACdc55-mediated antagonism of Net1 phosphorylation by Cdk.