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Advanced Photogrammetry to Assess Lichen Colonization in the Hyper-arid Namib Desert

Hinchliffe, G; Bollard-Breen, B; Cowan, DA; Doshi, A; Gillman, LN; Rios-Murillo, A; Maggs-Kolling, G; Pointing, SB (Frontiers Media, 2017)

The hyper-arid central region of the Namib Desert is characterised by quartz desert pavement terrain that is devoid of vascular plant covers. In this extreme habitat the only discernible surface covers are epilithic lichens ...

Age, Growth and Reproductive Characteristics of the Blue-barred Parrotfish Scarus Ghobban From Taiwan and Solomon Islands

Visconti, V; Li-shu, C; Sabetian, A (Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), 2017)

Age, size, growth and sex ratio of the Blue barred parrot fish Scarus ghobban were investigated from Taiwan and Solomon Islands. While both populations exhibited similar rapid early growth, the longevity, maximum size and ...

Aidi Injection, a Traditional Chinese Medicine Extract, Reverses Gefitinib Resistance in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Cells

Biswas, R; Yang, C-M; Lu, W; He, J; Chen, T; Tian, F; Li, Y (Elsevier BV, 2021)

Introduction Aidi injection is a traditional Chinese medicine containing multiple anti-tumour and immunomodulatory phytochemicals. While it synergistically enhances the efficacy of conventional chemotherapy in patients ...

Alkyl Linker Effects on the Coordination Topology of Ditopic Di(2-pyridylmethyl)amine Carboxylate Ligands with Znˡˡ and Cuˡˡ: Polymers Vs. Macrocycles

Rodpun, K; Blackman, AG; Gardiner, MG; Tan, EW; Meledandri, CJ; Lucas, NT (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015)

A series of ditopic ω-di(2-pyridylmethyl)amine carboxylic acid ligands incorporating a range of n-alkyl linkers (CnCOOH, n = 3-5, 7, 10 and 11) have been synthesised. Solution phase studies showed a 1:1 coordination ...

Anti-proliferation Potential and Content of Fucoidan Extracted From Sporophyll of New Zealand Undaria Pinnatifida

Mak, W; Wang, SK; Liu, T; Hamid, N; Lu, J; Li, Y; White, WL (Frontiers Media S. A., 2014)

Undaria pinnatifida is a species of brown seaweed known to contain rich amounts of fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide known to possess various biological activities. We isolated crude fucoidan (F0) from the sporophylls ...

An Appeal for a Code of Conduct for Marine Conservation

Bennett, NJ; Teh, L; Ota, Y; Christie, P; Ayers, A; Day, JC; Franks, P; Gill, D; Gruby, RL; Kittinger, JN; Koehn, JZ; Lewis, N; Parks, J; Vierros, M; Whitty, TS; Wilhelm, A; Wright, K; Aburto, JA; Finkbeiner, EM; Gaymer, CF; Govan, H; Gray, N; Jarvis, RM; Kaplan-Hallam, M; Satterfield, T (Elsevier, 2017)

Marine conservation actions are promoted to conserve natural values and support human wellbeing. Yet the quality of governance processes and the social consequences of some marine conservation initiatives have been the ...

Application of CRISPR-Cas9 System to Study Biological Barriers to Drug Delivery

He, J; Biswas, R; Bugde, P; Li, J; Liu, D-X; Li, Y

In recent years, sequence-specific clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems have been widely used in genome editing of various cell types and organisms. The most ...

Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Identifies a Heterozygous Deletion of Exon 3 of the RYR2 Gene

Leong, IU; Sucich, J; Prosser, DO; Skinner, JR; Crawford, JR; Higgins, C; Love, DR (Taylor & Francis, 2015)

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a heritable cardiac disorder characterized by life-threatening ventricular tachycardia caused by exercise or acute emotional stress. The standard diagnostic ...

Aspect Has a Greater Impact on Alpine Soil Bacterial Community Structure Than Elevation

Wu, J; Anderson, BJ; Buckley, HL; Lewis, G; Lear, G (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017)

Gradients in environmental conditions, including climate factors and resource availability, occur along mountain inclines, providing a ‘natural laboratory’ to explore their combined impacts on microbial distributions. ...

Assessing the Sulfide Footprint of Mussel Farms With Sediment Profile Imagery: A New Zealand Trial

Wilson, PS; Vopel, K (PLOS, 2015)

Growing numbers and increased stocking of marine mussel farms make reliable techniques for environmental effect assessment a priority. Previously, we showed how the color intensity of soft sediment could be used to estimate ...

Author Correction: Behaviour Reactions of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops runcatus) to Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Fettermann, T; Fiori, L; Bader, M; Doshi, A; Breen, D; Stockin, KA; Bollard, B (Springer Nature, 2020)

This Article contains an error. The following sentence in the Introduction, “In the absence of previously studies in the peer reviewed literature dedicated to the UAV disturbance assessment, this study is the first to ...

Bacterial and Fungal Communities Respond Differently to Varying Tillage Depth in Agricultural Soils

Anderson, C; Beare, M; Buckley, HL; Lear, G (PeerJ, 2017)

In arable cropping systems, reduced or conservation tillage practices are linked with improved soil quality, C retention and higher microbial biomass, but most long- term studies rarely focus on depths greater than 15 cm ...

Behaviour Reactions of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Fettermann, T; Fiori, L; Bader, M; Doshi, A; Breen, D; Stockin, KA; Bollard, B (Nature Publishing Group, 2019)

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a novel and cost effective research tool to investigate cetacean behaviour, as conventional aircraft are expensive, limited in the altitude they can fly at and potentially disturb ...

Bioactive Components and Anticancer Activities of Spray-Dried New Zealand Tamarillo Powder

Liu, Q; Hamid, N; Liu, Y; Kam, R; Kantono, K; Wang, K; Lu, J (MDPI AG, 2022)

Tamarillo fruit contains many phytochemicals that have beneficial therapeutic and nutritional properties. Spray-drying is widely used to preserve fruit puree in powder form. However, to obtain high-quality fruit powder, ...

Biomass Assessment of Geoduc (Panopea zelandica) From Northern Golden Bay in Fishing Management Area 7

White, W; Slater, A; Millar, R (AUT Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand, 2017)

Biotin-kodecytes - novel function-spacer-lipid (FSL) modified cells capable of being recovered from the circulation after 3 days

Oliver, C; Blake, D; Ferguson, S; Bovin, N; Henry, S (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2010)

The ability to modify a population of blood cells with both an antigen of interest and an identification-recovery label, infuse them into the circulation of an animal, and then visualize or recover a sample of the infused ...