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  1. Article ; Online: Edwardsiella tarda Isolated from a Kidney Mass in a Common Loon (Gavia immer).

    Lewis, Nicole L / Ware, Cynthia / Griffin, Matt J

    Journal of wildlife diseases

    2023  Volume 59, Issue 4, Page(s) 804–806

    Abstract: A Common Loon (Gavia immer) was found recumbent at Island Beach State Park, New Jersey, US, and euthanized. Necropsy revealed a caseous mass in the kidney, from which bacteria were isolated and phenotypically and molecularly identified as Edwardsiella ... ...

    Abstract A Common Loon (Gavia immer) was found recumbent at Island Beach State Park, New Jersey, US, and euthanized. Necropsy revealed a caseous mass in the kidney, from which bacteria were isolated and phenotypically and molecularly identified as Edwardsiella tarda.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Edwardsiella tarda ; Birds ; Kidney ; Autopsy/veterinary ; New Jersey
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 410709-3
    ISSN 1943-3700 ; 0090-3558
    ISSN (online) 1943-3700
    ISSN 0090-3558
    DOI 10.7589/JWD-D-22-00086
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  2. Article: Satellite telemetry reveals habitat selection decisions by black oystercatchers across seasonal, diel, and tidal cycles.

    Ware, Lena / Hipfner, John Mark / Green, David J

    Ecology and evolution

    2023  Volume 13, Issue 4, Page(s) e9957

    Abstract: Habitat use of indicator species is used to prioritize management activities. However, habitat use can vary temporally in response to changes in predation risk and foraging rewards. We deployed satellite tags on 20 black oystercatchers ( ...

    Abstract Habitat use of indicator species is used to prioritize management activities. However, habitat use can vary temporally in response to changes in predation risk and foraging rewards. We deployed satellite tags on 20 black oystercatchers (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2635675-2
    ISSN 2045-7758
    ISSN 2045-7758
    DOI 10.1002/ece3.9957
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  3. Article ; Online: Stolleagrion foghnielseni (Odonata, Cephalozygoptera, Dysagrionidae) gen. et sp. nov.: a new odonatan from the PETM recovery phase of the earliest Ypresian Fur Formation, Denmark.

    Simonsen, Thomas J / Archibald, S Bruce / Rasmussen, Jan A / Sylvestersen, Ren L / Olsen, Kent / Ware, Jessica L

    Zootaxa

    2024  Volume 5415, Issue 3, Page(s) 493–498

    Abstract: We describe the new genus and species Stolleagrion foghnielseni n. gen. et sp. from the Fur Formation in northwestern Denmark based on a single fossil wing. This is the first odonatan described from the earliest part of the PETM recovery phase of the ... ...

    Abstract We describe the new genus and species Stolleagrion foghnielseni n. gen. et sp. from the Fur Formation in northwestern Denmark based on a single fossil wing. This is the first odonatan described from the earliest part of the PETM recovery phase of the early Eocene. A combination of nine wing character states are considered to be diagnostic of the Dysagrionidae Cockrell only together with the cephalozygopteran head; however, the combination of these nine plus the presence of Ax0 is also diagnostic without the head. By this, we assign Stolleagrion foghnielseni to the Dysagrionidae and reassess the position of other odonates previously treated as cf. Dysagrionidae.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Odonata ; Fossils ; Wings, Animal
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-22
    Publishing country New Zealand
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1175-5334
    ISSN (online) 1175-5334
    DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.9
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  4. Article ; Online: Nanoscale Magnetic Arrays through Block Copolymer Templating of Polyoxometalates.

    Clyde, Daniel R M / Cortie, David L / Granville, Simon / Ware, David C / Brothers, Penelope J / Malmström, Jenny

    Nano letters

    2024  Volume 24, Issue 7, Page(s) 2165–2174

    Abstract: Magnetic nanoarrays promise to enable new energy-efficient computations based on spintronics or magnonics. In this work, we present a block copolymer-assisted strategy for fabricating ordered magnetic nanostructures on silicon and permalloy substrates. ... ...

    Abstract Magnetic nanoarrays promise to enable new energy-efficient computations based on spintronics or magnonics. In this work, we present a block copolymer-assisted strategy for fabricating ordered magnetic nanostructures on silicon and permalloy substrates. Block copolymer micelle-like structures were used as a template in which polyoxometalate (POM) clusters could assemble in an opal-like structure. A combination of microscopy and scattering techniques was used to confirm the structural and organizational features of the fabricated materials. The magnetic properties of these materials were investigated by polarized neutron reflectometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, and magnetometry measurements. The data show that a magnetic structural design was achieved and that a thin layer of patterned POMs strongly influenced an underlying permalloy layer. This work demonstrates that the bottom-up pathway is a potentially viable method for patterning magnetic substrates on a sub-100 nm scale, toward the magnetic nanostructures needed for spintronic or magnonic crystal devices.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1530-6992
    ISSN (online) 1530-6992
    DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03825
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  5. Article ; Online: Rapid screening of secondary aromatic metabolites in Populus trichocarpa leaves.

    Harman-Ware, Anne E / Martin, Madhavi Z / Engle, Nancy L / Doeppke, Crissa / Tschaplinski, Timothy J

    Biotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts

    2023  Volume 16, Issue 1, Page(s) 41

    Abstract: Background: High-throughput metabolomics analytical methodology is needed for population-scale studies of bioenergy-relevant feedstocks such as poplar (Populus sp.). Here, the authors report the relative abundance of extractable aromatic metabolites in ... ...

    Abstract Background: High-throughput metabolomics analytical methodology is needed for population-scale studies of bioenergy-relevant feedstocks such as poplar (Populus sp.). Here, the authors report the relative abundance of extractable aromatic metabolites in Populus trichocarpa leaves rapidly estimated using pyrolysis-molecular beam mass spectrometry (py-MBMS). Poplar leaves were analyzed in conjunction with and validated by GC/MS analysis of extracts to determine key spectral features used to build PLS models to predict the relative composition of extractable aromatic metabolites in whole poplar leaves.
    Results: The Pearson correlation coefficient for the relative abundance of extractable aromatic metabolites based on ranking between GC/MS analysis and py-MBMS analysis of the Boardman leaf set was 0.86 with R
    Conclusions: The simplified py-MBMS method is capable of rapidly screening leaf tissue for relative abundance of extractable aromatic secondary metabolites to enable prioritization of samples in large populations requiring comprehensive metabolomics that will ultimately inform plant systems biology models and advance the development of optimized biomass feedstocks for renewable fuels and chemicals.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2731-3654
    ISSN (online) 2731-3654
    DOI 10.1186/s13068-023-02287-2
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  6. Article ; Online: Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines.

    Subasinghe, Kalya / Symonds, Matthew R E / Prober, Suzanne M / Bonnet, Timothée / Williams, Kristen J / Ware, Chris / Gardner, Janet L

    Proceedings. Biological sciences

    2024  Volume 291, Issue 2015, Page(s) 20232480

    Abstract: Morphology is integral to body temperature regulation. Recent advances in understanding of thermal physiology suggest a role of the avian bill in thermoregulation. To explore the adaptive significance of bill size for thermoregulation we characterized ... ...

    Abstract Morphology is integral to body temperature regulation. Recent advances in understanding of thermal physiology suggest a role of the avian bill in thermoregulation. To explore the adaptive significance of bill size for thermoregulation we characterized relationships between bill size and climate extremes. Most previous studies focused on climate means, ignoring frequencies of extremes, and do not reflect thermoregulatory costs experienced over shorter time scales. Using 79 species (9847 museum specimens), we explore how bill size variation is associated with temperature extremes in a large and diverse radiation of Australasian birds, Meliphagides, testing a series of predictions. Overall, across the continent, bill size variation was associated with both climate extremes and means and was most strongly associated with winter temperatures; associations at the level of climate zones differed from continent-wide associations and were complex, yet consistent with physiology and a thermoregulatory role for avian bills. Responses to high summer temperatures were nonlinear suggesting they may be difficult to detect in large-scale continental analyses using previous methodologies. We provide strong evidence that climate extremes have contributed to the evolution of bill morphology in relation to thermoregulation and show the importance of including extremes to understand fine-scale trait variation across space.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Temperature ; Australia ; Beak ; Hot Temperature ; Climate
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 209242-6
    ISSN 1471-2954 ; 0080-4649 ; 0962-8452 ; 0950-1193
    ISSN (online) 1471-2954
    ISSN 0080-4649 ; 0962-8452 ; 0950-1193
    DOI 10.1098/rspb.2023.2480
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  7. Article ; Online: A comparison of paediatric hypertension clinical practice guidelines and their ability to predict adult hypertension in an African birth cohort.

    Craig, A / Ware, L J / Mapanga, W / Norris, S A

    Journal of human hypertension

    2022  Volume 37, Issue 6, Page(s) 455–462

    Abstract: It remains unclear which paediatric hypertension clinical practice guideline (CPG) should be applied in an African population. We, therefore, aimed to compare commonly used CPG (2017 AAP, 2016 ESH, 2004 Fourth Report) developed in high-income countries ... ...

    Abstract It remains unclear which paediatric hypertension clinical practice guideline (CPG) should be applied in an African population. We, therefore, aimed to compare commonly used CPG (2017 AAP, 2016 ESH, 2004 Fourth Report) developed in high-income countries for use in South African children at four paediatric ages (children: 5 years, 8 years; adolescents: 13 years, 17 years) to determine which best predicts elevated blood pressure (BP) in adulthood (22 years, 28 years). Moreover, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) for each specific paediatric CPG was calculated across the age points. The 2017 AAP definition identified more children and adolescents with hypertension when compared to the 2004 Fourth Report and 2016 ESH guidelines. In computed hazards ratios, ages 8 years to 17 years, all three paediatric CPG significantly predicted the risk of elevated BP in young adulthood (p ≤ 0.032). However, sensitivity to predict elevated BP at age 22 years for all CPG was generally low (17.0%-33.0%) with higher specificity (87.4%-93.1%). Sensitivity increased at age 28 years (51.4%-70.1%), while specificity decreased (52.8%-65.1%). Both PPV and NPV at both adult age points varied widely (17.9%-79.9% and 29.3%-92.5% respectively). The performance of these paediatric CPG in terms of AUC were not optimal at both adult age points, however, the 2017 AAP definition at age 17 years met an acceptable level of performance (AUC = 0.71). Our results, therefore, highlight the need for more research to examine if an African-specific CPG would better identify high-risk children to minimise their trajectory towards adult hypertension.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Humans ; Child ; Adult ; Young Adult ; Blood Pressure ; Blood Pressure Determination/methods ; Birth Cohort ; Hypertension/diagnosis ; Hypertension/epidemiology ; Predictive Value of Tests
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639472-3
    ISSN 1476-5527 ; 0950-9240
    ISSN (online) 1476-5527
    ISSN 0950-9240
    DOI 10.1038/s41371-022-00709-6
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  8. Article ; Online: The damselfly genus Furagrion Petrulevičius et al. (Odonata, Zygoptera) from the early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark and the dysagrionoid grade.

    Archibald, S Bruce / Ware, Jessica L / Rasmussen, Jan A / Sylvestersen, René L / Olsen, Kent / Simonsen, Thomas J

    Zootaxa

    2023  Volume 5278, Issue 2, Page(s) 289–317

    Abstract: The earliest Eocene odonate genus Furagrion Petrulevičius et al. from the Danish Fur Formation is revised based on eighteen specimens, two of which apparently have been lost since their publication. The holotype of Phenacolestes jutlandicus Henriksen, ... ...

    Abstract The earliest Eocene odonate genus Furagrion Petrulevičius et al. from the Danish Fur Formation is revised based on eighteen specimens, two of which apparently have been lost since their publication. The holotype of Phenacolestes jutlandicus Henriksen, type species of Furagrion, is incomplete and lacks the characters currently used to differentiate species, genera and higher taxa in Odonata. We, therefore, propose that the holotype is set aside and a recently discovered nearly complete Fur Formation fossil is designated as neotype. Furagrion possesses all of the nine wing character states currently used along with head shape for diagnosing the Dysagrionidae; however, Furagrion has a characteristically zygopteran head, not the distinctive head shape of the suborder Cephalozygoptera. We, therefore, treat it as a zygopteran unassigned to family. These nine wing character states appear in different combinations not only in various Zygoptera and Cephalozygoptera, but also in the Frenguelliidae, an Eocene family of Argentina that may represent an unnamed suborder. We recognise these taxa as constituting a dysagrionoid grade, in which these character states appear either convergently or as symplesiomorphies. Furagrion morsi Zessin is synonymized with Phenacolestes jutlandicus Henriksen, syn. nov. and Morsagrion Zessin with Furagrion Petrulevičius, Wappler, Wedmann, Rust, and Nel, syn. nov.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Odonata ; Fossils ; Wings, Animal
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-05
    Publishing country New Zealand
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1175-5334
    ISSN (online) 1175-5334
    DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.2.4
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  9. Article ; Online: Atomistic, macromolecular model of the

    Addison, Bennett / Bu, Lintao / Bharadwaj, Vivek / Crowley, Meagan F / Harman-Ware, Anne E / Crowley, Michael F / Bomble, Yannick J / Ciesielski, Peter N

    Science advances

    2024  Volume 10, Issue 1, Page(s) eadi7965

    Abstract: Plant secondary cell walls (SCWs) are composed of a heterogeneous interplay of three major biopolymers: cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. Details regarding specific intermolecular interactions and higher-order architecture of the SCW superstructure ... ...

    Abstract Plant secondary cell walls (SCWs) are composed of a heterogeneous interplay of three major biopolymers: cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. Details regarding specific intermolecular interactions and higher-order architecture of the SCW superstructure remain ambiguous. Here, we use solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) measurements to infer refined details about the structural configuration, intermolecular interactions, and relative proximity of all three major biopolymers within air-dried
    MeSH term(s) Populus ; Cellulose ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Biopolymers ; Plants ; Cell Wall
    Chemical Substances Cellulose (9004-34-6) ; Biopolymers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2810933-8
    ISSN 2375-2548 ; 2375-2548
    ISSN (online) 2375-2548
    ISSN 2375-2548
    DOI 10.1126/sciadv.adi7965
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  10. Article ; Online: To trust or not to trust: an exploratory qualitative study of personal and community perceptions of vaccines amongst a group of young community healthcare workers in Soweto, South Africa.

    Watermeyer, Jennifer / Scott, Megan / Kapueja, Lethu / Ware, Lisa Jayne

    Health policy and planning

    2022  Volume 37, Issue 9, Page(s) 1167–1176

    Abstract: As South Africa debates the implementation of mandatory vaccination policies to address coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy, many adults remain unpersuaded of the need and benefits of vaccination. Several surveys suggest that this is ... ...

    Abstract As South Africa debates the implementation of mandatory vaccination policies to address coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy, many adults remain unpersuaded of the need and benefits of vaccination. Several surveys suggest that this is particularly true for younger adults and for those living in low-income communities. Therefore, we sought the views of youth training to become community health workers (CHWs) as a youth group at the intersection of the community and the health system. This research was conducted in a township of South Africa, a country with a long history of political mistrust. Using semi-structured interviews and an interview guide, we explored young CHWs' perceptions (n = 20) of vaccine hesitancy for themselves, their peers and the community. Audio-recorded interviews were transcribed, and thematic analysis was undertaken. Findings suggest widespread COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in this community, especially amongst young people. Reported reasons for this hesitancy appear linked to a complex interrelated network of factors, including 'uncertainty' about the outcome and effectiveness of the vaccines; 'fear' of the vaccines, driven by a myriad of rumours and conspiracy theories within the community; a 'lack of control' over other people's behaviour and a desire not to be controlled especially by the government but at the same time a resignation towards impending mandatory vaccine policies and a 'lack of trust' particularly in the government's intentions with vaccine roll-out and their health messaging. While mandatory vaccination policies in several organizations have shown success, with South Africa's complex social history and recent civil unrest, the roll-out of any mandatory vaccination policy will require careful health messaging with a focus on trust-building between communities, health systems and authorities through more personalized approaches that consider contextual nuances.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Adult ; COVID-19/prevention & control ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Community Health Services ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Humans ; South Africa ; Vaccination ; Vaccines
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines ; Vaccines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-07-26
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632896-9
    ISSN 1460-2237 ; 0268-1080
    ISSN (online) 1460-2237
    ISSN 0268-1080
    DOI 10.1093/heapol/czac060
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