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Seasonal changes in Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) song syntax

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Avian Research 2024年第2期15卷 172-179页

作者： sean P.Roach Luke C.McLean jeff W.MacLeod Leslie S.Phillmore Psychology Department University of New Brunswick Saint John100 Tucker Park RoadSaint JohnNBCanada Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Dalhousie University1355 Oxford StHalifaxNSB3H 4J1Canada

In many songbird species,birdsong features phonological syntax,meaning that the units within their vocal se-quences are ordered in a non-random way that adheres to a *** such syntactical patterns have been richly described in many species,comparatively little is known about how those patterns contribute to song achieving its important *** each of song’s main functions,territorial defense and mate attraction,evidence of a role for syntax is *** species for which syntax has been thoroughly described is the Hermit Thrush(Catharus guttatus),which presents song types from their repertoires in a semi-predictable order and,in doing so,rapidly cycle up and down the frequency *** objective of the present study was to explore the importance of song syntax in the Hermit Thrush through a within-subject examination of how measures of syntax,such as the predictability of song type order within song sequences,shift over the breeding *** hypothesized that,if such syntactical characteristics are important to breeding behaviour,they would be most prominent at the start of the breeding season when activity associated with territory establishment and mate attraction is most *** revealed that,as predicted,the rigidness of song type ordering within se-quences was highest at the start of the season and declined *** song type sequences were most predictable at the vitally important early part of the breeding season fit our hypothesis that this aspect of song syntax is important to song’s functions related to territory establishment and/or mate *** work will clarify whether that role relates to one of song’s two main functions or serves song transmission in some broader way.

关键词： Birdsong Hermit Thrush Seasonal change Stereotypy Syntax

Network analyses:Inhibition of androgen receptor signaling reduces inflammation in the lung through AR-MAF-IL6 signaling axes

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Genes & Diseases 2024年第3期11卷 140-143页

作者： Albert R.Wang Andrew M.Baschnagel Zijian Ni sean R.Brennan Hypatia K.Newton Darya Buehler Christina Kendziorski Randall j.Kimple Gopal lyer Department of Human Oncology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthUniversity of WisconsinMadisonWI 53705USA Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-MadisonMadisonWI 53705USA University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center MadisonWI 53705USA Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin-MadisonMadisonWI 53706USA Department of Biology Tufts UniversityMedfordMA 02155USA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthUniversity of WisconsinMadisonWI 53705USA

Androgen receptor(AR)is a major transcription factor that plays a role in inflammatory response including interleukin-6(IL6)signaling.1 While AR regulation through paracrine loop signaling in prostate tissue is well-studied,its impact through an IL6 autocrine loop in the lung has not been wellstudied despite the organ's response to respiratory viral *** inhibition and RNA knockdown of AR identified a bZIP transcription factor MAF to be a common target of inflammation using these perturbations in lung cells.

关键词： inflammation lung respiratory

Why ecosystem characteristics predicted from remotely sensed data are unbiased and biased at the same time-and how this affects applications

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Forest Ecosystems 2024年第1期11卷 24-31页

作者： Goran Ståhl Terje Gobakken Svetlana Saarela Henrik j.Persson Magnus Ekstrom sean P.Healey Zhiqiang Yang johan Holmgren Eva Lindberg Kenneth Nystrom Emanuele Papucci Patrik Ulvdal Hans OleØrka Erik Næsset Zhengyang Hou Håkan Olsson Ronald E.McRoberts Department of Forest Resource Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences90183UmeåSweden Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management Norwegian University of Life SciencesÅsNorway USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research StationOgdenUTUSA The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education Beijing Forestry UniversityBeijing100083China Department of Forest Resources University of MinnesotaSt.PaulMNUSA

Remotely sensed data are frequently used for predicting and mapping ecosystem characteristics,and spatially explicit wall-to-wall information is sometimes proposed as the best possible source of information for ***,wall-to-wall information typically relies on model-based prediction,and several features of model-based prediction should be understood before extensively relying on this type of *** such feature is that model-based predictors can be considered both unbiased and biased at the same time,which has important implications in several areas of *** this discussion paper,we first describe the conventional model-unbiasedness paradigm that underpins most prediction techniques using remotely sensed(or other)auxiliary *** this point of view,model-based predictors are typically ***,we show that for specific domains,identified based on their true values,the same model-based predictors can be considered biased,and sometimes severely *** suggest distinguishing between conventional model-bias,defined in the statistical literature as the difference between the expected value of a predictor and the expected value of the quantity being predicted,and design-bias of model-based estimators,defined as the difference between the expected value of a model-based estimator and the true value of the quantity being *** show that model-based estimators(or predictors)are typically design-biased,and that there is a trend in the design-bias from overestimating small true values to underestimating large true ***,we give examples of applications where this is important to acknowledge and to potentially make adjustments to correct for the design-bias *** argue that relying entirely on conventional model-unbiasedness may lead to mistakes in several areas of application that use predictions from remotely sensed data.

关键词： Bias Model-based inference Design-based inference

Single-cell systems neuroscience:A growing frontier in mental illness

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BIOCELL 2022年第1期46卷 7-11页

作者： sean j.O’SULLIVAN Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics and Computational Biology Department of PathologyAnatomy and Cell BiologyThomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphiaUSA Brain Stimulation Laboratory Stanford UniversityStanfordUSA

The development of effective treatments for psychiatric disease has been disappointing in recent decades given the advancements in ***,rising rates of mental ilness such as addiction and depression compel scientists and physicians to discover novel and creative *** such approach that has proven effective is systems neuroscience:A focus on networks as opposed to ***,investigation at the single-cell and circuit level is likely to be fruitful in such endeavors as this resolution describes the functional psychopathology that allows for intervention.

关键词： Systems biology Systemsneuroscience Single-cellpsychiatry Psychopathology

Investigation of androgen receptor-dependent alternative splicing has identified a unique subtype of lethal prostate cancer

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Asian journal of Andrology 2023年第3期25卷 296-308页

作者： sean Seltzer Paresa N Giannopoulos Tarek A Bismar Mark Trifiro Miltiadis Paliouras Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research Segal Cancer Centre-Jewish General HospitalMontrealQC H3T 1E2Canada Cumming School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryAB T2N 1N4Canada Department of Medicine Division of Experimental MedicineMcGill UniversityMontrealQC H4A 3J1Canada Department of Oncology McGill UniversityMontrealQC H4A 3T2Canada

A complete proteomics study characterizing active androgen receptor(AR)complexes in prostate cancer(PCa)cells identified a diversity of protein interactors with tumorigenic annotations,including known RNA splicing ***,we chose to further investigate the functional role of AR-mediated alternative RNA splicing in PCa disease *** selected two AR-interacting RNA splicing factors,Src associated in mitosis of 68 kDa(SAM68)and DEAD(Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp)box helicase 5(DDX5)to examine their associative roles in AR-dependent alternative RNA *** assess the true physiological role of AR in alternative RNA splicing,we assessed splicing profiles of LNCaP PCa cells using exon microarrays and correlated the results to PCa clinical *** a result,we were able to highlight alternative splicing events of clinical *** use of exon-mini gene cassettes illustrated hormone-dependent AR-mediated exon-inclusion splicing events with SAM68 or exon-exclusion splicing events with DDX5 *** physiological significance in PCa was investigated through the application of clinical exon array analysis,where we identified exon-gene sets that were able to delineate aggressive disease progression profiles and predict patient disease-free outcomes independently of pathological clinical *** a clinical dataset with patients categorized as prostate cancer-specific death(PCSD),these exon gene sets further identified a select group of patients with extremely poor disease-free ***,these results strongly suggest a nonclassical role of AR in mediating robust alternative RNA splicing in ***,AR-mediated alternative spicing contributes to aggressive PCa progression,where we identified a new subtype of lethal PCa defined by AR-dependent alternative splicing.

关键词： alternative RNA splicing androgen receptor exon-gene sets lethal prostate cancer subtype prostate cancer

Do tau-synaptic long-term depression interactions in the hippocampus play a pivotal role in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease?

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Neural Regeneration Research 2023年第6期18卷 1213-1219页

作者： Zhengtao Hu Tomas Ondrejcak Pengpeng Yu Yangyang Zhang Yin Yang Igor Klyubin sean P.Kennelly Michael j.Rowan Neng-Wei Hu Department of Physiology and Neurobiology School of Basic Medical SciencesZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhouHenan ProvinceChina Department of Gerontology The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical CollegeWuhuAnhui ProvinceChina Department of Pharmacology&Therapeutics and Institute of Neuroscience Trinity CollegeDublinIreland Department of Age-Related Healthcare Tallaght University HospitalDublinIreland Department of Medical Gerontology Trinity CollegeDublinIreland

Cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease correlates with the extent of tau pathology,in particular tau hyperphosphorylation that initially appears in the transentorhinal and related regions of the brain including the *** evidence indicates that tau hyperphosphorylation caused by either amyloid-βor long-term depression,a form of synaptic weakening involved in learning and memory,share similar *** from our group and others demonstrate that long-term depression-inducing low-frequency stimulation triggers tau phosphorylation at different residues in the hippocampus under different experimental conditions including ***,certain forms of long-term depression at hippocampal glutamatergic synapses require endogenous tau,in particular,phosphorylation at residue *** the exact mechanisms of interaction between tau and long-term depression may help our understanding of the physiological and pathological functions of tau/tau(hyper)*** first summarize experimental evidence regarding tau-long-term depression interactions,followed by a discussion of possible mechanisms by which this interplay may influence the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s ***,we conclude with some thoughts and perspectives on future research about these interactions.

关键词： aging Alzheimer’s disease amyloid-β Aβoligomers hippocampus long-term depression long-term potentiation LTD LTP metabotropic glutamate receptor N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor tau hyperphosphorylation tau phosphorylation tau

Overcoming maladaptive plasticity through plastic compensation

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Current Zoology 2013年第4期59卷 526-536页

作者： Matthew R.j. MORRIS sean M. ROGERS Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada T2N 1N4

Most species evolve within fluctuating environments, and have developed adaptations to meet the challenges posed by environmental heterogeneity. One such adaptation is phenotypic plasticity, or the ability of a single genotype to produce multiple environmentally-induced phenotypes. Yet, not all plasticity is adaptive. Despite the renewed interest in adaptive phenotypic plasticity and its consequences for evolution, much less is known about maladaptive plasticity. However, maladaptive plasticity is likely an important driver of phenotypic similarity among populations living in different environments. This paper traces four strategies for overcoming maladaptive plasticity that result in phenotypic similarity, two of which involve genetic changes (standing genetic variation, genetic compensation) and two of which do not (standing epigenetic variation, plastic compensation). Plastic compensation is defined as adaptive plasticity overcoming maladaptive plasticity. In particular, plastic compensation may increase the likelihood of genetic compensation by facilitating population persistence. We provide key terms to disentangle these aspects of phenotypic plasticity and introduce examples to reinforce the potential importance of plastic compensation for understanding evolutionary change.

关键词：可塑性塑料环境异质性赔偿物种进化遗传变异生活环境遗传变化

MODELING HEADCUT DEVELOPMENT AND MIGRATION IN UPLAND CONCENTRATED FLOWS

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International journal of Sediment Research 2005年第4期20卷 281-294页

作者： sean j. BENNETT Carlos V. ALONSO Department of Geography University at Buffalo Buffalo NY 14261-0055 USA USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory P.O. Box 1157 Oxford MS 38655

On hillslopes and agricultural fields, discrete areas of intense, localized soil erosion commonly take place in the form of migrating headcuts. These erosional features significantly increase soil loss and landscape degradation, yet the unsteady, transient, and migratory habits of headcuts complicate their phenomenological and erosional characterization. Here a unique experimental facility was constructed to examine actively migrating headcuts typical of upland concentrated flows. Essential components of the facility include a deep soil cavity with external drainage, rainfall simulator, capacity for overland flow, and a video recording technique for data collection. Results from these experiments show that: (1) after a short period of adjustment, headcut migration attained a steady-state condition, where the rate of migration, scour hole geometry, and sediment discharge remain constant with time; (2) boundary conditions of higher rates of overland flow, steeper bed slopes, and larger initial headcut heights produced systematically larger scour holes with higher rates of soil erosion; and (3) during migration, the turbulent flow structure within the scour hole remained unchanged, consisting of an overfall nappe at the brink transitioning into a reattached wall jet with two recirculation eddies within the plunge pool. The systematic behavior of headcut development and migration enabled the application of modified jet impingement theory to predict with good success the characteristics of the impinging jet, the depth of maximum scour, the rate of headcut migration, and the rate of sediment erosion. These laboratory data and the analytical formulation can be used in conjunction with soil erosion prediction technology to improve the management of agricultural areas impacted by headcut development and ephemeral gully erosion.

关键词： Soil erosion Headcuts Rills Gullies jet impingement

The N-terminus of COX-1 and its effect on cyclooxygenase-1 catalytic activity

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journal of Genetics and Genomics 2010年第2期37卷 117-123页

作者： sean Phipps Michael j. Turner Daniel L. Simmons Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University

Cyclooxygenases are encoded by COX-1 and COX-2. They share over sixty percent sequence identity in human and are similar to each other in their crystallographic structures. One major difference in the primary structure of these two isozymes is the presence of eight amino acids in the amino-terminal region of COX-1 that are not present in COX-2. The function of this amino acid sequence is unknown. In this study, a human COX-1 mutant （Δ7aa） with this sequence removed was studied in parallel with COX-1. Signal peptide cleavage, N-linked glycosylation, protein expression, distribution and dimerization were not affected by the mutation. The mutant was enzymati-cally active and showed the same sensitivity toward aspirin. The KM for the enzyme remained the same as COX-1. However, the Vmax of the COX-1 mutant decreased by 3.3-fold. We conclude that the COX-1 specific amino-terminal sequence has a subtle but detectable effect on COX-1 catalysis.

关键词： COX-1 COX-2 dimerization glycosylation aspirin KM Vmax