Search Results - "Baker, M. C."

Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA by Ji, Yinqiu, Baker, Christopher C. M., Popescu, Viorel D., Wang, Jiaxin, Wu, Chunying, Wang, Zhengyang, Li, Yuanheng, Wang, Lin, Hua, Chaolang, Yang, Zhongxing, Yang, Chunyan, Xu, Charles C. Y., Diana, Alex, Wen, Qingzhong, Pierce, Naomi E., Yu, Douglas W.

“…Protected areas are key to meeting biodiversity conservation goals, but direct measures of effectiveness have proven difficult to obtain. We address this…”
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Brain atrophy over time in genetic and sporadic frontotemporal dementia: a study of 198 serial magnetic resonance images by Whitwell, J. L., Boeve, B. F., Weigand, S. D., Senjem, M. L., Gunter, J. L., Baker, M. C., DeJesus-Hernandez, M., Knopman, D. S., Wszolek, Z. K., Petersen, R. C., Rademakers, R., Jack Jr, C. R., Josephs, K. A.

“…Background and purpose The aim of our study was to determine the utility of longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements as potential biomarkers…”
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Combining stable isotope analysis with DNA metabarcoding improves inferences of trophic ecology by Whitaker, Melissa R L, Baker, Christopher C M, Salzman, Shayla M, Martins, Dino J, Pierce, Naomi E

“…Knowing what animals eat is fundamental to our ability to understand and manage biodiversity and ecosystems, but researchers often must rely on indirect…”
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Bacterial Diversity across Individual Lichens by MUSHEGIAN, Alexandra A, PETERSON, Celeste N, BAKER, Christopher C. M, PRINGLE, Anne

“…Classifications Services AEM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Deer on the lookout: how hunting, hiking and coyotes affect white‐tailed deer vigilance by Schuttler, S. G., Parsons, A. W., Forrester, T. D., Baker, M. C., McShea, W. J., Costello, R., Kays, R.

“…Predators affect prey directly by removing animals from the population and indirectly by modifying prey behavior. Humans have extirpated apex predators from…”
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Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant-plant mutualism by Baker, Christopher C. M., Martins, Dino J., Pelaez, Julianne N., Billen, Johan P. J., Pringle, Anne, Frederickson, Megan E., Pierce, Naomi E.

“…Three ant species nest obligately in the swollen-thorn domatia of the African ant-plant Vachellia (Acacia) drepanolobium, a model system for the study of…”
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Mapping, monitoring, and surveillance of neglected tropical diseases: towards a policy framework by Baker, MC, Dr, Mathieu, E, MD, Fleming, FM, MSc, Deming, M, MD, King, JD, MPH, Garba, A, MD, Koroma, JB, MD, Bockarie, M, Prof, Kabore, A, MD, Sankara, DP, MD, Molyneux, DH, Prof

“…Summary As national programmes respond to the new opportunities presented for scaling up preventive chemotherapy programmes for the coadministration of drugs…”
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Metabarcoding as a tool for investigating arthropod diversity in Nepenthes pitcher plants by Bittleston, Leonora S, Baker, Christopher C. M, Strominger, Lila B, Pringle, Anne, Pierce, Naomi E

“…The biodiversity of tropical forests consists primarily of small organisms that are difficult to detect and characterize. Next‐generation sequencing (NGS)…”
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Plasma amyloid β protein is elevated in late-onset Alzheimer disease families by ERTEKIN-TANER, N, YOUNKIN, L. H, YAGER, D. M, PARFITT, F, BAKER, M. C, ASTHANA, S, HUTTON, M. L, YOUNKIN, S. G, GRAFF-RADFORD, N. R

“…Plasma A beta levels are elevated in early-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) caused by autosomal dominant mutations. Our objective was to determine whether similar…”
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Seasonal variation in near-surface seasonally thawed active layer and permafrost soil microbial communities by Baker, Christopher C M, Barker, Amanda J, Douglas, Thomas A, Doherty, Stacey J, Barbato, Robyn A

“…Abstract Understanding how soil microbes respond to permafrost thaw is critical to predicting the implications of climate change for soil processes. However,…”
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MRS in presymptomatic MAPT mutation carriers: A potential biomarker for tau-mediated pathology by KANTARCI, K, BOEVE, B. F, JACK, C. R, WSZOLEK, Z. K, RADEMAKERS, R, WHITWELL, J. L, BAKER, M. C, SENJEM, M. L, SAMIKOGLU, A. R, KNOPMAN, D. S, PETERSEN, R. C

“…To determine the proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H MRS) changes in carriers of microtubule-associated protein (MAPT) mutations in a case-control…”
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Automated detection of an insect‐induced keystone vegetation phenotype using airborne LiDAR by Wang, Zhengyang, Huben, Robert, Boucher, Peter B., Van Amburg, Chase, Zeng, Jimmy, Chung, Nina, Wang, Jocelyn, King, Jeffrey, Knecht, Richard J., Ng'iru, Ivy, Baraza, Augustine, Baker, Christopher C. M., Martins, Dino J., Pierce, Naomi E., Davies, Andrew B.

“…Ecologists, foresters and conservation practitioners need ‘biodiversity scanners’ to effectively inventory biodiversity, audit conservation progress and track…”
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Cough in Pediatric Patients Receiving Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Therapy or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Therapy in Randomized Controlled Trials by Baker‐Smith, C M, Benjamin, D K, Califf, R M, Murphy, M D, Li, J S, Smith, P B

“…The incidence of cough in children receiving antihypertension therapy with angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEis) or angiotensin receptor blockers…”
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Racial Differences in Blood Pressure Response to Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Children: A Meta-Analysis by Li, JS, Baker‐Smith, CM, Smith, PB, Hasselblad, V, Murphy, MD, Califf, RM, Benjamin, DK

“…Angiotensin‐converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are frequently used to treat hypertension in children.1 ACE inhibitors alter the balance between the…”
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Kin selection and the evolution of social information use in animal conflict by Baker, Christopher C M, Dall, Sasha R X, Rankin, Daniel J

“…Animals often use social information about conspecifics in making decisions about cooperation and conflict. While the importance of kin selection in the…”
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Dissecting host-associated communities with DNA barcodes by Baker, Christopher C. M., Bittleston, Leonora S., Sanders, Jon G., Pierce, Naomi E.

“…DNA barcoding and metabarcoding methods have been invaluable in the study of interactions between host organisms and their symbiotic communities. Barcodes can…”
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Autosomal dominant dystonia-plus with cerebral calcifications by WSZOLEK, Z. K, BABA, Y, ALLANSON, J. E, CARR, J, KUMAR, A, CALNE, S. M, MIKLOSSY, J, MCGEER, P. L, CALNE, D. B, STOESSL, A. J, MACKENZIE, I. R, UITTI, R. J, STRONGOSKY, A. J, BRODERICK, D. F, BAKER, M. C, MELQUIST, S, HUTTON, M. L, TSUBOI, Y

“…To report genealogic, clinical, imaging, neuropathologic, and genetic data from a Canadian kindred with dystonia and brain calcinosis originally described in…”
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Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates by Rosario, Karyna, Mettel, Kaitlin A, Benner, Bayleigh E, Johnson, Ryan, Scott, Catherine, Yusseff-Vanegas, Sohath Z, Baker, Christopher C M, Cassill, Deby L, Storer, Caroline, Varsani, Arvind, Breitbart, Mya

“…Viruses encoding a replication-associated protein (Rep) within a covalently closed, single-stranded (ss)DNA genome are among the smallest viruses known to…”
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Chemokines and chemokine receptors in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis by Zhang, G X, Baker, C M, Kolson, D L, Rostami, A M

“…In recent years we have seen growing evidence for the role of chemokines in the pathogenesis of several infectious and non-infectious inflammatory CNS disease…”
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Degradation of oil by fungi isolated from Gulf of Mexico beaches by Simister, R.L., Poutasse, C.M., Thurston, A.M., Reeve, J.L., Baker, M.C., White, H.K.

“…Fungi of the Ascomycota phylum were isolated from oil-soaked sand patties collected from beaches following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. To examine their…”
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