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Getting to the start line: how bumblebees and honeybees are visually guided towards their first floral contact.

Insectes sociaux

Orbán LL, Plowright CM.
PMID: 25328168
Insectes Soc. 2014;61(4):325-336. doi: 10.1007/s00040-014-0366-2. Epub 2014 Sep 05.

Much of the literature on foraging behaviour in bees focuses on what they learn after they have had rewarded experience with flowers. This review focuses on how honeybees and bumblebees are drawn to candidate food sources in the first...

Influence of silk-silica fusion protein design on silica condensation .

RSC advances

Plowright R, Dinjaski N, Zhou S, Belton DJ, Kaplan DL, Perry CC.
PMID: 26989487
RSC Adv. 2016 Jan 01;6(26):21776-21788. doi: 10.1039/C6RA03706B. Epub 2016 Feb 17.

Biomaterial design via genetic engineering can be utilized for the rational functionalization of proteins to promote biomaterial integration and tissue regeneration. Spider silk has been extensively studied for its biocompatibility, biodegradability and extraordinary material properties. As a protein-based biomaterial,...

The role of shifting in choice behavior of pigeons on a two-armed bandit.

Behavioural processes

Plowright CM, Shettleworth SJ.
PMID: 24925847
Behav Processes. 1990 Jun;21(2):157-78. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(90)90022-8.

Pigeons (Columba livia) were confronted with a problem in choice known as the two-armed bandit (TAB): two concurrent discrete trials random-ratio schedules in which the good side changes randomly from day to day. In the first experiment a substantial...

Theoretical study of Ca+-X and Y-Ca+-X complexes important in the chemistry of ionospheric calcium (X, Y = H2O, CO2, N2, O2, and O).

The journal of physical chemistry. A

Plowright RJ, Wright TG, Plane JM.
PMID: 18588268
J Phys Chem A. 2008 Jul 24;112(29):6550-7. doi: 10.1021/jp8022343. Epub 2008 Jun 28.

Optimized geometries and vibrational frequencies are calculated for Ca(+)-X and Y-Ca(+)-X complexes (X, Y = H2O, N2, CO2, O2, and O), required for understanding the chemistry of calcium in the upper atmosphere. Both MP2 and B3LYP optimizations were performed...

Theoretical study of Ba(n+)-RG (RG = rare gas) complexes and transport of Ba(n+) through RG (n = 1,2; RG = He-Rn).

The Journal of chemical physics

McGuirk MF, Viehland LA, Lee EP, Breckenridge WH, Withers CD, Gardner AM, Plowright RJ, Wright TG.
PMID: 19466834
J Chem Phys. 2009 May 21;130(19):194305. doi: 10.1063/1.3132543.

We present high-level ab initio potential energy curves for barium cations and dications interacting with RG atoms (RG = rare gas). These potentials are employed to derive spectroscopic parameters for the Ba(+)-RG and Ba(2+)-RG complexes, and also to derive...

Theoretical study of M(+)-RG2 (M+ = Li, Na, Be, Mg; RG = He-Rn).

The journal of physical chemistry. A

Andrejeva A, Gardner AM, Graneek JB, Plowright RJ, Breckenridge WH, Wright TG.
PMID: 24028378
J Phys Chem A. 2013 Dec 19;117(50):13578-90. doi: 10.1021/jp4075652. Epub 2013 Oct 02.

Ab initio calculations were employed to determine the geometry (MP2 level), and dissociation energies [MP2 and RCCSD(T) levels], of the M(IIa)(+)-RG2 species, where M(IIa) is a group 2 metal, Be or Mg, and RG is a rare gas (He-Rn)....

Behavior of bumble bee pollinators of Aralia hispida Vent. (Araliaceae).

Oecologia

Thomson JD, Maddison WP, Plowright RC.
PMID: 28309956
Oecologia. 1982 Sep;54(3):326-336. doi: 10.1007/BF00380001.

The andromonoecious plant Aralia hispida has a complicated blooming schedule involving alternations between male and female phases.Nectar and pollen are released gradually through the day. Plants vary considerably in number of flowers per umbel and number of umbels per...

Climatic suitability influences species specific abundance patterns of Australian flying foxes and risk of Hendra virus spillover.

One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Martin GA, Yanez-Arenas C, Roberts BJ, Chen C, Plowright RK, Webb RJ, Skerratt LF.
PMID: 28616484
One Health. 2016 Jul 29;2:115-121. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2016.07.004. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Hendra virus is a paramyxovirus of Australian flying fox bats. It was first detected in August 1994, after the death of 20 horses and one human. Since then it has occurred regularly within a portion of the geographical distribution...

Postoperative complications of colorectal cancer.

Clinical radiology

Pallan A, Dedelaite M, Mirajkar N, Newman PA, Plowright J, Ashraf S.
PMID: 34281707
Clin Radiol. 2021 Dec;76(12):896-907. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2021.06.002. Epub 2021 Jul 17.

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer, and surgery is the most common treatment. Several surgical options are available, but each is associated with a range of potential complications. The timely and efficient identification of these complications is...

Ecological Countermeasures for Preventing Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks: When Ecological Restoration is a Human Health Imperative.

Restoration ecology

Reaser JK, Witt A, Tabor GM, Hudson PJ, Plowright RK.
PMID: 33785998
Restor Ecol. 2021 Feb 18;e13357. doi: 10.1111/rec.13357. Epub 2021 Feb 18.

Ecological restoration should be regarded as a public health service. Unfortunately, the lack of quantitative linkages between environmental and human health has limited recognition of this principle. The advent of COVID-19 pandemic provides the impetus for the further discussion....

Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats.

Nature reviews. Microbiology

Ruiz-Aravena M, McKee C, Gamble A, Lunn T, Morris A, Snedden CE, Yinda CK, Port JR, Buchholz DW, Yeo YY, Faust C, Jax E, Dee L, Jones DN, Kessler MK, Falvo C, Crowley D, Bharti N, Brook CE, Aguilar HC, Peel AJ, Restif O, Schountz T, Parrish CR, Gurley ES, Lloyd-Smith JO, Hudson PJ, Munster VJ, Plowright RK.
PMID: 34799704
Nat Rev Microbiol. 2021 Nov 19; doi: 10.1038/s41579-021-00652-2. Epub 2021 Nov 19.

In the past two decades, three coronaviruses with ancestral origins in bats have emerged and caused widespread outbreaks in humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since the first SARS epidemic in 2002-2003, the appreciation of bats...

Body mass and hibernation microclimate may predict bat susceptibility to white-nose syndrome.

Ecology and evolution

Haase CG, Fuller NW, Dzal YA, Hranac CR, Hayman DTS, Lausen CL, Silas KA, Olson SH, Plowright RK.
PMID: 33437446
Ecol Evol. 2020 Dec 21;11(1):506-515. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7070. eCollection 2021 Jan.

In multihost disease systems, differences in mortality between species may reflect variation in host physiology, morphology, and behavior. In systems where the pathogen can persist in the environment, microclimate conditions, and the adaptation of the host to these conditions,...

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