Publications by authors named "C Harty"

The parasites infecting invasive carps in North America (all Cypriniformes: Xenocyprididae: grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella [Valenciennes, 1844]; silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix [Valenciennes, 1844]; bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis [Richardson, 1845]; and black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus [Richardson, 1846]) are little studied, and no parasite has been reported from silver carp there. We herein surveyed silver carp from Barkley Reservoir and Cheatham Reservoir (Cumberland River, Tennessee; June and December 2021) and the White River (Arkansas; May 2022) and collected numerous monogenoid specimens infecting the pores on the outer face of the gill raker plate. We heat-killed, formalin-fixed, and routinely stained some specimens for morphology and preserved others in 95% ethanol for DNA extraction and sequencing of the large subunit ribosomal DNA (28S).

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Selection should favor individuals that acquire, process, and act on relevant environmental signals to avoid predation. Studies have found that scorpions control their use of venom: both when it is released and the total volume expelled. However, this research has not included how a scorpion's awareness of environmental features influences these decisions.

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans are opportunistic pathogens whose interactions involve the secreted products ethanol and phenazines. Here, we describe the role of ethanol in mixed-species co-cultures by dual-seq analyses. P.

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Background: The lack of a validated symptom assessment instrument in Spanish for patients with cancer and heart failure (HF) can affect the care and impede the recruitment and participation of Spanish-speaking patients in clinical trials. Spanish is the second most common language spoken by the largest and most rapidly growing racial/ethnic minority group in the United States. To bridge the language barrier and improve symptom management in Spanish-speaking patients with cancer and HF, the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory-Heart Failure (MDASI-HF) was translated to Spanish (MDASI-HF- Spanish).

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has a broad metabolic repertoire that facilitates its coexistence with different microbes. Many microbes secrete products that can then catabolize, including ethanol, a common fermentation product. Here, we show that under oxygen-limiting conditions utilizes AdhA, an NAD-linked alcohol dehydrogenase, as a previously undescribed means for ethanol catabolism.

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