Science & Pharmacy Research Output: June 2015

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ALBANY MUSEUM: Muir, R.A., Bordy, E.M. & Prevec, R. 2015. Lower Cretaceous deposit reveals first evidence of a post-wildfire debris flow in the Kirkwood Formation, Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Cretaceous Research, 56: 161–179. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.04.005 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Baindur-Hudson, S., Edkins, A.L. & Blatch, G.L. 2015. Hsp70/Hsp90 organising protein (Hop): Beyond interactions with chaperones and prion proteins. Sub-Cellular Biochemistry, 78: 1–22. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11731-7_3 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Bhattacharya, A.S., Bhattacharya, A. & Pletschke, B.I. 2015. Synergism of fungal and bacterial cellulases and hemicellulases: a novel perspective for enhanced bio-ethanol production. Biotechnology Letters, 37: 1117–1129. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10529-015-1779-3 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Khan, N., Le Roes-Hill, M., Welz, P.J., Grandin, K.A., Kudanga, T., Van Dyk, J.S., Ohlhoff, C., Van Zyl, W.H. & Pletschke, B.I. 2015. Fruit waste streams in South Africa and their potential role in developing a bio-economy. South African Journal of Science, 111. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2015/20140189 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Malgas, S., van Dyk, J.S., Pletschke, B.I. 2015. A review of the enzymatic hydrolysis of mannans and synergistic interactions between β-mannanase, β-mannosidase and α-galactosidase. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 31: 1167–1175. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11274-015-1878-2 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Meyer, A.H., Wooldridge, J. & Dames, J.F. 2015. Effect of conventional and organic orchard floor management practices on enzyme activities and microbial counts in a “Cripp”s Pink’/M7 apple orchard. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 32: 105–112. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2015.1006274 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Sekhohola, L.M., Isaacs, M.L. & Cowan, A.K. 2014. Fungal colonization and enzyme-mediated metabolism of waste coal by Neosartorya fischeri strain ECCN 84. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 78: 1797–1802. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09168451.2014.930325 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Yao, J., van Marwijk, J., Wilhelmi, B. & Whiteley, C.G. 2015. Isolation, characterization, interaction of a thiazolekinase (Plasmodium falciparum) with silver nanoparticles. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 79: 644–653. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2015.05.033 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

BOTANY: Ralph Clark, V., Schrire, B.D. & Barker, N.P. 2015. Two new species of Indigofera L. (Leguminosae) from the Sneeuberg Centre of Floristic Endemism, Great Escarpment (Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa). PhytoKeys, 48: 29–41. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.48.4798 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Adegoke, O., Nyokong, T. & Forbes, P.B.C. 2015. Optical properties of water-soluble l-cysteine-capped alloyed CdSeS quantum dot passivated with ZnSeTe and ZnSeTe/ZnS shells. Optical Materials, 46: 548–554. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2015.05.024 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Adegoke, O., Nyokong, T. & Forbes, P.B.C. 2015. Structural and optical properties of alloyed quaternary CdSeTeS core and CdSeTeS/ZnS core–shell quantum dots. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 645: 443–449. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.05.083 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Fayemi, O.E., Ogunlaja, A.S., Antunes, E., Nyokong, T. & Tshentu, Z.R. 2015. The Development of Palladium(II)-Specific Amine-Functionalized Silica-Based Microparticles: Adsorption and Column Separation Studies. Separation Science and Technology (Philadelphia), 50: 1497–1506. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01496395.2014.978017 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Ifegwu, O.C., Anyakora, C. & Torto, N. 2015. Nylon 6–Gold Nanoparticle Composite Fibers for Colorimetric Detection of Urinary 1-Hydroxypyrene. Journal of Applied Spectroscopy, 82: 260–265. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10812-015-0095-y [Accessed 16 July 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Sekhosana, K.E. & Nyokong, T. 2015. The nonlinear absorption in new lanthanide double decker pyridine-based phthalocyanines in solution and thin films. Optical Materials. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2015.05.022 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Wrench, P.M. & Irwin, B.V.W. 2014. Towards a sandbox for the deobfuscation and dissection of PHP malware, in: Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. Presented at the Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014, pp. 1–8. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSA.2014.6950504 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

GEOGRAPHY: Sieben, E.J.J., Ellery, W.N., Dullo, B.W. & Grootjans, A.P. 2015. Impact of marine inundation after a period of drought on the lakeshore vegetation of Lake St Lucia, South Africa: resilience of estuarine vegetation. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 40: 175–185. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2015.1032208 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Arkhipkin, A.I., Rodhouse, P.G.K., Pierce, G.J., Sauer, W., Sakai, M., Allcock, L., Arguelles, J., Bower, J.R., Castillo, G., Ceriola, L., Chen, C.-S., Chen, X., Diaz-Santana, M., Downey, N., González, A.F., Amores, J.G., Green, C.P., Guerra, A., Hendrickson, L.C., Ibáñez, C., Ito, K., Jereb, P., Kato, Y., Katugin, O.N., Kawano, M., Kidokoro, H., Kulik, V.V., Laptikhovsky, V.V., Lipinski, M.R., Liu, B., Mariátegui, L., Marin, W., Medina, A., Miki, K., Miyahara, K., Moltschaniwskyj, N., Moustahfid, H., Nabhitabhata, J., Nanjo, N., Nigmatullin, C.M., Ohtani, T., Pecl, G., Perez, J.A.A., Piatkowski, U., Saikliang, P., Salinas-Zavala, C.A., Steer, M., Tian, Y., Ueta, Y., Vijai, D., Wakabayashi, T., Yamaguchi, T., Yamashiro, C., Yamashita, N. & Zeidberg, L.D. 2015. World Squid Fisheries. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 23: 92–252. Available: http://dx.doi/10.1080/23308249.2015.1026226 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Cochrane, K. 2015. Use and misuse of CITES as a management tool for commercially-exploited aquatic species. Marine Policy, 59: 16–31. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.04.015 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Hughes, D.A. 2014. Simulating temporal variability in catchment response using a monthly rainfall–runoff model. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 0: 1–13. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.909598 [Accessed 16 July 2015].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Palmer, C.G., Biggs, R., Cumming, G.S., 2015. Applied research for enhancing human well-being and environmental stewardship: Using complexity thinking in Southern Africa. Ecology and Society, 20(1):53. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07087-200153 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Loi, S.T., Murphy, T., Cairns, I.H., Menk, F.W., Waters, C.L., Erickson, P.J., Trott, C.M., Hurley-Walker, N., Morgan, J., Lenc, E., Offringa, A.R., Bell, M.E., Ekers, R.D., Gaensler, B.M., Lonsdale, C.J., Feng, L., Hancock, P.J., Kaplan, D.L., Bernardi, G., Bowman, J.D., Cappallo, R.J., Briggs, F., Deshpande, A.A., Greenhill, L.J., Hazelton, B.J., Johnston-Hollitt, M., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., Morgan, E., Oberoi, D., Ord, S.M., Prabu, T., Shankar, N.U., Srivani, K.S., Subrahmanyan, R., Tingay, S.J., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Williams, A. & Williams, C.L. 2015. Real-time imaging of density ducts between the plasmasphere and ionosphere. Geophys. Research Letter, 42(10):3707-3714. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063699 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Mokoena, P.P., Chithambo, M.L., Kumar, V., Swart, H.C. & Ntwaeaborwa, O.M. 2015. Thermoluminescence of calcium phosphate co-doped with gadolinium and praseodymium. Radiation Measurements, 77: 26–33. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.04.018 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Price, D.C. & Smirnov, O.M. 2015. Generalized formalisms of the radio interferometer measurement equation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449: 107–118. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv137 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS, Purcell: C.R., Gaensler, B.M., Sun, X.H., Carretti, E., Bernardi, G., Haverkorn, M., Kesteven, M.J., Poppi, S., Schnitzeler, D.H.F.M. & Smith, L.S. 2015. A Radio-Polarisation and Rotation Measure Study of the Gum Nebula and Its Environment. The Astrophysical Journal, 804: 22. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/22 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Schellart, P., Trinh, T.N.G., Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Enriquez, J.E., Falcke, H., Hörandel, J.R., Nelles, A., Rachen, J.P., Rossetto, L., Scholten, O., ter Veen, S., Thoudam, S., Ebert, U., Koehn, C., Rutjes, C., Alexov, A., Anderson, J.M., Avruch, I.M., Bentum, M.J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bonafede, A., Breitling, F., Broderick, J.W., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H.R., Ciardi, B., de Geus, E., de Vos, M., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Fallows, R.A., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M.A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A.W., Heald, G., Hessels, J.W.T., Hoeft, M., Holties, H.A., Juette, E., Kondratiev, V.I., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., Mann, G., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., McKean, J.P., Mevius, M., Moldon, J., Norden, M.J., Orru, E., Paas, H., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pizzo, R., Polatidis, A.G., Reich, W., Röttgering, H., Scaife, A.M.M., Schwarz, D.J., Serylak, M., Smirnov, O., Steinmetz, M., Swinbank, J., Tagger, M., Tasse, C., Toribio, M.C., van Weeren, R.J., Vermeulen, R., Vocks, C., Wise, M.W., Wucknitz, O. & Zarka, P. 2015. Probing Atmospheric Electric Fields in Thunderstorms through Radio Emission from Cosmic-Ray-Induced Air Showers. Physical Review Letters, 114: 165001. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.165001 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Smirnov, O.M. & Tasse, C. 2015. Radio interferometric gain calibration as a complex optimization problem. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449: 2668–2684. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06974 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Soumagnac, M.T., Abdalla, F.B., Lahav, O., Kirk, D., Sevilla, I., Bertin, E., Rowe, B.T.P., Annis, J., Busha, M.T., Costa, L.N.D., Frieman, J.A., Gaztanaga, E., Jarvis, M., Lin, H., Percival, W.J., Santiago, B.X., Sabiu, C.G., Wechsler, R.H., Wolz, L. & Yanny, B. 2015. Star/galaxy separation at faint magnitudes: application to a simulated Dark Energy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450: 666–680. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1410 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Vedantham, H.K., Koopmans, L.V.E., Bruyn, A.G. de, Wijnholds, S.J., Brentjens, M., Abdalla, F.B., Asad, K.M.B., Bernardi, G., Bus, S., Chapman, E., Ciardi, B., Daiboo, S., Fernandez, E.R., Ghosh, A., Harker, G., Jelic, V., Jensen, H., Kazemi, S., Lambropoulos, P., Martinez-Rubi, O., Mellema, G., Mevius, M., Offringa, A.R., Pandey, V.N., Patil, A.H., Thomas, R.M., Veligatla, V., Yatawatta, S., Zaroubi, S., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Bell, M.E., Bentum, M.J., Best, P., Bonafede, A., Breitling, F., Broderick, J., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H.R., Corstanje, A., Gasperin, F. de, Geus, E. de, Deller, A., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Engels, D., Falcke, H., Fallows, R.A., Fender, R., Ferrari, C., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M.A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A.W., Hassall, T.E., Heald, G., Hoeft, M., Hörandel, J., Iacobelli, M., Juette, E., Kondratiev, V.I., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., Mann, G., Markoff, S., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., McKean, J.P., Mulcahy, D.D., Munk, H., Nelles, A., Norden, M.J., Orru, E., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pizzo, R., Polatidis, A.G., Reich, W., Renting, A., Röttgering, H., Schwarz, D., Shulevski, A., Smirnov, O., Stappers, B.W., Steinmetz, M., Swinbank, J., Tagger, M., Tang, Y., Tasse, C., Veen, S. ter, Thoudam, S., Toribio, C., PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS, Vocks, C., Wise, M.W., Wucknitz, O. & Zarka, P. 2015. Lunar occultation of the diffuse radio sky: LOFAR measurements between 35 and 80 MHz. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450: 2291–2305. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv746 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Wang, E., Wang, J., Kauffmann, G., Józsa, G.I.G. & Li, C. 2015. H i scaling relations of galaxies in the environment of H i-rich and control galaxies observed by the Bluedisk project. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449: 2010–2023. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv390 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Wong, O.I., Schawinski, K., Józsa, G.I.G., Urry, C.M., Lintott, C.J., Simmons, B.D., Kaviraj, S., Masters, K.L., 2015. Erratum: Misalignment between cold gas and stellar components in early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449: 1767–1768. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv383 [Accessed 17 July 2015].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Tolotti, M.T., Filmalter, J.D., Bach, P., Travassos, P., Seret, B. & Dagorn, L. 2015. Banning is not enough: The complexities of oceanic shark management by tuna regional fisheries management organizations. Global Ecology and Conservation, 4: 1–7. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2015.05.003 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Deschodt, C.M. 2015. Status changes, new synonymies, key and descriptions of seven new species in the subgenus Scarabaeus ( Scarabaeolus ) Balthasar 1965 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Zootaxa, 3931: 505–527. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.3 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Fusi, M., Giomi, F., Babbini, S., Daffonchio, D., Mcquaid, C.D., Porri, F. & Cannicci, S. 2015. Thermal specialization across large geographical scales predicts the resilience of mangrove crab populations to global warming. Oikos, 124: 784–795. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.01757 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Liu, G.-X., Yang, D.-R., Peng, Y.-Q. & Compton, S.G. 2015. Complementary fruiting phenologies facilitate sharing of one pollinator fig wasp by two fig trees. Journal of Plant Ecology, 8: 197–206. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtv022 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Liu, M., Compton, S.G., Peng, F.-E., Zhang, J. & Chen, X.-Y. 2015. Movements of genes between populations: are pollinators more effective at transferring their own or plant genetic markers? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 282: 20150290. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0290 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Plass-Johnson, J.G., McQuaid, C.D. & Hill, J.M. 2015. The effects of tissue type and body size on δ13C and δ15N values in parrotfish (Labridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 31(4):633-637. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jai.12746 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Toscano, B.J. & Monaco, C.J. 2015. Testing for relationships between individual crab behavior and metabolic rate across ecological contexts. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1–9. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-1947-4 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Tweddle, G.P. & Froneman, P.W. 2015. Influence of mouth status on population structure of southern African endemic estuarine-spawning ichthyofauna in a temperate, temporarily open/closed estuary. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 40: 221–225. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2015.1051940 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Whittington, P.A., Tree, A.J., Connan, M. & Watkins, E.G. 2015. The status of the Damara Tern in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ostrich, 86: 65–73. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2015.1029998 [Accessed 20 July 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Zardi, G.I., Nicastro, K.R., McQuaid, C.D., Castilho, R., Costa, J., Serrão, E.A. & Pearson, G.A. 2015. Intraspecific genetic lineages of a marine mussel show behavioural divergence and spatial segregation over a tropical/subtropical biogeographic transition. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15: 100. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0366-5 [Accessed 20 July 2015].