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Data from: Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behavior of ants

    Data files for manuscript titled "Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behavior of ants". Over two years, we tracked 322 foraging trips from 15 red harvester ant colonies in a mixed grass prairie of southwestern Oklahoma. During each trip, we measured surface temperature, distance, time, worker mass, seed mass, and foraging tempo (i.e. running speed). To assess P. barbatus heat tolerance, we measured CTmax and knock-down resistance of field-collected workers in the lab.

    Data from: Estimation of pool construction and technical error

      Animals were incorporated into pools in different proportions to estimate error and evaluate factors influencing error. Animals were incorporated into 2 types of pools, sub-pools and super pools. Within phenotype, liver abscess or normal, 16 animals were combined into 4 sub-pools, 4 animals per sub-pool in parts of 1:2:3:4. Sub-pools were constructed based on crushed frozen liver tissue mass. Within phenotype, 4 sub-pools were incorporated into 2 super pools in parts of 1:2:3:4 for super pool 1 and 3:4:1:2 for super pool 2. Super pools were made based on DNA quantity. Errors in DNA quantification would create error in forming super pools from sub-pools and variation in cell content or DNA content of liver tissue would result in error in combining sub-pools from animals.

      Data from: Profile of the Spleen Transcriptome in Beef Steers with Variation in Gain and Feed Intake

        This study examines the spleen in beef steers, a major lymphatic organ near the digestive tract, to determine whether it was also influencing individual feed efficiency status through immune responses. A total of 1216 genes were identified as differentially expressed. Data suggests the splenic contribution to some of the underlying variation among gain and intake may be a result of immune function and stress response. In addition, some of the differences in immune response functions may be related to gene copy number.

        Data From: Evaluating accuracy of DNA pool construction based on leukocyte counts versus two common DNA quantification methods

          This dataset was generated to determine the accuracy of pool construction based on leukocyte counts compared to two common DNA quantification methods. The dataset includes pooling allele frequencies (PAF) for all pools and individual animals computed from normalized intensities for red (X) and green (Y); PAF = X/(X+Y), genotypes or number of copies of B(green) allele (0,1,2), and definitions for each sample.

          AgBase

            [AgBase](https://agbase.arizona.edu/index.html) Version 2.0 is a curated, open-source, Web-accessible resource for functional analysis of agricultural plant and animal gene products including gene ontology annotations. Its long-term goal is to serve the needs of the agricultural research communities by facilitating post-genome biology for agriculture researchers and for those researchers primarily using agricultural species as biomedical models. AgBase uses controlled vocabularies developed by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium to describe molecular function, biological process, and cellular component for genes and gene products in agricultural species.

            FINDMAP

              The findmap.f90 program aligns sequence reads to reference map, calls previous variants, and identifies new variants.

              FINDHAP

                The findhap.f90 program finds haplotypes and imputes genotypes using multiple chip sets and sequence data.