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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043109.v1
title: Supplementary material from "Electrical output of bryophyte microbial fuel cell systems is sufficient to power a radio or an environmental sensor"

description: Plant microbial fuel cells are a recently developed technology that exploits photosynthesis in vascular plants by harnessing solar energy and generating electrical power. In this study, the model moss species <i>Physcomitrella patens</i>, and other environmental samples of mosses, have been used to develop a non-vascular bryophyte microbial fuel cell (bryoMFC). A novel three-dimensional anodic matrix was successfully created and characterized and was further tested in a bryoMFC to determine the capacity of mosses to generate electrical power. The importance of anodophilic microorganisms in the bryoMFC was also determined. It was found that the non-sterile bryoMFCs operated with <i>P. patens</i> delivered over an order of magnitude higher peak power output (2.6 ± 0.6 µW m<sup>-2</sup>) than bryoMFCs kept in near-sterile conditions (0.2 ± 0.1 µW m<sup>-2</sup>). These results confirm the importance of the microbial populations for delivering electrons to the anode in a bryoMFC. When the bryoMFCs were operated with environmental samples of moss (non-sterile) the peak power output reached 6.7 ± 0.6 mW m<sup>-2</sup>. The bryoMFCs operated with environmental samples of moss were able to power a commercial radio receiver or an environmental sensor (LCD desktop weather station).
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/cxur9e
title: blc20160906_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/qakch3
title: blc20160402_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/hgefly
title: blc20160730_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/ihuzn3
title: blc20170410_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043058
title: Ataf Ali - Excell Data from Synthesis and characterization of azo-guanidine based alcoholic media naked eye DNA sensor

description: DNA sensing always has an open meadow of curiosity for biotechnologists and other researchers. Recently, in this field, we have introduced an emerging class of molecules containing azo and guanidine functionalities. In this study, we have synthesized three new compounds (<b>UA1</b>, <b>UA6</b> and <b>UA7</b>) for potential application in DNA sensing in alcoholic medium. The synthesized materials were characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR, UV-visible, <sup>1</sup>H NMR and <sup>13</sup>C NMR spectroscopies. Their DNA sensing potential were investigated by UV-visible spectroscopy. The insight of interaction with DNA was further investigated by electrochemical (cyclic voltammetry) and hydrodynamic (viscosity) studies. The results showed that compounds have moderate DNA binding properties, with the binding constants range being 7.2 x 10<sup>3</sup>, 2.4 x 10<sup>3</sup> and 0.2 x 10<sup>3</sup>M<sup>-1</sup>, for <b>UA1</b>, <b>UA6</b> and <b>UA7</b>, respectively. Upon binding with DNA, there was a change in colour (a blue shift in the <i>λ</i><sub>max</sub> value) which was observable with a naked eye. These results indicated the potential of synthesized compounds as DNA sensors with detection limit 1.8, 5.8 and 4.0ng µl<sup>-1</sup> for <b>UA1</b>, <b>UA6</b> and <b>UA7</b>, respectively.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043058.v1
title: Ataf Ali - Excell Data from Synthesis and characterization of azo-guanidine based alcoholic media naked eye DNA sensor

description: DNA sensing always has an open meadow of curiosity for biotechnologists and other researchers. Recently, in this field, we have introduced an emerging class of molecules containing azo and guanidine functionalities. In this study, we have synthesized three new compounds (<b>UA1</b>, <b>UA6</b> and <b>UA7</b>) for potential application in DNA sensing in alcoholic medium. The synthesized materials were characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR, UV-visible, <sup>1</sup>H NMR and <sup>13</sup>C NMR spectroscopies. Their DNA sensing potential were investigated by UV-visible spectroscopy. The insight of interaction with DNA was further investigated by electrochemical (cyclic voltammetry) and hydrodynamic (viscosity) studies. The results showed that compounds have moderate DNA binding properties, with the binding constants range being 7.2 x 10<sup>3</sup>, 2.4 x 10<sup>3</sup> and 0.2 x 10<sup>3</sup>M<sup>-1</sup>, for <b>UA1</b>, <b>UA6</b> and <b>UA7</b>, respectively. Upon binding with DNA, there was a change in colour (a blue shift in the <i>λ</i><sub>max</sub> value) which was observable with a naked eye. These results indicated the potential of synthesized compounds as DNA sensors with detection limit 1.8, 5.8 and 4.0ng µl<sup>-1</sup> for <b>UA1</b>, <b>UA6</b> and <b>UA7</b>, respectively.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/noggbx
title: blc20170313_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043061.v1
title: 3. Tree-ring reconstructions of climate indices used in Bivariate Event Analyses (BEA) and 20th century records of average annual summer and winter temperature and precipitation from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043052
title: 2. Bivariate event analyses (BEA) used to compare tree-ring reconstructions of large-scale climate indices with fire events derived from fire-scarred trees from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043055
title: 4. The supporting residual western redcedar chronology sampled from the study site and used in climate analyses from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/uwljjo
title: blc20171219_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043055.v2
title: 4. The supporting residual western redcedar chronology sampled from the study site and used in climate analyses from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/mqbxwt
title: blc20170922_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043052.v2
title: 2. Bivariate event analyses (BEA) used to compare tree-ring reconstructions of large-scale climate indices with fire events derived from fire-scarred trees from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043055.v1
title: 4. The supporting residual western redcedar chronology sampled from the study site and used in climate analyses from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/e4khd9
title: blc20170122_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4043052.v1
title: 2. Bivariate event analyses (BEA) used to compare tree-ring reconstructions of large-scale climate indices with fire events derived from fire-scarred trees from Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest

description: While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah-grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire activity with a 700-year fire history derived from fire scars and stand establishment from 30 sites in a very wet (more than 4000 mm average annual precipitation) temperate rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Drought and warmer temperatures in the year prior were positively associated with fire events though there was little coherence of climate indices on the years of fires. At the decadal scale, fires were more likely to occur after positive El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation phases and exhibited 30-year periods of synchrony with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Fire frequency was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from former Indigenous habitation sites and fires ceased following cultural disorganization caused by disease and other European impacts in the late nineteenth century. Indigenous people were likely the primary ignition source in this and many coastal temperate rainforest settings. These data are directly relevant to contemporary forest management and discredit the myth of coastal temperate rainforests as pristine landscapes.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/pfq4hf
title: blc20170801_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/i1befz
title: blc20171008_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/upurqx
title: blc20171016_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/m2bdam
title: blc20170301_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/6rqx9a
title: blc20170114_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/g1exlb
title: blc20170527_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/uujc4n
title: blc20170521_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/cdjxrm
title: blc20170120_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/8evypd
title: blc20170327_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/m5qn2o
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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/hwggmm
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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/cgzr43
title: blc20170731_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/owlmq0
title: blc20171002_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4042974
title: Supplementary Material for: Mixed-Up Sex Chromosomes: Identification of Sex Chromosomes in the X1X1X2X2/X1X2Y System of the Legless Lizards of the Genus Lialis (Squamata: Gekkota: Pygopodidae)

description: Geckos in general show extensive variability in sex determining systems, but only male heterogamety has been demonstrated in the members of their legless family Pygopodidae. In the pioneering study published more than 45 years ago, multiple sex chromosomes of the type X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub>/X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>Y were described in Burton's legless lizard <i>(Lialis</i><i>burtonis)</i> based on conventional cytogenetic techniques. We conducted cytogenetic analyses including comparative genomic hybridization and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with selected cytogenetic markers in this species and the previously cytogenetically unstudied Papua snake lizard <i>(Lialis jicari)</i> to better understand the nature of these sex chromosomes and their differentiation. Both species possess male heterogamety with an X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub>/X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>Y sex chromosome system; however, the Y and one of the X chromosomes are not small chromosomes as previously reported in <i>L. burtonis</i>, but the largest macrochromosomal pair in the karyotype. The Y chromosomes in both species have large heterochromatic blocks with extensive accumulations of GATA and AC microsatellite motifs. FISH with telomeric probe revealed an exclusively terminal position of telomeric sequences in <i>L. jicari</i> (2n = 42 chromosomes in females), but extensive interstitial signals, potentially remnants of chromosomal fusions, in <i>L.</i><i>burtonis</i> (2n = 34 in females). Our study shows that even largely differentiated and heteromorphic sex chromosomes might be misidentified by conventional cytogenetic analyses and that the application of more sensitive cytogenetic techniques for the identification of sex chromosomes is beneficial even in the classical examples of multiple sex chromosomes.<br>
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4042974.v1
title: Supplementary Material for: Mixed-Up Sex Chromosomes: Identification of Sex Chromosomes in the X1X1X2X2/X1X2Y System of the Legless Lizards of the Genus Lialis (Squamata: Gekkota: Pygopodidae)

description: Geckos in general show extensive variability in sex determining systems, but only male heterogamety has been demonstrated in the members of their legless family Pygopodidae. In the pioneering study published more than 45 years ago, multiple sex chromosomes of the type X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub>/X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>Y were described in Burton's legless lizard <i>(Lialis</i><i>burtonis)</i> based on conventional cytogenetic techniques. We conducted cytogenetic analyses including comparative genomic hybridization and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with selected cytogenetic markers in this species and the previously cytogenetically unstudied Papua snake lizard <i>(Lialis jicari)</i> to better understand the nature of these sex chromosomes and their differentiation. Both species possess male heterogamety with an X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub>/X<sub>1</sub>X<sub>2</sub>Y sex chromosome system; however, the Y and one of the X chromosomes are not small chromosomes as previously reported in <i>L. burtonis</i>, but the largest macrochromosomal pair in the karyotype. The Y chromosomes in both species have large heterochromatic blocks with extensive accumulations of GATA and AC microsatellite motifs. FISH with telomeric probe revealed an exclusively terminal position of telomeric sequences in <i>L. jicari</i> (2n = 42 chromosomes in females), but extensive interstitial signals, potentially remnants of chromosomal fusions, in <i>L.</i><i>burtonis</i> (2n = 34 in females). Our study shows that even largely differentiated and heteromorphic sex chromosomes might be misidentified by conventional cytogenetic analyses and that the application of more sensitive cytogenetic techniques for the identification of sex chromosomes is beneficial even in the classical examples of multiple sex chromosomes.<br>
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/amfmcx
title: blc20171212_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/7kmlmr
title: blc20170516_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/ljklhf
title: blc20170305_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/dbwhk5
title: blc20170809_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/zjcek1
title: blc20171009_03.txt.gz

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v1rjpf/puuir0
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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4042929
title: Improving confidence in (Q)SAR predictions under Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan – a chemical space approach<sup>$</sup>

description: One of the key challenges of Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) is assessing chemicals with limited/no empirical hazard data for their risk to human health. In some instances, these chemicals have not been tested broadly for their toxicological potency; as such, limited information exists on their potential to induce human health effects following exposure. Although (quantitative) structure activity relationship ((Q)SAR) models are able to generate predictions to address data gaps for certain toxicological endpoints, the confidence in predictions also needs to be addressed. One way to address this issue is to apply a chemical space approach. This approach uses international toxicological databases, for example, those available in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) QSAR Toolbox. The approach,assesses a model’s ability to predict the potential hazards of chemicals that have limited hazard data that require assessment under the CMP when compared to a larger, data-rich chemical space that is structurally similar to chemicals of interest. This evaluation of a model’s predictive ability makes (Q)SAR analysis more transparent and increases confidence in the application of these predictions in a risk-assessment context. Using this approach, predictions for such chemicals obtained from four (Q)SAR models were successfully classified into high, medium and low confidence levels to better inform their use in decision-making.