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Aspects of global change - specifically, elevated soil nitrogen deposition and warming - are resulting in significant changes in native plant communities. These effects can be direct through changes in productivity, or indirect through...
The linker of the nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) protein complex bridges the inner and outer nuclear membranes and regulates a range of nuclear activities that include telomere tethering and chromosome movement. The canonical...
In order to increase our understanding of the relationship between domains we must move beyond traditional phylogenetic approaches and attempt to group species and domains in new and different ways. This paper is an analysis of various...
Aquaponics is an integrated biological system that essentially combines a soil-less garden with an aquarium. It is important because it uses less water than commercial farming, is ecofriendly, and provides a local source of food for its...
It is clear that the genetic networks that control the shape and patterning of important phenotypic traits are much more important to trait evolution than was previously thought. This study addresses the ability of the Drosophila...
Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of the human genome. An understanding of the role of chromatin structure and its relationship to gene regulation is critical to developing new strategies to prevent and treat...
Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of the human genome. An understanding of the role of chromatin structure and its relationship to gene regulation is critical to developing new strategies to prevent and treat...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) or exosomes are responsible for a variety of signaling processes and overall physiological and pathological states of stem cells and tissues. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have unique...
Cooperation is a complex behavior in which individuals act in ways that increase the fitness of others, at some cost to themselves. In cooperatively breeding vertebrates, helpers capable of reproducing forgo their own reproduction to...
CRISPR-cas systems have been found to confer RNA guided immunity in prokaryotes comparable to the eukaryotic RNA interference. These Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, as their name entails, are repeated sequences...
The maize (Zea mays L) initiator-binding protein2 (IBP2) gene is known to encode a protein, IBP2, with promoter-binding activity. IBP2 also resembles telomere DNA-binding proteins from other plant species. Therefore, we investigated...
The importance of the contribution of science to modern civilization is an accepted concept. Science has had an increasingly profound influence upon the society and upon the individuals who compose it. This paper attempts to point out...
The Feeding Ecology of Two Species of Holopelagic Munnopsid Isopods from the North Pacific (Acanthamunnopsis milleri and Munneurycope murrayi) Using SEM Analysis
This study seeks to determine the diet of two species of holopelagic isopods Acanthamunnopsis milleri and Munneurycope murrayi via scanning electron microscopy and percent coverage based image analysis of the gut contents from 12...
One of the central goals of evolutionary biology is to understand the evolutionary relationships among organisms by constructing phylogenetic estimates, commonly known as evolutionary trees. The accuracy of phylogenetic estimates can be...
SCARECROW (SCR) is a transcription factor with a pivotal role in radial patterning and stem cell renewal in the Arabidopsis root, making it a great tool for stem cell research. How SCR regulates stem cell renewal is still not clear. This...
Neontological studies of reptilian growth are important as they provide a proxy allowing investigation of the life history of extinct relatives. As such, finding modern correlates for bone growth and histological types that can then be...
Motor displays (displays that involve visible body movements) are an integral component of many courtship displays and have the potential to be important signals of male quality to females during mate choice. The whole organism is used...
The role of insulin pathways in olfaction are of significant interest with the widespread pathology of Diabetes mellitus and its associated metabolic and neuronal co-morbidities. Previous experiments have been conducted examining insulin...
Maintaining the balance of protein synthesis and degradation is essential for efficient proteostasis and organismal health. The 26S proteasome is a large, multisubunit proteolytic complex that functions as the primary mechanism for...
Thyroxine is arguably the most important hormone in anuran development and affects development through exogenous and endogenous means. In this study, I investigate the relationship between exogenous thyroxine and spadefoot tadpole...
The Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, is found throughout the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas. In 1998, lobsters were discovered with small black, necrotic lesions on the carapace some associated with trauma. Since then the number...
This research focuses on the signal transduction pathway involved in acid-induced deflagellation in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A wild type copy of the 2L15 gene will be amplified and used to create a plasmid. This plasmid...
Behavioral interactions among individuals can have complex effects on trait evolution. In this study I quantify the strength of correlation between aggressive and advertisement calls in the chorus frog, Pseudacris feriarum, to assess...
Marine reserves are proposed not only as a management strategy but also as a proxy for un-fished conditions. As fishing pressures have risen over time, scientists have had no way to control for fishing in populations being studied. With...
Herbarium specimens and the professionals who collect them can be powerful resources for understanding significant biological change, and many opportunities remain to improve specimen data analysis, collection, and exploration to...
Clonality is the general term that encompasses all manner of pinching, splitting, budding, and fragmenting behaviors by which organisms divide their somatic body tissues into more or less independent units. It can be as straight forward...
The striated muscle Z-line is a complex network of proteins in which N-terminal domains of titin interact with the actin filament cross-linker alpha-actinin, and other proteins to establish and maintain the structural integrity of the...
Hadrosaurids were the most diverse and abundant dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. However, their phylogeny is incompletely known and the relationships of many taxa, particularly European and South American, remains unresolved....
Snake Venom Composition, Adaptation, and Evolution: Comparative Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses of Venoms from the Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon Piscivorus) and the Copperhead (Agkistrodon Contortrix)
Understanding how organisms adapt to their environments is one of the fundamental goals of biology. However, delineating the exact relationships between genotypes, phenotypes, and fitness can be difficult in natural systems. Studying...
An essential step in the biogeochemical cycling of sulfur is the six electron reduction of sulfite (SO32-) to sulfide (S2-) catalyzed by the enzyme sulfite reductase (SiR). SiR performs the largest single atom reduction in any biological...
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