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Sponges are unique filter feeding organisms with complex canal and flagellated chamber aquiferous systems. These systems allow them to specialize in clearing the smallest plankton size class (picoplankton) from the water. Sponges serve...
Monitoring Movement Patterns of Juvenile Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis Pectinata) Using Acoustic Monitoring and Tracking in a Nursery Habitat in Southwest Florida
Habitat use studies can be used to both investigate ecological and behavioral patterns of animals as well as provide a useful management tool for conservation planners. However, essential habitat can be difficult to determine for highly...
Plant cytogenetics has continued to flourish and make essential contributions to genomics projects by delineating marker order, defining contig gaps, and revealing genome rearrangements. Here we review the field of plant cytogenetics...
Interferon (IFN)-mediated innate immune response is the first line of defense against viral infections. And interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7) is a potent transcription factor of type I IFNs and IFN stimulated genes (ISGs) and is...
Recent studies in postmitotic Drosophila follicular epithelia, which surround the developing egg chamber, have shown another way through which Cell Competition eliminates mutated cells, that are otherwise viable. Elimination and removal...
The voltage-gated potassium channel, Kv1.3, carries 60-80% outward current in the olfactory bulb (OB) primary output neuron, the mitral cell. Gene-targeted deletion of the Kv1.3, produces lean mice that have supernumerary and...
The maintenance of genetic variation in traits that are closely tied to fitness, despite evolutionary forces expected to reduce variation, is a long-standing paradox in evolutionary biology. Under simple population genetic models, ...
Many marine species are typified by a pelagic stage during which tiny larvae develop in the open ocean, where they are subject to high mortality and transport via ocean currents. For organisms with this life history, the study of their...
Genetic variation is a dominant feature in the study of evolution. The presence of variation is embedded at every level, from a single individual all the way to different species. Understanding the mechanisms that allow variation to be...
Many organisms live in temporally or spatially heterogeneous environments. One adaptive response to environmental heterogeneity is phenotypic plasticity, or the ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to environmental...
Under normal physiological conditions, trypsin remains inactive as trypsinogen inside the pancreas. Upon entering the small intestine, trypsinogen is converted to active trypsin. Acute pancreatitis is caused by premature activation of...
Cilia are recognized as an important sensory structure for the cell. However, much about the signaling involved in ciliary outgrowth remains a mystery. Chlamydomonas, a green algae, is a model for ciliary and flagellar studies owing to...
Seasonal hypoxia (dissolved oxygen-DO, < 2.0 mg/l) develops and extends over large regions (> 20, 000 km2) of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico shelf in the summer (May-August) as a result of nutrient inputs and salinity stratification...
Hallmark Pathology of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Loss of Layer III Pyramidal Neurons in the Entorhinal Cortex and its Relation to Distribution of NMDA Receptor Subunits
Neuronal loss in Layer III of the medial entorhinal cortex (MEA) is a characteristic phenomenon associated with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. The immediately adjacent lateral entorhinal cortex (LEA) does not exhibit such loss. The current...
Drosophila melanogasterfemale fruit flies possess a pair of ovaries in which many egg chambers are produced, each containing an oocyte that houses the haploid female gamete. In the process of oogenesis, the multi-cellular egg chamber is...
Many non-inherited factors play a role in the epidemiology of cancer. Several studies have suggested that a dietary increase in fruits and vegetables containing compounds such as Luteolin, used in this study, would reduce the new...
The fields of community ecology and evolution are theoretically tightly linked, but in general, community ecologists discount evolution in describing the dynamics of present-day community patterns. Yet, evolution in response to strong...
Drosophila melanogaster serve as an excellent model to study the highly conserved notch signaling pathway, which is involved in a broad array of developmental events. The Notch signal transduction pathway in Drosophila is vastly complex...
When cells encounter DNA replication stress, the S-phase checkpoint is activated to facilitate cell cycle arrest and DNA repair. An important aspect of the checkpoint is the transcriptional response, but the details governing this...
Evolutionary Dynamics of the Interacting Gamete Recognition Proteins Sperm Bindin and Its Egg Receptor EBR1 in the Purple Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus)
Gamete recognition proteins (GRPs) mediate the fusion of gametes by determining whether sperm and eggs are compatible during fertilization and are key players involved in reproduction, reproductive isolation and speciation in diverse...
Oyster reef habitats historically supported coastal economies and ecosystems; however, anthropogenic activities have caused a reduction in oyster populations to only 15% of historic levels. Estuaries along the Atlantic coast of Florida...
The major outcome of this project is "Protein Folding Toy, an iPad program (app) which is designed to allow children (ages 10-18) to interact with a system that behaves like a single polymer chain on the molecular level. The user can...
In order to understand more about plant telomere biology, we set out to identify genetic factors associated with telomere length regulation in maize (Zea mayz L.), a model genetic system. Using terminal restriction fragment (TRF)...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection leads to acute and chronic liver disease for thousands of people every year. With the absence of an effective treatment method, new classes of anti-HCV therapies are needed. Cyclosporine (CsA) and its...
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