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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...
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...
Sponges form symbioses with a wide array of mesofauna including polychaetes, crustaceans, brittle stars, and bivalves. These organisms use the sponge for food and shelter, but their effect on the sponge is largely unknown. The...
Understanding the ultimate and proximate mechanisms of spadefoot tadpole developmental polyphenism is the first step in gaining a mechanistic and evolutionary understanding of the factors responsible for the control and evolution of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nucleosome distributions are critically important in regulating access to the eukaryotic genome. Cells with different physiologies have strikingly similar nucleosome distributions. Few studies in human cells have measured genome-wide...
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...
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus that has been linked to severe neurological disorders such as microcephaly in newborns as well as Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults. It is closely related to other flaviviruses...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a complex heterogeneous disease characterized by multiple mutations affecting critical signaling pathways. Limitations in therapeutic treatments due to the development of resistance mechanisms, toxicity, and...
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...
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...
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...
To avoid the threat of predation, prey can alter their behavior such as moving from habitats where predation risk is high to those where it is low. However, such behaviors may involve a tradeoff if the low risk habitats are suboptimal...
The 26S proteasome is the largest and most complicated chambered protease known. It is responsible for regulated degradation of proteins within all eukaryotic cells, and is essential for maintaining protein homeostasis. Disruptions to...
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...
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 precise regulation of cellular and hormonal signaling pathways is required for proper development in metazoan organisms. The Drosophila imaginal wing disc is the ideal model system for the study of cellular signaling regulating...
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...
Due to the large variance in the stochastic nature of evolution and DNA, it can be difficult to be sure that inferences that use genetical data are perfectly correct. However, as we incorporate more data into our analysis then the...
Keloids are disfiguring, painful and itchy but benign fibrotic skin lesions characterized by excessive dermal fibroblast proliferation and collagen deposition. They occur in susceptible individuals due to abnormal wound healing. Keloids...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is a major public health concern, resulting in detrimental health effects in the mother and her offspring. The adverse behavioral consequences for children with developmental nicotine exposure include...
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