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Allelopathic Characteristics of Artemisia tridentata and Purshia tridentata and Implications for Invasive Species Management
(Associate Students of the University of Nevada (ASUN), 10/25/2014)Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) are native species to the sagebrush ecosystem of northern Nevada. Both of these species exhibit allelopathic effects, whereby they produce ... -
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A Trade-Off Between Natural and Acquired Antibody Production in a Reptile: Implications for Long-Term Resistance to Disease
(11/15/2012)Skip to Next Section Vertebrate immune systems are understood to be complex and dynamic, with trade-offs among different physiological components (e.g., innate and adaptive immunity) within individuals and among taxonomic ... -
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Context-Specific Comparison of Sleep Acquisition Systems in Drosophila
(11/15/2015)Skip to Next Section Sleep is conserved across phyla and can be measured through electrophysiological or behavioral characteristics. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, provides an excellent model for investigating the ... -
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Benthic protists and fungi of Mediterranean deep hypsersaline anoxic basin redoxcline sediments
(2014)Some of the most extreme marine habitats known are the Mediterranean Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHABs; water depth ~3500m). Brines of DHABs are nearly saturated with salt, leading many to suspect they are uninhabitable ... -
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Ascending midbrain dopaminergic axons require descending GAD65 axon fascicles for normal pathfinding
(2014)The Nigrostriatal pathway (NSP) is formed by dopaminergic axons that project from the ventral midbrain to the dorsolateral striatum as part of the medial forebrain bundle. Previous studies have implicated chemotropic ... -
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Using 3D printed eggs to examine the egg-rejection behaviour of wild birds
(2015)The coevolutionary relationships between brood parasites and their hosts are often studied by examining the egg rejection behaviour of host species using artificial eggs. However, the traditional methods for producing ... -
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Metazoans of redoxcline sediments in Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins
(2015)The deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) of the Mediterranean (water depth similar to 3500 m) are some of the most extreme oceanic habitats known. Brines of DHABs are nearly saturated with salt, leading many to suspect ... -
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Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient
(2015)Understanding the spatial and temporal scales at which environmental variation affects populations of plants and animals is an important goal for modern population biology, especially in the context of shifting climatic ... -
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Successful survival, growth, and reproductive potential of quagga mussels in low calcium lake water: is there uncertainty of establishment risk?
(2015)The risk of quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis Andrusov 1897) establishment into water-bodies of the western US has expanded the geographic concern regarding the ecological and economic impacts this species ... -
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Genetic Tools for the Analysis of Drosophila Stomatogastric Nervous System Development
(2015)The Drosophila stomatogastric nervous system (SNS) is a compact collection of neurons that arises from the migration of neural precursors. Here we describe genetic tools allowing functional analysis of the SNS during the ... -
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Enhanced Sleep Is an Evolutionarily Adaptive Response to Starvation Stress in Drosophila
(2015)Animals maximize fitness by modulating sleep and foraging strategies in response to changes in nutrient availability. Wild populations of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, display highly variable levels of starvation ... -
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Characterizing the Diverse Mutational Pathways Associated with R5-Tropic Maraviroc Resistance: HIV-1 That Uses the Drug-Bound CCR5 Coreceptor
(2015)Entry inhibitors represent a potent class of antiretroviral drugs that target a host cell protein, CCR5, an HIV-1 entry coreceptor, and not viral protein. Lack of sensitivity can occur due to preexisting virus that uses ... -
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Implementing invasive species control: a case study of multi-jurisdictional coordination at Lake Tahoe, USA
(2015)Biological invasions are increasing in frequency and the need to mitigate or control their effects is a major challenge to natural resource managers. Failure to control invasive species has been attributed to inadequate ... -
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Life-history evolution in the anthropocene: effects of increasing nutrients on traits and trade-offs
(2015)Variation in life-history traits can have major impacts on the ecological and evolutionary responses of populations to environmental change. Life-history variation often results from trade-offs that arise because individuals ... -
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Netrin1-DCC-Mediated Attraction Guides Post-Crossing Commissural Axons in the Hindbrain
(2015)Commissural axons grow along precise trajectories that are guided by several cues secreted from the ventral midline. After initial attraction to the floor plate using Netrin1 activation of its main attractive receptor, DCC ... -
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Trait-mediated trophic cascade creates enemy-free space for nesting hummingbirds
(2015)The indirect effects of predators on nonadjacent trophic levels, mediated through traits of intervening species, are collectively known as trait-mediated trophic cascades. Although birds are important predators in terrestrial ... -
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Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity
(2015)What are the ecological causes and consequences of variation in phytochemical diversity within and between plant taxa? Despite decades of natural products discovery by organic chemists and research by chemical ecologists, ... -
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Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars
(2016)Chemically mediated plant-herbivore interactions contribute to the diversity of terrestrial communities and the diversification of plants and insects. While our understanding of the processes affecting community structure ... -
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High Triglycerides Are Associated with Low Thrombocyte Counts and High VEGF in Nephropathia Epidemica
(2016)Nephropathia epidemica (NE) is a mild formof hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Several reports have demonstrated a severe alteration in lipoproteinmetabolism. However, little is known about changes in circulating ... -
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Differential Contributions of Olfactory Receptor Neurons in a Drosophila Olfactory Circuit
(2016)The ability of an animal to detect, discriminate, and respond to odors depends on the functions of its olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs). The extent to which each ORN, upon activation, contributes to chemotaxis is not well ...