The sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, feeds upon and sequesters plastids from the heterokont alga, Vaucheria litorea, and maintains the metabolically active organelles for up to nine months under starvation conditions while utilizing the photo...
In the last four years, seven new drugs have been FDA approved for the treatment of late stage melanoma, for the field of melanoma, this marks an incredibly exciting. Three of these new therapies, vemurafenib, dabrafenib and trametinib are small mole...
Interspecific hybridization provides the unique opportunity for species to tap into genetic variation present in a closely related species and potentially take advantage of beneficial alleles. It has become increasingly clear that when hybridization ...
Species hybridization, and thus the potential for gene flow, was once viewed as reproductive mistake. However, recent analysis based on large datasets and newly developed models suggest that gene exchange is not as rare as originally suspected. To in...
Most sense organs of arthropods are ensconced in small exoskeletal compartments that hinder direct access to plasma membranes. We have developed a method for exposing live sensory and supporting cells in such structures. The technique uses a viscous ...
Iron is one of the most important micronutrients used by living organisms. Iron is frequently a limiting nutrient for plant growth, and plants are a major source of iron for human nutrition. The most prominent symptom of iron deficiency in plants is ...
Forty-seven mountain and silky cuscuses, and coppery ringtails were radio-tagged at Mt. Stolle, Papua New Guinea, from June 1995 to July 1998, and 15 of these were closely monitored. A total of 4,922 trees of ≥10 cm diameter were measured and identif...
Eukaryotic cells contain scores of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) that are complexed with proteins in particles known as snoRNPs. SnoRNPs function in processing of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and nucleotide modification of ribosomal and other RNAs that pass...
Based on positive student outcomes, providing research experiences from early undergraduate years is recommended for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. To this end, we designed a novel research experience called the “STE...
PURPOSE. Autosomal dominant neovascular inflammatory vitreoretinopathy (ADNIV) is a devastating inherited autoimmune disease of the eye that displays features commonly seen in other eye diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa and diabetic retinopathy....
