Institutional Repository Home
→
Department of Biological Sciences
→
Research and Publications - Department of Biological Sciences
→
Browsing Research and Publications - Department of Biological Sciences by Title

Browsing Research and Publications - Department of Biological Sciences by Title

Now showing items 1-20 of 305

Aboveground competition influences density-dependent effects of cordgrass on sediment biogeochemistry

Walker, Janet B.; Rinehart, Shelby; Greenberg-Pines, Gabriel; White, Wendi K.; DeSantiago, Ric; Lipson, David A.; Long, Jeremy D. (Wiley, 2022)

Interspecific interactions between plants influence plant phenotype, distribution, abundance, and community structure. Each of these can, in turn, impact sediment biogeochemistry. Although the population and community level ...
Acetylenotrophy: a hidden but ubiquitous microbial metabolism?

Akob, Denise M.; Sutton, John M.; Fierst, Janna L.; Haase, Karl B.; Baesman, Shaun; Luther, George W., III; Miller, Laurence G.; Oremland, Ronald S. (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Acetylene (IUPAC name: ethyne) is a colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, composed of two triple bonded carbon atoms attached to hydrogens (C2H2). When microbiologists and biogeochemists think of acetylene, they immediately think ...
Activation of the cnidarian oxidative stress response by ultraviolet radiation, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and crude oil

Tarrant, A. M.; Reitzel, A. M.; Kwok, C. K.; Jenny, M. J. (Company of Biologists, 2014)

Organisms are continuously exposed to reactive chemicals capable of causing oxidative stress and cellular damage. Antioxidant enzymes, such as superoxide dismutases (SODs) and catalases, are present in both prokaryotes and ...
Adapterama III: Quadruple-Indexed, double/triple-enzyme RADseq libraries (2RAD/3RAD)

Bayona-Vasquez, Natalia J.; Glenn, Travis C.; Kieran, Troy J.; Pierson, Todd W.; Hoffberg, Sandra L.; Scott, Peter A.; Bentley, Kerin E.; Finger, John W.; Louha, Swarnali; Troendle, Nicholas; Diaz-Jaimes, Pindaro; Mauricio, Rodney; Faircloth, Brant C. (PeerJ, 2019)

Molecular ecologists frequently use genome reduction strategies that rely upon restriction enzyme digestion of genomic DNA to sample consistent portions of the genome from many individuals (e.g., RADseq, GBS). However, ...
Advances, applications, and prospects in aquatic botany

Cherry, Julia A.; Pec, Gregory J. (Wiley, 2022)
Aggression and Related Behavioral Traits: The Impact of Winning and Losing and the Role of Hormones

Chang, Ching; Li, Cheng-Yu; Earley, Ryan L.; Hsu, Yuying (Oxford University Press, 2012)

A suite of correlated behaviors reflecting between-individual consistency in behavior across multiple situations is termed a "behavioral syndrome." Researchers have suggested that a cause for the correlation between different ...
Ancient Polyploidy and Genome Evolution in Palms

Barrett, Craig F.; McKain, Michael R.; Sinn, Brandon T.; Ge, Xue-Jun; Zhang, Yuqu; Antonelli, Alexandre; Bacon, Christine D. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Mechanisms of genome evolution are fundamental to our understanding of adaptation and the generation and maintenance of biodiversity, yet genome dynamics are still poorly characterized in many clades. Strong correlations ...
ApoE-associated modulation of neuroprotection from A beta-mediated neurodegeneration in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans

Griffin, Edward F.; Scopel, Samuel E.; Stephen, Cayman A.; Holzhauer, Adam C.; Vaji, Madeline A.; Tuckey, Ryan A.; Berkowitz, Laura A.; Caldwell, Kim A.; Caldwell, Guy A. (Company of Biologists, 2019)

Allele-specific distinctions in the human apolipoprotein E (APOE) locus represent the best-characterized genetic predictor of Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. Expression of isoform APOE epsilon 2 is associated with reduced ...
Arabidopsis Toxicos en Levadura 12 (ATL12): A Gene Involved in Chitin-Induced, Hormone-Related and NADPH Oxidase-Mediated Defense Responses

Kong, Feng; Guo, Tingwei; Ramonell, Katrina M. (MDPI, 2021)

Plants, as sessile organisms, have evolved complex systems to respond to changes in environmental conditions. Chitin is a Pathogen-Associated-Molecular Pattern (PAMP) that exists in the fungal cell walls, and can be ...
Arthropod-bacteria interactions influence assembly of aquatic host microbiome and pathogen defense

Greenspan, Sasha E.; Lyra, Mariana L.; Migliorini, Gustavo H.; Kersch-Becker, Monica F.; Bletz, Molly C.; Lisboa, Cybele Sabino; Pontes, Mariana R.; Ribeiro, Luisa P.; Neely, Wesley J.; Rezende, Felipe; Romero, Gustavo Q.; Woodhams, Douglas C.; Haddad, Celio F. B.; Toledo, Luis Felipe; Becker, C. Guilherme (Royal Society of London, 2019)

The host-associated microbiome is vital to host immunity and pathogen defense. In aquatic ecosystems, organisms may interact with environmental bacteria to influence the pool of potential symbionts, but the effects of these ...
The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome

Harkess, Alex; Zhou, Jinsong; Xu, Chunyan; Bowers, John E.; Van der Hulst, Ron; Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj; Mercati, Francesco; Riccardi, Paolo; McKain, Michael R.; Kakrana, Atul; Tang, Haibao; Ray, Jeremy; Groenendijk, John; Arikit, Siwaret; Mathioni, Sandra M.; Nakano, Mayumi; Shan, Hongyan; Telgmann-Rauber, Alexa; Kanno, Akira; Yue, Zhen; Chen, Haixin; Li, Wenqi; Chen, Yanling; Xu, Xiangyang; Zhang, Yueping; Luo, Shaochun; Chen, Helong; Gao, Jianming; Mao, Zichao; Pires, J. Chris; Luo, Meizhong; Kudrna, Dave; Wing, Rod A.; Meyers, Blake C.; Yi, Kexian; Kong, Hongzhi; Lavrijsen, Pierre; Sunseri, Francesco; Falavigna, Agostino; Ye, Yin; Leebens-Mack, James H.; Chen, Guangyu (Nature Portfolio, 2017)

Sex chromosomes evolved from autosomes many times across the eukaryote phylogeny. Several models have been proposed to explain this transition, some involving male and female sterility mutations linked in a region of ...
Assessing coastal wetland vulnerability to sea-level rise along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast: Gaps and opportunities for developing a coordinated regional sampling network

Osland, Michael J.; Griffith, Kereen T.; Larriviere, Jack C.; Feher, Laura C.; Cahoon, Donald R.; Enwright, Nicholas M.; Oster, David A.; Tirpak, John M.; Woodrey, Mark S.; Collini, Renee C.; Baustian, Joseph J.; Breithaupt, Joshua L.; Cherry, Julia A.; Conrad, Jeremy R.; Cormier, Nicole; Coronado-Molina, Carlos A.; Donoghue, Joseph F.; Graham, Sean A.; Harper, Jennifer W.; Hester, Mark W.; Howard, Rebecca J.; Krauss, Ken W.; Kroes, Daniel E.; Lane, Robert R.; McKee, Karen L.; Mendelssohn, Irving A.; Middleton, Beth A.; Moon, Jena A.; Piazza, Sarai C.; Rankin, Nicole M.; Sklar, Fred H.; Steyer, Greg D.; Swanson, Kathleen M.; Swarzenski, Christopher M.; Vervaeke, William C.; Willis, Jonathan M.; Van Wilson, K. (PLOS, 2017)

Coastal wetland responses to sea-level rise are greatly influenced by biogeomorphic processes that affect wetland surface elevation. Small changes in elevation relative to sea level can lead to comparatively large changes ...
Assessment of mitochondrial genomes for heterobranch gastropod phylogenetics

Varney, Rebecca M.; Brenzinger, Bastian; Malaquias, Manuel Antonio E.; Meyer, Christopher P.; Schroedl, Michael; Kocot, Kevin M. (BMC, 2021)

BackgroundHeterobranchia is a diverse clade of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial gastropod molluscs. It includes such disparate taxa as nudibranchs, sea hares, bubble snails, pulmonate land snails and slugs, and a number ...
Associations between Self-Reported Gastrointestinal Illness and Water System Characteristics in Community Water Supplies in Rural Alabama: A Cross-Sectional Study

Stauber, Christine E.; Wedgworth, Jessica C.; Johnson, Pauline; Olson, Julie B.; Ayers, Tracy; Elliott, Mark; Brown, Joe (PLOS, 2016)

Background Community water supplies in underserved areas of the United States may be associated with increased microbiological contamination and risk of gastrointestinal disease. Microbial and health risks affecting such ...
An asymptotic model of particle deposition at an airway bifurcation

Zierenberg, Jennifer R.; Halpern, David; Filoche, Marcel; Sapoval, Bernard; Grotberg, James B. (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Particle transport and deposition associated with flow over a wedge is investigated as a model for particle transport and flow at the carina of an airway bifurcation during inspiration. Using matched asymptotics, a uniformly ...
Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Associated with Extreme United States Floods Identified via Machine Learning

Schlef, Katherine E.; Moradkhani, Hamid; Lall, Upmanu (Nature Portfolio, 2019)

The massive socioeconomic impacts engendered by extreme floods provides a clear motivation for improved understanding of flood drivers. We use self-organizing maps, a type of artificial neural network, to perform unsupervised ...
Attenuation of Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration in a C. elegans Parkinson's Model through Regulation of Xanthine Dehydrogenase (XDH-1) Expression by the RNA Editase, ADR-2

Starr, Lindsey A.; McKay, Luke E.; Peter, Kylie N.; Seyfarth, Lena M.; Berkowitz, Laura A.; Caldwell, Kim A.; Caldwell, Guy A. (MDPI, 2023)

Differential RNA editing by adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) has been implicated in several neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we report results of a RNAi screen of genes ...
Back to the future through the wormhole: Caenorhabditis elegans as a preclinical model

Caldwell, Guy A. (Company of Biologists, 2023)

On the 15th Anniversary of Disease Models & Mechanisms as a trailblazing venue for the dissemination of discoveries pertaining to human health involving model systems, we celebrate the journey of this journal, as mirrored ...
A bacterial metabolite induces glutathione-tractable proteostatic damage, proteasomal disturbances, and PINK1-dependent autophagy in C. elegans

Martinez, B. A.; Kim, H.; Ray, A.; Caldwell, G. A.; Caldwell, K. A. (Nature Portfolio, 2015)

Gene-by-environment interactions are thought to underlie the majority of idiopathic cases of neurodegenerative disease. Recently, we reported that an environmental metabolite extracted from Streptomyces venezuelae increases ...
Bcl-xL Is Required by Primary Hippocampal Neurons during Development to Support Local Energy Metabolism at Neurites

Jansen, Joseph; Scott, Madison; Amjad, Emma; Stumpf, Allison; Lackey, Kimberly H.; Caldwell, Kim A.; Park, Han-A (MDPI, 2021)

Simple Summary B-cell lymphoma-extra large (Bcl-xL) is an anti-apoptotic protein that regulates energy metabolism in neurons. In this study, we found that primary hippocampal neurons transduced with Bcl-xL shRNA or treated ...

Now showing items 1-20 of 305

Search DSpace

Browse

All of Institutional Repository
This Collection
- By Issue Date
- Authors
- Titles
- Subjects

My Account

If you find content within the University of Alabama’s Institutional Repository that you believe infringes your copyright or otherwise violates the law, let us know, and we’ll carefully review the material and take appropriate action. You can send notification to security@ua.edu. Copyright notifications must comply with the requirements of Section 512(C)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Note that only the copyright owner or an authorized representative of the copyright owner can file a DMCA Infringement Notice on his/her behalf.

For more information, please see The University of Alabama copyright statement.

Browsing Research and Publications - Department of Biological Sciences by Title

Browsing Research and Publications - Department of Biological Sciences by Title

Search DSpace

Browse

All of Institutional Repository

This Collection

My Account