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Identification and characterization of a novel receptor-like kinase involved in the initiation and regulation of Arabidopsis innate immunity

Yang, Xin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are known to be involved in the recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and subsequently activate resistance pathways against broad classes of pathogens. While initiation ...
Identification and mechanistic analyses of genetic and environmental risk factors associated with Parkinson's disease using a caenorhabditis elegans model

Ray, Arpita (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

The etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) has long been thought to involve both genetic and environmental factors. There exists a common theme across the etiological spectrum of PD, where these factors have the ability to ...
Identification of neuroprotective genes against alpha-synuclein toxicity using a Caenorhabditis elegans Parkinson disease model

Hamamichi, Shusei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Recent functional analyses of nine gene products linked to familial forms of Parkinson disease (PD) have revealed several cellular mechanisms that are associated with PD pathogenesis. For example, alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn), ...
The importance of multimodel projections to assess uncertainty in projections from simulation models

Valle, Denis; Staudhammer, Christina L.; Cropper, Wendell P., Jr.; Gardingen, Paul R. van (2019-01-10)

Simulation models are increasingly used to gain insights regarding the longterm effect of both direct and indirect anthropogenic impacts on natural resources and to devise and evaluate policies that aim to minimize these ...
Influence of lab adapted natural diet, genotype, and microbiota on drosophila melanogaster larvae

Bombin, Andrei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

Obesity is an increasing pandemic and is caused by multiple factors including genotype, psychological stress, and gut microbiota. Our project investigated the effects produced by microbiota community, acquired from the ...
Influence of native freshwater mussel functional traits and community structure on nitrogen removal in stream sediments

Nickerson, Zachary Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Animals physically and chemically modify their environment as a result of their functional traits. These effects are particularly influential in freshwater benthic environments where animal aggregations can impact the ...
Influence of succession on fish assemblages in pond metacommunities

Olinger, Charles (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Metacommunity ecology focuses on the influence of regional and local processes structuring sets of communities, and theory predicts that the relative importance of those processes will change over time since initiation of ...
Interactions of hydrology and water chemistry in two coastal plain streams in a forested watershed

Sims, Susan Ashley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The goal of this study was to compare and contrast the annual seasonal changes in hydrology and water chemistry of Mayfield Creek and Talladega Branch, two low-order streams located within the same forested watershed. ...
Interactive effects of sediment and nitrate subsidies on surface elevation dynamics in a brackish marsh

Nugent, Mollie Alice (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Sediment subsidies to coastal marshes, whether delivered during storm and flood events or via restoration activities (e.g., sediment pumping, dredging or diversions), are critical for marsh elevation maintenance and ...
Inventory of chytrid diversity using a multiphasic approach

Davis, William J. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Chytrids are an inconspicuous, microscopic early-diverging lineage of fungi. They are among the “dark matter fungi;” little is known about them relative to what is known about Dikarya fungi. Temporary forest ponds are ...
Investigating microbial communities and the environmental factors influencing them in manmade and naturally occurring systems

Shirey, Timothy Brian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Over the past 50 years, the field of microbial ecology has evolved into one of the most exciting sub-disciplines of biology and has produced many important revelations in the areas of ecology and biotechnology. Much of the ...
Investigating the population genomic effects of inhabiting heterogeneous landscapes across multiple spatial and time scales in montane bumble bees

Jackson, Jason (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Heterogeneous landscapes and the complex combinations of abiotic variation in both terrain and environmental variables such as temperature can drive patterns of genomic divergence and diversification across multiple ...
Investigating the role of molecular chaperones in neurological diseases

Burdette, Alexander Justin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Most proteins are elaborate three-dimensional structures comprised of amino acids which form specific interactions with each other to bring about the structure of the protein. Thus, it is no surprise that mutating a single ...
Investigation of environmental and genetic risk factors in the development of Parkinson's disease utilizing the model organism

Kim, Hanna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

One of the main features of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the presence of alpha-synuclein (a-syn) inclusions known as Lewy Bodies. Over 90% of PD cases are sporadic while ...
IsoSeq Reads for Three Drosophila Species

Rele, Chinmay P.; Reed, Laura K.; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Francœur, Nancy; Salib, Irene (2021)
Land-cover change and wetland plant zonation in Weeks Bay, AL

Constantin, Adam Jeffrey (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Changes in land-use/land-cover (LULC) and predicted changes in environmental conditions threaten the marginal occupancy of tidal marshes in Weeks Bay, Alabama. In a combined study, I investigated the implications of historic ...
Mechanisms of chronic cadium-induced carcinogenesis: implications of the heme oxygenase 1/biliverdin reductase pathway

George, Corinne Reina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Many people are potentially exposed to the toxic heavy metal cadmium (Cd) throughout their lifetime. Of particular interest in this dissertation are the effects of long-term, low-level exposure to Cd. Cd has a biological ...
Mercury bioaccumulation in the biota of the Mobile Bay, Alabama food web

Showalter, Lauren M. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Food items contaminated with mercury pose potentially deleterious health risks to a wide variety of biota. Mercury enters the food web at the microbial level and is methylated and then biomagnified to higher trophic levels ...
Microbial community dynamics of a coastal Alabama salt marsh impacted by the deepwater horizon oil spill

Rajan, Suja Susan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Microbial communities in salt marsh sediments perform vital ecosystem services such as decomposition of organic matter, nutrient cycling, acting as the base of the food chain, stabilizing marsh sediments through plant-microbe ...
Modeling and analyzing cellular defects associated with movement disorders in Caenorhabditis elegans

Xu, Chuan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

As a powerful modern organism, Caenorhabditis elegans has been widely used to study pathologies behind movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dystonia. PD is the second most common neurodegenerative ...

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