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  • Structure of a Rabbit Muscle Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphate Aldolase A Dimer Variant
    Sherawat, Manashi; Tolan, Dean R.; Allen, Karen N. (International Union of Crystallography, 2008-4-19)
    The X-ray crystallographic structure of a dimer variant of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase demonstrates a stable oligomer that mirrors half of the native tetramer. The presence of product demonstrates that this is an ...
  • Nutrition or Detoxification: Why Bats Visit Mineral Licks of the Amazonian Rainforest
    Voigt, Christian C.; Capps, Krista A.; Dechmann, Dina K. N.; Michener, Robert H.; Kunz, Thomas H. (Public Library of Science, 2008-4-23)
    Many animals in the tropics of Africa, Asia and South America regularly visit so-called salt or mineral licks to consume clay or drink clay-saturated water. Whether this behavior is used to supplement diets with locally ...
  • Rapid Encoding and Perception of Novel Odors in the Rat
    Wesson, Daniel W; Carey, Ryan M; Verhagen, Justus V; Wachowiak, Matt (Public Library of Science, 2008-4-8)
    To gain insight into which parameters of neural activity are important in shaping the perception of odors, we combined a behavioral measure of odor perception with optical imaging of odor representations at the level of ...
  • Dopamine Receptor Genetic Polymorphisms and Body Composition in Undernourished Pastoralists: An Exploration of Nutrition Indices among Nomadic and Recently Settled Ariaal Men of Northern Kenya
    Eisenberg, Dan TA; Campbell, Benjamin; Gray, Peter B; Sorenson, Michael D (BioMed Central, 2008-6-10)
    BACKGROUND. Minor alleles of the human dopamine receptor polymorphisms, DRD2/TaqI A and DRD4/48 bp, are related to decreased functioning and/or numbers of their respective receptors and have been shown to be correlated ...
  • The Evolutionary Origin of the Runx/CBFbeta Transcription Factors – Studies of the Most Basal Metazoans
    Sullivan, James C; Sher, Daniel; Eisenstein, Miriam; Shigesada, Katsuya; Reitzel, Adam M; Marlow, Heather; Levanon, Ditsa; Groner, Yoram; Finnerty, John R; Gat, Uri (BioMed Central, 2008-8-5)
    BACKGROUND. Members of the Runx family of transcriptional regulators, which bind DNA as heterodimers with CBFβ, are known to play critical roles in embryonic development in many triploblastic animals such as mammals and ...
  • Global Anesthesia Workforce Crisis: A Preliminary Survey Revealing Shortages Contributing to Undesirable Outcomes and Unsafe Practices
    Dubowitz, Gerald; Detlefs, Sarah; Kelly McQueen, K. A. (Springer-Verlag, 2009-10-1)
    BACKGROUND. The burden of disease, disability, and mortality that could be averted by surgery is growing. However, few low and middle income countries (LMICs) have the infrastructure or capacity to provide surgical services ...
  • Two Alleles of NF-κB in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis Are Widely Dispersed in Nature and Encode Proteins with Distinct Activities
    Sullivan, James C.; Wolenski, Francis S.; Reitzel, Adam M.; French, Courtney E.; Traylor-Knowles, Nikki; Gilmore, Thomas D.; Finnerty, John R. (Public Library of Science, 2009-10-6)
    BACKGROUND. NF-κB is an evolutionarily conserved transcription factor that controls the expression of genes involved in many key organismal processes, including innate immunity, development, and stress responses. NF-κB ...
  • Increased Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in Retinal Neurons in Early Diabetic Retinopathy
    Giove, Thomas J.; Deshpande, Monika M.; Gagen, Christine S.; Eldred, William D. (Molecular Vision, 2009-11-09)
    PURPOSE. There are increased levels of nitric oxide (NO) in diabetic retinas. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent that neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) contributes to the increased levels of retinal ...
  • Domain Duplication, Divergence, and Loss Events in Vertebrate Msx Paralogs Reveal Phylogenomically Informed Disease Markers
    Finnerty, John R; Mazza, Maureen E; Jezewski, Peter A (BioMed Central, 2009-1-20)
    BACKGROUND. Msx originated early in animal evolution and is implicated in human genetic disorders. To reconstruct the functional evolution of Msx and inform the study of human mutations, we analyzed the phylogeny and synteny ...
  • Endocrine Activity of Extraembryonic Membranes Extends beyond Placental Amniotes
    Albergotti, Lori C.; Hamlin, Heather J.; McCoy, Michael W.; Guillette,, Louis J. (Public Library of Science, 2009-5-8)
    BACKGROUND. During development, all amniotes (mammals, reptiles, and birds) form extraembryonic membranes, which regulate gas and water exchange, remove metabolic wastes, provide shock absorption, and transfer maternally ...
  • The Random Nature of Genome Architecture: Predicting Open Reading Frame Distributions
    McCoy, Michael W.; Allen, Andrew P.; Gillooly, James F. (Public Library of Science, 2009-7-30)
    BACKGROUND. A better understanding of the size and abundance of open reading frames (ORFS) in whole genomes may shed light on the factors that control genome complexity. Here we examine the statistical distributions of ...
  • Does Coevolution Promote Species Richness in Parasitic Cuckoos?
    Krüger, Oliver; Sorenson, Michael D.; Davies, Nicholas B. (The Royal Society, 2009-8-19)
    Why some lineages have diversified into larger numbers of species than others is a fundamental but still relatively poorly understood aspect of the evolutionary process. Coevolution has been recognized as a potentially ...
  • Dinitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria in Microbial Mats of Two Shallow Coral Reef Ecosystems
    Charpy, Loic; Palinska, Katarzyna A.; Casareto, Beatriz; Langlade, Marie José; Suzuki, Yoshimi; Abed, Raeid M. M.; Golubic, Stjepko (Springer-Verlag, 2009-8-25)
    Dinitrogen-fixing organisms in cyanobacterial mats were studied in two shallow coral reef ecosystems: La Reunion Island, southwestern Indian Ocean, Sesoko (Okinawa) Island, and northwestern Pacific Ocean. Rapidly expanding ...
  • Tuning and Controlling Gene Expression Noise in Synthetic Gene Networks
    Murphy, Kevin F.; Adams, Rhys M.; Wang, Xiao; Balázsi, Gábor; Collins, James J. (Oxford University Press, 2010-03-08)
    Synthetic gene networks can be used to control gene expression and cellular phenotypes in a variety of applications. In many instances, however, such networks can behave unreliably due to gene expression noise. Accordingly, ...
  • A Conserved Cluster of Three PRD-class Homeobox Genes (Homeobrain, Rx and Orthopedia) in the Cnidaria and Protostomia
    Mazza, Maureen E; Pang, Kevin; Reitzel, Adam M; Martindale, Mark Q; Finnerty, John R (BioMed Central, 2010-07-05)
    BACKGROUND. Homeobox genes are a superclass of transcription factors with diverse developmental regulatory functions, which are found in plants, fungi and animals. In animals, several Antennapedia (ANTP)-class homeobox ...
  • Species Diversity and Distribution Patterns of the Ants of Amazonian Ecuador
    Ryder Wilkie, Kari T.; Mertl, Amy L.; Traniello, James F. A. (, 2010-10-1)
    Ants are among the most diverse, abundant and ecologically significant organisms on earth. Although their species richness appears to be greatest in the New World tropics, global patterns of ant diversity and distribution ...
  • Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005
    Eakin, C. Mark; Morgan, Jessica A.; Heron, Scott F.; Smith, Tyler B.; Liu, Gang; Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo; Baca, Bart; Bartels, Erich; Bastidas, Carolina; Bouchon, Claude; Brandt, Marilyn; Bruckner, Andrew W.; Bunkley-Williams, Lucy; Cameron, Andrew; Causey, Billy D.; Chiappone, Mark; Christensen, Tyler R. L.; Crabbe, M. James C; Day, Owen; de la Guardia, Elena; Díaz-Pulido, Guillermo; DiResta, Daniel; Gil-Agudelo, Diego L.; Gilliam, David S.; Ginsburg, Robert N.; Gore, Shannon; Guzmán, Héctor M.; Hendee, James C.; Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A.; Husain, Ellen; Jeffrey, Christopher F. G.; Jones, Ross J.; Jordán-Dahlgren, Eric; Kaufman, Les S.; Kline, David I.; Kramer, Philip A.; Lang, Judith C.; Lirman, Diego; Mallela, Jennie; Manfrino, Carrie; Maréchal, Jean-Philippe; Marks, Ken; Mihaly, Jennifer; Miller, W. Jeff; Mueller, Erich M.; Muller, Erinn M.; Orozco Toro, Carlos A.; Oxenford, Hazel A.; Ponce-Taylor, Daniel; Quinn, Norman; Ritchie, Kim B.; Rodríguez, Sebastián; Ramírez, Alberto Rodríguez; Romano, Sandra; Samhouri, Jameal F.; Sánchez, Juan A.; Schmahl, George P.; Shank, Burton V.; Skirving, William J.; Steiner, Sascha C. C.; Villamizar, Estrella; Walsh, Sheila M.; Walter, Cory; Weil, Ernesto; Williams, Ernest H.; Roberson, Kimberly Woody; Yusuf, Yusri (Public Library of Science, 2010-11-15)
    BACKGROUND. The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events increase. In 2005, high ocean temperatures ...
  • Environments that Induce Synthetic Microbial Ecosystems
    Klitgord, Niels; Segrè, Daniel (Public Library of Science, 2010-11-18)
    Interactions between microbial species are sometimes mediated by the exchange of small molecules, secreted by one species and metabolized by another. Both one-way (commensal) and two-way (mutualistic) interactions may ...
  • COMBREX: A Project to Accelerate the Functional Annotation of Prokaryotic Genomes
    Roberts, Richard J.; Chang, Yi-Chien; Hu, Zhenjun; Rachlin, John N.; Anton, Brian P.; Pokrzywa, Revonda M.; Choi, Han-Pil; Faller, Lina L.; Guleria, Jyotsna; Housman, Genevieve; Klitgord, Niels; Mazumdar, Varun; McGettrick, Mark G.; Osmani, Lais; Swaminathan, Rajeswari; Tao, Kevin R.; Letovsky, Stan; Vitkup, Dennis; Segrè, Daniel; Salzberg, Steven L.; Delisi, Charles; Steffen, Martin; Kasif, Simon (2010-11-20)
    COMBREX (http://combrex.bu.edu) is a project to increase the speed of the functional annotation of new bacterial and archaeal genomes. It consists of a database of functional predictions produced by computational biologists ...
  • Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasun National Park
    Bass, Margot S.; Finer, Matt; Jenkins, Clinton N.; Kreft, Holger; Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.; McCracken, Shawn F.; Pitman, Nigel C. A.; English, Peter H.; Swing, Kelly; Villa, Gorky; Di Fiore, Anthony; Voigt, Christian C.; Kunz, Thomas H. (Public Library of Science, 2010-1-19)
    BACKGROUND. The threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness areas. Notably, the country's second largest ...

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