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- Title
- Redistribution of flexibility in stabilizing antibody fragment mutants follows Le Chatelier's principle
- Author
- Jacobs, Donald J., Li, Tong, Livesay, Dennis R.
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Immunoglobulins, Biology
- Description
- Le Chatelier's principle is the cornerstone of our understanding of chemical equilibria. When a system at equilibrium undergoes a change in concentration or thermodynamic state (i.e., temperature, pressure, etc.), La Chatelier's principle states t...
- Title
- Production of a reference transcriptome and transcriptomic database (EdwardsiellaBase) for the lined sea anemone, Edwardsiella lineata, a parasitic cnidarian
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Stefanik, Derek J., Lubinski, Tristan J.
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- Background: The lined sea anemone Edwardsiella lineata is an informative model system for evolutionary-developmental studies of parasitism. In this species, it is possible to compare alternate developmental pathways leading from a larva to either ...
- Title
- Genetic variation at aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) loci in populations of Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting polluted and reference habitats
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Karchner, Sibel I., Franks, Diana G.
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- Background: The non-migratory killifish Fundulus heteroclitus inhabits clean and polluted environments interspersed throughout its range along the Atlantic coast of North America. Several populations of this species have successfully adapted to en...
- Title
- Developmental and light-entrained expression of melatonin and its relationship to the circadian clock in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Peres, Rafael, Passamaneck, Yale
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- Background: The primary hormone of the vertebrate pineal gland, melatonin, has been identified broadly throughout the eukaryotes. While the role for melatonin in cyclic behavior via interactions with the circadian clock has only been reported in v...
- Title
- Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- Author
- Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
- Description
- In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...
- Title
- A mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence
- Author
- Thill, Jean-Claude
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning, Urban forestry
- Description
- We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests ...