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THE EFFECTS OF ISOMETRIC EXERCISE ON IMMEDIATE POST-ISOMETRIC EXERCISE GLUCOSE TOLERANCE
Title
THE EFFECTS OF ISOMETRIC EXERCISE ON IMMEDIATE POST-ISOMETRIC EXERCISE GLUCOSE TOLERANCE
Author
Green, Spencer
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Biology, Kinesiology, Medical sciences
Description
Dynamic exercise has been shown to improve glucose tolerance. However, it’s unclear if isometric exercise produces a similar benefit. The purpose of this study was to observe if an isometric exercise session acutely improved glucose tolerance in 1...
CELLULAR BIOMARKER RESPONSES OF THE ASIAN CLAM, CORBICULA FLUMINEA, NEAR A COAL ASH POND
Title
CELLULAR BIOMARKER RESPONSES OF THE ASIAN CLAM, CORBICULA FLUMINEA, NEAR A COAL ASH POND
Author
Thomason, Travis
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Biology
Description
The storage of coal combustion residuals (CCR) in aquatic surface impoundments has been a common practice across the United States for decades. Typically these aquatic surface impoundments are designed to allow the upper portion of the ash-basin w...
RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Title
RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Author
Winful, Olawunmi
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Biology, Area studies, History
Description
Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...
Understanding Salt Adaptation in Sand Beans (Strophostyles helvola)
Title
Understanding Salt Adaptation in Sand Beans (Strophostyles helvola)
Author
Zuelsdorf, Christine
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Biology
Description
Soil salinity is one of the major environmental factors causing crop yield loss worldwide. Different plants develop diverse salinity tolerance mechanisms to manage such a detrimental abiotic stress. The sand bean (Strophostyles helvola), a wild re...
Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
Title
Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
Author
Janies, Daniel, Rush, Nathaniel, Witter, Zachary, Williams, John
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Genomics, Biology
Description
Scorpions have evolved a variety of toxins with a plethora of biological targets, but characterizing their evolution has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of scorpion relationships grounded in modern, genome-scale...
Tracking a serial killer : integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks
Title
Tracking a serial killer : integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks
Author
Janies, Daniel, Galac, Madeline R., Kilianski, Andrew
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Communicable diseases, Biology
Description
Background While overall rates of meningococcal disease have been declining in the United States for the past several decades, New York City (NYC) has experienced two serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreaks in 2005-2006 and in 2010-2013. The o...
Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Title
Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Author
Janies, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Macrander, Jason
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Genomics, Biology
Description
The advent of next-generation sequencing has resulted in transcriptome-based approaches to investigate functionally significant biological components in a variety of non-model organism. This has resulted in the area of venomics: a rapidly growing ...
Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes
Title
Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes
Author
Reitzel, Adam M., Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Evolution (Biology), Biology
Description
Morphological plasticity is a genotype-by-environment interaction that enables organisms to increase fitness across varying environments. Symbioses with diverse microbiota may aid in acclimating to this variation, but whether the associated bacter...
DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei
Title
DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei
Author
Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Bacteria, Biology
Description
The microbial assemblages of marine organisms play fundamental biological roles in their eukaryotic hosts. Studies aimed at characterizing this diversity have increased over the last decade and with the availability of high-throughput sequencing, ...