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Effects of Copper upon Lateral Line Neuromasts in Xenopus laevis
(2019-07)
Fish and aquatic amphibians possess the lateral line, a sensory system used to detect water displacements. Copper is known to inactivate the neuromast organs of the lateral line system. This study investigated copper-induced ...
Dear Enemy Effect in Male Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei)
(2019-05-01)
In the dear enemy effect, territory owners display more aggression towards unfamiliar strangers and less aggression towards familiar neighbors. This biological phenomenon is found in species that have territories that serve ...
Classification of Depressional Wetlands in the Great Plains and Development of a Sampling Manual to Predict Playa Ecosystem Services
(2019-07)
Most depressional wetlands in the Great Plains, an area where wetland losses are estimated to be over 50%, exist in highly cultivated landscapes. The depressional wetlands of the Great Plains include prairie-potholes in ...
Pinyon jay movement, nest site selection, nest fate, and renesting in central New Mexico
(2019-12)
Pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) are an avian species of conservation concern in the southwest U.S. Due to habitat elimination and degradation, pinyon jay numbers have decreased approximately 3.5% per year since ...
Adaptive Tolerance to Zinc in Freshwater Snails (Physa acuta) Across a Contamination Gradient
(2019-07)
The Tri-State-Mining district is an area of northeast Oklahoma, southwest Missouri, and southeast Kansas in which zinc and lead mines operated for over 100 years. Metal contamination from wastes left behind by these historic ...
Reproductive life history decisions and success of freshwater pond snails (Physa acuta) during chronic zinc exposure
(2019-12)
Life history theory examines how individuals should make trade-offs between current reproductive effort and survival to achieve future reproductive gains. A prediction is that as future life expectancy decreases, individuals ...
Evaluation of the effect of silver and silver nanoparticles on the function of selenoproteins using an in-vitro model of the fish intestine: The cell line RTgutGC
(2019-12)
The long-term adverse effects of silver (Ag) and silver nanoparticles (AgNP) on human and environmental health is a concern. Moreover, recent research in mammalian cells has clearly indicated detrimental inhibitory effects ...
Extrusion as a Mechanism of Host Immune Response Evasion in a Chlamydia trachomatis Murine Infection Model
(2019-07)
Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular organism that is the leading cause of preventable blindness and sexually transmitted bacterial infections. C. trachomatis exhibits a biphasic developmental cycle involving ...
Epigenetic Effects of Paternal Perception of Predation Risk on Offspring Development, Stress Reactivity, and Neural Gene Expression
(2019-07)
In stable environments, parents able to transmit information such as predation risk should have offspring that are pre-adapted to the environment they will encounter as adults. While intergenerational epigenetic transmission ...
Effect of Fire and Habitat Interaction on Arthropod Forage for Northern Bobwhite Broods
(2019-07)
Arthropods are abundant and diverse animals that dominate many terrestrial food webs and provide important ecosystem functions. Northern bobwhite (Galliformes, Colinus virginianus) chicks and reproducing hens require high ...