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New records of Aedes aegypti in southern Oklahoma, 2016
(The American Mosquito Control Association, 2017-03)
Aedes aegypti is an important subtropical vector species and is predicted to have a limited year-round distribution in the southern United States. Collection of the species has not been officially verified in Oklahoma since ...
Higher inequality increases the gap in the perceived merit of the rich and poor
(SAGE Publications, 2017-08-08)
The rewards people receive are often taken as indirect evidence of their merit. We outline an argument that addresses how the magnitude of macrolevel income inequalities affects perceptions of the distribution of merit in ...
Social signals and aversive learning in honey bee drones and workers
(Company of Biologists, 2017)
The dissemination of information is a basic element of group cohesion. In honey bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus 1758), like in other social insects, the principal method for colony-wide information exchange is communication ...
Comparison of murine cervicovaginal infection by chlamydial strains: Identification of extrusions shed in vivo
(Frontiers Media, 2017-02-03)
Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and preventable blindness. Untreated, asymptomatic infection as well as frequent re-infection are common and may drive pelvic ...
Involvement of invasive eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) in the expansion of Amblyomma americanum in Oklahoma
(Society for Vector Ecology, 2017-06)
Recruiting via an interdisciplinary workshop
(2017-11-01)
The Discover Architecture Workshop for high school students is a summer program that allows career exploration of professions within the building arts. In the week long program, students complete projects that fuse ...
PPE surface proteins are required for heme utilization by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(American Society for Microbiology, 2017-03-08)
Iron is essential for replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but iron is efficiently sequestered in the human host during infection. Heme constitutes the largest iron reservoir in the human body and is utilized by many ...
CELLULASE6 and MANNANASE7 affect cell differentiation and silique dehiscence in Arabidopsis
(2017-06-19)
Cellulases, hemicellulases and pectinases play important roles in fruit development and maturation, but mutants with defects in the fruit have not been reported for cellulase or hemicellulase genes. Here we report the ...
Influence of olfactory and visual cover on nest site selection and nest success for grassland-nesting birds
(Wiley Open Access, 2017-07-03)
Habitat selection by animals is influenced by and mitigates the effects of predation and environmental extremes. For birds, nest site selection is crucial to offspring production because nests are exposed to extreme weather ...
Prevalence of Babesia spp., Ehrlichia spp., and tick infestations in Oklahoma black bears (Ursus americanus)
(Wildlife Disease Association, 2017-10)
American black bears (Ursus americanus) are commonly infested with ticks throughout their range, but there are few surveys for tick-borne disease agents in bears. To characterize tick infestations and determine the prevalence ...