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Using Immune Modulators To Ameliorate Aleutian Disease In Mink, Kie Hoon Jung
Using Immune Modulators To Ameliorate Aleutian Disease In Mink, Kie Hoon Jung
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Aleutian disease of mink (AD) is an immunopathological disorder induced by persistent infection with AD virus. Many breeds of mink seem to have a high susceptibility to AD. Interestingly, the primary feature of AD in susceptible adult mink is a chronic, fatal immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis comparable to that seen in human diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus. Because of its comparative aspects to human diseases and the substantial economic loss to the fur industries in the world, classical AD and the nature of the virus has been studied extensively for three decades. Currently no therapies are available and vaccination has …
The Foraging Behavior Of A Solitary Bee, Diadasia Nigrifrons (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) On Sidalcea Oregana, Ssp. Oregana, Kimberly A. Kuta
The Foraging Behavior Of A Solitary Bee, Diadasia Nigrifrons (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) On Sidalcea Oregana, Ssp. Oregana, Kimberly A. Kuta
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Foraging studies have established that bees typically obey a set of movement rules when foraging on vertical inflorescences: they begin foraging at the bottom of an inflorescence, move upward, visit a fraction of the available flowers, and leave before reaching the top of the inflorescence. These behaviors are purported to maximize bee foraging efficiency by concentrating their efforts on the most rewarding flowers and minimizing flower revisits. Bees also increase their efficiency by selecting inflorescences with many flowers, visiting more flowers per inflorescence, and remaining in resource-rich areas. To test these hypotheses on plants with more complicated flower arrangements, I …
Autoantibodies To Select Brain Regions In Autism, Wyatt Harlan Rivas
Autoantibodies To Select Brain Regions In Autism, Wyatt Harlan Rivas
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder, may involve abnormal immune reaction such as autoimmunity to the brain. Autoimmunity is generally characterized by the presence of organ-specific autoantibodies, for example the brain-specific autoantibodies in autism. Thus, we conducted a study of autoantibodies against three brain regions, including the caudate-putamen nucleus (CP), cerebral cortex (CC), and cerebellum (CE). These brain regions were dissected out from the brain of a Sprague-Dawley rat and homogenized for protein separation by SDS-PAGE. Autoantibodies were detected by immunoblotting technique in the serum of autistic children (n=42) and normal children (n=11 ). We found that many autistic children had autoantibodies …
Improving Quantitative Understanding Using Spreadsheet Models, Michelle A. Baker
Improving Quantitative Understanding Using Spreadsheet Models, Michelle A. Baker
Michelle A. Baker
No abstract provided.
Complete Nucleotide Sequence Of The Chloroplast Genome From A Leptosporangiate Fer, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris L., Paul G. Wolf, C. A. Rowe, R. B. Sinclair, M. Hasebe
Complete Nucleotide Sequence Of The Chloroplast Genome From A Leptosporangiate Fer, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris L., Paul G. Wolf, C. A. Rowe, R. B. Sinclair, M. Hasebe
Biology Faculty Publications
We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the chloroplast genome of the leptosporangiate fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris L. (Pteridaceae). The circular genome is 150,568 bp, with a large single-copy region (LSC) of 82,282 bp, a small-single copy region (SSC) of 21,392 bp and inverted repeats (IR) of 23,447 bp each. We compared the sequence to other published chloroplast genomes to infer the location of putative genes. When the IR is considered only once, we assigned 118 genes, of which 85 encode proteins, 29 encode tRNAs and 4 encode rRNAs. Four protein-coding genes, all four rRNA genes and six tRNA genes occur …
Body Mass Of Late Quaternary Mammals, F. A. Smith, S. K. Lyons, S.K. Morgan Ernest, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, T. Dayan, P. A. Marquet, J. P. Haskell
Body Mass Of Late Quaternary Mammals, F. A. Smith, S. K. Lyons, S.K. Morgan Ernest, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, T. Dayan, P. A. Marquet, J. P. Haskell
Biology Faculty Publications
The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that we could investigate the patterns of body mass seen across geographic and taxonomic space and evolutionary time. We were interested in the heritability of body size across taxonomic groups (How conserved is body mass within a genus, family, and order?), in the overall pattern of body mass across continents (Do the moments and other descriptive statistics remain the same across geographic space?), and over evolutionary time (How quickly did body mass patterns iterate on the patterns seen today? Were the Pleistocene …
Improving Quantitative Understanding Using Spreadsheet Models, Michelle A. Baker
Improving Quantitative Understanding Using Spreadsheet Models, Michelle A. Baker
Biology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Life History Characteristics Of Placental Nonvolant Mammals, S.K. Morgan Ernest
Life History Characteristics Of Placental Nonvolant Mammals, S.K. Morgan Ernest
Biology Faculty Publications
The purpose of this data set was to compile general life history characteristics for a variety of mammalian species in order to perform comparative life history analyses among different taxa and different body size groups. Data were collected from the literature, and data sources are documented for each species within the data file. Since life history characteristics will show minor variation with environmental conditions (resource availability, climate, competitive environment, and predation pressure) a general life history for each species was sought to average over minor differences in local populations. To create a general life history for each species, life history …