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Hood Lab: Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts

Petit, E., Silver, C., Cornille, A., Gladieux, P., Rosenthal, L., Bruns, E.,Vee,S.,Antonovics, J ., Giraud,T., Hood, M. E.

Read more about Hood Lab: Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts

Hood Lab: Massive Expansion of Gypsy-Like Retrotransposons in Microbotryum Fungi

Felix Horns,Elsa Petit,and Michael E. Hood

GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2017, 9: 363-371

Microbotryum anther-smut fungi experiences bursts of transposable element proliferation within the genome.

Read more about Hood Lab: Massive Expansion of Gypsy-Like Retrotransposons in Microbotryum Fungi

Miller and Levin: Floral size and shape evolution following the transition to gender dimorphism

Ambika Kamath'11, Rachel A. Levin, Jill S. Miller

American Journal of Botany
VOLUME 104, 2017

Read more about Miller and Levin: Floral size and shape evolution following the transition to gender dimorphism

Trapani Lab: “Intensity-dependent timing and precision of startle response latency in larval zebrafish.”

Eileen Troconis’15, Alex Ordoobadi’15, Tom Sommers’16, Razina Aziz-Bose’14, Ashley R. Carter, & Josef G. Trapani

May 2016. The Journal of Physiology

Read more about Trapani Lab: “Intensity-dependent timing and precision of startle response latency in larval zebrafish.”

Clotfelter Lab: “Seeing orange: breeding convict cichlids exhibit heightened aggression against more colorful intruders”

Caleb Anderson, Ryan Jones, Michelle Moscicki, Ethan Clotfelter, and Ryan Earley

2016. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 647-657. 10.1007/s00265-016-2085-3

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Read more about Clotfelter Lab: “Seeing orange: breeding convict cichlids exhibit heightened aggression against more colorful intruders”

The GEP: Crowd-Sourcing Big Data Analysis with Undergraduates

Students in the 2009-2011 Biology 191 courses contributed to the annotation part of this project.

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Clotfelter Lab: “Dietary carotenoids and bacterial infection in wild and domestic convict cichlids (Amatitlania spp.)”

Alexandria C. Brown, Matthew D. Cahn’13, Sara Choi’13, and Ethan D. Clotfelter

2016. Environmental Biology of Fishes 99: 439-449. 10.1007/s10641-016-0485-x

 

Read more about Clotfelter Lab: “Dietary carotenoids and bacterial infection in wild and domestic convict cichlids (Amatitlania spp.)”

Trapani Lab: “Natural Bizbenzoquinoline Derivatives Protect Zebrafish Lateral Line Sensory Hair Cells from Aminoglycoside Toxicity”

Matthew Kruger, Robert Boney, Alexander J. Ordoobadi’15, Thomas F. Sommers’16, Josef G. Trapani & Allison B. Coffin

March 2016. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Read more about Trapani Lab: “Natural Bizbenzoquinoline Derivatives Protect Zebrafish Lateral Line Sensory Hair Cells from Aminoglycoside Toxicity”

Graf Lab: “Rab3-GEF Controls Active Zone Development at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction”

Haneui Bae, Shirui Chen, John P. Roche, Minrong Ai, Chunlai Wu, Aaron DiAntonio, & Ethan R. Graf

eNeuro, March/April 2016, 3(2) e0031-16.2016, 1-19

Loss of rab3-GEF results in a phenotype indistinguishable from the rab3 mutant.

Read more about Graf Lab: “Rab3-GEF Controls Active Zone Development at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction”

Poccia Lab: A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation

Poccia, D.L. (2016)  A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation. 
Int. J. Dev. Biol. 60: 209-219.

Read more about Poccia Lab: A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation
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