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01|25|12 - UK Professors Engage High School Science Teachers -

The University of Kentucky Biology, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Psychology departments are reaching out to area high school science teachers and teaching them something new: what's new in science.

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12|13|11 - UK's Taylor Lloyd Named Astronaut Scholar -

Biology senior Taylor Lloyd, of Union, Ky., has been named one of this year's 26 Astronaut Scholars and has received a $10,000 scholarship she will put toward her studies. While at UK, the agricultural biotechnology and biology senior has been active in research related to the germination of seeds.

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Wetzel, D.P.;Stewart, I.R.;Westneat, D.F. "Heterozygosity predicts clutch and egg size but not plasticity in a house sparrow population with no evidence of inbreeding." Molecular ecology 21, 2 (2012): 406-20. Details. Full text.
Westneat, D.F. "Evolution in response to social selection: the importance of interactive effects of traits on fitness." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 66, 3 (2012): 890-5. Details.
Cassone, V.M.;Westneat, D.F. "The bird of time: cognition and the avian biological clock." Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 5, (2012): 32. Details. Full text.
Huggins, P.;Johnson, C.K.;Schoergendorfer, A.;Putta, S.;Bathke, A.C.;Stromberg, A.J.;Voss, S.R. "Identification of differentially expressed thyroid hormone responsive genes from the brain of the Mexican Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)." Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP 155, 1 (2012): 128-35. Details. Full text.
Seifert, A.W.;Monaghan, J.R.;Voss, S.R.;Maden, M. "Skin regeneration in adult axolotls: a blueprint for scar-free healing in vertebrates." PloS one 7, 4 (2012): e32875. Details. Full text.
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