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Biology News

4.19.21

3 Biology Majors Awarded 2021-22 Goldwater Scholarship

4.07.21

UK Undergrads Earn Unparalleled Research Experience as ‘First Authors’

12.16.20

A&S Students Take Prizes in 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Winners

10.09.20

Butterfield Recognized as a Leading Alzheimer’s Expert

10.06.20

"Picture a Scientist" Film Available for UK Community

9.24.20

A&S Students Among Chellgren Center Class of 31 Fellows

9.02.20

Cagney Coomer Leaves UK With Biology Doctorate, Tremendous Impact on Science and Young People

8.20.20

A&S Post-Docs Take Prizes in Pitch Contest

7.31.20

New Biology Faculty Member Uses Snakes to Explore Riddles of Evolution

6.30.20

A&S Faculty Members Receive Alternative Textbook Grants

6.26.20

Meet the New Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience: Dr. Lynda Sharrett-Field

6.03.20

The College of Arts & Sciences Commitment to Equity and Anti-Racism

5.19.20

UK Scientists Investigating Effects of COVID-19 on the Brain.

5.18.20

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Recognizes A&S Students, Alums

5.14.20

STEMCats Interview with Vincent Cassone, Professor and Chair in UK Department of Biology

5.06.20

A&S Alumni Help Form Nonprofit to Feed Front-Line Workers, Support Local Restaurants

5.04.20

New Chronic Illness Support Group Fosters 'Candid' Conversation and Community-Building

4.27.20

College Recognizes Outstanding Teaching Assistants

3.30.20

A&S Students Honored in National Competition for Undergrad Research

3.25.20

STEMCATs Program Bears Fruit

Recent PubMed Publications

Hime, PM ;Lemmon, AR ;Lemmon, ECM ;Prendini, E ;Brown, JM ;Thomson, RC ;Kratovil, JD ;Noonan, BP ;Pyron, RA ;Peloso, PLV ;Kortyna, ML ;Keogh, JS ;... "Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life." Systematic biology 70, 1 (2021): 49-66.

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Poelstra, JW ;Salmona, J ;Tiley, GP ;Schüßler, D ;Blanco, MB ;Andriambeloson, JB ;Bouchez, O ;Campbell, CR ;Etter, PD ;Hohenlohe, PA ;Hunnicutt, KE ;... "Cryptic Patterns of Speciation in Cryptic Primates: Microendemic Mouse Lemurs and the Multispecies Coalescent." Systematic biology 70, 2 (2021): 203-218.

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Marks, RA ;Smith, JJ ;VanBuren, R ;McLetchie, DN "Expression dynamics of dehydration tolerance in the tropical plant Marchantia inflexa." The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology 105, 1 (2021): 209-222.

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Rodrigues-Junior, AG ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;De-Paula, OC "The pleurogram, an under-investigated functional trait in seeds." Annals of botany 127, 2 (2021): 167-174.

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Liu, Y.;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Yang, J.;Cao, M ;Wen, B "Seed dormancy profiles for forest dynamics plot data: focusing on a tropical seasonal rainforest in Xishuangbanna, southwest China." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 23, 3 (2021): 420-426.

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Hu, D ;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Liu, R.;Yang, X.;Huang, Z. "A Seed Mucilage-Degrading Fungus From the Rhizosphere Strengthens the Plant-Soil-Microbe Continuum and Potentially Regulates Root Nutrients of a Cold Desert Shrub." Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI (2021): MPMI01210014FI.

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Smith, JJ ;Timoshevskiy, VA ;Saraceno, C "Programmed DNA Elimination in Vertebrates." Annual review of animal biosciences 9, (2021): 173-201.

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Huffman, D ;Ajwad, A ;Yaghouby, F ;O'Hara, BF ;Sunderam, S "A real-time sleep scoring framework for closed-loop sleep manipulation in mice." Journal of sleep research (2021): e13262.

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Thusithana, V ;Amarasekara, RWK ;Jayasuriya, KMG Gehan;Gama-Arachchige, NS ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM "Seed dormancy of Cardiospermum halicacabum (Sapindaceae) from three precipitation zones in Sri Lanka." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 23, 1 (2021): 148-155.

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Athugala, YS ;Jayasuriya, KMG Gehan;Gunaratne, AMTA ;Baskin, CC "Seed dormancy of 80 tropical montane forest species in Sri Lanka, the first dormancy profile for a tropical montane forest community." Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 23, 2 (2021): 293-299.

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Dwaraka, VB ;Voss, SR "Towards comparative analyses of salamander limb regeneration." Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 336, 2 (2021): 129-144.

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Marguerite, NT ;Bernard, J ;Harrison, DA ;Harris, D ;Cooper, RL "Effect of Temperature on Heart Rate for <i>Phaenicia sericata</i> and <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> with Altered Expression of the TrpA1 Receptors." Insects 12, 1 (2021):

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Dunoyer, LA ;Seifert, AW ;Van Cleve, J "Evolutionary bedfellows: Reconstructing the ancestral state of autotomy and regeneration." Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 336, 2 (2021): 94-115.

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Baddar, NWAH ;Dwaraka, VB ;Ponomareva, LV ;Thorson, JS ;Voss, SR "Chemical genetics of regeneration: Contrasting temporal effects of CoCl<sub>2</sub> on axolotl tail regeneration." Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2021):

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Schloissnig, S ;Kawaguchi, A ;Nowoshilow, S ;Falcon, F ;Otsuki, L ;Tardivo, P ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Keinath, MC ;Smith, JJ ;Voss, SR ;Tanaka, EM "The giant axolotl genome uncovers the evolution, scaling, and transcriptional control of complex gene loci." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, 15 (2021):

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Piedade, WP ;Famulski, JK "E3 ubiquitin ligase-mediated regulation of vertebrate ocular development; new insights into the function of SIAH enzymes." Biochemical Society transactions 49, 1 (2021): 327-340.

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Harpole, CE ;Cassone, VM "Context and novelty increase strength of auditory cues as a weak circadian zeitgeber in songbirds." Chronobiology international (2021): 1-10.

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Arthur, G ;Osborn, JL ;Yiannikouris, FB "(Pro)renin receptor in the kidney: function and significance." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 320, 4 (2021): R377-R383.

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Dingemanse, NJ ;Araya-Ajoy, YG ;Westneat, DF "Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 75, 4 (2021): 806-818.

Keinath, MC ;Davidian, A ;Timoshevskiy, V ;Timoshevskaya, N ;Gall, JG "Characterization of axolotl lampbrush chromosomes by fluorescence in situ hybridization and immunostaining." Experimental cell research 401, 2 (2021): 112523.

Santollo, J ;Edwards, AA "How predictive is body weight on fluid intake in rats? It depends on sex." Physiology & behavior 229, (2021): 113262.

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Cassone, VM ;Tosini, G "Obituary: Michael Menaker, PhD. (1934-2021)." Journal of pineal research (2021): e12729.

Mietlicki-Baase, EG ;Santollo, J ;Daniels, D "Fluid intake, what's dopamine got to do with it?" Physiology & behavior 236, (2021): 113418.

Crowley, PH ;Labonne, J "Theory of environmental sex determination: Trending populations in stressful environments." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 75, 4 (2021): 794-805.

Martínez-Matías, N ;Chorna, N ;González-Crespo, S ;Villanueva, L ;Montes-Rodríguez, I ;Melendez-Aponte, LM ;Roche-Lima, A ;Carrasquillo-Carrión, K ;... "Toward the discovery of biological functions associated with the mechanosensor Mtl1p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae via integrative multi-OMICs analysis." Scientific reports 11, 1 (2021): 7411.

Aloysius, A ;Saxena, S ;Seifert, AW "Metabolic regulation of innate immune cell phenotypes during wound repair and regeneration." Current opinion in immunology 68, (2021): 72-82.

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Proudfoot, KL ;Kull, JA ;Krawczel, PD ;Bewley, JM ;O'Hara, BF ;Donohue, KD ;Pighetti, GM "Effects of acute lying and sleep deprivation on metabolic and inflammatory responses of lactating dairy cows." Journal of dairy science 104, 4 (2021): 4764-4774.

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Buckley, TN ;Omotola, O ;Archer, LA ;Rostron, CR ;Kamineni, EP ;Llanora, JD ;Chalfant, JM ;Lei, F ;Slade, E ;Pendergast, JS "High-fat feeding disrupts daily eating behavior rhythms in obesity-prone but not in obesity-resistant male inbred mouse strains." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2021):

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Maigret, TA ;Cox, JJ ;Weisrock, DW "A spatial genomic approach identifies time lags and historical barriers to gene flow in a rapidly fragmenting Appalachian landscape." Molecular ecology 29, 4 (2020): 673-685.

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Rivera-Robles, MJ ;Medina-Velázquez, J ;Asencio-Torres, GM ;González-Crespo, S ;Rymond, BC ;Rodríguez-Medina, J ;Dharmawardhane, S "Targeting Cdc42 with the anticancer compound MBQ-167 inhibits cell polarity and growth in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae." Small GTPases 11, 6 (2020): 430-440.

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