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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

2.27.20

A&S Student Among First Awarded Fulbright Canada-MITACS

2.25.20

Biology Chair Named Gill Eminent Professor

2.12.20

Biology's Eve Schneider Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow

2.07.20

Meet the New Neuroscientist: Dr. Meifan (Amy) Chen

1.16.20

Biology Professor Receives Friend of Darwin Award

12.09.19

Undergraduate Researchers Receive Research and Creativity Awards

11.26.19

A&S Senior Angela Jones Wins Astronaut Scholarship

11.05.19

Biology Major Places 1st in 5-Minute Fast Track Research Competition

10.25.19

A&S Students Among Lyman T. Johnson Torch of Excellence Award Recipients

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Shlensky, JA ;Thurber, KM ;O'Meara, JG ;Ou, NN ;Osborn, JL ;Dierkhising, RA ;Mara, KC ;Bierle, DM ;Daniels, PR "Unfractionated heparin infusion for treatment of venous thromboembolism based on actual body weight without dose capping." Vascular medicine (London, England) 25, 1 (2020): 47-54.

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Dalmasso, C ;Osborn, JL ;Loria, AS "Sensory signals mediating high blood pressure via sympathetic activation: role of adipose afferent reflex." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 318, 2 (2020): R379-R389.

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Lim, GH ;Liu, H.;Yu, K ;Liu, R.;Shine, MB ;Fernández, J ;Burch-Smith, T ;Mobley, JK ;McLetchie, N ;Kachroo, A ;Kachroo, P "The plant cuticle regulates apoplastic transport of salicylic acid during systemic acquired resistance." Science advances 6, 19 (2020): eaaz0478.

Wang, Z.;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Yang, X.;Liu, G.;Huang, Z. "Dynamics of the diaspore and germination stages of the life history of an annual diaspore-trimorphic species in a temperate salt desert." Planta 251, 4 (2020): 87.

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Rosbakh, S ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM "Nikolaeva et al.'s reference book on seed dormancy and germination." Ecology 101, 7 (2020): e03049.

Liang, W ;Liu, Z.;Liu, M.;Qin, X ;Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM ;Xin, Z ;Wang, Z.;Su, Z ;Zhou, Q "Wing loading, not terminal velocity, is the best parameter to predict capacity of diaspores for secondary wind dispersal." Journal of experimental botany (2020):

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Baskin, CC ;Baskin, JM "Breaking Seed Dormancy during Dry Storage: A Useful Tool or Major Problem for Successful Restoration via Direct Seeding?" Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 9, 5 (2020):

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Zhang, K ;Baskin, JM ;Baskin, CC ;Cheplick, GP ;Yang, X.;Huang, Z. "Amphicarpic plants: definition, ecology, geographic distribution, systematics, life history, evolution and use in agriculture." Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2020):

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Harpole, CE ;Miles, MD ;Cassone, VM "Melatonin duration gates photoperiodic vocal state change in a songbird." Journal of pineal research 68, 2 (2020): e12625.

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Azad, Al ;Hossain, Moazzem ;Rahman, SMM ;Mazid, MF Al;Barai, P ;Gazi, MS "In ovo inoculation of duck embryos with different strains of Bacillus cereus to analyse their synergistic post-hatch anti-allergic potentialities." Veterinary medicine and science (2020):

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Weaver, ML ;Piedade, WP ;Meshram, NN ;Famulski, JK "Hyaloid vasculature and mmp2 activity play a role during optic fissure fusion in zebrafish." Scientific reports 10, 1 (2020): 10136.

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Thomas, JM ;Kern, PA ;Bush, HM ;McQuerry, KJ ;Black, WS ;Clasey, JL ;Pendergast, JS "Circadian rhythm phase shifts caused by timed exercise vary with chronotype." JCI insight 5, 3 (2020):

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Chalfant, JM ;Howatt, DA ;Tannock, LR ;Daugherty, A ;Pendergast, JS "Circadian disruption with constant light exposure exacerbates atherosclerosis in male ApolipoproteinE-deficient mice." Scientific reports 10, 1 (2020): 9920.

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Van Cleve, J "Building a synthetic basis for kin selection and evolutionary game theory using population genetics." Theoretical population biology 133, (2020): 65-70.

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Dunoyer, LA ;Coomes, D ;Crowley, PH "Nonconsumptive predator effects modify crayfish-induced bioturbation as mediated by limb loss: Field and mesocosm experiments." Ecology and evolution 10, 6 (2020): 2739-2748.

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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 (2020):

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Meador, WD ;Sugerman, GP ;Story, HM ;Seifert, AW ;Bersi, MR ;Tepole, AB ;Rausch, MK "The regional-dependent biaxial behavior of young and aged mouse skin: A detailed histomechanical characterization, residual strain analysis, and constitutive model." Acta biomaterialia 101, (2020): 403-413.

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Wang, C.;Guerriero, LE ;Huffman, DM ;Ajwad, AA ;Brooks, TC ;Sunderam, S ;Seifert, AW ;O'Hara, BF "A comparative study of sleep and diurnal patterns in house mouse (Mus musculus) and Spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)." Scientific reports 10, 1 (2020): 10944.

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Gómez, CM Arenas;Woodcock, MR ;Smith, JJ ;Voss, SR ;Delgado, JP "A <i>de novo</i> reference transcriptome for <i>Bolitoglossa vallecula</i>, an Andean mountain salamander in Colombia." Data in brief 29, (2020): 105256.

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Nail, AN ;Smith, JJ ;Peterson, ML ;Spear, BT "Evolutionary Analysis of the Zinc Finger and Homeoboxes Family of Proteins Identifies Multiple Conserved Domains and a Common Early Chordate Ancestor." Genome biology and evolution 12, 3 (2020): 174-184.

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Rodgers, AK ;Smith, JJ ;Voss, SR "Identification of immune and non-immune cells in regenerating axolotl limbs by single-cell sequencing." Experimental cell research (2020): 112149.

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Hughes, RR ;Shaaban, KA ;Ponomareva, LV ;Horn, J ;Zhang, C ;Zhan, CG ;Voss, SR ;Leggas, M ;Thorson, JS "OleD Loki as a Catalyst for Hydroxamate Glycosylation." Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology 21, 7 (2020): 952-957.

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Bubier, JA ;Philip, VM ;Quince, C ;Campbell, J ;Zhou, Y.;Vishnivetskaya, T ;Duvvuru, S ;Blair, RH ;Ndukum, J ;Donohue, KD ;Foster, CM ;Mellert, DJ ;... "A Microbe Associated with Sleep Revealed by a Novel Systems Genetic Analysis of the Microbiome in Collaborative Cross Mice." Genetics 214, 3 (2020): 719-733.

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Mishra, I ;Pullum, KB ;Thayer, DC ;Plummer, ER ;Conkright, BW ;Morris, AJ ;O'Hara, BF ;Demas, GE ;Ashley, NT "Chemical sympathectomy reduces peripheral inflammatory responses to acute and chronic sleep fragmentation." American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 318, 4 (2020): R781-R789.

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Hunnicutt, KE ;Tiley, GP ;Williams, RC ;Larsen, PA ;Blanco, MB ;Rasoloarison, RM ;Campbell, CR ;Zhu, K ;Weisrock, DW ;Matsunami, H ;Yoder, AD "Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Pheromone Receptor Class 1 Family (V1R) Reveals Extreme Complexity in Mouse Lemurs (Genus, Microcebus) and a Chromosomal Hotspot across Mammals." Genome biology and evolution 12, 1 (2020): 3562-3579.

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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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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 (2020):

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Harris, RB ;Irwin, K ;Jones, MR ;Laurent, S ;Barrett, RDH ;Nachman, MW ;Good, JM ;Linnen, CR ;Jensen, JD ;Pfeifer, SP "The population genetics of crypsis in vertebrates: recent insights from mice, hares, and lizards." Heredity 124, 1 (2020): 1-14.

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Santiago-Cartagena, E ;González-Crespo, S ;Vélez, V ;Martínez, N.;Snider, J ;Jessulat, M ;Aoki, H.;Minic, Z ;Akamine, P ;Mejías, I ;Pérez, LM ;Rymond... "Identification and Functional Testing of Novel Interacting Protein Partners for the Stress Sensors Wsc1p and Mid2p of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>." G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 9, 4 (2019): 1085-1102.

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Jang, H ;Oakley, E ;Forbes-Osborne, M ;Kesler, MV ;Norcross, R ;Morris, AC ;Galperin, E "Hematopoietic and neural crest defects in zebrafish shoc2 mutants: a novel vertebrate model for Noonan-like syndrome." Human molecular genetics 28, 3 (2019): 501-514.

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