The majority of Biology faculty members are actively engaged in research and committed to providing our majors with opportunities to join them in the research process.

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Submissions from 2005

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Of Chicken Wings and Frog Legs: A Smorgasbord of Evolutionary Variation in Mechanisms of Tetrapod Limb Development, Geffrey F. Stopper and Günter P. Wagner

Submissions from 2004

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The Effect of Size-limited Brood Capacity on Brood Size in a Freshwater Bivalve, Mark Beekey

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Apparent Sibling Rivalry in the Freshwater Clam Sphaerium Striatinum, Mark Beekey and Ronald H. Karlson

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Zebra Mussels Affect Benthic Predator Foraging Success, Mark Beekey, D. J. McCabe, and I. E. Marsden

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Flying, Fasting, and Feeding in Birds During Migration: A Physiological Ecology Perspective, Scott R. McWilliams, Barbara J. Pierce, Christopher G. Guglielmo, and Marcel Klaassen

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Diet Quality and Food Limitation Affect the Dynamics of Body Composition and Digestive Organs in a Migratory Songbird (Zonotrichia Albicollis), Barbara J. Pierce and Scott R. McWilliams

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Diet Preferences for Specific Fatty Acids and Their Effect on Composition of Fat Reserves in Migratory Red-eyed Vireos (Vireo olivaceous), Barbara J. Pierce, Scott R. McWilliams, Allen R. Place, and Michael A. Huguenin

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The Function of Agonistic Display Behaviours in Gnathonemus Petersii, Thomas A. Terleph

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Mechanisms and Time Course for Induction of Paternal Behavior in Prairie Voles (Microtus Ochrogaster), Thomas A. Terleph, Natacha Jean-Baptiste, and Maryam Bamshad

Submissions from 2003

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Effect of Food Availability on Reproduction and Brood Size in a Freshwater Brooding Bivalve, Mark Beekey and Ronald H. Karlson

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Mapping of Presynaptic Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Fluorescence Imaging of Neuritic Calcium, Romain Girod, Mark Jareb, Jason Moss, and Lorna Role

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Assembly of Α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Assessed With Functional Fluorescently Labeled Subunits: Effects of Localization, Trafficking, and Nicotine-Induced Upregulation in Clonal Mammalian Cells and in Cultured Midbrain Neurons, Raad Nashmi, Mary E. Dickinson, Sheri McKinney, Mark Jareb, Cesar Labarca, Scott E. Fraser E. Fraser, and Henry A. Lester

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The nutritional ecology of songbirds: How food quality, diet preferences, and food limitation influence nutrient storage and use during migration, Barbara J. Pierce

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Regulation of Zebrafish Hindbrain Development by Fibroblast Growth Factor and Retinoic Acid: A Dissertation, Nicole M. Roy

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Effects of Social Interaction on the Electric Organ Discharge in a Mormyrid Fish, Gnathonemus Petersii (Mormyridae, Teleostei), Thomas A. Terleph and Peter Moller

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Tree-Roosting Ecology of Reproductive Female Eastern Pipistrelles, Pipistrellus Subflavus, in Indiana, Jacques Pierre Veilleux, John O. Whitaker Jr., and Sherry L. Veilleux

Submissions from 2001

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Brood Reduction: A Reproductive Strategy of the Freshwater Clam Sphaerium Striatinum, Mark Beekey

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Cellobiose Dehydrogenase is Essential for Wood Invasion and Nonessential for Kraft Pulp Delignification by Trametes versicolor, Tim Dumonceaux, Kirk A. Bartholomew, Loredana Valeanu, Trevor Charles, and Fred Archibald

Submissions from 2000

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Sex Ratio Manipulation Within Broods of House Wrens, Troglodytes aedon, Daniel J. Albrecht

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Parental Care in Sphaerium Striatinum Lamarck: Evidence for Retention of Competent Offspring, Mark Beekey, Ronald H. Karlson, and Alyse R. Greenberg

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Intracellular Transport, Assembly, and Degradation of Wild-Type and Disease-linked Mutant Gap Junction Proteins, Judy K. VanSlyke, Suzanne M. Deschênes, and Linda S. Musil

Submissions from 1999

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Mammalian DNA Mismatch Repair, Andrew B. Buermeyer, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Sean M. Baker, and R. Michael Liskay

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Techniques Utilised to Incorporate Environmentally Focused Service Learning Projects into Courses in Biology and Economics, Bridget Lyons, Jennifer Mattei, and Phyllis Machledt

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Does the Water Dragon, Physignathus lesueurii (Gray 1831), Occur in New Guinea?, Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell and Greg Johnston

Submissions from 1998

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The Polarized Sorting of Membrane Proteins Expressed in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons Using Viral Vectors, Mark Jareb and Gary Banker

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Mammalian Mtj1, Michael W. Lassle, Bruce R. Zetter, Shannon E. Brightman, and Gregory L. Blatch

Submissions from 1997

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Connexin32 and X-linked Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease, Linda Jo Bone, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Rita J. Balice-Gordon, Kenneth H. Fischbeck, and Steven S. Scherer

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Altered Trafficking of Mutant Connexin32, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Jessica L. Walcott, Tamara L. Wexler, Steven S. Scherer, and Kenneth H. Fischbeck

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Connexin32 and X-Linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Kenneth H. Fischbeck, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Linda Jo Bone, and Steven S. Scherer

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Inhibition of Axonal Growth by Brefeldin A in Hippocampal Neurons in Culture, Mark Jareb and Gary Banker

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The Role of the Gap Junction Protein Connexin32 in the Myelin Sheath, Steven S. Scherer, Linda Jo Bone, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Kenneth H. Fischbeck, and Rita J. Balice-Gordon

Submissions from 1996

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Connexin32 and X-Linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Linda Jo Bone, Kenneth H. Fischbeck, and Steven S. Scherer

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Mutagenicity of Acridines in a Reversion Assay Based on Tetracycline Resistance in Plasmid pBR322 in Escherichia Coli, George R. Hoffman, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Teresa Manyin, and Robert P. P. Fuchs

Submissions from 1995

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Isolation of a Mouse cDNA Encoding MTJ1, a New Murine Member of the DnaJ Family of Proteins, Shannon E. Brightman, Gregory L. Blatch, and Bruce R. Zetter

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Increased Stem Cell Factor Release by Hemangioma-Derived Endothelial Cells, C. J. Meininger, Shannon Brightman, K. A. Kelly, and B. R. Zetter

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Connexin32 is a Myelin-Related Protein in the PNS and CNS, Steven S. Scherer, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Yi-Tian Xu, Judith B. Grinspan, Kenneth H. Fischbeck, and David L. Paul

Submissions from 1994

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Comparative Mapping of Canine and Human Proximal Xq and Genetic Analysis of Canine X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Jennifer M. Puck, Amalia S. Dutra, Richard L. Somberg, Peter J. Felsberg, and Paula S. Henthorn

Submissions from 1993

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The Interleukin-2 Receptor γ Chain Maps to Xq13.1 and is Mutated in X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, SCIDX1, Jennifer M. Puck, Suzanne M. Deschênes, Joanne C. Porter, Amalia S. Dutra, Carolyn J. Brown, Huntington F. Willard, and Paula S. Henthorn