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Works from 2011

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Preliminary Report: Investigation of Castor Bean Investment in Extra-Floral Nectary Glands and Reproduction, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Kavita Goss, Tina Marie Moger, and Ashton Nielson

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Relationship between Soil Sodium Concentration and Plant Height in Salicornia Virginica in the Ballona Wetlands in Los Angeles, California, Victor D. Carmona, Molly Bogeberg, and Stephanie Vivanco

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A Preliminary Study of Heteromeles Arbutifolia Fruit Morphology at Ballona Wetlands and Temescal Canyon, Los Angeles, California, Victor D. Carmona, Phil Simmons, Elise Vo, and Elizabeth Wight

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Interaction between differentiating cell- and niche-derived signals in hematopoietic progenitor maintenance, Bama Charan Mondal, Tina Mukherjee, Lolitika Mandal, Cory J. Evans, Sergey A. Sinenko, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, and Utpal Banerjee

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Relationships between physiological characteristics and trace metal body burdens of banded garden spiders Argiope trifasciata (Araneae, Araneidae), Martina Ramirez, Jeremy McCallum, James M. Landry, Viviana A. Vallin, Sarah H. Fukui, Heidi E. Gergus, Jaclyn D. Torres, and Charisse L. Sy

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Urban environmental education: Leveraging technology and ecology to engage students in studying the environment, Eric G. Strauss

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Genetic diversity and structure in two spotted hyena populations reflects social organization and male dispersal, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2010

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A comparison of tooth wear and breakage in Rancho La Brea sabertooth cats and dire wolves across time, Wendy J. Binder

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Turbinaria ornata as an herbivory refuge for associate algae, Sarah Joy Bittick

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Substrate specificity of the TIM22 mitochondrial import pathway revealed with small molecule inhibitor of protein translocation, Deepa V. Dabir

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Erratum: The BioPAX community standard for pathway data sharing, Kam D. Dahlquist

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Proceedings of the 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2010, Kam D. Dahlquist

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The BioPAX Community Standard for Pathway Data Sharing, E. Demir, M. P. Cary, S. Paley, K. Fukuda, C. Lemer, I. Vastrik, G. Wu, P. D’Eustachio, C. Schaefer, J. Luciano, F. Schacherer, I. Martinez-Flores, Z. Hu, V. Jimenez-Jacinto, G. Joshi-Tope, K. Kandasamy, A. C. Lopez-Fuentes, H. Mi, E. Pichler, I. Rodchenkov, A. Splendiani, S. Tkachev, J. Zucker, G. Gopinath, H. Rajasimha, R. Ramakrishnan, I. Shah, M. Syed, N. Anwar, O. Babur, M. Blinov, E. Brauner, D. Corwin, S. Donaldson, F. Gibbons, R. Goldberg, R. Hornbeck, A. Luna, P. Murray-Rust, E. Neumann, O. Reubenacker, M. Samwald, M. van Iersel, S. Wimalaratne, K. Allen, B. Braun, M. Whirl-Carrillo, K. H. Cheung, Kam D. Dahlquist, A. Finney, M. Gillespie, E. Glass, L. Gong, M. Honig, O. Hubaut, D. Kane, S. Krupa, M. Kutmon, J. Leonard, D. Marks, D. Merberg, V. Petri, A. Pico, D. Ravenscroft, L. Ren, N. Shah, M. Sunshine, R. Tang, R. Whaley, S. Letovksi, K. H. Buetow, A. Rzhetsky, V. Schachter, B. S. Sobral, U. Dogrusoz, S. McWeeney, M. Aladjem, E. Birney, J. Collado-Vides, S. Goto, M. Hucka, N. Le Novère, N. Maltsev, A. Pandey, P. Thomas, E. Wingender, P. D. Karp, C. Sander, and G. D. Bader

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Proteomic and physiological responses of leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata) to salinity change, W. Wesley Dowd, B. N. Harris, J.J. Chech Jr, and D. Kültz

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Chinmo Is a Functional Effector of the JAK/STAT Pathway that Regulates Eye Development, Tumor Formation, and Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Drosophila, Maria Sol Flaherty, Pauline Salis, Cory J. Evans, Laura A. Ekas, Amine Marouf, Jiri Zavadil, Utpal Banerjee, and Erika A. Bach

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Candidate Genes for Chromosomes 6 and 10: Quantitative Trait Loci for Age-Related Retinal Degeneration in Mice, D.G. Ogando, Kam D. Dahlquist, M. Alizadeh, K. Kunchithapautham, J. Li, N. Yu, M.M. LaVail, B. Rohrer, D. Vollrath, and M. Danciger

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Male Remating Success and the Frequency of Copulatory Plugs in the Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans (Araneae, Oxyopidae), Martina G. Ramirez, Angelik C. Achekian, Catherine R. Coverley, Rachel M. Pierce, Sarah S. Eiman, and Melissa M. Wetkowski

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Responses of spotted hyenas to lions reflect individual differences in behavior, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2009

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G-TRACE: rapid Gal4-based cell lineage analysis in Drosophila, Cory J. Evans, John M. Olson, Kathy T. Ngo, Eunha Kim, Noemi E. Lee, Edward Kuoy, Alexander N. Patananan, Daniel Sitz, Phuong Thao Tran, Minh Tu Do, Kevin Yackle, Albert Cespedes, Volker Hartenstein, Gerald B. Call, Utpal Banerjee, Miriam Beyder, Kush V. Bhatt, Chinmay Bhoot, Aaron W. Bradshaw, Tierney G. Brannigan, Boyu Cao, Yancey Y. Cashell, Timothy Chai, Alex W. Chan, Carissa Chan, Inho Chang, Jonathan Chang, Michael T. Chang, Patrick W. Chang, Stephen Chang, and Neel Chari

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TEN1 is essential for CDC13-mediated telomere capping, Hovik J. Gasparyan

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Yeast telomere capping protein Stn1 overrides DNA replication control through the S phase checkpoint, Hovik J. Gasparyan

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Evidence for Multiple Paternity in Broods of the Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans (Araneae: Oxyopidae), Martina G. Ramirez

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Coywolf, Canis latrans × lycaon, pack density doubles following the death of a resident territorial male, Eric Strauss

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Ecological determinants of survival and reproduction in the spotted hyena, Heather E. Watts

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Evolution of environmental cue response mechanisms: Adaptive variation in photorefractoriness, Heather E. Watts

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Fecal glucocorticoids reflect socio-ecological and anthropogenic stressors in the lives of wild spotted hyenas, Heather E. Watts

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Post-weaning maternal effects and the evolution of female dominance in the spotted hyena, Heather E. Watts

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The evolution of photoperiodic response systems and seasonal GnRH plasticity in birds, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2008

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Improving the Computer Science in Bioinformatics Through Open Source Pedagogy, John David N. Dionisio and Kam D. Dahlquist

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Do female hyaenas choose mates based on tenure?, Heather E. Watts

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Interspecific competition influences reproduction in spotted hyenas, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2007

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Genetic Dissection of Hematopoiesis Using Drosophila as a Model System, Cory J. Evans, Sergey A. Sinenko, Lolitika Mandal, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Volker Hartenstein, and Utpal Banerjee

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ENOD40 gene expression and cytokinin responses in the nonnodulating, nonmycorrhizal (Nod-Myc-) mutant, Masym3, of Melilotus alba Desr., Michelle Lum

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A Hedgehog-and Antennapedia-dependent niche maintains Drosophila haematopoietic precursors, Lolitika Mandal, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Cory J. Evans, Volker Hartenstein, and Utpal Banerjee

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Heterozygosity and fitness in a California population of the labyrinth spider Metepeira ventura (Araneae, Araneidae)., Martina G. Ramirez, Sarah S. Eiman, Melissa M. Wetkowski, Miranda K. Mooers, and Luningning A. Ocampo

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GenMAPP 2: New Features and Resources for Pathway Analysis, Nathan Salomonis, Kristina Hanspers, Alexander C. Zambon, Karen Vranizan, Steven C. Lawlor, Kam D. Dahlquist, Scott W. Doniger, Josh Stuart, Bruce R. Conklin, and Alexander R. Pico

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Hyena societies, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2006

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Comparison of geometric morphometric outline methods in the discrimination of age-related differences in feather shape, Kristen M. Covino

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Impaired glutamate transport in a mouse model of tau pathology in astrocytes, Deepa V. Dabir

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Estimating consumption rates of juvenile sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, using a bioenergetics model, W. Wesley Dowd, Richard W. Brill, Peter G. Bushnell, and John A. Musick

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Standard and routine metabolic rates of juvenile sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus), including the effects of body mass and acute temperature change, W. Wesley Dowd, Richard W. Brill, Peter G. Bushnell, and John A. Musick

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A feeling for the micro-organism: Structure on a small scale. Biofilms on plant roots, Nancy Fujishige

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Investigations of Rhizobium biofilm formation, Nancy Fujishige

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An ethogram developed on captive eastern coyotes Canis latrans, Eric Strauss

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Rat poison kills a pack of Eastern Coyotes, Canis latrans, in an urban area, Eric Strauss

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Using the urban environment to engage youths in urban ecology field studies, Eric G. Strauss

Works from 2005

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Transgenic mouse model of tau pathology in astrocytes leading to nervous system degeneration, Deepa V. Dabir

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The Drosophila lymph gland as a developmental model of hematopoiesis, Seung Hye Jung, Cory J. Evans, Christine Uemura, and Utpal Banerjee

Works from 2004

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Expression of MsLEC1 transgenes in alfalfa plants causes symbiotic abnormalities, Nancy Fujishige

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Movement and activity patterns of eastern coyotes in a coastal, suburban environment, Eric G. Strauss

Works from 2003

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Proteasome inhibition stabilizes tau inclusions in oligodendroglial cells that occur after treatment with okadaic acid, Deepa V. Dabir

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MAPPFinder: using Gene Ontology and GenMAPP to create a global gene-expression profile from microarray data, Scott W. Doniger, Nathan Salomonis, Kam D. Dahlquist, Karen Vranizan, Steven C. Lawlor, and Bruce R. Conklin

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DNase II: genes, enzymes and function, Cory J. Evans and Renato J. Aguilera

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Transcriptional regulation of hematopoiesis in Drosophila, Cory J. Evans and Utpal Banerjee

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Thicker than blood: Conserved mechanisms in Drosophila and vertebrate hematopoiesis, Cory J. Evans, Volker Hartenstein, and Utpal Banerjee

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Web Orientation of the Banded Garden Spider Argiope Trifasciata (Araneae, Araneidae) in a California Coastal Population, Martina G. Ramirez

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Regression Approaches for Microarray Data Analysis, Mark R. Segal, Kam D. Dahlquist, and Bruce R. Conklin

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Altered behaviour in spotted hyenas associated with increased human activity, Heather E. Watts

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Queuing and queue-jumping: long-term patterns of reproductive skew in male savannah baboons, Papio cynocephalus, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2002

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GenMAPP, a new tool for viewing and analyzing microarray data on biological pathways, Kam D. Dahlquist

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Drosophila acid DNase is a homolog of mammalian DNase II, Cory J. Evans, John R. Merriam, and Renato J. Aguilera

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Investigation of four classes of non-nodulating white sweetclover (Melilotus alba annua Desr.) Mutants and their responses to arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi, Michelle Lum

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Combinatorial regulation of the murine RAG-2 promoter by Sp1 and distinct lymphocyte-specific transcription factors, Gustavo A. Miranda, Maria Villalvazo, Zoran Galic, Jackelyn Alva, Roxanna Abrines, Yvette Yates, Cory J. Evans, and Renato J. Aguilera

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Box-trapping eastern coyotes in southeastern Massachusetts, Eric Strauss

Works from 2001

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Expression of MsLEC1- and MsLEC2-antisense genes in alfalfa plant lines causes severe embryogenic, developmental and reproductive abnormalities, Laurence M. Brill, Cory J. Evans, and Ann M. Hirsch

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Sugar-binding activity of pea lectin enhances heterologous infection of transgenic alfalfa plants by Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae, Nancy Fujishige

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Disruption of the Crithidia fasciculata KAP1 gene results in structural rearrangement of the kinetoplast disc, Julius Lukeš, Jane C. Hines, Cory J. J. Evans cory.evans@lmu.edu, Nuraly K. Avliyakulov, Vidya P. Prabhu, Junghuei Chen, and Dan S. Ray

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What makes the Rhizobia-legume symbiosis so special?, Michelle Lum

Works from 2000

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Interaction of Translation Initiation Factor IF1 with the E. coli Ribosomal A site, Kam D. Dahlquist and Joseph D. Puglisi

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Responses of CAM species to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, Philippa M. Drennan

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Mechanisms of convergence and extension by cell intercalation, Maxellende Ezin

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Dg93, a nodule-abundant mRNA of Datisca glomerata with homology to a soybean early nodulin gene, Nancy Fujishige

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The C. elegans apoptotic nuclease NUC-1 is related in sequence and activity to mammalian DNase II, Christopher J. Lyon, Cory J. Evans, Brent R. Bill, Anthony J. Otsuka, and Renato J. Aguilera

Works from 1999

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Gene flow among habitat patches on a fragmented landscape in the spider Argiope trifasciata (Araneae: Araneidae), Martina G. Ramirez and Kirsten E. Haakonsen

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Effect of mutations in the A site of 16 S rRNA on aminoglycoside antibiotic-ribosome interaction, Michael I. Recht, Stephen Douthwaite, Joseph D. Puglisi, and Kam D. Dahlquist

Works from 1998

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Root growth dependence on soil temperature for Opuntia ficus-indica: Influences of air temperature and a doubled CO2 concentration, Philippa M. Drennan

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Mate location, population growth and species extinction, Eric Strauss

Works from 1997

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Expression of early nodulin genes in alfalfa mycorrhizae indicates that signal transduction pathways used in forming arbuscular mycorrhizae and Rhizobium-induced nodules may be conserved, Nancy Fujishige and Michelle R. Lum

Works from 1996

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RNA Sequence Determinants for Aminoglycoside Binding to an A-site rRNA Model Oligonucleotide, Kam D. Dahlquist, Michael I. Recht, Dominique Fourmy, Scott C. Blanchard, and Joseph D. Puglisi

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Genetic Variability and Gene Flow in Metepeira Ventura (Araneae, Araneidae), Martina G. Ramirez

Works from 1995

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The effect of fluctuating substrate salinity on the yield and flag leaf photosynthesis of wheat, Philippa M. Drennan

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Natural History of the Spider Genus Lutica (Araneae, Zodariidae), Martina G. Ramirez

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Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of the Spider Genus Lutica (Araneae, Zodariidae), Martina G. Ramirez

Works from 1993

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Leaf anatomy, chloroplast organization and photosynthetic rate of hyperhydric Eucalyptus saligna Sm. material, Philippa M. Drennan

Works from 1988

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Phenotypic assortment in Tetrahymena thermophila: assortment kinetics of antibiotic-resistance markers, tsA, death, and the highly amplified rDNA locus., E. Virginia Merriam and P.J. Bruns

Works from 1986

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Physiological and Anatomical Aspects of Photosynthesis of Two Agrostis Species at a Sub‐Antarctic Island, Philippa M. Drennan

Works from 1983

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Nullisomic tetrahymena. II. A set of nullisomics define the germinal chromosomes, E. Virginia Merriam

Works from 1982

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Physiology of Salt Excretion in the Mangrove Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh, Philippa M. Drennan

Works from 1969

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Mammalian Cell Genetics I. Selection and Characterization of Mutations Auxotrophic for L-Glutamine or Resistant to 8-Azaguanine in Chinese Hamster Cells IN VITRO, E. Virginia Merriam