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Works from 2013

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Meiosis I Arrest Abnormalities Lead to Severe Oligozoospermia in Meiosis 1 Arresting Protein (M1ap)-Deficient Mice, Nelson Alexander Arango, Li Li, Deepa V. Dabir, Fotini Nicolau, Rafael Pieretti-Vanmarcke, Carla Koehler, John R. McCarrey, Naifang Lu, and Patricia K. Donahoe

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La Diversidad de los Análisis de Diversidad La Diversidad de los Analisis de Diversidad [The Diversity of Diversity Analyses], Victor D. Carmona-Galindo and Tizziana V. Carmona

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A preliminary study of Ricinus communis survivorship at Ballona Wetlands and Temescal Canyon, Los Angeles, California, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Daryle Hinton-Hardin, Jodi Kagihara, and Mary Rose Pascua

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Differential bait preference and rate of attraction by Argentine ants (Linepithema humile Mayr) at freshwater and saltwater marsh sites in southern California, Victor D. Carmona-Galindo, Meghan Moore, and Melanie Tansuwan

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Anthropogenic Impacts of Irrigation on the Arthropod Community Structure of a Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat in Los Angeles, Victor D. Carmona, Justin Aquino, and Mindi Catala

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An Examination of Opuntia Littoralis Fruit Volume, Sugar Concentration, Number of Seeds and Average Seed Mass in Relation to Fitness, Victor D. Carmona, Kathleen Foster, and Carolyne Hoey

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Relationship Between Elaiosome and EFN Gland Size in Castor Bean (Ricinus Communis L.), an Exotic Mymercophyte in Southern California, Victor D. Carmona, Andrew Henslin, and Lisa Liceaga

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Assessing the Impact of Invasive Species Management Strategies on the Population Dynamics of Castor Bean (Ricinus communis L., euphorbiaceae) at Two Southern California Coastal Habitats, Victor D. Carmona, Daryle Hinton-Hardin, Jodi Kagihara, and Mary Rose T. Pascua

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The Relationship Between Castor Bean Stem Diameter and Extrafloral Nectary Gland Size, Victor D. Carmona, Stephen Line, and Kevin Hong

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A small molecule inhibitor of redox-regulated protein translocation into mitochondria, Deepa V. Dabir

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Behavior and survival of Mytilus congeners following episodes of elevated body temperature in air and seawater, W. Wesley Dowd and George N. Somero

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Variation of NimC1 expression in Drosophila stocks and transgenic strains, Viktor Honti, Gyöngyi Cinege, Gábor Csordás, Éva Kurucz, János Zsámboki, Cory J. Evans, Utpal Banerjee, and István Andó

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Obligate versus rich patch opportunism: Evolution and endocrine mechanisms, Heather E. Watts

Works from 2012

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Role of twin Cys-Xaa9-Cys motif cysteines in mitochondrial import of the cytochrome c oxidase biogenesis factor Cmc1, Deepa V. Dabir

Regulatory Dynamics of the Transcriptional Network Controlling the Cold Shock Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kam Dahlquist

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Challenges for Biological Interpretation of Environmental Proteomics Data in Non-model Organisms, Wesley W. Dowd

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Biophysics, environmental stochasticity, and the evolution of thermal safety margins in intertidal limpets, W. Wesley Dowd and M. W. Denny

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Society, demography and genetic structure in the spotted hyena, Heather E. Watts

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Non-photoperiodic regulation of reproductive physiology in the flexibly breeding pine siskin (Spinus pinus), Heather E. Watts and Thomas P. Hahn

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

Mandibular biomechanics of Crocuta crocuta, Canis lupus, and the late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Carnivora, Mammalia), Wendy Binder

Sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic growth in the American lion and sabertoothed cat from Rancho La Brea, Wendy Binder

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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

BMC Bioinformatics, Kam Dahlquist

Erratum, Kam Dahlquist

Extending XMLPipeDB to create GenMAPP-compatible gene databases for the analysis of DNA microarray data from human pathogens, Kam Dahlquist

Extending XMLPipeDB with GO Slim to Update the GenMAPP-compatible Gene Database for Budding Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, for the Analysis of DNA Microarray Data, Kam Dahlquist

Gene Ontology term enrichment analysis of gene expression changes observed in the TRAMP mouse model of prostate cancer upon treatement with green tea catechins, Kam Dahlquist

Mathematical modeling of the gene regulatory network controlling the cold shock response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kam Dahlquist

Phenotypic and functional genomic analysis of heat and cold stress in transcription factor deletion strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kam Dahlquist

Saccharomyces cerevisiae responds to cold shock by inducing the transcription of ribosome biogenesis genes, Kam Dahlquist

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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

Marginal and laminar hydathode-like structures in the leaves of the desiccation-tolerant angiosperm Myrothamnus flabellifolius Welw., Philippa Drennan

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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

Sand verbenas (Abronia spp., Nyctaginaceae) germinate in response to ethylene, Philippa Drennan

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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

GenMAPP 2, Kam Dahlquist

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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

Temporal variation in tooth fracture among rancho la brea dire wolves, Wendy Binder

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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