Rufous-crowned sparrow -- Effect of habitat modification on. ; Rufous-crowned sparrow -- California Southern. ; Fragmented landscapes -- California.
The Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps ; RCSP) is a non-migratory, ground-nesting songbird that resides in southern California coastal sage scrub, which has been highly fragmented by urban development. RCSP's spatial pattern of abundance...
Drosophila. Photoreceptors. TRP channels. Cellular signal transduction.
The phototransduction cascade in Drosophila is a prototypical G-protein signaling pathway and many of its components have been well-studied. Early genetic screens identified many of the major proteins involved in this pathway and study over the...
Floral nectar of many plant species is prone to colonization by microorganisms. Their presence and metabolism have the potential to modify a suite of traits important for pollinator attraction, including nectar quality and scent. However, studies...
Red milkweed beetle. Insects -- Flight. Insects -- Dispersal.
Most detailed studies of insect flight and dispersal have used long flying species as subjects. Little is known of the flight ecology of comparatively short flying species. This thesis reports the findings of a 4 year study of the flight behavior...
Sex determination in C. elegans leads to the development of sex-specific structures and contributes to the regulation of sexually dimorphic programmed cell death. A search for factors that regulate the sexually dimorphic cell death of the...
Ecological and evolutionary implications of polymorphism and polyphenism in the asexual diapause of the rotifer Synchaeta pectinata from Star Lake, VT, were explored via field, laboratory, and theoretical investigations. S. pectinata is a...
Black-throated blue warbler -- Fertility. ; Black-throated blue warbler -- Reproduction. ; Black-throated blue warbler -- Behavior. ; Black-throated blue warbler -- Food. ; Black-throated blue warbler -- New Hampshire -- West Thornton. ; Parental...
Populations are, by definition, a collection of individuals, so the mechanisms of population change often occur at the level of the individual. The goal of this research was to examine how variability in the behavior of individual females...
A novel synthetic route to the synthesis of 9-propyl-10-azacyclododecan-12-olide (1), a natural allomone isolated from the Mexican bean beetle pupa, is presented. The salient features of this synthetic route are a regioselective Beckmann...
Most of the cells that die during the development of a C. elegans hermaphrodite do so within 30 min after being generated. In these cells, the pro-caspase proCED-3 is inherited from progenitors and the transcriptional upregulation of the BH3-only...
Climate change is altering the thermal environment for populations at all trophic levels and thus the response of any given population to warming can only be understood in the context of species interactions. Consumer-resource species interactions...
Regulatory linkage between epibiotic organisms and their host zooplankton populations is one of the least understood topics in zooplankton biology, despite the likely importance of epibionts to pelagic communities. These laboratory studies with...
All ecological theories regarding the distribution and relative abundance of species refer to organisms'' abilities to utilize an environment and (sometimes implicitly) their ability to colonize and re-colonize habitats that change in character or...
Chromium -- Toxicity testing. ; Glutathione. ; Vitamin C -- Physiological effect. ; Carcinogenesis. ; DNA damage.
Chromium(VI) is a human carcinogen and causes DNA damage following reduction by intracellular reductants. In order to explore the effects of intracellular reductants on the carcinogenicity of Cr(VI), the roles of glutathione and ascorbate in...
A 62 kDa (p62) mitotic apparatus-associated protein has been shown to be important for the proper progression of mitosis in sea urchin embryos. The thesis project described here focuses on an immunological and a molecular characterization of p62....
Large-scale (12,000 liter) and small-scale (3.78 liter) field enclosure experiments were conducted to evaluate the intensity and nature of competition among the planktonic cladoceran grazers of a mesotrophic Vermont lake: Bosmina longirostris,...
During postembryonic development of C. elegans the heterochronic gene lin-14 controls the timing of developmental events in diverse cell types. Three alternative lin-14 transcripts are predicted to encode isoforms of a novel nuclear protein that...
Forest ecology -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Lepidoptera -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Forest insects -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Insect populations -- New Hampshire --...
One of the principle aims of ecology is to understand variations in organism abundance over time. Some species and species assemblages exhibit exceptionally dynamic changes in abundance or biomass, while other species and species assemblages are...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recently discovered family of genes with short non-coding RNA transcripts of 18 to 25 nucleotides in length. lin-4 and let-7 , the founding members of the miRNA gene family, control the timing of developmental programs in the...
Accurate chromosome segregation in human oocytes requires that meiotic sister chromatid cohesion remain intact for decades and work in model organisms indicates that deterioration of meiotic cohesion over time may be a major determinant of...
Many organisms recognize and respond to categories: predator, prey, rival, or juvenile. Organisms recognize these ecologically-important categories by assessing diverse sensory stimuli. A primary focus of my research has been understanding how...
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and their associated cyclins are key regulators of cell cycle progression. Caenorhabditis elegans has two predicted A- type cyclins, encoded by the genes cya-1 and cya-2. Cyclin A has been shown to be required for...