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A Paleolimnological Examination of Cladoceran (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) Assemblages in Softwater Nova Scotia (Canada) Lakes and Their Responses to Multiple Stressors
(2012-08-22)
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has an abundance of lakes impacted by multiple stressors, including acidification, lakewater calcium (Ca) decline, climate change, and fish introductions. In spite of this, little is ...
Biochemical Responses of Arctic Soil Communities to Anthropogenic Stress
(2013-06-04)
We are living in the era of climate change which becomes more complicated whenever some new environmental issue emerges only to get linked with this already existing challenge. Engineered nanoparticle (NP) contamination ...
Fish Distributions in Lake Ontario's Eastern Basin and the Upper St. Lawrence River: An Analysis Using GIS and Occupancy Modelling Techniques
Predictive models of species distributions are important tools for fisheries management. Unfortunately, these predictive models can be difficult to perform on large waterbodies where fish are difficult to detect and ...
The Genetic Architecture of Life History in Drosophila
(2014-05-07)
An organism’s entire life history - the timing of development, reproduction, senescence and death - can depend on the nature of selection for reproductive age. The outcome of selection will depend both on the particular ...
Pyp3 Involvement in Mitotic Control and Cell Growth in Fission Yeast
(2016-04-07)
In fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, tyrosine dephosphorylation of p34cdc2 is required for mitotic initiation and this reversible tyrosine phosphorylation plays a crucial role in the regulation of the cell cycle. ...
Characterization of the fhod-2 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2011-06-20)
Formins are a family of proteins responsible for a vast array of cellular functions such as cell shape, adhesion, cytokinesis and morphogenesis. Formin regulation of actin is a highly regulated process and is conserved ...
Characterization of the Potential Use of Salix Nigra and Populus Balsamifera for the Phytoremediation of 1,4-Dioxane
(2015-01-26)
Phytoremediation is a viable technology that provides a cost-effective and aesthetically pleasing alternative to traditional remediation technologies. The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Salix ...
Experimenting with sex and speciation: Does intersexual co-evolution drive population divergence?
(2008-09-12)
It has been almost 150 years since Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” was published, yet the mechanisms that lead to the creation of new species are still a topic of fervent research in Evolutionary Biology. In the last ...
Characterization of DAF-18/PTEN’s Role in Survival and Cellular Proliferation During Larval Arrest in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2014-04-02)
The role of insulin/IGF signaling (IIS) in regulating longevity and dauer formation in C. elegans is well defined. However, the role of IIS in stress responses such as L1 arrest is less studied and poorly understood. One ...
Functional Analysis of Human Eph Receptor Homologs Using C. elegans as a Model
(2011-07-05)
The Eph receptor tyrosine kinases are a highly conserved family of proteins involved in a variety of developmental processes. As well, the Eph receptors appear to play a pivotal role in the development and progression of ...