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Spring 2020
The web contains a large volume of tables that provide structured information about entities and relationships. This data may be used as a source for exploratory searches and to gather information about desired entities. This thesis focuses on one particular exploratory search where given a query...
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2004
Sander, Joerg, Moise, Gabriela, Rafiei, Davood
Technical report TR04-24. This thesis studies the problem of effectively finding related pages on the Web, where given the URL of a page, one wants to find other pages that are on the same topic. This is a both simple and natural way of searching for resources without being forced to formulate a...
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Spring 2011
Forkhead (Fox) proteins are transcription factors that function in many processes including development, metabolism and cell cycle regulation. This gene family is divided into subfamilies that appear to originate from a common ancestor. I have identified the evolutionary selection pressures...
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Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential
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Leys, S.P., Goss, G.G., Adams, E.D.M.
Epithelial tissue — the sealed and polarized layer of cells that regulates transport of ions and solutes between the environment and the internal milieu — is a defining characteristic of the Eumetazoa. Sponges, the most ancient metazoan phylum [1], [2], are generally believed to lack true...
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2008
Li, R., Wang, J., Wong, G.K.S., Zheng, H., Xu, S., Clark, T., Zheng, X., Vang, S.
Background Gene conversion causes a non-reciprocal transfer of genetic information between similar sequences. Gene conversion can both homogenize genes and recruit point mutations thereby shaping the evolution of multigene families. In the rice genome, the large number of duplicated genes...
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Gene expression and sensory structures in sponges: Explorations of sensory-neural origins in a non-bilaterian context
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The nervous system is present in all but two animal phyla – one of them being Porifera, sponges. Sponges have no neurons and yet have organized behavior and finely tuned sensation. Furthermore, sponges have genes involved in the nervous system of other animals (informally called ‘neural’ genes)....
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Genetic diversity and selection in North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus): A Hamiltonian perspective into the processes and mechanisms of evolution
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The theory of natural selection has advanced our understanding in every aspect of biological sciences, yet despite this seeming ubiquity, there remain some components that are not fully resolved. Natural selection predicts the “selfish” advancement of genes that are optimally suited for their...
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2009
Bassett, E., Wishart, D.S., Lu, P., MacDonnell, C., Berjanskii, M., Zhou, J., Liang, J., Zhou, Y., Cruz, J.A., Lin, G., Tang, P.
GeNMR (GEnerate NMR structures) is a web server for rapidly generating accurate 3D protein structures using sequence data, NOE-based distance restraints and/or NMR chemical shifts as input. GeNMR accepts distance restraints in XPLOR or CYANA format as well as chemical shift files in either SHIFTY...
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2006
Wang, W., Li, J., Liu, D., Lu, Z., Zheng, H., Wong, G., Cai, Z., Fan, C., Zhang, J., Vang, S., Long, M., Zhang, G., Wang, J., Shi, J.
Retroposition is widely found to play essential roles in origination of new mammalian and other animal genes. However, the scarcity of retrogenes in plants has led to the assumption that plant genomes rarely evolve new gene duplicates by retroposition, despite abundant retrotransposons in plants...
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2009
Lewis, A., Wishart, D.S., Guo, A.C., Gautam, B., Tzur, D., Sobsey, C.A., Shaykhutdinov, R., Fradette, R., De Souza, A., Cruz, J.A., Xiong, Y., Bouatra, S., Mandal, R., Psychogios, N., Sinelnikov, I., Vogel, H.J., Fang, L., Peng, J., Xia, J., Li, L., Knox, C., Shrivastava, S., Clements, M., Lim, E., Eisner, R., Cheng, D., Dawe, M., Zuniga, A., Young, N., Jia, L., Grenier, R., Hau, D.D., Huang, P., Nazyrova, A., Liu, P., Forsythe, I., Dong, E., Clive, D.
The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB, http:// www.hmdb.ca (http://www.hmdb.ca)) is a richly annotated resource that is designed to address the broad needs of biochemists, clinical chemists, physicians, medical geneticists, nutritionists and members of the metabolomics community. Since its first...