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Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential
Download2010
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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Homology in comparative, molecular, and evolutionary developmental biology: The radiation of a concept
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The present paper analyzes the use and understanding of the homology concept across different biological disciplines. It is argued that in its history, the homology concept underwent a sort of adaptive radiation. Once it migrated from comparative anatomy into new biological fields, the homology...
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2007
Wang, W., Wang, H., Wong, G.K.S., Zheng, H., Clark, T., Zhang, G., Kang, L., Wang, J., Shi, J., Wang, X.
Background Insects constitute the vast majority of known species with their importance including biodiversity, agricultural, and human health concerns. It is likely that the successful adaptation of the Insecta clade depends on specific components in its proteome that give rise to specialized...
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Identification of a novel lipase gene mutated in lpd mice with hypertriglyceridemia and associated with dyslipidemia in humans
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Wen, Xiao-Yan, Hegele, Robert A., Wang, Jian, Wang, Ding Yan, Cheung, Joseph, Wilson, Michael, Yahyapour, Maryam, Bai, Yahong, Zhuang, Lihua, Skaug, Jennifer, Young, T. Kue, Connelly, Philip W., Koop, Ben F., Tsui, Lap-Chee, Stewart, A. Keith
"Triglyceride (TG) metabolism is crucial for whole body and local energy homeostasis and accumulating evidence suggests an independent association between plasma TG concentration and increased atherosclerosis risk. We previously generated a mouse insertional mutation lpd (lipid defect) whose...
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Influence of beef production practices on meat quality characteristics and expression of genes related to collagen synthesis and degradation in the bovine m. triceps brachii
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Production factors such as cattle breed, genetics, age, feed, muscle activity and processing factor such post-mortem ageing may affect the contribution of collagen and collagen cross-links to beef toughness. Selection of low residual feed intake (RFI) cattle, which consume less feed than...
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John B. Smith Archive - Chronological Bibliography Bundle 3 (Bibliographies)
1979-1982
A bundle of the short-form works of John B. Smith, provided by John B. Smith from his personal collection. This collection encompasses Smith's work creating annotated bibliographies on the subject of the works of William Shakespeare, and a paper describing the process of creating them by...
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John B. Smith Archive - Complete
1966-2011
The complete bundle of the works of John B. Smith, covering the period of 1966 through 2011 as represented by Dr. Smith on his archive website at http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/jbsArchive/ All files have been provided by Dr. Smith from his personal collection. Over the course of his academic...
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Fall 2009
One important goal in microarray data analysis is to learn a predictor using a patient’s microarray data to predict some important characteristics of that patient. The high dimensionality of data makes learning such classifiers very challenging. We tried to use prior biological knowledge to...