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Spring 2011

Davey, Ashley

Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection in newborns. One mechanism for this virus to reach the fetus is to cross the placenta through the syncytiotrophoblast layer. Accumulation and protection of pathogens in the syncytiotrophoblast could affect the systemic...

2008

Mironov, S.V., Proctor, H.C.

A new feather mite species, Ingrassia eudyptula n. sp. (Xolalgidae: Ingrassiinae), is described from the blue penguin Eudyptula minor (J. B. Forster, 1781) in Australia. This is the first description of a feather mite species from representatives of the avian order Sphenisciformes, which had...

1994

Rothwell, G.W., Stockey, R.A.

Large segments of intact plants that represent a heterosporous fern have been discovered within an aquatic plant community from the Late Cretaceous St. Mary River Formation near Cardston in southern Alberta, Canada. Branching rhizomes of Hydropteris pinnata gen. et sp. nov. are 1-2 mm wide. They...

Fall 2017

Havixbeck, Jeffrey J

The inflammatory response is a complex biological process initiated following the recognition of noxious stimuli. It is composed of an elaborate cascade of both pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators, essential for effective defenses against infection, the removal of damaged cells, and the...

Fall 2012

Kandalam, Vijay S.

Heart disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world with a growing prevalence in a variety of manifestations. Many of the events that occur in the heart during the progression of disease have been explored to identify a causative mechanism to develop effective treatments and...

2011

Lindgren, Johan, Everhart, Michael J., Caldwell, Michael W.

The physical properties of water and the environment it presents to its inhabitants provide stringent constraints and selection pressures affecting aquatic adaptation and evolution. Mosasaurs (a group of secondarily aquatic reptiles that occupied a broad array of predatory niches in the...

Fall 2016

Trites, Michael

Transferrin is an evolutionary conserved protein that in addition to having a critical role in iron transport also has been shown to have a crucial role in host defence. Transferrin has been shown to sequester iron from invading pathogens, act directly against microbial pathogens, and is an...

2006

Li, R., Zheng, W., Durbin, R., Liu, T., Bolund, L., Dehal, P., Coin, L.J., Coghlan, A., Osmotherly, L., Heriche, J.K., Ruan, J., Li, H., Wang, J., Wong, G., Zhang, Z.

TreeFam is a database of phylogenetic trees of gene families found in animals. It aims to develop a curated resource that presents the accurate evolutionary history of all animal gene families, as well as reliable ortholog and paralog assignments. Curated families are being added progressively,...

2011

Nettel-Aguirre, A., Klassen, T.P., Grimshaw, J., Johnson, D., Scott, S.

Background: Canada is among the most prosperous nations in the world, yet the health and wellness outcomes of Canadian children are surprisingly poor. There is some evidence to suggest that these poor health outcomes are partly due to clinical practice variation, which can stem from failure to...

Spring 2018

Herman, Emily K

Single-celled organisms represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity. Recent advances in sequencing technologies have been critical for understanding the evolutionary biology and cell biology of microbial eukaryotes. Comparative genomic analyses have shown that many genes that underlie...