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Spring 2015

Northrup, Victoria A.

Mutations in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) have been linked to a wide variety of disorders. mtDNA analyses require large starting samples and are complicated by the presence of nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (NUMTs), which can cause false positives in PCR-based approaches. Microfluidic...

Fall 2014

Duguay, Brett A K

Infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) leads to the rapid and complete loss of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and mitochondrial messenger RNA (mt-mRNA), effectively eliminating gene expression within mitochondria. Previous work determined that a unique 3’ co-terminal transcript arising...

Spring 2014

Barazandeh, Marjan

Barnacles are mostly hermaphroditic and they are believed to mate via copulation or, in a few species, by self-fertilization. However, isolated individuals of two species that are thought not to self-fertilize, Pollicipes polymerus and Balanus glandula, nonetheless carried fertilized...

Fall 2015

Subedi, Sudip

DNA is continuously under stress from the insults inflicted by both endogenous and exogenous agents. These agents include endogenous reactive oxygen species (ROS), ionizing radiation (IR) and many common chemotherapeutic drugs, which can inflict a plethora of DNA lesions including abasic sites,...

Fall 2010

Lumley, Lisa Margaret

Species identifications have been historically difficult in the economically important spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) pest complex. Morphological, ecological, behavioural, and genetic characters have been studied to try to understand the taxonomy of this group, but diagnostic character...