Ephedra as a gymnosperm evo-devo model lineage
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Heterochrony and repurposing in the evolution of gymnosperm seed dispersal units
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Billie Swalla quoted in Scientific American on Oikopleura
Osteoblasts pattern endothelium and somatosensory axons during zebrafish caudal fin organogenesis
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Biology Grad Seminar: Robin Fales & Sophia Janetty
How to Survive a Historic Heatwave: Physiological Impacts of the PNW Heat Dome on an Intertidal Kelp
By: Robin Fales (Carrington Lab)
A computational interrogation of lateral root development
By: Sophia Jannetty (Bagheri Lab)
Biology Grad Seminar: William Brightly & Evan Craig
Cell-searching: did habitat openness parallel grass dominance in the Cenozoic assembly of great plains grasslands?
By: William Brightly (Stromberg Lab)
Investigating the role of the actin cytoskeleton in sensory cell development and function
By: Evan Craig (Rasmussen Lab)
Spontaneous homeotic mutants and genetic control of floral organ identity in a ranunculid
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Jennifer Nemhauser in The Washington Post on mentor Joanne Chory & fight against climate change
W.T. Edmondson Endowed Lecture: Through the widow’s web; Using extreme mating behaviour to untangle plasticity
If the traits that confer increased reproductive success vary with environmental context, and information about context is available to juveniles during development, then adaptive developmental plasticity (ADP) may evolve. Here I show how male widow spiders (genus Latrodectus) are useful for testing hypotheses about ADP because their relatively short lifespans and well-documented, extreme mating behaviours allow strong predictions about how phenotypes are expected to shift under variable social contexts.
Evolution in the Age of Us: Mechanisms of adaptation to a human-modified world
Understanding the proximate (physiological/developmental) and ultimate (evolutionary) mechanisms that drive adaptive responses to human-altered environments is among the most pressing concerns of contemporary organismal biology and conservation. Human modifications to the natural world present extreme and novel environments for many species around the globe, and offer unique opportunities to study the process of evolution in real-time.
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