Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Invertebrates"

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    • Endangered Right Whales Enhance Primary Productivity in the Bay of Fundy 

      Roman, Joe; Nevins, John; Altabet, Mark; Koopman, Heather; McCarthy, James (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Marine mammals have recently been documented as important facilitators of rapid and efficient nutrient recycling in coastal and offshore waters. Whales enhance phytoplankton nutrition by releasing fecal plumes near the ...

    • The Evolutionarily Conserved Mediator Subunit MDT-15/MED15 Links Protective Innate Immune Responses and Xenobiotic Detoxification 

      Pukkila-Worley, Read; Feinbaum, Rhonda L.; McEwan, Deborah L.; Conery, Annie L.; Ausubel, Frederick M. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Metazoans protect themselves from environmental toxins and virulent pathogens through detoxification and immune responses. We previously identified a small molecule xenobiotic toxin that extends survival of Caenorhabditis ...

    • An Insulin-to-Insulin Regulatory Network Orchestrates Phenotypic Specificity in Development and Physiology 

      Fernandes de Abreu, Diana Andrea; Caballero, Antonio; Fardel, Pascal; Stroustrup, Nicholas; Chen, Zhunan; Lee, KyungHwa; Keyes, William D.; Nash, Zachary M.; López-Moyado, Isaac F.; Vaggi, Federico; Cornils, Astrid; Regenass, Martin; Neagu, Anca; Ostojic, Ivan; Liu, Chang; Cho, Yongmin; Sifoglu, Deniz; Shen, Yu; Fontana, Walter; Lu, Hang; Csikasz-Nagy, Attila; Murphy, Coleen T.; Antebi, Adam; Blanc, Eric; Apfeld, Javier; Zhang, Yun; Alcedo, Joy; Ch'ng, QueeLim (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Insulin-like peptides (ILPs) play highly conserved roles in development and physiology. Most animal genomes encode multiple ILPs. Here we identify mechanisms for how the forty Caenorhabditis elegans ILPs coordinate diverse ...

    • miR-190 Enhances HIF-Dependent Responses to Hypoxia in Drosophila by Inhibiting the Prolyl-4-hydroxylase Fatiga 

      De Lella Ezcurra, Ana Laura; Bertolin, Agustina Paola; Kim, Kevin; Katz, Maximiliano Javier; Gándara, Lautaro; Misra, Tvisha; Luschnig, Stefan; Perrimon, Norbert; Melani, Mariana; Wappner, Pablo (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Cellular and systemic responses to low oxygen levels are principally mediated by Hypoxia Inducible Factors (HIFs), a family of evolutionary conserved heterodimeric transcription factors, whose alpha- and beta-subunits ...

    • Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and Functional Effects of Microbial Communities across Host Evolutionary History 

      Brooks, Andrew W.; Kohl, Kevin D.; Brucker, Robert M.; van Opstal, Edward J.; Bordenstein, Seth R. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny of related host species. Here, we test the ...

    • Testing the Efficacy of Global Biodiversity Hotspots for Insect Conservation: The Case of South African Katydids 

      Bazelet, Corinna S.; Thompson, Aileen C.; Naskrecki, Piotr (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      The use of endemism and vascular plants only for biodiversity hotspot delineation has long been contested. Few studies have focused on the efficacy of global biodiversity hotspots for the conservation of insects, an ...