Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Amniotes"
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Analysis of a Mouse Skin Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant tumor suppressor gene syndrome in which patients develop several types of tumors, including facial angiofibroma, subungual fibroma, Shagreen patch, angiomyolipomas, ... -
Endangered Right Whales Enhance Primary Productivity in the Bay of Fundy
(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 ... -
Multiple Browsers Structure Tree Recruitment in Logged Temperate Forests
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Historical extirpations have resulted in depauperate large herbivore assemblages in many northern forests. In eastern North America, most forests are inhabited by a single wild ungulate species, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus ... -
Normalized Neural Representations of Complex Odors
(Public Library of Science, 2016)The olfactory system removes correlations in natural odors using a network of inhibitory neurons in the olfactory bulb. It has been proposed that this network integrates the response from all olfactory receptors and inhibits ... -
Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and Functional Effects of Microbial Communities across Host Evolutionary History
(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 ... -
Two of a Kind or a Full House? Reproductive Suppression and Alloparenting in Laboratory Mice
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Alloparenting, a behavior in which individuals other than the actual parents act in a parental role, is seen in many mammals, including house mice. In wild house mice, alloparental care is only seen when familiar sibling ... -
A Unique Assemblage of Engraved Plaquettes from Ein Qashish South, Jezreel Valley, Israel: Figurative and Non-Figurative Symbols of Late Pleistocene Hunters-Gatherers in the Levant
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Three engraved limestone plaquettes from the recently excavated Epipaleolithic open-air site Ein Qashish South in the Jezreel Valley, Israel comprise unique evidence for symbolic behavior of Late Pleistocene foragers in ...