Biology Publications
An overarching research theme in the Department of Biology is the exploration of how organisms respond and adapt to changing environments. While covering a wide spectrum of topics, research interests can be broadly grouped into four major groupings. These clusters are loosely labeled as “Animal Physiology”, “Cell and Molecular Biology”, “Ecology and Evolution” and “Plant Stress Biology”, with significant inter-connectedness across clusters.
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Submissions from 2015
Insights into the Origin of DNA Methylation Differences between Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia, Melkaye G. Melka, Christina A. Castellani, Richard O'Reilly, and Shiva M. Singh
The Relative Influence of Habitat Amount and Configuration on Genetic Structure Across Multiple Spatial Scales, Katie L Millette and Nusha Keyghobadi
Accurate Alternative Measurements for Female Lifetime Reproductive Success in Drosophila Melanogaster, Trinh T X Nguyen and Amanda Moehring
Linking energetics and overwintering in temperate insects., Brent J Sinclair
An invitation to measure insect cold tolerance: Methods, approaches, and workflow., Brent J Sinclair, Litza E Coello Alvarado, and Laura V Ferguson
Saponin-Permeabilization is Not a Viable Alternative to Isolated Mitochondria for Assessing Oxidative Metabolism in Hibernation, James Staples and Katherine E. Mathers
Brood parasites manipulate their hosts: Experimental evidence for the farming hypothesis, David C. Swan, Liana Y. Zanette, and Michael Clinchy
Cold truths: how winter drives responses of terrestrial organisms to climate change, Caroline M. Williams, Hugh A.L. Henry, and Brent J. Sinclair
Submissions from 2014
Localization and Chemical Speciation of Cadmium in the Roots of Barley and Lettuce, Mst. Fardausi Akhter, Christopher R. Omelon, Robert A. Gordon, Desmond Moser, and Sheila Macfie
Substrate-specific changes in mitochondrial respiration in skeletal and cardiac muscle of hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrels., Jason C L Brown and James F Staples
Biological relevance of CNV calling methods using familial relatedness including monozygotic twins, Christina A. Castellani, Shiva M. Singh, and Elizabeth O. Locke
Exploring the Complexity of Intellectual Disability in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque, Bonnie Alberry, and Shiva M. Singh
It Takes an Individual Plant to Raise a Community: TRFLP Analysis of the Rhizosphere Microbial Community of Two Pairs of High- and Low-Metal-Accumulating Plants, Melanie P. Columbus and Sheila Macfie
Are long chain acyl CoAs responsible for suppression of mitochondrial metabolism in hibernating 13-lined ground squirrels?, Alex N Cooper, Jason C L Brown, and James F Staples
Divergent transcriptional responses to low temperature among populations of alpine and lowland species of New Zealand stick insects (Micrarchus)., Luke T Dunning, Alice B Dennis, Brent J Sinclair, Richard D Newcomb, and Thomas R Buckley
Unifying the analysis of high-throughput sequencing datasets: characterizing RNA-seq, 16S rRNA gene sequencing and selective growth experiments by compositional data analysis., Andrew D Fernandes, Jennifer Ns Reid, Jean M Macklaim, Thomas A McMurrough, David R Edgell, and Gregory B Gloor
Long-Term Genomic and Epigenomic Dysregulation as a Consequence of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: A Model for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Morgan L Kleiber, Eric J Diehl, Benjamin I Laufer, Katarzyna Mantha, Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque, Bonnie Alberry, and Shiva M Singh
The relative importance of number, duration, and intensity of cold stress events in determining survival and energetics of an overwintering insect, Katie E. Marshall and Brent J Sinclair
Olanzapine-Induced Methylation Alters Cadherin Gene Families and Associated Pathways Implicated in Psychosis, Melkaye G. Melka, Christina A Castellani, Nagalingam Rajakumar, Richard O'Reilly, and Shiva M Singh
Harnessing Microbiome and Probiotic Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations from an African Workshop, Gregor Reid
Editorial overview: Environmental physiology: Insect environmental physiology, Brent J. Sinclair
A cross-seasonal perspective on local adaptation: Metabolic 1 plasticity mediates responses to winter in a thermal-2 generalist moth, Brent J. Sinclair, Caroline M. Williams, and Wesley D. Chick
Metabolic suppression in mammalian hibernation: the role of mitochondria., James F Staples
Mammalian mesopredators on islands directly impact both terrestrial and marine communities, Justin P. Suraci, Michael Clinchy, Liana Y. Zanette, Christopher M.A. Currie, and Lawrence M. Dill
The overwintering biology of the acorn weevil, Curculio glandium in southwestern Ontario., Hiroko Udaka and Brent J Sinclair