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

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Brood parasites manipulate their hosts: Experimental evidence for the farming hypothesis, David C. Swan, Liana Y. Zanette, and Michael Clinchy

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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

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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

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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

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Biological relevance of CNV calling methods using familial relatedness including monozygotic twins, Christina A. Castellani, Shiva M. Singh, and Elizabeth O. Locke

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Exploring the Complexity of Intellectual Disability in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque, Bonnie Alberry, and Shiva M. Singh

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Harnessing Microbiome and Probiotic Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations from an African Workshop, Gregor Reid

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Editorial overview: Environmental physiology: Insect environmental physiology, Brent J. Sinclair

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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

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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

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The overwintering biology of the acorn weevil, Curculio glandium in southwestern Ontario., Hiroko Udaka and Brent J Sinclair

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Cold hardiness and deacclimation of overwintering Papilio zelicaon pupae, Caroline M. Williams, Nicolai Annegret, Brent J. Sinclair, Laura V. Ferguson, Mark A. Bernards, and Jessica J. Hellmann

Diagnosing predation risk effects on demography: can measuring physiology provide the means?, Liana Y. Zanette, Michael Clinchy, and Justin P. Suraci

Submissions from 2013

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Regulation of succinate-fuelled mitochondrial respiration in liver and skeletal muscle of hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrels., Jason C L Brown, Dillon J Chung, Alex N Cooper, and James F Staples

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Changes in the mitochondrial phosphoproteome during mammalian hibernation., Dillon J Chung, Beata Szyszka, Jason C L Brown, Norman P A Hüner, and James F Staples

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Cold tolerance of the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), in Ontario., Matthew W. Clarke, Graham J. Thompson, and Brent J Sinclair

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Overwintering in New Zealand stick insects, Alice B. Dennis, Luke T. Dunning, Christopher J. Dennis, Brent J. Sinclair, and Thomas R. Buckley