Invertebrates

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A mastoparan-derived peptide has broad-spectrum antiviral activity against enveloped viruses. 
  • A multi-taxonomic framework for assessing relative petrochemical vulnerability of marine biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico. 
  • A new perspective on lower metazoan relationships from 18S rDNA sequences. 
  • A unified theory for the energy cost of legged locomotion. 
  • Accumulation of atmospheric and sedimentary PCBs and toxaphene in a Lake Michigan food web. 
  • Analysis of cDNA for human erythrocyte ankyrin indicates a repeated structure with homology to tissue-differentiation and cell-cycle control proteins. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Bycatch of marine mammals in U.S. and global fisheries. 
  • Consumer regulation of the carbon cycle in coastal wetland ecosystems. 
  • Effect of alternating passage on adaptation of sindbis virus to vertebrate and invertebrate cells. 
  • Effects of urbanization and urban stream restoration on the physical and biological structure of stream ecosystems. 
  • Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction. 
  • Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates. 
  • Fluorescence as a means of colour signal enhancement. 
  • Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes. 
  • From bouncy legs to poisoned arrows: elastic movements in invertebrates. 
  • Habitat cascades: the conceptual context and global relevance of facilitation cascades via habitat formation and modification. 
  • Hidden in plain sight: the ecology and physiology of organismal transparency. 
  • Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. 
  • How many mountains can we mine? Assessing the regional degradation of Central Appalachian rivers by surface coal mining. 
  • Impact of ZnO and ZnS nanoparticles in sewage sludge-amended soil on bacteria, plant and invertebrates. 
  • Impacts of anthropogenic disturbances at deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems: a review. 
  • Infectious disease and group size: more than just a numbers game. 
  • Influence of sediment-amendment with single-walled carbon nanotubes and diesel soot on bioaccumulation of hydrophobic organic contaminants by benthic invertebrates. 
  • Integrating bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: an approach to developing numerical water-quality criteria. 
  • Invertebrate biomechanics. 
  • Invertebrate hemoglobins and nitric oxide: how heme pocket structure controls reactivity. 
  • Kainic acid: neurophysiological and neurotoxic actions. 
  • Membrane currents underlying bursting pacemaker activity and spike frequency adaptation in invertebrates. 
  • Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates. 
  • Molecular phylogeny of the kinesin family of microtubule motor proteins. 
  • Permanent genetic resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2011-30 September 2011. 
  • Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov. 
  • Phylogeny and evolution of aldehyde dehydrogenase-homologous folate enzymes. 
  • Preparation of high molecular weight invertebrate hemoglobins. 
  • Recognition molecules and immunoglobulin domains in invertebrates. 
  • Reproductive output and duration of the pelagic larval stage determine seascape-wide connectivity of marine populations. 
  • Secondary foundation species as drivers of trophic and functional diversity: evidence from a tree-epiphyte system. 
  • Sex reversal. 
  • Temperature alters food web body-size structure. 
  • The actin gene from Cryptococcus neoformans: structure and phylogenetic analysis. 
  • The changing view of neural specificity. 
  • The origin and evolution of animal appendages. 
  • The role of arrestins in development. 
  • The tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a new model for studying the evolution of development. 
  • Toxicity of methyl-tert-butyl ether to freshwater organisms. 
  • Transparent animals. 
  • Unravelling the tangled web at the microtubule-organizing center. 
  • Use of a novel sediment exposure to determine the effects of triclosan on estuarine benthic communities. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute