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25838
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Dr. Jason Bond, professor of biology at East Carolina, has just received three National Science Foundation grants to study spiders and millipedes. The research will focus on cataloging species from around the world, examining biodiversity and evolutionary biology with the aid of undergraduate and graduate students.
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25918
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Researchers affiliated with UNC’s Laboratories for Reproductive Biology are working on a vaccine that could serve as birth control for men. They discovered a protein critical to movement of sperm cells. Targeting the protein could stop sperm from making it to the female reproductive tract.
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26165
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Bill Kier, associate professor of biology, studies squid movement. He discovered that squids move with surprising speed and agility because of the special traits of their muscles.
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26179
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Alan Feduccia, professor of biology, challenges the view that birds evolved from dinosaurs. He thinks that birds began evolving long before the hypothetical first bird, Archaeopteryx.
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26181
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Microbiologist Bob Johnston’s work with mutant versions of a virus started off as basic research but lead to a vaccine that can save Latin American children from encephalitis. His lab now has a version that produces a green fluorescent protein which highlights and traces viral paths.
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26199
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Biology undergraduates are working with Seth Reice, chair of the Ecology Curriculum, to examine New Hope Creek for their senior theses. They will study the various physical influences that cause macro-invertebrate species, called benthos, to select particular stream habitats.
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26222
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Biology doctoral candidate Jonathan Parkinson is researching patchy ephemeral resources, transient habitats such as mushrooms that sprout after it rains. He believes his work in patch dynamics has practical applications in conservation and agriculture.
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26246
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William Kier, an assistant professor in Biology, studies the morphology and biomechanics of invertebrate species. He’s uncovered significant information about how squid and octopuses make rapid, complex, and varied muscle movements, despite the absence of a skeletal system.
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28172
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Biologists at East Carolina University conducted a study of the distribution of chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans in the human chorio-amnionic membrane complex. The study utilized immunohistochemistry to localize the antigens. Results suggest creation of a boundary between fetal and maternal tissues and possible participation in regulation of amniotic fluid transport.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 119 Issue 1, Spring 2003,
p1-12, il, bibl
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28200
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The gnathiid isopod, Bathygnathia depaolorosae, is a new marine crustacean species described from a single specimen collected off the North Carolina coast. Gnathia brucei, a second new species, is described on the basis of specimens from three stations off Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 119 Issue 2, Summer 2003,
p33-40, il, bibl
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28207
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Three taxa within the leech family Glossiphoniidae are poorly known with respect to their biology and systematics. New information has been collected on their biology, anatomy, and hunter-prey behaviors.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 119 Issue 4, Winter 2003,
p137-149, il, bibl
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28208
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Researchers at East Carolina University conducted a study of tiger beetle (Megacephela carolina carolina) behavioral responses to simulations of bat echo location calls. Results reveal a host of acoustic startle response behaviors, suggesting that tiger beetles may have evolved hearing organs as a direct result of the hunting pressures exerted by insectivorous bats.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 119 Issue 4, Winter 2003,
p150-156, il, bibl
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28212
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There is a diverse freshwater silica-scaled chrysophycean algal flora for the Carolina Piedmont and Mountain Regions, including several new taxa. This study presents an account of the scale-bearing chrysophytes from the Carolina Coastal Region, which were observed using scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 120 Issue 1, Spring 2004,
p1-25, il, bibl
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28215
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Woodrats are species in the rodent genus Neotoma. Specimens of Neotoma from West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were karyotyped using standard techniques and examined.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 120 Issue 2, Summer 2004,
p50-54, il, bibl
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28233
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Biological features of five species of carangid fishes (African pompano, Atlantic bumper, rainbow runner, leatherjack, and cottonmouth jack) were examined. Abundance and presence of all five species in ocean or inland waters of North Carolina were influenced by habitat or water conditions.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 120 Issue 3, Fall 2004,
p99-105, il, por, bibl
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