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Honors Theses (Biology)
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-10)The intertidal lepadomorph barnacle, Pollicipes polymerus, is known for its propensity to aggregate in rosette-shaped or irregular clusters. The gregarious lifestyle is ensured by the species’ settlement preference. ...
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(2010-11)Offshore surface currents that appear during upwelling events have the potential to carry nearshore coastal zooplankton offshore. I tested the hypothesis that the marine cladocerans Podon leuckarti and Evadne nordmanni are ...
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(2013-05)The subtidal marine biodiversity off the Oregon coast is poorly studied and not well understood. The few subtidal studies in Oregon have focused on vertebrates with little regard to invertebrate assemblages. Oregon’s ...
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(2007-07-13)The role proteoglycans play in molecular-genetic mechanisms of skeletogenesis is not completely understood. UDP-glucuronic acid decarboxylase 1 (Uxs1) converts UDP-glucuronic acid to UDP-xylose which is used by ...
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(Robert D. Clark Honors College, 2006-11)Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant cause of death in the United States, and is the leading cause of disability in children and young adults. Acidosis is one of the most frequent secondary brain injuries and is ...
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(2006-06)The tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, provides a model system for examining the reorganization of neural circuits during metamorphosis. The larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior which serves to loosen the ...
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(2006-06)Proving whether animals are either capable or incapable of feeling (i.e. core consciousness) is a problem that is difficult to address because mental states cannot be directly observed. Many animals exhibit behavior ...
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(2006-06)The cuttlefish species Sepia officinalis possesses a unique and complex behavior referred to in this paper as body patterning behavior. This behavior allows these animals to modulate their external dermal pattern in response ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-04)Migraine affects 23.6 million people in the United States alone. Treatment options can be sub-typed as abortive and preventative, as well as pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic. Due to the debilitating nature of migraine, ...
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(2005-09-30)We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate the effects of directing sustained attention to near and far peripheral locations ( <12 and >20 degree eccentricities, respectively) on blood oxygen level ...
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(University of Oregon, 2004-08)A transfer RNA (tRNA) can form codon-anticodon interactions either by standard Watson-Crick base pairing or by forming a wobble base pair between the first position of the anticodon and the third position of the codon. ...