• Non-resonant collider signatures of a singlet-driven electroweak phase transition 

  Chen, Chien-Yi; Kozaczuk, Jonathan; Lewis, Ian M. (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017)

  We analyze the collider signatures of the real singlet extension of the Standard Model in regions consistent with a strong first-order electroweak phase transition and a singlet-like scalar heavier than the Standard ...
• Peptide biomarkers used for the selective breeding of a complex polygenic trait in honey bees 

  Guarna, M. Marta; Hoover, Shelley E.; Huxter, Elizabeth; Higo, Heather; Moon, Kyung-Mee; Domanski, Dominik; Bixby, Miriam E. F.; Melathopoulos, Andony P.; Ibrahim, Abdullah; Peirson, Michael; Desai, Suresh; Micholson, Derek; White, Rick; Borchers, Christoph H.; Currie, Robert W.; Pernal, Stephen F.; Foster, Leonard J. (Scientific Reports, 2017)

  We present a novel way to select for highly polygenic traits. For millennia, humans have used observable phenotypes to selectively breed stronger or more productive livestock and crops. Selection on genotype, using ...
• Effects of the vertically transmitted microsporidian Facilispora margolisi and the parasiticide emamectin benzoate on salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) 

  Poley, Jordan D.; Sutherland, Ben J. G.; Fast, Mark D.; Koop, Ben F.; Jones, Simon R. M. (BMC Genomics, 2017)

  Background: Microsporidia are highly specialized, parasitic fungi that infect a wide range of eukaryotic hosts from all major taxa. Infections cause a variety of damaging effects on host physiology from increased stress ...
• Evidence for the role and fate of water-insoluble condensed tannins in the short-term reduction of carbon loss during litter decay 

  Shay, Philip‑Edouard; Constabel, C. Peter; Trofymow, J. A. (Biogeochemistry, 2018-01)

  Warmer temperatures associated with climate change have the potential to accelerate litter decay and subsequently release large amounts of carbon stored in soils. Condensed tannins are widespread secondary metabolites, ...
• Phytochemical analysis of salal berry (Gaultheria shallon Pursh.), a traditionally- consumed fruit from western North America with exceptionally high proanthocyanidin content 

  Ferguson, Andrew; Carvalho, Elisabete; Gourlay, Geraldine; Walker, Vincent; Stefan, Martens; Salminen, Juha-Pekka; Constabel, C. Peter (Phytochemistry, 2018-03)

  Salal (Gaultheria shallon Pursh.) is a wild perennial shrub of the Ericaceae and common in coastal forests of western North America, and its berries were an important traditional food for First Nations in British Columbia. ...
• Tidal flows, sill dynamics, and mixing in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago 

  Hughes, Kenneth (2018-11-26)

  The transport of low-salinity waters through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago links the North Pacific, Arctic, and North Atlantic Oceans. This transport is influenced by many related small-scale processes including mixing, ...
• Modifying Methylalumoxane via Alkyl Exchange 

  Zijlstra, Harmen S.; Joshi, Anuj; Linnolahti, Mikko; Collins, Scott; McIndoe, J. Scott (Dalton Transactions, 2018)

  Methylalumoxane (MAO) ionizes highly selectively in the presence of octamethyltrisiloxane (OMTS) to generate [Me2Al∙OMTS]+ [(MeAlO)16(Me3Al)6Me]–. We can take advantage of this transformation to examine ...
• Nuclear star clusters in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies 

  Spengler, Chelsea (2018-11-23)

  It is readily accepted that many galaxies are inhabited by dense, compact objects deep in their centres, manifesting as supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and/or nuclear star clusters (NSCs). Their widespread presence and ...
• Expression, regulation and evolution of proglucagon genes in vertebrates 

  Busby, Ellen Rain (2018-11-23)

  Three biologically active peptide hormones, glucagon, glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1, and GLP-2, are co-encoded by the precursor proglucagon. As all three peptides have distinct functions, regulation of proglucagon expression, ...
• Of warming nights and shifting winds 

  Stone, Dáithí Alastar (2018-11-22)

  The attribution of recent global warming to anthropogenic emissions is now well established. However, the relation of recent changes in other properties of the climate system to human activities is not as clearly understood. ...
• The role of the histone tails and their post-translational modifications in nucleosome stability and chromatin folding 

  Moore, Susan Catherine (2018-11-21)

  The purpose of this thesis was to characterize the impact of the histone tails and their posttranslational modifications on nucleosome stability and chromatin folding dynamics. This was done with a variety of techniques, ...
• Community ecology of hydrothermal vents at Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge, northeast Pacific 

  Marcus, Jean (2018-11-20)

  Hydrothermal vents are deep-sea hot springs. Vents are home to luxuriant assemblages of animals that colonize the warm venting fluids. High biomass is fed by microbes that use hydrogen sulphide and other reduced chemicals ...
• Molecular and Biochemical Methods Useful for the Epigenetic Characterization of Chromatin-Associated Proteins in Bivalve Molluscs 

  Rivera-Casas, Ciro; Gonzalez-Romero, Rodrigo; Garduño, Rafael A.; Cheema, Manjinder S.; Ausio, Juan; Eirin-Lopez, Jose M. (Frontiers in Physiology, 2017)

  Bivalve molluscs constitute a ubiquitous taxonomic group playing key functions in virtually all ecosystems, and encompassing critical commercial relevance. Along with a sessile and filter-feeding lifestyle in most cases, ...
• Protein expression changes caused by spaceflight as measured for 18 Russian cosmonauts 

  Larina, Irina M.; Percy, Andrew J.; Yang, Juncong; Borchers, Christoph H.; Nosovsky, Andrei M.; Grigoriev, Anatoli I.; Nikolae, Evgeny N. (Scientific Reports, 2017)

  The effects of spaceflight on human physiology is an increasingly studied field, yet the molecular mechanisms driving physiological changes remain unknown. With that in mind, this study was performed to obtain a deeper ...
• Performance of a RT-PCR Assay in Comparison to FISH and Immunohistochemistry for the Detection of ALK in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 

  Hout, David R.; Schweitzer, Brock L.; Lawrence, Kasey; Morris, Stephan W.; Tucker, Tracy; Mazzola, Rosetta; Skelton, Rachel; McMahon, Frank; Handshoe, John; Lesperance, Mary; Karsan, Aly; Saltman, David L. (Cancers, 2017)

  Patients with lung cancers harboring an activating anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement respond favorably to ALK inhibitor therapy. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) are ...
• Phylogenetic and functional signals in gymnosperm ovular secretions 

  Nepi, Massimo; Little, Stefan; Guarnieri, Massimo; Nocentini, Daniele; Prior, Natalie; Gill, Julia; Tomlinson, P. Barry; Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.; Pirone, Cary; Pacini, Ettore; von Aderkas, Patrick (Annals of Botany, 2017-11)

  Background and Aims: Gymnosperms are either wind-pollinated (anemophilous) or both wind- and insect-pollinated (ambophilous). Regardless of pollination mode, ovular secretions play a key role in pollen capture, germination ...
• Fungal colonizers and seed loss in lodgepole pine orchards of British Columbia 

  de la Bastide, Paul Y.; LeBlanc, Jonathon; Kong, Lisheng; Finston, Terrie; May, Emily M.; Reich, Richard; Hintz, William E.; von Aderkas, Patrick (Botany, 2018)

  Lodgepole pine is an important lumber species in Canada and seed orchards are expected to meet the increased demand for seed. However, seed production has been consistently low in the Okanagan region orchards of British ...
• Operators of Fractional Calculus and Their Applications 

  Srivastava, Hari Mohan (Mathematics, 2018)
• Stable Isotope Systematics of Coalbed Gas during Desorption and Production 

  Niemann, Martin; Whiticar, Michael J. (Geosciences, 2017)

  The stable carbon isotope ratios of coalbed methane (CBM) demonstrate diagnostic changes that systematically vary with production and desorption times. These shifts can provide decisive, predictive information on the ...
• Underwater Acoustic Pulsed Source Localization with a Pair of Hydrophones 

  Skarsoulis, Emmanuel K.; Piperakis, George; Kalogerakis, Michael; Orfanakis, Emmanuel; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Dosso, Stan. E.; Frantzis, Alexandros (Remote Sensing, 2018)

  A series of underwater acoustic localization experiments were conducted in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea to test the performance of a Bayesian method for localization of pulsed acoustic sources exploiting time differences ...

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