Search Results - "BOOTH, Warren"

Exceptional long-term sperm storage by a female vertebrate by Levine, Brenna A, Schuett, Gordon W, Booth, Warren

“…Females of many vertebrate species have the capacity to store sperm within their reproductive tracts for prolonged periods of time. Termed long-term sperm…”
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The Discovery of XY Sex Chromosomes in a Boa and Python by Gamble, Tony, Castoe, Todd A., Nielsen, Stuart V., Banks, Jaison L., Card, Daren C., Schield, Drew R., Schuett, Gordon W., Booth, Warren

“…For over 50 years, biologists have accepted that all extant snakes share the same ZW sex chromosomes derived from a common ancestor [1–3], with different…”
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Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome by Terrapon, Nicolas, Li, Cai, Robertson, Hugh M., Ji, Lu, Meng, Xuehong, Booth, Warren, Chen, Zhensheng, Childers, Christopher P., Glastad, Karl M., Gokhale, Kaustubh, Gowin, Johannes, Gronenberg, Wulfila, Hermansen, Russell A., Hu, Haofu, Hunt, Brendan G., Huylmans, Ann Kathrin, Khalil, Sayed M. S., Mitchell, Robert D., Munoz-Torres, Monica C., Mustard, Julie A., Pan, Hailin, Reese, Justin T., Scharf, Michael E., Sun, Fengming, Vogel, Heiko, Xiao, Jin, Yang, Wei, Yang, Zhikai, Yang, Zuoquan, Zhou, Jiajian, Zhu, Jiwei, Brent, Colin S., Elsik, Christine G., Goodisman, Michael A. D., Liberles, David A., Roe, R. Michael, Vargo, Edward L., Vilcinskas, Andreas, Wang, Jun, Bornberg-Bauer, Erich, Korb, Judith, Zhang, Guojie, Liebig, Jürgen

“…Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into the molecular underpinnings of the transition towards social…”
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Genome-wide data implicate terminal fusion automixis in king cobra facultative parthenogenesis by Card, Daren C., Vonk, Freek J., Smalbrugge, Sterrin, Casewell, Nicholas R., Wüster, Wolfgang, Castoe, Todd A., Schuett, Gordon W., Booth, Warren

“…Facultative parthenogenesis (FP) is widespread in the animal kingdom. In vertebrates it was first described in poultry nearly 70 years ago, and since then…”
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Decreased Rhes mRNA levels in the brain of patients with Parkinson's disease and MPTP-treated macaques by Napolitano, Francesco, Booth Warren, Emily, Migliarini, Sara, Punzo, Daniela, Errico, Francesco, Li, Qin, Thiolat, Marie-Laure, Vescovi, Angelo Luigi, Calabresi, Paolo, Bezard, Erwan, Morelli, Micaela, Konradi, Christine, Pasqualetti, Massimo, Usiello, Alessandro

“…In rodent and human brains, the small GTP-binding protein Rhes is highly expressed in virtually all dopaminoceptive striatal GABAergic medium spiny neurons, as…”
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Facultative parthenogenesis discovered in wild vertebrates by Booth, Warren, Smith, Charles F., Eskridge, Pamela H., Hoss, Shannon K., Mendelson, Joseph R., Schuett, Gordon W.

“…Facultative parthenogenesis (FP)—asexual reproduction by bisexual species—has been documented in a variety of multi-cellular organisms but only recently in…”
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Hierarchical genetic analysis of German cockroach (Blattella germanica) populations from within buildings to across continents by Vargo, Edward L, Crissman, Jonathan R, Booth, Warren, Santangelo, Richard G, Mukha, Dmitry V, Schal, Coby

“…Understanding the population structure of species that disperse primarily by human transport is essential to predicting and controlling human-mediated spread…”
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Thrips tabaci population genetic structure and polyploidy in relation to competency as a vector of tomato spotted wilt virus by Jacobson, Alana L, Booth, Warren, Vargo, Edward L, Kennedy, George G

“…Knowledge of population-level genetic differences can help explain variation among populations of insect vectors in their role in the epidemiology of specific…”
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Mitochondrial DNA depletion by ethidium bromide decreases neuronal mitochondrial creatine kinase: Implications for striatal energy metabolism by Warren, Emily Booth, Aicher, Aidan Edward, Fessel, Joshua Patrick, Konradi, Christine

“…Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the discrete genome which encodes subunits of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, is present at highly variable copy numbers across…”
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Reproductive compatibility among populations and host‐associated lineages of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) by DeVries, Zachary C., Santangelo, Richard G., Booth, Warren, Lawrence, Christopher G., Balvín, Ondřej, Bartonička, Tomáš, Schal, Coby

“…As populations differentiate across geographic or host‐association barriers, interpopulation fertility is often a measure of the extent of incipient…”
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No evidence of male-biased sexual selection in a snake with conventional Darwinian sex roles by Levine, Brenna A, Schuett, Gordon W, Clark, Rulon W, Repp, Roger A, Herrmann, Hans-Werner, Booth, Warren

“…Decades of research on sexual selection have demonstrated that 'conventional' Darwinian sex roles are common in species with anisogamous gametes, with those…”
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Is It Easy to Be Urban? Convergent Success in Urban Habitats among Lineages of a Widespread Native Ant by Menke, Sean B, Booth, Warren, Dunn, Robert R, Schal, Coby, Vargo, Edward L, Silverman, Jules

“…The most rapidly expanding habitat globally is the urban habitat, yet the origin and life histories of the populations of native species that inhabit this…”
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Genetic evidence of a recent successful colonization of introduced species on islands: Boa constrictor imperator on Cozumel Island by Vázquez-Domínguez, Ella, Suárez-Atilano, Marco, Booth, Warren, González-Baca, Cristopher, Cuarón, Alfredo D.

“…Only one study has described the population genetic structure of Boa constrictor imperator and only in a single naturally colonized island. B.c. imperator, a…”
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Evolution: Bedbugs Evolved before Their Assumed Ancestral Host by Booth, Warren

“…It has long been assumed that human-parasitic bedbugs evolved from the ectoparasites of bats. However, new fossil-calibrated phylogenetic analysis places their…”
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Evolution: Bedbugs Evolved before Their Assumed Ancestral Host by Booth, Warren

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Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects by Booth, Warren

“…Many indoor urban pest insects now show a near-global distribution. The reasons for this may be linked to their cryptic behaviors, which make unintentional…”
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ParthenoGenius: A User-Friendly Heuristic for Inferring Presence and Mechanism of Facultative Parthenogenesis from Genetic and Genomic Data Sets by Levine, Brenna A, Booth, Warren

“…Facultative parthenogenesis (FP), or asexual reproduction by sexually-reproducing female animals, has been reported across several clades of vertebrates and is…”
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The mitogenome of the bed bug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) by Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Foox, Jonathan, Rosenfeld, Jeffrey A., Brugler, Mercer R., Reeves, Darryl, Benoit, Joshua B., Booth, Warren, Robison, Grant, Steffen, Michael, Sakas, Zoe, Palli, Subba R., Schal, Coby, Richards, Stephen, Narechania, Apurva, Baker, Richard H., Sorkin, Louis N., Amato, George, Mason, Christopher E., Siddall, Mark E., DeSalle, Rob

“…We report the extraction of a bed bug mitogenome from high-throughput sequencing projects originally focused on the nuclear genome of Cimex lectularius. The…”
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ParthenoGenius : A user-friendly heuristic for inferring presence and mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis from genetic and genomic datasets by Levine, Brenna A, Booth, Warren

“…Facultative parthenogenesis (FP), or asexual reproduction by sexually reproducing female animals, has been reported across several clades of vertebrates and is…”
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The emerging phylogenetic pattern of parthenogenesis in snakes by Booth, Warren, Schuett, Gordon W.

“…Parthenogenesis occurs across a variety of vertebrate taxa. Within squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes), a group for which the largest number of cases has…”
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