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The Midsession Reversal Task with Pigeons Does a Brief Delay Between Choice and Reinforcement Facilitate Reversal Learning? by Halloran, Megan A., Zentall, Thomas R.

“…•Optimal choice on the midsession reversal uses a win-stay/lose-shift strategy•Pigeons choose suboptimally making both anticipatory and perseverative…”
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Tuning CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Drives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Roggenkamp, Emily, Giersch, Rachael M, Schrock, Madison N, Turnquist, Emily, Halloran, Megan, Finnigan, Gregory C

“…Control of biological populations is an ongoing challenge in many fields, including agriculture, biodiversity, ecological preservation, pest control, and the…”
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Reconstructed evolutionary history of the yeast septins Cdc11 and Shs1 by Takagi, Julie, Cho, Christina, Duvalyan, Angela, Yan, Yao, Halloran, Megan, Hanson-Smith, Victor, Thorner, Jeremy, Finnigan, Gregory C

“…Septins are GTP-binding proteins conserved across metazoans. They can polymerize into extended filaments and, hence, are considered a component of the…”
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CRISPR-UnLOCK: Multipurpose Cas9-Based Strategies for Conversion of Yeast Libraries and Strains by Roggenkamp, Emily, Giersch, Rachael M, Wedeman, Emily, Eaton, Muriel, Turnquist, Emily, Schrock, Madison N, Alkotami, Linah, Jirakittisonthon, Thitikan, Schluter-Pascua, Samantha E, Bayne, Gareth H, Wasko, Cory, Halloran, Megan, Finnigan, Gregory C

“…continues to serve as a powerful model system for both basic biological research and industrial application. The development of genome-wide collections of…”
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Modulating CRISPR gene drive activity through nucleocytoplasmic localization of Cas9 in S. cerevisiae by Goeckel, Megan E, Basgall, Erianna M, Lewis, Isabel C, Goetting, Samantha C, Yan, Yao, Halloran, Megan, Finnigan, Gregory C

“…The bacterial CRISPR/Cas genome editing system has provided a major breakthrough in molecular biology. One use of this technology is within a nuclease-based…”
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Midsession Reversal Learning: Pigeons Learn What Stimulus to Avoid by Zentall, Thomas R, Halloran, Megan, Peng, Daniel

“…The midsession reversal task involves a simple simultaneous discrimination in which, each session, choice of 1 stimulus (S1) is correct for the first 40 trials…”
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Gene drive inhibition by the anti-CRISPR proteins AcrIIA2 and AcrIIA4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Basgall, Erianna M, Goetting, Samantha C, Goeckel, Megan E, Giersch, Rachael M, Roggenkamp, Emily, Schrock, Madison N, Halloran, Megan, Finnigan, Gregory C

“…Given the widespread use and application of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas gene editing system across many fields,…”
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Animal procrastination: Pigeons choose to defer experiencing an aversive gap or a peck requirement by Zentall, Thomas R., Peng, Daniel, House, Dalton, Halloran, Megan

“…When humans procrastinate, they delay completing a required relatively aversive task. In the present experiments with pigeons, we considered the possibility…”
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mTOR Signaling Upregulates CDC6 via Suppressing miR-3178 and Promotes the Loading of DNA Replication Helicase by Wu, Xianjin, Li, Shenghua, Hu, Xing, Xiang, Xiaoliang, Halloran, Megan, Yang, Linlin, Williams, Terence M., Houghton, Peter J., Shen, Changxian, He, Zhengfu

“…mTOR signaling pathway is deregulated in most cancers and uncontrolled cell cycle progression is a hallmark of cancer cell. However, the precise molecular…”
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Corrigendum: Gene drive inhibition by the anti-CRISPR proteins AcrIIA2 and AcrIIA4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Basgall, Erianna M, Goetting, Samantha C, Goeckel, Megan E, Giersch, Rachael M, Roggenkamp, Emily, Schrock, Madison N, Halloran, Megan, Finnigan, Gregory C

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Nutrient scavenging-fueled growth in pancreatic cancer depends on caveolae-mediated endocytosis under nutrient-deprived conditions by Wolfe, Adam R, Cui, Tiantian, Baie, Sooin, Corrales-Guerrero, Sergio, Webb, Amy, Castro-Aceituno, Veronica, Shyu, Duan-Liang, Karasinska, Joanna M, Topham, James T, Renouf, Daniel J, Schaeffer, David F, Halloran, Megan, Packard, Rebecca, Robb, Ryan, Chen, Wei, Denko, Nicholas, Lisanti, Michael, Thompson, Timothy C, Frank, Philippe, Williams, Terence M

“…Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by its nutrient-scavenging ability, crucial for tumor progression. Here, we investigated the roles of…”
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Characterization of Bud3 domains sufficient for bud neck targeting in S. cerevisiae by Schrock, Madison N, Yan, Yao, Goeckel, Megan E, Basgall, Erianna M, Lewis, Isabel C, Leonard, Katherine G, Halloran, Megan, Finnigan, Gregory C

“…The cytoskeleton serves a diverse set of functions in both multi- and unicellular organisms, including movement, transport, morphology, cell division and cell…”
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Immigration Status, Employment, and Eligibility for Public Benefits among Latin American Immigrants in Massachusetts by Miren Uriarte, Phillip J. Granberry, Megan Halloran

“…The movement of people—and their adaptation and integration to a new society—remains a topic as timely and as fascinating as the first time that historians and…”
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