Search Results - "Heimberg, Alysha M."
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Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-04-2011)“…Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles, wasps, and moths) that account for the majority of animal life on Earth. Diptera includes…”
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microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-11-2010)“…Hagfish and lampreys are the only living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (agnathans), and compared with jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), they…”
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MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-02-2008)“…The causal basis of vertebrate complexity has been sought in genome duplication events (GDEs) that occurred during the emergence of vertebrates, but evidence…”
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The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs
Published in Evolution & development (01-01-2009)“…SUMMARY microRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22‐nucleotide noncoding RNA regulatory genes that are key players in cellular differentiation and homeostasis…”
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MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade
Published in Biology letters (2005) (23-02-2012)“…Despite much interest in amniote systematics, the origin of turtles remains elusive. Traditional morphological phylogenetic analyses place turtles outside…”
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HIV Type 1 Infection in Women: Increased Transcription of HIV Type 1 in Ectocervical Tissue Explants
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-09-2009)“…BackgroundMucosal surfaces of the female reproductive tract are the main routes of heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1),…”
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king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-12-2013)“…Snakes are limbless predators, and many species use venom to help overpower relatively large, agile prey. Snake venoms are complex protein mixtures encoded by…”
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The dynamic genome of Hydra
Published in Nature (London) (25-03-2010)“…The freshwater cnidarian Hydra was first described in 1702 and has been the object of study for 300 years. Experimental studies of Hydra between 1736 and 1744…”
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miRNAs: small genes with big potential in metazoan phylogenetics
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-11-2013)“…microRNAs (miRNAs) are a key component of gene regulatory networks and have been implicated in the regulation of virtually every biological process found in…”
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Estradiol and progesterone regulate HIV type 1 replication in peripheral blood cells
Published in AIDS research and human retroviruses (01-05-2008)“…Endogenous levels of estradiol and progesterone fluctuate in the peripheral blood of premenopausal women during the reproductive cycle. We studied the effects…”
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