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Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict, and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus by Merkley, Eric

“…Overlooked in analyses of why the public often rejects expert consensus is the role of the news media. News coverage of expert consensus on general matters of…”
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Learning from Divided Parties? Legislator Dissent as a Cue for Opinion Formation by Merkley, Eric

“…Abstract Scholars have generally seen united parties as normatively desirable. However, little work has explored the implications of divided parties for public…”
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Framing Climate Change: Economics, Ideology, and Uncertainty in American News Media Content From 1988 to 2014 by Stecula, Dominik A., Merkley, Eric

“…The news media play an influential role in shaping public attitudes on a wide range of issues—climate change included. As climate change has risen in salience,…”
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Distance restraints from crosslinking mass spectrometry: Mining a molecular dynamics simulation database to evaluate lysine–lysine distances by Merkley, Eric D., Rysavy, Steven, Kahraman, Abdullah, Hafen, Ryan P., Daggett, Valerie, Adkins, Joshua N.

“…Integrative structural biology attempts to model the structures of protein complexes that are challenging or intractable by classical structural methods (due…”
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The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: Understanding the role of news and social media by Aengus Bridgman, Eric Merkley, Peter John Loewen, Taylor Owen, Derek Ruths, Lisa Teichmann, Oleg Zhilin

“…We investigate the relationship between media consumption, misinformation, and important attitudes and behaviours during the coronavirus disease 2019…”
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Flying blind, or just flying under the radar? The underappreciated power of de novo methods of mass spectrometric peptide identification by O'Bryon, Isabelle, Jenson, Sarah C., Merkley, Eric D.

“…Mass spectrometry‐based proteomics is a popular and powerful method for precise and highly multiplexed protein identification. The most common method of…”
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Assessment of Communication Strategies for Mitigating COVID-19 Vaccine-Specific Hesitancy in Canada by Merkley, Eric, Loewen, Peter John

“…Importance Ensuring widespread uptake of available COVID-19 vaccinations, each with different safety and efficacy profiles, is essential to combating the…”
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Dynamic role of personality in explaining COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and refusal by Baker, Melissa N, Merkley, Eric

“…Vaccine hesitancy and refusal are threats to sufficient response to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health efforts more broadly. We focus on personal…”
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Applications and challenges of forensic proteomics by Merkley, Eric D., Wunschel, David S., Wahl, Karen L., Jarman, Kristin H.

“…•Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is well established in the fundamental life sciences.•Proteomics has many current emerging applications biological…”
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Identification and Characterization of MtoA: A Decaheme c-Type Cytochrome of the Neutrophilic Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 by Liu, Juan, Wang, Zheming, Belchik, Sara M, Edwards, Marcus J, Liu, Chongxuan, Kennedy, David W, Merkley, Eric D, Lipton, Mary S, Butt, Julea N, Richardson, David J, Zachara, John M, Fredrickson, James K, Rosso, Kevin M, Shi, Liang

“…The Gram-negative bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 (ES-1) grows on FeCO(3) or FeS at oxic-anoxic interfaces at circumneutral pH, and the…”
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Uncovering Hidden Members and Functions of the Soil Microbiome Using De Novo Metaproteomics by Lee, Joon-Yong, Mitchell, Hugh D., Burnet, Meagan C., Wu, Ruonan, Jenson, Sarah C., Merkley, Eric D., Nakayasu, Ernesto S., Nicora, Carrie D., Jansson, Janet K., Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E., Payne, Samuel H.

“…Metaproteomics has been increasingly utilized for high-throughput characterization of proteins in complex environments and has been demonstrated to provide…”
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Mutations in global regulators lead to metabolic selection during adaptation to complex environments by Saxer, Gerda, Krepps, Michael D, Merkley, Eric D, Ansong, Charles, Deatherage Kaiser, Brooke L, Valovska, Marie-Thérèse, Ristic, Nikola, Yeh, Ping T, Prakash, Vittal P, Leiser, Owen P, Nakhleh, Luay, Gibbons, Henry S, Kreuzer, Helen W, Shamoo, Yousif

“…Adaptation to ecologically complex environments can provide insights into the evolutionary dynamics and functional constraints encountered by organisms during…”
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Quantifying contact patterns in response to COVID-19 public health measures in Canada by Brankston, Gabrielle, Merkley, Eric, Fisman, David N, Tuite, Ashleigh R, Poljak, Zvonimir, Loewen, Peter J, Greer, Amy L

“…Abstract Background A variety of public health measures have been implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada to reduce contact between individuals. The…”
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The succinated proteome by Merkley, Eric D., Metz, Thomas O., Smith, Richard D., Baynes, John W., Frizzell, Norma

“…The post‐translational modifications (PTMs) of cysteine residues include oxidation, S‐glutathionylation, S‐nitrosylation, and succination, all of which modify…”
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Anti-Intellectualism, Populism, and Motivated Resistance to Expert Consensus by Merkley, Eric

“…Abstract Scholars have maintained that public attitudes often diverge from expert consensus due to ideology-driven motivated reasoning. However, this is not a…”
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Protein abundances can distinguish between naturally-occurring and laboratory strains of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague by Merkley, Eric D, Sego, Landon H, Lin, Andy, Leiser, Owen P, Kaiser, Brooke L Deatherage, Adkins, Joshua N, Keim, Paul S, Wagner, David M, Kreuzer, Helen W

“…The rapid pace of bacterial evolution enables organisms to adapt to the laboratory environment with repeated passage and thus diverge from naturally-occurring…”
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Investigation of Yersinia pestis Laboratory Adaptation through a Combined Genomics and Proteomics Approach by Leiser, Owen P, Merkley, Eric D, Clowers, Brian H, Deatherage Kaiser, Brooke L, Lin, Andy, Hutchison, Janine R, Melville, Angela M, Wagner, David M, Keim, Paul S, Foster, Jeffrey T, Kreuzer, Helen W

“…The bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague in humans and animals, normally has a sylvatic lifestyle, cycling between fleas and mammals. In…”
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Probabilistic Limit of Detection for Ricin Identification Using a Shotgun Proteomics Assay by Heller, Natalie C, Garrett, Alaine M, Merkley, Eric D, Cendrowski, Stephen R, Melville, Angela M, Arce, Jennifer S, Jenson, Sarah C, Wahl, Karen L, Jarman, Kristin H

“…Robust and highly specific methods for the detection of the protein toxin ricin are of interest to the law enforcement community. In previous studies, methods…”
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Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics by van der Kamp, Marc W., Schaeffer, R. Dustin, Jonsson, Amanda L., Scouras, Alexander D., Simms, Andrew M., Toofanny, Rudesh D., Benson, Noah C., Anderson, Peter C., Merkley, Eric D., Rysavy, Steven, Bromley, Dennis, Beck, David A.C., Daggett, Valerie

“…The dynamic behavior of proteins is important for an understanding of their function and folding. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations of the…”
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Uniformly 15N‑Labeled Recombinant Ricin A‑Chain as an Internal Retention Time Standard for Increased Confidence in Forensic Identification of Ricin by Untargeted Nanoflow Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Merkley, Eric D, Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E, Anderson, Lindsey N, Jenson, Sarah C, Wahl, Karen L

“…Ricin, a toxic protein from the castor plant, is of forensic and biosecurity interest because of its high toxicity and common occurrence in crimes and…”
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