Stomaching flatfish: How hormones regulate flounder stomach development
...evelopment of fish stomachs, specifically those of summer flounder. Specker will test the hypothesis that st...nes on cell proliferation and differentiation. In summer flounder, the stomach begins to develop during metamorphosis. Because flounder metamorphose into fla...Darwin Correspondence project receives Queen's Anniversary Prize
...f evolution. Porter spends about three months each summer at Cambridge. Prior to becoming project director, Porter served from 1991 until 1997 as senior editor. In this capacity, he helped edit volumes eight through 10 of the Correspondence. Now, as director of the correspondence project, he has done work...Non-native earthworms may be wiping out rare plants
... tiny ferns only send up leaves briefly during the summer (and often don't emerge at all), they are thought to get some of their energy from fungi in the forest floor instead of by photosynthesizing. To see if non-native earthworms are wiping out goblin ferns by eating the forest floor, Gundale studied 28 ...Outbreak of native oak borers threatens Ozark forests
...nnounced the results of a pilot study started this summer to quantify the extent of the outbreak. Designed t...f thousands of trees have died so far." During the summer of 2002, researchers installed a pilot study on 44 plots, primarily on National Forest land in Arkan...Warming study indicates water problems in the West
... likely will be faced with the choice of water for summer and fall hydroelectric power or spring and summer releases for salmon runs, but not both. Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative research, or ACPI...Ozone produced by antibodies during bacterial killing and in inflammation
...active gas is a hazardous component of smog in the summer months. Never before has ozone been detected in biology. "All our analytical data point to this oxidant possessing the chemical signature of ozone," says Wentworth, "in which case, this is a new molecule in biology and therefore may have tremendous...Polluted beach closures influenced by full moons and sunlight, surfer-engineer discovers
...Orange County's most popular surfing spots. In the summer of 1999, while Boehm was completing her doctoral t...of January, February and March than during the dry summer months of June, July and August when beach use is at its peak. The apparent cause of this seasonal d......s smell that rises from country marshes on sultry, summer evenings, or perhaps for more romantic types stories of Will-o'-the-Wisp, the flickering lights seen at night above that very same swamp (mundanely, methane igniting spontaneously with traces of odorous hydrogen sulfide found in the bog's rotting o...Global warming has uneven effect on coastal animals
...eed, large mussel mortality events occurred in the summer of 2002 in both Washington and Oregon. These results suggest that, all other factors being equal, the relative level of thermal stress observed between these sites will vary markedly over time."...UT Southwestern scientist helps identify neurons in worms that control link between stress, eating
...vis, another of the study's authors, when he was a summer undergraduate research fellow at UT Southwestern under the tutelage of Avery. Davis is currently a researcher at the University of Utah....UCR's Arturo Gmez-Pompa receives Honorary Researcher Award and the Gold Medal Merit Award
... the Human-Wildland Interface," to be published in summer 2003 by the Haworth Press, Inc. UC Riverside's department of botany and plant sciences is one of the largest academic departments of its kind in the country, with faculty, their students and postdoctoral associates, and Cooperative Extension research...Popular weed killer feminizes native leopard frogs across Midwest
...ches, rivers and streams in the Midwest during the summer of 2001 and found feminized male frogs at every site with measurable levels of atrazine. The current laboratory detection limit is 0.1 parts per billion (ppb). The sites were scattered through the Corn Belt and beyond, including in Utah, Wyoming, Neb...Research on lentiviruses to continue at Ohio State
...me." The paper published this summer also reported that before a neural cell can become infected with the virus, it must be associated with a specific type of lymphocyte, or immune cell. Lastly, the researchers discovered that ...Study predicts Amazon deforestation could affect climate in US
...pitation -- 10 percent to 15 percent -- during the summer in the Dakotas of the United States and in the Midwest Triangle of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Central America and the Gulf of Mexico also had reduced rainfall in the simulation, as did an area over the western Pacific Ocean and a region over th...UCLA study shows water reclamation could become an important source of future water supplies
...acterized by a climate of mild wet winters and dry summer conditions. This climate has led to the evolution of unique plant and animal species and habitats. The Southern California coast is the most critically endangered area within California. Its biodiversity exists adjacent to the second-largest urban ce...High school science teachers translate the latest research into classroom activities, lessons
...f geological sciences at Virginia Tech. During the summer of 2002, five teachers of high school biology, che... a book. Participants will visit campus during the summer and the school year, and a web site will be developed to facilitate continued contact. The paper, "N...New findings reconfirm toxicity of Pfiesteria cultures
...perts has refuted previous findings published last summer stating that Pfiesteria is not toxic to fish or humans. When they cultured the same strain of P. shumwayae studied by the dissenting scientists, it produced a toxin that killed fish within minutes. Dr. JoAnn Burkholder, director of North Carolina Sta...From moon rocks to space food: UH research spans 40 years
...e support for about two dozen faculty members each summer to participate in the NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, where they are directly involved with space program research projects at the Johnson Space Center. Faculty and a handful of students in areas such as engineering, physics, math and compute......ast skies. These conditions occurred earlier this summer in some parts of the state and triggered the fungal growth, Whitlock said. Fumonisin can cause leukoencephalomalacia (leuko) in horses, a fatal necrosis of the brain; after an animal has the symptoms, recovery is unlikely. The toxin also causes pul...UT Southwestern receives $2 million grant to purchase 30-ton superconducting magnet
...mpus. The researchers expect it to be installed by summer 2003. Rosen describes the device as a magnet that sits in a thermos of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium. It is encased in a steel shell to contain the magnetic field. "When you drop solutions of proteins into the center of a strong magnetic field, i...