Group 23: Competitiveness of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

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Group 17: Estimating the Age of Crown Birds’ MRCA

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Group 29: The mechanisms of Sepsis in Infants and how probiotics work to prevent infection.

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Group 12:Telomere length is reflected by plumage coloration and predicts seasonal reproductive success in the barn swallow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KgpitlLOw

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Group 26: A single mutation in the prM protein of Zika virus contributes to fetal microcephaly

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The Avian Lilliput Effect (Group 20)

The Lilliput Effect is a theory that explains why species significantly decrease in size following mass extinctions. This video goes through the methodology towards proving this hypothesis and the results that were obtained.

 

http://youtu.be/RVCIqBUsvYk

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Group 41: Structure of Histone-Based Chromatin in Archaea

A video analyzing Mattiroli’s Structure of Histone-Based Chromatin in Archaea, which discusses how Archaea and Eukarya wrap their DNA around histones in similar manners.

 

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Group 25 – Single mutation in prM protein of Zika virus contributes to fetal microcephaly

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Group 35: Selective Targeting of the Warburg Effect through GAPDH Inhibition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQ2jHRH-I8

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Group 8 Cellular Stress Response due to Species Interaction

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Alex R. Gunderson, Emily E. King, Kirsten Boyer, Brian Tsukimura, Jonathon H. Stillman; Species as Stressors: Heterospecific Interactions and the Cellular Stress Response under Global Change, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 July 2017, Pages 90–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx019

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Brien ML, Lang JW, Webb GJ, Stevenson C, Christian KA (2013) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Agonistic Behaviour in Juvenile Crocodilians. PLoS ONE8(12): e80872. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080872

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S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor, H.L. Miller (Eds.), Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2007), p. 996  (Increase in  mean ocean interior temperature per decade, by >0.1°C since 1961)

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