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500 Years of Printmaking: Prints and Illustrated Books at Bowdoin College

Date: 1978-01-01

Creator: David P. Becker

Access: Open access

Exhibition held Oct. 13-Dec. 31, 1978. Preface by Katherine J. Watson.


Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1995-1996

Date: 1996-01-01

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Evolution of the interaction between Hox genes and a downstream target

Date: 1998-05-07

Creator: Michael F. Palopoli, Nipam H. Patel

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Segmental identifies along the insect body depend on the activities of Hox genes [1,2]. In Drosophila melanogaster, one well-studied Hox regulatory target is Distal-less (DII), which Is required for the development of distel limb structures [3]. In abdominal segments, DII transcription is prevented when Hox proteins of the Bithorax Complex (BX-C) bind to cis-regulatory elements upstream of the DII transcription start site [4,5]. Previous evolutionary comparisons of gene expression patterns suggest that this direct repression is conserved between Diptera and Lepidoptera, but is absent in the Crustacea [6,7]. We examined gene expression patterns in three orders of hexapods, all of which develop abdominal appendages, in order to determine when the strong repressive interaction between BX-C proteins and DII appeared during evolution. In each of the species examined, DII expression was initiated in abdominal cells despite the presence of high levels of BX-C proteins. It appears that the strong repressive effects of BX-C proteins on DII expression arose relatively late in insect evolution. We suggest that the regulatory interaction between the BX-C genes and DII has evolved within the hexapods in a complex, segment-specific manner.


Michael Oakeshott as Liberal Theorist

Date: 1990-01-01

Creator: Paul Franco

Access: Open access



Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1999-2000

Date: 2000-01-01

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Lipschitzian multifunctions and a Lipschitzian inverse mapping theorem

Date: 2001-01-01

Creator: A.B. Levy

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Interest groups in electoral politics: 2012 in context

Date: 2012-12-01

Creator: Michael M. Franz

Access: Open access

This paper compares the levels of ad spending from outside groups and traditional party organizations across seven federal election cycles. The data show clearly that outside groups advertised at historic levels in 2012. Such intense efforts send two important signals to students of American campaign finance. The first involves a crisis in the system of limited donations to candidates and party committees moving forward. The second resurrects an old debate in political science about whether parties or candidates should be the center of our electoral process. The paper concludes with a consideration of possible reforms that might help restore parties and candidates to the center of issue debates in competitive federal elections.


Collecting Privately

Date: 1965-01-01

Access: Open access

Exhibition catalogue from Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


Peatlands and their role in the global carbon cycle

Date: 2011-04-20

Creator: Zicheng Yu, D. W. Beilman, S. Frolking, G. M. MacDonald, N. T., Roulet, P. Camill, D. J. Charman

Access: Open access

Global peatlands store a very large carbon (C) pool located within a few meters of the atmosphere. Thus, peatland-atmosphere C exchange should be a major concern to global change scientists: Will large amounts of respired belowground C be released in a warmer climate, causing the climate to further warm (a positive climate feedback)? Will more C be sequestered due to increased plant growth in a warmer climate? How will land use change, fires, and permafrost thaw affect the magnitude and direction of carbon dioxide (CO ) and methane (CH ) exchange with the atmosphere? These questions remain challenging, but some significant progress has been made recently. 2 4