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Surface symmetries and PSL2(p)
Date: 2007-05-01
Creator: Murad Özaydin, Charlotte Simmons, Jennifer Taback
Access: Open access
- We classify, up to conjugacy, all orientation-preserving actions of PSL2(p) on closed connected orientable surfaces with spherical quotients. This classification is valid in the topological, PL, smooth, conformal, geometric and algebraic categories and is related to the Inverse Galois Problem. © 2006 American Mathematical Society.
Bowdoin College - Medical School of Maine Catalogue (1907-1908)
Date: 1908-01-01
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- Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 12
Social Learning Strategies: Bridge-Building between Fields
Date: 2018-07-01
Creator: Rachel L. Kendal, Neeltje J. Boogert, Luke Rendell, Kevin N. Laland, Mike, Webster, Patricia L. Jones
Access: Open access
- While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial. Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by following 'social learning strategies’ (SLSs). The SLS concept has stimulated extensive experimental work, integrated theory, and empirical findings, and created impetus to the social learning and cultural evolution fields. However, the SLS concept needs updating to accommodate recent findings that individuals switch between strategies flexibly, that multiple strategies are deployed simultaneously, and that there is no one-to-one correspondence between psychological heuristics deployed and resulting population-level patterns. The field would also benefit from the simultaneous study of mechanism and function. SLSs provide a useful vehicle for bridge-building between cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.
Erratum: Context-dependent protein stabilization by methionine-to- leucine substitution shown in T4 lysozyme (Protein Science (November 3, 1998) 7:3 (772))
Date: 1998-01-01
Creator: L. A. Lipscomb, N. C. Gassner, S. D. Snow, A. M. Eldridge, W. A., Baase, D. L. Drew, B. W. Matthews
Access: Open access
Bowdoin College Catalogue (1928-1929)
Date: 1929-01-01
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- Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 178
Mitochondrial genotype influences the response to cold stress in the European green crab, Carcinus maenas
Date: 2019-01-01
Creator: Aidan F. Coyle, Erin R. Voss, Carolyn K. Tepolt, David B. Carlon
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- Hybrid zones provide natural experiments in recombination within and between genomes that may have strong effects on organismal fitness. On the East Coast of North America, two distinct lineages of the European green crab (Carcinus maenas) have been introduced in the last two centuries. These two lineages with putatively different adaptive properties have hybridized along the coast of the eastern Gulf of Maine, producing new nuclear and mitochondrial combinations that show clinal variation correlated with water temperature. To test the hypothesis that mitochondrial or nuclear genes have effects on thermal tolerance, we first measured the response to cold stress in crabs collected throughout the hybrid zone, then sequenced the mitochondrial CO1 gene and two nuclear single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) representative of nuclear genetic lineage. Mitochondrial haplotype had a strong association with the ability of crabs to right themselves at 4.5°C that was sex specific: haplotypes originally from northern Europe gave male crabs an advantage while there was no haplotype effect on righting in female crabs. By contrast, the two nuclear SNPs that were significant outliers in a comparison between northern and southern C. maenas populations had no effect on righting response at low temperature. These results add C. maenas to the shortlist of ectotherms in which mitochondrial variation has been shown to affect thermal tolerance, and suggest that natural selection is shaping the structure of the hybrid zone across the Gulf of Maine. Our limited genomic sampling does not eliminate the strong possibility that mito-nuclear co-adaptation may play a role in the differences in thermal phenotypes documented here. Linkage between mitochondrial genotype and thermal tolerance suggests a role for local adaptation in promoting the spread of invasive populations of C. maenas around the world.
Semileptonic branching fractions of charged and neutral B mesons
Date: 1994-01-01
Creator: M. Athanas, W. Brower, G. Masek, H. P. Paar, J., Gronberg, R. Kutschke, S. Menary, R. J. Morrison, S. Nakanishi, H. N. Nelson, T. K. Nelson, C. Qiao, J. D. Richman, A. Ryd, H. Tajima, D. Sperka, M. S. Witherell, R. Balest, K. Cho, W. T. Ford, D. R. Johnson, K. Lingel, M. Lohner, P. Rankin, J. G. Smith, J. P. Alexander, C. Bebek, K. Berkelman, K. Bloom, T. E. Browder, D. G. Cassel
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- An examination of leptons in (4S) events tagged by reconstructed B meson decays yields semileptonic branching fractions of b-=(10.1±1.8±1. 5)% for charged and b0=(10.9±0.7±1.1)% for neutral B mesons. This is the first measurement for charged B mesons. Assuming equality of the charged and neutral semileptonic widths, the ratio b-b0=0.93±0.18±0.12 is equivalent to the ratio of lifetimes. © 1994 The American Physical Society.