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Bowdoin College Catalogue (1910-1911)

Date: 1911-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 32


Fermions destabilize electroweak strings

Date: 1995-01-01

Creator: Stephen G. Naculich

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Z strings in the Weinberg-Salam model including fermions are unstable for all values of the parameters. The cause of this instability is the fermion vacuum energy in the Z-string background. Z strings with nonzero fermion densities, however, may still be stable. © 1995 The American Physical Society.


Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1936-1937

Date: 1937-01-01

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Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1947-1948

Date: 1948-01-01

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Circadian signaling in Homarus americanus: Region-specific de novo assembled transcriptomes show that both the brain and eyestalk ganglia possess the molecular components of a putative clock system

Date: 2018-07-01

Creator: Andrew E. Christie, Andy Yu, Micah G. Pascual, Vittoria Roncalli, Matthew C., Cieslak, Amanda N. Warner, Tess J. Lameyer, Meredith E. Stanhope, Patsy S. Dickinson, J. Joe Hull

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Essentially all organisms exhibit recurring patterns of physiology/behavior that oscillate with a period of ~24-h and are synchronized to the solar day. Crustaceans are no exception, with robust circadian rhythms having been documented in many members of this arthropod subphylum. However, little is known about the molecular underpinnings of their circadian rhythmicity. Moreover, the location of the crustacean central clock has not been firmly established, although both the brain and eyestalk ganglia have been hypothesized as loci. The American lobster, Homarus americanus, is known to exhibit multiple circadian rhythms, and immunodetection data suggest that its central clock is located within the eyestalk ganglia rather than in the brain. Here, brain- and eyestalk ganglia-specific transcriptomes were generated and used to assess the presence/absence of transcripts encoding the commonly recognized protein components of arthropod circadian signaling systems in these two regions of the lobster central nervous system. Transcripts encoding putative homologs of the core clock proteins clock, cryptochrome 2, cycle, period and timeless were found in both the brain and eyestalk ganglia assemblies, as were transcripts encoding similar complements of putative clock-associated, clock input pathway and clock output pathway proteins. The presence and identity of transcripts encoding core clock proteins in both regions were confirmed using PCR. These findings suggest that both the brain and eyestalk ganglia possess all of the molecular components needed for the establishment of a circadian signaling system. Whether the brain and eyestalk clocks are independent of one another or represent a single timekeeping system remains to be determined. Interestingly, while most of the proteins deduced from the identified transcripts are shared by both the brain and eyestalk ganglia, assembly-specific isoforms were also identified, e.g., several period variants, suggesting the possibility of region-specific variation in clock function, especially if the brain and eyestalk clocks represent independent oscillators.


Bowdoin College Catalogue (1924-1925)

Date: 1925-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 137


Bowdoin College Catalogue (1944-1945)

Date: 1945-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 273


Miniature of Radiation-induced changes in gene expression in <i>Sciara coprophila</i>
Radiation-induced changes in gene expression in Sciara coprophila
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    Date: 2021-01-01

    Creator: Kodie R Garza

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      Inclusive and exclusive decays of B mesons to final states including charm and charmonium mesons

      Date: 1992-01-01

      Creator: D. Bortoletto, D. N. Brown, J. Dominick, R. L. McIlwain, D. H., Miller, M. Modesitt, E. I. Shibata, S. Schaffner, I. P.J. Shipsey, M. Battle, H. Kroha, K. Sparks, E. H. Thorndike, C. H. Wang, M. Goldberg, T. Haupt, N. Horwitz, V. Jain, G. C. Moneti, Y. Rozen, P. Rubin, T. Skwarnicki, V. Sharma, S. Stone, M. Thusalidas, W. M. Yao, G. Zhu, A. V. Barnes, J. Bartelt, S. E. Csorna, T. Letson

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      We have studied hadronic decays of B mesons. We report measurements of exclusive branching ratios of several charm decay modes of B mesons to final states with a D or D* and one to three charged pions or a charged and to final states with a or , a kaon, and up to two charged pions. We have also measured inclusive branching ratios for B decays to D and D* and the spectra of these particles in B decays. The total charm content in B decay is found to be (10112)%. The branching ratios and spectra are compared to form-factor models. We extract the parameters a1 and a2 of the model of Bauer, Stech, and Wirbel and the DS decay constant. The masses of the B0 and B- mesons are measured. The mass difference between B0 and B- is found to be -0.40.60.5 MeV/c2. © 1992 The American Physical Society.


      The 10kb Drosophila virus 28S rDNA intervening sequence is flanked by a disect repeat of 14 base pairs of coding sequence

      Date: 1980-08-25

      Creator: Peter M.M. Rae, Bruce D. Kohorn, Robert P. Wade

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      Most repeat units of rDNA in Drosophila virilis are interrupted in the 28S rRNA coding region by an intervening sequence about 10 kb in length; uninterrupted repeats have a length of about 11 kb. We have sequenced the coding/intervening sequence junctions and flanking regions in two independent clones of interrupted rDNA, and the corresponding 28S rRNA coding region in a clone of uninterrupted rDNA. The intervening sequence is terminated at both ends by a direct repeat of a fourteen nucleotide sequence that is present once in the corresponding region of an intact gene. This is a phenomenon associated with transposable elements in other eukaryotes and in prokaryotes, and the Drosophila rDNA intervening sequence is discussed in this context. We have compared more than 200 nucleotides of the D. virilis 28S rRNA gene with sequences of homologous regions of rDNA in Tetrahymena pigmentosa (Wild and Sommer, 1980) and Xenopus laevis (Gourse and Gerbi, 1980): There is 93% sequence homology among the diverse species, so that the rDNA region in question (about two-thirds of the way into the 28S rRNA coding sequence) has been very highly conserved in eukaryote evolution. The intervening sequence in T. pigmentosa is at a site 79 nucleotides upstream from the insertion site of the Drosophila intervening sequence. © 1980 IRL Press Limited.