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Bowdoin College Catalogue (1942-1943)

Date: 1943-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 266


An Arabidopsis cell wall-associated kinase required for invertase activity and cell growth

Date: 2006-04-01

Creator: Bruce D. Kohorn, Masaru Kobayashi, Sue Johansen, Jeff Riese, Li Fen, Huang, Karen Koch, Sarita Fu, Anjali Dotson, Nicole Byers

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The wall-associated kinases (WAK), a family of five proteins that contain extracellular domains that can be linked to pectin molecules of the cell wall, span the plasma membrane and have a cytoplasmic serine/threonine kinase domain. Previous work has shown that a reduction in WAK protein levels leads to a loss of cell expansion, indicating that these receptor-like proteins have a role in cell shape formation. Here it is shown that a single wak2 mutation exhibits a dependence on sugars and salts for seedling growth. This mutation also reduces the expression and activity of vacuolar invertase, often a key factor in turgor and expansion. WAKs may thus provide a molecular mechanism linking cell wall sensing (via pectin attachment) to regulation of solute metabolism, which in turn is known to be involved in turgor maintenance in growing cells. © 2006 The Authors.


A note on convexity properties of Thompson's group F

Date: 2012-01-01

Creator: Matthew Horak, Melanie Stein, Jennifer Taback

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We prove that Thompson's group F is not minimally almost convex with respect to any generating set which is a subset of the standard infinite generating set for F and which contains x1. We use this to show that F is not almost convex with respect to any generating set which is a subset of the standard infinite generating set, generalizing results in [4]. © Gruyter 2012.



Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1934-1935

Date: 1935-01-01

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Salton Collection : Renaissance & Baroque Medals & Plaquettes

Date: 1965-01-01

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"The present collection ... belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Salton of New York." "One thousand five hundred copies of this catalogue have been printed ... Composiiton by the Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. Photography by John McKee. Design by Leonard Baskin. January MCMLXX"--Colophon A revised edition of this catalogue published in 1969 is also available.


Bowdoin College Catalogue (1905-1906)

Date: 1906-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 5


Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1976-1977

Date: 1977-01-01

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The use of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium in clonal plant systems

Date: 2016-02-01

Creator: Vladimir Douhovnikoff, Matthew Leventhal

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Traditionally population genetics precludes the use of the same genetic individual more than once in Hardy-Weinberg (HW) based calculations due to the model's explicit assumptions. However, when applied to clonal plant populations this can be difficult to do, and in some circumstances, it may be ecologically informative to use the ramet as the data unit. In fact, ecologists have varied the definition of the individual from a strict adherence to a single data point per genotype to a more inclusive approach of one data point per ramet. With the advent of molecular tools, the list of facultatively clonal plants and the recognition of their ecological relevance grows. There is an important risk of misinterpretation when HW calculations are applied to a clonal plant not recognized as clonal, as well as when the definition of the individual for those calculations is not clearly stated in a known clonal species. Focusing on heterozygosity values, we investigate cases that demonstrate the extreme range of potential modeling outcomes and describe the different contexts where a particular definition could better meet ecological modeling goals. We emphasize that the HW model can be ecologically relevant when applied to clonal plants, but caution is necessary in how it is used, reported, and interpreted. We propose that in known clonal plants, both genotype (GHet) and ramet (RHet) based calculations are reported to define the full range of potential values and better facilitate cross-study comparisons.


Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1979-1980

Date: 1980-01-01

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