Browsing 2008 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Biological sciences (MU)"
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Effects of riparian buffer width on stream salamander populations in the southern Appalachian Mountains
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Salamanders in the Appalachian region have been extensively studied, but the majority of research assessing the impacts of logging has focused on terrestrial species that are not dependent on stream habitats for egg ... -
Generating temperature sensitive inteins for studying gene functions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Reversible and easy to use, temperature-sensitive (TS) mutations, are powerful tools to study the functions of all genes, including essential and pleiotropic ones. However, the rarity of TS alleles and the difficulty of ... -
Spinal cord injury induces changes in ion channels of reticulospinal neurons in larval lamprey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)After spinal cord injury in larval lamprey, RS neurons regenerate their axons (Davis and McClellan, 1994a,b), restore synaptic contacts and most of the original locomotor functions (McClellan, 1998). It was previously ...