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Mother Knows Best? Effects of Plant Flooding on Beet Armyworm Ecology.
No full textAccording to the preference-performance hypothesis also known as ‘mother knows best’, female oviposition preference often correlates with offspring performance. This hypothesis has been tested using few stressors; therefore, this study focuses on testing the validity of the ‘Preferences-Performance Hypothesis’ using flooding as stressor. Climate change has intensified plant stressors including flooding which can affect plant quality and suitability for oviposition and insect development. Previous studies have shown that flooding can alter non-volatile metabolites (Phenolics) and the emission of Volatile Organic Compounds in plants. However, whether altered metabolites and volatile emissions impact oviposition performance and offspring development has not been investigated
The Effects of Polyethylene and Polypropylene Microplastics on Daphnia dentifera
No full textResearch Question: What are the effects of polyethylene and polypropylene microplastics on the size, swim speed, and clonal growth rate of Daphnia dentifera
Stephen J. Lippard: Chemistry Meets Medicine
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In DNA Sequence Context Modulates the Impact of a Cisplatin 1,2-GpG Intrastrand Cross-Link , Pilch, Todd, and Lippard found that the DNA sequence around the binding site influences how tightly cisplatin binds (Pilch, Todd, and Lippard).
Biophysical techniques like melting temperature and circular dichroism showed that some sequences stabilize DNA more strongly after drug binding (Pilch, Todd, and Lippard).
This explains why cisplatin is more effective in some tumor genomes (Todd and Lippard)
