Biological Sciences Department faculty research and scholarly activities reflect the social and cultural relevance of their work. Faculty are continuously engaged in projects funded by private, state and federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research and the National Institutes of Health. Robust faculty research programs provide opportunities for co-authorship with colleagues, domestically and internationally, and with Cal Poly graduate and undergraduate students.
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Submissions from 2007
Availability of Dissolved Organic Matter Offsets Metabolic Costs of a Protracted Larval Period for Bugula neritina (Bryozoa), Collin H. Johnson and Dean E. Wendt
The long and winding road: influences of intracellular metabolite diffusion on cellular organization and metabolism in skeletal muscle, Stephen T. Kinsey, Kristin M. Hardy, and Bruce R. Locke
Environmental and genetic influences on mating strategies along a replicated food availability gradient in guppies (Poecilia reticulata), Gita R. Kolluru, Gregory F. Grether, and Heidy Contreras
Neural defects and cardiac arrhythmia in fish larvae following embryonic exposure to 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether (PBDE 47), Sean C. Lema, Irvin R. Schultz, Nathaniel L. Scholz, John P. Incardona, and Penny Swanson
The Relationship Between Disperal Ability and Geographic Range Size, Sarah E. Lester, Benjamin I. Ruttenberg, Steven D. Gaines, and Brian P. Kinlan
The Role of Local and Regional Processes in Structuring Larval Dragonfly Distributions Across Habitat Gradients, S J. McCauley
A Novel lux Operon in the Cryptically Bioluminescent Fish Pathogen Vibrio salmonicida Is Associated with Virulence, Eric J. Nelson, Hege S. Tunsjø, Pat M. Fidopiastis, Henning Sørum, and Edward G. Ruby
Bioluminescence in a Complex Coastal Environment: 2. Prediction of Bioluminescent Source Depth From Spectral Water-leaving Radiance, Matthew J. Oliver, Mark A. Moline, Curtis D. Mobley, Lydia Sundman, and Oscar M.E. Schofield
Recombination and Positive Selection Contribute to Evolution of Listeria monocytogenes inlA, R. H. Orsi, D. R. Ripoll, M. Yeung, K. K. Nightingale, and M. Wiedmann
Genetic evidence for the persistence of the critically endangered Sierra Nevada red fox in California, John D. Perrine, John P. Pollinger, Benjamin N. Sacks, Reginald H. Barrett, and Robert K. Wayne
Biofouling Likely Serves as a Major Mode of Dispersal for the Polychaete Tubeworm Hydroides elegans as Inferred From Microsatellite Loci, J. B. Pettengill, D. E. Wendt, M. D. Schug, and M. G. Hadfield
Arbor Day Confusion, William D. Stansfield
Counterproductive Mix of Science and Theology: Review of Astronomy and the Bible - Questions and Answers by Donald B. DeYoung, William D. Stansfield
Fuzzy Data Sets, William D. Stansfield
The PhD Degree and Biblical Fundamentalism, William D. Stansfield
Human Sex Ratios and Sex Distribution in Sibships of Size 2, William D. Stansfield and Matthew A. Carlton
Discriminant Function Analysis in Marine Ecology: Some Oversights and their Solutions, J. Wilson White and Benjamin I. Ruttenberg
Compartmentalization of the Broad-Range Phospholipase C Activity to the Spreading Vacuole is Critical for Listeria monocytogenes Virulence, P.S. Marie Yeung, Yoojin Na, Amanda J. Kreuder, and Helene Marquis
Evaluation of a Tissue Culture-Based Approach for Differentiating between Virulent and Avirulent Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains Based on Cytotoxicity, P.S. Marie Yeung, Martin Wiedmann, and Kathryn J. Boor
Submissions from 2006
The Lasthenia Californica Story: It Started with Flavonoids, Bruce A. Bohm and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Analysis of Treatment Effects on the Microbial Ecology of the Human Intestine, Anna L. Engelbrektson, Joshua R. Korzenik, Mary Ellen Sanders, Brian G. Clement, Gregory Leyer, Todd R. Klaenhammer, and Christopher L. Kitts
Characterizing the resident, fermentative microbial consortium in the hindgut of the temperate-zone herbivorous fish, Hermosilla azurea (Teleostei: Kyphosidae), Pat M. Fidopiastis, Daniel J. Bezdek, Michael H. Horn, and Judith S. Kandel
Fossil History of Billfishes (Xiphioidei), Harry L. Fierstine
A reaction–diffusion analysis of energetics in large muscle fibers secondarily evolved for aerobic locomotor function, Kristin M. Hardy, Bruce R. Locke, Marilia Da Silva, and Stephen T. Kinsey
The Impacts of Climate Change in Coastal Marine Systems, Christopher D.G. Harley, A. Randall Hughes, Kristin M. Hultgren, Benjamin G. Miner, Cascade J.B. Sorte, Carol S. Thornber, Laura F. Rodriguez, Lars Tomanek, and Susan L. Williams