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 2003
Small heat shock protein responses of a closely related pair of desert and coastal Encelia, Charles A. Knight and David D. Ackerly
When Does a Reproducing Female Viper (Vipera aspis) ‘Decide’ on her Litter Size?, Olivier Lourdais, Xavier Bonnet, Richard Shine, and Emily N. Taylor
Monitoring Spores and Spore-Forming Bacteria Populations in Commercial Skim Milk Powder Production Plants Using Conventional and Molecular Methods, C. Murillo, Chris Kitts, and Rafael Jiménez-Flores
Characterization of Six Polymorphic Microsatellites for the Polychaete Tubeworm Hydroides elegans and Cross-Species Amplification in the Congener Hydroides hexagonus, J. B. Pettengill, M. G. Hadfield, M. D. Schug, and D. E. Wendt
Adaptive Differentiation in Response to Water Stress by Edaphic Races of Lasthenia californica (Asteraceae), Nishanta Rajakaruna, Gary E. Bradfield, Bruce A. Bohm, and Jeanette Whitton
Silicone Foul Release Coatings: Effect of the Interaction of Oil and Coating Functionalities on the Magnitude of Macrofouling Attachment Strengths, Judith Stein, Kathryn Truby, Christina Darkangelo Wood, Jeff Stein, Martha Gardner, Geoffrey Swain, Christopher Kavanagh, Brett Kovach, Michael Schultz, Deborah Wiebe, Eric Holm, Jean Montemarano, Dean Wendt, Celia Smith, and Anne Meyer
Structure-Property Relationships of Silicone Biofouling-Release Coatings: Effect of Silicone Network Architecture on Pseudobarnacle Attachment Strengths, Judith Stein, Kathryn Truby, Christina Darkangelo Wood, Michael Takemori, Michael Vallance, Geoffrey Swain, Christopher Kavanagh, Brett Kovach, Michael Schultz, Deborah Wiebe, Eric Holm, Jean Montemarano, Dean Wendt, Celia Smith, and Anne Meyer
Heat-Shock Protein 70 (Hsp70) as a Biochemical Stress Indicator: An Experimental Field Test in Two Congeneric Intertidal Gastropods (Genus: Tegula), Lars Tomanek and Eric Sanford
Phenotype management: a new approach to habitat restoration, Jason V. Watters, Sean C. Lema, and Gabrielle A. Nevitt
A PCR Assay for Specific Detection of the Pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 Clone from Shellfish, P.S. Marie Yeung, A. DePaola, C. A. Kaysner, and K. J. Boor
Submissions from 2002
Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses, D. D. Ackerly, Charles A. Knight, S. B. Weiss, K. Barton, and K. P. Starmer
Effects of Temperature, Epinephrine and Ca2+ on the Hearts of Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus Albacares), Jason M. Blank, Jeffery M. Morrissette, Peter S. Davie, and Barbara A. Block
Nearshore Physical Processes and Bio-Optical Properties in the New York Bight, G. C. Chang, T. D. Dickey, Oscar M. Schofield, A. D. Weidemann, E. Boss, W. S. Pegau, Mark A. Moline, and Scott M. Glenn
LitR, a new transcriptional activator in Vibrio fischeri, regulates luminescence and symbiotic light organ colonization, Pat Fidopiastis, Carol M. Miyamoto, Michael G. Jobling, Edward A. Meighen, and Edward G. Ruby
Two New Species of Pectis (Asteraceae: Tageteae) from South America, David J. Keil
Discovering lactic acid bacteria by genomics, Todd Klaenhammer, Eric Altermann, Fabrizio Arigoni, Alexander Bolotin, Fred Breidt, Jeffrey Broadbent, Raul J. Cano, Stephane Chaillou, Josef Deutscher, Mike Gasson, Maarten van de Guchte, Jean Guzzo, Axel Hartke, Trevor Hawkins, Pascal Hols, Robert Hutkins, Michiel Kleerebezem, Jan Kok, Oscar Kuipers, Mark Lubbers, Emmanuelle Maguin, Larry McKay, David Mills, Arjen Nauta, Ross Overbeek, Herman Pel, David Pridmore, Milton Saier, Douwe van Sinderen, Alexei Sorokin, James Steele, Daniel O'Sullivan, Willem de Vos, Bart Weimer, Monique Zagorec, and Roland Siezen
An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature-dependent increase in fluorescence, Charles A. Knight and David D. Ackerly
Variation in nuclear DNA content across environmental gradients: a quantile regression analysis, Charles A. Knight and David D. Ackerly
Reduced reproductive effort in male field crickets infested with parasitoid fly larvae, Gita R. Kolluru, Marlene Zuk, and Mark A. Chappell
The Production of Communication Signals at the Air–Water and Water–Substrate Boundaries, Sean C. Lema and John T. Kelly
Assessment of Fungal Diversity Using Terminal Restriction Fragment (TRF) Pattern Analysis: Comparison of 18S and ITS Ribosomal Regions, N. S. Lord, Christopher W. Kaplan, P. Shank, Christopher L. Kitts, and Susan L. Elrod
Chaperones as Buffering Agents?, Thomas Mitchell-Olds and Charles A. Knight
A New AUV Platform for Studying Near Shore Bioluminescence Structure, Mark A. Moline, S. Blackwell, J. Case, S. Glenn, J. Kohut, O. Schofield, M. Purcell, and C. Vonalt
Antimicrobial Activity of Plants Collected from Serpentine Outcrops in Sri Lanka, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Cory S. Harris, and G. H. N. Towers
The Detection of Bacillus Endospores During Low Heat Skim Milk Powder Processing Using Nucleic Acid Technology, Amy J. Rife, Rafael Jiménez-Flores, Chris Kitts, and Mark Kubinski