A5075590414- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Tardigrade Biology and Ecology
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Plant and animal studies
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Study of Mite Species
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
University of Saskatchewan
2018-2024
Western University
2011-2015
Copy number variation is an important dimension of genetic diversity and has implications in development disease. As model organism, the mouse a prime candidate for copy variant (CNV) characterization, but this yet to be completed large sample size. Here we report CNV analysis publicly available, high-density microarray data files 351 tail samples, including 290 mice that had not been characterized CNVs previously. We found 9634 putative autosomal across samples affecting 6.87 % reference...
Studies involving the analysis of structural variation including Copy Number Variation (CNV) have recently exploded in literature. Furthermore, CNVs been associated with a number complex diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. Common methods for CNV detection use SNP, CNV, or CGH arrays, where signal intensities consecutive probes are used to define copies given genomic region. These practices pose challenges that interfere ability available accurately call CNVs. It has, therefore, become...
Long-term ecological research (LTER) projects are considered valuable training grounds for graduate student researchers, yet voices largely absent from discussions of LTER merits in the literature. We aimed to identify benefits and challenges encountered by current former students conducting within projects. To explore experiences perspectives, we conducted a survey comprising both closed-ended questions (i.e., multiple choice Likert scale) open-ended questions. From responses, identified...
Abstract Despite the critical role of graduate students in Canadian research ecosystem 1 , report high levels financial stress 2 . We collected minimum stipends and tuition data from all university programs Canada Ecological Sciences/Biology Physics, along with cost living measures for cities which they reside. This is heterogeneous, complex, many cases simply not publicly available, making it challenging potential to understand what support should expect. show are at values almost...
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020, sudden shift to online offerings higher education courses that would typically be taught face-to-face, has university administrators, educators, and students alike scrambling prepare. The pedagogical movement towards active learning always found a friend in natural sciences, with laboratory field components being standard many programs. For instructors ecology evolution, online-only planned for autumn 2020 imposes limitations. As first-time instructor...
The importance of understanding the effects radiation exposure on wildlife is a critical responsibility our stewardship nuclear energy production. We tested hypothesis that songbirds respond to exogenous with changes in plasma 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG). exposed two species songbirds, house sparrows (Passer domesticus; n = 12) and song (Melospiza melodia; 12), one four acute whole-body treatments: 75, 150, 300, or 600 mGy. measured DNA damage by proxy as 8-OH-dG levels at 0 hr...
Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) specializes in feeding on conifer cone seeds but will feed opportunistically a wide variety of other food items, including fungi, eggs, small vertebrates, and invertebrates. In much their range, Squirrels experience fluctuations the availability primary diet (conifer seeds) seasonally annually because variation seed production. We document seemingly uncommon or unreported behaviour by year an exceedingly low production Yukon, Canada: squirrel foraging...
Fisher's principle explains that population sex ratio in sexually reproducing organisms is maintained at 1 : owing to negative frequency-dependent selection, such individuals of the rare realize greater reproductive opportunity than more common until equilibrium reached. If biasing offspring towards adaptive, do so should have grandoffspring. In a wild North American red squirrels ( Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ) experiences fluctuations resource abundance and density, we show overall across 26...
Abstract Sleep is appreciated as a behavior critical to homeostasis, performance, and fitness. Yet, most of what we know about sleep comes from humans or controlled laboratory experiments. Assessing in wild animals challenging, it often hidden view, electrophysiological recordings that define states are difficult obtain. Accelerometers have offered great insight regarding gross movement, although ambiguous quiescent like been largely ignored, limiting our understanding this ubiquitous...
Abstract Many studies assume that it is beneficial for individuals of a species to be heavier, or have higher body condition index (BCI), without accounting the physiological relevance variation in composition different tissues. We hypothesized relationship between BCI and masses physiologically important tissues (fat lean) would conditional on annual patterns energy acquisition expenditure. studied three with contrasting ecologies their respective natural ranges: an obligate hibernator...