Browsing by Author "Chang Chung"
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Cheng, Hua (2008-12-06)Department: cell and developmental biologyA conserved biological feature of sexual reproduction in animals is that oocytes arrest in meiotic prophase and resume meiosis in response to extra-ovarian signals. In Caenorhabditis. elegans, a sperm-sensing mechanism ...
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Wu, Yuantai (2013-07-29)Department: Biological SciencesThe social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum senses the bacterial metabolite folic acid to track down bacteria. Previous studies suggested that the folic acid receptor is a serpentine receptor. In this study, I examined the ...
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Gruver, Jonathan Scott (2010-02-16)Department: PharmacologyCell motility plays important roles in development, wound healing, and metastasis. Cells move either spontaneously, in a non-directed fashion, or in response to chemotactic signals, in a directed fashion. Even though they ...