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Why do birds typically live longer than mammals? A new paper offers a hint, albeit not a conclusive answer. Assistant Professors of Biology Cynthia Downs and Ana Jimenez at Hamilton College and Colgate University respectively have co-authored a paper with nine students, “Does cellular metabolism from primary fibroblasts and oxidative stress in blood differ between mammals and birds? The (lack-thereof) scaling of oxidative stress” in press with Integrative and Comparative Biology.
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Professor of Biology Herm Lehman recently presented an invited talk to the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. He presented student research that led to the discovery of a novel enzyme called TbhR.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta recently presented research in Dallas and at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs is the lead author of a recently published paper in Trends in Parasitology titled “Scaling of Host Competence.”
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A paper titled “A phylogenomic resolution of the sea urchin tree of life,” co-authored by Scholar-in-Residence Simon Coppard, was recently published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
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This year Hamilton welcomed six new tenure-track faculty members. Communications office student writer Majestic Terhune ’21 spent more than two hours interviewing these newest members of the faculty to find out why they chose Hamilton and what they think so far. Here’s her interview with Rhea Datta, assistant professor of biology. (Some answers edited for brevity.)
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A story published by the Florida Museum of Natural History about a 37-year survey of monarch populations in North Central Florida shows that caterpillars and butterflies have been declining since 1985 and have dropped by 80 percent since 2005.
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Approximately 30 students and parents had the unusual opportunity to see more than two dozen northern saw-whet owls on college land beyond the glen.
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A paper co-authored by Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta was recently published in the peer reviewed journal eLife. “Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the Bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development” found that two mutations that arose 140 million years ago changed the function of a critical developmental gene, which now regulates development of the head and other structures in virtually all species of present-day flies.
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