Algal blooms are natural phenomena that occur globally and involve the rapid proliferation of single celled planktonic algae. Some bloom causing species can produce detrimental health effects and harm the environment and these events are known as Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, HABs caused by the marine dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, known as red tides, have led to …
Biology Department CalendarEndogenous viral elements (EVEs) are viral genes and genomes that get integrated into another species’ genome then vertically transmitted. These viral integrations are associated with disease, novel cellular function, genome architecture, and gene expression. Some of the best-known EVEs are those associated with parasitic wasps in the superfamily Ichneumonoidea. In this group some EVEs have become “domesticated”, the process by …
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