Environmental and ecological factors that shape the gut bacterial communities of fish: a meta‐analysis

…, SD Essinger, CA Lozupone, MP O'CONNOR… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiotic bacteria often help their hosts acquire nutrients from their diet, showing trends of
co‐evolution and independent acquisition by hosts from the same trophic levels. While these …

Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs

FV Paladino, MP O'Connor, JR Spotila - Nature, 1990 - nature.com
LEATHERBACKS (Dermochelys coriacea) are among the largest living reptiles (>900 kg) 1,
2 and range from the tropics to north of the Arctic Circle 3, 4 . They maintain elevated body …

Protection against peroxynitrite-induced fibroblast injury and arthritis development by inhibition of poly (ADP-ribose) synthase

…, GS Scott, P Hake, MP O'Connor… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Peroxynitrite, a cytotoxic oxidant formed from nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide, induces
DNA strand breakage, which activates the nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) synthase (PARS; …

SAR ATR: so what's the problem? An MSTAR perspective

…, JJ Bradley, LJ Hudson, MP O'connor - … for Synthetic Aperture …, 1999 - spiedigitallibrary.org
What makes synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) hard? This
question is explored by reviewing target, environment, and sensor variability and how they …

Diet quality and prey selectivity correlate with life histories and predation regime in Trinidadian guppies

…, A López‐Sepulcre, MP O'Connor… - Functional …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Life histories evolve as a response to multiple agents of selection, such as age‐specific
mortality, resource availability or environmental fluctuations. Predators can affect life‐history …

Variability in P-glycoprotein inhibitory potency (IC50) using various in vitro experimental systems: implications for universal digoxin drug-drug interaction risk …

J Bentz, MP O'Connor, D Bednarczyk… - Drug metabolism and …, 2013 - ASPET
A P-glycoprotein (P-gp) IC 50 working group was established with 23 participating
pharmaceutical and contract research laboratories and one academic institution to assess …

Patterns, causes and consequences of defensive microbiome dynamics across multiple scales

AH Smith, P Łukasik, MP O'Connor, A Lee… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The microbiome can significantly impact host phenotypes and serve as an additional source
of heritable genetic variation. While patterns across eukaryotes are consistent with a role for …

Thermal ecology of desert tortoises in the eastern Mojave Desert: seasonal patterns of operative and body temperatures, and microhabitat utilization

LC Zimmerman, MP O'Connor, SJ Bulova… - Herpetological …, 1994 - JSTOR
We monitored meteorological variables, daily and seasonal patterns of body temperature,
corresponding operative temperatures, and microhabitat utilization by desert tortoises (…

Thermal biology

JR Spotila, MP O'Connor… - The Biology of Sea …, 2017 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The biology of sea turtles is intimately tied to the thermal constraints of their environment. From
the time a hatchling enters the water, a sea turtle lives in an environment that is thermally …

Mammalian metabolic allometry: do intraspecific variation, phylogeny, and regression models matter?

AE Sieg, MP O'Connor, JN McNair… - The American …, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
Power scaling relationships between body mass and organismal traits are fundamental to
biology. Compilations of mammalian masses and basal metabolic rates date back over a …