Although obesity is implicated in numerous health complications leading to increased
mortality, the relationship between obesity and outcomes for critically ill patients appears …

Characterizing traits critical for adaptation to a given environment is an important first step in
understanding how phenotypes evolve. How animals adapt to the extreme heat and aridity …

The human eye is a complex optical system with multiple elements. It is aspheric,
nonsymmetric, and time dependent; yet, overall it has incredible performance. There have been …

Leptin, a protein hormone secreted by fat cells, is best known for its role as an adiposity
signal; however, leptin has diverse physiological roles ranging from regulation of feeding …

Rodents of the genus Peromyscus have become increasingly utilized models for investigations
into adaptive biology. This genus is particularly powerful for research linking genetics …

Background The understanding of genomic and physiological mechanisms related to how
organisms living in extreme environments survive and reproduce is an outstanding question …

Over the past several decades, there has been a continually growing body of scholarship
focusing on conditions that promote students’ learning, retention, and transfer of academic …

Specialization for a subterranean existence is expected to impact multiple aspects of an
organism’s biology, including behavior, physiology, and genomic structure. While the …

Relatively few faculty enter the profession of college and university teaching with much
more than a smattering of knowledge of the science of learning or of its applications in the …

Background Students enter college with a variety of past experiences and beliefs about how
to prepare for assessments of their academic performance (eg, exams; problem solving and …