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Kevin Urdahl

Professor, Seattle Children's Research Institute and University of Washington
Verified email at seattlechildrens.org
Cited by 7954

Sex-dependent dominance at a single locus maintains variation in age at maturity in salmon

…, P Orell, A Romakkaniemi, H Saegrov, K Urdal… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Males and females share many traits that have a common genetic basis; however, selection
on these traits often differs between the sexes, leading to sexual conflict 1 , 2 . Under such …

Source identification of aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments using GC/MS

…, RG Lichtenthaler, KO Gustavsen, K Urdal… - Environmental …, 1983 - ACS Publications
K, as in carbon black furnace) will yield soot devoid of alkyl PAH. Lowertemperatures (1100
K… of time GO6 years) at low temperatures (450 K) will yield PAH mixtures in which alkyl PAH …

[HTML][HTML] Initiation and regulation of T-cell responses in tuberculosis

KB Urdahl, S Shafiani, JD Ernst - Mucosal immunology, 2011 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) poses a great challenge to immunologists, as it represents a chronic
infection characterized by persistence of the pathogen despite development of antigen-specific …

Gene flow from domesticated escapes alters the life history of wild Atlantic salmon

…, OH Diserud, P Fiske, AJ Jensen, K Urdal… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
… The length or mass at maturity of an individual m from population k, belonging to sea-age
group j and population category i, that migrated out to sea at year l was log transformed and …

Ecological regime shift in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean revealed from the unprecedented reduction in marine growth of Atlantic salmon

KW Vollset, K Urdal, K Utne, EB Thorstad… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Ecological regime shifts are abrupt changes in the structure and function of ecosystems that
persist over time, but evidence of contemporary regime shifts are rare. Historical scale data …

The tuberculous granuloma and preexisting immunity

SB Cohen, BH Gern, KB Urdahl - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Pulmonary granulomas are widely considered the epicenters of the immune response to
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). Recent animal …

Impact of early salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, infestation and differences in survival and marine growth of sea‐ranched Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L …

OT Skilbrei, B Finstad, K Urdal, G Bakke… - Journal of fish …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of salmon lice on the survival of migrating A tlantic salmon smolts was studied
by comparing the adult returns of sea‐ranched smolts treated for sea lice using emamectin …

Introgression from farmed escapees affects the full life cycle of wild Atlantic salmon

GH Bolstad, S Karlsson, IJ Hagen, P Fiske, K Urdal… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
… stage i according to the equation L i = L tot k i , where L tot is the total length of the fish and
k i is the fraction of growth in length until life stage i. This fraction is k i = S i /S tot , where S i is …

The transcription factor T-bet controls regulatory T cell homeostasis and function during type 1 inflammation

…, NR Perdue, JR Killebrew, KB Urdahl… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Several subsets of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (T reg cells) work in concert to maintain immune
homeostasis. However, the molecular bases underlying the phenotypic and functional …

[HTML][HTML] Immune vulnerability of infants to tuberculosis

…, A Persson, BJ Marais, PJ Fink, KB Urdahl - Journal of Immunology …, 2013 - hindawi.com
… Kariyone, K. Takatsu, and KB Urdahl, “Pathogen-specific regulatory T cells delay the arrival
of effector T cells in the lung during early tuberculosis,” Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol…