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Richard J McDowell

Research Associate, University of Manchester
Verified email at manchester.ac.uk
Cited by 65

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for measuring and standardizing light for laboratory mammals to improve welfare and reproducibility in animal research

…, P Hawkins, RA Hut, RJ McDowell, RJ Nelson… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Light enables vision and exerts widespread effects on physiology and behavior, including
regulating circadian rhythms, sleep, hormone synthesis, affective state, and cognitive …

The genomic basis of temporal niche evolution in a diurnal rodent

…, J Park, RJ McDowell, SA Mereby, IH Lin, RJ Lucas… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Patterns of diel activity—how animals allocate their activity throughout the 24-h daily cycle—play
key roles in shaping the internal physiology of an animal and its relationship with the …

Extraocular, rod-like photoreceptors in a flatworm express xenopsin photopigment

…, ER Ballister, M Terasaki, J Rodgers, RJ McDowell… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.45465.001 Animals detect light using opsin photopigments. Xenopsin, a recently
classified subtype of opsin, challenges our views on opsin and photoreceptor evolution. …

Beyond lux: methods for species and photoreceptor-specific quantification of ambient light for mammals

RJ McDowell, A Didikoglu, T Woelders, MJ Gatt… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… Bailes HJ, Lucas RJ. Human melanopsin forms a pigment maximally sensitive to blue
718 light (λmax ≈ 479 nm) supporting activation of Gq/11 and Gi/o signalling cascades. 719 …

Evidence for synchronous thin-skinned and basement deformation in the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt: the Tendoy Mountains, southwestern Montana

RJ McDowell - Journal of Structural Geology, 1997 - Elsevier
The Tendoy Mountains contain the easternmost thin-skinned thrust sheets in the Cordilleran
fold-thrust belt of southwestern Montana, and are in the zone of tectonic overlap between …

A two surface model for transient nonproportional cyclic plasticity, Part 1: Development of appropriate equations

DL McDowell - 1985 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… Analytical description of this dependence requires a more detailed repository for history
dependence than rj. At the very least, a measure of the metric plastic strain accumulation from a …

[BOOK][B] Ground-water Resources of the Lower Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin in Parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia: Subarea 4 of the …

LJ Torak, RJ McDowell - 1996 - apps.dtic.mil
The study area is underlain by Coastal Plain sediments of pre-Cretaceous to Quaternary
age consisting of alternating units of sand, clay, sandstone, dolomite, and limestone that …

Mechanical behavior of basement rocks during movement of the Scarface thrust, central Madison Range, Montana

…, D Batatian, DN Derr, L Malizzi, RJ McDowell… - 1993 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Scarface thrust of the western Madison Range, Montana, is a 17 west-dipping Late
Cretaceous thrust that places Archean gneisses over a complexly folded panel of Phanerozoic …

[HTML][HTML] Using hydrogeomorphic patterns to predict groundwater discharge in a karst basin: Lower Flint River Basin, southwestern Georgia, USA

…, SW Golladay, CR Jackson, RJ McDowell… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Some of the transitional patterns found in this study are reflected in the orientational
changes in joints measured in upland outcrops around this region (McDowell, 2012). …

An XRPD investigation of a face-centered cubic metallic plating

CO Ruud, RJ McDowell, DJ Snoha - Powder Diffraction, 1986 - cambridge.org
Internal elastic strain (ie, residual stress) and the diffracted X-ray intensity variation over
several orientations of crystallites with respect to the specimen surface were investigated as a …