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| Neil BlackstoneSummaryAffiliation: Northern Illinois University Country: USA Publications
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Maximal indirect development, set-aside cells, and levels of selectionN W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
J Exp Zool 288:99-104. 2000..1996. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93:6759-6763) support this prediction: the evolution of "set-aside cells" in metazoans was accompanied by the evolution of the sequestration of the germ line...- Multicellular redox regulation: integrating organismal biology and redox chemistryNeil W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Bioessays 28:72-7. 2006..In these circumstances, predicting the direction of metabolic signaling may require an understanding of events at the organismal level... - Charles Manning Child (1869-1954): the past, present, and future of metabolic signalingNeil W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 306:1-7. 2006..Nevertheless, in modern biology metabolic gradients, recast in terms of redox signaling, have become central to understanding both normal and pathological development... - Mitochondria as integrators of information in an early-evolving animal: insights from a triterpenoid metaboliteNeil W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:527-31. 2005..An as-yet-uncharacterized gradient within the colony may determine the ultimate phenotypic effects of avicin perturbation... - Redox signaling in colonial hydroids: many pathways for peroxideNeil W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J Exp Biol 208:383-90. 2005.... - Phylogenetic considerations of clonality, coloniality, and mode of germline development in animalsNeil W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 297:35-47. 2003..In addition to supporting the hypothesis that the germline is a derived feature in animals, this analysis is relevant to current debates concerning the nature of the latest common ancestor of the bilaterians... - Redox signaling in the growth and development of colonial hydroidsNeil W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J Exp Biol 206:651-8. 2003..These results support a role for redox signaling, mediated by ROS, in colony development. Nevertheless, other redox sensors between complexes I and III may yet be found... - Redox state, reactive oxygen species and adaptive growth in colonial hydroidsN W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J Exp Biol 204:1845-53. 2001..These data are consistent with the hypothesis that adaptive colony development in response to a variable food supply is mediated by redox state or reactive oxygen species or both, although alternative hypotheses are also discussed... - Redox control and the evolution of multicellularityN W Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Bioessays 22:947-53. 2000..In this way, redox signaling may have allowed multicellular individuality to evolve and more easily be maintained... - Mitochondria and the redox control of development in cnidariansNeil Blackstone
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Semin Cell Dev Biol 20:330-6. 2009..An extensive algal symbiosis may thus be incompatible with a well-developed capacity for mitochondrial signaling... - Effect of cloning rate on fitness-related traits in two marine hydroidsL M Ponczek
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Biol Bull 201:76-83. 2001..Changes in clonal growth rates and morphology correlated with variation in fragmentation rate might affect the ecology of these and other clonal organisms... - Variation in growth and competitive ability between sexually and clonally produced hydroidsDavid H Van Winkle
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Biol Bull 202:156-65. 2002..More generally, studies of competition between sexually produced colonies should complement similar studies of clonally produced colonies... - Concepts in classification and their relevance to epilepsyAnne T Berg
Department of Biology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 2861, USA
Epilepsy Res 70:S11-9. 2006..The change(s) should be based on agreed upon scientific criteria and processes. Any changes should represent major improvements and not merely incremental steps... - Multicellular redox regulation in an early-evolving animal treated with glutathioneJoseph F Doolen
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 80:317-25. 2007..Such multicellular redox regulation may commonly occur in other animals as well... - Physiological characterization of stolon regression in a colonial hydroidKimberly S Cherry Vogt
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
J Exp Biol 211:731-40. 2008..Stolon regression may occur when colonies detect environmental signals that favor continued growth in the same location rather than outward growth...
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- Meeting:Society for Integrative and Comparative BiologyNeil Blackstone; Fiscal Year: 2004..Ultimately, this work will allow the power of genomics to be fully realized in biology and medicine. ..