Biology (School of)

 

The School promotes an interdisciplinary approach to both applied and fundamental research problems and to postgraduate training. Research in the School is organised into three major interdisciplinary centres: the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI), Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) and Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD). Together these centres encompass the full spectrum of research in biological sciences, spanning investigations on the properties and behaviour of individual molecules to planetary environmental dynamics.

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  • Human cytomegalovirus immediate early 1 protein causes loss of SOX2 from neural progenitor cells by trapping unphosphorylated STAT3 in the nucleus 

    Wu, Cong-Cong; Jiang, Xuan; Wang, Xian-Zhang; Liu, Xi-Juan; Li, Xiao-Jun; Yang, Bo; Ye, Han-Qing; Harwardt, Thomas; Jiang, Man; Xia, Hui-Min; Wang, Wei; Britt, William J.; Paulus, Christina; Nevels, Michael Martin; Luo, Min-Hua (2018-09) - Journal article
    The mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental damage caused by virus infections remain poorly defined. Congenital human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is the leading cause of fetal brain development disorders. Previous ...

  • Repeat disturbances have cumulative impacts on stream communities 

    Haghkerdar, Jessica M.; McLachlan, Jack R.; Ireland, Alexis; Greig, Hamish S. (2019-02-14) - Journal article
    1. Climate change has altered disturbance regimes in many ecosystems, and predictions show that these trends are likely to continue. The frequency of disturbance events plays a particularly important role in communities ...

  • Fixed-effect variance and the estimation of repeatabilities and heritabilities : issues and solutions 

    de Villemereuil, P.; Morrissey, M. B.; Nakagawa, S.; Schielzeth, H. (2018-04) - Journal article
    Linear mixed-effects models are frequently used for estimating quantitative genetic parameters, including the heritability, as well as the repeatability, of traits. Heritability acts as a filter that determines how efficiently ...

  • Social learning about construction behaviour via an artefact 

    Breen, Alexis J.; Bonneaud, Clémence C.; Healy, Susan D.; Guillette, Lauren Mary (2019-02-14) - Journal article
    One source of public information may be the enduring products of others’ behaviour, such as discarded tools or vacated nests. Here, we examined whether observation of a nest affects the material captive zebra finch males ...

  • Vestigial singing behaviour persists after the evolutionary loss of song in crickets 

    Schneider, Will; Rutz, Christian; Hedwig, Berthold; Bailey, Nathan W. (2018-02-14) - Journal article
    The evolutionary loss of sexual traits is widely predicted. Because sexual signals can arise from the coupling of specialized motor activity with morphological structures, disruption to a single component could lead to ...

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