State of North Carolina
Undergraduate Research & Creativity
Symposium
Listing
of Participants
This listing of participants
is arranged first by category and then in order of the corresponding author's
last name. Please check your listing carefully to be sure that all the information
is correct. Any corrections to be made should be sent immediately to SNCURCS
Webmaster Sharon E. Hunt.
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Arts
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Humanities
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Arts
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ECONOMICS, AND PRE-LAW |
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Title of
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Chesson, Benjamin S. Incorporating National Students of AMF Support
Network into a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization: A Guide for Students Social
Entrepreneurs |
Room 8B, 10:00 – 10:20 a.m.: |
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Bernard, Andrew B. Wood, Jesse W. Optimization of Factors Affecting Production and
Performance of a Nylon Monofilament with Sand Grains Embedded in the Surface |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Boyd, Jennifer RSA Project: Automating Marker Ball Detection using
Matlab Computer Code |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Casper, Katya M. Redesign of the Purdue Mach-4 Hot-Wire Calibration
Facility to Operate at the |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Clark, Christopher A. Neverfear Neverwinter
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Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Coughlin, Andrew J. Electrospinning of
Biocompatible Nanofibers |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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D'Andrea, Charles Getting FLASHy: Improving
Applets for Sampling Distributions |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Dees, Melinda S. Electronics for a Walking Robot in a Low-Temperature
Environment |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Dixon, Anthony R. Falling Spheres in a Non-Newtonian Fluid |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Downen, Lori N. Bruschi, Laura N. Cornelius, Carrie E. Control Parameters in Textile Materials
Modification with Atmospheric Plasmas |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Drukenbrod, Joshua M. Identifying the Next Major Source to Reduce to
Improve Blood Lead Levels in Children Using Public Databases |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Godwin, James A. Game 2 Learn |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Gove, Robert P. A Slice of Pi |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Gromet, Donovan J. Electron Mobility at the Si/SiO2 Interface In
Device Channel MOSFET’s |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hagan, Diane Bae, JiHyun Color Variation in Digital Textile Printing:
Influence of Fiber Content and Other Substrate Characteristics |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hornsby,
Fawn E. Characteristics
of Cases with Missing Information in Breast Cancer Registry Data |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hume, Samuel A Comparison of Tools Used to Analyze System
Characteristics of Biochemical Models |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Jackson, Lauren C. Sliding Wear Properties of HVOF Thermally Sprayed
Nylon-11 and Nylon-11/Ceramic Composites on Steel |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Kinlaw, Alan C. The Synthesis of Electrospun
Fiber Substrates for Use in Stem Cell Growth and Development |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Krenicky, Joseph N. On The Volume-Surface Area Relationship |
Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Kumsa, Doe Ferree, Sandra Growth of Recombinant
E. Coli BL21(DE3)(pAD1) for GFP Production |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Landwehr, Justin Optimizing Salaries in the NHL Before and After the
Lockout |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Mulholland, Gregory J. Development of High-k Dielectric Thin Films for
Electrolyte Replacement in Nanoscale Redox-Active Charge Storage Elements |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Munilla, Samuel R. LongBoard, an Intelligent Storyboarding Tool |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Oraby, Sarah Characterization of a Film-based Photoresist for Micromolding |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Powell, Eve M. Eagle, Michael Game2Learn |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Rhoden, John J. Role of PI 3-kinase during Fibroblast Cell
Spreading and Migration |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Rodriguez, Roberto Almada, Lorenzo Thompson, Melissa Voss, Lori Deterministic and Small-World Network Models of
College Drinking Patterns |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Scott, Mary C. Adam, Donald H. Anderson, Trevor E. Bennett, Rick M. Janney, Terry G. Designing
a Proof-of-Concept Demonstration of a Lunar Penetration |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Seyam, Mohamed A. Cross-Linked Polymer Nanocomposites
for Gas Separation |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Sikes, Kathryn M. The Art of Math |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Stadler, Brian T. Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-World Networks |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Thelen, Michael Y. College Football Bowl Championship Series Team
Rating System: 0, Our Improved Team Rating System: 7 |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Thornton, Sarah A. Christoph, Elizabeth Toxic Overload: Modeling Ambient Mercury Air
Pollution at a Trillionth of a Gram |
Room 1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Scaled Structures and Self-Similarity in the Morse-Thue Sequence |
Room1, Session II, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
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Title of Presentation
and Author(s) |
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Bonsteel, Brian J. The Influence and Incorporation of Video Game Music
Styles into Modern Day Musical Composition |
Room 2C, 10:00 – 10:20 a.m. |
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Carter, Jonathan D. "Lethargic Fervor" |
Room 2C, 10:25 – 10:45 a.m. |
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Dennis, Rachel E. Chant as Utilized in Buddhist Ceremonies in |
Room 2C, 10:50 – 11:10 a.m. |
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Fann, Aaron P. Collages Of Sounds: Modern Music's Face(s) |
Room 2C, 11:15 – 11:35 a.m.: |
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Newton, Alex Musical Composition in the Post-Millennium: A Look
at Different Twentieth Century Techniques and Influences |
Room 2C, 11:35 – 11:55 a.m. |
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Scibetta, By Reason of Cavaquinho |
Room 1, 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. |
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Stone, Kyla Ruth True Colors |
Room 1, 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. |
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Presentation and Author(s) |
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Amis, Jackie The State and Contraction of Wildlife Corridors in Kimana Group Ranch near |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Anderson, Marybeth The Dependence of Kinetochore
Complexes on Centromere Binding |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Anderson,
Trevor Exploring
Different Pathways of SNARE Protein Complex Formation |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Arnett, Kristen A. Fluorescence Spectroelectrochemical
Sensing for In-situ Determination of Heavy Metal Ions |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Barnes, Charles A. Structural Characterization of Modified
2’-Deoxyguanosine Nucleoside |
Room 1, Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Belton, Jon-Matthew Immunolocalization of AL1, geminivirus replication factor, in Arabidopsis plants
infected with Cabbage Leaf Curl Virus |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Blackwell, Valentene P. The Drosophila Messy Mitochondria: It’s Not
All about Mitochondria, or Is It? |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Boggess, Laura The Correlation of pH Indicator Plant Species with
the Geology of a Rich Mountain Cove in the Jocassee
Gorges of Northern Pickens County, South Carolina: Preliminary Results |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Bond, Lisa M. Cohesin Is a Stable Component of Pericentric Chromatin |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Braden, Amy K. Eshraghi, Sarah Elucidation of the Mechanism of Activation of a
Protein Kinase |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Bradshaw,
Chelsea B. Shackleford Wild Horse Nutrient Study |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Britt, Robin L. Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Heterobimetallic Ferrocene Imine Complexes |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Burroughs, James L. The afl-4 Mutation in Nontoxigenic
A. flavus
Strain 241 Is Caused by an Unknown Regulatory Element for aflR
Transcription |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Cameron, Catherine M. Determination of the Growth Mechanism of
Catalytically Grown Carbon Nanotubes |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Carroll, Turhan A Study of
the Effectiveness of using PER-Based Course Transformations in a
Summer Session Setting |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Casserman, Lauren A. Gapin, Jennifer Kirk, Stephanie D. Barella, Lisa Psychological Status and Misreporting of the Body
Weight in Overweight and Obese Young Women |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Corum, Daniel G. Identification of Novel Neuropeptides
from the Tick Synganglion |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Daniels, Ryan L. Music Perception in Primates |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Das, Riva Effects of Osteopontin
Knockdown on Atherosclerosis |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Davis, Ryan Characterization
of Electrically Active Defects in Solar Grade Polycrystalline Silicon |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Derballa, Nicole Drama as a Form of Informal Science Education and Its
Effectiveness in Promoting Science Literacy, Comprehension, and Memory |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Desmarais, Jamie A. Changes in Expression of 4E2 after Denervation of Neonatal Rat Soleus
Muscle |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Duggins, Luke M. Geographic Variation in Anthocyanin
Deposition in Flowers of Plantago lanceolata. |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Durojaiye, Modupeoluwa Streptozoticin Induced
Type 1 Diabetes Mediated Reducation in Intrinsic
Heart Rate of Murine Model (Mice) |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Edathil, Roshen T. Identification
of Transcription Factors that Partner with Smad3/4 to Induce Transcription of
oFSHβ |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Emery,
Nathan Patterns of
Plant Species Diversity in Floodplain Habitats |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Fagan-Tucker,
Chloe L. Identifying
SS Red Blood Cell Proteins Responsible for Adherence to P-Selectin
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Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Fairey, Donta' J Implementation of GIS Techniques for Effective
Wetland Delineations |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Ferreyra, Jessica A. Surviving the Heat Wave: The Role of Ras1 in
Mediating High Temperature growth in Cryptococcus neoformans |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Flores,
Diana Validating
and Comparing the Effects of Essential Oils on Bacterial Growth |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Fulp, Novel Immune-Type Receptors in the Rainbow Trout |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Goldstein, Anna P. Dehydrogenation and Partial Oxidation of Ethanol
over Rh(111): Elucidating the Reaction Mechanism from DFT |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Gregory, Jasmine M. Development of An Improved Oxygen Sensor:
Incorporating a Tris-bipyridyl Ruthenium(II) Dye
into a Sub-Wavelength Optical Cavity |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Grimsley, Megan L. The Effects of Varying Gravitational Fields on
Enzymatic Reaction Rates |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Grove, Anna M. Mutational Analysis of the Bromodomain
Homology Region of the YTA7 Gene, which Encodes a Chromatin Binding Protein Involved
in Heterochromatin Barrier Function |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hair, Jessica Flood, Cecil, Angela Lockhart, Nowsheen, Somaira Wukovich, Rebecca Aziz, Khaled Francisco, Dave Peddi, Prakash Accumulation of Oxidative Clustered DNA Lesions
(OCDL) in Human Breast Cancer Cells (MCF-7) |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hammond, Rebecca L. Is Transcriptional Regulation of Gravitropism Conserved Between Dicots
and Monocots? |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Haywood, Jackie B. Investigation of Clinical and Environmental Factors
of Noise- Induced Hearing Loss |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Heighington, Cassandra Imaging Variation in Pattern Formation during
Drosophila Development |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Howard, Michael B. Identification of Two Zebrafish
Prolactin Genes and Characterization of 5’
Regulatory Regions |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hunter, Melissa R. Molecular Characterization of Arabidopsis Plants
with Altered Phosphoinositol Signaling in Response
to Cold Stress |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Huntley, Anna M. Does Altitude Affect Prevalence And Intensity Of
Infection Of Trematode Parasites In Goniobasis Proxima? |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Hutcherson, K.M. The
Effects of Mating on A. mellifera Queen Behavior |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Jackson, Christopher M. Can Honey Bees Discriminate Multiple Patterns? |
Room 1, Session I, 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
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Jackson, Jeffrey T. The Effect of 20-hydroxyecdysone and Juvenile
Hormone on the Growth of Kenyon Cells of the Honey Bee |
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