An observational study was conducted to evaluate hygiene habits of students with fields of
study, gender, and understanding of hygiene at a university in Alabama. One hundred …

Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury and death in adolescents, with teen
drivers three times more likely to be in a fatal crash when compared to adults. One potential …

As infectious diseases in ectothermic vertebrates increasingly threaten wild populations,
understanding how host immune systems are affected by the environment is key to …

Assessing the physiological stress responses of wild animals opens a window for
understanding how organisms cope with environmental challenges. Since stress response is …

… Chelsea Ward McIntosh is the neuroscience of driving program manager at Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia. She earned her MS in psychology from Rivier University in 2011. …

The Pascagoula Map Turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) is a narrowly endemic species found only
in the Pascagoula River drainage in Mississippi. It is among the most poorly known turtle …

Cities around the world are creating formal planning documents proposing local actions to
mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Despite a growing number of …

Hepcidin is an antimicrobial peptide and an iron-regulatory hormone that is conserved in
fish, amphibians, and mammalians. Here we report the genomic and biochemical …

Graptemys flavimaculata, the yellow-blotched map turtle, is a long-lived, threatened, species,
endemic to the Pascagoula River drainage in Mississippi. During the 1980s, one branch of …

Southern toads (Bufo terrestris) are found in coal fly ash collection basins associated with
coal-burning electrical power plants. These basins contain large amounts of trace metals and …