Research by recent EEOB graduate Monica McNamara and colleagues sheds light on how your gut microbiome may affect motivation and/or ability for exercise. Don’t feel like exercising? It could be your microbiome. Why do some love to exercise? It might be their microbiome.
Eleven UC Riverside faculty members this year have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. These awards support early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission. Research conducted with these funds is intended to form the foundation for a lifetime of leadership, integrating education...
UCR ecologist Kurt Anderson and collaborators have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to track the effects of environmental changes on creatures that live in freshwater streams.
The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, has chosen four UC Riverside faculty members to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowships — Kelley Barsanti, Christopher Clark, Antoine Lentacker, and Fariba Zarinebaf.
New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes’ motivation and endurance. The UC Riverside-led mouse study suggests the microbiome is a big factor separating athletes from couch potatoes.
Title: Introgression and the Evolution of the Habronattus americanus Subgroup (F. Salticidae), with Particular Consideration of Multiple Patterns of Discordance
Mystery solved? Chromosomal sex determination arises when an autosomal locus acquires a sex-determining function. In some taxa, this process occurs often. The XY system in mammals, however, has been evolutionarily stable across a wide array of species. Fifty years ago, a variation on this norm was described in the creeping vole (Microtus oregoni), but the...
