Browsing by Author "Brewer, Michael S."
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The Effect of Diet on Venom Gene Expression in Tetragnatha versicolor
Hasan, Zarif (East Carolina University, 2017-12-01)Tetragnatha versicolor is an orb weaving spider that can be found throughout North America from Alaska to Nicaragua. This along with the fact the T. versicolor is a habitat generalist means that the species encounters a ... -
The Fundulus diaphanus Species Complex: A Case Study of Convergent Evolution?
Walston, Tyler D (East Carolina University, 2017-05-09)The Fundulus diaphanus (banded killifish) species complex of Eastern North Carolina streams and Carolina bays provides a possible case study of convergent evolution with important conservation implications. It was originally ... -
TOXIFY: a deep learning approach to classify animal venom proteins
Cole, T. Jeffrey; Brewer, Michael S. (2019-06-28)In the era of Next-Generation Sequencing and shotgun proteomics, the sequences of animal toxigenic proteins are being generated at rates exceeding the pace of traditional means for empirical toxicity verification. To ... -
TOXIFY: A Deep Learning Approach to Classify Animal Venom Proteins
Brewer, Michael S.; Cole, T. Jeffrey (2019-06-28) -
Transcriptomic Signatures for Ovulation in Vertebrates
Brewer, Michael S. (2017-06-01) -
Venomics and Systematics of Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
Cohen, Christopher (East Carolina University, 2021-04-23)Robber flies or assassin flies (Diptera: Asilidae) are a diverse family of venomous predators. The evolutionary history of this venom is poorly known. We leveraged venom transcriptomes from a diversity of robber flies and ...