Lab alum Dr. Natalia Sandoval Herrera was recently named the winner of the University of Toronto Scarborough Department of Biological Sciences Best EEB Paper. This prize celebrates the best paper led by a UTSC, Biological Sciences-based graduate student within the broad fields of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Natalia’s paper, entitled, “Non-destructive methods to assess pesticide […]
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New research led by MSc graduate Alexander Myrka shows that ruby-throated hummingbirds express fructose transporter mRNA at uniquely high levels in flight muscle, but do not express fructolytic enzymes in the same tissue. This suggests flight muscle may be able to take up fructose at unusually high rates, but raises questions about how fructose phosphorylation […]
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