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Durica
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Welcome...this web site is designed to introduce you to
my
research and and that of my lab, and how my research interests
integrate with my graduate and
undergraduate teaching responsibilities at the University of Oklahoma.
If you have questions relating to my research, undergraduate study opportunities, or graduate work at the OU Department of Zoology, please contact me at ddurica@ou.edu |
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The above link is to my c.v. and provides personal information describing my background and training, professional and administrative activities, as well as a history of my research grant funding and publication record. |
The fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, guards the sequence of its RXR gene... |
Research
Interests and Collaborators A major focus of our laboratory has been an examination of the organization and evolution of gene families, and the programmed activation of evolutionarily related genes during invertebrate development. The link above describes our research characterizing the structure and expression of the crustacean ecdysteroid receptor, a member of the nuclear receptor gene family, in conjunction with other collaborators at OU and in India. It also contains a link to a Uca pugilator expressed sequence tag (EST) database we are assembling in collaboration with the OU Advanced Center for Genome Technology, representing genes expressed during different stages of crustacean limb bud regeneration, .
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Using
antibodies directed against
the two components of the ecdysteroid receptor, the dark staining
indicates the
expression
of the EcR and RXR nuclear receptor proteins
localizing to the cell nucleus during limb bud regeneration.
Current members of the lab...
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Ph.D. student
Sunetra Das
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Senior Barret
Phillips
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 Senior Josh Johnson
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Senior John Thompson
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 The Wichita Mountain Wildlife
Refuge....Who said Oklahoma was flat?
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