Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science articles from July 2003

Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science archives from July 2003

Stathmin binds heat-shock-protein 70.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Stathmin is a cytosolic protein postulated to act as an intracellular relay in cell signaling. It interacts via coiled-coil motifs with several proteins, including BiP/Grp78 and Hsc70, two members of the heat-shock-70 (Hsp70) family...

Twenty-five years of forest succession in Happy Valley, Jefferson County, Indiana.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. In April 1974 a tornado severely damaged the sugar maple/Ohio buckeye forest in Happy Valley, Jefferson County, Indiana. Virtually all canopy trees were destroyed or damaged. In the fall of 1974, the forest was sampled on three...

Distribution records of Southern Indiana vascular plants.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Collections in the Indiana University Southeast Herbarium were reexamined and entered into a database. New and old collections yielded over 100 new vascular plant county records for Clark, Crawford, Floyd, and Harrison Counties in...

Distribution of freshwater sponges and bryozoans in northwest Indiana.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Current biogeographical distributions of freshwater sponges (Porifera) and bryozoans (Ectoprocta and Entoprocta) are poorly known in Indiana. Although seemingly ubiquitous in many aquatic communities, neither group has received much...

Pseudotremia reynoldsae, a new species of troglobitic milliped (diplopoda: chordeumatida: cleidogonidae), with a synopsis of the cavernicolous millipeds of the Hoosier National Forest in Indiana.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. A bioinventory of caves of the Hoosier National Forest in south-central Indiana has resulted in the collection of 12 milliped taxa, including a new species, Pseudotremia reynoldsae, which is described and illustrated. This species is...

Amphibians and reptiles from twenty-three counties of Indiana.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Amphibians and reptiles from 23 counties, 13 in northern Indiana and 10 in southwestern Indiana, were surveyed from 1998-2001 using standardized call-survey, terrestrial and aquatic search-and-seize, and trapping methods. A total of...

Current status of the evening bat, nycticeius humeralis, in Indiana.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. As of 1993, we were not aware of any evening bat colonies still existing in Indiana. In 1994, evening bats were located in the Wabash River bottomlands of lower Prairie Creek, Vigo County, and later other colonies were located in the...

Wintering populations of bats in Indiana, with emphasis on the endangered Indiana myotis, myotis sodalis.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Between 1981 and 2003, 269 visits were made to 72 caves in Indiana to count hibernating bats. Nearly 2,000,000 bats of seven species were counted: Indiana myotis (Myotis sodalis), little brown myotis (M. lucifugus), northern myotis...

Bats of Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County Indiana.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Nine of the 12 species of bats known from Indiana have been observed at Wyandotte Cave during mist-netting or trapping at the entrance and by in-cave counts from 1953 to the present. The most abundant bat at Wyandotte Cave is the...

Achieving relevance in an introductory environmental science course through pre-service teacher artifacts.
July 29, 2003... ABSTRACT. Beginning in the Fall 2002 semester, science departments at Ball State University were required to document content learned by pre-service teachers enrolled in science courses. This documentation was to be achieved by creating new...

Minutes of the meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science 2002.
July 29, 2003... COMBINED MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE COUNCIL Butler University 12 April 2002 President Terry West called the meeting to order at 2:00 PM with 21 members in attendance. Those attending were: Dick Conklin, Jeff Hughes, Dan...

Indiana Academy of Science 2002 year end financial report.(Author Abstract)
July 29, 2003... Balance Revenues Expenses Balance 1-Jan-02 31-Dec-02 OPERATING FUND 6,050.46 7,851.00 Dues ...