Publications by authors named "Erica Chapman"

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  • Aquatic species in productive coastal habitats experience dynamic changes in water temperature and oxygen levels, but the impact of these fluctuations on their thermal tolerance is not well understood.
  • The research hypothesizes that the predictability of these diel (daily) environmental changes can explain how different marine species respond to temperature shifts.
  • Results indicate that tropical species face more predictable fluctuations, allowing them to adjust their thermal performance under high oxygen levels, suggesting predictability should be considered in models forecasting marine responses to global warming.
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Offshore renewables are expanding, yet more information is required to understand their possible impacts on the environment. Little is known about the effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) from subsea power cables on marine life. This study simulated an EMF of 500 μT, as modelled for an export cable over a rocky shore, where the industry standard cable burial would not be possible.

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European oyster (Ostrea edulis) restoration often requires the timely deployment of shell habitat for larval settlement. To inform this increasingly popular process, the present study investigated temporal and spatial abundance patterns of O. edulis larvae in a rare commercial fishery (Loch Ryan, Scotland, UK).

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Canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) is a parasitic cancer clone that has propagated for thousands of years via sexual transfer of malignant cells. Little is understood about the mechanisms that converted an ancient tumor into the world's oldest known continuously propagating somatic cell lineage. We created the largest existing catalog of canine genome-wide variation and compared it against two CTVT genome sequences, thereby separating alleles derived from the founder's genome from somatic mutations that must drive clonal transmissibility.

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Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) is effective treatment for indolent non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs), but response durations are usually limited, especially in aggressive NHL. We hypothesized that administration of bortezomib as a radiosensitizer with RIT would be tolerable and improve efficacy in NHL. This phase 1 dose-escalation study evaluated escalating doses of bortezomib combined with 131I-tositumomab in patients with relapsed/refractory NHL.

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