Publications by authors named "Joshua Zuber"
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- Orchard bees, especially from the genus Osmia, play a vital role as pollinators for fruit trees and some species are commercially available in the U.S. and Europe.
- This study focuses on developing a chronic oral toxicity test for various Osmia species to assess the impacts of pesticides more effectively, addressing gaps in previous research.
- The results showed that different species demonstrated varying levels of body mass, consumption, and survival rates, with the median lethal doses for dimethoate being quite similar among the studied species, which aids in comparing toxicity profiles across different bee types.
Autophagy is a major intracellular degradative process by which cytoplasmic materials are sequestered in double-membraned vesicles and degraded upon fusion with lysosomes. Under normal circumstances, basal autophagy is necessary to maintain cellular homeostasis by scavenging dysfunctional or damaged organelles or proteins. In addition to its vital homeostatic role, this degradation pathway has been implicated in many different cellular processes such as cell apoptosis, inflammation, pathogen clearance, and antigen presentation and thereby has been linked to a variety of human disorders, including metabolic conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, cancers, and infectious diseases.
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