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How animals adapt to environmental stress has long been of concern. Studies looking at effects of resource limitation often focus on food. However, water is also essential for life and can be limited in the environment. Despite this, little is known about how water availability …

This dissertation demonstrates how the concept of edibility as it pertained to animals was both culturally constructed and changed over time as settler colonialism took root in the early modern Atlantic World. In the first phases of Atlantic World colonization, Europeans travele…

Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as “diabetes,” is characterized as elevated blood glucose levels resulting from the body’s inability to produce insulin or cells’ compromised sensitivity to insulin. Type 2 diabetes is a compromised sensitivity to insulin or insulin resist…