Benjamin M Rosenthal

Publish Date: June 6, 2006

The Food Marketing Institute (FMI, 2000) summarized the factors that consumers feel are important when making food purchasing decisions; ranked in descending order of importance were: (1) taste; (2a) nutrition, (2b) food safety, (4) cost and (5) storability. At the same time, consumers still try to economize when shopping: (a) low prices ranked 8th in Importance of Supermarket Features, and (b) 20% or more of supermarket shoppers did one or more of the following economizing behavior--looked in newspaper for grocery specials, participated in frequent shopper programs, stocked-up on bargain items, used cents-off coupons, compared prices at different supermarkets (FMI, 2000). These factors indicated that consumers are still very conscious of value (satisfaction received for price paid).

Publish Date: June 10, 2009

Post-Miocene expansion, colonization, and host switching drove speciation among extant nematodes of the archaic genus Trichinella.

Publish Date: June 10, 2009

Dispersal of Trichinella spiralis in domesticated pigs.

Publish Date: June 10, 2009

Recent transcontinental sweep of Toxoplasma gondii driven by a single monomorphic chromosome.

Publish Date: June 10, 2009

Research Project: Selection at a single locus leads to widespread expansion of Toxoplasma gondii lineages that are virulent in mice.