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Papers in the Biological Sciences

Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences

2009

Arginine-Induced Germ Tube Formation in Candida albicans Is Essential for Escape from Murine Macrophage Line RAW 264.7, Suman Ghosh, Dhammika H. M. L. P. Navarathna, David D. Roberts, Jake T. Cooper, Audrey L. Atkin, Thomas M. Petro, and Kenneth Nickerson

Natural Genetic Variation in Transcriptome Reflects Network Structure Inferred with Major Effect Mutations: Insulin/TOR and Associated Phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster, Sergey Nuzhdin, Jennifer Brisson, Andrew Pickering, Marta Wayne, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Lauren McIntyre

Natural Genetic Variation in Transcriptome Reflects Network Structure Inferred with Major Effect Mutations: Insulin/TOR and Associated Phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, Jennifer A. Brisson, Andrew Pickering, Marta L. Wayne, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Lauren M. McIntyre

Computational Prediction of Novel Non-Coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana, Dandan Song, Yang Yang, Bin Yu, Binglian Zheng, Zhidong Deng, Bao-Liang Lu, Xuemei Chen, and Tao Jiang

Gene Duplication and the Resolution of Adaptive Conflict, Jay F. Storz

2008

Tissue and stage-specific juvenile hormone esterase (JHE) and epoxide hydrolase (JHEH) enzyme activities and Jhe transcript abundance in lines of the cricket Gryllus assimilis artificially selected for plasma JHE activity: Implications for JHE microevolution, Anurag Anand, Erica Crone, and Anthony J. Zera

Review of Archaea: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Paul Blum

Rarity of Males in Pea Aphids Results in Mutational Decay, Jennifer A. Brisson and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Evidence for contrasting modes of selection at interacting globin genes in the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), R. Campos, Jay F. Storz, and N. Ferrand

NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES FOUND IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER THAT ENCODE PROTEINS ESSENTIAL FOR VIABILITY AND METHOD OF USE: U.S. Patent No. US 7,384,745 B2, Alan C. Christensen and Douglas R. Dorer

Parasite-Mediated Disruptive Selection in a Natural Daphnia Population, Meghan Duffey, Chad Brassil, Spencer Hall, Alan Tessier, Carla Cáceres, and Jeffrey Conner

Molecular evolution of cytochrome b in high- and low-altitude deer mice (genus Peromyscus), E.J. Gering, J. C. Opazo, and Jay F. Storz

Regulation of Aromatic Alcohol Production in Candida albicans, Suman Ghosh, Bessie W. Kebaara, Audrey L. Atkin, and Kenneth W. Nickerson

Substrate-dependent signaling success in the wolf spider, Schizocosa retrorsa, Eileen Hebets, Damian O. Elias, Andrew C. Mason, Gary L. Miller, and Gail E. Stratton

Diet influences mate choice selectivity in adult female wolf spiders, Eileen Hebets, Jennifer Wesson, and Paul S. Shamble

Rapid Rates of Lineage-Specific Gene Duplication and Deletion in the α-Globin Gene Family, Federico G. Hoffmann, Juan C. Opazo, and Jay F. Storz

New Genes Originated via Multiple Recombinational Pathways in the β-Globin Gene Family of Rodents, Frederico Hoffmann, Juan Opazo, and Jay F. Storz

Environmental Effects on the Expression of Life Span and Aging: An Extreme Contrast between Wild and Captive Cohorts of Telostylinus angusticollis (Diptera: Neriidae), Noriyoshi Kawasaki, Chad Brassil, Robert Brooks, and Russell Bonduriansky

Genomic evidence for independent origins of β-like globin genes in monotremes and therian mammals, Juan C. Opazo, Federico G. Hoffmann, and Jay F. Storz

Differential loss of embryonic globin genes during the radiation of placental mammals, Juan C. Opazo, Federico Hoffmann, and Jay F. Storz

An Evolutionary Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis of Drosophila Spermatheca Genes, Adrianne Prokupek, Federico G. Hoffmann, Seong-il Eyun, Etsuko Moriyama, Min Zhou, and Lawrence G. Harshman

Agonistic signals received by an arthropod filiform hair allude to the prevalence of near-field sound communication, Roger D. Santer and Eileen Hebets

Supplementary Material: Agonistic signals received by an arthropod filiform hair allude to the prevalence of near-field sound communication, Roger D. Santer and Eileen Hebets

Adaptive Functional Divergence among Triplicated α-Globin Genes in Rodents, Jay F. Storz, Federico G. Hoffmann, Juan C. Opazo, and Hideaki Moriyama

Effects of Spatially Varying Selection on Nucleotide Diversity and Linkage Disequilibrium: Insights From Deer Mouse Globin Genes, Jay F. Storz and John K. Kelly

Evolution of SET-Domain Protein Families in the Unicellular and Multicellular Ascomycota Fungi, Chendhore Veerappan, Zoya Avramova, and Etsuko Moriyama

2007

Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of deoxyuridine triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase from Arabidopsis thaliana, Mamta Bajaj and Hideaki Moriyama

The Evolution of Color Polymorphism: Crypticity, Searching Images, and Apostatic Selection, Alan B. Bond

Common Genome-Wide Patterns of Transcript Accumulation Underlying the Wing Polyphenism and Polymorphism in the Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), Jennifer A. Brisson, Gergory K. Davis, and David L. Stern

Jhe in Gryllus assimilis: Cloning, sequence-activity associations and phylogeny, E. J. Crone, Anthony J. Zera, A. Anand, J. G. Oakeshott, T. D. Sutherland, R. J. Russell, Lawrence G. Harshman, Federico G. Hoffmann, and C. Claudianos

A Review of Leg Ornamentation in Male Wolf Spiders, with the Description of a New Species from Australia, Artoria schizocoides (Araneae, Lycosidae), Volker W. Framenau and Eileen Hebets

Does Species Diversity Limit Productivity in Natural Grassland Communities?, James B. Grace, T. Michael Anderson, Melinda D. Smith, Eric Seabloom, Sandy J. Andelman, Gayna Meche, Evan Weiher, Larry K. Allain, Heli Jutila, Mahesh Sankaran, Johannes Knops, Mark Ritchie, and Michael R. Willig

The cost of reproduction: the devil in the details, Lawrence G. Harshman and Anthony J. Zera

SUBADULT FEMALE EXPERIENCE DOES NOT INFLUENCE SPECIES RECOGNITION IN THE WOLF SPIDER SCHIZOCOSA UETZI STRATTON 1997, Eileen Hebets

Experience leads to preference: experienced females prefer brush-legged males in a population of syntopic wolf spiders, Eileen Hebets and Cor J. Vink

The α^D-Globin Gene Originated via Duplication of an Embryonic α-Like Globin Gene in the Ancestor of Tetrapod Vertebrates, Federico G. Hoffmann and Jay F. Storz

Genetic Microheterogeneity and Phenotypic Variation of Helicobacter pylori Arginase in Clinical Isolates, Justin Hovey, Emily Watson, Melanie Langford, Ellen Hildebrandt, Sangeetha Bathala, Jeffrey Bolland, Domenico Spadafora, George Mendz, and David McGee

A Practical Approach to Phylogenomics: The Phylogeny of Ray-Finned Fish (Actinopterygii) as a Case Study, Chenhong Li, Guillermo Ortí, Gong Zhang, and Guoqing Lu

Habitat Area Affects Arthropd Communities Directly and Indirectly Through Top Predators, Örjan Östman, Nicholas W. Griffin, Jared L. Strasburg, Jennifer A. Brisson, Alan R. Templeton, Tiffany M. Knight, and Jonathan M. Chase

Molecular Phylogenetics of the Phyllostomid Bat Genus Micronycteris with Descriptions of Two New Subgenera, Calvin A. Porter, Steven R. Hoofer, Chrissy A. Cline, Federico G. Hoffmann, and Robert J. Baker

HEMOGLOBIN FUNCTION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION TO HYPOXIA IN HIGH-ALTITUDE MAMMALS, Jay F. Storz

Complex Signatures of Selection and Gene Conversion in the Duplicated Globin Genes of House Mice, Jay F. Storz, Monica Baze, Jessica L. Waite, Federico G. Hoffmann, Juan C. Opazo, and Jack P. Hayes

THE STUDY OF ADAPTATION AND SPECIATION IN THE GENOMIC ERA, Jay F. Storz and Hopi E. Hoekstra

Cross-modal effects on learning: a seismic stimulus improves color discrimination learning in a jumping spider, Nicole D. VanderSal and Eileen Hebets

Codon usage in twelve species of Drosophila, Saverio Vicario, Etsuko N. Moriyama, and Jeffrey R. Powell

Conflict between Translation Initiation and Elongation in Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genomes, Xuhua Xia, Huang Huang, Malisa Carullo, Esther Betran, and Estuko Moriyama

Hormones in the Field: Evolutionary Endocrinology of Juvenile Hormone and Ecdysteroids in Field Populations of the Wing-Dimorphic Cricket Gryllus firmus, Anthony J. Zera, Zangwu Zhao, and Katherine Kaliseck

2006

Wing Dimorphism in Aphids, Christian Braendle, Gregory K. Davis, Jennifer A. Brisson, and David L. Stern

Phylogenetic Analysis of the cardini Group of Drosophila with Respect to Changes in Pigmentation, Jennifer A. Brisson, Jason Wilder, and Hope Hollocher

Female preference for complex/novel signals in a spider, Damian O. Elias, Eileen Hebets, and Ronald R. Hoy

REGIONAL SEISMIC SONG DIFFERENCES IN SKY ISLAND POPULATIONS OF THE JUMPING SPIDER HABRONATTUS PUGILLIS GRISWOLD (ARANEAE, SALTICIDAE), Damian O. Elias, Eileen Hebets, Ronald R. Hoy, Wayne P. Maddison, and Andrew C. Mason

Seismic signal production in a wolf spider: parallel versus serial multi-component signals, Damian O. Elias, Norman Lee, Eileen Hebets, and Andrew Mason

AN EXAMINATION OF AGONISTIC INTERACTIONS IN THE WHIP SPIDER PHRYNUS MARGINEMACULATUS (ARACHNIDA, AMBLYPYGI), Kasey D. Fowler-Finn and Eileen Hebets

The Role of Visual Ornamentation in Female Choice of a Multimodal Male Courtship Display, Eileen Hebets, K. Cuasay, and P. K. Rivlin

Sex-Specific Expression of Alternative Transcripts in Drosophila, Lauren McIntyre, Lisa Bono, Anne Genissel, Rick Westerman, Damion Junk, Marina Telonis-Scott, Lawrence Harshman, Marta Wayne, Artyom Kopp, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF GIANT NEURONS IN THE ANTENNIFORM LEG OF THE AMBLYPYGID PHRYNUS MARGINEMACULATUS, A. J. Spence and Eileen Hebets

Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Pteropodidae): Inferences from the Spatial Scale of Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation, Jay F. Storz, Hari R. Bhat, Johnson Balasingh, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, and Thomas H. Kunz

Environmental stress and reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster: starvation resistance, ovariole numbers and early age egg production, Marta L. Wayne, Usha Soundararajan, and Lawrence G. Harshman

Evolutionary genetics of juvenile hormone and ecdysteroid regulation in Gryllus: A case study in the microevolution of endocrine regulation, Anthony J. Zera

Intermediary Metabolism and Life-History Trade-Offs: Differential Metabolism of Amino Acids Underlies the Dispersal-Reproduction Trade-Off in a Wing-Polymorphic Cricket, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao

Biochemical basis of specialization for dispersal vs. reproduction in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Morph-specific metabolism of amino acids, Zhangwu Zhao and Anthony J. Zera

2005

Seismic signals are crucial for male mating success in a visual specialist jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae), Damian O. Elias, Eileen Hebets, Ronald R. Hoy, and Andrew C. Mason

Attention-altering signal interactions in the multimodal courtship display of the wolf spider Schizocosa uetzi, Eileen Hebets

Xenophilic mating preferences among populations of the jumping spider Habronattus pugillis Griswold, Eileen Hebets and Wayne P. Maddison

Complex signal function: Developing a framework of testable hypotheses, Eileen Hebets and Daniel R. Papaj

Community Analysis of a Mercury Hot Spring Supports Occurrence of Domain-Specific Forms of Mercuric Reductase, Jessica Simbahan, Elizabeth Kurth, James Schelert, Amanda Dillman, Estuko Moriyama, Stevan Jovanovich, and Paul H. Blum

Homologous and Heterologous Reconstitution of Golgi to Chloroplast Transport and Protein Import into the Complex Chloroplasts of Euglena, Silvia Sláviková, Rostislav Vacula, Zhiwei Fang, Tomoko Ehara, Tetsuaki Osafune, and Steven D. Schwartzbach

Nonrandom dispersal and local adaptation, Jay F. Storz

Using genome scans of DNA polymorphism to infer adaptive population divergence, Jay F. Storz

Intermediary Metabolism and Life History Trade-offs: Lipid Metabolism in Lines of the Wing-polymorphic Cricket, Gryllus firmus, Selected for Flight Capability vs. Early Age Reproduction, Anthony J. Zera

2004

Host–Symbiont Stability and Fast Evolutionary Rates in an Ant–Bacterium Association: Cospeciation of Camponotus Species and Their Endosymbionts, Candidatus Blochmannia, Patrick H. Degnan, Adam B. Lazarus, Chad D. Brock, and Jennifer J. Wernegreen

Book Review: Los Mamíferos de la Provincia de Jujuy, Argentina, Federico G. Hoffmann

Book Review: Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution, Federico G. Hoffmann

Aspects of the ecology of a distinct population of Xenosaurus platyceps from Querétaro, México, Julio A. Lemos-Espinal, Geoffrey R. Smith, and Royce E. Ballinger

Estimation of genetically effective breeding numbers using a rejection algorithm approach, Uma Ramakrishnan, Jay F. Storz, Barbara L. Taylor, and Russell Lande

Natural Selection Drives Altitudinal Divergence at the Albumin Locus in Deer Mice, Peromyscus Maniculatus, Jay F. Storz and Jean M. Dubach

Genome Scans of DNA Variability in Humans Reveal Evidence for Selective Sweeps Outside of Africa, Jay F. Storz, Bret A. Payseur, and Michael W. Nachman

Effect of a Juvenile Hormone Analogue on Lipid Metabolism in a Wing-Polymorphic Cricket: Implications for the Endocrine-Biochemical Bases of Life-History Trade-Offs, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao

A morph-specific daily cycle in the rate of JH biosynthesis underlies a morph-specific daily cycle in the hemolymph JH titer in a wing-polymorphic cricket, Zhangwu Zhao and Anthony J. Zera

The hemolymph JH titer exhibits a large-amplitude, morph-dependent, diurnal cycle in the wing-polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus, Zhangwu Zhao and Anthony J. Zera

2003

Subadult experience influences adult mate choice in an arthropod: Exposed female wolf spiders prefer males of a familiar phenotype, Eileen Hebets

Ecology of Sceloporus undulatus speari (Sauria: Phrynosomatidae) from North-Central Chihuahua, Mexico, Julio A. Lemos-Espinal, Geoffrey R. Smith, Royce E. Ballinger, and Hobart M. Smith

Codon Usage, Estuko Moriyama

The Proliferation Gene Expression Signature is a Quantitative Integrator of Oncogenic Events that Predicts Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Andreas Rosenwald, George Wright, Adrian Wiestner, Wing Chan, Joseph Connors, Elias Campo, Randy Gascoyne, Thomas Grogan, Konrad Muller-Hermelink, Erlend B. Smeland, Michael Chiorazzi, Jena M. Giltnane, Elaine M. Hurt, Hong Zhao, Lauren Averett, Sarah Henrickson, Liming Yang, John Powell, Wyndham H. Wilson, Elaine S. Jaffe, Richard Simon, Richard D. Klausner, Emilio Montserrat, Francesc Bosch, Timothy Greiner, Dennis D. Weisenburger, Warren G. Sanger, Bhavana J. Dave, James C. Lynch, Julie Vose, James O. Armitage, Richard I. Fisher, Thomas P. Miller, Michael LeBlanc, German Ott, Stein Kvaloy, Harald Holte, Jan Delabie, and Louis M. Staudt

Natural Selection on Protein Polymorphism in the Rodent Genus Peromyscus: Evidence from Interlocus Contrasts, Jay F. Storz and Michael W. Nachman

The Endocrine Regulation of Wing Polymorphism in Insects: State of the Art, Recent Surprises, and Future Directions, Anthony J. Zera

Life-History Evolution and the Microevolution of Intermediary Metabolism: Activities of Lipid-Metabolizing Enzymes in Life-History Morphs of a Wing-Dimorphic Cricket, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao

Morph-dependent fatty acid oxidation in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Implications for the trade-off between dispersal and reproduction, Anthony J. Zera and Zhangwu Zhao