2020
Adaptations of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 with Transition from Terrestrial to Aquatic Life, Monica Angeletti, Wan-Ling Nicole Hsu, Nashaat Majo, Hideaki Moriyama, Etsuko Moriyama, and Luwen Zhang
Resources for Teaching and Assessing the Vision and Change Biology Core Concepts, Janet L. Branchaw, Pamela A. Pape-Lindstrom, Kimberly D. Tanner, Sarah A. Bissonnette, Tawnya L. Cary, Brian A. Couch, Alison J. Crowe, Jenny K. Knight, Katharine Semsar, Julia I. Smith, Michelle K. Smith, Mindi M. Summers, Caroline J. Wienhold, Christian D. Wright, and Sara E. Brownell
Multiple-true-false questions reveal more thoroughly the complexity of student thinking than multiple-choice questions: a Bayesian item response model comparison, Chad Brassil and Brian Couch
PRODUCTION OF ISOPRENE BY METHANE - PRODUCING ARCHAEA, Nicole Roswitha Buan Murphy, Karrie A. Weber, Jared T. Aldridge, and Robert Carr
Mitochondrial localization of Dictyostelium discoideum dUTPase mediated by its N‑terminus, Catherine P. Chia, Noriko Inoguchi, Kyle C. Varon, Bradley M. Barholomai, and Hideaki Moriyama
Temperature alters the shape of predator–prey cycles through effects on underlying mechanisms, John P. DeLong and Shelby Lyon
Mammal community structure through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Danielle Fraser and S. Kathleen Lyons
Book Review: Nature’s Giants: The Biology and Evolution of the World’s Largest Lifeforms., William Gearty
Divergent density feedback control of migratory predator recovery following sex-biased perturbations, Daisuke Goto, Martin J. Hamel, Mark A. Pegg, Jeremy J. Hammen, Matthew L. Rugg, and Valery E. Forbes
A high-throughput method to quantify feeding rates in aquatic organisms: A case study with Daphnia, Jessica L. Hite, Alaina C. Pfenning-Butterworth, Rachel E. Vetter, and Clayton E. Cressler
The Role of Nestling Acoustic Experience in Song Discrimination in a Sparrow, Emily J. Hudson, Nicole Creanza, and Daizaburo Shizuka
Innovative teaching knowledge stays with users, A. Kelly Lane, Jacob D. McAlpin, Brittnee Earl, Stephanie Feola, Jennifer E. Lewis, Karl Mertens, Susan E. Shadle, John Svoretz, John P. Ziker, Brian A. Couch, Luanna B. Prevost, and Marilyne Stains
Local control of resource allocation is sufficient to model optimal dynamics in syntrophic systems, Glenn Ledder, Sabrina E. Russo, Erik B. Muller, Angela Peace, and Roger M. Nisbet
Extreme offspring ornamentation in American coots is favored by selection within families, not benefits to conspecific brood parasites, Bruce E. Lyon and Daizaburo Shizuka
An ortholog of the Vasa intronic gene is required for small RNA-mediated translation repression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Xinrong Ma, Fadia Ibrahim, Eun-Jeong Kim, Scott Shaver, James Becker, Fareha Razvi, Ronald L. Cerny, and Heriberto D. Cerutti
The Natural Selection Game: Incorporating Active Learning in Evolution Curricula for General Biology, Shabnam Mohammadi, Nicholas M. Kiriazis, and Lorin A. Neuman-Lee
Sex and suicide: The curious case of Toll-like receptors, Paulo A. Navarro-Costa, Antoine Molaro, Chandra S. Misra, Colin D. Meiklejohn, and Peter J. Ellis
Outcome markers of ART-treated HIV+ patients with early stage Kaposi’s sarcoma, Owen Ngalamika, For Yue Tso, Salum Lidenge, Sody Munsaka, Danielle Shea, Charles Wood, and John West
Radiomics-Based Outcome Prediction for Pancreatic Cancer Following Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy, Elsa Parr, Qian Du, Chi Zhang, Chi Lin, Ahsan Kamal, Josiah McAlister, Xiaoying Liang, Kyle Bavitz, Gerard Rux, Michael Hollingsworth, Michael Baine, and Dandan Zheng
The Globin Gene Family in Arthropods: Evolution and Functional Diversity, Andreas Prothmann, Federico G. Hoffmann, Juan C. Opazo, Peter Herbener, Jay F. Storz, Thorsten Burmester, and Thomas Hankeln
Identification and characterization of differentially expressed genes in Caenorhabditis elegans in response to pathogenic and nonpathogenic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Leah J. Radeke and Michael A. Herman
Post‐dispersal factors influence recruitment patterns but do not override the importance of seed limitation in populations of a native thistle, Tatyana A. Rand, Natalie M. West, F. Leland Russell, and Svata M. Louda
Ectomycorrhizal fungi drive positive phylogenetic plant–soil feedbacks in a regionally dominant tropical plant family, R. Max Segnitz, Sabrina E. Russo, Stuart J. Davies, and Kabir G. Peay
Tolerance of Novel Toxins through Generalized Mechanisms: Simulating Gradual Host Shifts of ButterfliesKristin, Kristin L. Sikkink, Reilly Hostager, Megan E. Kobiela, Nathan Fremling, Katherine Johnston, Amod Zambre, and Emilie C. Snell-Rood
Juvenile rank acquisition is associated with fitness independent of adult rank, Eli D. Strauss, Daizaburo Shizuka, and Kay E. Holekamp
Trade-offs between morphology and thermal niches mediate adaptation in response to competing selective pressures, Stella F. Uiterwaal, Ian T. Lagerstrom, Thomas M. Luhring, Miranda E. Salsbery, and John P. DeLong
A role for triglyceride lipase brummer in the regulation of sex differences in Drosophila fat storage and breakdown, Lianna W. Wat, Chien Chao, Rachael Bartlett, Justin L. Buchanan, Jason W. Millington, Hui Ju Chih, Zahid S. Chowdhury, Puja Biswas, Vivian Huang, Leah J. Shin, Lin Chuan Wang, Marie-Pierre L. Gauthier, Maria C. Barone, Kristi L. Montooth, Michael A. Welte, and Elizabeth J. Rideout
Lithological constraints on resource economies shape the mycorrhizal composition of a Bornean rain forest, Monique Weemstra, Kabir G. Peay, Stuart J. Davies, Mohizah Mohamad, Akira Itoh, Sylvester Tan, and Sabrina E. Russo
Mitochondrial DNA Repair in an Arabidopsis thaliana Uracil N-Glycosylase Mutant, Emily L. Wynn, Emma Purfeerst, and Alan Christensen
2019
Enzyme kinetics of dUTPase from the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis, Shahanoor Alam and Hideaki Moriyama
Testing the competition-colonization trade-off and its correlations with functional trait variations among subtropical tree species, Yue Bin, Guojun Lin, Sabrina E. Russo, Zhongliang Huang, Yong Shen, Honglin Cao, Juyu Lian, and Wanhui Ye
Influenza H1 Mosaic Hemagglutinin Vaccine Induces Broad Immunity and Protection in Mice, Brigette N. Corder, Brianna L. Bullard, Jennifer L. DeBeauchamp, Natalia A. Ilyushina, Richard J. Webby, and Eric A. Weaver
Ecological pleiotropy and indirect effects alter the potential for evolutionary rescue, John P. DeLong and Jonathan Belmaker
Life history traits and functional processes generate multiple pathways to ecological stability, John P. DeLong, Torrance C. Hanley, Jean P. Gibert, Linda M. Puth, and David M. Post
Radiomic feature stability across 4D respiratory phases and its impact on lung tumor prognosis prediction, Qian Du, Michael Baine, Kyle Bavitz, Josiah McAllister, Xiaoying Liang, Hongfeng Yu, Jeffrey Ryckman, Lina Yu, Hengle Jiang, Sumin Zhou, Sumin Zhou, Chi Zhang, and Dandan Zheng
Morphological changes in American kestrels (Falco sparverius) at continental migration sites, Teresa E. Ely, Christopher W. Briggs, Shawn E. Hawks, Gregory S. Kaltenecker, David L. Evans, Frank J. Nicoletti, Jean-François Therrien, Olin Allen, and John DeLong
A self-marker-like protein governs hemocyte allorecognition in Halocynthia roretzi, Masaki Ema, Taizo Okada, Miki Takahashi, Masato Uchiyama, Hideo Kubo, Hideaki Moriyama, Hitoshi Miyakawa, and Midori Matsumoto
Microbial Community of Saline, Alkaline Lakes in the Nebraska Sandhills Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data, Nicole A. Fiore, David D. Dunigan, Julie J. Shaffer, Ryan Roberts, Sanjay Antony-Babu, Bradley A. Plantz, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Andrew K. Benson, and Karrie A. Weber
Student Understanding of DNA Structure–Function Relationships Improves from Using 3D Learning Modules with Dynamic 3D Printed Models, Michelle E. Howell, Christine S. Booth, Sharmin M. Sikich, Tomáš Helikar, Rebecca Roston, Brain A. Couch, and Karin van Dijk
Investigating how faculty social networks and peer influence relate to knowledge and use of evidence-based teaching practices, A.K. Lane, John Skvoretz, J.P. Ziker, B.A. Couch, B. Earl, J.E. Lewis, J.D. McAlpin, L.B. Prevost, S.E. Shadle, and M. Stains
Investigating how faculty social networks and peer influence relate to knowledge and use of evidence-based teaching practices, A. K. Lane, J. Skvoretz, J. P. Ziker, B. A. Couch, B. Earl, J. E. Lewis, J. D. McAlpin, L. B. Prevost, S. E. Shadle, and M. Stains
Phenotypically plastic responses to predation risk are temperature dependent, Thomas M. Luhring, Janna M. Vavra, Clayton E. Cressler, and John DeLong
Metabolism Underlies Physiological Homeostasis in Drosophila, Omera B. Matoo, Cole R. Julick, and Kristi Montooth
“What Will I Experience in My College STEM Courses?” An Investigation of Student Predictions about Instructional Practices in Introductory Courses, Clara L. Meaders, Emma S. Toth, A. K. Lane, J. Kenny Shuman, Brian Couch, Marilyne Stains, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Erin Vinson, and Michelle K. Smith
Physiological and genomic evidence that selection on the transcription factor Epas1 has altered cardiovascular function in highaltitude deer mice, Rena M. Schweizer, Jonathan P. Velotta, Catherine M. Ivy, Matthew R. Jones, Sarah M. Muir, Gideon S. Bradburd, Jay F. Storz, Graham R. Scott, and Zachary A. Cheviron
The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary, Felisa A. Smith, Rosemary E. Elliott Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, Jonathan L. Payne, and Amelia Villaseñor
Tools for Change: Measuring Student Conceptual Understanding Across Undergraduate Biology Programs Using Bio-MAPS Assessments, Michelle K. Smith, Sara E. Brownell, Alison J. Crowe, N. G. Holmes, Jennifer K. Knight, Katharine Semsar, Mindi M. Summers, Cole Walsh, Christian D. Wright, and Brian A. Couch
Life Ascending: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia, Jay F. Storz and Graham R. Scott
Changes in the diet and body size of a small herbivorous mammal (hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus) following the late Pleistocene megafauna extinction, Catalina P. Tomé, Emma A. Elliott Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, Seth D. Newsome, and Felisa A. Smith
Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction, Anikó B. Tóth, S. Kathleen Lyons, W. Andrew Barr, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Jessica L. Blois, René Bobe, Matt Davis, Andrew Du, Jussi T. Eronen, J. Tyler Faith, Danielle Fraser, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Gary R. Graves, Advait M. Jukar, Joshua H. Miller, Silvia Pineda-Munoz, Laura C. Soul, Amelia Villaseñor, and John Alroy
Can VEGFC Form Turing Patterns in the Zebrafish Embyro?, Kenneth Y. Wertheim and Tina Roose
2018
CD32 is expressed on cells with transcriptionally active HIV but does not enrich for HIV DNA in resting T cells, Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Leticia Kuri-Cervantes, Judith Grau-Exposito, Adam M. Spivak, Racheal A. Nell, Costin Tomescu, Surya Kumari Vadrevu, Leila B. Giron, Carla Serra-Peinado, Meritxell Genesca, Josep Castellvi, Guoxin Wu, Perla M. Del Rio Estrada, Mauricio Gonzalez-Navarro, Kenneth Lynn, Collin T. King, Sai Vemula, Kara Cox, Yanmin Wan, Qingsheng Li, Karam Mounzer, Jay Kostman, Ian Frank, Mirko Paiardini, Daria Hazuda, Gustavo Reyes-Teran, Douglas Richman, Bonnie Howell, Pablo Tebas, Javier Martinez-Picado, Vicente Planelles, Maria J. Buzon, Michael R. Betts, and Luis J. Montaner
What Types of instructional shifts Do students experience? investigating active learning in science, Technology, engineering, and Math classes across Key Transition Points from Middle school to the University level, Kenneth Akiha, Emilie Brigham, Brain A. Couch, Justin Lewin, Marilyne Stains, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Erin L. Vinson, and Michelle K. Smith
Males and females evolve riskier traits in populations with eavesdropping parasitoids, Oliver M. Beckers and William E. Wagner
RNAi Doxxes Segregation Distorters on the X, Justin P. Blumenstiel and Colin D. Meiklejohn
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Infection Generate Immunity–Fecundity Tradeoffs in Drosophila, Justin L. Buchanan, Colin D. Meiklejohn, and Kristi L. Montooth
Fueling Defense: Effects of Resources on the Ecology and Evolution of Tolerance to Parasite Infection, Sarah A. Budischak and Clayton E. Cressler
Feeding immunity: Physiological and Behavioral responses to infection and resource limitation, Sarah A. Budischak, Christina B. Hansen, Quentin Caudron, Romain Garnier, Tyler R. Kartzinel, István Pelczer, Clayton E. Cressler, Anieke van Leeuwen, and Andrea L. Graham
Multiple–True–False Questions Reveal the Limits of the Multiple–Choice Format for Detecting Students with Incomplete Understandings, Brian Couch, Joanna K. Hubbard, and Chad Brassil
Student, instructor, and observer agreement regarding frequencies of scientific teaching practices using the Measurement Instrument for Scientific Teaching-Observable (MISTO), Mary F. Durham, Jennifer Knight, Emily K. Bremers, Jameson D. DeFreece, Alex R. Paine, and Brian A. Couch
Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals, William Gearty, Craig R. McClain, and Jonathan Payne
A Probable Case of Incipient Speciation in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders Driven by Allochrony, Habitat Use, and Female Mate Choice, R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Eileen A. Hebets
Evolutionary origins of vocal mimicry in songbirds, Maria Goller and Daizaburo Shizuka
Cross-ecosystem effects of terrestrial predators link treefrogs, zooplankton, and aquatic primary production, Jessica L. Hite, Myra C. Hughey, Karen M. Warkentin, and James R. Vonesh
Energy demand and the context-dependent effects of genetic interactions underlying metabolism, Luke A. Hoekstra, Cole R. Julick, Katelyn M. Mika, and Kristi L. Montooth
Gene Turnover and Diversification of the α- and β- Globin Gene Families in Sauropsid Vertebrates, Federico G. Hoffmann, Michael W. Vandewege, Jay F. Storz, and Juan C. Opazo
Influenza D virus M2 protein exhibits ion channel activity in Xenopus laevis oocytes, Evan Kesinger, Jianing Liu, Aaron Jensen, Catherine P. Chia, Andrew Demers, and Hideaki Moriyama
Molecular machinery of auxin synthesis,secretion, and perception in the unicellular chlorophyte alga Chlorella sorokiniana UTEX 1230, Maya Khasin, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Kenneth Nickerson, and Wayne R. Riekhof
Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity, Sally E. Koerner, Johannes Knops, Dustin J. Strong, and 80 more co-authors
Synbiotics for Improved Human Health: Recent Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities, Janina A. Krumbeck, Jens Walter, and Robert W. Hutkins
Predators modify the temperature dependence of life-history trade-offs, Thomas M. Luhring, Janna M. Vavra, Clayton E. Cressler, and John DeLong
Gene flow mediates the role of sex chromosome meiotic drive during complex speciation, Colin D. Meiklejohn, Emily L. Landeen, Kathleen E. Gordon, Thomas Rzatkiewicz, Sarah B. Kingan, Anthony J. Geneva, Jeffrey P. Vedanayagam, Christina A. Muirhead, Daniel Garrigan, Daven C. Presgraves, and David L. Stern
The development and application of bioinformatics core competencies to improve bioinformatics training and education, Nicola Mulder, Russell Schwartz, Michelle D. Brazas, Cath Brooksbank, Bruno Gaeta, Sarah L. Morgan, Mark A. Pauley, Anne Rosenwald, Gabriella Rustici, Michael Sierk, Tandy Warnow, and Lonnie Welch
Molecular basis of hemoglobin adaptation in the high-flying bar-headed goose, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Agnieszka Jendroszek, Amit Kumar, Roy E. Weber, Jeremy R. H. Tame, Angela Fago, and Jay F. Storz
Temperature Drives Epidemics in a Zooplankton-Fungus Disease System: A Trait-Driven Approach Points to Transmission via Host Foraging, Marta S. Shocket, Alexander T. Strauss, Jessica L. Hite, Maja Šljivar, David J. Civitello, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres, and Spencer R. Hall
Parasite rearing and infection temperatures jointly influence disease transmission and shape seasonality of epidemics, Marta S. Shocket, Daniela Vergara, Andrew J. Sickbert, Jason M. Walsman, Alexander T. Strauss, Jessica L. Hite, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Caceres, and Spencer R. Hall
Binary-state speciation and extinction method is conditionally robust to realistic violations of its assumptions, Andrew G. Simpson, Peter J. Wagner, Scott L. Wing, and Charles B. Fenster
Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary, Felisa A. Smith, Rosemary E. Elliott Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, and Jonathan L. Payne
A rapid and efficient method for enriching mitochondrial DNA from plants, Mackenzie M. Strehle, Emma Purfeerst, and Alan C. Christensen
EcoEvo-MAPS: An Ecology and Evolution Assessment for Introductory through Advanced Undergraduates, Mindi M. Summers, Brian A. Couch, Jennifer K. Knight, Sara E. Brownell, Alison J. Crowe, Katharine Semsar, Christian D. Wright, and Michelle K. Smith
Time-lagged effects of weather on plant demography: drought and Astragalus scaphoides, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Elizabeth E. Crone, Satu Ramula, and Andrew J. Tyre
RNA-Seq of Kaposi's sarcoma reveals alterations in glucose and lipid metabolism, For Yue Tso, Andrew V. Kossenkov, Salum J. Lidenge, Owen Ngalamika, John R. Ngowi, Julius Mwaiselage, Jayamanna Wickramasinghe, Eun Hee Kwon, John T. West, Paul M. Lieberman, and Charles Wood
Dehydration Stress Memory: Gene Networks Linked to Physiological Responses During Repeated Stresses of Zea mays, Laetitia Virlouvet, Thomas J. Avenson, Qian Du, Chi Zhang, Ning Liu, Michael Fromm, Zoya Avramova, and Sabrina E. Russo
Evidence for Trait-Based Dominance in Occupancy among Fossil Taxa and the Decoupling of Macroecological and Macroevolutionary Success, Peter Wagner, Roy E. Plotnick, and S. Kathleen Lyons
Temporal Variation in Predation Risk May Explain Daily Rhythms of Foraging Behavior in an Orb-Weaving Spider, J. Colton Watts, Thomas C. Jones, Ashley Herrig, Madeleine Miller, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Transcriptomic, Functional, and Network Analyses Reveal Novel Genes Involved in the Interaction between Caenorhabditis elegans and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Corin V. White and Michael A. Herman
Repeats of Unusual Size in Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Identification, Incidence and Evolution, Emily L. Wynn and Alan C. Christensen
Effects of elevated CO2, increased nitrogen deposition, and plant diversity on aboveground litter and root decomposition, Xiaoan Zuo and Johannes Knops
2017
Multiple Streptomyces species with distinct secondary metabolomes have identical 16S rRNA gene sequences, Sanjay Antony-Babu, Didier Stien, Véronique Eparvier, Delphine Parrot, Sophie Tomasi, and Marcelino Suzuki
Sigma Virus (DMelSV) Incidence in Lines of Drosophila melanogaster Selected for Survival following Infection with Bacillus cereus, Meghan L. Bentz, Eve A. Humphrey, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains, Lori A. Biederman, Brent Mortensen, Philip Fay, Nicole Hagenah, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Ramesh Laungani, Eric Lind, Rebecca McCulley, Sally Power, Eric W. Seabloom, and Pedro Tognetti
Student Buy-In Toward Formative Assessments: The Influence of Student Factors and Importance for Course Success, Kathleen R. Brazeal and Brian A. Couch
First-Year and Non-First-Year Student Expectations Regarding In-Class and Out-of-Class Learning Activities in Introductory Biology, Tanya L. Brown and Brian A. Couch
Unexpected Nongenetic Individual Heterogeneity and Trait Covariance in Daphnia and Its Consequences for Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics, Clayton E. Cressler, Stefan Bengtson, and William A. Nelson
Ecological Pleiotropy Suppresses the Dynamic Feedback Generated by a Rapidly Changing Trait, John DeLong
The combined effects of reactant kinetics and enzyme stability explain the temperature dependence of metabolic rates, John DeLong, J. P. Gibert, Thomas M. Luhring, Gwendolyn C. Bachman, B. Reed, A. Neyer, and Kristi Montooth
Measurement Instrument for Scientific Teaching (MIST): A Tool to Measure the Frequencies of Research-Based Teaching Practices in Undergraduate Science Courses, Mary F. Durham, Jennifer K. Knight, and Brian A. Couch
Assessing the Influence of Temporal Autocorrelations on the Population Dynamics of a Disturbance Specialist Plant Population in a Random Environment, Eric A. Eager, Diana Pilson, Helen M. Alexander, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Biotic interchange has structured Western Hemisphere mammal communities, Danielle Fraser and S. Kathleen Lyons
Geographical Variation in Community Divergence: Insights from Tropical Forest Monodominance by Ectomycorrhizal Trees*, Tadashi Fukami, Mifuyu Nakajima, Claire Fortunel, Paul V. Fine, Christopher Baraloto, Sabrina E. Russo, and Kabir G. Peay