2018
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
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
Student, instructor, and observer agreement regarding frequencies of scientific teaching practices using the Measurement Instrument for Scientific Teaching-Observable (MISTO), Mary F. Durham, Jennifer K. Knight, Emily K. Bremers, Jameson D. DeFreece, Alex R. Paine, and Brian A. Couch
Evolutionary origins of vocal mimicry in songbirds, Maria Goller and Daizaburo Shizuka
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
Predators modify the temperature dependence of life-history trade-offs, Thomas M. Luhring, Janna M. Vavra, Clayton E. Cressler, and John DeLong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How Question Types Reveal Student Thinking: An Experimental Comparison of Multiple-True-False and Free-Response Formats, Joanna K. Hubbard, Macy A. Potts, and Brian Couch
Knowing your own: A classroom case study using the scientific method to investigate how birds learn to recognize their offspring, Joanna K. Hubbard, Daizaburo Shizuka, and Brian A. Couch
The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage, Bruce A. Hungate, Edward B. Barbier, Amy W. Ando, Samuel P. Marks, Peter B. Reich, Natasja van Gestel, David Tilman, Johannes M. H. Knops, David U. Hooper, Bradley J. Butterfield, and Bradley J. Cardinale
Phytophagous insect oviposition shifts in response to probability of flower abortion owing to the presence of basal fruits, Shivani Jadeja and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Distinct transcriptome profiles of Gag-specific CD8+ T cells temporally correlated with the protection elicited by SIVΔnef live attenuated vaccine, Wuxun Lu, Yanmin Wan, Fangrui Ma, R. Paul Johnson, and Qingsheng Li
The emerging contribution of social wasps to grape rot disease ecology, Anne A. Madden, Sean D. Boyden, Jonathan-Andrew N. Soriano, Tyler B. Corey, Jonathan W. Leff, Noah Fierer, and Philip T. Starks
Phosphate starvation induces replacement of phospholipids with the betaine lipid diacylglycerol-N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, Surabhi Naik, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Bridget Tripp, Christian Elowsky, Sophie Alvarez, Kan Liu, Chi Zhang, and Wayne R. Riekhof
Abundance and Distribution of Microbial Cells and Viruses in an Alluvial Aquifer, Donald Pan, Jason Nolan, Kenneth H. Williams, and Karrie A. Weber
Spatially biased dispersal of acorns by a scatter-hoarding corvid may accelerate passive restoration of oak habitat on California’s largest island, Mario B. Pesendorfer, T. Scott Sillett, and Scott A. Morrison
Identification of the ATPase Subunit of the Primary Maltose Transporter in the Hyperthermophilic Anaerobe Thermotoga maritima, Raghuveer Singh, Derrick White, and Paul H. Blum
Sensory system plasticity in a visually specialized, nocturnal spider, Jay A. Stafstrom, Peter Michalik, and Eileen Hebets
Large but uneven reduction in fish size across species in relation to changing sea temperatures, Itai van Rijn, Yehezkel Buba, John DeLong, Moshe Kiflawi, and Jonathan Belmaker
Vertebrate body size jumps the Wright way, Peter J. Wagner
Host allometry influences the evolution of parasite host-generalism: theory and meta-analysis, Josephine G. Walker, Amy Hurford, Jo Cable, Amy R. Ellison, Stephen J. Price, and Clayton E. Cressler
Host allometry influences the evolution of parasite host-generalism: theory and meta-analysis, Josephine G. Walker, Amy Hurford, Jo Cable, Amy R. Ellison, Stephen J. Price, and Clayton E. Cressler
Increased productivity in wet years drives a decline in ecosystem stability with nitrogen additions in arid grasslands, Junfeng Wang, Johannes M.H. Knops, Chad E. Brassil, and Chunsheng Mu
Cumulative herbivory outpaces compensation for early floral damage on a monocarpic perennial thistle, Natalie M. West and Svata M. Louda
Contribution of Pentose Catabolism to Molecular Hydrogen Formation by Targeted Disruption of Arabinose Isomerase (araA) in the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga maritima, Derrick White, Raghuveer Singh, Deepak Rudrappa, Jackie Mateo, Levi Kramer, Laura Freese, and Paul H. Blum
Cooperative processing of primary miRNAs by DUS16 and DCL3 in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Tomohito Yamasaki and Heriberto D. Cerutti
Reactivation of HIV-1 proviruses in immune-compromised mice engrafted with human VOA-negative CD4+ T cells, Zhe Yuan, Guobin Kang, Wuxun Lu, and Qingsheng Li
Glaciation as a migratory switch, Robert M. Zink and Aubrey S. Gardner
2016
A Guide for Graduate Students Interested in Postdoctoral Positions in Biology Education Research, Melissa L. Aikens, Lisa A. Corwin, Tessa C. Andrews, Brian A. Couch, Sarah L. Eddy, Lisa McDonnell, and Gloriana Trujillo
How Many Kinds of Birds Are There and Why Does It Matter?, George F. Barrowclough, Joel Cracraft, John Klicka, and Robert M. Zink
Experimental Microbial Evolution of Extremophiles, Paul H. Blum, Deepak Rudrappa, Raghuveer Singh, Samuel McCarthy, and Benjamin J. Pavlik
Characterizing Student Perceptions of and Buy-In toward Common Formative Assessment Techniques, Kathleen R. Brazeal, Tanya L. Brown, and Brian Couch
The Differentiation and Protective Function of Cytolytic CD4 T Cells in influenza infection, Deborah M. Brown, Anna T. Lampe, and Aspen M. Workman
A dataset for assessing temporal changes in gene expression during the aging process of adult Drosophila melanogaster, Kimberly A. Carlson, Chi Zhang, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Student Buy-In to Active Learning in a College Science Course, Andrew J. Cavanagh, Oriana R. Aragon, Xinnian Chen, Brian Couch, Mary F. Durham, Aiyana Bobrownicki, David I. Hanauer, and Mark J. Graham
Molecular Evolution and Functional Divergence of Trace Amine–Associated Receptors, Seong-il Eyun, Hideaki Moriyama, Federico G. Hoffmann, and Etsuko N. Moriyama
Tiger salamanders disappearing in region, Dennis M. Ferraro
Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment, Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Peter B. Reich, Eric M. Lind, Lauren L. Sullivan, Eric W. Seabloom, Laura Yahdjian, Andrew S. MacDougall, Lara G. Reichmann, Juan Alberti, Selene Baez, Jonathan D. Bakker, Marc W. Cadotte, Maria C. Caldeira, Enrique J. Chaneton, Carla M. D'Antonio, Philip A. Fay, Jennifer Firn, Nicole Hagenah, W. Stanley Harpole, Oscar Iribarne, Kevin P. Kirkman, Johannes M.H. Knops, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Ramesh Laungani, Andrew D.B. Leakey, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, Jesus Pascual, and Elizabeth T. Borer
Advantages of an Improved Rhesus Macaque Genome for Evolutionary Analyses, Julien S. Gradnigo, Abhishek Majumdar, Robert B. Norgren Jr., and Etsuko N. Moriyama
Genome Sequence of Streptomyces aureofaciens ATCC Strain 10762, Julien Gradnigo, Greg Somerville, Michael J. Huether, Richard J. Kemmy, Craig M. Johnson, Michael G. Oliver, and Etsuko N. Moriyama
Genome Sequence of Streptomyces aureofaciens ATCC Strain 10762, Julien Gradnigo, Greg Somerville, Michael J. Huether, Richard J. Kemmy, Craig M. Johnson, Michael G. Oliver, and Etsuko N. Moriyama
Effects of temporal variation in temperature and density dependence on insect population dynamics, C. V. Haridas, Lance J. Meinke, Bruce E. Hibbard, Blair D. Siegfried, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
The importance of cross-validation, accuracy, and precision for measuring plumage color: A comment on Vaquero-Alba et al. (2016), Joanna K. Hubbard, Amanda K. Hund, Iris I. Levin, Kevin J. McGraw, Matt Wilkins, and Rebecca J. Safran
Biotin Auxotrophy and Biotin Enhanced Germ Tube Formation in Candida albicans, Nur Ahmad Hussin, Ruvini U. Pathirana, Sahar Hasim, Swetha Tati, Jessica A. Scheib-Owens, and Kenneth Nickerson
Polymorphisms and resistance mutations of hepatitis C virus on sequences in the European hepatitis C virus database, Dimas Alexandre Kliemann, Cristiane Valle Tovo, Ana Beatriz Gorini da Veiga, Angelo Alves de Mattos, and Charles Wood
Is the relationship between mast-seeding and weather in oaks related to their life-history or phylogeny?, Walter D. Koenig, Reyes Alejano, Maria Dolores Carbonero, Pilar Fernández-Rebollo, Johannes Knops, Teodoro Marañón, Carmen M. Padilla-Díaz, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos, Javier Vázquez-Piqué, and Mario B. Pesendorfer
Sex Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Suppression and Compensatory Cis- Regulatory Evolution Mediate Gene Expression in the Drosophila Male Germline, Emily L. Landeen, Christina A. Muirhead, Lori Wright, Colin D. Meiklejohn, and Daven C. Presgraves
Sex Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Suppression and Compensatory Cis-Regulatory Evolution Mediate Gene Expression in the Drosophila Male Germline, Emily L. Landeen, Christina A. Muirhead, Lori Wright, Colin D. Meiklejohn, and Daven C. Presgraves
The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity–functioning relationship across ecosystems, Aleksandra M. Lewandowska, Antje Biermann, Elizabeth T. Borer, Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras, Steven A.J. Declerck, Luc De Meester, Ellen Van Donk, Lars Ganfeldt, Daniel S. Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, W. Stanley Harpole, Kevin P. Kirkman, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michael Kleyer, Johannes M. H. Knops, Pieter Lemmens, Eric M. Lind, Elena Litchman, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Koen Martens, Sandra Meier, Vanessa Minden, Joslin L. Moore, Harry Olde Venterink, Eric W. Seabloom, Ulrich Sommer, Maren Striebel, Anastasia Trenkamp, Juliane Trinogga, Jotaro Urabe, Wim Vyverman, Dedmer B. Van de Waal, Claire E. Widdicombe, and Helmut Hillebrand
Molecular mechanism of the priming by jasmonic acid of specific dehydration stress response genes in Arabidopsis, Ning Liu and Zoya Avramova
Comparative population genomics of latitudinal variation in Drosophila simulans and Drosophila melanogaster, Heather E. Machado, Alan O. Bergland, Katherine R. O'Brien, Emily L. Behrman, Paul S. Schmidt, and Dmitri A. Petrov
Expanding the Limits of Thermoacidophily in the Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus by Adaptive Evolution, Samuel McCarthy, Tyler Johnson, Benjamin J. Pavlik, Sophie Payne, Wendy Schackwitz, Joel Martin, Anna Lipzen, Erica Keffeler, and Paul H. Blum
Heterochromatin and genetic conflict, Colin D. Meiklejohn
Candida albicans ISW2 Regulates Chlamydospore Suspensor Cell Formation and Virulence In Vivo in a Mouse Model of Disseminated Candidiasis, Dhammika Navarathna, Ruvini U. Pathirana, Michail S. Lionakis, Kenneth W. Nickerson, and David D. Roberts
Targeted Therapy for Acute Autoimmune Myocarditis with Nano-Sized Liposomal FK506 in Rats, Keiji Okuda, Hai Ying Fu, Takashi Matsuzaki, Ryo Araki, Shota Tsuchida, Punniyakoti V. Thanikachalam, Tatsuya Fukuta, Tomohiro Asai, Masaki Yamato, Shoji Sanada, Hiroshi Asanuma, Yoshihiro Asano, Masanori Asakura, Haruo Hanawa, Hiroyuki Hao, Naoto Oku, Seiji Takashima, Masafumi Kitakaze, Yasushi Sakata, and Tetsuo Minamino
Context-dependent seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding corvid, Mario B. Pesendorfer, T. Scott Sillett, Scott A. Morrison, and Alan C. Kamil
Genome-wide differentiation in closely related populations: The roles of selection and geographic isolation, Rebecca Safran, Elizabeth Scordato, Matt Wilkins, Joanna K. Hubbard, B. R. Jenkins, Tomáš Albrecht, Samuel Flaxman, H. Karaardiç, Yoni Vortman, Arnon Lotem, Patrik Nosil, P. Pap, Sheng-Feng Shen, S.-F. Chan, T. L. Parchman, and Nolan C. Kane
The maintenance of phenotypic divergence through sexual selection: An experimental study in barn swallows Hirundo rustica, Rebecca Safran, Yoni Vortman, Brittany R. Jenkins, Joanna K. Hubbard, Matt Wilkins, Rachel J. Bradley, and Arnon Lotem
Corrigendum: The Arabidopsis Homologs of Trithorax (ATX1) and Enhancer of Zeste (CLF) Establish ‘Bivalent Chromatin Marks’ at the Silent AGAMOUS Locus, Abdelaty Saleh, Ayed Al-Abdallat, Ivan Ndamukong, Raul Alvarez-Venegas, and Zoya Avramova
Nested species- rich networks of scavenging vertebrates support high levels of interspecific competition, ESTHER SEBASTIÁN-GONZÁLEZ, MARCOS MOLEÓN, JEAN P. GIBERT, FRANCISCO BOTELLA, PATRICIA MATEO-TOMÁS, PEDRO P. OLEA, PAULO R. GUIMARÃES JR., and JOSÉ A. SÁNCHEZ-ZAPATA
Measuring the robustness of network community structure using assortativity, Daizaburo Shizuka and Damien R. Farine
Range-wide patterns of geographic variation in songs of Golden-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia atricapilla), Daizaburo Shizuka, M Ross Lein, and Glen Chilton
Range-wide patterns of geographic variation in songs of Golden-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia atricapilla), Daizaburo Shizuka, M. Ross Lein, and Glen Chilton
MSH1 Is a Plant Organellar DNA Binding and Thylakoid Protein under Precise Spatial Regulation to Alter Development, Kamaldeep S. Virdi, Yashitola Wamboldt, Hardik Kundariya, John D. Laurie, Ido Keren, K.R. Sunil Kumar, Anna Block, Gilles J. Basset, Steve Luebker, Christian Elowsky, Philip M. Day, Johnna L. Roose, Terry M. Bricker, Thomas Elthon, and Sally A. Mackenzie
Signal Traits and Oxidative Stress: A Comparative Study across Populations with Divergent Signals, Maren N. Vitousek, Oldřich Tomášek, Tomáš Albrecht, Matt Wilkins, and Rebecca Safran
A Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Strain Evades a Major Caenorhabditis elegans Defense Pathway, Corin V. White, Brian J. Darby, Robert J. Breeden, Robert J. Breeden, and Michael A. Herman
Pygids, Matt Wilkins and Tyler Corey
Target dose conversion modeling from pencil beam (PB) to Monte Carlo (MC) for lung SBRT, Dandan Zheng, Xiaofeng Zhu, Qinghui Zhang, Xiaoying Liang, Weining Zhen, Chi Lin, Vivek Verma, Shuo Wang, Andrew Wahl, Yu Lei, Sumin Zhou, and Chi Zhang
2015
Complete Genome Sequences of Evolved Arsenate-Resistant Metallosphaera sedula Strains, Chenbing Ai, Samuel McCarthy, Wendy Schackwitz, Joel Martin, Anna Lipzen, and Paul H. Blum
Generation of an Attenuated, Cross-Protective Pepino mosaic virus Variant Through Alignment-Guided Mutagenesis of the Viral Capsid Protein, Godwill M. Chewachong, Sally A. Miller, Joshua J. Blakeslee, David M. Francis, Thomas Jack Morris, and Feng Qu
Nutritional physiology of life-history trade-offs: How food protein–carbohydrate content influences life-history traits in the wing-polymorphic cricket Gryllus firmus, Rebecca M. Clark, Anthony J. Zera, and Spencer T. Behmer
A Comparison of Two Low-Stakes Methods for Administering a Program-Level Biology Concept Assessment, Brian A. Couch and Jennifer K. Knight
The Molecular Biology Capstone Assessment: A Concept Assessment for Upper-Division Molecular Biology Students, Brian A. Couch, William B. Wood, and Jennifer K. Knight
Scientific Teaching: Defining a Taxonomy of Observable Practices, Brian Couch, Tanya L. Brown, Tyler J. Schelpat, Mark J. Graham, and Jennifer K. Knight
Displaying to females may lower male foraging time and vigilance in a lekking bird, Sarah A. Cowles and Robert M. Gibson
How fast is fast? Eco-evolutionary dynamics and rates of change in populations and phenotypes, John DeLong, Valery E. Forbes, Nika Galic, Jean P. Gibert, Robert G. Laport, Joseph S. Phillips, and Janna M. Vavra
Gillespie eco-evolutionary models (GEMs) reveal the role of heritable trait variation in eco-evolutionary dynamics, John DeLong and Jean P. Gibert
Socio-Economic Instability and the Scaling of Energy Use with Population Size, John P. DeLong and Oskar Burger
Contribution of a mutational hot spot to hemoglobin adaptation in high-altitude Andean house wrens, Spencer C. Galen, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Hideaki Moriyama, Roy E. Weber, Angela Fago, Phred M. Benham, Andrea N. Chavez, Zachary A. Cheviron, Jay F. Storz, and Christopher C. Witt
Variation in the local population dynamics of the short-lived Opuntia macrorhiza (Cactaceae), C. V. Haridas, Kathleen H. Keeler, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Structural insights into the mechanism defining substrate affinity in Arabidopsis thaliana dUTPase: the role of tryptophan 93 in ligand orientation, Noriko Inoguchi, Kittichai Chaiseeda, Mamoru Yamanishi, Moon Ki Kim, Yunho Jang, Mamta Bajaj, Catherine P. Chia, Donald F. Becker, and Hideaki Moriyama
First record on secondary pollen presentation in the Cucurbitaceae family, Shivani Jadeja