Biological Sciences, School of
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
2005
The Effects of Livestock on California Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyii), Jeffrey S. Fehmi, Sabrina E. Russo, and James W. Bartolome
Radiative Neutron β-Decay in Effective Field Theory, Susan Gardner, Véronique Bernard, and Chi Zhang
Microsatellite DNA Analysis Shows that Greater Sage Grouse Leks Are Not Kin Groups, Robert M. Gibson, Debra Pires, Kathleen S. Delaney, and Robert K. Wayne
The Symmetry of Longevity, Lawrence G. Harshman, Hans-Georg Müller, Xueli Liu, Yue Wang, and James R. Carey
Attention-altering Signal Interactions in the Multimodal Courtship Display of the Wolf Spider Schizocosa uetzi, Eileen A. 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
Potential Roles of Follicular Dendritic Cell–Associated Osteopontin in Lymphoid Follicle Pathology and Repair and in B Cell Regulation in HIV-1 and SIV Infection, Qingsheng Li, Jeffrey D. Lifson, Lijie Duan, Timothy Schacker, Cavan Reilly, John V. Carlis, Jacob D. Estes, and Ashley T. Haase
A Nontechnical Introduction to "Biocontrol as Usual": Review of Ann Hajek, Natural Enemies, Svata M. Louda
Evaluation of Ecological Risk to Populations of a Threatened Plant from an Invasive Biocontrol Insect, Svata M. Louda, Tatyana A. Rand, A. E. Arnett, A. S. McClay, K. Shea, and K. McEachern
EVALUATION OF ECOLOGICAL RISK TO POPULATIONS OF A THREATENED PLANT FROM AN INVASIVE BIOCONTROL INSECT, Svata M. Louda, Tatyana A. Rand, Amy E. Arnett, A. S. McClay, K. Shea, and A. Kathryn McEachern
Assessment of ecological risks in weed biocontrol: Input from retrospective ecological analyses, Svata M. Louda, Tatyana A. Rand, F. Leland Russell, and Amy E. Arnett
Rapid Senescence in Pacific Salmon, Yolanda E. Morbey, Chad Brassil, and Andrew P. Hendry
Upf1p, a Highly Conserved Protein Required for Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay, Interacts with the Nuclear Pore Proteins Nup100p and Nup116p, Tara Nazarenus, Rebecca Cedarberg, Ryan Bell, Joseph Cheatle, Amanda Forch, Alexis Haifley, Ann Hou, Bessie Wanja Kebaara, Christina Shields, Kate Stoysich, Rachel Taylor, and Audrey L. Atkin
Insulin Signaling Is Necessary for Vitellogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster Independent of the Roles of Juvenile Hormone and Ecdysteroids: Female Sterility of the chico1 Insulin Signaling Mutation Is Autonomous to the Ovary, David S. Richard, Robert Rybczynski, Thomas G. Wilson, Yue Wang, Marta L. Wayne, You Zhou, Linda Partridge, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Demographic and Evolutionary Impacts of Native and Invasive Insect Herbivores on Cirsium canescens, Karen E. Rose, Svata M. Louda, and Mark Rees
Indirect interaction between two native thistles mediated by an invasive exotic floral herbivore, F. Leland Russell and Svata M. Louda
Linking seed fate to natural dispersal patterns: factors affecting predation and scatter-hoarding of Virola calophylla seeds in Peru, Sabrina E. Russo
A Multi-Forest Comparison of Dietary Preferences and Seed Dispersal by Ateles spp., Sabrina E. Russo, Christina J. Campbell, J. Lawrence Dew, Pablo R. Stevenson, and Scott A. Suarez
Soil-Related Performance Variation and Distributions of Tree Species in a Bornean Rain Forest, Sabrina E. Russo, Stuart J. Davies, David A. King, and Sylvester Tan
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 N. 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
Testosterone and Group Size in Cliff Swallows: Testing the “Challenge Hypothesis” in a Colonial Bird, Linda C. Smith, Samrrah A. Raouf, Mary Bomberger Brown, John C. WIngfield, and Charles R. Brown
Nonrandom dispersal and local adaptation, Jay F. Storz
Using genome scans of DNA polymorphism to infer adaptive population divergence, Jay F. Storz
Gene Set Coregulated by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Pathway, Rachel Taylor, Bessie Wanja Kebaara, Tara Nazarenus, Ashley Jones, Rena Yamanaka, Rachel Uhrenholdt, Jason P. Wendler, and Audrey L. Atkin
Quantitative Trait Loci for Lipid Content in Drosophila melanogaster, Mei-Hui Wang, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin
Web-based toolkits for topology prediction of transmembrane helical proteins, fold recognition, structure and binding scoring, folding-kinetics analysis and comparative analysis of domain combinations, Hongyi Zhou, Chi Zhang, Song Liu, and Yaoqi Zhou
2004
Long-Range Visibility of Greater Sage Grouse Leks: A GIS-Based Analysis, Andrea S. Aspbury and Robert M. Gibson
Phylogenetic Relationships of Malvatheca (Bombacoideae and Malvoideae; Malvaceae sensu lato) as Inferred from Plastid DNA Sequences, David A. Baum, Stacey DeWitt Smith, Alan Yen, William S. Alverson, Reto Nyffeler, Barbara A. Whitlock, and Rebecca L. Oldham
Observations on Myiasis by the Calliphorids, Bufolucilia silvarum and Bufolucilia elongata, in Wood Frogs, Rana sylvatica, From Southeastern Wisconsin, Matthew G. Bolek and John J. Janovy Jr.
How Predation Risk Affects the Temporal Dynamics of Avian Leks: Greater Sage Grouse versus Golden Eagles, Adam R. Boyko, Robert M. Gibson, and Jeffrey R. Lucas
How Predation Risk Affects the Temporal Dynamics of Avian Leks: Greater Sage Grouse versus Golden Eagles, Adam R. Boyko, Robert M. Gibson, and Jeffrey R. Lucas
Population Genetics of the Developmental Gene optomotor-blind (omb) in Drosophila polymorpha: Evidence for a Role in Abdominal Pigmentation Variation, Jennifer A. Brisson, Alan R. Templeton, and Ian Duncan
Group Size and Ectoparasitism Affect Daily Survival Probability in a Colonial Bird, Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
Mark–recapture and behavioral ecology: a case study of Cliff Swallows, C. R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
Spatial Heterogeneity, Not Visitation Bias, Dominates Variation in Herbivory: Comment & Reply, James F. Cahill, Brenda B. Casper, David S. Hik, Svata M. Louda, Anne M. Parkhurst, Kate L. Bradley, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Johannes M. H. Knops, Ellen I. Damschen, and Lauren M. Young
Culture-Independent Analysis of Fecal Enterobacteria in Environmental Samples by Single-Cell mRNA Profiling, Han Chen, Gomathinayagam Ponniah, Nancy Salonen, and Paul H. Blum
Juvenile and Adult Survival in the Sociable Weaver (Philetairus Socius), a Southern-Temperate Colonial Cooperative Breeder in Africa, Rita Covas, Charles R. Brown, Mark D. Anderson, and Mary Bomberger Brown
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
Mercury Inactivates Transcription and the Generalized Transcription Factor TFB in the Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, Vidula Dixit, Elisabetta Bini, Melissa Drozda, and Paul H. Blum
Kangaroo management options IN THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN, Ron Hacker, Steve McLeod, John Druhan, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and Udai Pradhan
Life Cycle and Paratenesis of American Gordiids (Nematomorpha: Gordiida), Ben Hanelt and John J. Janovy Jr.
The Role of cis-acting Sequences Governing Catabolite Repression Control of lacS Expression in the Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, Viet Hoang, Elisabetta Bini, Vidula Dixit, Melissa Drozda, and Paul H. Blum
Book Review: Los Mamíferos de la Provincia de Jujuy, Argentina, Federico G. Hoffmann
Book Review: Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution, Federico G. Hoffmann
High phosphate (up to 600 mM) induces pseudohyphal development in five wild type Candida albicans, Jacob M. Hornby, Raluca Dumitru, and Kenneth Nickerson
Isolation and characterization of 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci in collared lizards (Crotaphytus collaris), Delbert W. Hutchison, Jared L. Strasburg, Jennifer A. Brisson, and Shawn Cummings
Review of Parasites and Diseases of Wild Birds in Florida by D. J. Forrester and M. G. Spalding; University Press of Florida, 2003, John J. Janovy Jr.
Impact of Intraspecific Polyploidy in Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae) Populations, Kathleen H. Keeler
Biotin Deficiency Decreases Life Span and Fertility but Increases Stress Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster, Anette Landenberger, Hadise Kabil, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Janos Zempleni
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
Weeds [from Encyclopedia of the Great Plains], Svata M. Louda
The Double-Edged Sword of Biological Control in Conservation and Restoration, Svata M. Louda and Peter Stiling
ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TRANSGENIC CROPS AND THE ESCAPE OF TRANSGENES INTO WILD POPULATIONS, Diana Pilson and Holly R. Prendeville
Estimation of genetically effective breeding numbers using a rejection algorithm approach, Uma Ramakrishnan, Jay F. Storz, Barbara L. Taylor, and Russell Lande
Exotic Weed Invasion Increases the Susceptibility of Native Plants to Attack by a Biocontrol Herbivore, Tatyana A. Rand and Svata M. Louda
Local- Vs. Landscape-Scale Indirect Effects of an Invasive Weed on Native Plants, Tatyana A. Rand, F. Leland Russell, and Svata M. Louda
Phenological synchrony affects interaction strength of an exotic weevil with Platte thistle, a native host plant, F. Leland Russell and Svata M. Louda
Aggregated Seed Dispersal by Spider Monkeys Limits Recruitment to Clumped Patterns in Virola calophylla, Sabrina E. Russo and Carol K. Augsperger
Occurrence and Characterization of Mercury Resistance in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus by Use of Gene Disruption, James Schelert, Vidula Dixit, Viet Hoang, Jessica Simbahan, Melissa Drozda, and Paul H. Blum
The Sweet Tooth of Adult Parasitoid Cotesia rubecula: Ignoring Hosts for Nectar?, Gitta Siekmann, Michael A. Keller, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Genetic Discontinuities among Populations of Cleistes (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae) in North America, Stacey DeWitt Smith, Robyn S. Cowan, Katharine B. Gregg, Mark W. Chase, Nigel Maxted, and Michael F. Fay
Landscape Vs. Local Habitat Scale Influences To Insect Communities From Tallgrass Prairie Remnants, Kristal J.L. Stoner and Anthony Joern
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
Predicting predation efficiency of biocontrol agents: linking behavior of individuals and population dynamics, Brigitte Tenhumberg
DO HARVEST REFUGES BUFFER KANGAROOS AGAINST EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES TO SELECTIVE HARVESTING?, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Andrew J. Tyre, Anthony R. Pople, and Hugh P. Possingham
Linking Wild and Captive Populations to Maximize Species Persistence: Optimal Translocation Strategies, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Andrew J. Tyre, Katriona Shea, and Hugh P. Possingham
The role of local spatial heterogeneity in the maintenance of parapatric boundaries: agent based models of competition between two parasitic ticks, Andrew J. Tyre, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and C. Michael Bull
Environment-Dependent Survival of Drosophila melanogaster: A Quantitative Genetic Analysis, Mei-Hui Wang, Oleg Lazebny, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin
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
The Dependence of All-Atom Statistical Potentials on Structural Training Database, Chi Zhang, Song Liu, Hongyi Zhou, and Yaoqi Zhou
Roles of substrate availability and infection of resting and activated CD4+T cells in transmission and acute simian immunodeficiency virus infection, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Stephen W. Wietgrefe, Qingsheng Li, Marta Dykhuizen Shore, Lijie Duan, Cavan Reilly, Jeffrey D. Lifson, and Ashley T. Haase
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
Toward a physical energy function for intra- and inter-protein interactions by combining structural knowledge with physical principles, Yaoqi Zhou, Hongyi Zhou, Chi Zhang, and Song Liu
2003
Food Supplements Modulate Changes in Leucocyte Numbers in Breeding Male Ground Squirrels, Gwendolyn C. Bachman
The turn of the sword: length increases male swimming costs in swordtails, Alexandra Basolo and Giollermina Alcaraz
Hyperthermophilic Alpha-Glucosidase Gene and its Use, Paul Blum
Observations on the Life History and Descriptions of Coccidia (Apicomplexa) from the Western Chorus Frog, Pseudacris triseriata triseriata, from Eastern Nebraska, Matthew G. Bolek, John J. Janovy Jr., and Armando R. Irizarry-Rovira
Spatial Heterogeneity, Not Visitation Bias, Dominates Variation in Herbivory, Kate L. Bradley, Ellen I. Damschen, Lauren M. Young, Daniel Kuefler, Sarah Went, Galen Wray, Nick M. Haddad, Johannes M. H. Knops, and Svata M. Louda
Impact of fire management on the ecology of collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris) populations living on the Ozark Plateau, Jennifer A. Brisson, Jared L. Strasburg, and Alan R. Templeton
Testis Size Increases with Colony Size in Cliff Swallows, Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
Multistate Estimates of Survival and Movement in Relation to Colony Size in the Sociable Weaver, Charles R. Brown, Rita Covas, Mark D. Anderson, and Mary Bomberger Brown
Host Specificity among Ancyrocephalinae (Monogenoidea) of Nebraska Sunfish, Megan R. Collins and John J. Janovy Jr.
Life Span Extension of Drosophila melanogaster: Genetic and Population Studies, Lawrence G. Harshman
Subadult experience influences adult mate choice in an arthropod: Exposed female wolf spiders prefer males of a familiar phenotype, Eileen Hebets
Phyllodistomum funduli n. sp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) from Fundulus sciadicus Cope from Cedar Creek in Western Nebraska, Jaclyn Helt, John J. Janvoy Jr., and John Ubelaker
The role of visual landmarks in the avian familiar area map, Richard A. Holland
Acceptance of the Clark P. Read Mentor Award: The Teague Self Lessons, John J. Janovy Jr.
Chemistry of Cirsium and Carduus: A role in ecological risk assessment for biological control of weeds?, Ingrid E. Jordon-Thaden and Svata M. Louda
Host Range Extension for Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria (Geometrinae, Geometridae) to Include Eriogonum alatum (Polygonaceae), Kathleen H. Keeler and George J. Balogh
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
Invasiveness of Some Biological Control Insects and Adequacy of Their Ecological Risk Assessment and Regulation, Svata M. Louda, Amy E. Arnett, Tatyana A. Rand, and F. L. Russell
Native Thistles: Expendable or Integral to Ecosystem Resistance to Invasion?, Svata M. Louda and Tatyana A. Rand
Dynamic versus Instantaneous Models of Diet Choice, Brian O. Ma, Peter A. Abrams, and Chad Brassil
Codon Usage, Estuko N. Moriyama
Ontogenetic shift in buoyancy and habitat in the Antarctic toothfish, Dissostichus mawsoni (Perciformes: Nototheniidae), Thomas J. Near, Sabrina E. Russo, Christopher D. Jones, and Arthur L. DeVries