Biological Sciences, School of
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
2021
The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity, Katlin Schroeder, S. Kathleen Lyons, and Felisa A. Smith
Interactions with soil fungi alter density dependence and neighborhood effects in a locally abundant dipterocarp species, R. Max Segnitz, Sabrina E. Russo, and Kabir G. Peay
Associations between Statin/Omega3 Usage and MRI-Based Radiomics Signatures in Prostate Cancer, Yu Shi, Ethan Wahle, Qian Du, Luke Krajewski, Xiaoying Liang, Sumin Zhou, Chi Zhang, Michael J. Baine, and D Zheng
Phylogenomic Variation at the Population-Species Interface and Assessment of Gigantism in a Model Wolf Spider Genus (Lycosidae, Schizocosa), James Starrett, Ashley Bui, Rowan McGinley, Eileen Hebets, and Jason E. Bond
The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies, Eli D. Strauss, James P. Curley, Daizaburo Shizuka, and Elizabeth A. Hobson
DomArchive: a century of published dominance data, Eli D. Strauss, Alex R. DeCasien, Gabriela Galindo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Daizaburo Shizuka, and James P. Curley
The dynamics of dominance: open questions, challenges and solutions, Eli D. Strauss and Daizaburo Shizuka
The brain transcriptome of the wolf spider, Schizocosa ocreata, Daniel Stribling, Peter L. Chang, Justin E. Dalton, Christopher A. Conow, Malcolm Rosenthal, Eileen Hebets, Rita M. Graze, and Michelle N. Arbeitman
The sensitivity of Neotoma to climate change and biodiversity loss over the late Quaternary, Catalina P. Tomé, S. Kathleen Lyons, Seth D. Newsome, and Felisa A. Smith
GenBio-MAPS as a Case Study to Understand and Address the Effects of Test-Taking Motivation in Low-Stakes Program Assessments, Crystal Uminski and Brian A. Couch
A consensus‑based ensemble approach to improve transcriptome assembly, Adam Voshall, Sairam Behera, Xiangjun Li, Xiao‑Hong Yu, Kushagra Kapil, Jitender S. Deogun, John Shanklin, Edgar B. Cahoon, and Etsuko N. Moriyama
Sterol Biosynthesis in Four Green Algae: A Bioinformatic Analysis of the Ergosterol Versus Phytosterol Decision Point, Adam Voshall, Nakeirah T.M. Christie, Suzanne L. Rose, Maya Khasin, James L. Van Etten, Jennifer E. Markham, Wayne Riekhof, and Kenneth Nickerson
Sterol Biosynthesis in Four Green Algae: A Bioinformatic Analysis of the Ergosterol Versus Phytosterol Decision Point, Adam Voshall, Nakeirah T.M. Christie, Suzanne L. Rose, Maya Khasin, James L. Van Etten, Jennifer E. Markham, Wayne R. Riekhof, and Kenneth Nickerson
Optimal resource allocation and prolonged dormancy strategies in herbaceous plants, J. Colton Watts and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Edaphic specialization and vegetation zones define elevational range-sizes for Mt Kinabalu regional flora, Melissa Whitman, Reed Beaman, Rimi Repin, Kanehiro Kitayama, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, and Sabrina E. Russo
Complete Genome Sequence of Geobacter sp. Strain FeAm09, a Moderately Acidophilic Soil Bacterium, Pooja Yadav, Sanjay Antony-Babu, Erin Hayes, Olivia M. Healy, Donald Pan, Wendy H. Yang, Whendee L. Silver, Christopher L. Anderson, Adam Voshall, Samodha C. Fernando, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Joshua R. Herr, and Karrie A. Weber
Genome-wide discovery of natural variation in pre-mRNA splicing and prioritising causal alternative splicing to salt stress response in rice, Huihui Yu, Qian Du, Malachy Campbell, Bin Yu, Harkamal Walia, and Chi Zhang
Human Microglia Extensively Reconstitute in Humanized-BLT Mice With Human Interleukin-34 Transgene and Support HIV-1 Brain Infection, Jianshui Zhang, Saroj Chandra Lohani, Yilun Cheng, Tao Wang, Lili Guo, Woong-Ki Kim, Santhi Gorantla, and Qingsheng Li
Androgen Receptor, Although Not a Specific Marker For, Is a Novel Target to Suppress Glioma Stem Cells as a Therapeutic Strategy for Glioblastoma, Nan Zhao, Fei Wang, Shaheen Ahmed, Kan Liu, Chi Zhang, Sahara J. Cathcart, Dominick J. DiMaio, Michael Punsoni, Bingjie Guan, Ping Zhou, Shuo Wang, Surinder K. Batra, Tatiana Bronich, Tom K. Hei, Chi Lin, and Chi Zhang
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
Gaharitrema droneni n. gen., n. sp. (Digenea: Zoogonidae: Lepidophyllinae) from the Pudgy Cuskeel, Spectrunculus grandis (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae), from Deep Waters off Oregon, with Updates Keys to Zoogonid Subfamilies and Genera, Charles K. Blend, Gábor R. Rácz, and Scott Gardner
Does masting scale with plant size? High reproductive variability and low synchrony in small and unproductive individuals, Michał Bogdziewicz, Jakub Szymkowiak, Rafael Calama, Elizabeth E. Crone, Josep M. Espelta, Peter Lesica, Shealyn Marino, Michael A. Steele, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Andrew Tyre, Magdalena Żywiec, and Dave Kelly
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
Before the Pandemic Ends: Making Sure This Never Happens Again, Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, Scott Lyell Gardner, Sabrina B. L. Araujo, Katalin Bajer, Sebastian Botero-Cañola, Brian Byrd, Gábor Földvári, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan Dursahinhan, László Zsolt Garamszegi, Dávid Herczeg, Ferenc Jakab, Alicia Juarrero, Gábor Kemenesi, Kornélia Kurucz, Virginia León-Règagnon, Hugo H. Mejía-Madrid, Orsolya Molnár, Richard A. Nisbett, Wolfgang Preiser, Michael Stuart, Eors Szathmary, and Valeria Trivellone
PRODUCTION OF ISOPRENE BY METHANE - PRODUCING ARCHAEA, Nicole Roswitha Buan Murphy, Karrie A. Weber, Jared T. Aldridge, and Robert Carr
Vertical‑Surface Navigation in the Neotropical Whip Spider Paraphrynus laevifrons (Arachnida: Amblypygi), Patrick Casto, Daniel D. Wiegmann, Vincent J. Coppola, Daniele Nardi, Eileen A. Hebets, and Verner P. Bingman
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
Predator-Dependent Functional Responses Alter the Coexistence and Indirect Effects among Prey that Share a Predator, Kyle E. Coblentz and John P. DeLong
Testing the Hypothesized Antipredator Defence Function of Stridulation in the Spiny Orb-Weaving Spider, Micrathena gracilis, Tyler B. Corey and Eileen A. Hebets
Temperature alters the shape of predator–prey cycles through effects on underlying mechanisms, John P. DeLong and Shelby Lyon
Benefits of a College STEM Faculty Development Initiative: Instructors Report Increased and Sustained Implementation of Research-Based Instructional Strategies, Mary F. Durham, Oriana R. Aragón, Meghan E. Bathgate, Aiyanan Bobrownicki, Andrew J. Cavanagh, Xinnian Chen, William M. Trochim, Jonathan K. Waterhouse, Maek J. Graham, and Brian Couch
Mammal community structure through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Danielle Fraser and S. Kathleen Lyons
A New Genus and Two New Species of Unarmed Hymenolepidid Cestodes (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) from Geomyid Rodents in Mexico and Costa Rica, Scott Lyell Gardner, Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan Dursahinhan, Mariel Campbell, and S. Elizabeth Rácz
Obituary: Sydney Anderson (1927–2018), Scott Lyell Gardner, Robert M. Timm, Nancy Olds, and Hugh H. Genoways
Book Review: Nature’s Giants: The Biology and Evolution of the World’s Largest Lifeforms., William Gearty
Demonstrating mate choice copying in spiders requires further research, R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Eileen A. Hebets
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
Presence of fruits decreases probability of retaining flowers in a sequentially flowering plant, Shivani Jadeja and Brigitte Tenhumberg
The North American Swans: Their Biology and Conservation, Paul Johnsgard
The Birds of the Nebraska Sandhills, Paul A. Johnsgard and Josef Kren
Gutiérrez of Gutierrezia (Asteraceae: Astereae), Kathleen H. Keeler
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
Making a First Impression: Exploring What Instructors Do and Say on the First Day of Introductory STEM Courses, A Kelly Lane, Clara L. Meaders, J Kenny Shuman, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Erin L. Vinson, Brian A. Couch, Michelle K. Smith, and Marilyne Stains
Pollinator assemblage and pollen load differences on sympatric diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of the desert-dominant Larrea tridentata, Robert G. Laport, Robert L. Minckley, and Diana Pilson
Towards understanding factors influencing the benefit of diversity in predator communities for prey suppression, Amanda N. Laubmeir, Richard Rebarber, and Brigitte Tenhumberg
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
Trophic cascades alter eco-evolutionary dynamics and body size evolution, Thomas M. Luhring and John DeLong
Extreme offspring ornamentation in American coots is favored by selection within families, not benefits to conspecific brood parasites, Bruce E. Lyon and Daizaburo Shizuka
Invited Commentaries on Shizuka & Johnson 2020, & Response from the Authors, Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro, Damien R. Farine, Amiyaal Ilany, Orr Spiegel, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Ipek G. Kulahci, Eric Vander Wal, Quinn M.R. Webber, Daniel I. Rudenstein, Daizaburo Shizuka, and Allison E. Johnson
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
Effects of Lethal Bronzing Disease, Palm Height, and Temperature on Abundance and Monitoring of Haplaxius crudus, De-Fen Mou, Chih-Chung Lee, Philip G. Hahn, Noemi Soto, Alessandra R. Humphries, Ericka E. Helmick, and Brian W. Bahder
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
Longer Ubiquinone Side Chains Contribute to Enhanced Farnesol Resistance in Yeasts, Ruvini U. Pathirana, Cory Boone, and Kenneth Nickerson
ENGINEERED CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TOXIN ADAPTED TO DELIVER MOLECULES INTO SELECTED CELLS, Benjamin J. Pavlik, Paul H. Blum, and Kevin Van Cott
Origin of Complexity in Hemoglobin Evolution, Arvind S. Pillai, Shane A. Chandler, Yang Liu, Anthony V. Signore, Carlos R. Cortez-Romero, Justin L. P. Benesch, Arthur Laganowsky, Jay F. Storz, Georg K. A. Hochberg, and Joseph W. Thornton
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
Phenotypic divergence in two sibling species of shorebird: Common Snipe and Wilson’s Snipe (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae), Tiago M. Rodrigues, Edward H. Miller, Sergei V. Drovetski, Robert M. Zink, Jon Fjeldså, and David Gonçalves
Exploring a novel substrate-borne vibratory signal in the wolf spider Schizocosa floridana, Malcolm F. Rosenthal, Eileen Hebets, Rowan H. McGinley, Cody Raiza, James Starrett, Lin Yan, and Damian O. Elias
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
How demographic processes shape animal social networks, Daizaburo Shizuka and Allison E. Johnson
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
Ogre-Faced, Net-Casting Spiders Use Auditory Cues to Detect Airborne Prey, Jay A. Stafstrom, Gil Menda, Eya I. Nitzany, Eileen A. Hebets, and Ronald R. Hoy
Juvenile rank acquisition is associated with fitness independent of adult rank, Eli D. Strauss, Daizaburo Shizuka, and Kay E. Holekamp
Functional responses are maximized at intermediate temperatures, Stella F. Uiterwaal and John DeLong
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
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
Evolutionary Origin and Genetic Diversity of Ring‐necked Pheasants in the Upper Midwest United States, Hernán Vázquez-Miranda, Magdalena Jean Olson, and Robert M. Zink
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
Distortion of the Local Magnetic Field Appears to Neither Disrupt Nocturnal Navigation nor Cue Shelter Recognition in the Amblypygid Paraphrynus laevifrons, Daniel D. Wiegmann, Patrick Casto, Eileen Hebets, and Verner P. Bingman
Mitochondrial DNA Repair in an Arabidopsis thaliana Uracil N-Glycosylase Mutant, Emily L. Wynn, Emma Purfeerst, and Alan Christensen
Host Relationships and Geographic Distribution of Species of Blanchard, 1848 (Onchoproteocephalidea, Onchobothriidae) in Elasmobranchs: A Metadata Analysis, Francisco Zaragoza-Tapia, Griselda Pulido-Flores, Scott L. Gardner, and Scott Monks
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
Gravid Tetragnathid Spiders Show an Increased Functional Response, Mary E. Boswell and John P. DeLong
The Ecological Niche of Echinococcus multilocularis in North America: Understanding Biotic and Abiotic Determinants of Parasite Distribution with New Records in New Mexico and Maryland, United States, Sebastian Botero-Cañola, Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan Dursahinhan, Sara E. Rácz, Parker V. Lowe, John E. Ubelaker, and Scott Lyell Gardner
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search, Peter Brown, RELISH Consortium, Yaoqi Zhou, Chi Zhang, and Tian Gao
Ecophysiological Determinants of Sexual Size Dimorphism: Integrating Growth Trajectories, Environmental Conditions, and Metabolic Rates, Marie-Claire Chelini, John P. DeLong, and Eileen A. Hebets
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
Opportunities for behavioral rescue under rapid environmental change, Samuel B. Fey, David A. Vasseur, Karla Alujević, Kristy J. Kroeker, Michael L. Logan, Mary I. O'Connor, Volker H.W. Rudolf, John DeLong, Scott Peacor, Rebecca L. Selden, A Sih, and Susana Clusella‐Trullas
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
Modeling Genomes to Phenomes to Populations in a Changing Climate: The Need for Collaborative Networks, Nika Galic, Allyson G. Hindle, John P. DeLong, Karen Watanabe, Valery Forbes, and C. Loren Buck
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