Biological Sciences, School of
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
2018
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
Modeling Effects of Ecological Factors on Evolution of Polygenic Pesticide Resistance, C. V. Haridas and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Eight-Legged Encounters—Arachnids, Volunteers, and Art help to Bridge the Gap between Informal and Formal Science Learning, Eileen Hebets, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Pawl Tisdale, and Patricia Wonch Hill
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
Presence of fruits decreases probability of retaining flowers in a sequentially flowering plant, Shivani Jadeja and Brigitte Tenhumberg
The Birds of Nebraska, Paul Johnsgard
Song recognition and heterospecific associations between 2 fairy-wren species (Maluridae), Allison E. Johnson, Christina Masco, and Stephen Pruett-Jones
Reproductive promiscuity in the variegated fairy-wren: An alternative reproductive strategy in the absence of helpers?, Allison E. Johnson and Stephen Pruett-Jones
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
Synthesis, secretion, and perception of abscisic acid regulates stress responses in Chlorella sorokiniana, Maya Khasin, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Sophie Alvarez, Richard Beckeris, Seong-il Eyun, Qidong Jia, Jean-Jack Riethoven, Kenneth Nickerson, and Wayne R. Riekhof
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
Increased insertion number leads to increased sperm transfer and fertilization success in a nursery web spider, Alissa G. Anderson and Eileen Hebets
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
Importance of the antenniform legs, but not vision, for homing by the neotropical whip spider Paraphrynus laevifrons, Verner P. Bingman, Jacob M. Graving, Eileen Hebets, and Daniel D. Wiegmann
Pseudopecoelus mccauleyi n. sp. and Podocotyle sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the Deep Waters off Oregon and British Columbia with an Updated Key to the Species of Pseudopecoelus von Wicklen, 1946 and Checklist of Parasites from Lycodes cortezianus (Perciformes: Zoarcidae), Charles K. Blend, Norman O. Dronen, Gábor R. Rácz, and Scott Lyell Gardner
Student Buy-In Toward Formative Assessments: The Influence of Student Factors and Importance for Course Success, Kathleen R. Brazeal and Brian A. Couch
Multiple hypotheses explain variation in extra-pair paternity at different levels in a single bird family, Lyanne Brouwer, Martijn van de Pol, Nataly Hidalgo Aranzamendi, Glen Bain, Daniel T. Baldassarre, Lesley C. Brooker, Michael G. Brooker, Diane Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Erik Enbody, Kurt Gielow, Michelle L. Hall, Allison E. Johnson, Jordan Karubian, Sjouke A. Kingma, Sonia Kleindorfer, Marina Louter, Raoul A. Mulder, Anne Peters, Stephen Pruett-Jones, Keith A. Tarvin, Derrick J. Thrasher, Claire W. Varian-Ramos, Michael S. Webster, and Andrew Cockburn
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
Common Birds of The Brinton Museum and Bighorn Mountains Foothills, Jackie Canterbury and Paul Johnsgard
Field evidence challenges the often-presumed relationship between early male maturation and female-biased sexual size dimorphism, Marie Claire Chelini and Eileen Hebets
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
A New Species of Catenotaenia (Cestoda: Catenotaeniidae) from Pygeretmus pumilio Kerr, 1792 from the Gobi of Mongolia, Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan Dursahinhan, Batsaikhan Nyamsuren, Danielle Marie Tufts, and Scott Lyell Gardner
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
Ectoparasitic Mites of the Genus Gigantolaelaps (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) Associated with Small Mammals of the Genus Nephelomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae), Including Two New Species from Peru, Donald D. Gettinger and Scott Lyell Gardner
Development of site fidelity in the nocturnal amblypygid, Phrynus marginemaculatus, Jacob M. Graving, Verner P. Bingman, Eileen Hebets, and Daniel D. Wiegmann
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
Nematodes Associated with Mammals in the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), F. Agustin Jimenez, Juliana Notarnicola, and Scott Lyell Gardner
The North American Perching and Dabbling Ducks: Their Biology and Behavior, Paul Johnsgard
The North American Quails, Partridges, and Pheasants, Paul A. Johnsgard
The North American Whistling-Ducks, Pochards, and Stifftails, Paul A. Johnsgard
Testing the Terminal Investment Hypothesis in California Oaks, Walter D. Koenig, Johannes M.H. Knops, William J. Carmen, and Mario B. Pesendorfer
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
Record breaking achievements by spiders and the scientists who study them, Stefano Mammola, Peter Michalik, Eileen Hebets, and Marco Isaia
MICROBIAL STRAINS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING, Nicole Roswitha Buan Murphy and Jennifer Catlett
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
How Science Makes America Great, Kenneth Nickerson
Deciphering fungal dimorphism: Farnesol’s unanswered questions, Kenneth Nickerson and Audrey L. Atkin
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
Quorum sensing in Candida albicans: farnesol versus farnesoic acid, Wayne R. Riekhof and Kenneth Nickerson
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
Nitrogen addition and ecosystem functioning: Both species abundances and traits alter community structure and function, Anna R. Tatarko and Johannes M.H. Knops
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
A Method for Measuring the Attachment Strength of the Cestode Hymenolepis diminuta to the Rat Intestine, Wanchuan Xie, Gábor R. Rácz, Benjamin S. Terry, and Scott Lyell Gardner
Cooperative processing of primary miRNAs by DUS16 and DCL3 in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Tomohito Yamasaki and Heriberto D. Cerutti
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
Taxonomic Review of the Wingmite Genus Cameronieta (Acari: Spinturnicidae) on Neotropical Bats, with a New Species from Northeastern Brazil, Juliana C. Almeida, Donald D. Gettinger, and Scott Lyell Gardner
Benefits of size dimorphism and copulatory silk wrapping in the sexually cannibalistic nursery web spider, Pisaurina mira, Alissa G. Anderson and Eileen Hebets
Killer toxin from several food-derived Debaryomyces hansenii strains effective against pathogenic Candida yeasts, Nabaraj Banjara, Kenneth Nickerson, Mallory J. Suhr, and Heather E. Hallen-Adams
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