Biological Sciences, School of
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
2017
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
Evidence for the fixation of gene duplications by positive selection in Drosophila, Margarida Cardoso-Moreira, J. Roman Arguello, Srikanth Gottipati, Lawrence G. Harshman, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Andrew G. Clark
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
The behavioral ecology of amblypygids, Kenneth J. Chapin and Eileen A. Hebets
Absence of Mate Choice and Postcopulatory Benefits in a Species with Extreme Sexual Size Dimorphism, Marie Claire Chelini and Eileen Hebets
Absence of Mate Choice and Postcopulatory Benefits in a Species with Extreme Sexual Size Dimorphism, Marie-Claire Chelini and Eileen A. Hebets
Polyandry in the absence of fitness benefits in a species with female-biased sexual size dimorphism, Marie Claire Chelini and Eileen A. Hebets
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
A systems approach to animal communication, Eileen A. Hebets, Andrew B. Barron, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Mark E. Hauber, Paul H. Mason, and Kim L. Hoke
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
Swans: Their Biology and Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard
The North American Geese: Their Biology and Behavior, Paul A. Johnsgard
The North American Grouse: Their Biology and Behavior, Paul A. Johnsgard
The North American Sea Ducks: Their Biology and Behavior, Paul A. Johnsgard
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
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
Comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and physiology distinguish symbiotic from free-living Chlorella strains, Cristian F. Quispe, Olivia Sonderman, Maya Khasin, Wayne R. Riekhof, James L. Van Etten, and Kenneth Nickerson
Comparative anatomy of the bony labyrinth of extant and extinct porpoises (Cetacea: Phocoenidae), Rachel A. Racicot, William Gearty, Naoki Kohno, and John J. Flynn
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
Unraveling the consequences of the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction on mammal community assembly, Felisa A. Smith, Catalina P. Tomé, Emma A. Elliott Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, Seth D. Newsome, and Thomas W. Stafford
Tick-, Mosquito-, and Rodent-Borne Parasite Sampling Designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network [Special Feature: NEON Design], Yuri P. Springer, David Hoekman, Pieter T.J. Johnson, Paul A. Duffy, Rebecca A. Hufft, David T. Barnett, Brian F. Allan, Brian R. Amman, Christopher M. Barker, Roberto Barrera, Charles B. Beard, Lorenza Beati, Mike Begon, Mark S. Blackmore, William E. Bradshaw, Dustin Brisson, Charles H. Calisher, James E. Childs, Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, Richard J. Douglass, Rebecca J. Eisen, Desmond H. Foley, Janet E. Foley, Holly D. Gaff, Scott Lyell Gardner, Howard S. Ginsberg, Gregory E. Glass, Sarah A. Hamer, Mary H. Hayden, Brian Hjelle, Christina M. Holzapfel, Steven A. Juliano, Laura D. Kramer, Amy J. Kuenzi, Shannon L. LaDeau, Todd P. Livdahl, James N. Mills, Chester G. Moore, Serge Morand, Roger S. Nasci, Nicholas H. Ogden, Richard S. Ostfeld, Robert R. Parmenter, Joseph Piesman, William K. Reisen, Harry M. Savage, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Andrea Swet, and Michael J. Yabsley
Nocturnal foraging enhanced by enlarged secondary eyes in a net-casting spider, Jay A. Stafstrom and Eileen A. Hebets
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
Phylogeny and biogeography of species of Syphacia Seurat, 1916 (Nemata : Oxyurida : Oxyuridae) from the Australian Bioregion, Haylee J. Weaver, Scott Monks, and Scott Gardner
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
Amblypygids: Model Organisms for the Study of Arthropod Navigation Mechanisms in Complex Environments?, Daniel D. Wiegmann, Eileen A. Hebets, Wulfila Gronenberg, Jacob M. Graving, and Verner P. Bingman
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
Transcriptional ‘memory’ of a stress: transient chromatin and memory (epigenetic) marks at stress-response genes, Zoya Avramova
Embracing Multiple Definitions of Learning, Andrew B. Barron, Eileen A. Hebets, Thomas A. Cleland, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Mark E. Hauber, and Jeffrey R. Stevens
Analysis of a Coupled n-Patch Population Model with Ceiling Density Dependence, Jason Callahan, Richard Rebarber, Eva Strawbridge, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and Shenglan Yuan
Genome-Wide Gene Expression in relation to Age in Large Laboratory Cohorts of Drosophila melanogaster, Kimberly A. Carlson, Kylee Gardner, Anjeza Pashaj, Darby J. Carlson, Fang Yu, James D. Eudy, Chi Zhang, and Lawrence G. Harshman
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
The Body Size Dependence of Trophic Cascades, John DeLong, Benjamin Gilbert, Jonathan B. Shurin, Van M. Savage, Brandon T. Barton, Christopher F. Clements, Anthony I. Dell, Hamish S. Greig, Christopher D.G. Harley, Pavel Kratina, Kevin S. McCann, Tyler D. Tunney, David A. Vasseur, and Mary I. O’Connor
Socio-Economic Instability and the Scaling of Energy Use with Population Size, John P. DeLong and Oskar Burger
Proteomic Adaptations to Starvation Prepare Escherichia coli for Disinfection Tolerance, Zhe Du, Renu Nandakumar, Kenneth W. Nickerson, and Xu Li
Assessing Pesticide Risks to Threatened and Endangered Species Using Population Models: Findings and Recommendations from a CropLife America Science Forum, V. E. Forbes, R. Brain, D. Edwards, N. Galic, T. Hall, J. Honegger, C. Meyer, D.R.J. Moore, D. Nacci, R. Pastorok, T. G. Preuss, S. F. Railsback, C. Salice, R. M. Sibly, B. Tenhumberg, P. Thorbek, and M. Wang
The complexities of female mate choice and male polymorphisms: Elucidating the role of genetics, age, and mate-choice copying, Kasey D. Fowler-Finn, Laura Sullivan-Beckers, Amy M. Runck, and Eileen A. Hebets
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
NSF Grant Helps Preserve Parasite Collections [Press Release], Scott Gardner and Leslie Reed
A New Laelapine Mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) Associated with the Spiny Rodent, Scolomys melanops, in Amazonian Peru, Donald Gettinger and Scott L. Gardner
Candida albicans Quorum Sensing Molecules Stimulate Mouse Macrophage Migration, Jessica C. Hargarten, Tyler C. Moore, Thomas M. Petro, Kenneth W. Nickerson, and Audrey L. Atkin
Octopamine levels relate to male mating tactic expression in the wolf spider Rabidosa punctulata, Eileen A. Hebets, Matthew Hansen, Thomas C. Jones, and Dustin J. Wilgers
Evaluation of stem rot in 339 Bornean tree species: implications of size, taxonomy, and soil-related variation for aboveground biomass estimates, K. D. Heineman, S. E. Russo, I. C. Baillie, J. D. Mamit, P. P.-K. Chai, L. Chai, E. W. Hindley, B.-T. Lau, S. Tan, and P. S. Ashton
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
Extreme Features of the Galdieria sulphuraria Organellar Genomes: A Consequence of Polyextremophily?, Kanika Jain, Kirsten Krause, Felix Grewe, Gaven F. Nelson, Andreas P. M. Weber, Alan C. Christensen, and Jeffrey P. Mower
Genetically based low oxygen affinities of felid hemoglobins: Lack of biochemical adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in the snow leopard, Jan E. Janecka, Simone S. E. Nielsen, Sidsel D. Andersen, Federico G. Hoffmann, Roy E. Weber, Trevor Anderson, Jay F. Storz, and Angela Fago
Global Warming and Population Responses among Great Plains Birds, Paul A. Johnsgard
What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis, Walter D. Koenig, Johannes M.H. Knops, William J. Carmen, and Ian S. Pearse
A dual function of white coloration in a nocturnal spider Dolomedes raptor (Araneae: Pisauridae), Tai-Shen Lin, Shichang Zhang, Chen-Pan Liao, Eileen A. Hebets, and I-Min Tso
Interspecific egg rejection as ecological collateral damage from selection driven by conspecific brood parasitism, Bruce E. Lyon, Daizaburo Shizuka, and John M. Eadie
Revisiting operons: an analysis of the landscape of transcriptional units in E. coli, Xizeng Mao, Qin Ma, Bingqiang Liu, Xin Chen, Hanyuan Zhang, and Ying Xu