Biological Sciences, School of
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
2013
Antelope mating strategies facilitate invasion of grasslands by a woody weed, Shivani Jadeja, Soumya Prasad, Suhel Quader, and Kavita Isvaran
The Birds of Nebraska, Revised Edition 2013, Paul A. Johnsgard
Different modes of evolution in males and females generate dichromatism in fairy-wrens (Maluridae), Allison E. Johnson, J. Jordan Price, and Stephen Pruett-Jones
Eurasian jays predict the food preferences of their mates, Alan C. Kamil
A virus-induced gene silencing method to study soybean cyst nematode parasitism in Glycine max, Pramod K. Kandoth, Robert Heinz, Greg Yeckel, Nathan W. Gross, Parijat S. Juvale, John Hill, Steven A. Whitham, Thomas J. Baum, and Melissa G. Mitchum
Effects of Nitrogen Availability on the Fate of Litter-Carbon and Soil Organic Matter Decomposition, Amy Kochsiek and Johannes Knops
Large-scale spatial synchrony and cross-synchrony in acorn production by two California oaks, Walter D. Koenig and Johannes M.H. Knops
Candida albicans Czf1 and Efg1 Coordinate the Response to Farnesol during Quorum Sensing, White-Opaque Thermal Dimorphism, and Cell Death, Melanie L. Langford, Jessica C. Hargarten, Krista D. Patefield, Elizabeth Marta, Jill R. Blankenship, Saranna Fanning, Kenneth W. Nickerson, and Audrey L. Atkin
Candida albicans Czf1 and Efg1 Coordinate the Response to Farnesol during Quorum Sensing, White-Opaque Thermal Dimorphism, and Cell Death, Melanie L. Langford, Jessica C. Hargarten, Krista D. Patefield, Elizabeth Marta, Jill R. Blankenship, Saranna Fanning, Kenneth W. Nickerson, and Audrey L. Atkin
Population-level scaling of avian migration speed with body size and migration distance for powered fliers, Frank A. La Sorte, Daniel Fink, Wesley M. Hochachka, John DeLong, and Steve Kelling
Creating an Interdisciplinary Research Course in Mathematical Ecology, Glenn Ledder and Brigitte Tenhumberg
An Interdisciplinary Research Course in Theoretical Ecology for Young Undergraduates, Glenn Ledder, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and G. Travis Adams
The mid-domain effect: It’s not just about space, Andrew D. Letten, S. Kathleen Lyons, and Angela T. Moles
Changing Room Cues Reduces the Effects of Proactive Interference in Clark’s Nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana, Jody L. Lewis, Alan C. Kamil, and Kate E. Webbink
Holocarboxylasesynthetase interacts physically with euchromatic histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, linking histone biotinylation with methylation events, Yong Li, Yousef I. Hassan, Hideaki Moriyama, and Janos Zempleni
An Incompatibility between a Mitochondrial tRNA and Its Nuclear-Encoded tRNA Synthetase Compromises Development and Fitness in Drosophila, Colin D. Meiklejohn, Marissa A. Holmbeck, Mohammed A. Siddiq, Dawn N. Abt, David M. Rand, and Kristi L. Montooth
Little Evidence for Demasculinization of the Drosophila X Chromosome among Genes Expressed in the Male Germline, Colin D. Meiklejohn and Daven C. Presgraves
TLR-TRIF Pathway Enhances the Expression of KSHV Replication and Transcription Activator, Florencia Meyer, Erica Ehlers, Andrew Steadman, Thomas Waterbury, Mingxia Cao, and Luwen Zhang
Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World’s Grasslands, Lydia R. O’Halloran, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Andrew S. MacDougall, Elsa E. Cleland, Rebecca L. McCulley, Sarah Hobbie, W. Stanley Harpole, Nicole M. DeCrappeo, Chengjin Chu, Jonathan D. Bakker, Kendi F. Davies, Guozhen Du, Jennifer Firn, Nicole Hagenah, Kirsten S. Hofmockel, Johannes Knops, Wei Li, Brett A. Melbourne, John W. Morgan, John L. Orrock, Suzanne M. Prober, and Carly J. Stevens
Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds, Joana Projecto-Garcia, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Hideaki Moriyama, Roy E. Weber, Angela Fago, Zachary A. Cheviron, Robert Dudley, Jimmy A. McGuire, Christopher C. Witt, and Jay F. Storz
Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds, Joana Projecto-Garcia, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, Hideaki Moriyama, Roy E. Weber, Angela Fago, Zachary A. Cheviron, Robert Dudley, Jimmy A. McGuire, Christopher C. Witt, and Jay F. Storz
Diversification under sexual selection: the relative roles of mate preference strength and the degree of divergence in mate preferences, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Janette W. Boughman, David A. Gray, Eileen A. Hebets, Gerlinde Höbel, and Laurel B. Symes
Nitrogen uptake strategies of edaphically specialized Bornean tree species, Sabrina E. Russo, Amy Kochsiek, Jocelyn Olney, Lauren Thompson, Amy E. Miller, and Sylvester Tan
Heritability and Inter-Population Differences in Lipid Profiles of Drosophila melanogaster, Cornelia J. F. Scheitz, Yu Guo, Angela M. Early, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Andrew G. Clark
Role of MerH in mercury resistance in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, James Schelert, Deepak Rudrappa, Tyler Johnson, and Paul H. Blum
Spontaneous male death and monogyny in the dark fishing spider, Steven K. Schwartz, William E. Wagner, and Eileen Hebets
Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Yvonne Buckley, Elsa E. Cleland, Kendi Davies, Jennifer Firn, W. Stanley Harpole, Yann Hautier, Eric Lind, Andrew Macdougall, John L. Orrock, Suzanne M. Prober, Peter Andler, Juan Alberti, T. Michael Anderson, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori A. Biederman, Dana Blumenthal, Cynthia S. Brown, Lars A. Brudvig, Maria Caldeira, Chengjin Chu, Michael J. Crawley, Pedro Daleo, Ellen I. Damschen, Carla M. D'Antonio, Nicole M. Decrappeo, Chris R. Dickman, Guozhen Du, Philip A. Fay, Paul Frater, Daniel S. Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, Andrew Hector, Aveliina Helm, Helmut Hillebrand, Kirsten S. Hofmockel, Hope C. Humphries, Oscar Iribarne, Virginia L. Jin, Adam Kay, Kevin P. Kirkman, Julia A. Klein, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Laura M. Ladwig, John G. Lambrinos, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Qi Li, Wei Li, Rebecca McCulley, Brett Melbourne, Charles E. Mitchell, Joslin L. Moore, John Morgan, Brent Mortensen, Lydia R. O'Halloran, Meelis Partel, Jesus Pascual, David A. Pyke, Anita C. Risch, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Mahesh Sankaran, Martin Schuetz, Anna Simonsen, Melinda Smith, Carly Stevens, Lauren L. Sullivan, Glenda M. Wardle, Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, Peter D. Wragg, Justin Wright, and Louie Yang
Reductive evolution and the loss of PDC/PAS domains from the genus Staphylococcus, Neethu Shah, Rosmarie Gaupp, Hideaki Moriyama, Kent M. Eskridge, Etsuko N. Moriyama, and Greg A. Somerville
Female mate choice for multimodal courtship and the importance of the signaling background for selection on male ornamentation, Jay A. Stafstrom and Eileen A. Hebets
Inge Revsbech wins The Journal of Experimental Biology’s Outstanding Paper Prize 2013, Nicola Stead, Inge G. Revsbech, Hideaki Moriyama, Jay F. Storz, and Angela Fago
No evidence for a relationship between hemolymph ecdysteroid levels and female reproductive behavior in Schizocosa wolf spiders, Reed M. Stubbendieck, Anthony J. Zera, and Eileen A. Hebets
Low Seroprevalent Species D Adenovirus Vectors as Influenza Vaccines, Eric A. Weaver and Michael A. Barry
Comparison of Systemic and Mucosal Immunization withHelper-Dependent Adenoviruses for Vaccination against Mucosal Challenge with SHIV, Eric A. Weaver, Pramod N. Nehete, Bharti P. Nehete, Guojun Yang, Stephanie J. Buchl, Patrick W. Hanley, Donna Palmer, David C. Montefiori, Guido Ferrari, Philip Ng, K. Jagannadha Sastry, and Michael A. Barry
CD20 Antibody Primes B Lymphocytes for Type I Interferon Production, Dongsheng Xu, Andrew Staedman, and Luwen Zhang
Conformational B-Cell Epitope Prediction on Antigen Protein Structures: A Review of Current Algorithms and Comparison with Common Binding Site Prediction Methods, Bo Yao, Dandan Zheng, Shide Liang, and Chi Zhang
A Whole-Cell Biosensor for the Detection of Gold, Carla M. Zammit, Davide Quaranta, Shane Gibson, Anita J. Zaitouna, Christine Ta, Joel Brugger, Rebecca Y. Lai, Gregor Grass, and Frank Reith
Prevalence and correlates of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection in a sample of men who have sex with men in eastern China, T. Zhang, H. Lin, V. Minhas, W. Zhu, Charles Wood, and N. He
2012
Evolution of the PWWP-Domain Encoding Genes in the Plant and Animal Lineages, Raul Alvarez-Venegas and Zoya Avramova
Eavesdropping Parasitoids Do Not Cause the Evolution of Less Conspicuous Signaling Behavior in a Field Cricket, Oliver M. Beckers and William E. Wagner
Quorum sensing activity in Ophiostoma ulmi: effects of fusel oils and branched chain amino acids on yeast-mycelial dimorphism, A. Berrocal, J. Navarrete, C. Oviedo, and K. W. Nickerson
Draft Genome Sequence of the Anaerobic, Nitrate-Dependent, Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Pseudogulbenkiania ferrooxidans Strain 2002, Kathryne G. Byrne-Bailey, Karrie A. Weber, and John D. Coates
A peptide photoaffinity probe specific for the active conformation of the Abl tyrosine kinase, Yang Deng, Brian A. Couch, Anthony J. Koleske, and Benjamin E. Turk
Multiple exposures to drought ‘train’ transcriptional responses in Arabidopsis, Yong Ding, Michael Fromm, and Zoya Avramova
ATX1-Generated H3K4me3 Is Required for Efficient Elongation of Transcription, Not Initiation, at ATX1- Regulated Genes, Yong Ding, Ivan Ndamukong, Zaoshi Xu, Hanna Lapko, Michael E. Fromm, and Zoya Avramova
Divergent Functions of the Myotubularin (MTM) Homologs AtMTM1 and AtMTM2 in Arabidopsis thaliana: Evolution of the Plant MTM Family, Yong Ding, Ivan Ndamukong, Yang Zhao, Yuannan Xia, Jean-Jack Riethoven, David R. Jones, Nullin Divecha, and Zoya Avramova
Divergent functions of the myotubularin (MTM) homologs AtMTM1 and AtMTM2 in Arabidopsis thaliana: evolution of the plant MTM family, Yong Ding, Ivan Ndamukong, Yang Zhao, Yuannan Xia, Jean-Jack Riethoven, David R. Jones, Nullin Divecha, and Zoya Avramova
L1pred: A Sequence-Based Prediction Tool for Catalytic Residues in Enzymes with the L1-logreg Classifier, Yongchao Dou, Jun Wang, Jialiang Yang, and Chi Zhang
Insect herbivory and propagule pressure influence Cirsium vulgare invasiveness across the landscape, James O. Eckberg, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and Svata M. Louda
Indirect consequences of hypolimnetic hypoxia on zooplankton growth in a large eutrophic lake, Daisuke Goto, Kara Lindelof, David L. Fanslow, Stuart A. Ludsin, Steven A. Pothoven, James J. Roberts, Henry A. Vanderploeg, Alan E. Wilson, and Tomas O. Höök
Do Clark’s nutcrackers demonstrate what-where-when memory on a cache-recovery task?, Kristy L. Gould, Amy J. Ort, and Alan C. Kamil
Viscoelastic Properties of Cell Walls of Single Living Plant Cells Determined by Dynamic Nanoindentation, Céline M. Hayot, Elham Forouzesh, Ashwani Goel, Zoya Avramova, and Joseph A. Turner
Larval Performance and Kill Rate of Convergent Ladybird Beetles, Hippodamia convergens, on Black Bean Aphids, Aphis fabae, and Pea Aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum, Travis M. Hinkelman and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Nebraska's Wetlands: Their Wildlife and Ecology, Paul A. Johnsgard
Wetland Birds of the Central Plains: South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, Paul A. Johnsgard
Sex Allocation in California Oaks: Trade-Offs or Resource Tracking?, Johannes Knops and Walter D. Koenig
Carbohydrate Hydrolysis and Transport in the Extreme Thermoacidophile Sulfolobus solfataricus, Sreedevi Lalithambika, Landon Peterson, Karl Dana, and Paul H. Blum
The Epigenetics of Emerging and Nonmodel Organisms, Vett K. Lloyd, Jennifer A. Brisson, Kathleen A. Fitzpatrick, Lori A. McEachern, and Eveline C. Verhulst
Template-Based Structure Prediction and Classification of Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis thaliana, Tao Lu, Yuedong Yang, Bo Yao, Song Liu, Yaoqi Zhou, and Chi Zhang
DFVF: database of fungal virulence factors, Tao Lu, Bo Yao, and Chi Zhang
Survival of the Fittest: Overcoming Oxidative Stress at the Extremes of Acid, Heat and Metal, Yukari Maezato and Paul H. Blum
Metal Resistance and Lithoautotrophy in the Extreme Thermoacidophile Metallosphaera sedula, Yukari Maezato, Tyler Johnson, Samuel McCarthy, Karl Dana, and Paul H. Blum
Comparative Transitive and Temporal Orderliness in Dominance Networks, David McDonald and Daizaburo Shizuka
Urea Amidolyase (DUR1,2) Contributes to Virulence and Kidney Pathogenesis of Candida albicans, Dhammika H. M. L. P Navarathna, Michail S. Lionakis, Martin J. Lizak, Jeeva Munasinghe, Kenneth W. Nickerson, and David D. Roberts
Quorum Sensing and Other Aspects of the Biology of Candida albicans, Kenneth W. Nickerson
Thoughts on Quorum Sensing and Fungal Dimorphism, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Audrey L. Atkin, Jessica C. Hargarten, Ruvini U. Pathirana, and Sahar Hasim
Reducing odorous VOC emissions from swine manure using soybean peroxidase and peroxides, David B. Parker, Lingshuang Cai, Ki-Hyun Kim, Kristin E. Hales, Mindy J. Spiehs, Bryan L. Woodbury, Audrey L. Atkin, Kenneth Nickerson, and Krista D. Patefield
Influence of aphid honeydew on the foraging behavior of Hippodamia convergens larvae, Swapna R. Purandare and Brigitte Tenhumberg
Bacterial community structure of contrasting soils underlying Bornean rain forests: Inferences from microarray and next-generation sequencing methods, Sabrina E. Russo, Ryan Legge, Karrie A. Weber, Eoin L. Brodie, Katherine C. Goldfarb, Andrew K. Benson, and Sylvester Tan
Covariation between understorey light environments and soil resources in Bornean mixed dipterocarp rain forest, Sabrina E. Russo, Lin Zhang, and Sylvester Tan
A robust new metric of phenotypic distance to estimate and compare multiple trait differences among populations, Rebecca Safran, Samuel Flaxman, Michael Kopp, Darren E. Irwin, Derek Briggs, Matthew R. Evans, W. Chris Funk, David A. Gray, Eileen A. Hebets, Nathalie Seddon, Elizabeth Scordato, Laurel B. Symes, Joseph A. Tobias, David P.L. Toews, and J. Albert C. Uy
Antimicrobial metallic copper surfaces kill Staphylococcus haemolyticus via membrane damage, Christophe Espirito Santo, Davide Quaranta, and Gregor Grass
Evolution of starvation resistance in Drosophila melanogaster: Measurement of direct and correlated responses to artificial selection, Tiffany E. Schwasinger-Schmidt, Stephen D. Kachman, and Lawrence G. Harshman
Evolution of a Large, Conserved, and Syntenic Gene Family in Insects, Neethu Shah, Douglas R. Dorer, Etsuko N. Moriyama, and Alan C. Christensen
Family Dynamics Through Time: Brood Reduction Followed by Parental Compensation with Aggression and Favoritism, Daizaburo Shizuka and Bruce E. Lyon
A Social Network Perspective on Measurements of Dominance Hierarchies, Daizaburo Shizuka and David B. McDonald
Combined effects of plant competition and insect herbivory hinder invasiveness of an introduced thistle, Tomomi Suwa and Svata M. Louda
Tradeoffs limit the evolution of male traits that are attractive to females, William E. Wagner, Oliver M. Beckers, Amanda E. Tolle, and Alexandra Basolo
Concatenation and Concordance in the Reconstruction of Mouse Lemur Phylogeny: An Empirical Demonstration of the Effect of Allele Sampling in Phylogenetics, David W. Weisrock, Stacey DeWitt Smith, Lauren M. Chan, Karla Biebouw, Peter M. Kappeler, and Anne D. Yoder
The Chloroplast Triggers Developmental Reprogramming When MUTS HOMOLOG1 Is Suppressed in Plants, Ying-Zhi Xu, Roberto de la Rosa Santamaria, Kamaldeep S. Virdi, Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel, Fareha Razvi, Shaoqing Li, Guodong Ren, Bin Yu, Danny Alexander, Lining Guo, Xuehui Feng, Ismail M. Dweikat, Tom E. Clemente, and Sally Ann MacKenzie
SVMTriP: A Method to Predict Antigenic Epitopes Using Support Vector Machine to Integrate Tri-Peptide Similarity and Propensity, Bo Yao, Lin Zhang, Shide Liang, and Chi Zhang
2011
SuiteMSA: visual tools for multiple sequence alignment comparison and molecular sequence simulation, Catherine L. Anderson, Cory L. Strope, and Etsuko N. Moriyama
Use of Nape Tags for Marking Offspring of Precocial Waterbirds, Todd W. Arnold, Daizaburo Shizuka, Bruce E. Lyon, Jeffrey T. Pelayo, Katherine R. Mehl, Joshua J. Traylor, Wendy L. Reed, and Courtney L. Amundson
Epigenetic Regulatory Mechanisms in Plants, Zoya Avramova
Crystallization of Chlorella deoxyuridine triphosphatase, Laura Badalucco, Ishwari Poudel, Mamoru Yamanishi, Chandrasekhar Natarajan, and Hideaki Moriyama
Survival Rates of Planidial Larvae of the Parasitoid Fly Ormia ochracea (Diptera: Tachinidae), Oliver M. Beckers, Cassandra M. Martin, and William E. Wagner Jr.
Male Field Crickets Infested by Parasitoid Flies Express Phenotypes that May Benefit the Parasitoids, Oliver M. Beckers and William E. Wagner
Composite Effects of Polymorphisms near Multiple Regulatory Elements Create a Major-Effect QTL, Ryan D. Bickel, Artyom Kopp, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin
Morphine potentiates neuropathogenesis of SIV infection in rhesus macaques, Sirosh M. Bokhari, Ramakrishna Hedge, Shannon Callen, Honghong Yao, Istvan Adany, Qingsheng Li, Zhuang Li, David Pinson, Hung-Wen Yeh, Paul D. Cheney, and Shilpa Buch
EFFECTS OF POSTMORTEM INTERVAL AND PRESERVATION METHOD ON RNA ISOLATED FROM FIELD-PRESERVED AVIAN TISSUES Efectos del Intervalo Post-Mortem y del Método de Preservación en el ARN Aislado de Tejidos de Aves Preservados en el Campo, Zachary A. Cheviron, Matthew D. Carling, and Robb T. Brumfield
Normalization and centering of array-based heterologous genome hybridization based on divergent control probes, Brian J. Darby, Kenneth L. Jones, David Wheeler, and Michael A. Herman
Copper Tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay Mutants, Rafael Deliz-Aguirre, Audrey L. Atkin, and Bessie W. Kebaara
Variations on a theme: diversification of cuticular hydrocarbons in a clade of cactophilic Drosophila, Cássia C. de Oliveira, Maura H. Manfrin, Fábio de M Sene, Larry L. Jackson, and William J. Etges
The Arabidopsis Trithorax-like Factor ATX1 Functions in Dehydration Stress Responses via ABA-Dependent and ABA-Independent Pathways, Yong Ding, Zoya Avramova, and Michael Fromm
More Ornamented Males Exhibit Increased Predation Risk and Antipredatory Escapes, but not Greater Mortality, Kasey D. Fowler-Finn and Eileen Hebets
The degree of response to increased predation risk corresponds to male secondary sexual traits, Kasey Fowler-Finn and Eileen Hebets
Zap1 Control of Cell-Cell Signaling in Candida albicans Biofilms, Shantanu Ganguly, Andrew C. Bishop, Wenjie Xu, Suman Ghosh, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Frederick Lanni, Jana Patton-Vogt, and Aaron P. Mitchell
Some Laelapine Mites (Acari: Laelapidae) Ectoparasitic on Small Mammals in the Galapagos Islands, including a New Species of Gigantolaelaps from Aegialomys galapagoensis, Donald D. Gettinger, Fernanda Martins-Hatano, and Scott Lyell Gardner
Environmental and genetic perturbations reveal different networks of metabolic regulation, Anthony J. Greenberg, Sean R. Hacket, Lawrence G. Harshman, and Andrew G. Clark
Current Status and Future Directions of Research in Complex Signaling, Eileen Hebets
Chemical Communication in a Multimodal Context, Eileen A. Hebets and Aaron S. Rundus