Research from 2012
Five Nuclear Loci Resolve the Polyploid History of Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) and Relatives, PLoS ONE, Jimmy Triplett, Yunjing Wang, Jinshun Zhong, and Elizabeth Kellogg
Crosstalk Between Phospholipase D and Sphingosine Kinase in Plant Stress Signaling, Frontiers in Plant Science, Xuemin Wang and Liang Guo
Cytosolic Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases Interact with Phospholipase Dδ to Transduce Hydrogen Peroxide Signals in the Arabidopsis Response to Stress, The Plant Cell, Xuemin Wang, Liang Guo, Shivakumar Devaiah, Rama Narasimhan, Xiangqing Pan, Yanyan Zhang, and Wenhua Zhang
Connections Between Sphingosine Kinase and Phospholipase D in the Abscisic Acid Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Xuemin Wang, Liang Guo, Girish Mishra, Jennifer E. Markham, Maoyin Li, Amanda Tawfall, and Ruth Welti
Levels of Arabidopsis Thaliana Leaf Phosphatidic Acids, Phosphatidylserines, and Most Trienoate-Containing Polar Lipid Molecular Species Increase During the Dark Period of the Diurnal Cycle, Frontiers in Plant Science, Xuemin Wang, Sara Maatta, Brad Scheu, Mary Roth, Pamela Tamura, Maoyin Li, Todd Williams, and Ruth Welti
Direct Infusion Mass Spectrometry of Oxylipin-Containing Arabidopsis Membrane Lipids Reveals Varied Patterns in Different Stress Responses, Plant Physiology, Xuemin Wang, Hieu Sy Vu, Pamela Tamura, Nadezhda Galeva, Ratnesh Chaturvedi, Mary Roth, Todd Williams, Jyoti Shah, and Ruth Welti
Research from 2011
Prevalence and Lineage Diversity of Avian Haemosporidians from Three Distinct Cerrado Habitats in Brazil, PLOS ONE, Nayara Belo, Renato Pinheiro, Elivânia Reis, Robert Ricklefs, and Érika Braga
Reduced MHC and Neutral Variation in the Galápagos Hawk, an Island Endemic, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Jennifer Bollmer, Joshua Hull, Holly Ernest, José Sarasola, and Patricia Parker
Role of the mar-sox-rob Regulon in Regulating Outer Membrane Porin Expression, Journal of Bacteriology, Lon Chubiz and Christopher Rao
Spite and the Scale of Competition in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, The American Naturalist, R. Inglis, Patrick Roberts, Andy Gardner, and Angus Buckling
Diversity, Loss, and Gain of Malaria Parasites in a Globally Invasive Bird, PLoS ONE, Alfonso Marzal, Robert Ricklefs, Gediminas Valkiunas, Tamer Albayrak, Elena Arriero, Camille Bonneaud, Gábor Czirják, John Ewen, Olof Hellgren, Dita Hořáková, Tatjana Iezhova, Henrik Jensen, Asta Križanauskienė, Marcos Lima, Florentino de Lope, Eyðfinn Magnussen, Lynn Martin, Anders Møller, Vaidas Palinauskas, Péter Pap, Javier Pérez-Tris, Ravinder Sehgal, Manuel Soler, Eszter Szöllősi, Helena Westerdahl, Pavel Zetindjiev, and Staffan Bensch
110 Years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands, PLoS ONE, Patricia Parker, Elizabeth Buckles, Heather Farrington, Kenneth Petren, Noah Whiteman, Robert Ricklefs, Jennifer Bollmer, and Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui
110 Years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands, PLOS ONE, Robert Ricklefs
Natal Dispersal and Sociality of Young Galapagos Hawks on Santiago Island, The Open Ornithology Journal, Jose Rivera, F. Vargas, and Patricia Parker
The Composition, Stability, and Kinship of Reproductive Coalitions in a Lekking Bird, Behavioral Ecology, Thomas Ryder, John Blake, Patricia Parker, and Bette Loiselle
Phosphatidic Acid Binds and Stimulates Arabidopsis Sphingosine Kinases, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Xuemin Wang, Liang Guo, Girish Mishra, and Kyle Taylor
Patatin-Related Phospholipase pPLAIIIβ-Induced Changes in Lipid Metabolism Alter Cellulose Content and Cell Elongation in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, Xuemin Wang, Maoyin Li, Sung Chul Bahn, Liang Guo, William Musgrave, Howard Berg, and Ruth Welti
Suppression of Phospholipase Dγs Confers Increased Aluminum Resistance in Arabidopsis Thaliana, PLoS ONE, Xuemin Wang, Jian Zhao, Cunxi Wang, Mohamed Bedair, Ruth Welti, Lloyd Sumner, and Ivan Baxter
Research from 2010
Invasive Honeysuckle Eradication Reduces Tick-Borne Disease Risk by Altering Host Dynamics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Brian Allan, Humberto Dutra, Lisa Goessling, Kirk Barnett, Jonathan Chase, Robert Marquis, Genevieve Pang, Gregory Storch, Robert Thach, and John Orrock
Aromatic Acid Metabolites of Escherichia coli K-12 Can Induce the marRAB Operon, Journal of Bacteriology, Lon Chubiz and Christopher Rao
Domestic Exotics and the Perception of Invasibility, Diversity and Distributions, Qinfeng Guo and Robert Ricklefs
[Accepted Article Manuscript Version (Postprint)] pex5 Mutants That Differentially Disrupt PTS1 and PTS2 Peroxisomal Matrix Protein Import in Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, Bibi Khan and Bethany Zolman
Competition Drives Specialization in Pollination Systems through Costs to Male Fitness, The American Naturalist, Nathan Muchhala, Zachary Brown, W. Armbruster, and Matthew Potts
Fur versus Feathers: Pollen Delivery by Bats and Hummingbirds, and Consequences for Pollen Production, American Naturalist, Nathan Muchhala and James Thomson
Long-Term Isolation of a Highly Mobile Seabird on the Galapagos, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Patricia Parker, Frank Hailer, E.A. Schreiber, Joshua Miller, Iris Levin, R. Chesser, and Robert Fleischer
Insights from Comparative Analyses of Aging in Birds and Mammals, Aging Cell, Robert Ricklefs
Potential Biases in Estimating the Rate Parameter of Sigmoid Growth Functions, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Robert Ricklefs, Suzanne Austin, Tara Robinson, and W. Robinson
Comparative Gene Evolution in Haemosporidian (Apicomplexa) Parasites of Birds and Mammals, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Robert Ricklefs and Diana Outlaw
Mate choice for genetic quality: a test of the heterozygosity and compatibility hypotheses in a lek-breeding bird, Behavioral Ecology, T.B. Ryder, W.P. Tori, J.G. Blake, B.A. Loiselle, and P.G. Parker
RNA Processing of Nitrogenase Transcripts in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis, Journal of Bacteriology, Justin Ungerer, Brenda Pratte, and Teresa Thiel
Nonspecific Phospholipase C NPC4 Promotes Responses to Abscisic Acid and Tolerance to Hyperosmotic Stress in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, Xuemin Wang, Carlotta Peters, Maoyin Li, Rama Narasimhan, Mary Roth, and Ruth Welti
Research from 2009
SYNTHESIS: Evolutionary ecology of microbial wars: within-host competition and (incidental) virulence, Evolutionary Applications, Sam Brown, Fredrik Inglis, and François Taddei
Evolutionary Ecology of Microbial Wars: Within-Host Competition and (Incidental) Virulence, Evolutionary Applications, Sam Brown, R Inglis, and François Taddei
High-Resolution, Long-Term Characterization of Bacterial Motility Using Optical Tweezers, Nature Methods, Lon Chubiz, Taejin Min, Patrick Mears, Christopher Rao, Ido Golding, and Yann Chemla
The Evolutionary History of Ehrhartoideae, Oryzeae, and Oryza, Rice, Elizabeth Kellogg
Allometry of the Duration of Flight Feather Molt in Birds, PLOS Biology, Sievert Rohwer, Robert Ricklefs, Vanya Rohwer, and Michelle Copple
Phospholipase Dα1 and Phosphatidic Acid Regulate NADPH Oxidase Activity and Production of Reactive Oxygen Species in ABA-Mediated Stomatal Closure in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, Xuemin Wang, Yanyan Zhang, Huiying Zhu, Qun Zhang, Maoyin Li, Min Yan, Rong Wang, Liling Wang, Ruth Welti, and Wenhua Zhang
Research from 2008
The Plant Ontology Database: A Community Resource for Plant Structure and Developmental Stages Controlled Vocabulary and Annotations, Nucleic Acids Research, Shulamit Avraham, Chih-Wei Tung, Katica Ilic, Pankaj Jaiswal, Elizabeth Kellogg, Susan McCouch, Anuradha Pujar, Leonore Reiser, Seung Rhee, Martin Sachs, Mary Schaeffer, Lincoln Stein, Peter Stevens, Leszek Vincent, Felipe Zapata, and Doreen Ware
The Dynamic Evolutionary History of the Bananaquit (Coereba Flaveola) in the Caribbean Revealed by a Multigene Analysis, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Eva Bellemain, Eldredge Bermingham, and Robert Ricklefs
Computational design of orthogonal ribosomes, Nucleic Acids Research, Lon Chubiz and Christopher Rao
First male sperm precedence in multiply-mated females of the cooperative spider Anelosimus studiosus (Araneae, Theridiidae), Journal of Arachnology, Thomas Jones and Patricia Parker
Puf1p Acts in Combination with Other Yeast Puf Proteins to Control mRNA Stability, RNA, Wendy Olivas and Randi Ulbricht
Causes of Mortality of Wild Birds Submitted to the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador from 2002-2004, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, Patricia Parker, Nicole Gottdenker, Timothy Walsh, Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Franklin Betancourt, Marilyn Cruz, Catherine Soos, and R. Miller
Heritability of Longevity in Captive Populations of Nondomesticated Mammals and Birds, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Robert Ricklefs and Carlos Cadena
Phospholipase Dα3 Is Involved in the Hyperosmotic Response in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, Xuemin Wang, Yueyun Hong, Xiangqing Pan, and Ruth Welti
Differential Degradation of Extraplastidic and Plastidic Lipids During Freezing and Post-Freezing Recovery in Arabidopsis Thaliana, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Xuemin Wang, Weiqi Li, Ruiping Wang, Maoyin Li, Lixia Li, Chuanming Wang, and Ruth Welti
Research from 2007
Kin Selection Does Not Explain Male Aggregation at Leks of 4 Manakin Species, Behavioral Ecology, Bette Loiselle, Thomas Ryder, Renata Durães, Wendy Tori, John Blake, and Patricia Parker
Adaptive Trade-off in Floral Morphology Mediates Specialization for Flowers Pollinated by Bats and Hummingbirds, The American Naturalist, Nathan Muchhala
Rapid Characterization of the Fatty Acyl Composition of Complex Lipids by Collision-Induced Dissociation Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Lipid Research, Xuemin Wang, Steven Wynn Esch, Pamela Tamura, Alexis Sparks, Mary Roth, Shivakumar Devaiah, Ernst Heinz, Todd Williams, and Ruth Welti
AtPLAI Is an Acyl Hydrolase Involved in Basal Jasmonic Acid Production and Arabidopsis Resistance to Botrytis Cinerea, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Xuemin Wang, Wenyu Yang, Shivakumar Devaiah, Xiangqing Pan, Giorgis Isaac, and Ruth Welti
Conservation of B Class Gene Expression in the Second Whorl of a Basal Grass and Outgroups Links the Origin of Lodicules and Petals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Clinton Whipple, Michael Zanis, Elizabeth Kellogg, and Robert Schmidt
Research from 2006
The Plant Structure Ontology, a Unified Vocabulary of Anatomy and Morphology of a Flowering Plant, Plant Physiology, Katica Ilic, Elizabeth Kellogg, Pankaj Jaiswal, Felipe Zapata, Peter Stevens, Leszek Vincent, Shulamit Avraham, Leonore Reiser, Anuradha Pujar, Martin Sachs, Noah Whitman, Susan McCouch, Mary Schaeffer, Doreen Ware, Lincoln Stein, and Seung Rhee
Variation in the Innate and Acquired Arms of the Immune System Among Five Shorebird Species, The Journal of Experimental Biology, Luisa Mendes, Theunis Piersma, Dennis Hasselquist, Kevin Matson, and Robert Ricklefs
Host-Parasite Relatedness in Wood Ducks: Patterns of Kinship and Parasite Success, Behavioral Ecology, Charlotte Nielsen, Brad Semel, Paul Sherman, David Westneat, and Patricia Parker
Conservation Medicine on the Galápagos Islands: Partnerships Among Behavioral, Population, and Veterinary Scientists, The Auk, Patricia Parker, Noah Whiteman, and R. Miller
Physiological Effects on Demography: A Long‐Term Experimental Study of Testosterone’s Effects on Fitness, The American Naturalist, W. Reed, M. Clark, P. Parker, S. Raouf, N. Arguedas, D. Monk, E. Snajdr, V. Nolan, and E. Ketterson
A Subset of Mer1p-Dependent Introns Requires Bud13p for Splicing Activation and Nuclear Retention, RNA, Marc Spingola and Frederick Scherrer
Double Knockouts of Phospholipases Dζ1 and Dζ2 in Arabidopsis Affect Root Elongation during Phosphate-Limited Growth But Do Not Affect Root Hair Patterning, Plant Physiology, Xuemin Wang, Maoyin Li, Chunbo Qin, and Ruth Welti
Quantitative Profiling of Arabidopsis Polar Glycerolipids in Response to Phosphorus Starvation. Roles of Phospholipases Dζ1 and Dζ2 in Phosphatidylcholine Hydrolysis and Digalactosyldiacylglycerol Accumulation in Phosphorus-Starved Plants, Plant Physiology, Xuemin Wang, Maoyin Li, and Ruth Welti
Research from 2005
Extrapair Fertilization and Genetic Similarity of Social Mates in the Mexican Jay, Behavioral Ecology, John Eimes, Patricia Parker, Jerram Brown, and Esther Brown
Plant Ontology (PO): A Controlled Vocabulary of Plant Structures and Growth Stages, Comparative and Functional Genomics, Pankaj Jaiswal, Shulamit Avraham, Katica Ilic, Elizabeth Kellogg, Susan McCouch, Anuradha Pujar, Leonore Reiser, Seung Rhee, Martin Sachs, Mary Schaeffer, Lincoln Stein, Peter Stevens, Leszek Vincent, Doreen Ware, and Felipe Zapata
Correlational Selection Leads to Genetic Integration of Body Size and an Attractive Plumage Trait in Dark-Eyed Juncos, Evolution, Joel McGlothlin, Patricia Parker, Val Nolan, and Ellen Ketterson
Profiling Condition-specific, Genome-wide Regulation of mRNA Stability in Yeast, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, Wendy Olivas, B. Foat, S. Houshmandi, and H. Bussemaker
Yeast Puf3 Mutants Reveal the Complexity of Puf-RNA Binding and Identify a Loop Required for Regulation of mRNA Decay, RNA Biology, Wendy Olivas and S. Houshmandi
Bateman Gradients in Field and Laboratory Studies: A Cautionary Tale, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Patricia Parker and Zuleyma Tang-Martinez
Flexible Social Structure of a Desert Rodent, Rhombomys Opimus: Philopatry, Kinship, and Ecological Constraints, Behavioral Ecology, Jan Randall, Konstantin Rogovin, Patricia Parker, and John Eimes
Climatic Unpredictability and Parasitism of Caterpillars: Implications of Global Warming, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, John Stireman, Lee Dyer, D. Janzen, M. Singer, J. Lill, R. Marquis, R. Ricklefs, G. Gentry, W. Hallwachs, P. Coley, J. Barone, H. Greeney, H. Connahs, P. Barbosa, H. Morais, and I. Diniz
Regulatory Functions of Phospholipase D and Phosphatidic Acid in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses, Plant Physiology, Xuemin Wang
[Accepted Article Manuscript Version (Postprint)] Identification and Functional Characterization of Arabidopsis PEROXIN4 and the Interacting Protein PEROXIN22, The Plant Cell, Bethany Zolman, Melanie Monroe-Augustus, Illeana Silva, and Bonnie Bartel
Research from 2004
Genetic Control of Branching in Foxtail Millet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Andrew Doust, Katrien Devos, Michael Gadberry, Mike Gale, and Elizabeth Kellogg
Recruitment of the Puf3 Protein to Its mRNA Target for Regulation of mRNA Decay in Yeast, RNA Biology, Wendy Olivas, J. Jackson, S. Houshmandi, and Leban Lopez
Genetic Analysis of Song Dialect Populations in Puget Sound White-Crowned Sparrows, Behavioral Ecology, Jill Soha, Douglas Nelson, and Patricia Parker
Mer1p Is a Modular Splicing Factor Whose Function Depends on the Conserved U2 snRNP Protein Snu17p, Nucleic Acids Research, Marc Spingola, Javier Armisen, and Manuel Ares
Evidence for and Characterization of Ca2+ Binding to the Catalytic Region of Arabidopsis Thaliana Phospholipase Dβ, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Xuemin Wang
Research from 2003
What Happens to Genes in Duplicated Genomes - with correction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Elizabeth Kellogg
Metabolic Responses of Shorebird Chicks to Cold Stress: Hysteresis of Cooling and Warming Phases, The Journal of Experimental Biology, Robert Ricklefs and Joseph Williams
Research from 2002
Biological Implications of the Weibull and Gompertz Models of Aging, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Robert Ricklefs and Alex Scheuerlein
Research from 2000
Test of Intron Predictions Reveals Novel Splice Sites, Alternatively Spliced mRNAs and New Introns in Meiotically Regulated Genes of Yeast, Nucleic Acids Research, Carrie Davis, Leslie Grate, Marc Spingola, and Manuel Ares
Research from 1999
The Roles of Island Area per SE and Habitat Diversity in the Species-Area Relationships of Four Lesser Antillean Faunal Groups, Journal of Animal Ecology, Robert Ricklefs and Irby Lovette
Genome-Wide Bioinformatic and Molecular Analysis of Introns in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, RNA, Marc Spingola, Leslie Grate, David Haussler, and Manuel Ares
The Limits of Specificity: An Experimental Analysis with RNA Aptamers to MS2 Coat Protein Variants, Molecular Diversity, Marc Spingola, Ichiro Hirao, David Peabody, and Andrew Ellington
Research from 1998
Tapeinosperma alatum (Myrsinaceae): a remarkable new species from Ceram, Blumea: Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, Diane Holland and P.F. Stevens
Research from 1997
An analysis of the variation within Cratoxylum arborescens (Clusiaceae) in Malesia, Blumea: Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, A.C. Church and P.F. Stevens
MS2 Coat Protein Mutants Which Bind Qβ RNA, Nucleic Acids Research, Marc Spingola and David Peabody
Research from 1996
The RNA-Binding Site of Bacteriophage Qβ Coat Protein, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Francis Lim, Marc Spingola, and David Peabody
Research from 1995
A Second Nitrogenase in Vegetative Cells of a Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacterium, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, T Thiel, E Lyons, J Erker, and A Ernst
Research from 1994
Altering the RNA Binding Specificity of a Translational Repressor, Journal of Biological Chemistry, F Lim, Marc Spingola, and D Peabody
Research from 1989
Resources for inventorying plants in the Southeast Asian tropics: Plans for the future, Flora Malesiana Bulletin, J.S. Burley, P.F. Stevens, and E.A. Wood