Submissions from 2023
The neuronal calcium sensor NCS-1 regulates the phosphorylation state and activity of the Gα chaperone and GEF Ric-8A, Daniel Muñoz-Reyes, Levi J. McClelland, Sandra Arroyo-Urea, Sonia Sánchez-Yepes, Juan Sabín, Sara Pérez-Suárez, Margarita Menendez, Alicia Mansilla, Javier García-Nafría, Stephen Sprang, and Maria Jose Sanchez-Barrena
Submissions from 2022
Application of sulfur SAD to small crystals with a large asymmetric unit and anomalous substructure, Tung Chung Mou, Baisen Zeng, Tzanko I. Doukov, and Stephen R. Sprang
Submissions from 2021
The structure of the cysteine-rich region from human histone-lysine N-methyltransferase EHMT2 (G9a), Keshia M. Kerchner, Tung-Chung Mou, Yizhi Sun, Domniţa-Valeria Rusnac, Stephen R. Sprang, and Klára Briknarová
Evolutionary dynamics and structural consequences of de novo beneficial mutations and mutant lineages arising in a constant environment, Margie Kinnersley, Katja Schwartz, Dong Dong Yang, Gavin Sherlock, and Frank Rosenzweig
Submissions from 2020
Gene duplication and deletion, not horizontal transfer, drove intra-species mosaicism of Bartonella henselae, Rachana Banerjee, Oshina Shine, Vyshakh Rajachandran, Govind Krishnadas, Michael F. Minnick, Sandip Paul, and Sujay Chattopadhyay
Encapsulation enhances protoplast fusant stability, Jordan Gulli, Eugene Kroll, and Frank Rosenzweig
Matrices (re)loaded: Durability, viability, and fermentative capacity of yeast encapsulated in beads of different composition during long-term fed-batch culture, Jordan Gulli, Peter Yunker, and Frank Rosenzweig
Human vascular endothelial cells express epithelial growth factor in response to infection by Bartonella bacilliformis, Linda D. Hicks and Michael F. Minnick
Structure of the G protein chaperone and guanine nucleotide exchange factor Ric-8A bound to Gαi1, Levi J. McClelland, Kaiming Zhang, Tung-Chung Mou, Jake Johnston, Cindee Yates-Hansen, Shanshan Li, Celestine J. Thomas, Tzanko I. Doukov, Sarah Triest, Alexandre Wohlkonig, Gregory G. Tall, Jan Steyaert, Wah Chiu, and Stephen Sprang
Novel small RNAs expressed by Bartonella bacilliformis under multiple conditions reveal potential mechanisms for persistence in the sand fly vector and human host, Shaun Wachter, Linda D. Hicks, Rahul Raghavan, and Michael F. Minnick
Submissions from 2019
Diverse conditions support near-zero growth in yeast: Implications for the study of cell lifespan, Jordan Gulli, Emily Cook, Eugene Kroll, Adam Rosebrock, Amy Caudy, and Frank Rosenzweig
De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation, Matthew D. Herron, Joshua M. Borin, Jacob C. Boswell, Jillian Walker, I. Chen Kimberly Chen, Charles A. Knox, Margrethe Boyd, Frank Rosenzweig, and William C. Ratcliff
A CsrA-Binding, trans-Acting sRNA of Coxiella burnetii Is Necessary for Optimal Intracellular Growth and Vacuole Formation during Early Infection of Host Cells, Shaun Wachter, Matteo Bonazzi, Kyle Shifflett, Abraham S. Moses, Rahul Raghavan, and Michael F. Minnick
Structure, Function, and Dynamics of the Gα Binding Domain of Ric-8A, Baisen Zeng, Tung-Chung Mou, Tzanko I. Doukov, Andrea Steiner, Wenxi Yu, Makaia Papasergi-Scott, Gregory G. Tall, Franz Hagn, and Stephen Sprang
Submissions from 2018
Analysis of motility in multicellular Chlamydomonas reinhardtii evolved under predation, Margrethe Boyd, Frank Rosenzweig, and Matthew D. Herron
Genetics of a de novo origin of undifferentiated multicellularity, Matthew D. Herron, William C. Ratcliff, Jacob Boswell, and Frank Rosenzweig
Streamlined preparation of genomic DNA in agarose plugs for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, Linda D. Hicks, Charlotte M. van der Graaf, Jacob Childress, Emily Cook, Karen Schmidt, Frank Rosenzweig, and Eugene Kroll
Atypical activation of the G protein Gα by the oncogenic mutation Q209P, Marcin Maziarz, Anthony Leyme, Arthur Marivin, Alex Luebbers, Prachi P. Patel, Zhe Chen, Stephen R. Sprang, and Mikel Garcia-Marcos
Crystal structure of the major quadruplex formed in the promoter region of the human c-MYC oncogene, Sascha Stump, Tung-Chung Mou, Stephen R. Sprang, Nicholas R. Natale, and Howard D. Beall
Identification of novel MITEs (miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements) in Coxiella burnetii: implications for protein and small RNA evolution, Shaun Wachter, Rahul Raghavan, Jenny Wachter, and Michael F. Minnick
Deciphering the origin, evolution, and physiological function of the subtelomeric arylalcohol dehydrogenase gene family in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Dong Dong Yang, Gustavo M. de Billerbeck, Jin Jing Zhang, Frank Rosenzweig, and Jean Marie Francois
Submissions from 2017
Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans innate immune response to Coxiella burnetii, James M. Battisti, Lance A. Watson, Myo T. Naung, Adam M. Drobish, Ekaterina Voronina, and Michael F. Minnick
ACCOMMODATING MIXED-SEVERITY FIRE TO RESTORE AND MAINTAIN ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY WITH A FOCUS ON THE SIERRA NEVADA OF CALIFORNIA, USA, Dominick A. DellaSala, Richard L. Hutto, Chad T. Hanson, Monica L. Bond, Timothy Ingalsbee, Dennis C. Odion, and William L. Baker
Reply to Marques et al. (2017): how to best handle potential detectability bias, Richard L. Hutto
Submissions from 2016
Nanosecond Dynamics of Gαi1 Bound to Nucleotides or Ric-8A, a Gα Chaperone with GEF Activity, Labe A. Black, Celestine J. Thomas, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Michelle C. Terwilliger, Stephen R. Sprang, and J B. Ross
Stability of Cross-Feeding Polymorphisms in Microbial Communities, Ivana Gudelj, Margie Kinnersley, Peter Rashkov, Karen Schmidt, and Frank Rosenzweig
Should scientists be required to use a model-based solution to adjust for possible distance-based detectability bias?, Richard L. Hutto
Ric-8A, a G protein chaperone with nucleotide exchange activity induces long-range secondary structure changes in Gα, Ravi Kant, Baisen Zeng, Celestine J. Thomas, Brian Bothner, and Stephen R. Sprang
Cytochrome c Can Form a Well-Defined Binding Pocket for Hydrocarbons, Levi J. McClelland, Harmen B. Steele, Frank G. Whitby, Tung-Chung Mou, David Holley, J B. Ross, Stephen R. Sprang, and Bruce E. Bowler
Mutation-Driven Divergence and Convergence Indicate Adaptive Evolution of the Intracellular Human-Restricted Pathogen, Bartonella bacilliformis, Sandip Paul, Michael F. Minnick, and Sujay Chattopadhyay
Insights from wildfire science: A resource for fire policy discussions, Tania Schoennagel, Penny Morgan, Jennifer Balch, Philip Dennison, Brian Harvey, Richard L. Hutto, Meg Krawchuk, Max A. Moritz, Ray Rasker, and Cathy Whitlock
Linking Native and Invader Traits Explains Native Spider Population Responses to Plant Invasion, Jennifer N. Smith, Douglas J. Emlen, and Dean Pearson
Activation of G proteins by GTP and the mechanism of Gα-catalyzed GTP hydrolysis, Stephen R. Sprang
The Intervening Sequence of Coxiella burnetii: Characterization and Evolution, Indu Warrier, Mathias C. Walter, Dimitrios Frangoulidis, Rahul Raghavan, Linda D. Hicks, and Michael F. Minnick
Structural Basis for Negative Allosteric Modulation of GluN2A-Containing NMDA Receptors, Feng Yi, Tung-Chung Mou, Katherine N. Dorsett, Robert A. Volkmann, Frank S. Menniti, Stephen R. Sprang, and Kasper B. Hansen
Submissions from 2015
Colonization of Lutzomyia verrucarum and Lutzomyia longipalpis Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) by Bartonella bacilliformis, the Etiologic Agent of Carrion's Disease, James M. Battisti, Phillip G. Lawyer, and Michael F. Minnick
Spatial, Temporal, and Density-Dependent Components of Habitat Quality for a Desert Owl, Aaron D. Flesch, Richard L. Hutto, Willem J. D. Leeuwen, Kyle Hartfield, and Sky Jacobs
Catalytic Mechanism of Mammalian Adenylyl Cyclase: A Computational Investigation, David K. Hahn, Jose R. Tusell, Stephen R. Sprang, and Xi Chu
Proteins of Bartonella bacilliformis:Candidates for Vaccine Development, Cesar Henriquez-Camocho, Palmira Ventosilla, Michael F. Minnick, Joaquim Ruiz, and Ciro Maguina
Low-severity fire increases tree defense against bark beetle attacks, Sharon Metzger Hood, Anna Sala, Emily K. Heyerdahl, and Marion Boutin
Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires, Richard L. Hutto, Robert E. Keane, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Christopher T. Rota, Lisa A. Eby, and Victoria A. Saab
Linkage Mapping Reveals Strong Chiasma Interference in Sockeye Salmon: Implications for Interpreting Genomic Data, Morten T. Limborg, Ryan T. Waples, Fred W. Allendorf, and James E. Seeb
Estimating Bighorn Sheep (Ovis Canadensis) Abundance Using Noninvasive Sampling at a Mineral Lick within a National Park Wilderness Area, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Mary Kay Watry, Laura E. Ellison, Michael K. Schwartz, and Gordon Luikart
The guanine nucleotide exchange factor Ric-8A induces domain separation and Ras domain plasticity in Gαi1, Ned Van Eps, Celestine J. Thomas, Wayne L. Hubbell, and Stephen R. Sprang
Submissions from 2014
Experimental microbial evolution: History and conceptual underpinnings, Julian Adams and Frank Rosenzweig
Octopamine Neuromodulation Regulates Gr32a-Linked Aggression and Courtship Pathways in Drosophila Males, Jonathan C. Andrews, Maria Paz Fernàndez, Qin Yu, Gregory Patrick Leary, Adelaine K. W. Leung, Michael P. Kavanaugh, Edward A. Kravitz, and Sarah J. Certel
Morphological variability in tree root architecture indirectly affects coexistence among competitors in the understory, Erik T. Aschehoug and Ragan M. Callaway
Limitations to estimating bacterial cross-species transmission using genetic and genomic markers: inferences from simulation modeling, Julio A. Benavides, Paul C. Cross, Gordon Luikart, and Scott Creel
NMP-7 inhibits chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain via block of Cab3.2 T-type calcium channels and activation of CB2 receptors, N. Daniel Berger, Vinicius M. Gadotti, Ravil R. Petrov, Kevin Chapman, Philippe Diaz, and Gerald W. Zamponi
The Genomic Architecture of Population Divergence between Subspecies of the European Rabbit, Miguel Carneiro, Frank W. Albert, Sandra Afonso, Ricardo J. Pereira, Hernan Burbano, Rita Campos, Jose Melo-Ferreira, Jose A. Blanco-Aguiar, Rafael Villafuerte, Michael W. Nachman, Jeffrey M. Good, and Nuno Ferrand
The Valley-of-Death: Reciprocal sign epistasis constrains adaptive trajectories in a constant, nutrient limiting environment, Kami E. Chiotti, Daniel J. Kvitek, Karen H. Schmidt, Gregory Koniges, Katja Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Donckels, Frank Rosenzweig, and Gavin Sherlock
Granivory of invasive, naturalized, and native plants in communities differentially susceptible to invasion, B. M. Connolly, Dean Pearson, and R. N. Mack
Why Did the Bear Cross the Road? Comparing the Performance of Multiple Resistance Surfaces and Connectivity Modeling Methods, Samuel A. Cushman, Jesse S. Lewis, and Erin Landguth
Inter-Calibration of Satellite Passive Microwave Land Observations from AMSR-E and AMSR2 Using Overlapping FY3B-MWRI Sensor Measurements, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Jiancheng Shi, Lucas Alan Jones, Shengli Wu, Ruijing Sun, and Hu Yang
Developmental Link between Sex and Nutrition; doublesex Regulates Sex-Specific Mandible Growth via Juvenile Hormone Signaling in Stag Beetles, Hiroki Gotoh, Hitoshi Miyakawa, Asano Ishikawa, Yuki Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Sugime, Douglas J. Emlen, Laura C. Lavine, and Toru Miura
Astrocyte-specific regulation of hMeCP2 expression in Drosophila, David Hess-Homeier, Chia-Yu Fan, Tarun Gupta, Ann-Shyn Chiang, and Sarah J. Certel
Retrievals of All-Weather Daily Air Temperature Using MODIS and AMSR-E Data, Keunchang Jang, Sinkyu Kang, John S. Kimball, and Suk Young Hong
A Broadly Implementable Research Course in Phage Discovery and Genomics for First-Year Undergraduate Students, Tuajuanda C. Jordan, Sandra H. Burnett, Susan Carson, Steven M. Caruso, Karl Clase, Randall J. DeJong, John J. Dennehy, Dee R. Denver, David Dunbar, Sarah C. R. Elgin, Ann M. Findley, Chris R. Gissendanner, Urszula P. Golebiewska, Nancy Guild, Grant A. Hartzog, Wendy H. Grillo, Gail P. Hollowell, Lee E. Hughes, Allison Johnson, Rodney A. King, Lynn O. Lewis t, Wei Li, Frank Rosenzweig, Michael R. Rubin, Margaret S. Saha, James Sandoz, Christopher D. Shaffer, Barbara Taylor, Louise Temple, Edwin Vazquez, Vassie C. Ware, Lucia P. Barker, Kevin W. Bradley, Deborah Jacobs-Sera, Welkin H. Pope, Daniel A. Russell, Steven G. Cresawn, David Lopatto, Cheryl P. Bailey, and Graham F. Hatfull
Ex Uno Plures: Clonal Reinforcement Drives Evolution of a Simple Microbial Community, Margie A. Kinnersley, Jared Wenger, Evgueny Kroll, Julian Adams, Gavin Sherlock, and Frank Rosenzweig
Combining demographic and genetic factors to assess population vulnerability in stream species, Erin Landguth, C. C. Muhlfeld, R. S. Waples, L. Jones, Winsor H. Lowe, Diane C. Whited, J. Lucotch, H. Neville, and Gordon Luikart
Structure of a mitochondrial cytochrome c conformer competent for peroxidase activity, Levi J. McClelland, Tung-Chung Mou, Margaret E. Jeakins-Cooley, Stephen R. Sprang, and Bruce E. Bowler
Oroya Fever and Verruga Peruana: Bartonelloses Unique to South America, Michael F. Minnick, Burt E. Anderson, Amorce Lima, James M. Battisti, Phillip G. Lawyer, and Richard J. Birtles
Uncoupling reproduction from metabolism extends chronological lifespan in yeast, Saisubramanian Nagarajan, Arthur L. Kruckeberg, Karen H. Schmidt, Evgueny Kroll, Morgan Hamilton, Kate McInnerney, Ryan Summers, Timothy Taylor, and Frank Rosenzweig
Examining Historical and Current Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America, Dennis C. Odion, Chad T. Hanson, Andre Arsenault, William L. Baker, Dominick A. DellaSala, Richard L. Hutto, Walt Klenner, Max A. Moritz, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Thomas T. Veblen, and Mark A. Williams
Invasive plant erodes local song diversity in a migratory passerine, Yvette K. Ortega, Aubree Benson, and Erick Greene
Are Local Filters Blind to Provenance? Ant Seed Predation Suppresses Exotic Plants More than Natives, Dean Pearson, Nadia S. Icasatti, Jose L. Hierro, and Benjamin J. Bird
Inactivation of Genes for Antigenic Variation in the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia hermsii Reduces Infectivity in Mice and Transmission by Ticks, Sandra J. Raffel, James M. Battisti, Robert J. Fischer, and Tom G. Schwan
Experimental evolution: prospects and challenges, Frank Rosenzweig and Gavin Sherlock
Insights into the Development and Evolution of Exaggerated Traits Using De Novo Transcriptomes of Two Species of Horned Scarab Beetles, Ian A. Warren, J. Cristobal Vera, Annika Johns, Robert Zinna, James H. Marden, Douglas J. Emlen, Ian Dworkin, and Laura C. Lavine
Identification of Novel Small RNAs and Characterization of the 6S RNA of Coxiella burnetii, Indu Warrier, Linda D. Hicks, James M. Battisti, Rahul Raghavan, and Michael F. Minnick
Surface water inundation in the boreal-Artic: potential impacts on regional methane emissions, J. D. Watts, John S. Kimball, Annett Bartsch, and Kyle C. McDonald
A satellite data driven biophysical modeling approach for estimating northern peatland and tundra CO2 and CH4 fluxes, J. D. Watts, John S. Kimball, F. J. W. Parmentier, T. Sachs, J. Rinne, D. Zona, W. Oechel, T. Tagesson, M. Jackowicz-Korczynski, and M. Aurela
Spring hydrology determines summer net carbon uptake in northern ecosystems, Yonghong Yi, John S. Kimball, and Rolf H. Reichle
Submissions from 2013
A Field Experiment Demonstrating Plant Life-History Evolution and its Eco-Evolutionary Feedback to Seed Predator Populations, Anurag A. Agrawal, Marc T. J. Johnson, Amy P. Hastings, and John L. Maron
Three-Dimensional, High-Resolution Skeletal Kinematics of the Avian Wing and Shoulder During Ascending Flapping Flight and Uphill Flap-Running, David B. Baier, Stephen M. Gatesy, and Kenneth P. Dial
Environment, Behavior and Physiology: Do Birds Use Barometric Pressure to Predict Storms?, Creagh W. Breuner, Rachel Seabury Sprague, Stephen Harold Patterson, and H. Arthur Woods
Native Congeners Provide Biotic Resistance to Invasive Potentilla Through Soil Biota, Ragan M. Callaway, Daniel Montesinos, Kimberlyn Williams, and John L. Maron
Molecular chaperoning function of Ric-8 is to fold nascent heterotrimeric G protein α subunits, Puiyee Chan, Celestine J. Thomas, Stephen R. Sprang, and Gregory G. Tall
Effects of Experimentally Elevated Traffic Noise on Nestling White-Crowned Sparrow Stress Physiology, Immune Function and Life History, Ondi L. Crino, Erin E. Johnson, Jessica L. Blickley, Gail L. Patricelli, and Creagh W. Breuner
An Inverted Repeat in the ospC Operator Is Required for Induction in Borrelia Burgdorferi, Dan Drecktrah, Laura S. Hall, Laura L. Hoon-Hanks, and D. Scott Samuels
Recurrent Rearrangement During Adaptive Evolution in an Interspecific Yeast Hybrid Suggests a Model for Rapid Introgression, Barbara Dunn, Terry Paulish, Alison Stanbery, Jeff Piotrowski, Gregory Koniges, Evgueny Kroll, Edward J. Louis, Gianni Liti, Gavin Sherlock, and Frank Rosenzweig
Wrangling Phosphoproteomic Data to Elucidate Cancer Signaling Pathways, Mark L. Grimes, Wan-Jui Lee, Laurens van der Maaten, and Paul Shannon
The Early Dissemination Defect Attributed to Disruption of Decorin-Binding Proteins is Abolished in Chronic Murine Lyme Borreliosis, Denise M. Imai, D. Scott Samuels, Sunlian Feng, Emir Hodzic, Kim Olsen, and Stephen W. Barthold
Starvation-Associated Genome Restructuring Can Lead to Reproductive Isolation in Yeast, Evgueny Kroll, Scott Coyle, Barbara Dunn, Gregory Koniges, Anthony Aragon, Jeremy Edwards, and Frank Rosenzweig
Sequestration and Scavenging of Iron in Infection, Nermi Lee Parrow, Robert E. Fleming, and Michael F. Minnick
Breed Locally, Disperse Globally: Fine-Scale Genetic Structure Despite Landscape-Scale Panmixia in a Fire-Specialist, Jennifer C. Pierson, Fred W. Allendorf, Pierre Drapeau, and Michael K. Schwartz
Experimental evolution of an alternating uni- and multicellular life cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, William C. Ratcliff, Matthew D. Herron, Kathryn Howell, Jennifer T. Pentz, Frank Rosenzweig, and Michael Travisano
Abundance as a Conservation Value, Kent H. Redford, Joel Berger, and Steve Zack
Bacterial Endophytes Enhance Competition by Invasive Plants, Marnie E. Rout, Thomas H. Chrzanowski, Tara K. Westlie, Thomas H. DeLuca, Ragan M. Callaway, and William E. Holben
Population Genetic Structure in a Social Landscape: Barley in a Traditional Ethiopian Agricultural System, Leah H. Samberg, Lila Fishman, and Fred W. Allendorf
RCytoscape: Tools for Exploratory Network Analysis, Paul Shannon, Mark L. Grimes, Burak Kutlu, Jan J. Bit, and David J. Galas
An acid test for g proteins, Stephen R. Sprang
Ecological Divergence of a Novel Group of Chloroflexus Strains Along a Geothermal Gradient, Michael L. Weltzer and Scott R. Miller
Robust Detection of Rare Species Using Environmental DNA: the Importance of Primer Specificity, Taylor M. Wilcox, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Young, Stephen F. Jane, Winsor H. Lowe, Andrew R. Whiteley, and Michael K. Schwartz
Kinetic models reveal the in vivo mechanisms of mutagenesis in microbes and man, Barbara E. Wright, Karen H. Schmidt, and Michael F. Minnick
SH3 Interactome Conserves General Function Over Specific Form, Xiaofeng Xin, David Gfeller, Jackie Cheng, Raffi Tonikian, Lin Sun, Ailan Guo, Lianet Lopez, Alevtina Pavlenco, Adenrele Akintobi, Yingnan Zhang, Jean-Francois Rual, Bridget Currell, Somasekar Seshagiri, Tong Hao, Xinping Yang, Yun A. Shen, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, JIngjing Li, Aaron T. Cheng, Dryden Bouamalay, Adrien Lugari, David E. Hill, Mark L. Grimes, David. G. Drubin, Barth D. Grant, Marc Vidal, Charles Boone, Sachdev S. Sidhu, and Gary D. Bader
Submissions from 2012
Fungal Endophytes Directly Increase the Competitive Effects of an Invasive Forb, Erik T. Aschehoug, Kerry L. Metlen, Ragan M. Callaway, and George Newcombe
Arenavirus Infection Induces Discrete Cytosolic Structures for RNA Replication, Nicholas L. Baird, Joanne York, and Jack H. Nunberg
Transcriptome-Based Exon Capture Enables Highly Cost-Effective Comparative Genomic Data Collection At Moderate Evolutionary Scales, Ke Bi, Dan Vanderpool, Sonal Singhal, Tyler Linderoth, Craig Moritz, and Jeffrey M. Good
A New Forest Fire Paradigm: The Need for High-Severity Fires, Monica L. Bond, Rodney B. Siegel, Richard L. Hutto, Victoria A. Saab, and Stephen A. Shunk