The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Montana engages with the study of living systems, revealing the fundamental principles that govern the complexity of cells and system ecology. Research and creative scholarship by the faculty of the Department includes studies into conserving rare species; signal transduction; protein trafficking; immunology; cellular lifespan; genetics of behavior; molecular mechanisms of diseases; ecology and evolution; functional morphology; and evolutionary genomics.

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Submissions from 2012

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Poliovirus Infection Transiently Increases CopII Vesicle Budding, Meg Trahey, Hyung Suk Oh, Craig E. Cameron, and Jesse C. Hay

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Historical and Contemporary DNA Indicate Fisher Decline and Isolation Occurred Prior to the European Settlement of California, Jody M. Tucker, Michael K. Schwartz, Richard L. Truex, Kristine L. Pilgrim, and Fred W. Allendorf

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An AT Mutational Bias in the Tiny GC-Rich Endosymbiont Genome of Hodgkinia, James T. Van Leuven and John McCutcheon

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Projected Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrology and Temperature of Pacific Northwest Rivers, Huan Wu, John S. Kimball, Marketa M. Elsner, Nate Mantua, Robert F. Adler, and Jack Arthur Stanford

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Models of Experimental Competitive Intensities Predict Home and Away Differences in Invasive Impact and the Effects of an Endophytic Mutualist, Sa Xiao, Ragan M. Callaway, George Newcombe, and Erik T. Aschehoug

Submissions from 2011

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Range-Expanding Populations of a Globally Introduced Weed Experience Negative Plant-Soil Feedbacks, Krikor Andonian, José L. Hierro, Liana Khetsuriani, Pablo Becerra, Grigor Janoyan, Diego Villarreal, Lohengrin Cavieres, Laurel R. Fox, and Ragan M. Callaway

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A unique Coxiella burnetii lipoprotein involved in metal binding (LimB), James M. Battisti, Linda D. Hicks, and Michael F. Minnick

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Exome-wide DNA capture and next generation sequencing in domestic and wild species, Albano Beja-Pereira, Shanyuan Chen, Theodore F. Cosart, Gordon Luikart, Sarah B. Ng, and Jay Shendure

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Effects of Soil Biota from Different Ranges on Robinia Invasion: Acquiring Mutualists and Escaping Pathogens, Ragan M. Callaway, Eulogio J. Bedmar, Kurt O. Reinhart, Cinta Gómez Silvan, and John Klironomos

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Escape from Competition: Neighbors Reduce Centaurea stoebe Performance At Home But Not Away, Ragan M. Callaway, Lauren P. Waller, Alecu Diaconu, Robert Pal, Alexandra R. Collins, Heingz Mueller-Schaerer, and John L. Maron

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Physiological Trade-Offs in Self-Maintenance: Plumage Molt and Stress Physiology in Birds, Jamie M. Cornelius, Nicole Perfito, Richard Zann, Creagh W. Breuner, and Thomas P. Hahn

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On Characterizing Adaptive Events Unique to Modern Humans, Jessica L. Crisci, Alex Wong, Jeffrey M. Good, and Jeffrey D. Jensen

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Use of Microcalorimetry to Determine the Costs and Benefits to Pseudomonas Putida Strain KT2440 of Harboring Cadmium Efflux Genes, Sean M. Gibbons, Kevin Feris, Michele A. McGuirl, Sergio E. Morales, Anu Hynninen, Philip W. Ramsey, and James E. Gannon

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Juvenile Hormone Regulates Extreme Mandible Growth in Male Stag Beetles, Hiroki Gotoh, Richard Cornette, Shigeyuki Koshikawa, Yasukazu Okada, Laura Corley Lavine, Douglas J. Emlen, and Toru Miura

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Thinking Outside the Channel: Modeling Nitrogen Cycling in Networked River Ecosystems, Ashley M. Helton, Geoffrey C. Poole, Judy L. Meyer, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Bruce J. Peterson, Patrick J. Mulholland, Emily S. Bernhardt, Jack Arthur Stanford, Clay Arango, Linda R. Ashkenas, Lee W. Cooper, Walter K. Dodds, Stanley V. Gregory, Robert O. Hall Jr., Stephen K. Hamilton, Sherri L. Johnson, William H. McDowell, Jody D. Potter, Jennifer L. Tank, Suzanne M. Thomas, H. Maurice Valett, Jackson R. Webster, and Lydia Zeglin

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Ribozyme Stability, Exon Skipping, and a Potential Role for RNA Helicase in Group I Intron Splicing by Coxiella Burnetii, Linda D. Hicks, Indu Warrier, Rahul Raghavan, and Michael F. Minnick

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Volatile Chemicals from Leaf Litter are Associated with Invasiveness of a Neotropical Weed in Asia, Inderjit, Heather Evans, Christoph Crocoll, Devika Bajpai, Rajwant Kaur, Yu-Long Feng, Carlos Silva, Jacinto Treviño Carreón, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Ragan M. Callaway

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Lack of Fire Has Limited Physiological Impact on Old-Growth Ponderosa Pine in Dry Montane Forests of North-Central Idaho, Eric Keeling, Anna Sala, and Thomas H. DeLuca

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Win-Win for Wind and Wildlife: a Vision to Facilitate Sustainable Development, Joseph M. Kiesecker, Jeffrey S. Evans, Joe Fargione, Kevin Doherty, Kerry R. Foresman, Thomas H. Kunz, David E. Naugle, Nathan P. Nibbelink, and Neal D. Niemuth

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Latitudinal Variation in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control of a Salt Marsh Food Web, Laurie B. Marczak, C.-K. Ho, K. Wieski, H. Vu, R. F. Denno, and S. C. Pennings

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T-705 (Favipiravir) Inhibition of Arenavirus Replication in Cell Culture, Michelle Mendenhall, Andrew Russell, Terry Juelich, Emily L. Messina, Donald F. Smee, Alexander N. Freiberg, Michael R. Holbrook, Yousuke Furuta, Juan-Carlos de la Torre, Jack H. Nunberg, and Brian B. Gowen

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Dynamics of Gene Duplication in the Genomes of Chlorophyll d-Producing Cyanobacteria: Implications for the Ecological Niche, Scott R. Miller, A. Michelle Wood, Robert E. Blankenship, Maria Kim, and Steven Ferriera

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Genetics of Coxiella burnetii: on the path of specialization, Michael F. Minnick and Rahul Raghavan

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Floodplain Succession and Soil Nitrogen Accumulation on a Salmon River in Southwestern Kamchatka, Michael R. Morris and Jack Arthur Stanford

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Biotic Resistance Via Granivory: Establishment by Invasive, Naturalized, and Native Asters Reflects Generalist Preference, Dean E. Pearson, Ragan M. Callaway, and John L. Maron

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Plant Invasions, Generalist Herbivores, and Novel Defense Weapons, Urs Schaffner, Wendy M. Ridenour, Vera C. Wolf, Thomas Bassett, Caroline Müller-Schärer, Steve Sutherland, Christopher J. Lortie, and Ragan M. Callaway

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Soil Microbes Drive the Classic Plant Diversity-Productivity Pattern, Stefan A. Schnitzer, John N. Klironomos, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Linda L. Kinkel, Peter B. Reich, Kun Xiao, Matthias C. Rillig, Benjamin A. Sikes, Ragan M. Callaway, Scott A. Mangan, Egbert H. van Nes, and Marten Scheffer

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The Assembly of Ecological Communities Inferred from Taxonomic and Functional Composition, Eric R. Sokol, E. F. Benfield, Lisa K. Belden, and H. Maurice Valett

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Viral SELEX Reveals Individual and Cooperative Roles of the C-Box and G-Box in HIV-2 Replication, Christy L. Strong, Jean-Marc Lanchy, and J. Stephen Lodmell

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The Forgotten Stage of Forest Succession: Early-Successional Ecosystems on Forest Sites, Mark E. Swanson, Jerry F. Franklin, Robert L. Beschta, Charles M. Crisafulli, Dominick A. DellaSala, Richard L. Hutto, David B. Lindenmaver, and Frederick J. Swanson

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A Reply to King et al., Mark E. Swanson, Jerry F. Franklin, Robert L. Beschta, Charles M. Crisafulli, Dominick A. DellaSala, Richard L. Hutto, David B. Lindenmayer, and Frederick J. Swanson

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The Nucleotide Exchange Factor Ric-8A is a Chaperone for the Conformationally Dynamic Nucleotide-Free State of G Alpha I1, Celestine J. Thomas, Klara Briknarova, Jonathan K. Hilmer, Navid Movahed, Brian Bothner, John P. Sumida, Gregory G. Tall, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Reveals Signatures of Secondary Infection and Mutator Activity in Certain Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Chronic Lung Infections, Ashley E. Warren, Carla M. Boulianne-Larsen, Christine B. Chandler, Kami Chiotti, Evgueny Kroll, Scott R. Miller, Francois Taddei, Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Agnes Ferroni, Kathleen McInnerney, Michael J. Franklin, and Frank Rosenzweig

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Hunger Artists: Yeast Adapted to Carbon Limitation Show Trade-Offs Under Carbon Sufficiency, Jared W. Wenger, Jeffrey Piotrowski, Saisubramanian Nagarajan, Kami Chiotti, Gavin Sherlock, and Frank Rosenzweig

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The roles of transcription and genotoxins underlying p53 mutagenesis in vivo, Barbara E. Wright, Karen H. Schmidt, Aaron T. Hunt, J Stephen Lodmell, Michael F. Minnick, and Dennis K. Reschke

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Evolution of coordinated mutagenesis and somatic hypermutation in VH5, Barbara E. Wright, Karen H. Schmidt, Aaron T. Hunt, Dennis K. Reschke, and Michael F. Minnick

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Automated Upscaling of River Networks for Macroscale Hydrological Modeling, Huan Wu, John S. Kimball, Nate Mantua, and Jack Arthur Stanford

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Is Wildlife Going to the Dogs? Impacts of Feral and Free-Roaming Dogs on Wildlife Populations, Julie K. Young, Kirk A. Olson, Richard P. Reading, Sukh Amgalanbaatar, and Joel Berger

Submissions from 2010

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Early Detection of Population Declines: High Power of Genetic Monitoring Using Effective Population Size Estimators, Tiago Antao, Andres Perez-Figueroa, and Gordon Luikart

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Vesicular Calcium Regulates Coat Retention, Fusogenicity, and Size of Pre-Golgi Intermediates, Marvin Bentley, Deborah C. Nycz, Ashwini Joglekar, Ismene Fertschai, Roland Malli, Wolfgang F. Graier, and Jesse C. Hay

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Capture of Ungulates in Central Asia Using Drive Nets: Advantages and Pitfalls Illustrated by the Endangered Mongolian Saiga Saiga Tatarica Mongolica, Joel Berger, Kim M. Murray, Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, Michael R. Dunbar, and Badamjav Lkhagvasuren

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The Interpretation of Habitat Preference Metrics Under Use–Availability Designs, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Daniel T. Haydon, Juan M. Morales, Jacqueline L. Frair, Mark Hebblewhite, Michael Mitchell, and Jason Matthiopoulos

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Small-Mammal Seed Predation Limits the Recruitment and Abundance of Two Perennial Grassland Forbs, Mary Bricker, Dean Pearson, and John L. Maron

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Plant Neighbor Identity Influences Plant Biochemistry and Physiology Related to Defense, Amanda K. Broz, Corey D. Broeckling, Clelia De-la-Peña, Matthew R. Lewis, Erick Greene, Ragan M. Callaway, Lloyd W. Sumner, and Jorge M. Vivanco

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Interactive Effects of Historical Logging and Fire Exclusion on Ponderosa Pine Forest Structure in the Northern Rockies, Naficy Cameron, Anna Sala, Eric G. Keeling, Jon Graham, and Thomas H. DeLuca

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Octopamine Neuromodulatory Effects on a Social Behavior Decision-Making Network in Drosophila Males, Sarah J. Certel, Adelaine Leung, Chih-Yung Lin, Philip Perez, Ann-Shyn Chiang, and Edward A. Kravitz

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Probable causes of increasing brucellosis in free-ranging elk of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, P. C. Cross, E. K. Cole, A. P. Dobson, W. H. Edwards, K. L. Hamlin, Gordon Luikart, A. D. Middleton, B. M. Scurlock, and P. J. White

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Use of Rpsl as a Counterselectable Marker in Borrelia Burgdorferi, Dan Drecktrah, Miles J. Douglas, and D. Scott Samuels

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Hidden Consequences of Living in a Wormy World: Nematode-Induced Immune Suppression Facilitates Tuberculosis Invasion in African Buffalo, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Rampal S. Etienne, and Gordon Luikart

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Hidden Consequences of Living in a Wormy World: Nematode‐Induced Immune Suppression Facilitates Tuberculosis Invasion in African Buffalo, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Rampal S. Etienne, Gordon Luikart, Albano Beja-Pereira, and Anna E. Jolles

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Correlation and Studies of Habitat Selection: Problem, Red Herring or Opportunity?, John Fieberg, Jason Matthiopoulos, Mark Hebblewhite, Mark S. Boyce, and Jacqueline L. Frair

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Resolving Issues of Imprecise and Habitat-Biased Locations in Ecological Analyses Using GPS Telemetry Data, Jacqueline L. Frair, John Fieberg, Mark Hebblewhite, Francesca Cagnacci, Nicholas J. DeCesare, and Luca Pedrotti

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Habitat–Performance Relationships: Finding the Right Metric at a Given Spatial Scale, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Mark Hebblewhite, Anne Loison, Mark Fuller, Roger Powell, Mathieu Basille, and Bram Van Moorter

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Widespread Over-Expression of the X Chromosome in Sterile F-1 Hybrid Mice, Jeffrey M. Good, Thomas Giger, Matthew D. Dean, and Michael W. Nachman

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Disappearing Plants: Why They Hide and How They Return, Jennifer R. Gremer, Anna Sala, and Elizabeth E. Crone

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Distinguishing Technology from Biology: a Critical Review of the Use of GPS Telemetry Data in Ecology, Mark Hebblewhite and Daniel T. Haydon

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A DNA-Binding Peroxiredoxin of Coxiella Burnetii is Involved in Countering Oxidative Stress During Exponential-Phase Growth, Linda D. Hicks, Rahul Raghavan, James M. Battisti, and Michael F. Minnick

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Merits and Limits of Ecosystem Protection for Conserving Wild Salmon in a Northern Coastal British Columbia River, Aaron C. Hill, Thomas S. Bansak, Bonnie K. Ellis, and Jack Arthur Stanford

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Explaining Long-Distance Dispersal: Effects of Dispersal Distance on Survival and Growth in a Stream Salamander, Winsor H. Lowe

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Are forested buffers an effective conservation strategy for riparian fauna? An assessment using meta-analysis, Laurie B. Marczak, Takashi Sakamaki, Shannon L. Turvey, Isabelle Deguise, Sylvia L. R. Wood, and John S. Richardson

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Counterintuitive Effects of Large-Scale Predator Removal on a Midlatitude Rodent Community, John L. Maron, Dean E. Pearson, and Robert J. Fletcher Jr.

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Funding Needed for Assessments of Weed Biological Control, John L. Maron, Dean E. Pearson, Stephen M. Hovick, and Walter P. Carson

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Functional Convergence in Reduced Genomes of Bacterial Symbionts Spanning 200 My of Evolution, John P. McCutcheon and Nancy A. Moran

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Building a Mechanistic Understanding of Predation with GPS-based Movement Data, Evelyn Merrill, Ha˚kan Sand, Barbara Zimmermann, Heather McPhee, Nathan Webb, Mark Hebblewhite, Peter Wabakken, and Jacqueline L. Frair

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Pentamidine inhibits Coxiella burnetii growth and 23S rRNA intron splicing in vitro, Michael F. Minnick, Linda D. Hicks, James M. Battisti, and Rahul Raghavan

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What Brown Saw and You Can Too, Philip Pearle, Brian Collett, Kenneth Bart, David Bilderback, Dara Newman, and D. Scott Samuels

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Discovery and Analysis of 4H-Pyridopyrimidines, a Class of Selective Bacterial Protein Synthesis Inhibitors, Wendy Ribble, Walter E. Hill, Urs A. Ochsner, Thale C. Jarvis, Joseph W. Guiles, Nebojsa Janjic, and James M. Bullard

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Alpha-Synuclein Delays Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi Transport in Mammalian Cells by Antagonizing ER/Golgi SNAREs, Nandhakumar Thayanidhi, Jared R. Helm, Deborah C. Nycz, Marbin Bentley, Yingjian Liang, and Jesse C. Hay

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Testing Hypotheses for Exotic Plant Success: Parallel Experiments in the Native and Introduced Ranges, Jennifer L. Williams, Harald Auge, and John L. Maron

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An Antibody Directed Against the Fusion Peptide of Junin Virus Envelope Glycoprotein GPC Inhibits pH-Induced Membrane Fusion, Joanne York, Jody D. Berry, Ute Stroeher, Qunnu Li, Heinz Feldmann, Min Lu, Meg Trahey, and Jack H. Nunberg

Submissions from 2009

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Tri-Trophic Linkages in Disease: Pathogen Transmission to Rainbow Trout Through Stonefly Prey, Sandra M. Adams, Aaron S. Adams, and William E. Holben

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Assembly of Arenavirus Envelope Glycoprotein Gpc in Detergent-Soluble Membrane Microdomains, Sudhakar S. Agnihothram, Brooke Dancho, Kenneth W. Grant, Mark L. Grimes, Douglas S. Lyles, and Jack H. Nunberg

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Randomization and in Vivo Selection Reveal a GGRG Motif Essential for Packaging Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 RNA, Tayyba T. Baig, Jean-Marc Lanchy, and J. Stephen Lodmell

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Don't Diss Integration: A Comment on Ricklefs's Disintegrating Communities, Rob W. Booker, Ragan M. Callaway, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Zaal Kikvidze, Christopher J. Lortie, Richard Michalet, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, and Thomas G. Whitham

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Bushmeat Poaching Reduces the Seed Dispersal and Population Growth Rate of a Mammal-Dispersed Tree, Jedidiah F. Brodie, Olga E. Helmy, Warren Y. Brockelman, and John L. Maron

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Functional Differences Within a Guild of Tropical Mammalian Frugivores, Jedidiah F. Brodie, Olga E. Helmy, Warren Y. Brockelman, and John L. Maron

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Common Garden Comparisons of Native and Introduced Plant Populations: Latitudinal Clines Can Obscure Evolutionary Inferences, Robert I. Colautti, John L. Maron, and Spencer C.H. Barrett

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Fluctuating Asymmetry in Elk Cervus Elaphus Antlers is Unrelated to Environmental Conditions in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Scott L. Eggeman, Mark Hebblewhite, Julie Cunningham, and Ken Hamlin

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Linking Wildlife Populations with Ecosystem Change: State-of-the-Art Satellite Ecology for National-Park Science, Mark Hebblewhite

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Ecological Facilitation May Drive Major Evolutionary Transitions, Zaal Kikvidze and Ragan M. Callaway

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E Unibus Plurum: Genomic Analysis of an Experimentally Evolved Polymorphism in Escherichia Coli, Margie A. Kinnersley, William E. Holben, and Frank Rosenzweig

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A Continent-Wide Clone: Population Genetic Variation of the Invasive Plant Hieracium Aurantiacum (Orange Hawkweed; Asteraceae) in North America, Eli S. Loomis and Lila Fishman

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What Drives Long-Distance Dispersal? A Test of Theoretical Predictions, Winsor H. Lowe

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Bar-Coded Pyrosequencing Reveals Shared Bacterial Community Properties Along the Temperature Gradients of Two Alkaline Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Scott R. Miller, Aaron L. Strong, Kenneter L. Jones, and Mark C. Ungerer

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Ecological Specialization in a Spatially Structured Population of the thermophilic Cyanobacterium Mastigocladus Laminosus, Scott R. Miller, Carin Williams, Aaron L. Strong, and Darla Carvey

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Pestilence, persistence and pathogenicity: infection strategies of Bartonella, Michael F. Minnick and James M. Battisti

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Empirical Testing of 16S rRNA Gene PCR Primer Pairs Reveals Variance in Target Specificity and Efficacy Not Suggested by in Silico Analysis, Sergio E. Morales and William E. Holben

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Geographical Patterning of Sixteen Goat Breeds from Italy, Albania and Greece Assessed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Lorraine Pariset, Antonella Cuteri, Christina Ligda, Alessio Valentini, and ECONOGENE Consortium

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Landscape Genomics and Biased Fst Approaches Reveal Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms under Selection in Goat Breeds of North-East Mediterranean, Lorraine Pariset, Stephane Joost, Paolo Ajmone Marsan, Alessio Valentini, and ECONOGENE Consortium

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Function, Regulation, and Transcriptional Organization of the Hemin Utilization Locus of Bartonella Quintana, Nermi L. Parrow, Jasmin Abbott, Amanda R. Lockwood, James M. Battisti, and Michael F. Minnick

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A Unique Group I Intron in Coxiella Burnetii is a Natural Splice Mutant, Rahul Raghavan, Linda D. Hicks, and Michael F. Minnick

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Group I Introns and Inteins: Disparate Origins But Convergent Parasitic Strategies, Rahul Raghavan and Michael F. Minnick

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Desulfovibrio idahonensis sp. nov., sulfatereducing bacteria isolated from a metal(loid)-contaminated freshwater sediment, H. Sass, S. Ramamoorthy, C. Yarwood, H. Langner, P. Schumann, R. M. Kroppenstedt, S. Spring, and R. Frank Rosenzweig

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Evidence for the Evolution of Reduced Mycorrhizal Dependence During Plant Invasion, Elizabeth K. Seifert, James D. Bever, and John L. Maron

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Differential Inhibition of Various Adenylyl Cyclase Isoforms and Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase by 2',3'-O-(2,4,6-Trinitrophenyl)-Substituted Nucleoside 5'-Triphosphates, Srividya Suryanarayana, Martin Göttle, Melanie Hübner, Andreas Gille, Tung-Chung Mou, Stephen R. Sprang, Mark Richter, and Roland Seifert

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Plasma Testosterone Correlates with Morph Type Across Breeding Substages in Male White-Throated Sparrows, M. B. Swett and Creagh W. Breuner

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Ontogeny and Individual Variation in the Adrenocortical Response of Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata) Nestlings, Haruka Wada, Katrina G. Salvante, Emily Wagner, Tony D. Williams, and Creagh W. Breuner

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Intersubunit Interactions Modulate pH-Induced Activation of Membrane Fusion by the Junín Virus Envelope Glycoprotein GPC, Joanne York and Jack H. Nunberg

Submissions from 2008

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LOSITAN: A Workbench to Detect Molecular Adaptation Based on a Fst-Outlier Method, Tiago Antao, Ana Lopes, Ricardo J. Lopes, Albano Beja-Pereira, and Gordon Luikart

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Extant or Extinct? White-Tailed Jack Rabbits and Yellowstone's Food Web, Joel Berger