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 2005

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Evolution of Morphological Integration: Developmental Accommodation of Stress-Induced Variation, Alexander V. Badyaev, Kerry R. Foresman, and Rebecca L. Young

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Unpalatable Plants Protect Neighbors from Grazing and Increase Plant Community Diversity, Ragan M. Callaway, David Kikodze, Marina Chiboshvili, and Liana Khetsuriani

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Characterization and expression analysis of the groESL operon of Bartonella bacilliformis, Julie A. Callison, James M. Battisti, Kate N. Sappington, Laura S. Smitherman, and Michael F. Minnick

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Structure of the p115RhoGEF rgRGS domain-Galpha13/i1 chimera complex suggests convergent evolution of a GTPase activator, Zhe Chen, William D. Singer, Paul C. Sternweis, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Structural and molecular characterization of a preferred protein interaction surface on G protein beta gamma subunits, Tara L. Davis, Tabetha M. Bonacci, Stephen R. Sprang, and Alan V. Smrcka

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Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism and Male Dimorphism in the Expression of Beetle Horns: Phylogenetic Evidence for Modularity, Evolutionary Lability, and Constraint, Douglas J. Emlen, John Hunt, and Leigh W. Simmons

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parC Mutations in Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Borrelia Burgdorfeti, Kendal M. Galbraith, Amanda C. Ng, Betsy J. Eggers, Craig R. Kuchel, Christian H. Eggers, and D. Scott Samuels

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Human Activity Mediates a Trophic Cascade Caused by Wolves, Mark Hebblewhite, Clifford A. White, Clifford G. Nietvelt, John A. McKenzie, Tomas E. Hurd, John M. Fryxell, Suzanne E. Bayley, and Paul C. Paquet

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Targeting of Arf-1 to the Early Golgi by Membrin, an ER-Golgi SNARE, Akira Honda, Omayma S. Al-Awar, Jesse C. Hay, and Julie G. Donaldson

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Introduction – Regional Monitoring Programs, Richard L. Hutto and C. John Ralph

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A peptide core motif for binding to heterotrimeric G protein alpha subunits, William W. Ja, Anirban Adhikari, Ryan J. Austin, Stephen R. Sprang, and Richard W. Roberts

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An East-West Comparison of Migration in North American Wood Warblers, Jeffrey F. Kelly and Richard L. Hutto

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Linking Patterns and Processes in Alpine Plant Communities: a Global Study, Zaal Kikvidze, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Robin W. Brooker, Philippe Choler, Christopher J. Lortie, Richard Michalet, and Ragan M. Callaway

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Fire on the Mountain: Birds and Burns in the Rocky Mountains, Natasha B. Kotliar, Victoria A. Saab, and Richard L. Hutto

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Stress Tolerance and Competitive-Response Ability Determine the Outcome of Biotic Interactions, Pierre Liancourt, Ragan M. Callaway, and Richard Michalet

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Using Airborne Multispectral Imagery to Evaluate Geomorphic Work Across Floodplains of Gravel-Bed Rivers, M. S. Lorang, D. C. Whited, Richard F. Hauer, J. S. Kimball, and Jack Arthur Stanford

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Structural basis for the inhibition of mammalian membrane adenylyl cyclase by 2 '(3')-O-(N-Methylanthraniloyl)-guanosine 5 '-triphosphate, Tung-Chung Mou, Andreas Gille, David A. Fancy, Roland Seifert, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Origin of asymmetry in adenylyl cyclases: structures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv1900c, Sangita C. Sinha, Martina Wetterer, Stephen R. Sprang, Joachim E. Schultz, and Jürgen U. Linder

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Geography of Spring Landbird Migration Through Riparian Habitats in Southwestern North America, Susan K. Skagen, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Charles van Riper III, Richard L. Hutto, Deborah M. Finch, David J. Krueper, and Cynthia P. Melcher

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Bartonella bacilliformis GroEL: effect on growth of human vascular endothelial cells in infected cocultures, Laura S. Smitherman and Michael F. Minnick

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Changes in Bird Abundance After Wildfire: Importance of Fire Severity and Time Since Fire, Kristina M. Smucker, Richard L. Hutto, and Brian M. Steele

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Analysis of the ospC Regulatory Element Controlled by the RpoN-RpoS Regulatory Pathway in Borrelia Burgdorferi, Xiaofeng F. Yang, Meghan C. Lybecker, Utpal Pal, Sophie M. Alani, Jon Blevins, Andrew T. Revel, and D. Scott Samuels

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Monitoring for Adaptive Management in Coniferous Forests of the Northern Rockies, Jock S. Young, John R. Hoffland, and Richard L. Hutto

Submissions from 2004

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Evolution of Morphological Integration. I. Functional Units Channel Stress-Induced Variation in Shrew Mandibles, Alexander V. Badyaev and Kerry R. Foresman

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Novel Weapons: Invasive Success and the Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability, Ragan M. Callaway and Wendy M. Ridenour

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Soil Fungi Alter Interactions Between the Invader Centaurea Maculosa and North American Natives, Ragan M. Callaway, Giles C. Thelen, Sara Barth, Philip W. Ramsey, and James E. Gannon

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Kinetic isotope effects in Ras-catalyzed GTP hydrolysis: evidence for a loose transition state, Xinlin Du, Gavin E. Black, Paolo Lecchi, Fred P. Abramson, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Seasonal Dynamics of Shallow-Hyporheic-Zone Microbial Community Structure Along a Heavy-Metal Contamination Gradient, Kevin P. Feris, Philip W. Ramsey, Chris Frazar, Matthias Rillig, Johnnie N. Moore, and William E. Holben

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Determining Rates of Change and Evaluating Group-Level Resiliency Differences in Hyporheic Microbial Communities in Response to Fluvial Heavy-Metal Deposition, Kevin P. Feris, Philip W. Ramsey, Matthias Rillig, Johnnie N. Moore, James E. Gannon, and William E. Holben

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Facultative Altitudinal Movements by Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) in the Sierra Nevada, Thomas P. Hahn, Keith W. Sockman, Creagh W. Breuner, and Martin L. Morton

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GC Fractionation Enhances Microbial Community Diversity Assessment and Detection of Minority Populations of Bacteria by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis, William Holben, Keving P. Feris, Anu Kettunen, and Juha H. A. Apajalahti

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High Polymorphism in the K-Casein (CSN3) Gene from Wild and Domestic Caprine Species Revealed by DNA Sequencing, Oliver C. Jann, Eva-Maria Prinzenberg, Gordon Luikart, Ana Caroli, and Georg Erhardt

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The Effects of Postfire Salvage Logging on Aquatic Ecosystems in the American West, J. R. Karr, JJ Rhodes, GW Minshall, F. Richard Hauer, R. L. Beschta, C. A. Frissell, and D. A. Perry

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Splicing Affects Presentation of RNA Dimerization Signals in HIV-2 in Vitro, Jean-Marc Lanchy, Quenna N. Szafran, and J. Stephen Lodmell

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Loss of Enemy Resistance Among Introduced Populations of St. John's Wort (Hypericum Perforatum), John L. Maron, Montserrat Vilà, and John Arnason

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Rapid Evolution of an Invasive Plant, John L. Maron, Montserrat Vilà, Riccardo Bommarco, Sarah Elmendorf, and Paul Beardsley

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Variation in Sulfide Tolerance of Photosystem Ii in Phylogenetically Diverse Cyanobacteria from Sulfidic Habitats, Scott R. Miller and Brad M. Bebout

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Cancer. A bull's eye for targeted lung cancer therapy, John D. Minna, Adi F. Gazdar, Stephen R. Sprang, and Joachim Herz

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Soil Biota Facilitate Exotic Acer Invasions in Europe and North America, Kurt O. Reinhart and Ragan M. Callaway

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Uncoupling conformational change from GTP hydrolysis in a heterotrimeric G protein alpha-subunit, Celestine J. Thomas, Xinlin Du, PiLong Li, Ying Wang, Elliott M. Ross, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Reconstitution of COPII Vesicle Fusion to Generate a Pre-Golgi Intermediate Compartment, Dalu Xu and Jesse C. Hay

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Role of Hydrophobic Residues in the Central Ectodomain of gp41 in Maintaining the Association Between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope Glycoprotein Subunits gp120 and gp41, Joanne York and Jack H. Nunberg

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The Signal Peptide of the Junín Arenavirus Envelope Glycoprotein is Myristoylated and Forms an Essential Subunit of the Mature G1-G2 Complex, Joanne York, Victor Romanowski, Min Lu, and Jack H. Nunberg

Submissions from 2003

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Thermodynamic characterization of the binding of activator of G protein signaling 3 (AGS3) and peptides derived from AGS3 with G alpha i1, Anirban Adhikari and Stephen R. Sprang

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Selective Plating Underestimates Abundance and Shows Differential Recovery of Bifidobacterial Species from Human Feces, Juha H. A. Apajalahti, Anu Kettunen, Päivi H. Nurminen, Hanna Jatila, and William E. Holben

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Soil Fungi and the Effects of an Invasive Forb on Grasses: Neighbor Identity Matters, Ragan M. Callaway, Bruce E. Mahall, Chris Wicks, Joel Pankey, and Catherine Zabinski

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Phenotypic Plasticity and Interactions Among Plants, Ragan M. Callaway, Steven C. Pennings, and Christina L. Richards

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Mapping the Galpha13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF, Zhe Chen, William D. Singer, Clark D. Wells, Stephen R. Sprang, and Paul C. Sternweis

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Differential expression of the invasion-associated locus B (ialB) gene of Bartonella bacilliformis in response to environmental cues, Sherry A. Coleman and Michael F. Minnick

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Evolution of Avian Locomotion: Correlates of Flight Style, Locomotor Modules, Nesting Biology, Body Size, Development, and the Origin of Flapping Flight, Kenneth P. Dial

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Wing-Assisted Incline Running and the Evolution of Flight, Kenneth P. Dial

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Differences in Hyporheic-Zone Microbial Community Structure Along a Heavy-Metal Contamination Gradient, Kevin P. Feris, Philip W. Ramsey, Frazar Chris, Johnnie N. Moore, James E. Gannon, and William E. Holben

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aadA Confers Streptomycin Resistance in Borrelia Burgdorferi, Kristi L. Frank, Sharyl F. Bundle, Michele E. Kresge, Christian H. Eggers, and D. Scott Samuels

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Differences in Cottonwood Growth Between a Losing and a Gaining Reach of an Alluvial Floodplain, Mary J. Harner and Jack Arthur Stanford

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A Structural Linkage Between the Dimerization and Encapsidation Signals in Hiv-2 Leader Rna, J. M. Lanchy, J. D. Ivanovitch, and J. Stephen Lodmell

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Ribosomal Localization of Translation Initiation Factor IF2, Stefano Marzi, William Knight, Letizia Brandi, Enrico Caserta, Natalia Soboleva, Walter E. Hill, Claudio O. Gualerzi, and J. Stephen Lodmell

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Five-Member Gene Family of Bartonella Quintana, Michael F. Minnick, Kate N. Sappington, Laura S. Smitherman, Siv G. E. Andersson, Olof Karlberg, and James A. Carroll

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Mitogenic Effect of Bartonella Bacilliformis on Human Vascular Endothelial Cells and Involvement of GroEL, Michael F. Minnick, Laura S. Smitherman, and D. Scott Samuels

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gyrA Mutations in Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Bartonella Bacilliformis Strains Obtained in Vitro, Michael F. Minnick, Zachary R. Wilson, Laura S. Smitherman, and D. Scott Samuels

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River Flows and Water Wars: Emerging Science for Environmental Decision Making, N. LeRoy Poff, J. David Allan, Margaret A. Palmer, David D. Hart, Brian D. Richter, Angela H. Arthington, Kevin H. Rogers, Judy L. Meyer, and Jack Arthur Stanford

Submissions from 2002

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groEL Expression in gyrB Mutants of Borrelia Burgdorferi, Janet Alverson and D. Scott Samuels

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Culture-Independent Microbial Community Analysis Reveals that Inulin in the Diet Primarily Affects Previously Unknown Bacteria in the Mouse Cecum, Juha H. A. Apajalahti, Hannele Kettunen, Anu Kettunen, William E. Holben, Päivi H. Nurminen, Nina Rautonen, and Marja Mutanen

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Characteristic genome rearrangements in experimental evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Maitreya J. Dunham, Hassan Badrane, Tracy Ferea, Julian Adams, Patrick O. Brown, Frank Rosenzweig, and David Botstein

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Genetic Evidence that Interhelical Packing Interactions in the gp41 Core are Critical for Transition of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Envelope Glycoprotein to the Fusion-Active State, Kathryn E. Follis, Scott J. Larson, Min Lu, and Jack H. Nunberg

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Distinct interactions of GTP, UTP, and CTP with G(s) proteins, Andreas Gille, Hui-Yu Liu, Stephen R. Sprang, and Roland Seifert

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The Fitness Consequences of Interspecific Eavesdropping Between Plants, Richard Karban and John L. Maron

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Convergent Demographic Effects of Insect Attack on Related Thistles in Coastal Vs. Continental Dunes, John L. Maron, Julie K. Combs, and Svata M. Louda

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Threshold Evolution in Exotic Populations of a Polyphenic Beetle, Armin P. Moczek, John Hunt, Douglas J. Emlen, and Leigh W. Simmons

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Plasticity and Genetic Diversity May Allow Saltcedar to Invade Cold Climates in North America, Jason P. Sexton, J. K. McKay, and Anna Sala

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The Neisseria Lipooligosaccharide-Specific Alpha-2,3-Sialyltransferase is a Surface-Exposed Outer Membrane Protein, Dawn M. Shell, Lisa Chiles, Ralph C. Judd, Samar Seal, and Richard F. Rest

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Cost of Defense in the Context of Plant Competition: Brassica Rapa May Grow and Defend, David H. Siemens, Shannon H. Garner, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, and Ragan M. Callaway

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Crystallization of complex between soluble domains of adenylyl cyclase and activated Gs alpha, John J. Tesmer, Roger K. Sunahara, David A. Fancy, Alfred G. Gilman, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Review of: Riverine Flood Plains: Present State and Future Trends, Klement Tockner and Jack Arthur Stanford

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Cosolvent-induced transformation of a death domain tertiary structure, Tsan Xiao, Kevin H. Gardner, and Stephen R. Sprang

Submissions from 2001

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Percent G+C Profiling Accurately Reveals Diet-Related Differences in the Gastrointestinal Microbial Community of Broiler Chickens, Juha H. A. Apajalahti, Anu Kettunen, Michael R. Bedford, and William E. Holben

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Structure of the rgRGs domain of p115RhoGEF, Zhe Chen, Clark D. Wells, Paul C. Sternweis, and Stephen R. Sprang

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Facilitation and Competition on Gradients in Alpine Plant Communities, Philippe Choler, Richard Michalet, and Ragan M. Callaway

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Establishing a Direct Role for the Bartonella Bacilliformis Invasion-Associated Locus B (Ialb) Protein in Human Erythrocyte Parasitism, Sherry A. Coleman and Michael F. Minnick

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Transduction by Phi Bb-1, a Bacteriophage of Borrelia Burgdorferi, Christian H. Eggers, Betsy J. Kimmel, James L. Bono, Abdallah F. Elias, Patricia Rosa, and D. Scott Samuels

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Experimental Model of Human Body Louse Infection Using Green Fluorescent Protein-Expressing Bartonella Quintana, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Michael F. Minnick, Hubert Lepidi, Eric Salvo, and Didier Raoult

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Structural and Functional Analysis of Interhelical Interactions in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 gp41 Envelope Glycoprotein by Alanine-Scanning Mutagenesis, Min Lu, Marisa O. Stoller, Shilong Wang, Jie Liu, Melinda B. Fagan, and Jack H. Nunberg

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Restoring Enriched Grasslands: Effects of Mowing on Species Richness, Productivity, and Nitrogen Retention, John L. Maron and Robert L. Jefferies

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Development of Microsatellite Multiplexes for Wild Goats Using Primers Designed from Domestic Bovidae, Celia Maudet, Gordon Luikart, and Pierre Taberlet

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C2 domains from different Ca2+ signaling pathways display functional and mechanistic diversity, E. A. Nalefski, M. A. Wisner, J. Z. Chen, S. R. Sprang, M. Fukuda, K. Mikoshiba, and J. J. Falke

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Isolation and Characterization of a Novel As(V)-Reducing Bacterium: Implications for Arsenic Mobilization and the Genus Desulfitobacterium, Allison NIggemyer, Stefan Spring, Erko Stackebrandt, and Frank Rosenzweig

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Antibody Binding and Neutralization of Primary and T-Cell Line-Adapted Isolates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1, Joanne York, Kathryn E. Follis, Meg Trahey, Phillipe N. Nyambi, Susan Zolla-Pazner, and Jack H. Nunberg

Submissions from 2000

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Stress and Developmental Stability: Vegetation Removal Causes Increased Fluctuating Asymmetry in Shrews, Alexander V. Badyaev, Kerry R. Foresman, and Miguel V. Fernandes

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A bacteriophage-like particle from Bartonella bacilliformis, Kent D. Barbian and Michael F. Minnick

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Facilitation May Buffer Competitive Effects: Indirect and Diffuse Interactions Among Salt Marsh Plants, Ragan M. Callaway and Steven C. Pennings

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Hemin-Binding Surface Protein from Bartonella Quintana, James A. Carroll, Sherry A. Coleman, Laura S. Smitherman, and Michael F. Minnick

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Evidence for Microbial Fe(III) Reduction in Anoxic, Mining-Impacted Lake Sediments (Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho), David E. Cummings, Anthony W. March, Benjamin Bostick, Stefan Spring, Frank Caccavo Jr., Scott Fendorf, and Frank Rosenzweig

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Characterization of Borrelia Burgdorferi BlyA and BlyB Proteins: a Prophage-Encoded Holin-Like System, Christopher J. Damman, Christian H. Eggers, and D. Scott Samuels

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Genetic Variation Among Endosymbionts of Widely Distributed Vestimentiferan Tubeworms, Carol A. Di Meo, Ami E. Wilbur, William E. Holben, Robert A. Feldman, Robert C. Vrijenhoek, and S. Craig Cary

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Integrating Development with Evolution: a Case Study with Beetle Horns, Douglas J. Emlen

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The Impacts of a Nonindigenous Marine Predator in a California Bay, Edwin D. Grosholz, Gregory M. Ruiz, Cheryl A. Dean, Kim A. Shirley, John L. Maron, and Peter G. Connors

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Monitoring Bacterial Transport by Stable Isotope Enrichment of Cells, William Holben and Peggy H. Ostrom

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Sensitivity of Species Habitat-Relationship Model Performance to Factors of Scale, J. W. Karl, P. J. Heglund, E. O. Garton, J. M. Scott, N. M. Wright, and Richard L. Hutto

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Outcrossing Rate and Inbreeding Depression in the Perennial Yellow Bush Lupine, Lupinus arboreus (Fabaceae), Pamela Kittelson and John L. Maron

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Disruption of the Borrelia Burgdorferi Gac Gene, Encoding the Naturally Synthesized GyrA C-Terminal Domain, Scott W. Knight, Betsy J. Kimmel, Christian H. Eggers, and D. Scott Samuels

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Long-Toed Salamanders in Harvested and Intact Douglas-Fir Forests of Western Montana, George P. Naughton, Colin B. Henderson, Kerry R. Foresman, and Rex L. McGraw II