Submissions from 2017
Can functional traits account for phylogenetic signal in community composition?, Daijiang Li, Anthony R. Ives, and Donald M. Waller
Fire exclusion and climate change interact to affect long-term changes in the functional composition of plant communities, Daijiang Li and Donald M. Waller
The phylogeny of extant starfish (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) including Xyloplax, based on comparative transcriptomics, Gregorio V. Linchangco, David W. Foltz, Rob Reid, John Williams, Conor Nodzak, Alexander M. Kerr, Allison K. Miller, and Rebecca Hunter
Behavioural response to song and genetic divergence in two subspecies of white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys), Sara E. Lipshutz, Isaac A. Overcast, Michael J. Hickerson, Robb T. Brumfield, and Elizabeth P. Derryberry
Unusual Fe–H bonding associated with oxygen vacancies at the (001) surface of Fe3O4, Fangyang Liu, Chen Chen, Hangwen Guo, Mohammad Saghayezhian, Gaomin Wang, Lina Chen, Wei Chen, Jiandi Zhang, and E. W. Plummer
A recombinant fusion protein consisting of West Nile virus envelope domain III fused in-frame with equine CD40 ligand induces antiviral immune responses in horses, Shiliang A. Liu, Muzammel Haque, Brent Stanfield, Frank M. Andrews, Alma A. Roy, and Konstantin G. Kousoulas
Intramuscular Immunization of Mice with the Live-Attenuated Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Vaccine Strain VC2 Expressing Equine Herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) Glycoprotein D Generates Anti-EHV-1 Immune Responses in Mice, Shiliang A. Liu, Brent A. Stanfield, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, Shan Naidu, Ingeborg Langohr, Fabio Del Piero, Jacqueline Ferracone, and Alma A. Roy
Break Down in Order to Build Up: Decomposing Small Molecules for Fragment-Based Drug Design with eMolFrag, Tairan Liu, Misagh Naderi, Chris Alvin, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, and Michal Brylinski
Facilitators and Repressors of Transcription-coupled DNA Repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Wentao Li and Shisheng Li
Phylogenomic analysis of a rapid radiation of misfit fishes (Syngnathiformes) using ultraconserved elements, S.J. Longo, B.C. Faircloth, A. Meyer, M.W. Westneat, M.E. Alfaro, and P.C. Wainwright
Northern Blot Detection of Virus-Derived Small Interfering RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans Using Nonradioactive Oligo Probes, Tianyun Long and Rui Lu
Identification and characterization of a solute carrier, CIA8, involved in inorganic carbon acclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Marylou C. Machingura, Joanna Bajsa-Hirschel, Susan M. Laborde, Joshua B. Schwartzenburg, Bratati Mukherjee, Ananya Mukherjee, Steve V. Pollock, Britta Förster, G. Dean Price, and James V. Moroney
Nitric oxide promotes GABA release by activating a voltage-independent Ca2+ influx pathway in retinal amacrine cells, J. Wesley Maddox and Evanna Gleason
Across-proteome modeling of dimer structures for the bottom-up assembly of protein-protein interaction networks, Surabhi Maheshwari and Michal Brylinski
Localization of glutamatergic, GABAergic, and cholinergic neurons in the brain of the African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni, Karen P. Maruska, Julie M. Butler, Karen E. Field, and Danielle T. Porter
Effects of wind, ambient temperature and sun position on damselfly flight activity and perch orientation, Nicholas A. Mason
Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds, Nicholas A. Mason, Kevin J. Burns, Joseph A. Tobias, Santiago Claramunt, Nathalie Seddon, and Elizabeth P. Derryberry
Pleistocene to holocene expansion of the black-belt cichlid in Central America, Vieja maculicauda (Teleostei: Cichlidae), Caleb D. McMahan, Luke Ginger, Marcy Cage, Kyle T. David, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Mark Johnston, and Wilfredo A. Matamoros
Objectively measuring subjectively described traits: Geographic variation in body shape and caudal coloration pattern within vieja melanura (Teleostei: Cichlidae), Caleb D. McMahan, Justin Kutz, Christopher M. Murray, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Aaron D. Geheber, and Diego Elías
Calorie restriction in humans: An update, Jasper Most, Valeria Tosti, Leanne M. Redman, and Luigi Fontana
Transcriptional Regulation of Adipogenesis, Paula Mota de Sá, Allison J. Richard, Hardy Hang, and Jacqueline M. Stephens
Perchlorate-Coupled Carbon Monoxide (CO) Oxidation: Evidence for a plausible microbe-mediated reaction in Martian brines, Marisa R. Myers and Gary M. King
Impact and Duration of Brief Surgeon-Delivered Smoking Cessation Advice on Attitudes Regarding Nicotine Dependence and Tobacco Harms for Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease, Karina Newhall, Bjoern Suckow, Emily Spangler, Benjamin S. Brooke, Andres Schanzer, Tze-Woei Tan, Mary Burnette, and Maria Orlando Edelen
The dynamic evolutionary history of genome size in North American woodland salamanders, Catherine E. Newman, T. Ryan Gregory, and Christopher C. Austin
Reproductive and metabolic state differences in olfactory responses to amino acids in a mouth brooding African cichlid fish, Alexandre A. Nikonov, Julie M. Butler, Karen E. Field, John Caprio, and Karen P. Maruska
Rubrobacter spartanus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic oligotrophic bacterium isolated from volcanic soil, Jeffrey S. Norman, Gary M. King, and Maren L. Friesen
A Scalable Field Study Protocol and Rationale for Passive Ambient Air Sampling: A Spatial Phytosampling for Leaf Data Collection, Tonny J. Oyana, Slawomir M. Lomnicki, Chuqi Guo, and Stephania A. Cormier
Spatiotemporal patterns of childhood asthma hospitalization and utilization in Memphis Metropolitan Area from 2005 to 2015, Tonny J. Oyana, Pradeep Podila, Jagila Minso Wesley, Slawo Lomnicki, and Stephania Cormier
Global networks for invasion science: benefits, challenges and guidelines, Jasmin G. Packer, Laura A. Meyerson, David M. Richardson, Giuseppe Brundu, Warwick J. Allen, Ganesh P. Bhattarai, Hans Brix, Susan Canavan, Stefano Castiglione, Angela Cicatelli, et al.
Yeast HMO1: Linker histone reinvented, Arvind Panday and Anne Grove
DNA damage regulates direct association of TOR kinase with the RNA polymerase II-transcribed HMO1 gene, Arvind Panday, Ashish Gupta, Kavitha Srinivasa, Lijuan Xiao, Mathew D. Smith, and Anne Grove
Control of DNA end resection by yeast Hmo1p affects efficiency of DNA end-joining, Arvind Panday, Li Juan Xiao, Ashish Gupta, and Anne Grove
Gibberellin signaling requires chromatin remodeler PICKLE to promote vegetative growth and phase transitions, Jeongmoo Park, Dong Ha Oh, Maheshi Dassanayake, Khoa Thi Nguyen, Joe Ogas, Giltsu Choi, and Tai Ping Sun
Slow Equilibration between Spectroscopically Distinct Trap States in Reduced TiO2 Nanoparticles, Jennifer L. Peper, David J. Vinyard, Gary W. Brudvig, and James M. Mayer
Phylogenetic relationships of diurnal, phytotelm-breeding Melanophryniscus (Anura: Bufonidae) based on mitogenomic data, Marcio R. Pie, Patrícia R. Ströher, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz F. Ribeiro, Brant C. Faircloth, and John E. McCormack
A robust protocol for efficient generation, and genomic characterization of insertional mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Steve V. Pollock, Bratati Mukherjee, Joanna Bajsa-Hirschel, Marylou C. Machingura, Ananya Mukherjee, Arthur R. Grossman, and James V. Moroney
Androgen receptor agonists increase lean mass, improve cardiopulmonary functions and extend survival in preclinical models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Suriyan Ponnusamy, Ryan D. Sullivan, Dahui You, Nadeem Zafar, Chuan He Yang, Thirumagal Thiyagarajan, Daniel L. Johnson, Maron L. Barrett, Nikki J. Koehler, Mayra Star, et al.
Distribution and female reproductive state differences in orexigenic and anorexigenic neurons in the brain of the mouth brooding African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni, Danielle T. Porter, David A. Roberts, and Karen P. Maruska
Galanin-expressing GABA neurons in the lateral hypothalamus modulate food reward and noncompulsive locomotion, Emily Qualls-Creekmore, Sangho Yu, Marie Francois, John Hoang, Clara Huesing, Annadora Bruce-Keller, David Burk, Hans Rudolf Berthoud, Christopher D. Morrison, and Heike Münzberg
A Very Rare Example of a Structurally Characterized 3′-GMP Metal Complex. NMR and Synthetic Assessment of Adducts Formed by Guanine Derivatives with [Pt(Ltri)Cl]Cl Complexes with an N,N′,N″ Tridentate Ligand (Ltri) Terminated by Imidazole Rings, Kokila Ranasinghe, Svetlana Pakhomova, Patricia A. Marzilli, and Luigi G. Marzilli
Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) subunits moonlight as interaction partners of phosphorylated STAT5 in adipocytes and adipose tissue, Allison J. Richard, Hardy Hang, and Jacqueline M. Stephens
Cysteines and N-glycosylation sites conserved among all alphaherpesviruses regulate membrane fusion in herpes simplex virus 1 infection, Paul J.F. Rider, Misagh Naderi, Scott Bergeron, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, Michal Brylinski, and Konstantin G. Kousoulas
Two new species of Crocodile Skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Tribolonotus) from the Solomon Archipelago, Eric N. Rittmeyer and Christopher C. Austin
The phycocyanobilin chromophore of streptophyte algal phytochromes is synthesized by HY2, Nathan C. Rockwell, Shelley S. Martin, Fay Wei Li, Sarah Mathews, and John Clark Lagarias
Seasonal Rhythms, L.M. Romero, C.M. Bauer, R. de Bruijn, and C.R. Lattin
Discovering volatile chemicals from window weatherstripping through solid-phase microextraction/gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, Cornelia Rosu, Rafael Cueto, Lucas Veillon, Connie David, Roger A. Laine, and Paul S. Russo
Phylogenomics using formalin-fixed and 100+ year-old intractable natural history specimens, Sara Ruane and Christopher C. Austin
Trait Correlations in the Genomics Era, Julia B. Saltz, Frances C. Hessel, and Morgan W. Kelly
Oncostatin m impairs brown adipose tissue thermogenic function and the browning of subcutaneous white adipose tissue, David Sánchez-Infantes, Rubén Cereijo, Marion Peyrou, Irene Piquer-Garcia, Jacqueline M. Stephens, and Francesc Villarroya
Two new Pentaphylacaceae species from southern Central America, Daniel Santamaría-Aguilar and Laura P. Lagomarsino
Two new species and a new combination in Protium (Burseraceae) from Costa Rica, Daniel Santamaría-Aguilar and Laura P. Lagomarsino
Systematics and biogeography of the Automolus infuscatus complex (Aves; Furnariidae): Cryptic diversity reveals western Amazonia as the origin of a transcontinental radiation, Eduardo D. Schultz, Curtis W. Burney, Robb T. Brumfield, Erico M. Polo, Joel Cracraft, and Camila C. Ribas
Niche evolution and diversification in a Neotropical radiation of birds (Aves: Furnariidae), Glenn F. Seeholzer, Santiago Claramunt, and Robb T. Brumfield
Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight, Subir B. Shakya, Jérôme Fuchs, Jean-Marc Pons, and Frederick H. Sheldon
Effect of dietary salt intake on epithelial Na+ channels (ENaC) in vasopressin magnocellular neurosecretory neurons in the rat supraoptic nucleus, Kaustubh Sharma, Masudul Haque, Richard Guidry, Yoichi Ueta, and Ryoichi Teruyama
The Effectiveness of eHealth Technologies on Weight Management in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Diana Sherifali, Kara A. Nerenberg, Shanna Wilson, Kevin Semeniuk, Muhammad Usman Ali, Leanne M. Redman, and Kristi B. Adamo
Plant genotype and induced defenses affect the productivity of an insect-killing obligate viral pathogen, Ikkei Shikano, Elizabeth M. McCarthy, Bret D. Elderd, and Kelli Hoover
A full set of iridium(iv) pyridine-alkoxide stereoisomers: highly geometry-dependent redox properties, Dimitar Y. Shopov, Benjamin Rudshteyn, Jesús Campos, David J. Vinyard, Victor S. Batista, Gary W. Brudvig, and Robert H. Crabtree
IL-4Rα on dendritic cells in neonates and Th2 immunopathology in respiratory syncytial virus infection, Bishwas Shrestha, Dahui You, Jordy Saravia, David T. Siefker, Sridhar Jaligama, Greg I. Lee, Asmaa A. Sallam, Jeffrey N. Harding, and Stephania A. Cormier
The Stringent Response Induced by Phosphate Limitation Promotes Purine Salvage in Agrobacterium fabrum, Smitha Sivapragasam, Dinesh K. Deochand, Jacob K. Meariman, and Anne Grove
A latitudinal phylogeographic diversity gradient in birds, Brian Tilston Smith, Glenn F. Seeholzer, Michael G. Harvey, Andrés M. Cuervo, and Robb T. Brumfield
Erratum: Correction: A latitudinal phylogeographic diversity gradient in birds (PLoS biology (2017) 15 4 (e2001073)), Brian Tilston Smith, Glenn F. Seeholzer, Michael G. Harvey, Andrés M. Cuervo, and Robb T. Brumfield
Bile acid sodium symporter BASS6 can transport glycolate and is involved in photorespiratory metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana, Paul F. South, Berkley J. Walker, Amanda P. Cavanagh, Vivien Rolland, Murray Badger, and Donald R. Ort
Effects of 12 Months of Caloric Restriction on Muscle Mitochondrial Function in Healthy Individuals, Lauren M. Sparks, Leanne M. Redman, Kevin E. Conley, Mary-Ellen Harper, Fanchao Yi, Andrew Hodges, Alexey Eroshkin, and Sheila R. Costford
The Fungal Tree of Life: from Molecular Systematics to Genome-Scale Phylogenies, Joseph W. Spatafora, M Catherine Aime, Igor V. Grigoriev, Francis Martin, Jason E. Stajich, and Meredith Blackwell
Vaccination of rhesus macaques with the live-attenuated HSV-1 vaccine VC2 stimulates the proliferation of mucosal T cells and germinal center responses resulting in sustained production of highly neutralizing antibodies, Brent A. Stanfield, Bapi Pahar, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, Ronald Veazey, and Konstantin G. Kousoulas
High phylogenetic utility of an ultraconserved element probe set designed for Arachnida, James Starrett, Shahan Derkarabetian, Marshal Hedin, Robert W. Bryson Jr., John E. McCormack, and Brant C. Faircloth
Alu insertion polymorphisms as evidence for population structure in baboons, Cody J. Steely, Jerilyn A. Walker, Vallmer E. Jordan, Thomas O. Beckstrom, Cullen L. McDaniel, Corey P. St Romain, Emily C. Bennett, Arianna Robichaux, Brooke N. Clement, Muthuswamy Raveendran, et al.
Strategies for Successful Recruitment of Pregnant Patients Into Clinical Trials, Elizabeth F. Sutton, Loren E. Cain, Porsha M. Vallo, and Leanne M. Redman
Adverse metabolic phenotype of female offspring exposed to preeclampsia in utero: a characterization of the BPH/5 mouse in postnatal life, Elizabeth F. Sutton, Heinrich E. Lob, Jiunn Song, YunWei Xia, Scott Butler, Chin-Chi Liu, Leanne M. Redman, and Jenny L. Sones
Coordinated dispersal and pre-isthmian assembly of the central American ichthyofauna, Victor A. Tagliacollo, Scott M. Duke-Sylvester, Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Prosanta Chakrabarty, and James S. Albert
Anaerobic copper toxicity and iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis in Escherichia coli, Guoqiang Tan, Jing Yang, Tang Li, Jin Zhao, Shujuan Sun, Xiaokang Li, Chuxian Lin, Jianghui Li, Huaibin Zhou, Jianxin Lyu, et al.
A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity, Luke R. Thompson, Jon G. Sanders, Daniel McDonald, Amnon Amir, Joshua Ladau, Kenneth J. Locey, Robert J. Prill, Anupriya Tripathi, Sean M. Gibbons, Gail Ackermann, et al.
Phylogenetic relationships of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae): Combining whole plastome with targeted loci data in a recent radiation, Simon Uribe-Convers, Monica M. Carlsen, Laura P. Lagomarsino, and Nathan Muchhala
Cannibalism and infectious disease: Friends or foes?, Benjamin G. Van Allen, Forrest P. Dillemuth, Andrew J. Flick, Matthew J. Faldyn, David R. Clark, Volker H.W. Rudolf, and Bret D. Elderd
Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve the phylogeny of Australasian smurf-weevils, Matthew H. Van Dam, Athena W. Lam, Katayo Sagata, Bradley Gewa, Raymond Laufa, Michael Balke, Brant C. Faircloth, and Alexander Riedel
Combining biodiversity resurveys across regions to advance global change research, Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne, Lander Baeten, Donald M. Waller, Radim Hédl, Michael P. Perring, Haben Blondeel, Jörg Brunet, Markéta Chudomelová, Guillaume Decocq, et al.
Cationic ionic liquid surfactant-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for enhanced separation of acidic and basic proteins with single-step ribonuclease b glycoforms separation, Punprabhashi Vidanapathirana, Farhana Hasan, Kaitlyn Mussio, Anuja Pande, Michael Brands, Noureen Siraj, Anne Grove, and Isiah M. Warner
The impact of phenotypic and molecular data on the inference of Colletotrichum diversity associated with Musa, Willie A. Vieira, Waléria G. Lima, Eduardo S. Nascimento, Sami J. Michereff, Marcos P. Câmara, and Vinson P. Doyle
Thiophanate-Methyl Resistance and Fitness Components of Colletotrichum musae Isolates from Banana in Brazil, Willie Anderson Vieira, Waléria Guerreiro Lima, Eduardo Souza Nascimento, Sami Jorge Michereff, Ailton Reis, Vinson P. Doyle, and Marcos Paz Câmara
Progress Toward a Molecular Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II, David J. Vinyard and Gary W. Brudvig
Energetics of the S2 State Spin Isomers of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II, David J. Vinyard, Sahr Khan, Mikhail Askerka, Victor S. Batista, and Gary W. Brudvig
Papio baboon species indicative Alu elements, Jerilyn A. Walker, Vallmer E. Jordan, Cody J. Steely, Thomas O. Beckstrom, Cullen L. McDaniel, Corey P. St Romain, Emily C. Bennett, Arianna Robichaux, Brooke N. Clement, Miriam K. Konkel, et al.
FGF21 mediates the thermogenic and insulin-sensitizing effects of dietary methionine restriction but not its effects on hepatic lipid metabolism, Desiree Wanders, Laura A. Forney, Kirsten P. Stone, David H. Burk, Alicia Pierse, and Thomas W. Gettys
Structural basis of antifreeze activity of a bacterial multi-domain antifreeze protein, Chen Wang, Svetlana Pakhomova, Marcia E. Newcomer, Brent C. Christner, and Bing Hao Luo
Infrared laser ablation sample transfer of tissue DNA for genomic analysis, Kelin Wang, Fabrizio Donnarumma, Scott W. Herke, Patrick F. Herke, and Kermit K. Murray
Binding of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 UL20 to GODZ (DHHC3) Affects Its Palmitoylation and Is Essential for Infectivity and Proper Targeting and Localization of UL20 and Glycoprotein K, Shaohui Wang, Kevin R. Mott, Kolja Wawrowsky, Konstantin G. Kousoulas, Bernhard Luscher, and Homayon Ghiasi
The mitochondrial outer membrane protein mitoNEET is a redox enzyme catalyzing electron transfer from FMNH2 to oxygen or ubiquinone, Yiming Wang, Aaron P. Landry, and Huangen Ding
Loss of Drosophila nucleostemin 2 (NS2) blocks nucleolar release of the 60S subunit leading to ribosome stress, Yubo Wang and Patrick DiMario
Examination of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 abundance in white adipose tissue: implications in obesity research, Jaycob D. Warfel, Bolormaa Vandanmagsar, Olga S. Dubuisson, Sydney M. Hodgeson, Carrie M. Elks, Eric Ravussin, and Randall L. Mynatt
Volcanic soils as sources of novel CO-oxidizing Paraburkholderia and Burkholderia: Paraburkholderia hiiakae sp. nov., Paraburkholderia metrosideri sp. nov., Paraburkholderia paradisi sp. nov., Paraburkholderia peleae sp. nov., and Burkholderia alpina sp. nov. a member of the Burkholderia cepacia complex, Carolyn F. Weber and Gary M. King
Refugia and Speciation in North American Scarlet Snakes (Cemophora), Jeffrey L. Weinell and Christopher C. Austin
Particulate Matter Exposure Predicts Residence In High Risk Areas For Community-Acquired Pneumonia Among Hospitalized Children In A Metropolitan Area, J. M. Wesley, T. Oyana, A. Bramley, S. Jain, J. A. McCullers, S. R. Arnold, and S. A. Cormier
Synthesis and Spectroscopic Investigation of a Series of Push-Pull Boron Dipyrromethenes (BODIPYs), Sunting Xuan, Ning Zhao, Xiangyi Ke, Zehua Zhou, Frank R. Fronczek, Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, and M Graça Vicente
Bottom RedOx Model (BROM v.1.1): A coupled benthic-pelagic model for simulation of water and sediment biogeochemistry, Evgeniy V. Yakushev, Elizaveta A. Protsenko, Jorn Bruggeman, Philip Wallhead, Svetlana V. Pakhomova, Shamil Kh Yakubov, Richard G.J. Bellerby, and Raoul Marie Couture
PEG3 control on the mammalian MSL Complex, An Ye, Hana Kim, and Joomyeong Kim
Synthesis of BODIPY-Peptide Conjugates for Fluorescence Labeling of EGFR Overexpressing Cells, Ning Zhao, Tyrslai M. Williams, Zehua Zhou, Frank R. Fronczek, Martha Sibrian-Vazquez, Seetharama D. Jois, and M Graça Vicente
Synthesis and Spectroscopic and Cellular Properties of Near-IR [a]Phenanthrene-Fused 4,4-Difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacenes, Ning Zhao, Sunting Xuan, Zehua Zhou, Frank R. Fronczek, Kevin M. Smith, and M Graça Vicente
Lower Doses of Fructose Extend Lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans, Jolene Zheng, Chenfei Gao, Mingming Wang, Phuongmai Tran, Nancy Mai, John W. Finley, Steven B. Heymsfield, Frank L. Greenway, Zhaoping Li, David Heber, et al.