Submissions from 2012
Centromere remodeling in Hoolock leuconedys (Hylobatidae) by a new transposable element unique to the gibbons, Lucia Carbone, R. Alan Harris, Alan R. Mootnick, Aleksandar Milosavljevic, David I.K. Martin, Mariano Rocchi, Oronzo Capozzi, Nicoletta Archidiacono, Miriam K. Konkel, Jerilyn A. Walker, et al.
Molecular basis of the fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase reaction of PFKFB3: Transition state and the C-terminal function, Michael C. Cavalier, Song Gun Kim, David Neau, and Yong Hwan Lee
Mechanistic Insights into Validoxylamine A 7'-Phosphate Synthesis by VldE Using the Structure of the Entire Product Complex, Michael C. Cavalier, Young Sun Yim, Shumpei Asamizu, David Neau, Khaled H. Almabruk, Taifo Mahmud, and Yong Hwan Lee
A Guide to Academia: Getting Into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs, and Research Job, Prosanta Chakrabarty
The First Record of a Trans-Oceanic Sister-Group Relationship between Obligate Vertebrate Troglobites, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Matthew P. Davis, and John S. Sparks
Interleukin-12p40 modulates human metapneumovirus-induced pulmonary disease in an acute mouse model of infection, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Zehua Zhou, Nobuko Wakamatsu, and Antonieta Guerrero-Plata
Trehalose transporter from African chironomid larvae improves desiccation tolerance of Chinese hamster ovary cells, Nilay Chakraborty, Michael A. Menze, Heidi Elmoazzen, Halong Vu, Martin L. Yarmush, Steven C. Hand, and Mehmet Toner
Stimulation of Escherichia coli DNA damage inducible DNA helicase DinG by the single-stranded DNA binding protein SSB, Zishuo Cheng, Aimee Caillet, Binbin Ren, and Huangen Ding
Genomic insights into adaptation to high-altitude environments, Z. A. Cheviron and R. T. Brumfield
Functional hierarchy of herpes simplex virus 1 viral glycoproteins in cytoplasmic virion envelopment and egress, Dmitry V. Chouljenko, In-Joong Kim, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, Ramesh Subramanian, Jason D. Walker, and Konstantin G. Kousoulas
Amino acid differences in glycoproteins B (gB), C (gC), H (gH) and L (gL) are associated with enhanced herpes simplex virus type-1 (McKrae) entry via the paired immunoglobulin-like type-2 receptor α, Sona Chowdhury, Misagh Naderi, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, Jason D. Walker, and Konstantin G. Kousoulas
Cost analysis of establishing a relationship between a surgical program in the US and Vietnam, Quyen D. Chu, Thu Nguyen, Phuong Nguyen, and Hung S. Ho
Ecological Opportunity and Diversification in a Continental Radiation of Birds: Climbing Adaptations and Cladogenesis in the Furnariidae, Santiago Claramunt, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Robb T. Brumfield, and J. V. Remsen Jr.
High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds, Santiago Claramunt, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Jr V. Remsen, and Robb T. Brumfield
uIn utero exposure to EPFR-containing PM inhibits pulmonary Th1 maturation and enhances adult asthma development in mice, S. Cormier, P. L. Wang, and D. H. You
Habitat and fire heterogeneity explain the co-occurrence of congeneric resprouter and reseeder Hypericum spp. along a Florida pine savanna ecocline, Raelene M. Crandall and William J. Platt
More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs, Nicholas G. Crawford, Brant C. Faircloth, John E. McCormack, Robb T. Brumfield, Kevin Winker, and Travis C. Glenn
Modeling the influence of Peromyscus leucopus body mass, sex, and habitat on immature Dermacentor variabilis burden, Tad A. Dallas, Stephanie A. Foré, and Hyun Joo Kim
Resource-based habitat associations in a neotropical liana community, James W. Dalling, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Claire Baldeck, Kyle E. Harms, Robert John, Scott A. Mangan, Elena Lobo, Joseph B. Yavitt, and Stephen P. Hubbell
The scope of things to come: New paradigms in biotechnology, Maheshi Dassanayake, Dong Ha Oh, Dae Jin Yun, Ray A. Bressan, John M. Cheeseman, and J. Hans Bohnert
A herpes simplex virus 1 (McKrae) mutant lacking the glycoprotein K gene is unable to infect via neuronal axons and egress from neuronal cell bodies, Andrew T. David, Ahmad Saied, Anu Charles, Ramesh Subramanian, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, and Konstantin G. Kousoulas
Correlated evolution of beak morphology and song in the neotropical woodcreeper radiation, Elizabeth Perrault Derryberry, Nathalie Seddon, Santiago Claramunt, Joseph Andrew Tobias, Adam Baker, Alexandre Aleixo, and Robb Thomas Brumfield
E4orf1 improves lipid and glucose metabolism in hepatocytes: a template to improve steatosis & hyperglycemia, Emily J. Dhurandhar, Rashmi Krishnapuram, Vijay Hegde, Olga Dubuisson, Rongya Tao, X Charlie Dong, Jianping Ye, and Nikhil V. Dhurandhar
αvβ3 integrin crystal structures and their functional implications, Xianchi Dong, Li Zhi Mi, Jianghai Zhu, Wei Wang, Ping Hu, Bing Hao Luo, and Timothy A. Springer
Extra-transcriptional functions of RNA Polymerase III complexes: TFIIIC as a potential global chromatin bookmark, David Donze
Structure of a calcium-dependent 11R-lipoxygenase suggests a mechanism for Ca2+ regulation, Priit Eek, Reet Järving, Ivar Järving, Nathaniel C. Gilbert, Marcia E. Newcomer, and Nigulas Samel
Retrotransposons as a major source of epigenetic variations in the mammalian genome, Muhammad B. Ekram, Keunsoo Kang, Hana Kim, and Joomyeong Kim
Reconciling molecules and morphology: molecular systematics and biogeography of Neotropical blennies (Acanthemblemaria), Ron I. Eytan, Philip A. Hastings, Barbara R. Holland, and Michael E. Hellberg
Not All Sequence Tags Are Created Equal: Designing and Validating Sequence Identification Tags Robust to Indels, Brant C. Faircloth and Travis C. Glenn
Ultraconserved elements anchor thousands of genetic markers spanning multiple evolutionary timescales, Brant C. Faircloth, John E. McCormack, Nicholas G. Crawford, Michael G. Harvey, Robb T. Brumfield, and Travis C. Glenn
Social information changes the brain, Russell D. Fernald and Karen P. Maruska
Controlling a master switch of adipocyte development and insulin sensitivity: Covalent modifications of PPARγ, Z. Elizabeth Floyd and Jacqueline M. Stephens
A Phylogenomic Approach to Vertebrate Phylogeny Supports a Turtle-Archosaur Affinity and a Possible Paraphyletic Lissamphibia, Jonathan J. Fong, Jeremy M. Brown, Matthew K. Fujita, and Bastien Boussau
Identification of oxidized amino acid residues in the vicinity of the Mn 4CaO 5 cluster of photosystem II: Implications for the identification of oxygen channels within the photosystem, Laurie K. Frankel, Larry Sallans, Patrick A. Limbach, and Terry M. Bricker
Overview: structural biology of integrins, Guanyuan Fu, Wei Wang, and Bing-Hao Luo
Pathogen persistence in the environment and insect-baculovirus interactions: Disease-density thresholds, epidemic burnout, and insect outbreaks, Emma Fuller, Bret D. Elderd, and Greg Dwyer
Small-scale variation in fuel loads differentially affects two co-dominant bunchgrasses in a species-rich pine savanna, Paul R. Gagnon, Kyle E. Harms, William J. Platt, Heather A. Passmore, and Jonathan A. Myers
Conversion of human 5-lipoxygenase to a 15-lipoxygenase by a point mutation to mimic phosphorylation at Serine-663, Nathaniel C. Gilbert, Zhe Rui, David B. Neau, Maria T. Waight, Sue G. Bartlett, William E. Boeglin, Alan R. Brash, and Marcia E. Newcomer
The influences of metabotropic receptor activation on cellular signaling and synaptic function in amacrine cells, Evanna Gleason
Food deprivation explains effects of mouthbrooding on ovaries and steroid hormones, but not brain neuropeptide and receptor mRNAs, in an African cichlid fish, Brian P. Grone, Russ E. Carpenter, Malinda Lee, Karen P. Maruska, and Russell D. Fernald
Evidence that thaxtomin C is a pathogenicity determinant of Streptomyces ipomoeae, the causative agent of streptomyces soil rot disease of sweet potato, Dongli Guan, Brenda L. Grau, Christopher A. Clark, Carol M. Taylor, Rosemary Loria, and Gregg S. Pettis
Improving the detection of fungi in eosinophilic mucin: Seeing what we could not see before, Canting Guo, Saied Ghadersohi, Gail M. Kephart, Roger A. Laine, David A. Sherris, Hirohita Kita, and Jens U. Ponikau
Silencing of host genes directed by virus-derived short interfering RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans, Xunyang Guo, Wan Xiang Li, and Rui Lu
Non-monophyly and deep genetic differentiation across low-elevation barriers in a Neotropical montane bird (Basileuterus tristriatus; Aves: Parulidae), Natalia Gutierrez-Pinto, Andres M. Cuervo, Jhonathan Miranda, Jorge L. Perez-Eman, Robb T. Brumfield, and Carlos Daniel Cadena
GABA is excitatory in adult vasopressinergic neuroendocrine cells, Juhee Haam, Ion R. Popescu, Linda A. Morton, Katalin C. Halmos, Ryoichi Teruyama, Yoichi Ueta, and Jeffrey G. Tasker
The tegula tango: A coevolutionary dance of interacting, positively selected sperm and egg proteins, Michael E. Hellberg, Alice B. Dennis, Patricia Arbour-Reily, Jan E. Aagaard, and Willie J. Swanson
TFIIIC localizes budding yeast ETC sites to the nuclear periphery, Shin Ichiro Hiraga, Sotirios Botsios, David Donze, and Anne D. Donaldson
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO SPECIES-LEVEL SYSTEMATICS REVEALS THE DEPTH OF DIVERSIFICATION IN AN ANDEAN THAMNOPHILID, THE LONG-TAILED ANTBIRD, Morton L. Isler, Andres M. Cuervo, Gustavo A. Bravo, and Robb T. Brumfield
Inferring the evolutionary history of divergence despite gene flow in a lizard species, Scincella lateralis (Scincidae), composed of cryptic lineages, Nathan D. Jackson and Christopher C. Austin
Slow amyloid nucleation via α-helix-rich oligomeric intermediates in short polyglutamine-containing huntingtin fragments, Murali Jayaraman, Ravindra Kodali, Bankanidhi Sahoo, Ashwani K. Thakur, Anand Mayasundari, Rakesh Mishra, Cynthia B. Peterson, and Ronald Wetzel
Thermodynamic characterization of a thermostable antibiotic resistance enzyme, the aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferase (4′), Xiaomin Jing, Edward Wright, Amber N. Bible, Cynthia B. Peterson, Gladys Alexandre, Barry D. Bruce, and Engin H. Serpersu
Fission yeast Dma1 requires RING domain dimerization for its ubiquitin ligase activity and mitotic checkpoint function, Alyssa E. Johnson, Scott E. Collier, Melanie D. Ohi, and Kathleen L. Gould
Polar opposites: Fine-tuning cytokinesis through SIN asymmetry, Alyssa E. Johnson, Dannel Mccollum, and Kathleen L. Gould
Limited potential for adaptation to climate change in a broadly distributed marine crustacean, Morgan W. Kelly, Eric Sanford, and Richard K. Grosberg
Testing the role of patch openness as a causal mechanism for apparent area sensitivity in a grassland specialist, A.C. Keyel, C.M. Bauer, C.R. Lattin, L.M. Romero, and J.M. Reed
Imprinting control region (ICR) of the Peg3 domain, Joomyeong Kim, Muhammad B. Ekram, Hana Kim, Mohammad Faisal, Wesley D. Frey, Jennifer M. Huang, Kim Ngoc Tran, Michelle M. Kim, and Sungryul Yu
Recruitment and biological consequences of histone modification of H3K27me3 and H3K9me3., Joomyeong Kim and Hana Kim
Oxidized quinones signal onset of darkness directly to the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator, Yong Ick Kim, David J. Vinyard, Gennady M. Ananyev, G. Charles Dismukes, and Susan S. Golden
Temperature responses of carbon monoxide and hydrogen uptake by vegetated and unvegetated volcanic cinders, Caitlin E. King and Gary M. King
Analysis of Stomach and Gut Microbiomes of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) from Coastal Louisiana, USA, Gary M. King, Craig Judd, Cheryl R. Kuske, and Conor Smith
Analysis of composition and structure of coastal to mesopelagic bacterioplankton communities in the northern gulf of mexico, Gary M. King, Conor B. Smith, Bradley Tolar, and James T. Hollibaugh
Subordinate male cichlids retain reproductive competence during social suppression, Jacqueline M. Kustan, Karen P. Maruska, and Russell D. Fernald
Primary hemiepiphytism and gametophyte morphology in Elaphoglossum amygdalifolium (Dryopteridaceae), Laura P. Lagomarsino, Amanda L. Grusz, and Robbin C. Moran
Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and the subsequent response to chronic stress differ depending upon life history stage, Christine R. Lattin, Carolyn M. Bauer, Robert de Bruijn, and L. Michael Romero
Pharmacological characterization of intracellular glucocorticoid receptors in nine tissues from house sparrow (Passer domesticus), C.R. Lattin, K. Waldron-Francis, J.W. Richardson, R. de Bruijn, C.M. Bauer, C.W. Breuner, and L. Michael Romero
Hemisphere-scale differences in conifer evolutionary dynamics, Andrew B. Leslie, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Hardeep S. Rai, Peter R. Crane, Michael J. Donoghue, and Sarah Mathews
Implication of posttranslational histone modifications in nucleotide excision repair, Shisheng Li
Late embryogenesis abundant proteins protect human hepatoma cells during acute desiccation, Shumin Li, Nilay Chakraborty, Apurva Borcar, Michael A. Menze, Mehmet Toner, and Steven C. Hand
Differences in folate-protein interactions result in differing inhibition of native rat liver and recombinant glycine N-methyltransferase by 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, Zigmund Luka, Svetlana Pakhomova, Lioudmila V. Loukachevitch, Marcia E. Newcomer, and Conrad Wagner
Erratum to: An adaptive composite density estimator for k-tree sampling(Eur J Forest Res, 10.1007/s10342-011-0502-8), Steen Magnussen, Lutz Fehrman, and William J. Platt
Erratum to Selection Response Decomposition (SRD): A New Tool for Dissecting Differences and Similarities Between Matrices (Evol Biol, (2011), 38, (225-241), 10.1007/s11692-010-9107-2), G. Marroig, D. Melo, A. Porto, H. Sebastião, and G. Garcia
Characterization of cell proliferation throughout the brain of the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni and its regulation by social status, Karen P. Maruska, Russ E. Carpenter, and Russell D. Fernald
Contextual chemosensory urine signaling in an African cichlid fish, Karen P. Maruska and Russell D. Fernald
The African cichlid fish astatotilapia burtoni uses acoustic communication for reproduction: Sound production, hearing, and behavioral significance, Karen P. Maruska, Uyhun S. Ung, and Russell D. Fernald
Profundulus kreiseri, a new species of Profundulidae (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from northwestern Honduras, Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Jacob F. Schaefer, Carmen L. Hernández, and Prosanta Chakrabarty
The evolution of reproductive structures in seed plants: A re-examination based on insights from developmental genetics, Sarah Mathews and Elena M. Kramer
Tests of the link between functional innovation and positive selection at phytochrome a: The phylogenetic distribution of far-red high-irradiance responses in seedling development, Sarah Mathews and Donna Tremonte
Ultraconserved elements are novel phylogenomic markers that resolve placental mammal phylogeny when combined with species-tree analysis, John E. McCormack, Brant C. Faircloth, Nicholas G. Crawford, Patricia Adair Gowaty, Robb T. Brumfield, and Travis C. Glenn
Next-generation sequencing reveals phylogeographic structure and a species tree for recent bird divergences, John E. McCormack, James M. Maley, Sarah M. Hird, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Gary R. Graves, and Robb T. Brumfield
An alu-based phylogeny of lemurs (infraorder: Lemuriformes), Adam T. McLain, Thomas J. Meyer, Christopher Faulk, Scott W. Herke, J Michael Oldenburg, Matthew G. Bourgeois, Camille F. Abshire, Christian Roos, and Mark A. Batzer
Charge-based interaction conserved within histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methyltransferase complexes is needed for protein stability, histone methylation, and gene expression, Douglas P. Mersman, Hai Ning Du, Ian M. Fingerman, Paul F. South, and Scott D. Briggs
An alu-based phylogeny of gibbons (hylobatidae), Thomas J. Meyer, Adam T. McLain, J. Michael Oldenburg, Christopher Faulk, Matthew G. Bourgeois, Erin M. Conlin, Alan R. Mootnick, Pieter J. De Jong, Christian Roos, Lucia Carbone, et al.
Ethylene's role in phosphate starvation signaling: More than just a root growth regulator, Vinay K. Nagarajan and Aaron P. Smith
The role of physical barriers in the location of avian suture zones in the Guiana Shield, northern Amazonia, Luciano Nicolas Naka, Catherine L. Bechtoldt, L. Magalli Pinto Henriques, and Robb T. Brumfield
Serotonin 5-HT2A receptor activation potently inhibits TNF-alpha mediated inflammation in vivo, and blocks the development of asthma, F. J. Nau, B. G. Yu, J. Miller, T. Ahlert, S. Cormier, and C. D. Nichols
An examination of the behavioral correlates of subtypes of nonsocial play among Chinese preschoolers, Larry J. Nelson, Craig H. Hart, Chongming Yang, Peixia Wu, and Shenghua Jin
On the stoichiometry of Deinococcus radiodurans Dps-1 binding to duplex DNA, Khoa H. Nguyen, Luke T. Smith, Lijuan Xiao, Gargi Bhattacharyya, and Anne Grove
Metal binding at the Deinococcus radiodurans Dps-1 N-terminal metal site controls dodecameric assembly and DNA binding, Khoa Huynh Nguyen and Anne Grove
Identification of an oxygenic reaction center psbadc operon in the cyanobacterium gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421, Tuan A. Nguyen, Jasmina Brescic, David J. Vinyard, Thenappan Chandrasekar, and G. Charles Dismukes
Life at the extreme: Lessons from the genome, D.-H. Oh, M. Dassanayake, H.J. Bohnert, and J.M. Cheeseman
Life at the extreme: Lessons from the genome, Dong Ha Oh, Maheshi Dassanayake, Hans J. Bohnert, and John M. Cheeseman
Effects of low salinity media on growth, condition, and gill ion transporter expression in juvenile Gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis, Joshua Patterson, Charlotte Bodinier, and Christopher Green
Long-Term Survival of Anoxia Despite Rapid ATP Decline in Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Jason E. Podrabsky, Michael A. Menze, and Steven C. Hand
Mutagenesis studies of the β i domain metal ion binding sites on integrin αvβ3 ligand binding affinity, Joel Raborn and Bing Hao Luo
Interaction of saccharomyces cerevisiae HMO2 domains with distorted DNA, Sreerupa Ray and Anne Grove
Serratia marcescens necrotizing fasciitis presenting as bilateral breast necrosis, Tayyab Rehman, Thomas A. Moore, and Leonardo Seoane
Functional comparison of Deinococcus radiodurans Dps proteins suggests distinct in vivo roles, B.J. Reon, K.H. Nguyen, G. Bhattacharyya, and A. Grove
St. John's Wort inhibits insulin signaling in murine and human adipocytes, Allison J. Richard, Zhaleh J. Amini, David M. Ribnicky, and Jacqueline M. Stephens
Ecological guild evolution and the discovery of the world's smallest vertebrate, Eric N. Rittmeyer, Allen Allison, Michael C. Gründler, Derrick K. Thompson, and Christopher C. Austin
The effects of sampling on delimiting species from multi-locus sequence data, Eric N. Rittmeyer and Christopher C. Austin