Submissions from 2012
The revised classification of eukaryotes, Sina M. Adl, Alastair G.B. Simpson, Christopher E. Lane, Julius Lukeš, David Bass, Samuel S. Bowser, Matthew W. Brown, Fabien Burki, Micah Dunthorn, Vladimir Hampl, Aaron Heiss, Mona Hoppenrath, Enrique Lara, Line Le Gall, Denis H. Lynn, Hilary McManus, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Sharon E. Mozley-Stanridge, Laura W. Parfrey, Jan Pawlowski, Sonja Rueckert, Laura Shadwick, Conrad L. Schoch, Alexey Smirnov, and Frederick W. Spiegel
A single amino acid mutation in an ABC transporter gene causes resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ab in the silkworm, Bombyx mori, Shogo Atsumi, Kazuhisa Miyamoto, Kimiko Yamamoto, Junko Narukawa, Sawako Kawai, Hideki Sezutsu, Isao Kobayashi, Keiro Uchino, Toshiki Tamura, Kazuei Mita, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Sanae Wada, Kohzo Kanda, and Marian R. Goldsmith
Red algal parasites: Models for a life history evolution that leaves photosynthesis behind again and again, Nicolas A. Blouin and Christopher E. Lane
Out of Florida: mtDNA reveals patterns of migration and Pleistocene range expansion of the Green Anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis), Shane C. Campbell-Staton, Rachel M. Goodman, Niclas Backström, Scott V. Edwards, Jonathan B. Losos, and Jason J. Kolbe
Epizootic shell disease in American lobsters Homarus americanus in southern New England: Past, present and future, Kathleen M. Castro, J. Stanley Cobb, Marta Gomez-Chiarri, and Michael Tlusty
Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs, Bruce A. Curtis, Christopher E. Lane, and et al
Temperature compensation of aerobic capacity and performance in the Antarctic pteropod, Clione antarctica, compared with its northern congener, C. limacina, Agnieszka K. Dymowska, Thomas Manfredi, Joshua J. C. Rosenthal, and Brad A. Seibel
Modeling range dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes: invasion of the hemlock woolly adelgid in eastern North America, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Evan L. Preisser, Adam Porter, Joseph Elkinton, and Aaron M. Ellison
Shell disease in the American lobster, homarus americanus: A synthesis of research from the New England lobster research initiative: Lobster shell disease, Marta Gomez-Chiarri and J. Stanley Cobb
Exotic herbivores on a shared native host: Tissue quality after individual, simultaneous, and sequential attack, Sara Gómez, Colin M. Orians, and Evan L. Preisser
False Ring Formation in Eastern Hemlock Branches: Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Elongate Hemlock Scale, Liahna Gonda-King, Laura Radville, and Evan L. Preisser
A CELLULOSE SYNTHASE (CESA) gene essential for gametophore morphogenesis in the moss Physcomitrella patens, Chessa A. Goss, Derek J. Brockmann, John T. Bushoven, and Alison W. Roberts
The Glycosyltransferase Repertoire of the Spikemoss Selaginella moellendorffii and a Comparative Study of Its Cell Wall, Jesper Harholt, Iben Sørensen, Jonatan Fangel, Alison Roberts, William G.T. Willats, Henrik Vibe Scheller, Bent Larsen Petersen, Jo Ann Banks, and Peter Ulvskov
Vegetation and Invertebrate Community Response to Eastern Hemlock Decline in Southern New England, Laura L. Ingwell, Mailea Miller-Pierce, R. Talbot Trotter III, and Evan L. Preisser
The ability of land plants to synthesize glucuronoxylans predates the evolution of tracheophytes, Ameya R. Kulkarni, Maria J. Peña, Utku Avci, Koushik Mazumder, Breeanna R. Urbanowicz, Sivakumar Pattathil, Yanbin Yin, Malcolm A. O'Neill, Alison W. Roberts, Michael G. Hahn, Ying Xu, Alan G. Darvill, and William S. York
Asymmetric priority effects influence the success of invasive forest insects, Mailea R. Miller-Pierce and Evan L. Preisser
Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres, Andrew H. Paterson, Alison W. Roberts, and et al
Cyanophora paradoxa genome elucidates origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants, Dana C. Price, Cheong Xin Chan, Hwan Su Yoon, Eun Chan Yang, Huan Qiu, Andreas P.M. Weber, Rainer Schwacke, Jeferson Gross, Nicolas A. Blouin, Chris Lane, Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Dion G. Durnford, Jonathan A.D. Neilson, B. Franz Lang, Gertraud Burger, Jürgen M. Steiner, Wolfgang Löffelhardt, Jonathan E. Meuser, Matthew C. Posewitz, Steven Ball, Maria Cecilia Arias, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, Stefan A. Rensing, Aikaterini Symeonidi, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Beverly R. Green, Veeran D. Rajah, and Jeffrey Boore
Exposure to the steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone modulates agonistic interactions in male Homarus americanus, V. L. Reinhart, S. I. Cromarty, M. W. Sipala, and G. Kass-Simon
Moss cell walls: structure and biosynthesis, Alison W. Roberts, Eric M. Roberts, and Candace H. Haigler
Feeding in the dark: lateral-line-mediated prey detection in the peacock cichlid Aulonocara stuartgranti, Margot A. B. Schwalbe, Daniel K. Bassett, and Jacqueline F. Webb
Energetic Plasticity Underlies a Variable Response to Ocean Acidification in the Pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica, Brad A. Seibel, Amy E. Maas, and Heidi M. Dierssen
Optimized conditions for transgenesis of the ascidian Ciona using square wave electroporation, David A. Vierra and Steven Q. Irvine
Development of the ear, hearing capabilities and laterophysic connection in the spotfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon ocellatus), Jacqueline F. Webb, Ryan M. Walsh, Brandon M. Casper, David A. Mann, Natasha Kelly, and Nicole Cicchino
Submissions from 2011
The selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants, Jo Ann Banks, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, John L. Bowman, Michael Gribskov, Claude DePamphilis, Victor A. Albert, Naoki Aono, Tsuyoshi Aoyama, Barbara A. Ambrose, Neil W. Ashton, Michael J. Axtell, Elizabeth Barker, Michael S. Barker, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Nicholas D. Bonawitz, Clint Chapple, Chaoyang Cheng, Luiz Gustavo Guedes Correa, Michael Dacre, Jeremy DeBarry, Ingo Dreyer, Marek Elias, Eric M. Engstrom, Mark Estelle, Liang Feng, Cédric Finet, Sandra K. Floyd, and Wolf B. Frommer
Using citizen science programs to identify host resistance in pest-invaded forests, Laura L. Ingwell and Evan L. Preisser
Expression of the Distalless-B gene in Ciona is regulated by a pan-ectodermal enhancer module, Steven Q. Irvine, David A. Vierra, Brad J. Millette, Matthew D. Blanchette, and Rachel E. Holbert
Scales of orientation, directed walks and movement path structure in sharks, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Daniel P. Cartamil, Christopher G. Lowe, Carl G. Meyer, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Kim N. Holland
Eastern hemlock (tsuga canadensis) regeneration in the presence of hemlock woolly adelgid (adelges tsugae) and elongate hemlock scale (fiorinia externa), Evan L. Preisser, Mailea R. Miller-Pierce, Jacqueline Vansant, and David A. Orwig
Variation in Plant Defense against Invasive Herbivores: Evidence for a Hypersensitive Response in Eastern Hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis), Laura Radville, Arielle Chaves, and Evan L. Preisser
Knocking out the wall: protocols for gene targeting in Physcomitrella patens., Alison W. Roberts, Christos S. Dimos, Michael J. Budziszek, Chessa A. Goss, and Virginia Lai
Creating a buzz about insect genomes, Gene E. Robinson, Kevin J. Hackett, Mary Purcell-Miramontes, Susan J. Brown, Jay D. Evans, Marian R. Goldsmith, Daniel Lawson, Jack Okamuro, Hugh M. Robertson, and David J. Schneider
Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 12. A phylogenetic assessment of Nemastoma gelatinosum M. Howe (Rhodophyta, Nemastomatales) from its type locality, Craig W. Schneider, Daniel C. McDevit, Gary W. Saunders, and Christopher E. Lane
Mapping Shallow Coastal Ecosystems: A Case Study of a Rhode Island Lagoon, Mark Stolt, Michael Bradley, Jim Turenne, Maggie Payne, Eric Scherer, Giancarlo Cicchetti, Emily Shumchenia, Marisa Guarinello, John W. King, Jon Boothroyd, Bryan Oakley, Carol Thornber, and Pete August
Simulating the dispersal of hemlock woolly adelgid in the temperate forest understory, Jenna L. Turner, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, and Evan L. Preisser
Hearing and lateral line | Lateral Line Structure, J. Webb
Submissions from 2010
Phylogenetically distinct cellulose synthase genes support secondary wall thickening in arabidopsis shoot trichomes and cotton fiber, Lissete Betancur, Bir Singh, Ryan A. Rapp, Jonathan F. Wendel, M. David Marks, Alison W. Roberts, and Candace H. Haigler
Using Molecular-Assisted Alpha Taxonomy to Better Understand Red Algal Biodiversity in Bermuda, Elisabeth N. Cianciola, Thea R. Popolizio, Craig W. Schneider, and Christopher E. Lane
Barrier Islands: Coupling anthropogenic stability with ecological sustainability, Rusty A. Feagin, William K. Smith, Norbert P. Psuty, Donald R. Young, M. Luisa Martnez, Gregory A. Carter, Kelly L. Lucas, James C. Gibeaut, Jane N. Gemma, and Richard E. Koske
Ecological boundary detection using Bayesian areal wombling, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Evan L. Preisser, Adam Porter, Joseph Elkinton, Lance A. Waller, Bradley P. Carlin, and Aaron M. Ellison
Shark scavenging behavior in the presence of competition, Shannon P. Gerry and Andrea J. Scott
Red Algae Lose Key Mitochondrial Genes in Response to Becoming Parasitic, Lillian Hancock, Lynda Goff, and Christopher E. Lane
Poles Apart: The ‘‘Bipolar’’ Pteropod Species Limacina helicina is Genetically Distinct between the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans, Brian Hunt, Jan Strugnell, Nina Bednarsek, Katrin Linse, R. John Nelson, Evgeny Pakhomov, Brad A. Seibel, Dirk Steinke, and Laura Würzberg
Glutamatergic transmission in hydra: NMDA/D-serine affects the electrical activity of the body and tentacles of Hydra vulgaris (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) (The Biological Bulletin (2010) 216:2 (113-125)), J. C. Kay and G. Kass-Simon
Repression of tyrosine hydroxylase is responsible for the sex-linked chocolate mutation of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, Chun Liu, Kimiko Yamamoto, Ting-Cai Cheng, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Junko Narukawa, Shi-Ping Liu, Yu Han, Ryo Futahashi, Kurako Kidokoro, Hiroaki Noda, Isao Kobayahi, Toshiki Tamura, Akio Ohnuma, Yutaka Banno, Fang-Ying Dai, Zhong-Huai Xiang, Marian R. Goldsmith, Kazuei Mita, and Qing-You Xia
Effects of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Elongate Hemlock Scale on Eastern Hemlock Growth and Foliar Chemistry, Mailea R. Miller-Pierce, David A. Orwig, and Evan L. Preisser
Predator Effects in Predator-Free Space: The Remote Effects of Predators on Prey, John L. Orrock, Lawerence M. Dill, Andrew Sih, Johnathan H. Grabowski, Scott D. Peacor, Barbara L. Peckarsky, Evan L. Preisser, James R. Vonesh, and Earl E. Werner
Foraging ecology of Cookiecutter Sharks (Isistius brasiliensis) on pelagic fishes in Hawaii, inferred from prey bite wounds, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Bradley M. Wetherbee, John O'Sullivan, Gwen D. Goodmanlowe, and Christopher G. Lowe
Nematocyst discharge in Hydra vulgaris: Differential responses of desmonemes and stenoteles to mechanical and chemical stimulation, A. A. Scappaticci, Fhyzeedon Kahn, and G. Kass-Simon
Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 11. More additions to the benthic flora and a phylogenetic assessment of Halymenia pseudofloresii (Halymeniales, Rhodophyta) from its type locality, Craig W. Schneider, Christopher E. Lane, and Gary W. Saunders
Critical oxygen levels and metabolic suppression in oceanic oxygen minimum zones, Brad A. Seibel
Predator-prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions, Andrew Sih, Daniel I. Bolnick, Barney Luttbeg, John L. Orrock, Scott D. Peacor, Lauren M. Pintor, Evan Preisser, Jennifer S. Rehage, and James R. Vonesh
The ears of butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae): 'Hearing generalists' on noisy coral reefs?, J. F. Webb, J. L. Herman, C. F. Woods, and D. R. Ketten
Submissions from 2009
Population size and survivorship for juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) on their nursery grounds at a marine protected area in Brazil, Renato Hajenius Aché de Freitas, Ricardo S. Rosa, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Samuel H. Gruber
Coastal Lagoons and Climate Change: Ecological and Social Ramifications in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ecosystems, Abigail Anthony, Joshua Atwood, Peter V. August, Carrie Byron, J. Stanley Cobb, Cheryl Foster, Crystal Fry, Arthur Gold, Kifle Hagos, Leanna Heffner, D. Q. Kellogg, Kimberly Lellis-Dibble, James J. Opaluch, Candace A. Oviatt, Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Nicole Rohr, Leslie Smith, Tiffany Smythe, Judith Swift, and Nathan Vinhateiro
Organized flight in birds, Iztok Lebar Bajec and Frank H. Heppner
Qualitative observations of dungeness crabs, Cancer magister, in and around traps: Evidence of resource guarding and clustering, Julie S. Barber and J. Stanley Cobb
Avian kleptoparasitism of the digger wasp sphex pensylvanicus, Justin Benttinen and Evan Preisser
Observer bias and the detection of low‐density populations, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Evan L. Preisser, Aaron M. Ellison, and Joseph S. Elkinton
Recent progress in silkworm genetics and genomics, Marian R. Goldsmith
Molecular biology and genetics of the lepidoptera, Marian R. Goldsmith and František Marec
Biogenesis of Cellulose Nanofibrils by a Biological Nanomachine, Candace H. Haigler and Alison W. Roberts
Introductory biology: Let's train lecturers, Frank Heppner
Intraspecific variation in Tsuga canadensis foliar chemistry, Laura Ingwell, Joseph Brady, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Brian Maynard, Richard Casagrande, and Evan Preisser
Nucleolar binding of an Anti-NMDA receptor antibody in hydra: A non-canonical role for an NMDA receptor protein?, Gabriele Kass-Simon, Michael A. Zompa, Albert A. Scappaticci, Robert V. Zackroff, and Linda A. Hufnagel
Glutamatergic transmission in Hydra: NMDA/D-serine affects the electrical activity of the body and tentacles of hydra vulgaris (cnidaria, hydrozoa), J. C. Kay and G. Kass-Simon
The physiology of predator stress in free-ranging prey, Evan L. Preisser
Resource dynamics influence the strength of non-consumptive predator effects on prey, Evan L. Preisser, Daniel I. Bolnick, and Jonathan H. Grabowski
A cellulose synthase (CESA) gene from the red alga porphyra yezoensis (rhodophyta), Eric Roberts and Alison W. Roberts
Trade-off between aerobic capacity and locomotor capability in an Antarctic pteropod, Joshua J. C. Rosenthal, Brad A. Seibel, Agnieszka Dymowska, and Francisco Bezanilla
KAIKObase: An integrated silkworm genome database and data mining tool, Michihiko Shimomura, Hiroshi Minami, Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Hajime Ohyanagi, Chikatada Satoh, Baltazar Antonio, Yoshiaki Nagamura, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Hideyuki Kajiwara, Hideki Sezutsu, Javaregowda Nagaraju, Marian R. Goldsmith, Qingyou Xia, Kimiko Yamamoto, and Kazuei Mita
Recalculated diet and daily ration of the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), with a focus on quantifying predation on bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, Anthony D. Wood, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Francis Juanes, Nancy E. Kohler, and Cheryl Wilga
Construction and Sequence Sampling of Deep-Coverage Large-Insect BAC Libraries for Three Model Lepidopteran Species, Chengcang Wu, Dina Proestou, Dorothy Carter, Erica Nicholson, Filippe Santos, Shaying Zhao, Hong-Bin Zhang, and Marian R. Goldsmith
Extensive Conserved Synteny of Genes Between the Karyotypes of Manduca sexta and Bombyx mori Revealed by BAC-FISH Mapping, Yuji Yasukochi, Makiko Tanaka-Okuyama, Fukashi Shibata, Atsuo Yoshido, Frantisek Marec, Chengcang Wu, Hongbin Zhang, Marian R. Goldsmith, and Ken Sahara
An Integrated Genetic Linkage Map for Silkworms with Three Parental Combinations and Its Application to the Mapping of Single Genes and QTL, Shuai Zhan, Jianhua Huang, Qiuhong Guo, Yunpo Zhao, Weihua Li, Xuexia Miao, Marian R. Goldsmith, Muwang Li, and Yongping Huang
Submissions from 2008
Severity of alcohol withdrawal symptoms depends on developmental stage of Long–Evans rats, Chun-Shiang Chung, Jian Wang, Monh Wehman, and Dennis E. Rhoads
Perception of the steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone modulates agonistic interactions in Homarus americanus, Debra L. Coglianese, Stuart I. Cromarty, and G. Kass-Simon
Cis-regulatory organization of the Pax6 gene in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Steven Q. Irvine, Vera C. Fonseca, Michael A. Zompa, and Rajee Antony
Fluid Dynamics of Feeding Behaviour in White-Spotted Bamboo Sharks, Sandra Nauwelaerts, Cheryl Wilga, George V. Lauder, and Christopher P. Sanford
Sargassum fusiforme Fraction is a Potent and Specific Inhibitor of HIV-1 Fusion and Reverse Transcriptase, Elena E. Paskaleva, Xudong Lin, Karen Duus, James J. McSharry, Jean-Claude L. Veille, Carol S. Thornber, Yanze Liu, David Yu-Wei Lee, and Mario Canki
REVISITING THE CLASSICS: CONSIDERING NONCONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS IN TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES OF PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS, Barbara L. Peckarsky, Peter A. Abrams, Daniel I. Bolnick, Lawrence M. Dill, Jonathan H. Grabowski, Barney Luttberg, John L. Orrock, Scott D. Peacor, Evan L. Preisser, Oswald J. Schmitz, and Geoffrey C. Trussell
When predators don't eat their prey: Nonconsumptive predator effects on prey dynamics, Evan L. Preisser and Daniel I. Bolnick
The Many Faces of Fear: Comparing the Pathways and Impacts of Nonconsumptive Predator Effects on Prey Populations, Evan L. Preisser and Daniel I. Bolnick
EXPLOITATIVE COMPETITION BETWEEN INVASIVE HERBIVORES BENEFITS A NATIVE HOST PLANT, Evan L. Preisser and Joseph S. Elkinton
Evolution of increased cold tolerance during range expansion of the elongate hemlock scale Fiorinia externa Ferris (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), Evan L. Preisser, Joseph S. Elkinton, and Kristopher Abell
Patterns of male reproductive success in Crepidula fornicata provide new insight for sex allocation and optimal sex change, Dina A. Proestou, Marian R. Goldsmith, and Saran Twombly
METAPOPULATION DYNAMICS OVERRIDE LOCAL LIMITS ON LONG‐TERM PARASITE PERSISTENCE, Karthik Ram, Evan L. Preisser, Daniel S. Gruner, and Donald R. Strong
Synergistic effects of climate-related variables suggest future physiological impairment in a top oceanic predator, Rui Rosa and Brad A. Seibel
NMDA and GABAB receptors are involved in controlling nematocyst discharge in hydra, A. A. Scappaticci and G. Kass-Simon
FROM INDIVIDUALS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: TOWARD AN INTEGRATION OF EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY, Oswald J. Schmitz, Jonathan H. Garbowski, Barbara L. Peckarsky, Evan L. Preisser, Geoffrey C. Trussell, and James R. Vonesh
Evolutionary divergence in the feeding mechanism of fishes, Cheryl A.D. Wilga
Suction Generation in White-Spotted Bamboo Sharks Chiloscyllium Plagiosum, Cheryl D. Wilga and Christopher P. Sanford
A BAC-Based Integrated Linkage Map of the Silkworm Bombyx mori, Kimiko Yamamoto, Junko Nohata, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Junko Narukawa, Motoe Sasanuma, Shun-ichi Sasanuma, Hiroshi Minami, Michihiko Shimomura, Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Yutaka Banno, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Pieter J. de Jong, Marian R. Goldsmith, and Kazuei Mita
Submissions from 2007
Injury in trapped Dungeness crabs (Cancer magister), Julie S. Barber and J. Stanley Cobb
Interspecific comparison of hydrodynamic performance and structural properties among intertidal macroalgae, Michael L. Boller and Emily Carrington
Lecture is Dead provokes "nostalgia and amusement.", Frank Heppner
Professors and etiquette, Frank Heppner
Avian flight without visual reference: Preflight spinning produces spatial disorientation, Frank H. Heppner, Jennifer E. Gabel, and Kathryn March
Whole-mount In situ Hybridization of Small Invertebrate Embryos Using Laboratory Mini-columns, Steven Q. Irvine
Non-overlapping expression patterns of the clustered Dll-A/B genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Steven Q. Irvine, Michelle C. Cangiano, Brad J. Millette, and Erika S. Gutter