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Faculty Publications

Avery, William E.

  • Avery, W. E. and W. D. Liddell. 1997. Sessile community recruitment patterns on Western Atlantic shallow and deep-reef hard substrata. Proc 8th Int Coral Reef Sym, Panama 2:1179-1184.
  • Liddell, W. D., Avery, W. E. and S. L. Ohlhorst. 1997. Patterns of benthic community structure, 10 - 250m, The Bahamas. Proc 8th Int Coral Reef Sym, Panama 1:437-442.
  • Avery, W. E., and W. D. Liddell. 1995. Patterns of recruitment in Western Atlantic coral-reef and associated deep-reef communities.
  • Ecological Society of America, 1995 annual meeting, Snowbird, Utah. Avery, W. E. and C. Hawkinson. 1992. Gray whale feeding in a Northern California estuary. Northwest Science. 66(3):199-203.
Technical Reports:
  • Richards, D., D. Kushner and W. Avery. 1993. Kelp Forest Monitoring - Channel Islands National Park 1991. NPS/WRUC/NRTR-93/06. Annual Reports - Channel Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Dr. Ventura, CA.
  • Richards, D., W. Avery and D. Kushner. 1993. Kelp Forest Monitoring - Channel Islands National Park 1990. NPS/WRUC/NRTR-93/05. Annual Reports - Channel Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Dr. Ventura, CA.

Ballard, Ruth E.

  • Ballard, R. , Arya, P., Swanberg, S., and Schmid, C.W. The interaction between full-length human Alu RNA and PKR displays unusual binding kinetics. (2001) Submitted to Nucleic Acids Research.
  • Chu , W.M., Ballard, R ., Carpick, B., Williams, B.R.G., and Schmid, C.W. Potential Alu function: Regulation of the activity of the double-stranded RNA-activated kinase PKR. (1998) MCB, 18(1) : 58-68.
  • Ballard, R. The role of RNA secondary structure and protein-RNA interactions in the expression and function of Alu RNA, (1997) Dissertation .
  • Chu , W.M., Ballard, R. , and Schmid, C.W. Palindromic sequences preceding the terminator increase Pol III template activity. (1997) NAR, 25(11): 2077-82.
Recent Abstracts:
  • Ballard, R., Arya, P., Swanberg, S., and Schmid, C.W. The interaction between full-length human Alu RNA and PKR displays unusual binding kinetics. (2001) Submitted to Nucleic Acids Research.
  • Chu, W.M., Ballard, R., Carpick, B., Williams, B.R.G., and Schmid, C.W. Potential Alu function: Regulation of the activity of the double-stranded RNA-activated kinase PKR. (1998) MCB, 18(1): 58-68.
  • Ballard, R. The role of RNA secondary structure and protein-RNA interactions in the expression and function of Alu RNA, (1997) Dissertation.
  • Chu, W.M., Ballard, R., and Schmid, C.W. Palindromic sequences preceding the terminator increase Pol III template activity. (1997) NAR, 25(11): 2077-82.

Baxter, James W.

  • Baxter, J. W. and A. Griffiths.  Heavy metal accumulation in McDonald’s rock cress (Arabis macdonaldiana) defends against herbivory.  American Journal of Botany.  In preparation.
  • Conavay, P. E. and J. W. Baxter.  Age structure and recruitment of blue oak (Quercus douglasii) at Deer Creek Hills Preserve, Sacramento County, California.  Madroño.  In preparation.
  • Baxter, J. W. and J. Dighton.  2005.  Phosphorus source alters host plant response to ectomycorrhizal diversity.  Mycorrhiza 15: 513-523.
  • Baxter, J. W. and J. Dighton.  2005.  Diversity-functioning relationships in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities.  In: The fungal community: its organization and role in the ecosystem. J. Dighton, P. Oudemans, and J. White, Editors. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY.
  • Baxter, J. W., S. T. A. Pickett, J. Dighton and M. M. Carreiro.  2002.  Nitrogen and phosphorus availability in oak forest stands exposed to contrasting anthropogenic impacts.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry.  34: 623-633.
  • Baxter, J. W. and J. Dighton.  2001.  Ectomycorrhizal diversity alters the growth of gray birch (Betula populifolia Marshall) seedlings in experimental host-symbiont culture conditions.  New Phytologist 152: 139-149.
  • Lovett, G. M., M. M. Traynor, R. V. Pouyat, M. M. Carreiro, W. Zhu and J. W. Baxter.  2000.  Atmospheric deposition to oak forests along an urban-rural gradient.  Environmental Science and Technology.  34: 4294-4300.
  • Baxter, J. W., S. T. A. Pickett, M. M. Carreiro and J. Dighton.  1999.  Ectomycorrhizal diversity and community structure in oak forest stands exposed to contrasting anthropogenic impacts.  Canadian Journal of Botany 77: 771-782.
  • Baxter, J. W. and V. T. Parker.  1999.  Canopy gaps and topography structure a northern coastal scrub community on California coastal bluffs.  Madroño 46: 69-79.
  • Breitberg, D. L., J. W. Baxter, C. Hatfield, R. W. Howarth, C. G. Jones, G. M. Lovett and C. Wigand.  1998.  Understanding the effects of multiple stressors: ideas and challenges.  In: M. L. Pace and P. M. Groffman (eds.).  Successes, Limitations and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science.  Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

Coleman, Ronald M.

  • Galvani A.P., Coleman, R.M. and N.M. Ferguson (2003) The maintenance of sex in parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 270:19-28.
  • Coleman, R.M. [Editor] (2001). Cichlid Research: State of the Art. Journal of Aquariculture & Aquatic Sciences, Volume 9. 392 pages.
  • Coleman, R.M., V. Kutty (2001) The predator of guppies on Trinidad is the pike cichlid Crenicichla frenata, not Crenicichla alta: a caution about working with cichlids. Journal of Aquariculture & Aquatic Sciences, 9:89-92.
  • Galvani, A.P., R.M. Coleman and N.M. Ferguson (2001) Antigenic diversity and the selective value of sex in parasites. Annales Zoologici Fennici 38:305-314.
Cichlid News articles:
  • Coleman R. (2002) Determinacja plci [] In Polish. Akwaforum 4:60-61.
  • Coleman R. (2002) Zadziwiajacy aparat gebowy. In Polish. Akwaforum 3:49-50.
  • Coleman R. (2002) Cichlids and Science: Powerful Predators. Cichlid News 11(1): 31-34.
  • Coleman R. (2002) Wlasciwie czyje sa te dzieci? [Whose kids are those?] In Polish. Akwaforum 2:62-64.
  • Coleman R. (2001) Cichlids and Science: The Riddle of Lake Victoria. Cichlid News 10(4):32-34.
  • Coleman R.M. (2001) Ile lat ma jezioro Wiktorii [How old is Lake Victoria?] In Polish. Akwaforum 1:54-55.
  • Coleman R. (2001) Cichlids and Science: Bad Cichlids? Cichlid News 10(2):26-27.
  • Coleman R. (2001) Cichlids and Science: Feeding Frenzy. Cichlid News 10(1):32-34.
  • Coleman R. (2000) Cichlids and Science: Food for Thought. Cichlid News 9(3):32-34.
  • Coleman R. (2000) Costa Rican cichlids: Life in the Fast Lane. Buntbarsche Bulletin 198:7-26.
  • Coleman R. (2000) Cichlids and Science: Nest for Success. Cichlid News 9(2):32-34.
  • Coleman R. (2000) Cichlids and Science: Revealing Relationships. Cichlid News 9(1):32-34. Available online
  • Coleman R. (2000) Review of "Fishes of Costa Rica" by W.A. Bussing Freshwater and Marine Aquarium 23(1):206-207.

Ewing publications

  • Joh, L.J., Wroblewski, T., Ewing, N.N., VanderGheynst, J.S., 2005.High-Level Transient Expression of Recombinant Protein in Lettuce.Biotechnology and Bioengineering.91 (7): 861-71.
  • Jeffery, W.R., Swalla, B.J., Ewing, N., Kusakabe, T. 1999. Evolution of the ascidian anural larva: evidence from embryos and molecules. Mol Biol Evol. 16 (5): 646-54.
  • Etzler, M.E., Kalsi, G., Ewing, N.N., Roberts, N.J., Day, R.B., Murphy, J.B. 1999. A nod factor binding lectin with apyrase activity from legume roots. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 96 (10): 5856-61.
  • Jeffery WR, Ewing N, Machula J, Olsen CL, Swalla BJ. 1998. Cytoskeletal actin genes function downstream of HNF-3ß in ascidian notochord development. Int J Dev Biol. 42 (8): 1085-92.
  • Ewing, N.N. and Bennett, A.B. 1994. Assessment of the number and expression of genes encoding P-type H+-ATPases in tomato. Plant Physiol. 106: 547-557.
  • Wimmers, L.E., Ewing, N.N., Bennett, A.B. 1992. Higher plant Ca2+-ATPase: Primary structure and regulation of mRNA levels by salt. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 89: 9205-9209.
  • Ewing, N.N., Wimmers, L.E., Meyer, D.J., Chetelat, R.T., Bennett, A.B. 1990. Molecular cloning of tomato plasma membrane H+-ATPase. Plant Physiol. 94: 1874-1881.
    Wimmers, L.E., Ewing, N.N., Meyer, D.J., Bennett, A.B. 1990. Molecular biology of P-type ion-translocating ATPases. In: Calcium in Plants. Eds. R. Leonard, P. Hepler. Amer. Soc. Plant Physiol., Rockville, MD., pp 36-45.
  • Bennett, A.B., Ewing, N.N., Wimmers, L.E., Meyer, D.J. 1989. Molecular analysis of cation-sensitive ATPases in tomato. In: Plant Membrane Transport: The Current Position. Eds. J. Dainty, M.I. DeMichelis, E. Marre, F. Rasi-Caldagno, pp 449-454. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Abstracts:

  • Linda Sok, Robert Boyce, Jihyen Lee, and N. N. Ewing.  Overexpression of the Tomato Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase LHA2 in Arabidopsis to Test Its Role in the Control of Plant Growth and Development.Presented at the Annual Meeting of the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB).  Jan. 11-13, 2008.  Oakland, CA.
  • Manjari Dani and N. N. Ewing.  Regulation of the promoter of the tomato plasma membrane H+- ATPase, LHA2 by auxin in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and Arabidopsis thaliana.Annual Meeting of the Western Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists.  Feb. 2-3, 2007.  UCD, Davis, CA.
  • Jihyen Lee, Akihiro Tsuyada  and N. N. Ewing. The Effect of Overexpression of Tomato H+-ATPase Isoform LHA2 on the Growth and Development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Annual Meeting of the Western Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists.  Feb. 2-3, 2007.  UCD, Davis, CA.  
  • Manjari Dani and N.N. Ewing.  Regulation of the promoter of the tomato plasma membrane H+- ATPase, LHA2 by auxin in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and Arabidopsis thaliana.Presented at the Annual Meeting of the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB).Jan. 12-14, 2007.  Los Angeles, CA.
  • Elaine S. Manzanilla and Nicholas N. Ewing.  “The pattern of expression of the plasma membrane ion pump LHA2 during tomato root colonization by endomycorrhizal fungi”.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB).  San Jose, CA. Jan. 13-15, 2006.  (Poster Presentation)

Holland, Brett

  • Rice, W.R. and B. Holland. 2005. Experimentally enforced monogamy: Inadvertent selection, inbreeding, or evidence for sexually antagonistic coevolution? Evolution 59:682–685.
  • Stemmer, W., and B. Holland. 2003. Survival of the Fittest Molecule. American Scientist 91:526-533.
  • Holland, B. 2002. Sexual selection fails to promote adaptation to a new environment. Evolution 56:721-730.
  • Pitnick, S., G.T. Miller, J. Reagan and B. Holland. 2001. Males’ evolutionary response to experimental removal of sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268:1071-1080.
  • Holland, B. and W.R. Rice. 1999. Experimental removal of sexual selection reverses intersexual antagonistic coevolution and removes a reproductive load. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 96:5083-5088.
  • Rice, W.R. and B. Holland. 1999. Reply to comments on the chase-away model of sexual selection. Evolution 53:302-306.Holland, B. and W.R. Rice. 1998. Perspective: Chase-away sexual selection: antagonistic seduction versus resistance. Evolution 52:1-7.
  • Rice, W.R. and B. Holland. 1997. The enemies within: intergenomic conflict, interlocus contest evolution (ICE) and the intraspecific red queen. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41:1-10.
  • Holland, B. and W.R. Rice. 1997. Cryptic sexual selection – more control issues. Evolution 51:321-324.

Kneitel

  • Reuman, D. C., C. Mulder, C. Banašek-Richter, M.-F. C. Blandenier, A. M. Breure, H. D. Hollander, J. M. Kneitel, D. Raffaelli, G. Woodward, and J. E. Cohen. 2008. Allometry of body size and abundance in 166 food webs.  Advances in Ecological Research, in press.
  • Kneitel, J. M. 2008. Gause's Principle of Competitive Exclusion.  Encyclopedia of Ecology, Elsevier Publishing.
  • Yee, D. A., S. H. Yee, J. M. Kneitel, and S. A. Juliano. 2007. Richness-productivity relationships between trophic levels in a detritus-based system: significance of abundance and trophic linkage. Oecologia 154: 377-385.
  • Kneitel, J. M.  2007. Intermediate-consumer identity and resources alter a food web with omnivory. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 651-659.
  • Miller, T. E., J. H. Burns, P. Munguia, E. L. Walters, J. M. Kneitel, P. M. Richards,  N. Mouquet, and H. L. Buckley. 2007. Evaluating support for the resource-ratio hypothesis: a response to Wilson et al. American Naturalist 169: 707-708.
  • Kneitel, J. M. and D. Perrault. 2006. Disturbance-induced compositional changes increase species invasion success. Community Ecology 7: 245-252.
  • Ostman, O., J. M. Kneitel, and J. M. Chase. 2006. Disturbance alters the effects of habitat isolation on biodiversity in aquatic microcosms. Oikos 114: 360-366.
  • Mouquet, N., T. E. Miller, T. Daufresne, and J. M. Kneitel. 2006. Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source-sink metacommunities. Oikos 113: 481-488.
  • Miller, T. E., J. H. Burns, P. Munguia, E. L. Walters, J. M. Kneitel, P. M. Richards,  N. Mouquet, and H. L. Buckley. 2005. A critical review of twenty years’ use of the resource-ratio theory. American Naturalist 165: 439-448.
  • Miller, T. E. and J. M. Kneitel. 2005. Pitcher-plant inquiline community as a prototypical metacommunity.  Pages 122-145 in: Metacommunities (M. Holyoak, R. Holt and M. Leibold, eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
  • Buckley, H. L., J. H. Burns, J. M. Kneitel, E. L. Walters, P. Munguía and T. E. Miller. 2005. Small-scale patterns in community structure of Sarracenia purpurea inquiline communities. Community Ecology 5: 181-188.
  • Kneitel, J. M. and J. M. Chase. 2004. Disturbance, predator, and resource interactions alter container community composition. Ecology 85: 2088-2093.

Lancaster, Winston C.

  • Speakman, J.R., W.C. Lancaster, S. Ward, G. Jones, and K.C. Cole. (in press). Energy cost of echolocation in stationary insectivorous bats. NATO Animal Sonar Systems Symposium.
  • Lancaster, Winston C. and J.R. Speakman. 2001. Variations in respiratory muscle activity duringecholocation when stationary in three species of bat (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 204: 4185-4197. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/204/24/4185
  • Rydell, J., J. Fagerström, S. Anderson, G.G. Stille, M. Gelang, W.C. Lancaster, M.G.E. Svensson and B.S. Tullberg. 2001. Convergence in wing coloration between orange underwing moths (Archiearis sp.) and tortoiseshell butterflies (Aglais sp.). Entomologica Fennica 12: 65-71.
  • Rydell, Jens and W.C. Lancaster. 2000. Flight and thermoregulation in moths were shaped by predation from bats. Oikos: 88: 13-18.
  • Fenton, M.B., J. Rydell, M.J. Vonhof, J. Eklöf, and W.C. Lancaster. 1999. Constant frequency and frequency-modulated components in the echolocation calls of three species of small bats (Embalonuridae, Thyropteridae, and Vespertilionidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology: 77: 1891-1900.
  • Lancaster, Winston C., S.C. Thomson and J.R. Speakman. 1997. Wing temperature in flying bats measured by infrared thermography. Journal of Thermal Biology 22: 109-116.
  • Lancaster, Winston C. and Elisabeth K.V. Kalko. 1996. Mormoops blainvillii. Mammalian Species 544:1-5. http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/default.html
  • Lancaster, Winston C. and O.W. Henson, Jr. 1995. Morphology of the abdominal wall in the bat Pteronotus parnellii (Microchiroptera: Mormoopidae): implications for biosonar vocalization. Journal of Morphology 223:99-107.
  • Lancaster, Winston C., O.W. Henson, Jr. and A.W. Keating. 1995. Respiratory muscle activity in relation to vocalization in flying bats. Journal of Experimental Biology 198:175-191. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/198/1/175
  • Keating, A.W., O.W. Henson, Jr., M.M. Henson, W. C. Lancaster and D.H. Xie. 1994. Doppler-shift compensation by the mustached bat: quantitative data. Journal of Experimental Biology 188:115-129. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/188/1/115.pdf
  • Lancaster, Winston C., A.W. Keating and O.W. Henson, Jr. 1992. Ultrasonic vocalizations of flying bats monitored by radiotelemetry. Journal of Experimental Biology 173:43-58. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/173/1/43.pdf
  • Lancaster, Winston C. 1990. The middle ear of the Archaeoceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10:117-127.
  • Lancaster, Winston C. 1986. The Taphonomy of an archaeocete skeleton and its associated fauna, in J.A. Schiebout and W.A. van den Bold (eds.), Montgomery Landing Site, Marine Eocene (Jackson) of Central Louisiana, pp 119-131. Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Symposium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • Lancaster, Winston. C. 1997. Systematics, pp. 3-11, in: Altman, R.B., Clubb, S.L., Dorrestein, G. and Quesenberry, K. (eds.) Avian Medicine and Surgery. W.B. Saunders Co. Philadephia.
  • Lancaster, W.C. 2001. Scaling of body size and the abdominal wall in echolocating bats. Bat Research News 42.
  • Lancaster, W.C. 2001. The engine for echolocation as a constraint on the size of bats. 6th International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology; Jena, Germany. Journal of Morphology 248:253.
  • Lancaster, W.C., S. Ward, G. Jones and J.R. Speakman. 2000. Energetics of biosonar vocalization in stationary insectivorous bats. American Zoologist 40: 1094-1095.
  • Lancaster, W.C., M.B. Fenton and J. Eger. 2000. Morphology of the axial skeleton in relation to the style of biosonar. Bat Research News 41: 126.

Landerholm, Thomas E.

  • Agar-Gunhan, E., P. Choudary, T.E. Landerholm and L.M. Chalupa; Depletion of cholinergic amacrine cells by a novel immunotoxin does not perturb the formation of segregated On and Off cone bipolar cell projections; J. Neuroscience, 22(6):2265-2273, 2002.
  • Lu, J., T.E. Landerholm, J. Wei, X.-R. Dong, X. Lu, M. Inagaki, K. Nagata, and M.W. Majesky; Coronary smooth muscle differentiation from proepicardial cells requires Rho A-mediated actin reorganization and p160RhoKinase activity; Developmental Biology, 240(2):404-418, 2001.
  • Majesky, M.W., T.E. Landerholm and J. Lu; Developmental origins of vascular smooth muscle diversity; J. Vasc. Surg., 29(6): 10-12, 1999

Lindgren, Susanne

  • Lindgren, S.W., K, Fluegal, B. Ahmer, and F. Heffron. Optimal invasion by Salmonella requires functional ompR/envZ locus. Manuscript in preparation.
  • Lindgren, S. W., and F. Heffron. Identification of regulatory genes involved in the cytotoxic phenotype of S. typhimurium. Manuscript in preparation.
  • Van der Velden, A., S. W. Lindgren, M. Worley, and F. Heffron. 1999. Salmonella typhimurium kills macrophages by two independent pathways. Submitted for publication to Cellular Microbiology.

Nguyen, Hao

  • Wright JK, Kim LT, Rogers TE, Nguyen H, and Turnage RH. Nitric Oxide and Thromboxane A2-mediated
  • Pulmonary Microvascular Dysfunction. Arch Surg 134(3): 293-298, 1999.
  • Evans E, Sliger WA, and Nguyen H. The Detection of Cdk-1 by Immunohistological Staining in Normal Versus Tumorous Colon Epithelium. Senior Project Thesis, University of Tennessee at Martin University Scholars Program; 2003.
  • Welden, J and Nguyen H. Expression of Bcl-2 During Human Colorectal Carcinogenesis Using Immunohistochemical Staining Techniques. Senior Project Thesis, University of Tennessee at Martin University Scholars Program; 2001.