Publications from the WU Biology Dept., Oct. 2011

• Aponte JC, Jin Z, Vaisberg AJ, Castillo D, Málaga E, Lewis WH, Sauvain M, Gilman RH, Hammond GB. 2011. Cytotoxic and Anti-infective Phenolic Compounds Isolated from Mikania decora and Cremastosperma microcarpum. Planta Med 2011 Sep;77(14):1597-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not have online fulltext access].
• Bandyopadhyay A, Elvitigala T, Welsh E, Stöckel J, Liberton M, Min H, Sherman LA, Pakrasi HB. 2011. Novel metabolic attributes of the genus cyanothece, comprising a group of unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. MBio 2(5). pii: e00214-11. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Brotosudarmo TH, Collins AM, Gall A, Roszak AW, Gardiner AT, Blankenship RE, Cogdell RJ. 2011. The light intensity at which cells are grown controls the type of peripheral light-harvesting complexes that are assembled in a purple photosynthetic bacterium. Biochem J 440(1):51-61. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Chung K, Tasaka M. 2011. RPT2a, a 26S proteasome AAA-ATPase, is directly involved in arabidopsis CC-NBS-LRR protein uni-1D-induced signaling pathways. Plant and Cell Physiology 52(9):1657-1664. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• George AA, Lyons-Warren AM, Ma X, Carlson BA. 2011. A diversity of synaptic filters are created by temporal summation of excitation and inhibition. J Neurosci 31(41):14721-34. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Haswell ES, Phillips R, Rees DC. 2011. Mechanosensitive channels: what can they do and how do they do it? Structure 19(10):1356-69. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Knight TM, Havens K, Vitt P. 2011. Will the Use of Less Fecund Cultivars Reduce the Invasiveness of Perennial Plants? BioScience 61(10):816–822. Freely available fulltext | Abstract & fulltext for BioOne subscribers | In the News, WU Record.
• Kraft NJ, Comita LS, Chase JM, Sanders NJ, Swenson NG, Crist TO, Stegen JC, Vellend M, Boyle B, Anderson MJ, Cornell HV, Davies KF, Freestone AL, Inouye BD, Harrison SP, Myers JA. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science 333(6050):1755-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Molina J, Sikora M, Garud N, Flowers JM, Rubinstein S, Reynolds A, Huang P, Jackson S, Schaal BA, Bustamante CD, Boyko AR, Purugganan MD. 2011. Reply to Ge and Sang: A single origin of domesticated rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(39):E756. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Niedzwiedzki DM, Fuciman M, Kobayashi M, Frank HA, Blankenship RE. 2011. Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of the light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) from the photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth Res 110(1):49-60. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Reece JS, Bowen BW, Smith DG, Larson A. 2011. Comparative phylogeography of four Indo-Pacific moray eel species (Muraenidae) reveals comparable ocean-wide genetic connectivity despite five-fold differences in available adult habitat. Marine Ecology Progress Series 437:269-277. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 5 years after publication [WU does not subscribe].
• Wu SZ, Ritchie JA, Pan AH, Quatrano RS, Bezanilla M. 2011. Myosin VIII Regulates Protonemal Patterning and Developmental Timing in the Moss Physcomitrella patens. Mol Plant 4(5):909-21. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Zhu C, Dixit R. 2011. Single Molecule Analysis of the Arabidopsis FRA1 Kinesin Shows that It Is a Functional Motor Protein with Unusually High Processivity. Mol Plant 4(5):879-85. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.