Publications from WU biology dept., Nov. 2011

• Anderson WA, Amasino RM, Ares M Jr, Banerjee U, Bartel B, Corces VG, Drennan CL, Elgin SC, Epstein IR, Fanning E, Guillette LJ Jr, Handelsman J, Hatfull GF, Hoy RR, Kelley D, Leinwand LA, Losick R, Lu Y, Lynn DG, Neuhauser C, O'Dowd DK, Olivera T, Pevzner P, Richards-Kortum RR, Rine J, Sah RL, Strobel SA, Walker GC, Walt DR, Warner IM, Wessler S, Willard HF, Zare RN. 2011. Competencies: a cure for pre-med curriculum. Science 334(6057):760-1 PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Chalker D, Yao MC. 2011. DNA Elimination in Ciliates: Transposon Domestication and Genome Surveillance. Annu Rev Genet 45:227-46. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Hohmann-Marriott MF, Blankenship RE. 2012. The Photosynthetic World. pp. 4-25 IN Photosynthesis: Perspectives on Plastid Biology, Energy Conversion and Carbon Metabolism. Eds., Eaton-Rye J and Tripathy B. Springer. (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Vol. 34)Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU will buy 2012 but access is not yet turned on.]
• Lee S, Jia Y, Jia M, Gealy DR, Olsen KM, Caicedo AL. 2011. Molecular Evolution of the Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi-ta in Invasive Weedy Rice in the USA. PLoS One 6(10):e26260. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Lee SG, Haakenson W, McCarter JP, Williams DJ, Hresko MC, Jez JM. 2011. Thermodynamic evaluation of ligand binding in the plant-like phosphoethanolamine methyltransferases of the parasitic nematode haemonchus contortus. J Biol Chem 286(44):38060-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Liu H, Huang RY, Chen J, Gross ML, Pakrasi HB. 2011. Psb27, a transiently associated protein, binds to the chlorophyll binding protein CP43 in photosystem II assembly intermediates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(45):18536-41. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Trumbo DR, Burgett AA, Knouft JH. 2011. Testing climate-based species distribution models with recent field surveys of pond-breeding amphibians in eastern Missouri. Canadian Journal of Zoology 89(11):1074-1083. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Wegener KM, Bennewitz S, Oelmüller R, Pakrasi HB. 2011. The Psb32 Protein Aids in Repairing Photodamaged Photosystem II in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803. Mol Plant 4(6):1052-61. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.