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Publications from WUSTL Biology Dept., April 2012

• Collins AM, Liberton M, Jones HD, Garcia OF, Pakrasi HB, Timlin JA. 2012. Photosynthetic pigment localization and thylakoid membrane morphology are altered in synechocystis 6803 phycobilisome mutants. Plant Physiol 158(4):1600-9. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Koester B, Rea TJ, Templeton AR, Szalay AS, Sing CF. 2012. Long-range autocorrelations of CpG islands in the human genome. PLoS One 7(1):e29889. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Kraft NJB, Sanders NJ, Stegen JC, Anderson MJ, Crist TO, Cornell HV, Vellend M, Chase JM, Comita LS, Davies KF, Freestone AL, Harrison SP, Inouye BD, Myers JA, Swenson NG. 2012. Response to Comments on "Disentangling the Drivers of beta Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients." Science 335(6076):1573. Citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Lu B, Lamora A, Sun Y, Welsh MJ, Ben-Shahar Y. 2012. ppk23-Dependent Chemosensory Functions Contribute to Courtship Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genet 8(3):e1002587. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Queller DC. 2012. Deep sociality. [Book review of Andrew, F. G. Bourke. 2011. Principles of Social Evolution. Oxford University Press , Oxford . xii , 267 Pages . ISBN13: 9780199231157; ISBN10: 019923115X] Evolution 66(5):1671–1673. Fulltext for subscribers.
• Smith J. 2012. Tragedy Of The Commons Among Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids. Evolution 66(4):1269–1274. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

Publications from WUSTL Biology Dept., March 2012

• Burton H, Sinclair RJ, Agato A. 2012. Recognition memory for Braille or spoken words: an fMRI study in early blind. Brain Res 1438:22-34. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Burton H, Agato A, Sinclair RJ. 2012. Repetition learning of vibrotactile temporal sequences: an fMRI study in blind and sighted individuals. Brain Res 1433:69-79. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Chalker DL. 2012. Chapter 11: Transformation and Strain Engineering of Tetrahymena. Methods in Cell Biology 109:327-345. Abstract &l fulltext for subscribers.
• Croft GK, Schaal BA. 2012. Development of microsatellite markers in Byrsonima crassifolia (Malpighiaceae). Am J Bot 99(3):e111-3. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Eren EC, Gautam N, Dixit R. 2012. Computer simulation and mathematical models of the noncentrosomal plant cortical microtubule cytoskeleton. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 69(3):144-54. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Fass JN, Joshi NA, Couvillion MT, Bowen J, Gorovsky MA, Hamilton EP, Orias E, Hong K, Coyne RS, Eisen JA, Chalker DL, Lin D, Collins K. 2011. Genome-Scale Analysis of Programmed DNA Elimination Sites in Tetrahymena thermophila. G3 (Bethesda) 1(6):515-22. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Galant A, Koester RP, Ainsworth EA, Hicks LM, Jez JM. 2012. From climate change to molecular response: redox proteomics of ozone-induced responses in soybean. New Phytol 194(1):220-9. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Jin Z, Mashuta MS, Stolowich NJ, Vaisberg AJ, Stivers NS, Bates PJ, Lewis WH, Hammond GB. 2012. Physangulidines A, B, and C: Three New Antiproliferative Withanolides from Physalis angulata L. Org Lett 14(5):1230-3. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Lenartowska M, Isaji M, Miller KG. 2011. A pre-embedding immunogold approach reveals localization of myosin VI at the ultrastructural level in the actin cones that mediate Drosophila spermatid individualization. Protoplasma 249(2):337-46. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Sinclair RJ, Dixit S, Burton H. 2011. Recognition memory for vibrotactile rhythms: an fMRI study in blind and sighted individuals. Somatosens Mot Res 28(3-4):48-62. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Tang KH, Blankenship RE. 2012. Neutron and light scattering studies of light-harvesting photosynthetic antenna complexes. Photosynth Res 111(1-2):205-17. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Tulin A, McClerklin S, Huang Y, Dixit R. 2012. Single-Molecule Analysis of the Microtubule Cross-Linking Protein MAP65-1 Reveals a Molecular Mechanism for Contact-Angle-Dependent Microtubule Bundling. Biophys J 102(4):802-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Veley KM, Marshburn S, Clure CE, Haswell ES. 2012. Mechanosensitive Channels Protect Plastids from Hypoosmotic Stress During Normal Plant Growth. Curr Biol 22(5):408-13. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Webb AB, Fetsch CR, Israel E, Roman CM, Encarnación CH, Zacks JM, Thoroughman KA, Herzog ED. 2012. Training scientists in a science center improves science communication to the public. Adv Physiol Educ 36(1):72-6. PubMed citation & freely available fulltext.
• Xin Y, Pan J, Collins AM, Lin S, Blankenship RE. 2012. Excitation energy transfer and trapping dynamics in the core complex of the filamentous photosynthetic bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii. Photosynth Res 111(1-2):149-56. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

Publications from WUSTL biology dept., Feb. 2012

• Aryal UK, Stöckel J, Welsh EA, Gritsenko MA, Nicora CD, Koppenaal DW, Smith RD, Pakrasi HB, Jacobs JM. 2012. Dynamic proteome analysis of Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 under constant light conditions. J Proteome Res 11(2):609-19. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Chodok P, Cove DJ, Quatrano RS, Kanjana-Opas A, Kaewsuwan S. 2012. Metabolic Engineering and Oil Supplementation of Physcomitrella patens for Activation of C22 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Production. JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society 89(3):465-476. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Desantis MC, Zareh SK, Li X, Blankenship RE, Wang YM. 2012. Single-image axial localization precision analysis for individual fluorophores. Opt Express 20(3):3057-65. Abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Flowers JM, Molina J, Rubinstein S, Huang P, Schaal BA, Purugganan MD. 2012. Natural Selection in Gene-Dense Regions Shapes the Genomic Pattern of Polymorphism in Wild and Domesticated Rice. Mol Biol Evol 29(2):675-687 PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Martínez-Andújar C, Ordiz MI, Huang Z, Nonogaki M, Beachy RN, Nonogaki H. 2011. Induction of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds enhances seed dormancy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(41):17225-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Martínez-Macías MI, Qian W, Miki D, Pontes O, Liu Y, Tang K, Liu R, Morales-Ruiz T, Ariza RR, Roldán-Arjona T, Zhu JK. 2012. A DNA 3' phosphatase functions in active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis. Mol Cell 45(3):357-70. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Meyer JR, Dobias DT, Weitz JS, Barrick JE, Quick RT, Lenski RE. 2012. Repeatability and contingency in the evolution of a key innovation in phage lambda. Science 335(6067):428-32. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Mou X, Duncan DM, Baehrecke EH, Duncan I. 2012. Control of target gene specificity during metamorphosis by the steroid response gene E93. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(8):2949-54. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Pope WH, Ferreira CM, Jacobs-Sera D, Benjamin RC, Davis AJ, DeJong RJ, Elgin SC, Guilfoile FR, Forsyth MH, Harris AD, Harvey SE, Hughes LE, Hynes PM, Jackson AS, Jalal MD, MacMurray EA, Manley CM, McDonough MJ, Mosier JL, Osterbann LJ, Rabinowitz HS, Rhyan CN, Russell DA, Saha MS, Shaffer CD, Simon SE, Sims EF, Tovar IG, Weisser EG, Wertz JT, Weston-Hafer KA, Williamson KE, Zhang B, Cresawn SG, Jain P, Piuri M, Jacobs WR Jr, Hendrix RW, Hatfull GF. 2011. Cluster K mycobacteriophages: insights into the evolutionary origins of mycobacteriophage TM4. PLoS One 6(10):e26750. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Schroder S, Herzog ED, Kiss IZ. 2012. Transcription-based oscillator model for light-induced splitting as antiphase circadian gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nuclei. J Biol Rhythms 27(1):79-90. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Wilson M, Haswell E. 2012. A role for mechanosensitive channels in chloroplast and bacterial fission. Plant Signaling & Behavior 7(2) PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication | Abstract at journal site[WU does not subscribe].
• Yang J, Ordiz MI, Jaworski JG, Beachy RN. 2011. Induced accumulation of cuticular waxes enhances drought tolerance in Arabidopsis by changes in development of stomata. Plant Physiol Biochem 49(12):1448-55. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• You L, Page L, Feng X, Berla B, Pakrasi HB, Tang YJ. 2012. Metabolic Pathway Confirmation and Discovery Through 13C-labeling of Proteinogenic Amino Acids. J Vis Exp (59):pii: 3583. PubMed abstract & fulltext AND video for subscribers.
• Zhang H, Wen J, Huang RY-C, Blankenship RE, Gross ML. 2011. Mass spectrometry-based carboxyl footprinting of proteins: Method evaluation. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 312:78-86 Abstraact & fulltext for subscribers.

Publications from WU Biology Dept., January, 2012

• Dixit R. 2012. Putting a bifunctional motor to work: insights into the role of plant KCH kinesins. New Phytol 193(3):543-5. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Huang RY, Wen J, Blankenship RE, Gross ML. 2012. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry reveals the interaction of Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein and chlorosome CsmA protein. Biochemistry 51(1):187-93. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Kanwal JS. 2012. Right-left asymmetry in the cortical processing of sounds for social communication vs. navigation in mustached bats. Eur J Neurosci 35(2):257-70. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU Danforth Campus does not subscribe].
• Kim WS, Chronis D, Juergens M, Schroeder AC, Hyun SW, Jez JM, Krishnan HB. 2012. Transgenic soybean plants overexpressing O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase accumulate enhanced levels of cysteine and Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor in seeds. Planta 235(1):13-23. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Lee SG, Kim Y, Alpert TD, Nagata A, Jez JM. 2012. Structure and Reaction Mechanism of Phosphoethanolamine Methyltransferase from the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum: An Anti-Parasitic Drug Target. J Biol Chem 287(2):1426-34. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Oberle B, Esselman EJ. 2011. Fruit and Seed Characters Help Distinguish Southern Illinois Dodecatheon (Primulaceae) Species and Highlight Unusual Intergrading Populations. Rhodora 113(955):280-299. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe].
• Oberle B, Montgomery RA, Beck JB, Esselman EJ. 2012. A morphologically intergrading population facilitates plastid introgression from diploid to tetraploid Dodecatheon (Primulaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 168(1):91-100. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe].
• Ravilious GE, Nguyen A, Francois JA, Jez JM. 2012. Structural basis and evolution of redox regulation in plant adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate kinase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(1):309-314. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Suga N. 2012. Tuning shifts of the auditory system by corticocortical and corticofugal projections and conditioning. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36(2):969-88.PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Yue H, Kang Y, Zhang H, Gao X, Blankenship RE. 2012. Expression and characterization of the diheme cytochrome c subunit of the cytochrome bc complex in Heliobacterium modesticaldum. Arch Biochem Biophys 517(2):131-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

Publications from WU Biology Dept. Dec. 2011

• Allan BF, Varns TS, Chase JM. 2010. Fear of parasites: Lone star ticks increase giving-up densities in white-tailed deer. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 56(3-4):313-324. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe but we seem to have fulltext access].
• Aryal UK, Stockel J, Krovvidi R, Gritsenko MA, Monroe ME, Moore RJ, Koppenaal DW, Smith RD, Pakrasi HB, Jacobs JM. 2011. Dynamic proteomic profiling of a unicellular cyanobacterium Cyanothece ATCC51142 across light-dark diurnal cycles. BMC Syst Biol 5(1):194. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Craig MT, Orrock JL, Brudvig LA. 2011. Edge-mediated patterns of seed removal in experimentally connected and fragmented landscapes. Landscape Ecol 26(10):1373-1381. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Demianski AJ, Chung KM, Kunkel BN. 2012. Analysis of Arabidopsis JAZ gene expression during Pseudomonas syringae pathogenesis. Mol Plant Pathol 13(1):46-57. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Goodson C, Roth R, Wang ZT, Goodenough U. 2011. Structural Correlates of Cytoplasmic and Chloroplast Lipid Body Synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Stimulation of Lipid-Body Production with Acetate-Boost. Eukaryot Cell 10(12):1592-606. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Granados-Fuentes D, Ben-Josef G, Perry G, Wilson DA, Sullivan-Wilson A, Herzog ED. 2011. Daily Rhythms in Olfactory Discrimination Depend on Clock Genes but Not the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. J Biol Rhythms 26(6):552-560. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Hasnain G, Waller JC, Alvarez S, Ravilious GE, Jez JM, Hanson AD. 2012. Mutational analysis of YgfZ, a folate-dependent protein implicated in iron/sulphur cluster metabolism. FEMS Microbiol Lett 326(2):168-72.PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU Danforth Campus does not subscribe.
• Kuzdzal-Fick JJ, Fox SA, Strassmann JE, Queller DC. 2011. High relatedness is necessary and sufficient to maintain multicellularity in Dictyostelium. Science 334(6062):1548-51. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Maksaev G, Haswell ES. 2011. Expression and characterization of the bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscS in Xenopus laevis oocytes. J Gen Physiol 138(6):641-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Motl JA, Chalker DL. 2011. Zygotic Expression of the Double-Stranded RNA Binding Motif Protein, Drb2p, is required for DNA Elimination in the Ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila. Eukaryot Cell 10(12):1648-59. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• San Francisco B, Bretsnyder EC, Rodgers KR, Kranz RG. 2011. Heme ligand identification and redox properties of the cytochrome c synthetase, CcmF. Biochemistry 50(50):10974-85. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Smith J. 2011. Distinguishing causes of virulence evolution: reply to Alizon & Michalakis. 2011. Evolution 65(12):3639–3641. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Sun F, Zhu C, Dixit R, Cavalli V. 2011. Sunday Driver/JIP3 binds kinesin heavy chain directly and enhances its motility. EMBO J 30(16):3416-29. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 1 year after publication.
• Wang SH, Elgin SC. 2011. Drosophila Piwi functions downstream of piRNA production mediating a chromatin-based transposon silencing mechanism in female germ line. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(52):21164-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Wang Y, Yi H, Wang M, Yu O, Jez JM. 2011. Structural and Kinetic Analysis of the Unnatural Fusion Protein 4-Coumaroyl-CoA Ligase::Stilbene Synthase. J Am Chem Soc 133(51):20684-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

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.

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.

Publications from WU Biology Dept., Sept. 2011

• Dai S, Wei X, Pei L, Thompson RL, Liu Y, Heard JE, Ruff TG, Beachy RN. 2011. BROTHER OF LUX ARRHYTHMO is a component of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Plant Cell 23(3):961-72. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Freeman GM Jr, Herzog ED. 2011. Neuropeptides go the distance for circadian synchrony. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(34):13883-4. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Guo Z, Lin S, Xin Y, Wang HY, Blankenship RE, Woodbury N. 2011. Comparing the Temperature Dependence of Photosynthetic Electron Transfer in Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Rhodobactor sphaeroides Reaction Centers. J Phys Chem B 115(38):11230-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Hayes D, Wen JZ, Panitchayangkoon G, Blankenship RE, Engel GS. 2011. Robustness of electronic coherence in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex to vibronic and structural modifications. Faraday Discussions 150:459-469. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Lee SG, Jez JM. 2011. The phosphobase methylation pathway in caernorhabditis elegans: A new route to phospholipids in animals. Current Chemical Biology 5(3):183-188. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe].
• Reagon M, Thurber CS, Olsen KM, Jia Y, Caicedo AL. 2011. The long and the short of it: SD1 polymorphism and the evolution of growth trait divergence in U.S. weedy rice. Mol Ecol 20(18):3743-56. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Sadeghayobi E, Blake S, Wikelski M, Gibbs J, Mackie R, Cabrera F. 2011. Digesta retention time in the Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidi nigra). Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 160(4):493-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Tang KH, Tang YJ, Blankenship RE. 2011. Carbon metabolic pathways in phototrophic bacteria and their broader evolutionary implications. Front Microbiol 2:165. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Tinkum KL, Marpegan L, White LS, Sun J, Herzog ED, Piwnica-Worms D, Piwnica-Worms H. 2011. Bioluminescence Imaging Captures the Expression and Dynamics of Endogenous p21 Promoter Activity in Living Mice and Intact Cells. Mol Cell Biol 31(18):3759-72. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 4 months after publication.
• Wilson ME, Jensen GS, Haswell ES. 2011. Two Mechanosensitive Channel Homologs Influence Division Ring Placement in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts. Plant Cell 23(8):2939-49. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21810996"> PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.

Publications from WU Biology Dept. people, August, 2011

• Beaton LL, Van Zandt PA, Esselman EJ, Knight TM. 2011. Comparison of the herbivore defense and competitive ability of ancestral and modern genotypes of an invasive plant, Lespedeza cuneata. Oikos 120(9):1413–1419. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Beaulé C, Granados-Fuentes D, Marpegan L, Herzog ED. 2011. In vitro circadian rhythms: imaging and electrophysiology. Essays Biochem 49(1):103-17. PubMed abstract. [chemistry library is supposed to get this in paper but they don't have it yet.
• Chen M, Blankenship RE. 2011. Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis. Trends Plant Sci 16(8):427-31. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• He Y, Galant A, Pang Q, Strul JM, Balogun SF, Jez JM, Chen S. 2011. Structural and functional evolution of isopropylmalate dehydrogenases in leucine and glucosinolate pathways of Arabidopsis thaliana. J Biol Chem 286(33):28794-801. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; freely available 12 months after publication.
• Isaji M, Lenartowska M, Noguchi T, Frank DJ, Miller KG. 2011. Myosin VI Regulates Actin Structure Specialization through Conserved Cargo-Binding Domain Sites. PLoS One 6(8):e22755. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Jez JM. 2011. Toward protein engineering for phytoremediation: Possibilities and challenges. Intl J Phytoremediation 13 (SUPPL.1):77-89. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe].
• Meeker K, Harang R, Webb AB, Welsh DK, Doyle FJ 3rd, Bonnet G, Herzog ED, Petzold LR. 2011. Wavelet measurement suggests cause of period instability in Mammalian circadian neurons. J Biol Rhythms 26(4):353-62. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Miller SR, Wood AM, Blankenship RE, Kim M, Ferriera S. 2011. Dynamics of gene duplication in the genomes of chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacteria: Implications for the ecological niche. Genome Biol Evol 3:601-13. Pubmed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Orrock JL, Dill LM, Sih A, Grabowski JH, Peacor SD, Peckarsky BL, Preisser EL, Vonesh JR, Werner EE. 2010. Predator effects in predator-free space: The remote effects of predators on prey. Open Ecology Journal 3(SPEC.ISS.2):22-30. Abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Templeton AR, Brazeal H, Neuwald JL. 2011. The transition from isolated patches to a metapopulation in the eastern collared lizard in response to prescribed fires. Ecology 92(9):1736-1747. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers | In the News: WU Record.
• I welcome information about items I have missed. Send them to Ruth Lewis. Thanks.

Publications from WU Biology Dept., July 2011

• Burns JH, Ashman TL, Steets JA, Harmon-Threatt A, Knight TM. 2011. A phylogenetically controlled analysis of the roles of reproductive traits in plant invasions. Oecologia 166(4):1009-17. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Chase JM, Myers JA. 2011. Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366(1576):2351-63. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Francisco BS, Richard-Fogal CL, Bretsnyder E, Kranz RG. 2011. Heme transport, iron redox state, and attachment to cytochrome c in the system I cytochrome c maturation pathway. Abst Papers Amer Chem Soc 241: - 152-INOR
• Gallant JR, Arnegard ME, Sullivan JP, Carlson BA, Hopkins CD. 2011. Signal variation and its morphological correlates in Paramormyrops kingsleyae provide insight into the evolution of electrogenic signal diversity in mormyrid electric fish. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 197(8):799-817. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• George AA, Macleod GT, Zakon HH. 2011. Calcium-dependent phosphorylation regulates neuronal stability and plasticity in a highly precise pacemaker nucleus. J Neurophysiol 106(1):319-31. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Gonzalez BL, Radcliff M, Dorland E, Heyden R. 2011. Exploring interactivity, dimensionality and assessment in an animation prototype for visualizing molecular geometry and polarity. Abst Papers Amer Chem Soc 241: - 142-CHED.
• Gruhn JA, White PS. 2011. Magnolia grandiflora L. range expansion: A case study in a north carolina piedmont forest. Southeastern Naturalist 10(2):275-288. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne.1 subscribers.
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