Biology Faculty Articles
Submissions from 2022
Managing semi-arid oak forests (Quercus brantii Lindl.): Mature oak trees of different dimensions create contrasted microhabitats influencing seedling quality, Mehdi Heydari, Hamzeh Asadi-Rad, Jaafar Hosseinzadeh, Somayeh Hajinia, D. Alexander Wait, and Bernard Prevosto
Submissions from 2021
A novel grape downy mildew resistance locus from Vitis rupestris, Gaurab Bhattarai, Anne Fennell, Jason P. Londo, Courtney Coleman, and Laszlo G. Kovacs
Hypervigilance, Allostatic Load, and Migraine Prevention: Antibodies to CGRP or Receptor, Andrew Blumenfeld, Paul L. Durham, Alexander Feoktistov, Debbie L. Hay, Andrew F. Russo, and Ira Turner
Rock glaciers and related cold rocky landforms: Overlooked climate refugia for mountain biodiversity, Stefano Brighenti, Scott Hotaling, Debra S. Finn, Andrew G. Fountain, Masaki Hayashi, David Herbst, Jasmine E. Saros, Lusha M. Tronstad, and Constance I. Millar
Importation biological control of invasive fire ants with parasitoid phorid flies - progress and prospects, Li Chen and Lloyd W. Morrison
Introduction to a Special Section: 4th Mississippi–Yangtze River Basins Symposium, Yushun Chen and Quinton E. Phelps
Using Population Dynamics to Model Harvest Regulation Impacts to Channel Catfish in the Monongahela River, West Virginia, Kristen L. Chestnut-Faull, Quinton E. Phelps, Dustin M. Smith, and David I. Wellman
Variation in riparian and stream assemblages across the primary succession landscape of Mount St. Helens, U.S.A., Shannon M. Claeson, Carri J. LeRoy, Debra S. Finn, Rosalina H. Stancheva, and Emily R. Wolfe
Macroinvertebrate drift patterns in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers: Implications for Scaphirhynchus sturgeon conservation efforts, Madison C. Cogar, Hae H. Kim, Kevin J. Haupt, Quinton E. Phelps, and Donovan B. Henry
5-HT3/7 and GABAB receptors mediate inhibition of trigeminal nociception by dietary supplementation of grape seed extract, Lauren E. Cornelison, Sara E. Woodman, and Paul L. Durham
SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States, Michael V. Cove; Roland Kays; Helen Bontrager; Claire Bresnan; Monica Lasky; Taylor Frerichs; Renee Klann; Thomas E. Lee; Sean P. Maher; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Plant biology: Nectar bacteria grow by germinating and bursting pollen, Bailey Crowley and Avery Russell
Winter roosting by eastern red bats in ozark mountain forests of missouri, Joshua Robert Flinn, Roger W. Perry, and Lynn W. Robbins
Visualizing Blood Vessel Development in Cultured Mouse Embryos Using Lightsheet Microscopy, Samantha J. Fredrickson, Tanner G. Hoog, and Ryan S. Udan
Gear specific catch rates and size structure of channel catfish in the Upper Mississippi River, Colby G. Gainer, Hae H. Kim, and Quinton E. Phelps
Multi-dimensional leaf phenotypes reflect root system genotype in grafted grapevine over the growing season, Zachary N. Harris, Mani Awale, Niyati Bhakta, Daniel H. Chitwood, Anne Fennell, Emma Frawley, Laura L. Klein, László G. Kovács, and Misha Kwasniewski
Freshwater turtle community composition in strip pit lakes on mined lands, Ethan C. Hollender and Day B. Ligon
Freshwater Turtle Community Composition in Strip Pit Lakes on Mined Lands, Ethan Hollender and Day B. Ligon
Transcriptome profile alterations with carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and silver nanoparticles: A review, Cullen Horstmann, Victoria Davenport, Min Zhang, Alyse Peters, and Kyoungtae H. Kim
Comparing transcriptome profiles of saccharomyces cerevisiae cells exposed to cadmium selenide/zinc sulfide and indium phosphide/zinc sulfide, Cullen Horstmann and Kyoungtae H. Kim
Cold Tolerance of Mountain Stoneflies (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from the High Rocky Mountains, Scott Hotaling, Alisha A. Shah, Michael E. Dillon, J. Joseph Giersch, Lusha M. Tronstad, Debra S. Finn, H. Arthur Woods, and Joanna L. Kelley
Towards automatic detection and quantification of mildew on grape leaf disks, Razib Iqbal, Kyle Sargent, and László G. Kovács
Do darters (Etheostoma sp.) in streams with introduced trout exhibit increased wariness?, Joseph T. Johnson and S. Alicia Mathis
Eastern red bat responses to fire during winter torpor, Jason T. Layne, Dana Green, Anna Scesny, and Lynn W. Robbins
Papers published in Zootaxa concerning Neuropterida, Agostino Letardi, David E. Bowles, and Xingyue Liu
Soybean Root Nodule and Rhizosphere Microbiome: Distribution of Rhizobial and Nonrhizobial Endophytes, Parris M. Mayhood and Babur S. Mirza
Punctuated evolution in the learned songs of African sunbirds, Jay P. McEntee; Gleb Zhelezov; Chacha Werema; Nadje Najar; Joshua V. Peñalba; Elia Mulungu; Maneno Mbilinyi; Sylvester Karimi; Lyubov Chumakova; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Exploring phosphonium and ammonium chitosan polymers and their PEGylated analogs for high performance gene delivery, Alex McMullen, Deborah C. Ehie, Quinton Wyatt, Kyoungtae H. Kim, and M. Reza Sedaghat-Herati
The Evolutionary Ecology of the African Pancake Tortoise Malacochersus tornieri (Siebenrock 1903): A Review and Synthesis Based Upon Current Knowledge, Don L. Moll, Lauren E. Brown, and Evan S. Brown
Nonsampling error in vegetation surveys: understanding error types and recommendations for reducing their occurrence, Lloyd W. Morrison
Transmission of Bee-like Vibrations in Buzz-Pollinated Plants with Different Stamen Architectures, Lucy Nevard, Avery L. Russell, Karl Foord, and Mario Vallejo-Marín
Bene'fit' assessment in pollination coevolution: mechanistic perspectives on hummingbird bill-flower matching, Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Kristiina J. Hurme, Rosalee Elting, and Avery L. Russell
Pollinator effectiveness is affected by intraindividual behavioral variation, Avery L. Russell, Andrea M. Fetters, Elizabeth I. James, and Tia-Lynn Ashman
The Size of it: Scant Evidence That Flower Size Variation Affects Deception in Intersexual Floral Mimicry, Avery L. Russell, Stephanie R. Sanders, Liam A. Wilson, and Daniel R. Papaj
Observations of movement patterns and habitat associations of hatchling alligator snapping turtles (Macrochelys temminckii), S. Jane Spangler, Denise M. Thompson, Brian M. Fillmore, Ralph Simmons, Kerry Graves, and Day B. Ligon
Method Development for a Short-Term 7-d Toxicity Test with Unionid Mussels, Ning Wang; James L. Kunz; Douglas K. Hardesty; Jeffery A. Steevens; Teresa Norberg-King; Edward J. Hammer; Candice R. Bauer; M. Christopher Barnhart; Jordan Murray; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Pollinators mediate floral microbial diversity and microbial network under agrochemical disturbance, Na Wei, Avery L. Russell, Abigail R. Jarrett, and Tia Lynn Ashman
Submissions from 2020
Pyruvate affects inflammatory responses of macrophages during influenza A virus infection, Hazar Abusalamah, Jessica M. Reel, and Christopher R. Lupfer
Caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) Diversity in the Ozarks and Tallgrass Prairie Transitional Zone, Arkansas and Missouri, USA, David E. Bowles
Dietary supplementation with grape seed extract prevents development of trigeminal sensitization and inhibits pain signaling in a preclinical chronic temporomandibular disorder model, Lauren E. Cornelison, Neelima Chelliboina, Sara E. Woodman, and Paul L. Durham
Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and morphine transiently inhibit trigeminal pain signaling in a chronic headache model, Lauren E. Cornelison, Jordan L. Hawkins, Sara E. Woodman, and Paul L. Durham
When neighbors cheat: a test of the dear enemy phenomenon in southern red-backed salamanders, Benjamin Dalton, Rachel Settle, Kenzie Medley, and Alicia Mathis
New in vitro highly cytotoxic platinum and palladium cyanoximates with minimal side effects in vivo, Stephanie D. Dannen; Lauren Cornelison; Paul Durham; John E. Morley; Kiana Shahverdi; Junwei Du; Haiying Zhou; Leland C. Sudlow; Nikolay Gerasimchuk; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Hyporheic secondary production and life history of a common Ozark stonefly, Nathan C. Dorff and Debra S. Finn
Seasonal Variation in Sex Ratio for Gray Bats (Myotis grisescens) at a Hibernaculum, Dana M. Green and Lynn W. Robbins
Illumina sequencing of 16S rRNA tag shows disparity in rhizobial and non-rhizobial diversity associated with root nodules of mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) growing in different habitats in Pakistan, Sughra Hakim, Babur S. Mirza, Asma Imran, Ahmad Zaheer, Sumera Yasmin, Fathia Mubeen, Joan E. Mclean, and M. Sajjad Mirza
A Simulation Study to Evaluate Biases in Population Characteristics Estimation Associated with Varying Bin Numbers in Size-Based Age Subsampling, Corbin D. Hilling, Yan Jiao, Aaron J. Bunch, and Quinton E. Phelps
Mountain stoneflies may tolerate warming streams: Evidence from organismal physiology and gene expression, Scott Hotaling, Alisha A. Shah, Kerry L. McGowan, Lusha M. Tronstad, J. Joseph Giersch, Debra S. Finn, H. Arthur Woods, Michael E. Dillon, and Joanna L. Kelley
Behavior in Transition: Recovery of Behavior by an Obligate Parasitic Ant (Formica subintegra) Following Host Removal, Amber N. Hunter and Alicia Mathis
Limestone Remediation of an Acidic Stream Creates a Microchemical Batch Mark for Brook Trout within an Appalachian Watershed, Brock M. Huntsman, Hae Kim, Quinton Phelps, and J. Todd Petty
Pulsed flow-through auto-feeding beaker systems for the laboratory culture of juvenile freshwater mussels, James L. Kunz, M. Christopher Barnhart, Elizabeth A. Glidewell, Ning Wang, and Christopher G. Ingersoll
Editorial: Role of NOD-Like Receptors in Infectious and Immunological Diseases, Christopher R. Lupfer, Paras K. Anand, Xiaopeng Qi, and Hasan Zaki
Diazotrophs show signs of restoration in Amazon rain forest soils with ecosystem rehabilitation, Babur S. Mirza, Daniel J. McGlinn, Brendan J.M. Bohannan, Klaus Nüsslein, James M. Tiedje, and Jorge L.M. Rodrigues
Origins of the Extinct, Subfossil Galápagos Giant Tortoises (Chelonoidis niger) of the Post Office Lava Tube (Inferior) of Floreana Island: Voluntary or Accidental Occupancy?, Don L. Moll, Lauren E. Brown, and Alan Resetar
Inter-Observer Error in Wetland Vegetation Surveys, Lloyd W. Morrison, Sonia N. Bingham, and Craig C. Young
Interobserver error in grassland vegetation surveys: Sources and implications, Lloyd W. Morrison, Sherry A. Leis, and Michael D. Debacker
Myosin V-mediated transport of Snc1 and Vps10 toward the trans-Golgi network, Vy Nguyen, Jared Smothers, Paul Ballhorn, Sravya Kottapalli, Anh Ly, Julia Villarreal, and Kyoungtae Kim
Larval Diet of the Rare Caddisfly Glyphopsyche Missouri (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) in Missouri, USA, Russell G. Rhodes, Barry C. Poulton, William R. Mabee, and David E. Bowles
What came first, the virus or the egg: Innate immunity during viral coinfections, Meagan D. Rippee-Brooks, Riley N. Marcinczyk, and Christopher R. Lupfer
Antifungal Norditerpene Oidiolactones from the Fungus Oidiodendron truncatum, a Potential Biocontrol Agent for White-Nose Syndrome in Bats, Yudi Rusman, Michael B. Wilson, Jessica M. Williams, Benjamin W. Held, Robert A. Blanchette, Briana N. Anderson, Christopher R. Lupfer, and Christine E. Salomon
Sensory bias and signal detection trade-offs maintain intersexual floral mimicry: Detection tradeoffs maintain mimicry, Avery L. Russell, David W. Kikuchi, Noah W. Giebink, and Daniel R. Papaj
Bluegill Habitat Use in the Upper Mississippi River, Ethan A. Rutledge, Ryan N. Hupfeld, Colby G. Gainer, Hae H. Kim, and Quinton E. Phelps
Spatial variation in invasive silver carp population ecology throughout the upper Mississippi River basin*, Christopher J. Sullivan, Michael J. Weber, Clay L. Pierce, David H. Wahl, Quinton E. Phelps, and Robert E. Colombo
Headwaters Fed by Subterranean Ice: Potential Climate Refugia for Mountain Stream Communities?, Lusha M. Tronstad, Scott Hotaling, J. Joseph Giersch, Oliver J. Wilmot, and Debra S. Finn
A low-water crossing impacts Northern Hog Sucker Hypentelium nigricans movement in an Ozark stream, Jeffrey M. Williams, Hope R. Dodd, and Debra S. Finn
Submissions from 2019
Small mammal community composition varies among Ozark glades, Emily M. Beasley and Sean P. Maher
Aquatic Vegetation of Springs at Buffalo National River, Arkansas, David E. Bowles and Cameron R. Cheri
The enigmatic palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the giant, horned, fossil turtles of australasia: A review and reanalysis of the data, Lauren E. Brown and Don Moll
The inner workings of intracellular heterotypic and homotypic membrane fusion mechanisms, Mariel Delgado Cruz and Kyoungtae Kim
Frugivory and seed dispersal by chelonians: a review and synthesis, Wilfredo Falcón, Don L. Moll, and Dennis M. Hansen
Modulation of Inflammatory and Pain Pathways in Trigeminal Ganglion Neurons and Glial Cells by Plant Extracts, Y. Fan, H. Sheckley, L. E. Cornelison, Sara Woodman, and Paul L. Durham
Insight into the microbial co-occurrence and diversity of 73 grapevine (Vitis vinifera) crown galls collected across the northern hemisphere, Han Ming Gan, Ernõ Szegedi, Rabeb Fersi, Samir Chebil, László Kovács, Akira Kawaguchi, André Hudson, Thomas J. Burr, and Michael A. Savka
Response to conspecific alarm cues by larval and juvenile Spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum), K. Gardner, Robert L. Hunt, and S. Alicia Mathis
Transcriptome profile with 20 nm silver nanoparticles in yeast, Cullen Horstmann, Chelsea Campbell, Daniel Sungwhi Kim, and Kyoungtae Kim
Transcriptome profile alteration with cadmium selenide/zinc sulfide quantum dots in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cullen Horstmann, Daniel S. Kim, Chelsea Campbell, and Kyoungtae Kim
Microbial assemblages reflect environmental heterogeneity in alpine streams, Scott Hotaling, Mary E. Foley, Lydia H. Zeglin, Debra S. Finn, Lusha M. Tronstad, J. Joseph Giersch, Clint Muhlfeld, and David W. Weisrock
Congruent population genetic structure but differing depths of divergence for three alpine stoneflies with similar ecology and geographic distributions, Scott Hotaling, J. Joseph Giersch, Debra S. Finn, Lusha M. Tronstad, Steve Jordan, Larry E. Serpa, Ronald Call, Clint C. Muhlfeld, and David W. Weisrock
Age and growth of middle Mississippi river smallmouth buffalo, Seth A. Love, Sara J. Tripp, and Quinton E. Phelps
Common Differences: The Ability of Inflammasomes to Distinguish Between Self and Pathogen Nucleic Acids During Infection, Chris R. Lupfer, Meagan D. Rippee-Brooks, and Paras K. Anand
Territorial behaviour in southern red-backed and Ozark zigzag salamanders: Effects of sex, species and ownership, Colton S. Lynn, Benjamin Dalton, and Alicia Mathis
Yeast dynamin and Ypt6 function in parallel for the endosome-to-Golgi retrieval of Snc1, Pelin Makaraci, Mariel Delgado Cruz, Hyoeun McDermott, Vy Nguyen, Chad Highfill, and Kyoungtae Kim
Estivation site selection of western chicken turtles (deirochelys reticularia miaria), Donald T. McKnight and Day B. Ligon
Rootstock effects on scion phenotypes in a ‘Chambourcin’ experimental vineyard, Zoë Migicovsky, Zachary N. Harris, Laura L. Klein, Mao Li, Adam McDermaid, Daniel H. Chitwood, Anne Fennell, Laszlo G. Kovacs, Misha Kwasniewski, and Jason P. Londo
Hemodynamic force is required for vascular smooth muscle cell recruitment to blood vessels during mouse embryonic development, Rachel L. Padget, Shilpa S. Mohite, Tanner G. Hoog, Blake S. Justis, Bruce E. Green, and Ryan S. Udan
A small survey of UV-bright stars around the northern ecliptic pole: Seeking new p-mode sdB variables for the TESS mission, Saskia Prins, John Telting, and Roy H. Østensen
Enhanced IL-1β production is mediated by a TLR2-MYD88-NLRP3 signaling axis during coinfection with influenza A virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae, Angeline E. Rodriguez, Christopher Bogart, Christopher M. Gilbert, Jonathan A. McCullers, Amber M. Smith, Thirumala Devi Kanneganti, and Christopher Lupfer
Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus, John Paul Schmidt, Sean Maher, John M. Drake, Tao Huang, Maxwell J. Farrell, and Barbara A. Han
Reproductive ecology of the threatened and endemic freshwater mussel Lampsilis bracteata, L. Ashley Seagroves, M. Christopher Barnhart, Thom Hardy, and Astrid N. Schwalb
Smallmouth Bass Population Demographics in Missouri Ozark Streams and an Evaluation of a Statewide 305-mm Minimum Length Limit, Edward M. Sterling, Kylie B. Sterling, Quinton E. Phelps, Tyler D. Ham, and Sara J. Tripp
Reproductive Investment Patterns in a Captive Population of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii), Denise M. Thompson, Rebecca Fillmore, Brian M. Fillmore, Kerry G. Graves, and Day B. Ligon
Ecophysiology of mammals, Thomas E. Tomasi, Briana N. Anderson, and Theodore Garland
Submissions from 2018
Final Performance Report: Federal Aid Grant No. F15AP00923 (E-75-R-2) Propagation and Augmentation of the Ouachita Rock Pocketbook, M. Christopher Barnhart
Advances in aquatic insect systematics and biodiversity in the Neotropics: introduction, David E. Bowles and Gregory W. Courtney
Re-examination of the giant fossil tortoise Hesperotestudo from near the Illinois glacial-sangamon interglacial boundary in North America with commentary on zoogeography, Lauren E. Brown, Don Moll, and Evan S. Brown
Learning to find food: evidence for embryonic sensitization and juvenile social learning in a salamander, Adam L. Crane, Emilee J. Helton, Maud C.O. Ferrari, and Alicia Mathis
Isolation by marine barriers and climate explain areas of endemism in an island rodent, Thomas C. Giarla, Sean P. Maher, Anang S. Achmadi, Meagan K. Moore, Mark T. Swanson, Kevin C. Rowe, and Jacob A. Esselstyn
Retrieved 16S rRNA and nifH sequences reveal co-dominance of Bradyrhizobium and Ensifer (Sinorhizobium) strains in field-collected root nodules of the promiscuous host Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek, Sughra Hakim, Babur S. Mirza, Ahmad Zaheer, Joan E. Mclean, Asma Imran, Sumera Yasmin, and M. Sajjad Mirza
Enriched chicken bone broth as a dietary supplement reduces nociception and sensitization associated with prolonged jaw opening, Jordan L. Hawkins and Paul L. Durham
Secondary traumatic stress increases expression of proteins implicated in peripheral and central sensitization of trigeminal neurons, Jordan L. Hawkins, N. J. Moore, D. Miley, and P. L. Durham
Motorboat Injury Rates and Patterns in Aquatic Turtle Communities, Ethan C. Hollender, Travis L. Anthony, and Day B. Ligon
