Biology Faculty Articles
Submissions from 2023
Variability in Billfish Vertical Distribution and Fishing Interactions Driven by Environmental Conditions in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean, H. E. Blondin, D. E. Haulsee, Ryan Logan, Mahmood Shivji, E. R. Hoffmayer, J. H. Walker, J. M. Dean, E. L. Hazen, and L. B. Crowder
Dysregulation of miR-155 Expression in Professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Fighters, Dominick Cabrera, Kayla Thompson, Julius D. Thomas, Corey Peacock, Jose Antonio, Jaime Tartar, and Aurelien Tartar
Immersive Learning and Participatory Engagement: Connecting in the Online Classroom Through Virtual Reality, Gesulla Cavanaugh, Helen M. Condry, Clarissa Frances Afable, Melissa Morris, Santanu De, Holly Evans Madison, Jacqueline Marshall, Chitra Paul Victor, and Marsha Weiner
Morphological and Transcriptional Effects of Crude Oil and Dispersant Exposure on the Marine Sponge Cinachyrella Alloclada, Yvain Desplat, Jacob F. Warner, Emily J. Blake, Nidhi Vijayan, Marie Cuvelier, Patricia Blackwelder, and Jose V. Lopez
A study of the potential application of digital PCR in the detection of fecal contamination of strawberries using Bacteroides markers, Nicole Fernandez-Tejero, Alyssa N. Sanchez, Mirna Ghemrawi, Catherine Bilodeau, Sylvia Etim, George Duncan, Matt Cochran, and Bruce McCord
Periodically disturbing biofilms reduces expression of quorum sensing-regulated virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Laura Garcia-Dieguez, Gabriela Diaz-Tang, Estefania Marin Meneses, Vanessa Cruise, Ivana M. Barraza, Travis J.A. Craddock, and Robert P. Smith
Chromosome-length genome assemblies and cytogenomic analyses of pangolins reveal remarkable chromosome counts and plasticity, Marlys L. Houck, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Taylor Hains, Ruqayya Khan, Suellen J. Charter, Julie A. Fronczek, Ann C. Misuraca, Sergei Kliver, Polina L. Perelman, Violetta R. Beklemisheva, Alexander Graphodatsky, Shu-Jin Luo, Stephen J. O’Brien, Norman T.-L. Lim, Jason S. C. Chin, Vanessa Guerra, Gaik Tamazian, Arina Omer, David Weisz, Kenneth Kaemmerer, Ginger Sturgeon, Joseph Gaspard, Alicia Hahn, Mark McDonough, Isabel Garcia-Treviño, Jordan Gentry, Rob L. Coke, Jan E. Janecka, Ryan J. Harrigan, Jen Tinsman, Thomas B. Smith, Erez Lieberman Aiden, and Olga Dudchenko
Change and stasis of distinct sediment microbiomes across Port Everglades Inlet (PEI) and the adjacent coral reefs, Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Jose V. Lopez, Catherine Bilodeau, Hyo Won Lee, and Shelby L. Casali
Molecular Mapping and Characterization of QTLs for Grain Quality Traits in a RIL Population of US Rice Under High Nighttime Temperature Stress, Anuj Kumar, Julie Thomas, Navdeep Gill, Yheni Dwiningsih, Charles Ruiz, Adam Famoso, and Andy Pereira
Protocol for an agent-based model of recombination in bacteria playing a public goods game, Isaiah Paolo A. Lee, Omar T. Eldakar, J. Peter Gogarten, and Cheryl P. Andam
Recombination as an Enforcement Mechanism of Prosocial Behavior in Cooperating Bacteria, Isaiah Paolo A. Lee, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, J. Peter Gogarten, and Cheryl P. Andam
Hunting behavior of a solitary sailfish Istiophorus platypterus and estimated energy gain after prey capture, Ryan K. Logan, Sarah M. Luongo, Jeremy Vaudo, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood Shivji
Patrolling the Border: Billfish Exploit the Hypoxic Boundary Created by the World's Largest Oxygen Minimum Zone, Ryan Logan, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Brad Wetherbee, and Mahmood Shivji
Population structure and hybridisation in a population of Hawaiian feral chickens, Maria Luisa Martin Cerezo, Saioa Lopez, Lucy Van Dorp, Garrett Hellenthal, Martin Johnsson, Eben Gering, Rie Henriksen, and Dominic Wright
Potential Impacts of Environmental Bacteria on the Microbiota of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and Green (Chelonia mydas) Sea Turtle Eggs and Their Hatching Success, Colleen McMaken, Derek Burkholder, Rosanna J. Milligan Dr., and Jose V. Lopez
Decontamination and Annotation of the Draft Genome Sequence of the Oomycete Lagenidium giganteum ARSEF 373, William R. Morgan and Aurelien Tartar
Acoustic telemetry provides insights for improving conservation and management at a spawning aggregation site of the endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), Richard S. Nemeth, Elizabeth Kadison, Jonathan Jossart, Mahmood Shivji, Bradley Wetherbee, and Jordan Matley
Interactions Between Metabolism and Growth Can Determine the Co-existence of Staphylococcus Aureus and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Camryn Pajon, Marla C. Fortoul, Gabriela Diaz-Tang, Estefania Marin Meneses, Ariane R. Kalifa, Elinor Sevy, Taniya Mariah, Brandon Toscan, Maili Marcelin, Daniella M. Hernandez, Melissa M. Marzouk, Allison J. Lopatkin, Omar T. Eldakar, and Robert Smith
Genomes of endangered great hammerhead and shortfin mako sharks reveal historic population declines and high levels of inbreeding in great hammerhead, Michael J. Stanhope, Kristina M. Ceres, Qi Sun, Minghui Wang, Jordan D. Zehr, Nicholas J. Marra, Aryn P. Wilder, Cheng Zou, Andrea M. Bernard, Paulina D. Pavinski Bitar, Mitchell G. Lokey, and Mahmood Shivji
Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution, Xin Sun, Yue-Chen Liu, Mikhail P. Tiunov, Dmitry O. Gimranov, Yan Zhuang, Yu Han, Carlos A. Driscoll, Yuhong Pang, Chunmei Li, Yan Pan, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Rui-Zheng Yang, Bao-Guo Li, Kun Jin, Xiao Xu, Olga Uphyrkina, Yanyi Huang, Xiao-Hong Wu, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Stephen J. O'Brien, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, and Shu-Jin Luo
The case for the reintroduction of cheetahs to India, Adrian S. W. Tordiffe, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Luigi Boitani, Bogdan Cristescu, Richard Kock, Leith R. C. Meyer, Simon Naylor, Stephen James O'Brien, Anne Schmidt-Kuntzel, Mark R. Stanley Price, Vincent van der Merwe, and Laurie Marker
Elucidating the role of competition in driving spatial and trophic niche patterns in sympatric juvenile sharks, Ornella C. Weideli, Ryan Daly, Lauren R. Peel, Michael Heithaus, Mahmood Shivji, Serge Planes, and Yannis P. Papastamatiou
Chromosome-Length Assembly of the Baikal Seal (Pusa sibirica) Genome Reveals a Historically Large Population Prior to Isolation in Lake Baikal, Aliya Yakupova, Andrey Tomarovsky, Azamat Totikov, Violetta R. Beklemisheva, Maria Logacheva, Polina Perelman, Aleksey Komissarov, Pavel Dobrynin, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Gaik Tamazian, Natalya A. Serdyukova, Michael Rayko, Tatiana Bulyonkova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Vladimir Pylev, Vladimir Peterfeld, Aleksey Penin, Elena Balanovska, Alla L. Lapidus, DNA Zoo Consortium, Stephen James O'Brien, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, and Sergey Kliver
Submissions from 2022
Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Healthcare Management and Research, Stephanie Autore and Santanu De
Why sequence all eukaryotes?, Mark Blaxter, John M. Archibald, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Keith A. Crandall, Federica Di Palma, Richard Durbin, Scott V. Edwards, Jennifer A.M. Graves, Kevin J. Hackett, Neil Hall, Erich D. Jarvis, Rebecca N. Johnson, Elinor K. Karlsson, W. John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Jose V. Lopez, Nancy A. Moran, Gene E. Robinson, Oliver A. Ryder, Beth Shapiro, Pamela S. Soltis, Tandy Warnow, Guojie Zhang, and Harris A. Lewin
Growth productivity as a determinant of the inoculum effect for bactericidal antibiotics, Gabriela Diaz-Tang, Estefania Marin Meneses, Kavish Patel, Sophia Mirkin, Laura Garcia-Dieguez, Camryn Pajon, Ivana Barraza, Vijay Patel, Helana Ghali, Angelica P. Tracey, Christopher Blanar, Allison J. Lopatkin, and Robert P. Smith
Understanding Turkey Management in the Mimbres Valley of Southwestern New Mexico Using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Stable Isotopes, Sean G. Dolan, Andrew T. Ozga, Karl W. Laumbach, John Krigbaum, Aurélie Manin, Christopher W. Schwartz, Anne C. Stone, and Kelly J. Knudson
Identification of QTLs and Candidate Loci Associated with Drought-related Traits of the K/Z RIL Rice Population, Yheni Dwiningsih, Julie Thomas, Anuj Kumar, Chirag Gupta, Navdeep Gill, Charles Ruiz, Jawaher Alkahtani, Niranjan Baisakh, and Andy Pereira
Understanding the microbial biogeography of ancient human dentitions to guide study design and interpretation, Zandra Fagernäs, Domingo C. Salazar-Garcia, Maria Hadar Uriarte, Azucena Avilés Fernández, Amanda G. Henry, Joaquín Lomba Maurandi, Andrew T. Ozga, Irina M. Velsko, and Christina Warinner
Creating an Interdisciplinary Curriculum within the Undergraduate Arts and Sciences through Agar Art, Julie Torruellas Garcia, Kandy Lopez, Véronique Côté, and Katie E. Crump
Rapid Pivot of CURE Wet Lab to Online with the Help of Instructor Communities, Enid T. González-Orta, Deborah Tobiason, Brittany J. Gasper, Aarti Raja, and Sarah Miller
Global Education in STEM and Healthcare: Implications of COVID-19, Jessica Hallet and Santanu De
Genetic population dynamics of the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Sydney P. Harned, Andrea Bernard, Pelayo Salinas-de-Leon, Marissa Mehlrose, Jenifer Suarez, Yolani Robles, Sandra Bessudo Lion, Felipe Ladino, Andrés López Garo, Ilena Zanella, Kevin A. Feldheim, and Mahmood Shivji
Worldwide Consequences of COVID-19 on Research in STEM, Michelle Hoang and Santanu De
Analysis of Attitudinal Student Learning Benefits from a Biochemistry CURE Adapted for the Online Format, Amika Kapil, Luis Gonzalez, Niraj Pathak, Santanu De, and Arthur Sikora
Quantification of Learning Gains in a Science CURE: Leveraging Learning Objectives to Substantiate and Validate the Benefits of Experiential Education, Rachel Keating, Luzcarime Saco Vertiz, Victor Manly, Akshata Sastry, Santanu De, and Arthur Sikora
Associations between Toxoplasma gondii infection and steroid hormone levels in spotted hyenas, Zachary M. Laubach, Eben Gering, Erik Yang, Tracy M. Montgomery, Thomas Getty, and Kay E. Holekamp
Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project, Mara K. Lawniczak, Richard Durbin, Paul Flicek, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xiaofeng Wei, John M. Archibald, William J. Baker, Katherine Belov, Mark L. Blaxter, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Robert P. Davey, Federica Di Palma, Qi Fang, Wilfried Haerty, Neil Hall, Katherine J. Hoff, Kerstin Howe, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Rebecca N. Johnson, Paul J. Kersey, Xin Liu, Jose V. Lopez, Eugene W. Myers, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Adam M. Phillippy, Monica F. Poelchau, Kim D. Pruitt, Arang Rhie, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Nicholas A. Salmon, Pamela S. Soltis, David Swarbreck, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Sibo Wang, Jill L. Wegrzyn, Guojie Zhang, He Zhang, Harris A. Lewin, and Stephen Richards
The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, Harris A. Lewin, Stephen Richards, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Miguel L. Allende, John M. Archibald, Katharine B. Baker, Bridget Baumgartner, Katherine Belov, Giorgio Bertorelle, Mark L. Blaxter, Jing Cai, Nicolette D. Caperello, Keith Carlson, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Lei Chen, Anna K. Childers, Jonathan A. Coddington, Dalia A. Conde, Montserrat Corominas, Keith A. Crandall, Andrew J. Crawford, Federica DiPalma, Richard Durbin, ThankGod E. Ebenezer, Scott V. Edwards, Olivier Fedrigo, Paul Flicek, Giulio Formenti, Richard A. Gibbs, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Melissa M. Goldstein, Jennifer Marshall Graves, Henry T. Greely, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kevin J. Hackett, Neil Hall, David Haussler, Kristofer M. Helgen, Carolyn J. Hogg, Sachiko Isobe, Kjetill Sigurd Jakobson, Axel Janke, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Steven J. M. Jones, Elinor K. Karlsson, Paul J. Kersey, Jin-Hyoung Kim, W. John Kress, Shigehiro Kuraku, Mara K. N. Lawniczak, James H. Leebens-Mack, Xueyan Li, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Xin Liu, Jose V. Lopez, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Sophie Mazard, Jonna A. K. Mazet, Camila J. Mazzoni, Eugene W. Myers, Rachel J. O'Neill, Sadye Paez, Hyun Park, Gene E. Robinson, Cristina Roquet, Oliver A. Ryder, Jamal S. M. Sabir, H. Bradley Shaffer, Timothy M. Shank, Jacob S. Sherkow, Pamela S. Soltis, Boping Tang, Leho Tedersoo, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Kun Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Regina Wetzer, Julia L. Wilson, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Anne D. Yoder, and Guojie Zhang
High-resolution post-release behaviour and recovery periods of two highly prized recreational sportfish: the blue marlin and sailfish, Ryan Logan, Jeremy Vaudo, Christopher G. Lowe, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood Shivji
The gut microbiome of exudivorous marmosets in the wild and captivity, Joanna Malukiewicz, Reed Cartwright, Jorge A. Dergam, Claudia S. Igayara, Sharon E. Kessler, Silvia B. Moreira, Leanne T. Nash, Patricia A. Nicola, Luiz C. M. Pereira, Alcides Pissinatti, Carlos R. Ruiz-Miranda, Andrew T. Ozga, Adriana A. Quirino, Christian Roos, Daniel L. Silva, Anne C. Stone, and Adriana D. Grativol
Three complete mitochondrial genomes of shortfin mako sharks, Isurus oxyrinchus, from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Marissa Mehlrose, Andrea Bernard, Kimberly A. Finnegan, Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Jose V. Lopez, and Mahmood Shivji
A decade of GigaScience: A perspective on conservation genetics, Stephen James O'Brien
[Book Review] An Intrepid Ecological Geneticist’s Pursuit of Industrial Melanism, Stephen James O'Brien
In Memoriam: Diane R. O’Brien (1945–2021): Transformative Managing Editor—Journal of Heredity, Stephen James O'Brien
Taxonomic Species Recognition Should be Consistent, Stephen James O'Brien and Shu-Jin Luo
The Pioneer Advantage: Filling the blank spots on the map of genome diversity in Europe, Taras K. Oleksyk, Walter Wolfsberger, Khrystyna Schubelka, Serghei Mangul, and Stephen James O'Brien
The Nova Hydroculture Project: Bringing a Community of Science Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) Learners Together to Grow a Unique Garden, Emily Schmitt Lavin, Varun Andrews, Espélancia Bell, Kenneth Bui, Aleessa Celestin, Vincent Do, Neha Joshi, Alexander Lavin, Carol Manikkuttiyil, Shashank Nutalapati, Alina Poothurail, Caroline Roy, Sanjana Vadlamudi, Shawn McQuaid, Michele Parsons, and Aarti Raja
Creating a Learning Model Where Students Practice the Scientific Process Through Protein Modeling, Emily F. Schmitt Lavin, Lyla Abbas, Aisha Abdool, Jordan Nichole Carreras, Jose Diaz, Seethal Doki, Rachel Harris, Heidi Hellenbrand, Pujita Julakanti, Brianna M. Lacasse, Sanjana Likki, Ryan Luib, Rathika Manikanda, Carol Manikkuttiyil, Saimi Reyes, Isadora Abreu, Vibha Sankavaram, Tassnime Sebaei, Chino Villanueva, and Arthur Sikora
Complete Genome Sequences of Genamy16 and NovaSharks, Two Gordonia rubripertincta Bacteriophages Isolated from Soil in Southeastern Florida, Julie Torruellas Garcia, Sarah Ballarin, Neel Balusa, Melissa Bell, Samia Caballero, Joshua Chan, Maria Farez, Ashley J. Guillen-Tapia, Kristin Parent, Nashrah Pierre-Louis, Victoria Polishuk, Bhavya Soni, Sundharraman Subramanian, and Katie E. Crump
Nitrosomonas supralitoralis sp. nov., an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from beach sand in a supralittoral zone, Hidetoshi Urakawa, Gabrianna A. Andrews, Jose V. Lopez, Willm Martens-Habbena, Martin G. Klotz, and David A. Stahl
Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world’s largest fish, the whale shark, Freya C. Womersley, Nicolas E. Humphries, Nuno Queiroz, Marisa Vedor, Ivo da Costa, Miguel Furtado, John P. Tyminski, Katya Abrantes, Gonzalo Araujo, Steffen S. Bach, Adam Barnett, Michael L. Berumen, Sandra Bessudo Lion, Camrin D. Braun, Elizabeth Clingham, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Rafael de la Parra, Stella Diamant, Alistair D. M. Dove, Christine L. Dudgeon, Mark V. Erdmann, Eduardo Espinoza, Richard Fitzpatrick, Jaime González Cano, Jonathan R. Green, Hector M. Guzman, Royale Hardenstine, Abdi Hasan, Fábio H. V. Hazin, Alex R. Hearn, Robert E. Hueter, Mohammed Y. Jaidah, Jessica Labaja, Felipe Ladino, Bruno C. L. Macena, John J. Morris Jr., Bradley M. Norman, Cesar Peñaherrera-Palma, Simon J. Pierce, Lina Maria Quintero, Dení Ramírez-Macías, Samantha D. Reynolds, Anthony J. Richardson, David P. Robinson, Christoph A. Rohner, David R. L. Rowat, Marcus Sheaves, Mahmood Shivji, Abraham B. Sianipar, Gregory B. Skomal, German Soler, Ismail Syakurachman, Simon R. Thorrold, D. Harry Webb, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Timothy D. White, Tyler Clavelle, David A. Kroodsma, Michele Thums, Luciana C. Ferreira, Mark G. Meekan, Lucy M. Arrowsmith, Emily K. Lester, Megan M. Meyers, Lauren R. Peel, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Victor M. Eguiluz, Carlos M. Duarte, and David W. Sims
Submissions from 2021
A data-driven, high-throughput methodology to determine tissue-specific differentially methylated regions able to discriminate body fluids, Joana Antunes, Quentin Gauthier, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido, George Duncan, and Bruce McCord
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Healthcare Research and Management, Stephanie Autore and Santanu De
Microscopic and Genetic Characterization of Bacterial Symbionts With Bioluminescent Potential in Pyrosoma atlanticum, Alexis Berger, Patricia L. Blackwelder, Tamara Frank, Tracey Sutton, Nina Pruzinsky, Natalie Slayden, and Jose V. Lopez
Stable isotopes and community surveys reveal differential use of artificial and natural reefs by South Florida fishes, Christopher Blanar, Joseph R. Hornbeck, David Kerstetter, and Amy Hirons
Sexual conflicts in sand tiger sharks Carcharias taurus (Rafinesque, 1810) in an artificial environment, Elizabeth Claus, Alan Henningsen, Mahmood Shivji, and Bradley Wetherbee
Binding Partners of 14-3-3 (YWHA) Protein Isoforms among Mammalian Species, Tissues, and Developmental Stages, Taylor R. Covington and Santanu De
Holo-Transcriptome Sequences from the Tropical Marine Sponge Cinachyrella alloclada, Yvain Desplat, Jacob F. Warner, and Jose V. Lopez
The role of glutamine in supporting gut health and neuropsychiatric factors, Brett J. Deters and Mir Saleem
Carpe diem: winner and loser effects are constrained to same-day competitions in collegiate baseball, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, Natalie Buckwold, and Andrew C. Gallup
Acetaminophen Potentiates Fear Processing: A Comparison Between Ancestral and Modern Threats, Andrew Gallup, Brianda Gagnon, Gillian Perry, and Omar T. Eldakar
People that score high on psychopathic traits are less likely to yawn contagiously, Andrew Gallup, Mariska E. Kret, Omar T. Eldakar, Julia Folz, and Jorg J. M. Massen
ddPCR Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Florida Wastewater, Eben Gering, Jacob Colbert, Sarah Schmedes, George Duncan, Jose V. Lopez, Jessy Motes, James Weiss, Taj Azarian, Omer Tekin, and Jason Blanton
Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with costly boldness toward felids in a wild host, Eben Gering, Zachary M. Laubach, Patty Sue D. Weber, Gisela Soboll Hussey, Kenna D. S. Lehmann, Tracy M. Montgomery, Julie W. Turner, Wei Perng, Malit O. Pioon, Kay E. Holekamp, and Thomas Getty
The genital microbiome and its potential for detecting sexual assault, Mirna Ghemrawi, Andrea Ramírez Torres, George Duncan, Rita Colwell, Manoj Dadlani, and Bruce McCord
Effects of COVID-19 on Global Research in STEM, Michelle Hoang and Santanu De
BIO-INSPIRED MAGNETIC BEADS FOR ISOLATION OF SPERM FROM HETEROGENOUS SAMPLES IN FORENSIC APPLICATIONS, Fatih Inci, Merve Goksin Karaaslan, Rakhi Gupta, Anirudh Avadhani, Mehmet Giray Ogut, Ekin Erin Atila, George Duncan, Leonard Klevan, and Utkan Demirci
Analysis of global human gut metagenomes shows that metabolic resilience potential for short-chain fatty acid production is strongly influenced by lifestyle, David K. Jacobson, Tanvi P. Honap, Andrew T. Ozga, Nicolas Meda, Thérèse S. Kagoné, Hélène Carabin, Paul Spicer, Raul Y. Tito, Alexandra J. Obregon-Tito, Luis Marin Reyes, Luzmila Troncoso-Corzo, Emilio Guija-Poma, and Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan
Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer, Isaiah Paolo A. Lee, Omar T. Eldakar, J. Peter Gogarten, and Cheryl P. Andam
Minor Changes with Large Implications: Modeling Amino Acid Mutations in SARS-CoV Monoclonal Antibodies (80R and 362) Towards the Design of More Universal Antibodies, Carol Manikkuttiyil, Feza Abbas, Lyla Abbas, Carolina Alzamora, Matthew Hunt, Pujita Julakanti, Sanjana Likki, Christo Manikkuttiyil, Emily Schmitt Lavin, and Arthur Sikora
Commentary: Unbiasing Genome-Based Analyses of Selection: An Example Using Iconic Shark Species, Nicholas J. Marra, Michael J. Stanhope, Nathaniel K. Jue, Vincent P. Richards, Stephen J. O'Brien, Agostinho Antunes, and Mahmood S. Shivji
The role of Neuropilin-1 in COVID-19, Bindu Mayi, Jillian A. Leibowitz, Arden T. Woods, Katherine A. Ammon, Alphonse E. Liu, and Aarti Raja
A Crucial Role for Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Midst of COVID-19, Bindu Mayi, Manda Mainville, Rida Altaf, Michelle Lanspa, Sheel Vaniawala, Thomas A. Ollerhead, and Aarti Raja
A Crucial Role for Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Midst of COVID-19, Bindu S. Mayi, Manda Mainville, Rida Altaf, Michelle Lanspa, Sheel Vaniawala, Thomas A. Ollerhead, and Aarti Raja
The Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project: probing the evolution of symbiosis across the tree of life, Victoria McKenna, John M. Archibald, Roxanne Beinart, Michael N. Dawson, Ute Hentschel, Patrick J. Keeling, Jose V. Lopez, José M. Martín-Durán, Jillian M. Petersen, Julia D. Sigwart, Oleg Simakov, Kelly R. Sutherland, Michael Sweet, Nick Talbot, Anne W. Thompson, Sara Bender, Peter W. Harrison, Jeena Rajan, Guy Cochrane, Matthew Berriman, Mara Lawniczak, and Mark Blaxter
Genetic, Social and Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Vineela Nagamalla, Jay Patel, and Mir Saleem
Dental calculus as a proxy for animal microbiomes, Andrew T. Ozga and Claudio Ottoni
African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Axel Barlow, Matthew S. Becker, James A. Cahill, Joerns Fickel, Daniel W.G. Förster, Katrin Gries, Stefanie Hartmann, Rasmus Worsøe Havmøller, Kirstin Henneberger, Christian Kern, Andrew C. Kitchener, Eline D. Lorenzen, Frieder Mayer, Stephen James O'Brien, Johanna von Seth, Mikkel-Holder S. Sinding, Göran Spong, Olga Uphyrkina, Bettina Wachter, Michael V. Westbury, Love Dalén, Jong Bhak, Andrea Manica, and Michael Hofreiter
Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage, Angela Perri, Kieren J. Mitchell, Alice Mouton, Sandra Alvarez-Carretero, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Jaimes Haile, Alexandra Jamieson, Julie Meachen, Audrey T. Lin, Blaine W. Schubert, Carly Ameen, Ekaterina E. Antipina, Pere Bover, Selina Brace, Alberto Carmagnini, Christian Carøe, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, James C. Chatters, Keith Dobney, Mario dos Reis, Allowen Evin, Phillippe Gaubert, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Graham Gower, Holly Heiniger, Kristofer M. Helgen, Josh Kapp, Pavel A. Kosintsev, Anna Linderholm, Andrew T. Ozga, Samantha Presslee, Alexander T. Salis, Nedda F. Saremi, Colin Shew, Katherine Skerry, Dmitry E. Taranenko, Mary Thompson, Mikhail V. Sablin, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Matthew J. Collins, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Anne C. Stone, Beth Shapiro, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Robert K. Wayne, Greger Larson, Alan Cooper, and Laurent A. F. Frantz
Novel Disk Diffusion Assay on Magnesium Oxalate Agar To Evaluate the Susceptibility of Yersinia pestis to Type III Secretion System Inhibitors, Sukriti Prashar, Miguel Portales Guemes, Poorandai Shivbaran, Eugenia Jimenez Alvarez, Christopher Soha, Samir Nacer, Michael McDonough, Gregory V. Plano, and Julie Torruellas Garcia
Reply to: Shark mortality cannot be assessed by fishery overlap alone, Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E. Humphries, Ana Couto, Marisa Vedor, Ivo da Costa, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Gonzalo Mucientes, António M. Santos, Francisco J. Abascal, Debra L. Abercrombie, Katya Abrantes, David Acuña-Marrero, André S. Afonso, Pedro Afonso, Darrell Anders, Gonzalo Araujo, Randall Arauz, Pascal Bach, Adam Barnett, Diego Bernal, Michael L. Berumen, Sandra Bessudo Lion, Natalia P. A. Bezerra, Antonin V. Blaison, Barbara A. Block, Mark E. Bond, Ramon Bonfil, Russell W. Bradford, Camrin D. Braun, Edward J. Brooks, Annabelle Brooks, Judith Brown, Barry D. Bruce, Michael E. Byrne, Steven E. Campana, Aaron B. Carlisle, Demian D. Chapman, Taylor K. Chapple, John Chisholm, Christopher R. Clarke, Eric G. Clua, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Estelle C. Crochelet, Laurent Dagorn, Ryan Daly, Daniel Devia Cortés, Thomas K. Doyle, Michael Drew, Clinton A. J. Duffy, Thor Erikson, Eduardo Espinoza, Luciana C. Ferreira, Francesco Ferretti, John D. Filmalter, G. Chris Fischer, Richard Fitzpatrick, Jorge Fontes, Fabien Forget, Mark Fowler, Malcolm P. Francis, Austin J. Gallagher, Enrico Gennari, Simon D. Goldsworthy, Matthew J. Gollock, Jonathan R. Green, Johan A. Gustafson, Tristan L. Guttridge, Hector M. Guzman, Neil Hammerschlag, Luke Harman, Fábio H. V. Hazin, Matthew Heard, Alex R. Hearn, John C. Holdsworth, Bonnie J. Holmes, Lucy A. Howey, Mauricio Hoyos, Robert E. Hueter, Nigel E. Hussey, Charlie Huveneers, Dylan T. Irion, David M. P. Jacoby, Oliver J. D. Jewell, Ryan Johnson, Lance K. B. Jordan, Warren Joyce, Clare A. Keating Daly, James T. Ketchum, A. Peter Klimley, Alison A. Kock, Pieter Koen, Felipe Ladino, Fernanda O. Lana, James S. E. Lea, Fiona Llewellyn, Warrick S. Lyon, Anna MacDonnell, Bruno C. L. Macena, Heather Marshall, Jaime D. McAllister, Michael A. Meÿer, John J. Morris, Emily R. Nelson, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Cesar Peñaherrera-Palma, Simon J. Pierce, Francois Poisson, Lina Maria Quintero, Andrew J. Richardson, Paul J. Rogers, Christoph A. Rohner, David R. L. Rowat, Melita Samoilys, Jayson M. Semmens, Marcus Sheaves, George Shillinger, Mahmood S. Shivji, Sarika Singh, Gregory B. Skomal, Malcolm J. Smale, Laurenne B. Snyders, German Soler, Marc Soria, Kilian M. Stehfest, Simon R. Thorrold, Mariana T. Tolotti, Alison Towner, Paulo Travassos, John P. Tyminski, Frederic Vandeperre, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Sam B. Weber, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Timothy D. White, Sean Williams, Patricia M. Zárate, Robert Harcourt, Graeme C. Hays, Mark G. Meekan, Michele Thums, Xabier Irigoien, Victor M. Eguiluz, Carlos M. Duarte, Lara L. Sousa, Samantha J. Simpson, and Emily J. Southall
Reply to: Caution over the use of ecological big data for conservation, Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E. Humphries, Ana Couto, Marisa Vedor, Ivo da Costa, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Gonzalo Mucientes, António M. Santos, Francisco J. Abascal, Debra L. Abercrombie, Katya Abrantes, David Acuña-Marrero, André S. Afonso, Pedro Afonso, Darrell Anders, Gonzalo Araujo, Randall Arauz, Pascal Bach, Adam Barnett, Diego Bernal, Michael L. Berumen, Sandra Bessudo Lion, Natalia P. A. Bezerra, Antonin V. Blaison, Barbara A. Block, Mark E. Bond, Ramon Bonfil, Camrin D. Braun, Edward J. Brooks, Annabelle Brooks, Judith Brown, Michael E. Byrne, Steven E. Campana, Aaron B. Carlisle, Demian D. Chapman, Taylor K. Chapple, John Chisholm, Christopher R. Clarke, Eric G. Clua, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Estelle C. Crochelet, Laurent Dagorn, Ryan Daly, Daniel Devia Cortés, Thomas K. Doyle, Michael Drew, Clinton A. J. Duffy, Thor Erikson, Eduardo Espinoza, Luciana C. Ferreira, Francesco Ferretti, John D. Filmalter, G Chris Fischer, Richard Fitzpatrick, Jorge Fontes, Fabien Forget, Mark Fowler, Malcolm P. Francis, Austin J. Gallagher, Enrico Gennari, Simon D. Goldsworthy, Matthew J. Gollock, Jonathan R. Green, Johan A. Gustafson, Tristan L. Guttridge, Hector M. Guzman, Neil Hammerschlag, Luke Harman, Fábio H. V. Hazin, Matthew Heard, Alex R. Hearn, John C. Holdsworth, Bonnie J. Holmes, Lucy A. Howey, Mauricio Hoyos, Robert E. Hueter, Nigel E. Hussey, Charlie Huveneers, Dylan T. Irion, David M. P. Jacoby, Oliver J. D. Jewell, Ryan Johnson, Lance K. B. Jordan, Warren Joyce, Clare A. Keating Daly, James T. Ketchum, A Peter Klimley, Alison A. Kock, Pieter Koen, Felipe Ladino, Fernanda O. Lana, James S. E. Lea, Fiona Llewellyn, Warrick S. Lyon, Anna MacDonnell, Bruno C. L. Macena, Heather Marshall, Jaime D. McAllister, Michael A. Meÿer, John J. Morris, Emily R. Nelson, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Cesar Peñaherrera-Palma, Simon J. Pierce, Francois Poisson, Lina Maria Quintero, Andrew J. Richardson, Paul J. Rogers, Christoph A. Rohner, David R. L. Rowat, Melita Samoilys, Jayson M. Semmens, Marcus Sheaves, George Shillinger, Mahmood S. Shivji, Sarika Singh, Gregory B. Skomal, Malcolm J. Smale, Laurenne B. Snyders, German Soler, Marc Soria, Kilian M. Stehfest, Simon R. Thorrold, Mariana T. Tolotti, Alison Towner, Paulo Travassos, John P. Tyminski, Frederic Vandeperre, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Sam B. Weber, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Timothy D. White, Sean Williams, Patricia M. Zárate, Robert Harcourt, Graeme C. Hays, Mark G. Meekan, Michele Thums, Xabier Irigoien, Victor M. Eguiluz, Carlos M. Duarte, Lara L. Sousa, Samantha J. Simpson, Emily J. Southall, and David W. Sims
Periodically Disturbing the Spatial Structure of Biofilms Can Affect the Production of an Essential Virulence Factor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Rebecca J. Quinn, Ivana Barraza, Laura García-Diéguez, Camryn Pajon, Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Kerollos Ibrahim, Laura A. Enzinna, Morgan E. Thorn, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, Travis J. A. Craddock, and Robert P. Smith
Metaplasia of respiratory and digestive tissues in the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Deanne Roopnarine, Peter D. Roopnarine, Laurie C. Anderson, Ji Hae Hwang, and Swati Patel
Evidence of historical isolation and genetic structuring among broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) from the world’s major oceanic regions, Alicia C. J. Schmidt-Roach, Christine C. Bruels, Adam Barnett, Adam D. Miller, Craig D. H. Sherman, David A. Ebert, Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, Charlene da Silva, Christopher G. Wilke, Craig Thorburn, Jeffrey C. Mangel, Juan Manuel Ezcurra, Alejo Irigoyen, Andrés Javier Jaureguizar, Matias Braccini, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Clinton Duffy, and Mahmood Shivji
Genome-wide association study reveals genetic variants associated with HIV-1C infection in a Botswana study population, Andrey Shevchenko, Daria V. Zhernakova, Sergey Malov, Aleksey Komissarov, Sofia Kolchanova, Gaik Tamazian, Alexey Antonik, Nikolay Cherkasov, Sergey Kliver, Anastasiia Turenko, Mikhail Rotkevich, Igor Evsyukov, David Vlahov, Prisca K. Thami, Simani Gaseitsiwe, Vladimir Novitsky, Myron Essex, and Stephen James O'Brien
Come together: calibration of tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) microsatellite databases for investigating global population structure and assignment of historical specimens, Matilde Sort, Alice Manuzzi, Belén Jiménez-Mena, J R. Ovenden, B J. Holmes, Andrea Bernard, Mahmood S. Shivji, D Meldrup, Mike B. Bennett, and Einar E. Nielsen
Microbiome Analyses Demonstrate Specific Communities Within Five Shark Species, Rachael Storo, Cole Easson, Mahmood S. Shivji, and Jose V. Lopez
Diel vertical movements of a coastal predator, the roosterfish (Nematistius pectoralis), Jeremy Vaudo, Ryan K. Logan, Bradley Wetherbee, Jessica C. Harvey, Guy C. McN. Harvey, and Mahmood Shivji
Life in the margins: host-parasite relationships in ecological edges, Elizabeth M. Warburton and Christopher A. Blanar
Genome-wide Association Study Identifies New Loci Associated With Risk Of HBV Infection And Disease Progression, Zheng Zeng, Liu Hankui, Xu Huifang, Lu Haiying, Yu Yanyan, Xu Xiaoyuan, Yu Min, Zhang Tao, Tian Xiulan, Xi Hongli, Guan Liping, Zhang Jianguo, and Stephen James O'Brien
Submissions from 2020
Decoding the Molecular Ties between Cerebrovascular Disease and Alzheimer’s, Simran Agarwal and Mir Saleem
Academic Ecosystems Must Evolve to Support a Sustainable Postdoc Workforce, Murielle Ålund, Nathan Emery, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Kirsty J. MacLeod, Helen F. McCreery, Nadya Mamoozadeh, John G. Phillips, Jory Schossau, Andrew W. Thompson, Alexa R. Warwick, Kelsey M. Yule, Erin R. Zylstra, and Eben Gering
Mapping of Diabetes Susceptibility Loci in a Domestic Cat Breed with an Unusually High Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus, Lois Balmer, Caroline Ann O'Leary, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond, Victor David, Stephen James O'Brien, Belinda Penglis, Sher Hendrickson, Mia Reeves-Johnson, Susan Gottlieb, Linda Fleeman, Dianne Vankan, Jacquie Rand, and Grant Morahan
Genomic Adaptations and Evolutionary History of the Extinct Scimitar-Toothed Cat, Homotherium latidens, Ross Barnett, Michael V. Westbury, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Filipe Garrett Vieira, Sungwon Jeon, Grant Zazula, Michael D. Martin, Simon Y.W. Ho, Niklas Mather, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Marc de Manuel, M. Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza, Agostinho Antunes, Aldo Carmona Baez, Binia De Cahsan, Greger Larson, Stephen J. O'Brien, Eduardo Eizirik, Warren E. Johnson, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Andreas Wilting, Jörns Fickel, Love Dalén, Eline D. Lorenzen, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Anders J. Hansen, Guojie Zhang, and Jong Bhak
Karyotype Evolution in 10 Pinniped Species: Variability of Heterochromatin versus High Conservatism of Euchromatin as Revealed by Comparative Molecular Cytogenetics, Violetta R. Beklemisheva, Polina L. Perelman, Natalya A. Lemskaya, Anastasiya A. Proskuryakova, Natalya A. Serdyukova, Vladimir N. Burkanov, Maksim B. Gorshunov, Oliver A. Ryder, Mary Thompson, Gina Lento, Stephen James O'Brien, and Alexander S. Graphodatsky
Oceanographic Structure and Light Levels Drive Patterns of Sound Scattering Layers in a Low-Latitude Oceanic System, Kevin M. Boswell, Marta D'Elia, Matthew Johnston, John A. Mohan, Joseph D. Warren, R. J. David Wells, and Tracey Sutton
Ultracontinuous single haplotype genome assemblies for the domestic cat (Felis catus) and Asian leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), Kevin R. Bredemeyer, Andrew J. Harris, Gang Li, Le Zhao, Nicole M. Foley, Melody E. Roelke-Parker, Stephen James O'Brien, Leslie A. Lyons, Wesley C. Warren, and William J. Murphy
Are Pangolins Scapegoats of the COVID-19 Outbreak-CoV Transmission and Pathology Evidence?, Siew Woh Choo, Jinfeng Zhou, Xuechen Tian, Siyuan Zhang, Shen Qiang, Stephen James O'Brien, Ka Yun Tan, Sara Platto, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Agostinho Antunes, and Frankie Thomas Sitam