Biology Faculty Articles
Submissions from 2020
The evolutionary history of extinct and living lions, Marc de Manuel, Ross Barnett, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Filipe Garrett Vieira, M. Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza, Shiping Liu, Michael D. Martin, Mikkel Holger S. Sinding, Sarah S.T. Mak, Christian Carøe, Shanlin Liu, Chunxue Guo, Jiao Zheng, Grant Zazula, Gennady Baryshnikov, Eduardo Eizirik, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Warren E. Johnson, Agostinho Antunes, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Greger Larson, Huanming Yang, Stephen J. O'Brien, Anders J. Hansen, Guojie Zhang, Tomas Marques-Bonet, and M. Thomas P. Gilbert
Strategies of Plant Biotechnology to Meet the Increasing Demand of Food and Nutrition in India, Santanu De
The 14-3-3 (YWHA) Proteins in Mammalian Reproduction, Santanu De
Impact of Science Mobile Applications on Interest and Learning Among Undergraduate Science Students, Santanu De and Vanaja Nethi
A Confirmatory Test for Sperm in Sexual Assault Samples Using a Microfluidic Integrated Cell Phone Imaging System, Shreya Deshmukh, Fatih Inci, Merve Goksin Karaaslan, Mehmet Giray Ogut, Derek Duncan, Leonard Klevan, George Duncan, and Utkan Demirci
Host Population Genetics and Biogeography Structure the Microbiome of the Sponge Cliona delitrix, Cole Easson, Andia Chaves-Fonnegra, Robert W. Thacker, and Jose Lopez
Combined eDNA and Acoustic Analysis Reflects Diel Vertical Migration of Mixed Consortia in the Gulf of Mexico, Cole G. Easson, Kevin M. Boswell, Nicholas Tucker, Joseph D. Warren, and Jose V. Lopez
New Gene Variants Associated with the Risk of Chronic HBV Infection, Mengjie Fan, Jing Wang, Sa Wang, Tengyan Li, Hong Pan, Hankui Liu, Huifang Xu, Daria V. Zhernakova, Stephen J. O’Brien, Zhenru Feng, Le Chang, Erhei Dai, Jianhua Lu, Hongli Xi, Yanyan Yu, Jianguo Zhang, Binbin Wang, and Zheng Zeng
Acetaminophen Does Not Alter the Early Processing of Emotional Facial Expressions: An Eye-tracking Study, Andrew C. Gallup, Brianda K. L. Gagnon, Bruna Rosic, and Omar T. Eldakar
Insights Into Insular Isolation of the Bull Shark, Carcharhinus leucas (Müller and Henle, 1839), in Fijian Waters, Kerstin B J Glaus, Sharon A. Appleyard, Brian Stockwell, Juerg M. Brunnschweiler, Mahmood S. Shivji, Eric Clua, Amandine D. Marie, and Ciro Rico
Effects of COVID-19 on Education in Healthcare and STEM, Jessica Hallett and Santanu De
Detecting Personal Microbiota Signatures at Artificial Crime Scenes, Jarrad T. Hampton-Marcell, Peter Larsen, Tifani Anton, Lauren Cralle, Naseer Sangwan, Simon Lax, Neil Gottel, Mariana Salas-Garcia, Candace Young, George Duncan, Jose Lopez, and Jack A. Gilbert
Seasonal patterns in stable isotope and fatty acid profiles of southern stingrays (Hypanus americana) at Stingray City Sandbar, Grand Cayman, Lisa A. Hoopes, Tonya M. Clauss, Nicole E. Browning, Alexa J. Delaune, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood Shivji, Jessica C. Harvey, and Guy C.M. Harvey
HalSynteny: A fast, easy-to-use conserved synteny block construction method for multiple whole-genome alignments, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Mark Diekhans, Joel Armstrong, Aleksei Dievskii, Benedict Paten, and Stephen O'Brien
Spatio-Temporal Genetic Tagging of a Cosmopolitan Planktivorous Shark Provides Insight to Gene Flow, Temporal Variation and Site-Specific Re-Encounters, Lilian Lieber, Graham Hall, Jackie Hall, Simon Berrow, Emmett Johnston, Chrysoula Gubili, Jane Sarginson, Malcolm Francis, Clinton Duffy, Sabine P. Wintner, Philip D. Doherty, Brendan J. Godley, Lucy A. Hawkes, Matthew J. Witt, Suzanne M. Henderson, Eleonora de Sabata, Mahmood S. Shivji, Deborah A. Dawson, David W. Sims, Catherine S. Jones, and Leslie R. Noble
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A Brief Review for Family Physicians, Bindu Mayi, Aarti Raja, Gina Foster-Moumoutjis, Pamela Moran-Walcutt, Mayur Parmar, Patricia Rose, and Shahnaz Fatteh
Microbial Community Shift Under Exposure of Dredged Sediments From a Eutrophic Bay, Juliana R. Nascimento, Cole Easson, Diogo de A. Jurelevicius, Jose V. Lopez, Edison D. Bidone, and Elisamara Sabadini-Santos
GADMA: Genetic algorithm for inferring demographic history of multiple populations from allele frequency spectrum data, Ekaterina Noskova, Vladimir Ulyantsev, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Stephen J. O'brien, and Pavel Dobrynin
Urine as a High-Quality Source of Host Genomic DNA from Wild Populations, Andrew T. Ozga, Timothy H. Webster, Ian C. Gilby, Melissa A. Wilson, Rebecca Nockerts, Michael L. Wilson, Anne Pusey, Yingying Li, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Anne C. Stone
The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean, Ela Patel, Andrea Bernard, Marissa Mehlrose, Sydney Harned, Kimberly A. Finnegan, Cristin K. Fitzpatrick, James S. Lea, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Restricted Connectivity and Population Genetic Fragility in a Globally Endangered Hammerhead Shark, D. Pinhal, Rodrigo R. Domingues, Christine C. Bruels, Bruno L. S. Ferrette, Otto B. F. Gadig, Mahmood S. Shivji, and C. Martins
Draft Genome of Bugula neritina, a Colonial Animal Packing Powerful Symbionts and Potential Medicines, Mikhail Rayko, Aleksey Komissarov, Jason C. Kwan, Grace Lim-Fong, Adelaide C. Rhodes, Sergey Kliver, Polina Kuchur, Stephen James O'Brien, and Jose Lopez
Comparative Population Genomics and Biophysical Modeling of Shrimp Migration in the Gulf of Mexico Reveals Current-Mediated Connectivity, Laura Timm, Lys M. Isma, Matthew Johnston, and Heather D. Bracken-Grissom
Comparative Population Genomics and Biophysical Modeling of Shrimp Migration in the Gulf of Mexico Reveals Current-Mediated Connectivity, Laura Timm, Lys M. Isma, Matthew Johnston, and Heather D. Bracken-Grissom
Complete genome sequence of microcystis aeruginosa FD4, isolated from a subtropical river in Southwest Florida, Hidetoshi Urakawa, Taylor L. Hancock, Jacob H. Steele, Elizabeth K. Dahedl, Haruka E. Urakawa, Luka K. Ndungu, Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Barry H. Rosen, and Jose V. Lopez
A Potential Tradeoff Between Feeding Rate and Aversive Learning Determines Intoxication in a Caenorhabditis elegans Host-Pathogen System, Pallavi Velagapudi, Rachel Ghoubrial, Ratnavi Shah, Helana Ghali, Meghan Haas, Krunal S. Patel, Ashleigh Riddell, Christopher Blanar, and Robert Smith
Impact of pyriproxyfen on virus behavior: implications for pesticide-induced virulence and mechanism of transmission, Paula A. Faria Waziry, Aarti Raja, Chloe Salmon, Nathalia Aldana, Sruthi Damodar, Andre Rinaldi Fukushima, and Bindu S. Mayi
Diet and Parasites of a Mesopelagic Fish Assemblage in the Gulf of Mexico, Matthew S. Woodstock, Christopher Blanar, and Tracey Sutton
Match statistics for sequence‐based alleles in profiles from forensic pcr‐mps kits, Brian Young, Michael Marciano, Karin Crenshaw, George Duncan, Luigi Armogida, and Bruce McCord
Genome-wide sequence analyses of ethnic populations across Russia, Daria V. Zhernakova, Vladimir Brukhin, Sergey Malov, Taras K. Oleksyk, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Anna Zhuk, Pavel Dobrynin, Sergei Kliver, Nikolay Cherkasov, Gaik Tamazian, Mikhail Rotkevich, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Igor Evsyukov, Sviatoslav Sidorov, Anna Gorbunova, Ekaterina Chernyaeva, Andrey Shevchenko, Sofia Kolchanova, Alexei Komissarov, Serguei Simonov, Alexey Antonik, Anton Logachev, Dmitrii E. Polev, Olga A. Pavlova, Andrey S. Glotov, Vladimir Ulantsev, Ekaterina Noskova, Tatyana K. Davydova, and Tatyana M. Sivtseva
Submissions from 2019
"The dead shall be raised": Multidisciplinary analysis of human skeletons reveals complexity in 19th century immigrant socioeconomic history and identity in New Haven, Connecticut, Gary P. Aronsen, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, John Krigbaum, George D. Kamenov, Gerald J. Conlogue, Christina Warinner, Andrew T. Ozga, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Anthony Griego, Daniel W. DeLuca, Howard T. Eckels, Romuald K. Byczkiewicz, Tania Grgurich, Natalie A. Pelletier, Sarah A. Brownlee, Ana Marichal, Kylie Williamson, Yukiko Tonoike, and Nicholas F. Bellantoni
Diverse deep-sea anglerfishes share a genetically reduced luminous symbiont that is acquired from the environment, Lydia Baker, Lindsay L. Freed, Cole Easson, Jose Lopez, Dante Fenolio, Tracey Sutton, Spencer Nyholm, and Tory Hendry
Complex Transboundary Movements of Marine Megafauna in the Western Indian Ocean, A. N. Barkley, M. Gollock, M. Samoilys, F. Llewellyn, Mahmood S. Shivji, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Nigel Hussey
Avian Binocularity and Adaptation to Nocturnal Environments: Genomic Insights froma Highly Derived Visual Phenotype, Rui Borges, Joao Fonseca, Cidalia Gomes, Warren E. Johnson, Stephen James O'Brien, Guojie Zhang, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Erich D. Jarvis, and Agostinho Antunes
Developing a Physical Model of HigB Toxin and its Endonuclease Cleavage Mechanism, Alesa Chabbra, Carolina Alzamora, Helana Ghali, Marina Handal, Mahima Kathiria, Alexander Jakub Martinek, Jenny Nguyen, Chandni Patel, Shreja Patel, Antoine Pham, and Emily F. Schmitt Lavin
Development of a Microfluidic Device (μPADs) for Forensic Serological Analysis, Rosa L. Cromarte, Ashley Wardlow, George Duncan, and Bruce McCord
The 14-3-3 (YWHA) Proteins in Signalling and Development of the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster, Santanu De
Hyperinsulinemia, cancer and maqui berry: The promise of nutritional supplementation, Brett Deters and Mir Saleem
Timing Between Successive Introduction Events Determines Establishment Success in Bacteria with an Allee Effect, Michael D. Dressler, Josue Conde, Omar T. Eldakar, and Robert Smith
Depth-Dependent Environmental Drivers of Microbial Plankton Community Structure in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Cole Easson and Jose Lopez
YWHA (14-3-3) Protein Isoforms and Their Interactions with CDC25B Phosphatase in Mouse Oogenesis and Oocyte Maturation, Alaa A. Eisa, Santanu De, Ariana Detwiler, Eva Gilker, Alexander C. Ignatious, Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan, and Douglas Kline
Evolution of gene regulation in ruminants differs between evolutionary breakpoint regions and homologous synteny blocks, Marta Farré, Jaebum Kim, Anastasia A. Proskuryakova, Yang Zhang, Anastasia I. Kulemzina, Qiye Li, Yang Zhou, Yingqi Xiong, Jennifer L. Johnson, Polina L. Perelman, Warren E. Johnson, Wesley C. Warren, Anna V. Kukekova, Guojie Zhang, Stephen J. O’Brien, Oliver A. Ryder, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, Jian Ma, Harris A. Lewin, and Denis M. Larkin
Oceanic Nomad or Coastal Resident? Behavioural Switching in the Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), Malcolm P. Francis, Mahmood S. Shivji, Clinton A. J. Duffy, Paul J. Rogers, Michael Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Scott C. Tindale, Warrick S. Lyon, and Megan M. Meyers
Characterization of the microbiome and bioluminescent symbionts across life stages of ceratioid anglerfishes of the gulf of mexico, Lindsay L. Freed, Cole Easson, Lydia Baker, D. Fenolio, Tracey Sutton, Yasmin Khan, Patricia Blackwelder, Tory Hendry, and Jose Lopez
Plasticity of Mating Duration in Response to Slightly Biased Operational Sex Ratios in the Water Strider (Aquarius remigis): the Effect of Cohabitation Under Standard Laboratory Conditions, Andrew C. Gallup, Krista Pietruch, and Omar Tonsi Eldakar
Getting Back to Nature: Feralization in Animals and Plants, Eben Gering, Darren Incorvaia, R. Henriksen, Jeffrey Conner, Thomas Getty, and Dominic Wright
Maladaptation in Feral and Domesticated Animals, Eben Gering, Darren Incorvaia, R. Henriksen, and Dominic Wright
The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of an Atlantic Ocean Shortfin Mako Shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, Jonathan Gorman, Nicholas J. Marra, Mahmood S. Shivji, and Bryce J. Stanhope
Biogeographic Study of Human Gut Associated CrAssphage Suggests Impacts from Industrialization and Recent Expansion, Tanvi P. Honap, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Stephanie L. Schnorr, Andrew T. Ozga, Christina Warinner, and Cecil M. Lewis Jr.
The Vertebrate TLR Supergene Family Evolved Dynamically by Gene Gain/Loss and Positive Selection Revealing a Host–Pathogen Arms Race in Birds, Imran Khan, Emanuel Maldonado, Liliana Silva, Daniela Almeida, Warren E. Johnson, Stephen James O'Brien, Guojie Zhang, Erich D. Jarvis, M. Thomas Gilbert, and Agostinho Antunes
Whole Genome Sequencing and Re-sequencing of the Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger): A resource for monitoring diversity in ex situ and in situ populations, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Gaik Tamazian, David Wildt, Pavel Dobrynin, Changhoon Kim, Paul B. Frandsen, Raquel Godinho, Andrey A. Yurchenko, Aleksey Komissarov, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Sergei Kliver, Sofia Kolchanova, Margarida Gonçalves, Miguel Carneiro, Pedro Vaz Pinto, Nuno Ferrand, Jesús E. Maldonado, Gina M. Ferrie, Leona Chemnick, Oliver A. Ryder, Warren E. Johnson, Pierre Comizzoli, Stephen J. O'Brien, and Budhan S. Pukazhenthi
Oomycete Metabarcoding Reveals the Presence of Lagenidium spp. in Phytotelmata, Paula Leoro-Garzon, Andrew J. Gonedes, Isabel Olivera, and Aurelien Tartar
Precision nomenclature for the new genomics, Harris A. Lewin, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Oliver A. Ryder, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, and Stephen James O'Brien
Integrated analysis of competing endogenous RNA network revealing potential prognostic biomarkers of hepatocellular carcinoma, Xiwen Liao, Xiangkun Wang, Ketuan Huang, Chuangye Han, Jianlong Deng, Tingdong Yu, Chengkun Yang, Rui Huang, Xiaoguang Liu, Long Yu, Guangzhi Zhu, Hao Su, Wei Qin, Xianmin Zeng, Bowen Han, Quanfa Han, Zhengqian Liu, Xin Zhou, Yizhen Gong, Zhengtao Liu, Jianlv Huang, Cheryl A. Winkler, Stephen J. O'Brien, Xinping Ye, and Tao Peng
Inevitable Future: Space Colonization Beyond Earth with Microbes First, Jose Lopez, Raquel S. Peixoto, and Alexandre S. Rosado
Multiple Facets of Marine Invertebrate Conservation Genomics, Jose V. Lopez, Bishoy Kamel, Monica Medina, Timothy Collins, and Iliana B. Baums
White Shark Genome Reveals Ancient Elasmobranch Adaptations Associated with Wound Healing and the Maintenance of Genome Stability, Nicholas J. Marra, Michael J. Stanhope, Nathaniel K. Jue, Minghui Wang, Qi Sun, Paulina D. Pavinski Bitar, Vincent P. Richards, Aleksey S. Komissarov, Mike Rayko, Sergey Kliver, Bryce J. Stanhope, Chuck Winkler, Stephen James O'Brien, Agostinho Antunes, Salvador Jorgensen, and Mahmood S. Shivji
The Potential of Socio-biologically Relevant Mobile Applications to Attract Girls to STEM, Vanaja Nethi and Santanu De
A Beautiful Life: High Risk–High Payoff in Genetic Science, Stephen James O'Brien
Metagenomic Analysis of Dental Calculus in Ancient Egyptian Baboons, Claudio Ottoni, Meriam Guellil, Andrew T. Ozga, Anne C. Stone, Oliver Kersten, Barbara Bramanti, Stephanie Porcier, and Wim Van Neer
Oral Microbiome Diversity in Chimpanzees from Gombe National Park, Andrew T. Ozga, Ian C. Gilby, Rebecca Nockerts, Michael L. Wilson, Anne Pusey, and Anne C. Stone
Comparative Chromosome Mapping of Musk Ox and the X Chromosome among Some Bovidae Species, Anastasiya A. Proskuryakova, Anastasia I. Kulemzina, Polina L. Perelman, Dmitry V. Yudkin, Natalya A. Lemskaya, Innokentii M. Okhlopkov, Egor V. Kirillin, Marta Farré, Denis M. Larkin, M. Roelke-Parker, Stephen James O'Brien, Mitchell Bush, and Alexander S. Graphodatsky
Global Spatial Risk Assessment of Sharks Under the Footprint of Fisheries, Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E. Humphries, Ana Couto, Marisa Vedor, Ivo da Costa, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Gonzalo Mucientes, Antonio M. Santos, Francisco J. Abascal, Debra L. Abercrombie, Katya Abrantes, David Acuna-Marrero, Andre S. 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, Russell W. Bradford, Camrin D. Braun, Edward J. Brooks, Annabelle Brooks, Judith Brown, Barry D. Bruce, Michael Byrne, Steven E. Campana, Aaron B. Carlisle, Demian D. Chapman, Taylor K. Chapple, John Chisholm, Christopher R. Clarke, Erik G. Clua, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Estelle C. Crochelet, Laurent Dagorn, Ryan Daly, Daniel Devia Cortes, 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, Fabian 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, Fabio H.V. Hazin, Matthew Heard, Alex R. Hearn, John C. Holdsworth, Bonnie J. Holmes, Lucy A. Howey-Jordan, 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, Salvador J. Jorgensen, 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, Rory McAuley, Michael A. Meyer, John J. Morris, Emily R. Nelson, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Toby A. Patterson, Cesar Peñaherrera-Palma, Julian G. Pepperell, 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, John D. Stevens, Simon R. Thorrold, Mariana T. Tolotti, Alison Towner, Paulo Travassos, John P. Tyminski, Frederic Vandeperre, Jeremy Vaudo, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Sam B. Weber, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Timothy D. White, Sean Williams, Patricia M. Zarate, 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
Manipulating Neck Temperatures Alters Contagious Yawning in Humans, Valentina Ramirez, Colleen P. Ryan, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, and Andrew C. Gallup
Antibiotics Overuse and Bacterial Resistance, Mir Saleem, Brett Deters, Adam de la Bastide, and Martha Korzen
Author Correction: Puma genomes from North and South America provide insights into the genomic consequences of inbreeding (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (4769), 10.1038/s41467-019-12741-1), Nedda F. Saremi, Megan A. Supple, Ashley Byrne, James A. Cahill, Luiz Lehmann Coutinho, Love Dalén, Henrique V. Figueiró, Warren E. Johnson, Heather J. Milne, Stephen J. O’Brien, Brendan O’Connell, David P. Onorato, Seth P.D. Riley, Jeff A. Sikich, Daniel R. Stahler, Priscilla Marqui Schmidt Villela, Christopher Vollmers, Robert K. Wayne, Eduardo Eizirik, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Richard E. Green, Christopher C. Wilmers, and Beth Shapiro
Puma genomes from North and South America provide insights into the genomic consequences of inbreeding, Nedda F. Saremi, Megan A. Supple, Ashley Byrne, James A. Cahill, Luiz Lehmann Coutinho, Love Dalén, Henrique V. Figueiró, Warren E. Johnson, Heather J. Milne, Stephen J. O’Brien, Brendan O’Connell, David P. Onorato, Seth P.D. Riley, Jeff A. Sikich, Daniel R. Stahler, Priscilla Marqui Schmidt Villela, Christopher Vollmers, Robert K. Wayne, Eduardo Eizirik, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Richard E. Green, Christopher C. Wilmers, and Beth Shapiro
The Public and Private Benefit of an Impure Public Good Determines the Sensitivity of Bacteria to Population Collapse in a Snowdrift Game, Robert Smith, Aimee Doiron, Rodrigo Muzquiz, Marla Fortoul, Meghan Haas, Tom Abraham, Rebecca Quinn, Ivana Barraza, Khadija Chowdhury, and Louis R. Nemzer
Gut Microbiome Diversity Is Associated with Sleep Physiology in Humans, Robert Smith, Cole Easson, Sarah M. Lyle, Ritishka Kapoor, Chase P. Donnelly, Eileen Davidson, Esha Parikh, Jose Lopez, and Jaime L. Tartar
Draft Genome Sequence of Nitrosomonas sp. Strain APG5, a Betaproteobacterial Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium Isolated from Beach Sand, Hidetoshi Urakawa, Jorie L. Skutas, and Jose Lopez
The efficacy of whole human genome capture on ancient dental calculus and dentin, Kirsten A. Ziesemer, Jazmin Ramos-Madrigal, Allison E. Mann, Bernd W. Brandt, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Andrew T. Ozga, Menno Hoogland, Courtney A. Hofman, Domingo C. Salazar-Garcia, Bruno Frohlich, George R. Miller, Anne C. Stone, Mark Aldenderfer, Cecil M. Lewis Jr., Corinne L. Hofman, Christina Warinner, and Hannes Schroeder
Submissions from 2018
Periodontitis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Simran Agarwal, Deepthi Gangaram, and Mir Saleem
Adaptive genomic evolution of opsins reveals that early mammals flourished in nocturnal environments, Rui Borges, Warren E. Johnson, Stephen J. O'Brien, Cidália Gomes, Christopher P. Heesy, and Agostinho Antunes
Internal validation of STRmix™ – A multi laboratory response to PCAST, Jo-Anne Bright, Rebecca Richards, Maarten Kruijver, Hannah Kelly, Catherine McGovern, Alan Magee, Andrew McWhorter, Anne Cieko, Brian Peck, Chase Baumgartner, Christina Buettner, Scott McWilliams, Claire McKenna, Colin Gallacher, Ben Mallinder, Darren Wright, Deven Johnson, Dorothy Catella, Eugene Lien, Craig O'Connor, George Duncan, Jason Bundy, Jillian Echard, John Lowe, Joshua Stewart, Kathleen Corrado, Sheila Gentile, Marla Kaplan, Michelle Hassler, Naomi McDonald, Paul Hulme, Rachel H. Oefelein, Shawn Montpetit, Melissa Strong, Sarah Noel, Simon Malsom, Steven Myers, Susan Welti, Tamyra Moretti, Teresa McMahon, Thomas Grill, Tim Kalafut, Mary Margaret Greer-Ritzheimer, Vickie Beamer, Duncan A. Taylor, and John S. Buckleton
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Near-Death Experience, Jerod Buchta and Mir Saleem
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) Efficiency, and Comparison to Alternative Antidepressant Treatments, Angela Camilli and Mir Saleem
Whole-genome analysis of mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients with tuberculous spondylitis, Russia, Ekaterina Chernyaeva, Mikhail Rotkevich, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Andrey Yurchenko, Anna Vyazovaya, Igor Mokrousov, Natalia Solovieva, Viacheslav Zhuravlev, Piotr Yablonsky, and Stephen J. O’Brien
Refuges and Risks: Evaluating the Benefits of an Expanded MPA Network for Mobile Apex Predators, Ryan Daly, Malcolm J. Smale, Sarika Singh, Mahmood S. Shivji, Clare A. K. Daly, James S. E. Lea, Lara L. Sousa, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Richard Fitzpatrick, Christopher R. Clarke, Marcus Sheaves, and Adam Barnett
The YscE/YscG Chaperone and YscF N-Terminal sequences Target YscF to the Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion Apparatus, Clarice de Azevedo Souza, Kristian L. Richards, YoSon Park, Michael Schwartz, Julie Torruellas Garcia, Sara Schesser Bartra, and Gregory V. Plano
Genetic Connectivity and Phylogeography of the Night Shark (Carcharhinus signatus) in the Western Atlantic Ocean: Implications for Conservation Management, Rodrigo R. Domingues, Christine C. Bruels, Otto B. F. Gadig, Demian D. Chapman, Alexandre W. S. Hilsdorf, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Hypocrisy and Corruption: How Disparities in Power Shape the Evolution of Social Control, Omar T. Eldakar, J. Oliver Kammeyer, Nikhil Nagabandi, and Andrew C. Gallup
Communicating Discovery-Based Research Results to the News: A Real-World Lesson in Science Communication for Undergraduate Students, Julie Torruellas Garcia
The Complete Phylogeny of Pangolins: Scaling Up Resources for the Molecular Tracing of the Most Trafficked Mammals on Earth, Philippe Gaubert, Agostinho Antunes, Hao Meng, Lin Miao, Stéphane Peigné, Fabienne Justy, Flobert Njiokou, Sylvain Dufour, Emmanuel Danquah, Jayanthi Alahakoon, Erik Verheyen, William T. Stanley, Stephen J. O'Brien, Warren E. Johnson, and Shu Jin Luo
Innovative assembly strategy contributes to understanding the evolution and conservation genetics of the endangered Solenodon paradoxus from the island of Hispaniola, Kirill Grigorev, Sergey Kliver, Pavel Dobrynin, Aleksey Komissarov, Walter Wolfsberger, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Yashira M. Afanador-Hernández, Adam L. Brandt, Liz A. Paulino, Rosanna Carreras, Luis E. Rodríguez, Adrell Núñez, Jessica R. Brandt, Filipe Silva, J. David Hernández-Martich, Audrey J. Majeske, Agostinho Antunes, Alfred L. Roca, Stephen J. O'Brien, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado, and Taras K. Oleksyk
Robust Forensic Matching of Confiscated Horns to Individual poached African rhinoceros, Cindy Harper, Anette Ludwig, Amy Clarke, Kagiso Makgopela, Andrey A. Yurchenko, Alan Guthrie, Pavel Dobrynin, Gaik Tamazian, Richard Emslie, Marile van Heerden, Markus Hofmeyr, Roderick Potter, Johannes Roets, Piet Beytell, Moses Otiende, Linus Kariuki, Raoul du Toit, Natasha Anderson, Joseph Okori, Alexey Antonik, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Peter Thompson, and Stephen James O'Brien
Is There a Link between Aging and Microbiome Diversity in Exceptional Mammalian Longevity?, Graham M. Hughes, John Leech, Sebastien J. Puechmaille, Jose V. Lopez, and Emma C. Teeling
A Novel On‐Chip Method for Differential Extraction of Sperm in Forensic Cases, Fatih Inci, Mehmet O. Ozen, Yeseren Saylan, Morteza Miansari, Duygu Cimen, Raghu Dhara, Thiruppathiraja Chinnasamy, Mehmet Yuksekkaya, Chiara Filippini, Deepan Kishore Kumar, Semih Calamak, Yusuf Yesil, Naside Gozde Durmus, George Duncan, Leonard Klevan, and Utkan Demirci
PVSRIPO Effect on Cancer, Vishal Jindal, Matthew Lee, Darshan Rola, and Mir Saleem
MicroRNA‐132 Directs Human Periodontal Ligament‐Derived Neural Crest Stem Cell Neural Differentiation, Tsz Kin Ng, Qichen Yang, Veronica R. Fortino, Nikky Yuk-Ki Lai, Carlos M. Carballosa, Jordan M. Greenberg, Kwong Wai Choy, Daniel Pelaez, Chi Pui Pang, and Herman S. Cheung
New high copy tandem repeat in the content of the chicken W chromosome, Aleksey S. Komissarov, Svetlana A. Galkina, Elena I. Koshel, Maria M. Kulak, Aleksander G. Dyomin, Stephen J. O’Brien, Elena R. Gaginskaya, and Alsu F. Saifitdinova
Erratum to: Red fox genome assembly identifies genomic regions associated with tame and aggressive behaviours (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2018), 2, 9, (1479-1491), 10.1038/s41559-018-0611-6), Anna V. Kukekova, Jennifer L. Johnson, Xueyan Xiang, Shaohong Feng, Shiping Liu, Halie M. Rando, Anastasiya V. Kharlamova, Yury Herbeck, Natalya A. Serdyukova, Zijun Xiong, Violetta Beklemischeva, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Rimma G. Gulevich, Anastasiya V. Vladimirova, Jessica P. Hekman, Polina L. Perelman, Aleksander S. Graphodatsky, Stephen J. O’Brien, Xu Wang, Andrew G. Clark, Gregory M. Acland, Lyudmila N. Trut, and Guojie Zhang
Red fox genome assembly identifies genomic regions associated with tame and aggressive behaviours, Anna V. Kukekova, Jennifer L. Johnson, Xueyan Xiang, Shaohong Feng, Shiping Liu, Halie M. Rando, Anastasiya V. Kharlamova, Yury Herbeck, Natalya A. Serdyukova, Zijun Xiong, Violetta Beklemischeva, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Rimma G. Gulevich, Anastasiya V. Vladimirova, Jessica P. Hekman, Polina L. Perelman, Aleksander S. Graphodatsky, Stephen J. O’Brien, Xu Wang, Andrew G. Clark, Gregory M. Acland, Lyudmila N. Trut, and Guojie Zhang
A Physical and Genetic Map of Cannabis sativa Identifies Extensive Rearrangements at the THC/CBD Acid Synthase Loci, Kaitlin Laverty, Jake Stout, Mitchell Sullivan, Hardik Shah, Navdeep Gill, Larry Holbrook, Gintaras Deikus, Robert Sebra, Timothy Hughes, Jonathan Page, and Harm van Bakel
Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Natural History and Adaptation in the World’s Tigers, Yue-Chen Liu, Xin Sun, Carlos Driscoll, Dale G. Miquelle, Xiao Xu, Paolo Martelli, Olga Uphyrkina, James L. D. Smith, Stephen James O'Brien, and Shu-Jin Luo
Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Natural History and Adaptation in the World's Tigers, Yue Chen Liu, Xin Sun, Carlos Driscoll, Dale G. Miquelle, Xiao Xu, Paolo Martelli, Olga Uphyrkina, James L.D. Smith, Stephen J. O'Brien, and Shu Jin Luo
Validity of the Diplostomoidea and Diplostomida (Digenea, Platyhelminthes) Upheld in Phylogenomic Analysis, Sean A. Locke, Alex Van Dam, Monica Caffara, Hudson Alves Pinto, Danimar Lopez-Hernandez, and Christopher Blanar
Life table estimator revisited, Sergey V. Malov and Stephen J. O’Brien
Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin, Allison E. Mann, Susanna Sabin, Kirsten Ziesemer, Ashild J. Vagene, Hannes Schroeder, Andrew T. Ozga, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Courtney A. Hofman, James A. Fellows Yates, Domingo C. Salazar-Garcia, Bruno Frohlich, Mark Aldenderfer, Menno Hoogland, Christopher Read, George R. Milner, Anne C. Stone, Cecil M. Lewis Jr., Johannes Krause, Corinne Hofman, Kirsten I. Bos, and Christina Warinner
Role of Genes in Obesity, Hanna Mathew and Mir Saleem