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BIOLOGY 2005-2011 SCHOLARSHIP BOOKS: Chabora, P. C. 2007. The Laboratory and Lecture Synthesis, Second edition. Cengage (Thomson Publishing). 400p. Levinton, J.S., and J.R. Waldman. 2006. The Hudson River Ecosystem. Cambridge University Press, New York. 471p. Waldman, J. 2005. 100 Weird Ways to Catch Fish. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA Waldman, J., K. Limburg, and D. Strayer. 2006. Hudson River Fishes and their Environment - American Fisheries Society Symposium 51. 365p. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: Alyokhin, A., M. Baker, D. Mota-Sanchez, G. Dively, and E. Grafius. 2008. Colorado potato beetle resistance to insecticides. American Journal of Potato Research 85: 395–413. Baker, M. B., 2005. Experience influences settling behavior in desert isopods, Hemilepistus reaumuri. Animal Behaviour 69: 1131-1138. Baker, M. B., Alyokhin, A., Dastur, S. A., Porter, A. H., and Ferro, D. N., 2005. Sperm precedence in overwintered Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its implications for insecticide resistance management. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98: 989-995. Baker, M. B., Alyokhin, A., Porter, A. H., D. N. Ferro, S. R. Dastur, and N. Galal, 2007. Persistence of costs of resistance to imidacloprid in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say). Journal of Economic Entomology 100: 1871-1879. Baker, M. B., S. R. Dastur, Troy Wong and B. D. Jaffe, 2008 Mating competition between Colorado potato beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) resistant or susceptible to imidacloprid does not show cost of resistance. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101: 371-377. Baker, M. B., and A. H. Porter, 2008. Use of sperm precedence to infer the overwintering cost of resistance in Colorado potato beetle. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 10: 181-187. Sharp, S. P., M. B. Baker, J. D. Hadfield, M. Simeoni and B. J. Hatchwell, 2008. Natal dispersal and recruitment in a social bird. Oikos 117: 1371-1379. Boissinot, S., and A.V. Furano, 2005. The recent evolution of human L1 retrotransposons. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 110: 402-406. Boissinot, S., J. Davis, A. Entezam, D. Petrov and A.V. Furano, 2006. Fitness cost of LINE-1 (L1) activity in humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 9590-9594. Graham, T. and S. Boissinot, 2006. The genomic distribution of L1 elements: the role of insertion bias and natural selection. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2006: 1-5. Witherspoon, D.J., E.E. Marchani, W.S. Watkins, C.T. Ostler, S.P. Wooding, B.A. Anders, J.D. Fowlkes, S. Boissinot, A.V. Furano, A.R. Rogers, M.A. Batzer and L.B. Jorde (2006). Analysis of human population genetic structure and diversity comparing polymorphic L1 (LINE-1) and Alu insertions. Human heredity 62: 30-46. Ferguson W., S. Dvora, J. Gallo, A. Orth and S. Boissinot, 2008. Long term balancing selection at the West Nile virus resistance gene, Oas1b, maintains trans-specific polymorphism in the house mouse. Mol. Biol. Evol. 25(8): 1609-1618. Khan, H., A. Smit and S. Boissinot, 2006. The evolution of human LINE-1 retrotransposons since the origin of primates. Genome Research 16: 78-87. Song, M. and S. Boissinot, 2007. Selection against LINE-1 retrotransposons results principally from their ability to mediate ectopic recombination. Gene 390: 206-213. M. Song, R.M. Haralick, and S. Boissinot (2010). Efficient and exact maximum likelihood quantization of genomic features using dynamic programming. Int. J. Data mining and Bioinformatics 4(2): 123-141. Martin, S.L., W.-L.P. Li, A.V. Furano, and S. Boissinot, 2005. The structures of mouse and human L1 elements reflect their insertion mechanism. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 110: 223-228. Novick, P. H. Basta, M. Floumanhaft*, M. McClure, and S. Boissinot (2009). The evolutionary dynamics of non-LTR retrotransposons in the lizard Anolis carolinensis shows more similarity to fish than mammals. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26: 1811-1822. P. Novick*, J. Smith, D. Ray and S. Boissinot (2010). Independent and parallel lateral transfer of DNA transposons in tetrapod genomes. Gene 449: 85-94. K. Kusumi, R.J. Kulathinal, A. Abzhanov, S. Boissinot, N.G. Crawford, B.C. Faircloth, T.C. Glenn, J.B. Losos, D.B. Menke, T.J. Sanger, C. Schneider, J. Wade, J. Wilson-Rawls (2011). Developing a community-based genetic nomenclature and comparative analysis of the anole lizard. BMC Genomics 12: 554. J. Alfoldi, F. Di Palma, M. Grabherr,..S. Boissinot,..P. Novick [47 authors] (2011). The genome of Anolis carolinensis, the green anole lizard, and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals. Nature 477: 587- 591. P. Novick , J. Smith, M. Floumanhaft U, D. Ray and S. Boissinot (2011). The evolution and diversity of DNA transposons in the genome of the lizard Anolis carolinensis. M. Tollis and S. Boissinot (2011). The transposable element profile of the Anolis genome: how a lizard can provide insights into the evolution of vertebrate genome size and structure. Mobile Genetics Elements 1: 107-111. Dennehy, J.J., Y. Yang, N. Friedenberg and Turner, P.E. 2006. Bacteriophage migration via nematode vectors: host-parasite-consumer interactions in laboratory microcosms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72: 1974-1979. (Recommended Paper: Faculty of 1000). Dennehy, J.J., N. Friedenberg, R.D. Holt, and P.E. Turner, 2006. Viral ecology and the maintenance of novel host use. The American Naturalist 167: 429-439. (Recommended Paper: Faculty of 1000). Dennehy, J.J., S.T. Abedon, and P.E. Turner, 2007. Host density impacts relative fitness of bacteriophage φ6 genotypes in structured habitats. Evolution 61: 2516-2527 Dennehy, J.J., N. Friedenberg, Y. Yang, and P.E. Turner, 2007. Virus population extinction via ecological traps. Ecology Letters 10: 230–240. Dennehy, J.J. 2009. Bacteriophages as model organisms for virus emergence research. Trends in Microbiology, Published Online:16-SEP-2009, 10.1016/j.tim.2009.07.006. Evans, M.E.K. and J.J. Dennehy, 2005. Germ Banking: Bet hedging and variable release from egg and seed dormancy. Quarterly Review of Biology 80: 431-451. Monello, R.J., J.J Dennehy, D. Murray, and A.J. Wirsing, 2006. Species differences among native ranids in coping with an exotic invader, the bullfrog Rana catesbeiana. Journal of Herpetology 40: 403- 407. Katchikian, C.E., Dennehy, J.J. Vitek, C.J. & Livdahl, T.P. 2009. Climate and geographic trends in hatch delay of the treehole mosquito, Aedes triseriatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Vector Ecology 34: 119-128. Dennehy, J.J., Friedenberg, N.A., McBride, R.C., Holt, R.D. & Turner, P.E. 2010. Experimental evidence that source genetic variation drives pathogen emergence. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 277: 3113- 3121 DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.0342. Khatchikian, C.E, Dennehy, J.J., Vitek, C.J., & Livdahl, T.P. 2010. Direct and indirect environmental effects on Aedes mosquitoes hatch traits. Evolutionary Ecology: DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9359-4 Li, J. & Dennehy, J.J. 2011. Differential bacteriophage mortality on exposure to copper. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77:6878-6883. Dennehy, J.J. & Wang, I-N. 2011. Factors influencing lysis time stochasticity in bacteriophage λ. BMC Microbiology, 11:174. Fath. K.R., 2005. Characterization of myosin–II binding to Golgi stacks in vitro. Cell Motility Cytoskeleton 60:222-235. Fath, K.R., 2006. Roles of the actin cytoskeleton and myosins in the endomembrane system. Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology 37:119-134. Spear, R.L., R. Tamayev, K.R. Fath and I.A. Banerjee, 2007. Templated growth of calcium phosphate on tyrosine derived microtubules and their biocompatibility. Colloids Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 60: 158-166. Avanzato, C.P., J.M. Follieri, I.A. Banerjee and K.R. Fath. 2009. Growth of amino acid catalyzed magnesium oxide- germanium oxide nanocomposites and their antibacterial applications. Journal of Composite Materials. 43:897-910. doi:10.1177/0021998309103158 Henricus, M.M., K.R. Fath, M.Z. Menzenski and I.A. Banerjee. 2009. Morphology controlled growth of chitosan-bound microtubes and a study of their biocompatibility and antibacterial activity. Macromolecular Bioscience. 9:317-325. doi:10.1002/mabi.200800220 Johnson, K.T., K. R. Fath, M. M. Henricus and I. A. Banerjee. 2009. Self-assembly and growth of smart cell-adhesive mucin-bound microtubes. Soft Materials. 7(1):21-36. Barnaby, S.N., S.M. Yu, K.R. Fath, A. Tsiola, O. Khalpari, I.A. Banerjee. 2011. Ellagic acid promoted biomimetic synthesis of shape-controlled silver nanochains. Nanotechnology. 22(22): 225605. doi:10.1088/0957-4484/22/22/225605 Barnaby, S.N., S.H. Frayne, K.R. Fath, I.A. Banerjee. 2011. Growth of Se nanoparticles on kinetin assemblies and their biocompatibility studies. Soft Materials. 9(4):313-334. doi:10.1080/1539445X.2010.516302 Barnaby, S.N., S.M. Yu, A. Tsiola, K.R. Fath, I.A. Banerjee. 2011. pH dependent spontaneous growth of ellagic acid assemblies for targeting HeLa cells. J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 11(9):7579-7586. doi:10.1166/jnn.2011.4709 Smoak, E.M., K.R. Fath, S.N. Barnaby, V.C. Grant, I.A. Banerjee. 2011. pH tunable self-assembly of chicoric acid and their biocompatibility studies. Supramolecular Chem. 23(9):ahead of print. doi:10.1080/10610278.2011.601309 Nakatsuka, N., S.N. Barnaby, K.R. Fath, I.A. Banerjee. 2011. Fabrication of collagen-elastin bound peptide nanotubes for mammalian cell attachment. J. Biomater. Sci. Polym. Ed. 22(18): ahead of print. doi: 10.1163/156856211X598229; PMID: 21967742 Fjerdingstad, E.J., 2005. Control of body size of Lasius niger ant sexuals – worker interests, genes and environment. Molecular Ecology 14:3123-3132. Fjerdingstad, E.J., and R.H. Crozier, 2006. The evolution of worker caste diversity in social insects. American Naturalist 167:390-400. Fjerdingstad, E.J., N. Schtickzelle, P. Manhes, , A. Gutierrez, and Clobert,, 2007. Evolution of dispersal and life history strategies - Tetrahymena ciliates.
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    Fine-scale population structure analysis in Armadillidium vulgare (Isopoda: Oniscidea) reveals strong female philopatry Sylvine Durand, Frédéric Grandjean, Isabelle Giraud, Richard Cordaux, Sophie Beltran- Bech*, Nicolas Bech* UMR CNRS 7267 ; Laboratoire Écologie and Biologie des Interactions ; équipe Écologie, Évolution, Symbiose ; Bâtiment B8-B35. 5 rue Albert Turpain TSA 51106, 86073 POITIERS CEDEX 9, France. * co-last authors. These authors have contributed equally to this study. Corresponding author: Sylvine Durand ([email protected]) Abstract In the last decades, dispersal studies have benefited from the use of molecular markers for detecting patterns differing between categories of individuals and have highlighted sex-biased dispersal in several species. To explain this phenomenon, several hypotheses implying mating systems, intrasexual competition or sex-related handicaps have been proposed. In this context, we investigated sex-biased dispersal in Armadillidium vulgare, a terrestrial isopod with a promiscuous mating system. As a proxy for effective dispersal, we performed a fine-scale investigation of the spatial genetic structure in males and females, using individuals originating from five sampling points located within 70 meters of each other. Based on microsatellite markers and spatial autocorrelation analyses, our results revealed that while 1 males did not present a significant genetic structure at this geographic scale, females were significantly and genetically more similar to each other when they were collected in the same sampling point. As females invest more parental care than males in A. vulgare, but also because this species is promiscuous and males experience a high intrasexual competition, our results meet the predictions of most classical hypotheses for sex-biased dispersal.
  • Chemosensory Physiology and Behavior of the Desert Sand Scorpion

    Chemosensory Physiology and Behavior of the Desert Sand Scorpion

    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Douglas Dean Gaffin for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on September 23. 1993. Title: Chemosensory Physiology and Behavior of the Desert Sand Scorpion, Paruroctonus mesaensis. Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Philip H. Brownell This is a neuroethological study of two major chemosensory systems found in all scorpions - the large, ventral appendages, called pectines, found uniquely in this taxon, and setaform chemoreceptors of the tarsal leg segments. These sensory organs are closely associated with the substrate and their microstructure suggests specialized function in gustation or near- field olfaction of chemical substances on dry surfaces. In this study I present behavioral and electrophysiological evidence that the numerous peg sensilla on the pectines are important chemosensory channels in scorpions and probably fill similar functional roles to antenna' sensilla of rnandibulate arthropods. The subject of these investigations was the desert sand scorpion Paruroctonus mesaensis. Sand scorpions displayed vigorous, stereotyped behavior in response to substrates treated with water and chemicals derived from conspecific scorpions. Ablation studies showed the pectines are important in the detection of substrate-borne pheromonal signals while the tarsal chemosensory hairs are important detectors of substrate water. Electrophysiological investigation of individual peg sensilla on the pectines showed these structures are sensitive to chemostimulants applied directly to the sensillar tip or blown across its pore. Neurons within each peg gave characteristic patterns of response to organic stimuli of various classification (alkanes, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, esters) that were generally independent of carbon chain length (C2 to C12). Tarsal hair sensilla were responsive to water applied directly to the hair tips.