Submissions from 2022
Assessment of Two Novel Host-Derived Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae) Isolates Against the Citrus Pest, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae), Jonathan Cisneros, Justin Wendel, Stefan Jaronski, Christopher Vitek, Matthew Ciomperlik, and Daniel Flores
The use of keywords in archaeornithology literature, Frank J. Dirrigl and Justin White
Vocal babbling in a wild parrot shows life history and endocrine affinities with human infants, Rory Eggleston, Nurialby Viloria, Soraya Delgado, Astolfo Mata, Hilda Y. Guerrero, and Richard J. Kline
Vocal babbling in a wild parrot shows life history and endocrine affinities with human infants, Rory Eggleston, Nurialby Viloria, Soraya Delgado, Astolfo Mata, Hilda Y. Guerrero, Richard J. Kline, Steven R. Beissinger, and Karl S. Berg
Stinging the Predators: A collection of papers that should never have been published, Zen Faulkes
Towards Conserving Crop Wild Relatives along the Texas–Mexico Border: The Case of Manihot walkerae, Gisel Garza, Crystian Sadel Venegas Barrera, Jon Dale, José Guadalupe Martínez-Ávalos, and Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
Insecticide Resistance in Aedes aegypti Varies Seasonally and Geographically in Texas/Mexico Border Cities, Heather Hernandez, Flor A. Martinez, and Christopher Vitek
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms, Stephanie Kasper, Faeqa Mohsin, Lindsey Richards, and Alexis Racelis
Diel activity patterns of two distinct populations of Aedes aegypti in Miami, FL and Brownsville, TX, John-Paul Mutebi, André Barretto Bruno Wilke, Erik Ostrum, Chalmers Vasquez, Gabriel Cardenas, Augusto Carvajal, Maday Moreno, William D. Petrie, Arturo Rodriguez, Henry Presas, Jesus Rodriguez, Fred Barnes, Christopher Vitek, Xochitl Estrada, Thalia Rios, and Jeremy Marshall
Population Density and Reproductive Seasonality of Tryonia cheatumi (Gastropoda: Cochliopidae), the Phantom Tryonia, Kathryn E. Perez, Nina Noreika, Chad Norris, Marty Kelly, Melissa Lopez, Christina Ortega, Salma Ruiz Sandoval, Samantha Gonzalez, and Weston Nowlin
Analysis of Sanitizer Rotation on the Susceptibility, Biofilm Forming Ability and Caco-2 Cell Adhesion and Invasion of Listeria, Md Asfakur Rahman, Nirakar Sahoo, and Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy
Intracellular hemin is a potent inhibitor of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv10.1, Nirakar Sahoo, Kefan Yang, Alisa Bernert, Sandip M. Swain, Guido Gessner, Reinhard Kappl, Toni Kühl, Diana Imhof, Toshinori Hoshi, Roland Schönherr, and Stefan H. Heinemann
Biological Flora of Coastal Wetlands: Sporobolus cynosuroides (L.) P.M. Peterson & Saarela, Richard Stalter and Robert I. Lonard
Impact of Hydrologic Alteration on Brazos River Pelagophilic Minnows, Christopher M. Taylor and Kevin B. Mayes
Are epicuticular waxes a surface defense comparable to trichomes? A test using two Solanum species and a specialist herbivore., Sakshi Watts and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Screening commercial entomopathogenic fungi for the management of Diaphorina citri populations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, Justin Wendel, Jonathan Cisneros, Stefan Jaronski, Christopher Vitek, Matthew Ciomperlik, and Daniel Flores
Submissions from 2021
Winners and losers in dryland reforestation: Species survival, growth, and recruitment along a 33-year planting chronosequence, Clifton Albrecht, Zarek Contreras, Kimberly Wahl-Villarreal, Mitch Sternberg, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Do early-successional weeds facilitate or compete with seedlings in forest restoration? Disentangling abiotic versus biotic factors, Mylen Arias, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Kimberly Wahl-Villarreal, Stephany Mendez, Jesus Chavana, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Use of ITS‑1 to identify Bactrocera dorsalis and Bactrocera occipitalis (Diptera: Tephritidae): a case study using flies trapped in California from 2008 to 2018, Norman B. Barr, Martin Hauser, Jennifer Belcher, David Salinas, Erin Schuenzel, Peter Kerr, and Stephen Gaimari
Local adaptation to continuous mowing makes the noxious weed Solanum elaeagnifolium a superweed candidate by improving fitness and defense traits, Jesus Chavana, Sukhman Singh, Alejandro Vazquez, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Ten strategies for avoiding and overcoming authorship conflicts in academic publishing, S J. Cooke, N Young, M R. Donaldson, E A. Nyboer, D G. Roche, C L. Madliger, R J. Lennox, J M. Chapman, Zen Faulkes, and J R. Bennett
Disentangling the Effects of Vapor Pressure Deficit and Soil Water Availability on Canopy Conductance in a Seasonal Tropical Forest During the 2015 El Niño Drought, Yilin Fang, L. Ruby Leung, Brett T. Wolfe, Matteo Detto, Ryan G. Knox, Bryan Powell, Charlotte Grossiord, Chonggang Xu, Bradley O. Christoffersen, and Pierre Gentine
Aprendizaje activo y pedagogía culturalmente relevante en STEM: Tres lecciones aprendidas dentro y fuera del aula, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
Deciphering the Role of Ion Channels in Early Defense Signaling against Herbivorous Insects, Akanksha Gandhi, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Amaravadhi Harikishore, Marzieh Ayati, Anirban Bhunia, and Nirakar Sahoo
Mitochondrial OPA1 cleavage is reversibly activated by differentiation of H9c2 cardiomyoblasts, Iraselia Garcia, Fredy Calderon, Patrick De la Torre, Shaynah St. Vallier, Cristobal Rodriguez, Divya Agarwala, Megan Keniry, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Robert Gilkerson
Mitochondrial OMA1 and OPA1 as Gatekeepers of Organellar Structure/Function and Cellular Stress Response, Robert Gilkerson, Patrick De la Torre, and Shaynah St. Vallier
Increasing Public Health Mosquito Surveillance in Hidalgo County, Texas to Monitor Vector and Arboviral Presence, Clarissa D. Guerrero, Steven Hinojosa, Diana Vanegas, Niko Tapangan, Matthew Guajardo, Sara Alaniz, Narda Cano, Christopher Vitek, John Thomas, Valerie Hernandez, and Juan Garcia Jr.
Using yeast two-hybrid system and molecular dynamics simulation to detect venom protein-protein interactions, Ying Jia, Paulina Kowalski, and Ivan Lopez
Civic agriculture in review: Then, now, and future directions, Allison Kaika and Alexis Racelis
Inbreeding in Solanum carolinense alters floral attractants and rewards and adversely affects pollinator visitation, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Thomas G. Bentley, Chad T. Nihranz, Andrew G. Stephenson, Consuelo M. De Moraes, and Mark C. Mescher
Exploring the role of soil types on defense and fitness traits of silverleaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium), a worldwide invasive species through a field survey in the native range, Stephanie Kasper, Jesus Chavana, Lekshmi Sasidharan, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content, Alexandra G. Konings, Sassan S. Saatchi, Christian Frankenberg, Michael Keller, Victor Leshyk, William R. L. Anderegg, Vincent Humphrey, Ashley M. Matheny, Anna Trugman, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Type VI secretion system mutations reduced competitive fitness of classical Vibrio cholerae biotype, Benjamin Kostiuk, Francis J. Santoriello, Laura Diaz-Satizabal, Fabiana Bisaro, Kyung-Jo Lee, Anna N. Dhody, Daniele Provenzano, Daniel Unterweger, and Stefan Pukatzki
Automatic Camera Trap Classification Using Wildlife-Specific Deep Learning in Nilgai Management, Matthew Kutugata, Jeremy Baumgardt, John A. Goolsby, and Alexis Racelis
Pre-Sowing Treatments Improve Germinability of South Texas Native Plant Seeds, Kaitlynn Lavallee, Pushpa Soti, Hansapani Rodrigo, Rupesh R. Kariyat, and Alexis Racelis
Weeds as Hosts of Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical Agri-culture Systems, Habraham F. Lopez, Pushpa Soti, Ganpati B. Jagdale, Parwinder Grewal, and Alexis Racelis
Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model, Wu Ma, Lu Zhai, Alexandria Pivovaroff, Jacquelyn Shuman, Polly Buotte, Junyan Ding, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Ryan G. Knox, Max Moritz, and Rosie A. Fisher
A Method for Repeated, Longitudinal Sampling of Individual Aedes aegypti for Transmission Potential of Arboviruses, E. Handly Mayton, Heather Hernandez, Christopher Vitek, and Rebecca C. Christofferson
Biotic homogenization or riparian refugia? Urban and wild land snail assemblages along a subtropical precipitation gradient, Kathryn E. Perez, Briante S. Lewis Najev, Bradley O. Christoffersen, and Jeffrey C. Nekola
A fresh start in ambersnail (Gastropoda: Succineidae) taxonomy: finding a foothold using a widespread species of Oxyloma, Kathryn E. Perez, Marco A. Martinez Cruz, Brent W. Steury, and Gary M. Barker
Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient, Alexandria L. Pivovaroff, Brett T. Wolfe, Nate G. McDowell, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Stuart J. Davies, L. Turin Dickman, Charlotte Grossiord, Riley T. Leff, Alistair Rogers, and Shawn P. Serbin
Infectious Disease Transmission by Arline Travel, Daniele Provenzano and Sofy Barocio
A Sugarcane G-Protein-Coupled Receptor, ShGPCR1, Confers Tolerance to Multiple Abiotic Stresses, Manikandan Ramasamy, Mona B. Damaj, Carol Vargas-Bautista, Victoria Mora, Jiaxing Liu, Carmen S. Padilla, Sonia Irigoyen, Tripti Saini, Nirakar Sahoo, Jorge A. DaSilva, and Kranthi K. Mandadi
Tropical milkweed herbivore and predator dynamics in suburban South Texas, Daniela Rivera, Jose Adrian Noval, Lilly Elliott, and Hannah J. Penn
Temperatures Influence Susceptibility to Insecticides in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes, Wendy S. Salinas, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Christopher Vitek
The Multifunctional Roles of Polyphenols in Plant-Herbivore Interactions, Sukhman Singh, Ishveen Kaur, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Review of the Invasive Forage Grass, Guinea Grass (Megathyrsus maximus): Ecology and Potential Impacts in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions, Pushpa Soti and Vanessa Thomas
Effects of Patch Size, Fragmentation, and Invasive Species on Plant and Lepidoptera Communities in Southern Texas, James A. Stilley and Christopher A. Gabler
Examining the Role of Buzzing Time and Acoustics on Pollen Extraction of Solanum elaeagnifolium, Mandeep Tayal and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Draft Genome Sequences of 13 Vibrio cholerae Strains from the Rio Grande Delta, Jeffrey W. Turner, Jorge Duran-Gonzalez, David A. Laughlin, Daniel Unterweger, David Silva, Boris Ermolinsky, Stefan Pukatzki, and Daniele Provenzano
PI3K Pathway Inhibition with NVP-BEZ235 Hinders Glycolytic Metabolism in Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells, Shreya Udawant, Carl Litif, Alma Lopez, Bonnie Gunn, Erin Schuenzel, and Megan Keniry
Importation and Preliminary Evaluation of the Stem Boring Moth Buakea kaeuae as a Potential Biological Control Agent of Invasive Guineagrass, Megathyrsus maximus, Ann T. Vacek, John A. Goolsby, Paul-Andre Calatayud, Bruno Le Ru, Boaz Musyoka, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
NVP-BEZ235 or JAKi Treatment leads to decreased survival of examined GBM and BBC cells, Neftali Vazquez, Alma Lopez, Victoria Cuello, Michael W. Persans, Erin Schuenzel, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Megan Keniry
An ecotoxicological approach to microplastics on terrestrial and aquatic organisms: A systematic review in assessment, monitoring and biological impact, Omar A. Vazquez and Saydur Rahman
Walking Velocity and Estimated Distance of the Armored Scale Crawler Rhizaspidiotus donacis, a Biological Control Agent for Arundo donax, Joshua A. Villarreal, Alexis Racelis, and John A. Goolsby
Morphological characterization of trichomes shows enormous variation in shape, density and dimensions across the leaves of 14 Solanum species, Sakshi Watts and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Picking sides: feeding on the abaxial leaf surface is costly for caterpillars, Sakshi Watts and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Desktop scanning electron microscopy in plant-insect interactions research: A fast and effective way to capture electron micrographs with minimal sample preparation, Sakshi Watts, Ishveen Kaur, Sukhman Singh, Bianca Jimenez, Jesus Chavana, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Submissions from 2020
Expanding the Known Ranges of the Phreatic Snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) of Texas, USA, Dominique Alvear, Peter H. Diaz, J. Randy Gibson, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Benjamin Schwartz, and Kathryn E. Perez
Spatial and Temporal Trends in Diet for Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides) from Turtle Grass (Thalassia testudinum) Beds with Contrasting Environmental Regimes in the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, Maximiliano Barbosa and Christopher M. Taylor
Using the rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 to Identify the Invasive Pest Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera: Tephritidae) in North America, Norman B. Barr, Daniel Garza, Lisa A. Ledezma, and David A. Salinas
Conservation status of the recently described Ecuadorian Amazon parrot Amazona lilacina, REBECCA BIDDLE, IVETTE SOLIS PONCE, PAUL CUN, SIMON TOLLINGTON, MARTIN JONES, STUART MARSDEN, CHRISTIAN DEVENISH, ERIC HORSTMAN, Karl S. Berg, and MARK PILGRIM
The conservation status of the world’s freshwater molluscs, M. Böhm, N. I. Dewhurst-Richman, M. Seddon, C. Albrecht, D. Allen, A. E. Bogan, K. Cummings, G. Darrigran, W. Darwall, and Kathryn E. Perez
Impact of intracellular hemin on N-type inactivation of voltage-gated K+ channels, Ina Coburger, Kefan Yang, Alisa Bernert, Eric Wiesel, Nirakar Sahoo, Sandip M. Swain, Toshinori Hoshi, Roland Schönherr, and Stefan H. Heinemann
RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series as a currency for global change ecology research in riverine systems, Lise Comte, Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Pablo A. Tedesco, Ulrich Brose, Tibor Erős, Ana F. Filipe, Marie-Josée Fortin, Katie Irving, Claire Jacquet, and Christopher M. Taylor
Review of Major Crop and Animal Arthropod Pests of South Texas, Holly N. Davis, John A. Goolsby, Donald B. Thomas, Ismael Badillo, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Christopher Vitek, and Danielle Sekula
Biological Flora of the Tropical and Subtropical Intertidal Zone: Literature Review for Rhizophora mangle L., Hudson R. DeYoe, Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, Richard Stalter, and Ilka Feller
Mesohabitat Associations Of The Devil Tryonia, Tryonia Diaboli (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Cochliopidae), Peter H. Diaz, Dominique Alvear, and Kathryn E. Perez
A tale of two cities: Aedes Mosquito surveillance across the Texas-Mexico Border, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Consuelo Aguilar, Cuauhtémoc Quintero Vazquez, Rene Santos-Luna, Susana Roman-Perez, Tamer Oraby, Gustavo Sanchez Tejeda, Fabian Correa Morales, Víctor M. Salazar Bueyes, and Pascual Camacho Guevara
Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) Oral Secretion Elicits Reactive Oxygen Species in Isolated Tomato Protoplasts, Akanksha Gandhi, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Cruz Chappa, Mandeep Tayal, and Nirakar Sahoo
Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Geographic Distribution of the Endangered Plant Species Manihot walkerae, Gisel Garza, Armida Rivera, Crystian Sadel Venegas Barrera, Jose Guadalupe Martinez-Avalos, Jon Dale, and Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
Toxin transcripts in Crotalus atrox venom and in silico structures of toxins, Ying Jia, Ivan Lopez, and Paulina Kowalski
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) influences growth and insect community dynamics in Sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum x drummondii), Jasleen Kaur, Jesus Chavana, Pushpa Soti, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Questing by Tick Larvae (Acari: Ixodidae): A Review of the Influences That Affect Off-Host Survival, Brenda Leal, Emily Zamora, Austin Fuentes, Donald B. Thomas, and Robert K. Dearth
LRRC8 family proteins within lysosomes regulate cellular osmoregulation and enhance cell survival to multiple physiological stresses, Ping Li, Meiqin Hu, Ce Wang, Xinghua Feng, ZhuangZhuang Zhao, Ying Yang, Nirakar Sahoo, Mingxue Gu, Yexin Yang, and Shiyu Xiao
The PI3K pathway impacts stem gene expression in a set of glioblastoma cell lines, Eduardo Martinez, Neftali Vazquez, Alma Lopez, Victor Fanniel, Lilia Sanchez, Rebecca Marks, Leetoria Hinojosa, Victoria Cuello, Marisa Cuevas, Angelica Rodriguez, Cerin Tomson, Andrea Salinas, Mark Abad, Martin Holguin, Noel Garza, Abraham Arenas, Kevin Abraham, Luis Maldonado, Vivian Rojas, Alex Basdeo, Erin Schuenzel, Michael W. Persans, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Megan Keniry
Impact of Cover Crops on Insect Community Dynamics in Organic Farming, Lili Martinez, Pushpa Soti, Jasleen Kaur, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Neuroactive nectar: compounds in nectar that interact with neurons, Julie A. Mustard
Honeybees fail to discriminate floral scents in a complex learning task after consuming a neonicotinoid pesticide, Julie A. Mustard, Annie Gott, Jennifer Scott, Nancy L. Chavarria, and Geraldine A. Wright
Detection of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, Ali Naini, Robert Gilkerson, Sara Shanske, and Jiuhong Pang
Poorly Vetted Conservation Ranks Can Be More Wrong Than Right: Lessons from Texas Land Snails, Kathryn E. Perez, Benjamin T. Hutchins, and Jeffrey C. Nekola
Host plant defense produces species-specific alterations to flight muscle protein structure and flight-related fitness traits of two armyworms, Scott L. Portman, Gary W. Felton, Rupesh R. Kariyat, and James H. Marden
Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract, Cristobal Rodriguez, Victoria Padilla, Karen Lozano, Andrew McDonald, Luis Materon, Alejandra Chapa, Fariha Ahmad, Carlos Trevino De Leon, and Robert Gilkerson
CRISPR Cas9 Genome Editing in Human Cell Lines with DONOR Vector Made by Gibson Assembly, Nirakar Sahoo, Victoria Cuello, Shreya Udawant, Carl Litif, Julie A. Mustard, and Megan Keniry
Agricultural and Environmental Weeds of South Texas and their Management, Pushpa Soti, John A. Goolsby, and Alexis Racelis
Cover crops for weed suppression in organic vegetable systems in semiarid subtropical Texas, Pushpa G. Soti and Alexis Racelis
Soil biotic and abiotic conditions negate invasive species performance in native habitat, Pushpa Soti, Matthew Purcell, and Krish Jayachandran
Efficiency of using electric toothbrush as an alternative to a tuning fork for artificial buzz pollination is independent of instrument buzzing frequency, Mandeep Tayal, Jesus Chavana, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Cascading effects of polyphenol-rich purple corn pericarp extract on pupal, adult, and offspring of tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta L.), Mandeep Tayal, Pavel Somavat, Isabella Rodriguez, Leilani Martinez, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Polyphenol-Rich Purple Corn Pericarp Extract Adversely Impacts Herbivore Growth and Development, Mandeep Tayal, Pavel Somavat, Isabella Rodriguez, Tina Thomas, Bradley Christoffersen, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Development and testing of artificial membranes for rearing of Rhipicephalus microplus, the Southern Cattle Fever Tick, Ann T. Vacek, John A. Goolsby, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Positional cloning and characterization of the papaya diminutive mutant reveal a truncating mutation in the CpMMS19 gene, Ying Wang, Ratnesh Singh, Eric Tong, Min Tang, Liwei Zheng, Hongkun Fang, Ruoyu Li, Lin Guo, Jinjin Song, and Jorge A. Trujillo
Small-molecule activation of lysosomal TRP channels ameliorates Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mouse models, Lu Yu, Xiaoli Zhang, Yexin Yang, Dan Li, Kaiyuan Tang, Zifan Zhao, Wanwan He, Ce Wang, and Nirakar Sahoo
Survival of off-host unfed Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus (Acari: Ixodidae) larvae in study arenas in relation to climatic factors and habitats in South Texas, USA, Emily J. Zamora, Brenda Leal, Donald B. Thomas, and Robert K. Dearth
Submissions from 2019
Phylogenetic and kinematic constraints on avian flight signals, Karl S. Berg, Soraya Delgado, Astolfo Mata, John C. Wingfield, and Steven R. Beissinger
Fabrication and Characterization of Centrifugally Spun Poly(acrylic acid) Nanofibers, David De la Garza, Francisco De Santiago, Luis Materon, Mircea Chipara, and Mataz Alcoutlabi
Culturing embryonic cells from the parthenogenetic clonal marble crayfish Marmorkrebs Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae), Heriberto DeLeon III, Juan Garcia Jr., Dionn Carlo Silva, Oscar Quintanilla, Zen Faulkes, and John M. Thomas III
Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography, Sophie Fauset, Manuel Gloor, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Oliver L. Phillips, Gregory P. Asner, Timothy R. Baker, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Roel J. W. Brienen, Bradley Christoffersen, and John del Aguila-Pasquel
The Convolvulaceae family in the municipality of Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Estefania Guadalupe Fernandez-Puga, Arturo Mora-Olivo, Andrew McDonald, and Edilia De La Rosa-Manzano
A new species of stygobitic snail in the genus Antrorbis Hershler & Thompson, 1990 (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) from the Appalachian Valley and Ridge of eastern Tennessee, USA, Nichlas S. Gladstone, Kathryn E. Perez, Evelyn B. Pieper, Evin T. Carter, K. L. Dooley, Nathaniel F. Shoobs, Annette S. Engel, and Matthew L. Niemiller