Submissions from 2023
Development of pullulan/chitosan/salvianolic acid ternary fibrous membranes and their potential for chemotherapeutic applications, Salahuddin Ahmed, Megan Keniry, Victoria I. Padilla, Narcedalia Anaya-Barbosa, Md Noushad Javed, Robert Gilkerson, Kithzia Gomez, Acharan S. Narula, and Karen Lozano
Detection of a Diverse Endophyte Assemblage within Fungal Communities Associated with the Arundo Leaf Miner, Lasioptera donacis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Marie-Claude Bon, John A. Goolsby, Guy Mercadier, Fatiha Guermache, Javid Kashef, Massimo Cristofaro, Ann T. Vacek, and Alan Kirk
HABITAT USE AND WINTER SITE FIDELITY OF LINCOLN’S SPARROW (MELOSPIZA LINCOLNII) IN THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF TEXAS, Timothy Brush, Hugh E. Conway, and Catherine C. Brush
Diel activity patterns of vector mosquito species in the urban environment: Implications for vector control strategies, André Barretto B. Wilke, Adequate Mhlanga, Allisandra G. Kummer, Chalmers Vasquez, Maday Moreno, William D. Petrie, Art Rodriguez, Christopher Vitek, Gabriel L. Hamer, John-Paul Mutebi, and Marco Ajelli
Can trap color affect arthropod community attraction in agroecosystems? A test using yellow vane and colorless traps, Adegboyega Fajemisin, Satinderpal Kaur, Alejandro Vasquez, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
The FOXO1 inhibitor AS1842856 triggers apoptosis in glioblastoma multiforme and basal-like breast cancer cells, David Flores, Alma Lopez, Shreya Udawant, Bonnie Gunn, and Megan Keniry
Morphological characterization of intraspecific variation for trichome traits in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), Satinderpal Kaur, Neetu Khanal, Robert K. Dearth, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
The Known and Unknowns of Aphid Biotypes, and Their Role in Mediating Host Plant Defenses, Neetu Khanal, Christopher Vitek, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
The photochemical evolution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nontronite clay on early Earth and Mars, Nina Kopacz, Maria Angela Corazzi, Giovanni Poggiali, Ayla von Essen, Vincent Kofman, Teresa Fornaro, Hugo van Ingen, Eloi Camprubi, Helen E. King, John Brucato, and Inge Loes ten Kate
The Justice Challenge: Honors Endeavors Innovative Pedagogies through the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, Jonathan Kotinek, Rebecca C. Bott-Knutson, Leigh E. Fine, Joy L. Hart, William Ziegler, Paul Knox, Timothy Nichols, Susan Sumner, Heidi Appel, and Mark C. Andersen
Sorghum defense responses to sequential attack by insect herbivores of different feeding guilds, Pritha Kundu, Sajjan Grover, Adryenna Perez, Juan D. Raya Vaca, Rupesh R. Kariyat, and Joe Louis
Fungi Impacting Human Health, Niharika Kunta and Madhurababu Kunta
Combined effects of high temperature and pesticide mixture exposure on free-swimming behaviors and hepatic cytochrome P450 1A expression in goldfish, Carassius auratus, Brittney Lacy, Michelle Rivera, Leinady Flores, and Md Saydur Rahman
How enhancers regulate wavelike gene expression patterns, Christine Mau, Heike Rudolf, Frederic Strobl, Benjamin Schmid, Timo Regensburger, Ralf Palmisano, Ernst HK Stelzer, Leila Taher, and Ezzat El-Sherif
MICROBIAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH METCALF’S TRYONIA, TRYONIA METCALFI (GASTROPODA: COCHLIOPIDAE), AN IMPERILED CI´ENEGA ENDEMIC, Russell L. Minton and Kathryn E. Perez
FOXO1 promotes the expression of canonical WNT target genes in examined basal-like breast and glioblastoma multiforme cancer cells, Shania Pintor, Alma Lopez, David Flores, Brianda Lozoya, Bipul Soti, Rishi Pokhrel, Joaquin Negrete, Michael W. Persans, Robert Gilkerson, Bonnie Gunn, and Megan Keniry
Greenbug feeding-induced resistance to sugarcane aphids in sorghum, Heena Puri, Edith Ikuze, Jessica Ayala, Isabella Rodriguez, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Joe Louis, and Sajjan Grover
Significance of storage conditions on the flow properties of wheat flours, Jared Lou Rivera, Jikai Zhao, Aminu Owonikoko, and Kaliramesh Siliveru
Pathogenicity of multiple Providencia species (Enterobacteriales: Morganellaceae) to the mass-reared Mexican fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae), Bacilio Salas, Hugh E. Conway, Don C. Vacek, Christopher Vitek, and Erin Schuenzel
Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on the Distribution of Rhipicephalus sanguineus in the Americas, Marcos Sánchez Pérez, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Crystian Sadiel Venegas Barrera, Carolina Sosa-Gutiérrez, Javier Torres, Katherine A. Brown, and Guadalupe Gordillo Pérez
Evidence of an established population of Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in south Texas, USA, Adam Sanjar, Drew R. Davis, and Richard J. Kline
Biological Flora of Coastal Freshwater and Brackish Marshes: Cladium jamaicense Crantz, Richard Stalter and Robert I. Lonard
Monodelphis domestica as a Fetal Intra-Cerebral Inoculation Model for Zika Virus Pathogenesis, John Thomas, Juan Garcia, Matthew Terry, Susan M. Mahaney, Oscar Quintanilla, Dionn Carlo Silva, Marisol Morales, and John Vandeberg PhD
Revisiting plant defense-fitness trade-off hypotheses using Solanum as a model genus, Sakshi Watts, Satinderpal Kaur, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Life cycle assessment of calcium oxide pretreatment of corn stover with carbon dioxide neutralization for ethanol production, Jikai Zhao, Danyi Feng, and Juhee Lee
Submissions from 2022
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
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
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
Soil Nematode Trophic Group Composition and Influence on Growth of Amaranthus palmeri and Parthenium hysterophorus, Orlando Garcia, Dana Garibaldi, Krissa Jhaveri, Jake Lanoue, and Pushpa G. Soti
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
Low soil nitrogen and moisture limit the expansion of the invasive grass, Megathyrsus maximus (Guinea grass) in semi-arid soils, E. Penelope Holland, Vanessa Thomas, and Pushpa G. Soti
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms, Stephanie Kasper, Faeqa Mohsin, Lindsey Richards, and Alexis Racelis
A rationally designed synthetic antimicrobial peptide against Pseudomonas-associated corneal keratitis: Structure-function correlation, Sk Abdul Mohid, Prerana Sharma, Amani Alghalayini, Tripti Saini, Debarun Datta, Mark D. P. Willcox, Haydar Ali, Sreyan Raha, Achintya Singha, and Nirakar Sahoo
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
Development of zinc oxide/hydroxyapatite/poly(D,L-lactic acid) fibrous scaffold for tissue engineering applications, Victoria Padilla-Gainza, Heriberto Rodríguez-Tobías, Graciela Morales, Antonio Ledezma-Pérez, Carmen Alvarado-Canché, Raúl Loera-Valencia, Cristóbal Rodríguez, Robert Gilkerson, Carlos Trevino De Leo, and Karen Lozano
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
Mechanistic insight into functionally different human islet polypeptide (hIAPP) amyloid: the intrinsic role of the C-terminal structural motifs, Dibakar Sarkar, Narayan Chandra Maity, Gourav Shome, Kyriakos Gabriel Varnava, Vijayalekshmi Sarojini, Subramanian Vivekanandan, Nirakar Sahoo, Sourav Kumar, Atin Kumar Mandal, Ranjit Biswas, and Anirban Bhunia
Genome Editing: A Review of the Challenges and Approaches, Dimple Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Harsimran Kaur Kapoor, Rajat Sharma, Harpreet Kaur, and Mohd Kyum
Sex and stress modulate pupal defense response in tobacco hornworm, Sukhman Singh, Sakshi Watts, Ishveen Kaur, Isabella Rodriguez, Jessica Ayala, Dariela Rodriguez, Elian Martin, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Biological Flora of Coastal Wetlands: Sporobolus cynosuroides (L.) P.M. Peterson & Saarela, Richard Stalter and Robert I. Lonard
Adult Home Range Size and Juvenile Movements of Gray Hawks in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, Michael T. Stewart, William S. Clark, Brian A. Millsap, Brent D. Bibles, and Timothy Brush
Impact of Hydrologic Alteration on Brazos River Pelagophilic Minnows, Christopher M. Taylor and Kevin B. Mayes
Thornforest Conservation Plan: An ecosystem conservation strategy for the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Thornforest Conservation Partnership and Bradley O. Christoffersen
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
Allo-preening is linked to vocal signature development in a wild parrot, Caleb M M Arellano, Nurialby Viloria Canelón, Soraya Delgado, and Karl S. Berg
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 Agriculture Systems, Habraham F. Lopez, Pushpa Soti, Ganpati B. Jagdale, Parwinder Grewal, and Alexis Racelis
Effects of Scarification, Phytohormones, Soil Type, and Warming on the Germination and/or Seedling Performance of Three Tamaulipan Thornscrub Forest Species, Paula Luera, Kimberly Wahl-Villarreal, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Abeny Treviño, Pushpa Soti, and Christopher A. Gabler
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
Understanding water and energy fluxes in the Amazonia: Lessons from an observation-model intercomparison, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Loren P. Albert, Marcos Longo, Ian Baker, Naomi M. Levine, Lina M. Mercado, Alessandro C. da Araujo, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Marcos H. Costa, and David R. Fitzjarrald
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
Proteins in dried distillers' grains with solubles: A review of animal feed value and potential non-food uses, Jikai Zhao, Donghai Wang, and Yonghui Li
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