Submissions from 2021
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
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
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
Effects of Urbanization on Buff-bellied Hummingbirds in Subtropical South Texas Subtropical South Texas, John S. Brush, Timothy Brush, and Alexis Racelis
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
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
Prehistoric and historical insights in avian zooarchaeology, taphonomy and ancient bird use, Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Timothy Brush, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, and László Bartosiewicz
Bone chemical composition changes in bird bones from laboratory exposure to saline lake conditions, Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Hanna Jung, Robert Otken, and Jason Parsons
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
Role of Trichomes in Plant Stress Biology, Jasleen Kaur and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Partial characterization of the voltage-gated sodium channel gene and molecular detection of permethrin resistance in Rhipicephalus annulatus (Say, 1821), Guilherme M. Klafke, Hannah C. Moreno, Jason Tidwell, Robert J. Miller, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Adalberto A. Pérez de León
Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama, Charles D. Koven, Ryan G. Knox, Rosie A. Fisher, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Stuart J. Davies, and Matteo Detto
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
Terrestrial snail communities of the lower rio grande valley are affected by human disturbance and correlate with vegetation community composition, Briante S. Lewis Najev, Alison Schofield, Raziel I. Flores, Benjamin T. Hutchins, J. Andrew McDonald, and Kathryn E. Perez
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, Andrea Salinas, 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, J. 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
The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño, Kurt C. Solander, Brent D. Newman, Alessandro Carloca de Araujo, Holly R. Barnard, Z. Carter Berry, Damien Bonal, Mario Bretfeld, Benoit Burban, Luiz Antonio Candido, Rolando Celleri, Jeffery Q. Chambers, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
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 O. 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
Ontogeny of the adrenocortical response in an extremely altricial bird, Karl S. Berg, Soraya Delgado, Astolfo Mata-Betancourt, Jesse S. Krause, John C. Wingfield, and Steven R. Beissinger
Bait Stations for Control of Mexican Fruit Flies (Anastrepha ludens), First Year, Hugh E. Conway, Guadalupe Garcia, Pedro Rendón, and Christopher J. Vitek
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 O. Christoffersen, and John del Aguila-Pasquel
The Convolvulaceae family in the municipality of Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Estefania Guadalupe Fernandez-Puga, Arturo Mora-Olivo, J. 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
Development of a remotely activated field sprayer and evaluation of temperature and aeration on the longevity of Steinernema riobrave entomopathogenic nematodes for treatment of cattle fever tick-infested nilgai, John A. Goolsby, Diana Cantu, Alejandro Vasquez, and Alexis Racelis
Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics, Charlotte Grossiord, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Heidi Asbjornsen, Luiza Maria T. Aparecido, Z. Carter Berry, Christopher Baraloto, Damien Bonal, and Isaac Borrego
Rapid Identification of Phospholipase A2 Transcripts from Snake Venoms, Ying Jia, Pablo Olvera, Frida Rangel, Bianca Mendez, and Samir Reddy
Sorghum 3-Deoxyanthocyanidin Flavonoids Confer Resistance against Corn Leaf Aphid, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Iffa Gaffoor, Sampurna Sattar, Cullen W. Dixon, and Nadia Frock
Feeding on glandular and non-glandular leaf trichomes negatively affect growth and development in tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) caterpillars, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Cristina E. Raya, Jesus Chavana, Jason Cantu, and Lekshmi Sasidharan
Abiotic and Biotic Limitations to Nodulation by Leguminous Cover Crops in South Texas, Stephanie Kasper, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Pushpa Soti, and Alexis Racelis
High-resolution melt (HRM) analysis for detection of SNPs associated with pyrethroid resistance in the southern cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae), Guilherme M. Klafke, Robert J. Miller, Jason P. Tidwell, Donald B. Thomas, Daniela Sanchez, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Adalberto A. Perez de Leon
Modeling the effects of climate change on the distribution of Tagetes lucida Cav. (Asteraceae), Julianna Katherine Schaefer Kurpis, Miguel Angel Serrato-Cruz, and Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
Bayesian inference of hydraulic properties in and around a white fir using a process-based ecohydrologic model, Elias C. Massoud, A. J. Purdy, Bradley O. Christoffersen, L. S. Santiago, and C. Xu
Identification of key parameters controlling demographically structured vegetation dynamics in a land surface model: CLM4.5(FATES), Elias C. Massoud, Chonggang Xu, Rosie A. Fisher, Ryan G. Knox, Anthony P. Walker, Shawn P. Serbin, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Jennifer A. Holm, Lara M. Kueppers, and Daniel M. Ricciuto
Modelling water fluxes in plants: from tissues to biosphere, Maurizio Mencuccini, Stefano Manzoni, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Caveat consumptor notitia museo: Let the museum data user beware, Jeffrey C. Nekola, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Alison Schofield, Briante S. Lewis Najev, and Kathryn E. Perez
Herbivory and inbreeding affect growth, reproduction, and resistance in the rhizomatous offshoots of Solanum carolinense (Solanaceae), Chad T. Nihranz, Rebecca L. Kolstrom, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo M. De Moraes, and Andrew G. Stephenson
Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient, Viktoriia Radchuk, Thomas Reed, Céline Teplitsky, Martijn van de Pol, Anne Charmantier, Christopher Hassall, Peter Adamík, Frank Adriaensen, Markus P. Ahola, and Karl S. Berg
Screening Sticky Cards as a Simple Method for Improving Efficiency of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) Monitoring and Reducing Nontarget Organisms, Mamoudou Setamou, Robert R. Saldaña, James M. Hearn, Jon Dale, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Darek Czokajlo
Data on foliar nutrient concentration of invasive plants in the recipient habitat and their native habitat, Pushpa Soti, Matthew Purcell, and Krish Jayachandran
The spatial scale of homogenisation and differentiation in Chihuahuan Desert fish assemblages, Christopher M. Taylor, Seiji Miyazono, Christopher A. Cheek, Robert J. Edwards, and Reynaldo Patiño
Incidence of the Brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus and its parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri on dogs in South Texas, Alejandro Vasquez, John A. Goolsby, Ann T. Vacek, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change, Chonggang Xu, Nate G. McDowell, Rosie A. Fisher, Liang Wei, Sanna Sevanto, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Engsheng Weng, and Richard S. Middleton
Rapamycin directly activates lysosomal mucolipin TRP channels independent of mTOR, Xiaoli Zhang, Wei Chen, Qiong Gao, Junsheng Yang, Xueni Yan, Han Zhao, Lin Su, Meimei Yang, Chenlang Gao, and Nirakar Sahoo
Submissions from 2018
Texas Sour Orange Juice Used in Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering, Mandana Akia, Nataly Salinas, Cristobal Rodriguez, Robert Gilkerson, Luis A. Materon, and Karen Lozano
Winter Site Fidelity of Orange-Crowned Warblers (Oreothlypis celata) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Mark H. Conway and Timothy Brush
Development of antimicrobial chitosan based nanofiber dressings for wound healing applications, Lee Cremar, Jorge Gutierrez, Jennifer Martinez, Luis A. Materon, Robert Gilkerson, Fenghua Xu, and Karen Lozano
Use of the sea hare (Aplysia fasciata) in marine pollution biomonitoring of harbors and bays, Frank J. Dirrigl, Zachariah Badaoui, Carlos Tamez, Christopher Vitek, and Jason Parsons
Prohibiting Pet Crayfish Does Not Consistently Reduce Their Availability Online, Zen Faulkes
Resolving authorship disputes by mediation and arbitration, Zen Faulkes
Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities, Rosie A. Fisher, Charles D. Koven, William R. L. Anderegg, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Michael C. Dietze, Caroline E. Farrior, Jennifer A. Holm, George C. Hurtt, Ryan G. Knox, and Peter J. Lawrence
Oxidative insults disrupt OPA1-mediated mitochondrial dynamics in cultured mammalian cells, Iraselia Garcia, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Alma Lopez, Megan Keniry, and Robert Gilkerson
A Disturbance in the Force: Cellular Stress Sensing by the Mitochondrial Network, Robert Gilkerson
Fungal Endophytes in Knock Out Rose and Performance Effects of Entomopathogens on Marigold and Zinnia, Kevin M. Heinz, Polly A. Harding, Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos, Heather Hernandez, Peter C. Krauter, and Gregory A. Sword