Submissions from 2018
Kaposi sarcoma incidence in females is nearly four-fold higher in the Lower Rio Grande Valley compared to the Texas average, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Xiaohui Wang, Nicolas Restrepo, Carlos Salas, Katia Moreno, Alvaro Restrepo, and Megan Keniry
Laguna Madre Estuary Program Environmental Strategic Plan - Final Report, Kim D. Jones, Lucy Camacho, T. Sinha, Omar Al-Qudah, Hudson R. DeYoe, Augusto Sanchez Gonzalez, Jungseok Ho, and Javier Guerrero
Field data on plant growth and insect damage on the noxious weed Solanum eleaegnifolium in an unexplored native range, Rupesh R. Kariyat and Jesus Chavana
An Inexpensive and Comprehensive Method to Examine and Quantify Field Insect Community Influenced by Host Plant Olfactory Cues, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Jesus Chavana, and Jasleen Kaur
Leaf trichomes affect caterpillar feeding in an instar-specific manner, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Sean B. Hardison, Aisling B. Ryan, Andrew G. Stephenson, Consuelo M. De Moraes, and Mark C. Mescher
A Comparison of Salinity Effects from Hurricanes Dolly (2008) and Alex (2010) in a Texas Lagoon System, Joseph L. Kowalski, Hudson R. DeYoe, Gilbert H. Boza Jr., Donald L. Hockaday, and Paul V. Zimba
Population Dynamics of Off-Host Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) Larvae in Response to Habitat and Seasonality in South Texas, Brenda Leal, Donald B. Thomas, and Robert K. Dearth
Biotic and abiotic factors influencing infestation levels of the arundo leafminer, Lasioptera donacis, in its native range in Mediterranean Europe, Madeline Marshall, John A. Goolsby, Ann T. Vacek, and Alexis Racelis
Influences of Egyptian Lotus Symbolism and Ritualistic Practices on Sacral Tree Worship in the Fertile Crescent from 1500 BCE to 200 CE, J. Andrew McDonald
Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests, Nate G. McDowell, Craig D. Allen, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Paulo Brando, Roel J. W. Brienen, Jeff Chambers, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Stuart Davies, Alvaro Duque, and Fernando Espiritu-Santo
Snake Venom Phospholipase A2 And Its Antibacterial Potential, Pablo Olvera and Ying Jia
Invasive aquatic pets: failed policies increase risks of harmful invasions, Jiří Patoka, André Lincoln Barroso Magalhães, Antonín Kouba, Zen Faulkes, Rikho Jerikho, and Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule
Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works, Rebecca M. Price and Kathryn E. Perez
A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region, Anja Rammig, Jens Heinke, Florian Hofhansl, Hans Verbeeck, Timothy R. Baker, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Philippe Ciais, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Katrin Fleischer, and David Galbraith
Laboratory Evaluation of Efficacy of Entomopathogenic Nematodes on Texas Leaf-cutting Ants, Atta texana, Pushpa Soti, Quentin Van Camp, and Alexis Racelis
Status Update on the Threat of Babesiosis Returning to the United States, Jason Tidwell, Christopher Vitek, Donald B. Thomas, and John M. Thomas
A protocol for custom CRISPR Cas9 donor vector construction to truncate genes in mammalian cells using pcDNA3 backbone, Neftali Vasquez, Lilia Sanchez, Rebecca Marks, Eduardo Martinez, Victor Fanniel, Alma Lopez, Andrea Salinas, Itzel Flores, Jesse Hirshmann, Robert Gilkerson, Erin Schuenzel, Robert Dearth, Reginald Halaby, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Megan Keniry
Isolation of Enteric Glial Cells from the Submucosa and Lamina Propria of the Adult Mouse, Zhen Wang, Ramon Ocadiz-Ruiz, Sinju Sundaresan, Lin Ding, Michael Hayes, Nirakar Sahoo, Haoxing Xu, and Juanita L. Merchant
Embryonic exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of triclosan impairs foraging efficiency in zebrafish larvae, Heidi Wirt, Rosalea Botka, Kathryn E. Perez, and Tisha King-Heiden
Submissions from 2017
Fish Oil with Higher DHA Content and Voluntary Exercise Decreases Postmenopausal Bone Loss, Jameela Banu and Gabriel Fernandes
The breeding bird community of a remnant urban woodland in McAllen, Texas, John S. Brush, Alexis Racelis, and Timothy Brush
A metadata reporting framework (FRAMES) for synthesis of ecohydrological observations, Danielle S. Christianson, Charuleka Varadharajan, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Matteo Detto, Boris Faybishenko, Bruno O. Gimenez, Val Hendrix, Kolby J. Jardine, Robinson Negron-Juarez, and Gilberto Z. Pastorello
Linking plant hydraulics and beta diversity in tropical forests, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Patrick Meir, and Nate G. McDowell
Seasonal detection of atrazine and atzA in man-made waterways receiving agricultural runoff in a subtropical, semi-arid environment (Hidalgo County, Texas, USA), Ibdanelo Cortez, Christopher Vitek, Michael W. Persans, and Kristine L. Lowe
The phenology of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda: Albuneidae), Zen Faulkes
The little big genome: the organization of mitochondrial DNA, Iraselia Garcia, Edith Jones, Manuel Ramos, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Robert Gilkerson
CO-independent modification of K+ channels by tricarbonyldichlororuthenium(II) dimer (CORM-2), Guido Gessner, Nirakar Sahoo, Sandip M. Swain, Gianna Hirth, Roland Schönherr, Ralf Mede, Matthias Westerhausen, Hans Henning Brewitz, Pascal Heimer, and Diana Imhof
A threshold of transmembrane potential is required for mitochondrial dynamic balance mediated by DRP1 and OMA1, Edith Jones, Norma Gaytan, Iraselia Garcia, Alan Herrera, Manuel Ramos, Divya Agarwala, Maahrose Rana, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Erin Schuenzel, and Robert Gilkerson
Survivorship and Growth Among Three Developmental Stages of Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Seedlings in Southernmost Texas, Frank W. Judd, Kenneth R. Sunny, Robert I. Lonard, and Ruben A. Mazariegos
T6SS intraspecific competition orchestrates Vibrio cholerae genotypic diversity, Benjamin Kostiuk, Daniel Unterweger, Daniele Provenzano, and Stefan Pukatzki
The Biological Flora of Coastal Dunes and Wetlands: Avicennia germinans (L.) L., Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, Kenneth R. Summy, Hudson R. DeYoe, and Richard Stalter
Efectos del cambio climático en la interacción planta-hormiga: una mini revisión sobre la tolerancia térmica, Florencio Luna Castellanos, Mariana Cuautle, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Citlalli Castillo Guevara
Resaca supports range expansion of invasive apple snails (Pomacea maculata Perry, 1810; Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae) to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Kathryn E. Perez, Victoria Garcia Gamboa, Caitlin M. Schneider, and Romi L. Burks
Morganella morganii (Enterobacteriales: Enterobacteriaceae) is a lethal pathogen of Mexican fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) larvae, Bacilio Salas, Hugh E. Conway, Erin Schuenzel, Kristen Hopperstad, Christopher Vitek, and Don C. Vacek
Gastrin Induces Nuclear Export and Proteasomal Degradation of Menin in Enteric Glial Cells, Sinju Sundaresan, Cameron A. Meininger, Anthony J. Kang, Amanda L. Photenhauer, Michael M. Hayes, Nirakar Sahoo, Jolanda Lindenberg, Jolanta Grembecka, Tomasz Cierpicki, and Lin Ding
Protective Effect of Anti-Phosphatidylserine Antibody in a Guinea Pig Model of Advanced Hemorrhagic Arenavirus Infection, John M. Thomas and Philip E. Thorpe
Submissions from 2016
Diabetes and Physical Activity, Jameela Banu
Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought, Oliver J. Binks, Patrick Meir, Lucy Rowland, Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa, Steel Silva Vasconcelos, Alex Antonio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Leandro Ferreira, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Andrea Nardini, and Maurizio Mencuccini
A National Strategy for the Conservation of Native Freshwater Mollusks, Megan Bradley, Robert S. Butler, Heidi L. Dunn, Catherine Gatenby, Patricia A. Morrison, Teresa J. Newton, Matthew Patterson, and Kathryn E. Perez
Subspecific and breeding status of the Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo County, Texas, Timothy Brush and Mark H. Conway
Engaging Minority Students in Sustainable Bioenergy and Water Quality through an Education and Research Network, Krystel Castillo, Mauricio Cabrera-Rios, Michael W. Persans, and Hudson R. DeYoe
Salinity and geomorphology drive long-term changes to local and regional fish assemblage attributes in the lower Pecos River, Texas, Christopher A. Cheek and Christopher M. Taylor
Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro), Bradley O. Christoffersen, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, David R. Galbraith, Timothy R. Baker, Bart Kruij, Lucy Rowland, Rosie A. Fisher, and Oliver J. Binks
Modeled Inflow Validation & Nutrient Loading Estimation in Two Subwatersheds of the Lower Laguna Madre, Hudson R. DeYoe, Warren Pulich, and Nelun Fernando
MANGANESE-REDUCING BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES FROM A HYPERSALINE ESTUARY IN SOUTH TEXAS UNDER CONDITIONS OF CHANGING SALINITY, Omar R. Elizondo, Rebecca Vasquez Villarreal, Sonia Y. Del Rio, and Kristine L. Lowe
Translating ecology, physiology, biochemistry and population genetics research to meet the challenge of tick and tick-borne diseases in North America, Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ramiro Patino, Andrew Y. Li, Raul F. Medina, Adalberto A. Pérez de León, and Roger Iván Rodríguez-Vivas
Lack of interaction between ErbB2 and insulin receptor substrate signaling in breast cancer, Sarah M. Farabaugh, Bonita T. Chan, Xiaojiang Cui, Robert Dearth, and Adrian V. Lee
One Health Interactions of Chagas Disease Vectors, Canid Hosts, and Human Residents along the Texas-Mexico Border, Melissa N. Garcia, Sarah O’Day, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, Rodion Gorchakov, Ramiro Patino, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Susan T. Laing, Joe E. Lopez, Alexandra Ingber, Kathryn M. Jones, and Kristy O. Murray
Impact of the biological control agent Tetramesa romana (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) on Arundo donax (Poaceae: Arundinoideae) along the Rio Grande River in Texas, John A. Goolsby, Patrick J. Moran, Alexis Racelis, Kenneth R. Summy, Maricela Martinez Jimenez, and Ronald D. Lacewell
Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models, Michelle O. Johnson, David R. Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Matthieu Guimberteau, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, Hans Verbeeck, Celso Von Randow, and Bradley O. Christoffersen
Flowering and seed production in the subtropical seagrass, Halodule wrightii (shoal grass), Joseph L. Kowalski and Hudson R. DeYoe
A Review of the North American Halophyte Suaeda linearis (Ell.) Moq., Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, Richard Stalter, and J. Jed Brown
Two complete mitochondrial genomes from Praticolella mexicana Perez, 2011 (Polygyridae) and gene order evolution in Helicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Russell L. Minton, Marco A. Martinez Cruz, Mark L. Farman, and Kathryn E. Perez
Fish species incidence patterns in naturally fragmented Chihuahuan Desert streams, Seiji Miyazono and Christopher M. Taylor
Conservación de aves en México, una instantánea de 2015, Raúl Ortiz-Pulido, José L. Alcántara-Carbajal, Horacio de la Cueva, Juan Martínez-Gómez, Patricia Escalante Pliego, Sylvia M. de la Parra-Martínez, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, and Steve Albert
A Review on the Respiratory System Toxicity of Carbon Nanoparticles, Maricica Pacurari, Kristine L. Lowe, Paul B. Tchounwou, and Ramzi Kafoury
Genetic Structure of Faucet Snail, Bithynia tentaculata Populations in North America, Based on Microsatellite Markers, Kathryn E. Perez, Rebecca L. Werren, Christopher A. Lynum, Levi A. Hartman, Gabor Majoros, and Rebecca A. Cole
Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating Our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Rebecca M. Price and Kathryn E. Perez
Effect of exotic invasive old world climbing fern (lygodium microphyllum) on soil properties, Pushpa G. Soti and Krish Jayachandran
Horticultural technique for rearing and redistribution of the sessile biological control agent, Rhizaspidiotus donacis on its host plant, Arundo donax, Joseph M. Villarreal, John A. Goolsby, Ann T. Vacek, Adalberto A. Perez de Leon, and Alexis Racelis
Nesting ecology of the northern beardless-tyrannulet (Camptostoma imberbe) in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, USA, Scott M. Werner, Sallie J. Hejl, and Timothy Brush
Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests, Jin Wu, Loren P. Albert, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Matthew Hayek, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Kaiyu Guan, Scott C. Stark, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Neill Prohaska, and Julia V. Tavares
Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales, Jin Wu, Kaiyu Guan, Matthew Hayek, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Xiangtao Xu, Richard Wehr, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Guofang Miao, and Rodrigo Da Silva
Submissions from 2015
Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al., Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Abha Grover, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Raul F. Medina, Guadalupe Gordillo Pérez, and Adalberto A. Pérez de León
Assessing infection patterns in Chinese mystery snails from Wisconsin, USA using field and laboratory approaches, Brittany Harried, Kyle Fischer, Kathryn E. Perez, and Gregory J. Sandland
Biological Flora of Coastal Dunes and Wetlands: Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC., Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, and Richard Stalter
Detection of Temporal Changes in Vegetative Cover on South Padre Island, Texas Using Image Classifications Derived from Aerial Color-Infrared Photographs, Ruben A. Mazariegos, Kenneth R. Summy, Frank W. Judd, Robert I. Lonard, and James H. Everitt
Striking Courtship Displays in the Becard Clade Platypsaris, Elliot Miller, Sarah K. Wagner, Juan Klavins, Timothy Brush, and Harold F. Greeney
Long-term changes in seasonal fish assemblage dynamics in an adventitious desert stream, Seiji Miyazono and Christopher M. Taylor
Long-term changes in seasonal fish assemblage dynamics in an adventitious desert stream, Seiji Miyazono and Christopher M. Taylor
Attraction, Repellence, and Predation: Role of Companion Plants in Regulating Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphidae) in Organic Kale Systems of South Texas, Carlos R. Moreno and Alexis Racelis
After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration, Lucy Rowland, Raquel L. Lobo-do-Vale, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Eliane A. Melém, Bart Kruijt, Steel S. Vasconcelos, Tomas Domingues, Oliver J. Binks, Alex A. R. Oliveira, and Daniel Metcalfe
Effects of Control Release Fertilizers on Nutrient Leaching, Palm Growth and Production Cost, Pushpa Soti, Angie Fleurissaint, Stewart Reed, and Krish Jayachandran
Ca2+/calmodulin regulates Kvβ1.1-mediated inactivation of voltage-gated K+ channels, Sandip M. Swain, Nirakar Sahoo, Sophie Dennhardt, Roland Schönherr, and Stefan H. Heinemann
Submissions from 2014
The Dominance Concept Inventory: A Tool for Assessing Undergraduate Student Alternative Conceptions about Dominance in Mendelian and Population Genetics, Joel K. Abraham, Kathryn E. Perez, and Rebecca M. Price
Painted Redstarts in South Texas, 2013-2014, Timothy Brush
Conservation genetics of cyprinid fishes in the upper Nueces River basin in central Texas, Evan W. Carson, Ashley H. Hanna, Gary P. Garrett, Robert J. Edwards, and John R. Gold
Range extension of the macroalgae Anadyomene stellata (Wulf. In Jacquin) C. Agardh and re-appearance of Caulerpa sertularioides (S. G. Gmel.) M. Howe in the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, Hudson R. DeYoe and Joseph L. Kowalski
Taphonomic Study of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica) Bone Modification Resulting from the Burial and Feeding Behavior of the American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus), Frank J. Dirrigl Jr. and L. Perrotti
Pathogenic landscape of transboundary zoonotic diseases in the Mexico–US border along the Rio Grande, Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Adalberto A. Pérez de León, Dora Romero-Salas, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ramiro Patino, and John A. Goolsby
Implications of climate change on the distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis and risk for Lyme disease in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Guadalupe Gordillo Pérez, Ana L. Cavazos, Margarita Vargas-Sandoval, Abha Grover, Javier Torres, Raul F. Medina, Adalberto A. Pérez de León, and Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent
Projected Future Distributions of Vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in North America under Climate Change Scenarios, Miroslava Garza, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Edgar A. Casillas, Victor Sanchez-Cordero, Chissa-Louise Rivaldi, and Sahotra Sarkar
Two Roads Converging: Mitochondria and Inflammatory Signaling, Robert Gilkerson and Luis Materon
Establishment and Spread of a Single Parthenogenic Genotype of the Mediterranean Arundo Wasp, Tetramesa romana, in the Variable Climate of Texas, John A. Goolsby, John F. Gaskin, Daniel V. Tarin, Alan E. Pepper, Don C. Henne, Allan Auclair, Alexis Racelis, Kenneth R. Summy, Patrick J. Moran, and Donald B. Thomas
Differential response by bronzed cowbirds to songs of potential hosts in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Mary J. Janecka and Timothy Brush
New Frontiers for the NFIL3 bZIP Transcription Factor in Cancer, Metabolism and Beyond, Megan Keniry, Robert K. Dearth, Michael W. Persans, and Ramon Parsons
Metformin and erlotinib synergize to inhibit basal breast cancer, Ying-Ka Ingar Lau, Xing Du, Vinayak Rayannavar, Benjamin Hopkins, Jacquelyn Shaw, Eliana Bessler, Tiffany Thomas, Maira M. Pires, and Megan Keniry
Analysis of high fat diet induced genes during mammary gland development: identifying role players in poor prognosis of breast cancer, Raquel C. Martinez-Chacin, Megan Keniry, and Robert Dearth
Large-Scale Intersubspecific Recombination in the Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium Xylella fastidiosa Is Associated with the Host Shift to Mulberry, Leonard Nunney, Erin Schuenzel, Mark Scally, Robin E. Bromley, and Richard Stouthamer
Relationship between stream velocity & depth and snail size distribution & density of the balcones elimia, elimia comalensis (pilsbry, 1890) (gastropoda: pleuroceridae) in comal springs, texas, Kathryn E. Perez, Russell L. Minton, Scott A. Reese, and David M. Haye
The Genetic Drift Inventory: A Tool for Measuring What Advanced Undergraduates Have Mastered about Genetic Drift, Rebecca M. Price, Tessa C. Andrews, Teresa L. McElhinny, Louise S. Mead, Joel K. Abraham, Anna Thanukos, and Kathryn E. Perez
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Breeding Bird Monitoring Data FY 2014, Kenneth D. Pruitt
Prepubertal exposure to arsenic(III) suppresses circulating insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) delaying sexual maturation in female rats, Michael P. Reilly, James C. Saca, Alina Hamilton, Rene F. Solano, Jesse R. Rivera, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Jason Parsons, and Robert K. Dearth
Environmental correlates of assemblages of fishes in the Tilostoc River of central Mexico, Juan Manuel Rivas-González, Felipe de Jesús Rodríguez-Romero, María de Lourdes Ruiz-Gómez, Diego Alfonso Viveros-Guardado, and Christopher M. Taylor
Environmental correlates of assemblages of fishes in the Tilostoc River of central Mexico, Juan Manuel Rivas-González, Felipe de Jesús Rodríguez-Romero, María de Lourdes Ruiz-Gómez, Diego Alfonso Viveros-Guardado, and Christopher M. Taylor
Visual Responses of Adult Asian Citrus Psyllid (Hemiptera: Liviidae) to Colored Sticky Traps on Citrus Trees, Mamoudou Setamou, A. Sanchez, R. R. Saldaña, J. M. Patt, and Kenneth R. Summy
Submissions from 2013
Factors shaping the ontogeny of vocal signals in a wild parrot, Karl S. Berg, Steven R. Beissinger, and Jack W. Bradbury
Avifauna of the Mache Chindul ecological reserve, northwest Ecuador, Luis Carrasco, Karl S. Berg, Jennifer Litz, Andrew Cook, and Jordan Karubian