The Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's biological sciences faculty.
Submissions from 2008
Cloning of the Neurodegeneration Gene Drop-Dead and Characterization of Additional Phenotypes of its Mutation, Edward M. Blumenthal
The Spinobulbar System in Lamprey, James T. Buchanan and James F. Einum
AMP-activated Protein Kinase is Involved in Hormone-induced Mouse Oocyte Meiotic Maturation in vitro, Jing Chen and Stephen Downs
Resetting of Central and Peripheral Circadian Oscillators in Aged Rats, Alec J. Davidson, Shin Yamazaki, Deanna M. Arble, Michael Menaker, and Gene D. Block
The Yeast Aac2 Protein Exists in Physical Association with the Cytochrome bc1-COX Supercomplex and the TIM23 Machinery, Mary Kathryn Dienhart and Rosemary A. Stuart
Effect of Ethanol on Microbial Community Structure and Function During Natural Attenuation of Benzene, Toluene, and o-Xylene in a Sulfate-reducing Aquifer, Kevin Feris, Doug Mackay, Nick de Sieyes, Irina Chakraborty, Murray Einarson, Krassimira R. Hristova, and Kate M. Scow
The Cross-Bridge Cycle and Skeletal Muscle Fatigue, Robert Fitts
Out of the Blue: A Novel, Trans‐Atlantic Clade of Geckos (Gekkota, Squamata), Tony Gamble, Aaron M. Bauer, Eli Greenbaum, and Todd R. Jackman
Species Limits and Phylogeography of North American Cricket Frogs (Acris: Hylidae), Tony Gamble, Peter B. Berendzen, H. Bradley Shaffer, David E. Starkey, and Andrew M. Simons
Tertiary Climate Change and the Diversification of the Amazonian Gecko Genus Gonatodes (Sphaerodactylidae, Squamata), Tony Gamble, Andrew M. Simons, Guarino R. Colli, and Laurie J. Vitt
Requirement of a Plasmid-Encoded Catalase for Survival of Rhizobium etli CFN42 in a Polyphenol-Rich Environment, Alejandro García-de los Santos, Erika López, Ciro A. Cubillas, K. Dale Noel, Susana Brom, and David Romero
Vibration causes acute vascular injury in a two-step process: vasoconstriction and vacuole disruption, Sandya R. Govindaraju, James L. W. Bain, Thomas J. Eddinger, and Danny A. Riley
Limited native plant regeneration in novel, exotic-dominated forests on Hawai’i, Joseph Mascaro, Kristen K. Becklund, R. Flint Hughes, and Stefan A. Schnitzer
Weak Competition Among Tropical Tree Seedlings: Implications for Species Coexistence, C.E. Timothy Paine, Kyle E. Harms, Stefan A. Schnitzer, and Walter P. Carson
Adverse Effects of Chronic Circadian Desynchronization in Animals in a "Challenging" Environment, Fabian Preuss, Tueming Tang, Aaron D. Laposky, Deanna M. Arble, Ali Keshavarzian, and Fred W. Turek
Cellular and Synaptic Actions of Acetylcholine in the Lamprey Spinal Cord, Katharina A. Quinlan and James T. Buchanan
Biomass and Toxicity Responses of Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) To Elevated Atmospheric CO2: Comment, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Ronald A. Londre, John Klironomos, and Peter B. Reich
Supplemental protocol for liana censuses, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Suzanne Rutishauser, and Salomón Aguilar
Mitochondrial Biogenesis: Is an Old Dog Still Teaching Us New Tricks? Meeting on the Assembly of the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain, Rosemary A. Stuart and Peter Rehling
Degradation of Hypomodified tRNAiMet in vivo Involves RNA-dependent ATPase Activity of the DExH Helicase Mtr4p, Xuying Wang, Huijue Jia, Eckhard Jankowsky, and James T. Anderson
Dimeric Heat Shock Protein 40 Binds Radial Spokes for Generating Coupled Power Strokes and Recovery Strokes of 9 + 2 Flagella, Chun Yang, Heather A. Owen, and Pinfen Yang
Submissions from 2007
Rhizobium etli CE3 Bacteroid Lipopolysaccharides Are Structurally Similar but Not Identical to Those Produced by Cultured CE3 Bacteria, Wim D'Haeze, Christine Leoff, Glenn Freshour, K. Dale Noel, and Russell W. Carlson
Physiological and Phenological Responses of Oak Seedlings to Oak Forest Soil in the Absence of Trees, Ian A. Dickie, Rebecca A. Montgomery, Peter B. Reich, and Stefan A. Schnitzer
Is Oak Establishment in Old‐fields and Savanna Openings Context Dependent?, Ian A. Dickie, Stefan A. Schnitzer, P. B. Reich, and S. E. Hobbie
Myosin II Isoforms in Smooth Muscle: Heterogeneity and Function, Thomas J. Eddinger and Daniel P. Meer
Potent Inhibition of Arterial Smooth Muscle Tonic Contractions by the Selective Myosin II Inhibitor, Blebbistatin, Thomas J. Eddinger, Daniel P. Meer, Amy S. Miner, Joel T. Meehl, Arthur S. Rovner, and Paul H. Ratz
The Deleterious Effects of Bed Rest on Human Skeletal Muscle Fibers Are Exacerbated by Hypercortisolemia and Ameliorated by Dietary Supplementation, Robert Fitts, Janell Romatowski, Jim R. Peters, D. Paddon-Jones, R. R. Wolfe, and A. A. Ferrando
Evidence for Gondwanan Vicariance In an Ancient Clade of Gecko Lizards, Tony Gamble, Aaron M. Bauer, E. Greenbaum, and Todd R. Jackman
Oxa1 Directly Interacts with Atp9 and Mediates Its Assembly into the Mitochondrial F1Fo-ATP Synthase Complex, Lixia Jia, Mary Kathryn Dienhart, and Rosemary A. Stuart
The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions, Sabeeha S. Merchant, Simon E. Prochnik, Olivier Vallon, Elizabeth H. Harris, Steven J. Karpowicz, George B. Witman, Astrid Terry, Asaf Salamov, Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin, Laurence Maréchal-Drouard, Wallace F. Marshall, Liang-Hu Qu, David R. Nelson, Anton A. Sanderfoot, Martin H. Spalding, Vladimir V. Kapitonov, Qinghu Ren, Patrick Ferris, Erika Lindquist, Harris Shapiro, Susan M. Lucas, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Pierre Cardol, Heriberto Cerutti, Guillaume Chanfreau, Chun-Long Chen, Valerie Cognat, Martin T. Croft, Rachel Dent, Susan Dutcher, Emilio Fernández, Hideya Fukuzawa, David González-Ballester, Diego González-Halphen, Armin Hallmann, Marc Hanikenne, Michael Hippler, William Inwood, Kamel Jabbari, Ming Kalanon, Richard Kuras, Paul A. Lefebvre, Stéphane D. Lemaire, Alexey V. Lobanov, Martin Lohr, Andrea Manuell, Iris Meier, Laurens Mets, Maria Mittag, Telsa Mittelmeier, James V. Moroney, Jeffrey Moseley, Carolyn Napoli, Aurora M. Nedelcu, Krishna Niyogi, Sergey V. Novoselov, Ian T. Paulsen, Greg Pazour, Saul Purton, Jean-Philippe Ral, Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, Wayne Riekhof, Linda Rymarquis, Michael Schroda, David Stern, James Umen, Robert Willows, Nedra Wilson, Sara Lana Zimmer, Jens Allmer, Janneke Balk, Katerina Bisova, Chong-Jian Chen, Mark Elias, Karla Gendler, Charles Hauser, Mary Rose Lamb, Heidi Ledford, Joanne C. Long, Jun Minagawa, M. Dudley Page, Junmin Pan, Wirulda Pootakham, Sanja Roje, Annkatrin Rose, Eric Stahlberg, Aimee M. Terauchi, Pinfen Yang, Steven Ball, Chris Bowler, Carol L. Dieckmann, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Pamela Green, Richard Jorgensen, Stephen Mayfield, Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Sathish Rajamani, Richard T. Sayre, Peter Brokstein, Inna Dubchak, David Goodstein, Leila Hornick, Y. Wayne Huang, Jinal Jhaveri, Yigong Luo, Diego Martinez, Wing Chi Abby Ngau, Bobby Otillar, Alexander Poliakov, Aaron Porter, Lukasz Szajkowski, Gregory Werner, Kemin Zhou, Igor V. Grigoriev, Daniel S. Rokhsar, and Arthur R. Grossman
Most Caenorhabditis elegans MicroRNAs are Individually Not Essential for Development or Viability, Eric A. Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L. Abbott, Nelson C. Lau, Andrew B. Hellman, Shannon M. McGonagle, David P. Bartel, Victor R. Ambros, and H. Robert Horvitz
Ras Transformation of RIE-1 Cells Activates Cap-Independent Translation of Ornithine Decarboxylase: Regulation by the Raf/MEK/ERK and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathways, Sofia Origanti and Lisa M. Shantz
Conserved Amino Acids in Each Subunit of the Heteroligomeric tRNA m1A58 Mtase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae Contribute to tRNA Binding, Sarah G. Ozanick, Janusz M. Bujnicki, Daniel S. Sem, and James T. Anderson
Preferential Myosin Heavy Chain Isoform B Expression May Contribute to the Faster Velocity of Contraction in Veins versus Arteries, Catherine M. Rondelli, Irina T. Szasz, Anas Kayal, Keshari Thakali, Ralph E. Watson, Arthur S. Rovner, Thomas Eddinger, Gregory D. Fink, and Stephanie W. Watts
The Exosome Subunit Rrp44 Plays a Direct Role in RNA Substrate Recognition, Claudia Schneider, James T. Anderson, and David Tollervey
Change in Nutritional Status Modulates the Abundance of Critical Pre-initiation Intermediate Complexes During Translation Initiation in Vivo, Chingakham Ranjit Singh, Tsuyoshi Udagawa, Bumjun Lee, Sarah Wassink, Hei He, Yasufumi Yamamoto, James T. Anderson, Graham D. Pavitt, and Katsura Asano
Can Jua be a Weapon in Combating Oral Diseases?, Joana Marreiro Singh, Andrew R. Dentino, and James Maki
A Mutant dec-1 Transgene Induces Dominant Female Sterility in Drosophila melanogaster, Daniel K. Spangenberg and Gail L. Waring
Cold Responsive EARLI1 Type HyPRPs Improve Freezing Survival of Yeast Cells and Form Higher Order Complexes in Plants, Yi Zhang and Michael Schläppi
Submissions from 2006
Contribution of Msh2 and Msh6 Subunits to the Asymmetric ATPase and DNA Mismatch Binding Activities of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Msh2–Msh6 Mismatch Repair Protein, Edwin Antony, Sapna Khubchandani, Siying Chen, and Manju M. Hingorani
Resistance to Pressure-Induced Dilatation in Femoral but Not Saphenous Artery: Physiological Role of Latch?, Christopher Call, Shaojie Han, John E. Speich, Thomas J. Eddinger, and Paul H. Ratz
AMPK Regulation of Mouse Oocyte Meiotic Resumption in Vitro, Jing Chen, Emma R. Hudson, Maggie M. Chi, Aimee S. Chang, Kelle H. Moley, D. Grahame Hardie, and Stephen M. Downs
Steven Weinberg, Blue Square, 2000, James Courtright
Adherens Junction-Associated Protein Distribution Differs in Smooth Muscle Tissue and Acutely Isolated Cells, Thomas J. Eddinger, Jessen D. Schiebout, and Darl R. Swartz
Spinobulbar Neurons in Lamprey: Cellular Properties and Synaptic Interactions, James F. Einum and James T. Buchanan
Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena Thermophila, a Model Eukaryote, Jonathan A. Eisen, Robert S. Coyne, Martin Wu, Dongying Wu, Mathangi Thiagarajan, Jennifer R. Wortman, Jonathan H. Badger, Qinghu Ren, Paolo Amedeo, Kristie M. Jones, Luke J. Tallon, Arthur L. Delcher, Steven L. Salzberg, Joana C. Silva, Brian J. Haas, William H. Majoros, Maryam Farzad, Jane M. Carlton, Roger K. Smith, Jyoti Garg, Ronald E. Pearlman, Kathleen M. Karrer, Lei Sun, Gerard Manning, Nels C. Elde, Aaron P. Turkewitz, David J. Asai, David E. Wilkes, Yufeng Wang, Hong Cai, Kathleen Collins, B. Andrew Stewart, Suzanne R. Lee, Katarzyna Wilamowska, Zasha Weinberg, Walter L. Ruzzo, Dorota Wloga, Jacek Gaertig, Joseph Frankel, Che-Chia Tsao, Martin A. Gorovsky, Patrick J. Keeling, Ross F. Waller, Nicola J. Patron, J. Michael Cherry, Nicholas A. Stover, Cynthia J. Krieger, Christina del Toro, Hilary F. Ryder, Sondra C. Williamson, Rebecca A. Barbeau, Eileen P. Hamilton, and Eduardo Orias
Tumor Suppressor Activity of ODC Antizyme in MEK-driven Skin Tumorigenesis, David J. Feith, Sofia Origanti, Paula L. Shoop, Suzanne Sass-Kuhn, and Lisa M. Shantz
Characterization of Mmp37p, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mitochondrial Matrix Protein with a Role in Mitochondrial Protein Import, Michelle R. Gallas, Mary Kathryn Dienhart, Rosemary A. Stuart, and Roy M. Long
A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses, Jeffrey J. Gerwing, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Robyn J. Burnham, Frans Bongers, Jérôme Chave, Saara J. DeWalt, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Robin Foster, David Kenfack, Miguel Martinez-Ramos, Marc P.E. Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Diego R. Perez-Salicrup, Francis E. Putz, and Duncan W. Thomas
Evidence for Absence of Latch-Bridge Formation in Muscular Saphenous Arteries, Shaojie Han, John E. Speich, Thomas Eddinger, Krystina M. Berg, Amy S. Miner, Chris Call, and Paul H. Ratz
Nuclear RNA Surveillance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Trf4p-dependent Polyadenylation of Nascent Hypomethylated tRNA and an Aberrant Form of 5S rRNA, Sujatha A. Kadaba, Xuying Wang, and James T. Anderson
Low Cell pH Depresses Peak Power in Rat Skeletal Muscle Fibres at Both 30°C and 15°C: Implications for Muscle Fatigue, Shannon T. Knuth, H. Dave, Jim R. Peters, and Robert Fitts
Predicting Liana Crown Location from Stem Diameter in Three Panamanian Lowland Forests, Brian P. Kurzel, Stefan A. Schnitzer, and Walter P. Carson
Progeny of Germ Line Knockouts of ASI2, a Gene Encoding a Putative Signal Transduction Receptor in Tetrahymena Thermophila, Fail to Make the Transition from Sexual Reproduction to Vegetative Growth, Shuqiang Li, Lihui Yin, Eric S. Cole, Rupa A. Udani, and Kathleen M. Karrer
The Distribution of Lianas and Their Change in Abundance in Temperate Forests Over the Past 45 Years, Ronald A. Londre and Stefan A. Schnitzer
An Engineered Nonsense URA3 Allele Provides a Versatile System to Detect the Presence, Absence and Appearance of the [em>PSI+] Prion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Anita L. Manogaran, Kathryn T. Kirkland, and Susan W. Liebman
FRIGIDA LIKE 2 Is a Functional Allele in Landsberg erecta and Compensates for a Nonsense Allele of FRIGIDA LIKE 1, Michael Schläppi
Censusing and Measuring Lianas: A Quantitative Comparison of the Common Methods, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Saara J. DeWalt, and Jérôme Chave
Cardiorespiratory Responses to Physical Work During and Following 17 Days of Bed Rest and Spaceflight, Todd A. Trappe, Scott Trappe, Gary A. Lee, Jeffrey J. Widrick, Robert Fitts, and David Costill
The Flagellar Motility of Chlamydomonas pf25 Mutant Lacking an AKAP-binding Protein Is Overtly Sensitive to Medium Conditions, Chun Yang and Pinfen Yang
Radial Spoke Proteins of Chlamydomonas Flagella, Pinfen Yang, Dennis R. Diener, Chun Yang, Takahiro Kohno, Gregory J. Pazour, Jennifer M. Dienes, Nathan S. Agrin, Stephen M. King, Winfield S. Sale, Ritsu Kamiya, Joel L. Rosenbaum, and George B. Witman
Submissions from 2005
The let-7 MicroRNA Family Members mir-48, mir-84, and mir-241 Function Together to Regulate Developmental Timing in Caenorhabditis elegans, Allison L. Abbott, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Eric A. Miska, Nelson C. Lau, David P. Bartel, H. Robert Horvitz, and Victor R. Ambros
RNA Turnover: Unexpected Consequences of Being Tailed, James T. Anderson
Water uptake and transport in lianas and co-occurring trees of a seasonally dry tropical forest, Jose Luis Andrade, Frederick C. Meinzer, and Stefan A. Schnitzer
Modulation of Tyramine Signaling by Osmolality in an Insect Secretory Epithelium, Edward M. Blumenthal
The Depressive Effect of Pi on the Force-pCa Relationship in Skinned Single Muscle Fibers Is Temperature Dependent, Edward Patrick Debold, Janell Romatowski, and Robert Fitts
Spatially Disjunct Effects of Co‐occurring Competition and Facilitation, Ian A. Dickie
Smooth Muscle Adherens Junctions Associated Proteins are Stable at the Cell Periphery During Relaxation and Activation, Thomas J. Eddinger, Jessen D. Schiebout, and Darl R. Swartz
Membrane Potential Oscillations in Reticulospinal and Spinobulbar Neurons During Locomotor Activity, James F. Einum and James T. Buchanan
Functional Analysis of Subunit e of the F1Fo-ATP Synthase of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Importance of the N-Terminal Membrane Anchor Region, Valerie Everard-Gigot, Cory D. Dunn, Brigid M. Dolan, Susanne Brunner, Robert E. Jensen, and Rosemary A. Stuart
Elimination of Foreign DNA during Somatic Differentiation in Tetrahymena thermophila Shows Position Effect and Is Dosage Dependent, Yifan Liu, Xiaoyuan Song, Martin A. Gorovsky, and Kathleen M. Karrer
The Bipartite Structure of the tRNA m1A58 Methyltransferase from S. cerevisiae is Conserved in Humans, Sarah G. Ozanick, Annette M. Krecic, Joshua Andersland, and James T. Anderson
A Mechanistic Explanation for Global Patterns of Liana Abundance and Distribution, Stefan A. Schnitzer
Disentangling Above‐ And Below‐Ground Competition Between Lianas and Trees in a Tropical Forest, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Mirjam E. Kuzee, and Frans Bongers
Dimeric Novel HSP40 Is Incorporated into the Radial Spoke Complex during the Assembly Process in Flagella, Chun Yang, Mark M. Compton, and Pinfen Yang
Role of a Conserved Glutamate Residue in the Escherichia coli SecA ATPase Mechanism, Christopher R. Zito, Edwin Antony, John F. Hunt, Donald B. Oliver, and Manju M. Hingorani
Submissions from 2004
Asymmetric ATP Binding and Hydrolysis Activity of the Thermus aquaticus MutS Dimer Is Key to Modulation of Its Interactions with Mismatched DNA, Edwin Antony and Manju M. Hingorani
Passive Stretch Inhibits Central Corelike Lesion Formation in the Soleus Muscles of Hindlimb-Suspended Unloaded Rats, D. V. Baewer, Mark A. Hoffman, Janell Romatowski, J. L. W. Bain, Robert Fitts, and Danny A. Riley
Cold Induction of EARLI1, a Putative Arabidopsis Lipid Transfer Protein, Is Light and Calcium Dependent, Jason A. Bubier and Michael Schläppi
Fiber Type and Temperature Dependence of Inorganic Phosphate: Implications for Fatigue, Edward Patrick Debold, H. Dave, and Robert Fitts
Reticulospinal Neurons Receive Direct Spinobulbar Inputs During Locomotor Activity in Lamprey, James F. Einum and James T. Buchanan
Comparison of Harvested and Nonharvested Painted Turtle Populations, Tony Gamble and Andrew M. Simons
IC138 Is a WD-Repeat Dynein Intermediate Chain Required for Light Chain Assembly and Regulation of Flagellar Bending, Triscia W. Hendrickson, Catherine A. Perrone, Paul Griffin, Kristin Wuichet, Joshua Mueller, Pinfen Yang, Mary E. Porter, and Winfield S. Sale
Establishment limitation reduces species recruitment and species richness as soil resources rise, M. Henry, H. Stevens, Stefan A. Schnitzer, and Walter P. Carson
Science on the Rise in Developing Countries, Milena Holmgren and Stefan A. Schnitzer
The Yeast rRNA Biosynthesis Factor Ebp2p is also Required for Efficient Nuclear Division, Costin N. Ionescu, Sofia Origanti, and Michael A. McAlear
Nuclear Surveillance and Degradation of Hypomodified Initiator tRNAMet in S. cerevisiae, Sujatha Kadaba, Anna Krueger, Tamyra Trice, Annette M. Krecic, Alan G. Hinnebusch, and James T. Anderson
The N-terminal Prodomain of sV23 is Essential for the Assembly of a Functional Vitelline Membrane Network in Drosophila, Anita L. Manogaran and Gail L. Waring
Liana diversity, abundance, and mortality in a tropical wet forest in Costa Rica, Joseph Mascaro, Stefan A. Schnitzer, and Walter P. Carson
Evolutionary Divergence in Developmental Strategies and Neuromodulatory Control Systems of Two Amphibian Locomotor Networks, Simon D. Merrywest, David L. McLean, James T. Buchanan, and Keith T. Sillar
2-O-Methylation of Fucosyl Residues of a Rhizobial Lipopolysaccharide Is Increased in Response to Host Exudate and Is Eliminated in a Symbiotically Defective Mutant, K. Dale Noel, Jodie M. Box, and Valerie J. Boone
Contractile Responses of the Rat Gastrocnemius and Soleus Muscles to Isotonic Resistance Exercise, Kris M. Norenberg and Robert Fitts
Community ecology and management of lianas, Diego R. Perez-Salicrup, Stefan A. Schnitzer, and Francis E. Putz
Cholinergic Modulation of the Locomotor Network in the Lamprey Spinal Cord, Katharina A. Quinlan, Peter G. Placas, and James T. Buchanan
Skeletal Muscle Fiber Atrophy: Altered Thin Filament Density Changes Slow Fiber Force and Shortening Velocity, Danny A. Riley, J. L. W. Bain, Janell Romatowski, and Robert Fitts
Recruitment of lianas into logging gaps and the effects of pre-harvest climber cutting in a lowland forest in Cameroon, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Marc P.E. Parren, and Frans Bongers
The Radial Spokes and Central Apparatus: Mechano-Chemical Transducers That Regulate Flagellar Motility, Elizabeth F. Smith and Pinfen Yang
Sinusoidal Length Oscillation- and Receptor-Mediated mRNA Expression of Myosin Isoforms and α-SM Actin in Airway Smooth Muscle, Melissa Wahl, Thomas J. Eddinger, and Chi-Ming Hai
Homing Endonucleases Encoded by Germ Line-Limited Genes in Tetrahymena thermophila Have APETELA2 DNA Binding Domains, Jeffrey D. Wuitschick, Paul R. Lindstrom, Alison E. Meyer, and Kathleen M. Karrer
Flagellar Radial Spoke Protein 2 Is a Calmodulin Binding Protein Required for Motility in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Pinfen Yang, Chun Yang, and Winfield S. Sale