Skip to Global Navigation Skip to Local Site Navigation Skip to Main Content

Bio - Faculty and Student Publications

The following articles were published by faculty and students in the Department of Biological Sciences since 2000. Students are denoted with asterisks.

 

2009

  • Stefanov*, Emily K., Jordan M. Ferrage*, Nicholas F. Parchim*, Christine E. Lee*, Angela D. Reginelli*, Mara Taché and Rosalie A. Anderson. In press. Modification of the ZPA signal by trypsin. Development, Growth & Differentiation.

 2008

  • Barnes, P.W., S. Flint, J. Slusser, W. Gao and R. Ryel. 2008. Diurnal changes in epidermal UV transmittance of plants in naturally high UV environments. Physiologia Plantarum 133:363-372.
  • Blackburn, JK, A Curtis, F Currin Mujica, F Jones, P Dorn, and R Coates. 2008. The development of the Chagas’ Online Data Entry System (CODES-GIS). Transactions in GIS 12:249-265.
  • Caillouet, K. A., J. C. Carlson, D. M. Wesson, and F. Jordan. 2008. Colonization of abandoned swimming pools by larval mosquitoes and their predators following Hurricane Katrina. Journal of Vector Ecology 33:166-172.
  • Champagne*, C., J. D. Austin, H. L. Jelks, and F. Jordan. 2008. Effects of fin clipping on survival and position-holding behavior of Brown Darters, Etheostoma edwinii. Copeia 2008:916-919.
  • Chapman, E.L., J.Q. Chambers, K.F. Ribbeck, D.B. Baker, M.A. Tobler, H. Zeng, and D.A. White. 2008. Hurricane Katrina impacts on forest trees of the Louisiana Pearl River basin. Forest Ecology and Management 256:883-889.
  • Chimney, M. J. and F. Jordan. 2008. The fish assemblage of a constructed treatment wetland in south Florida. The Florida Scientist 71:246-264.
  • Dorazio, R. M., B. Mukherjee, L. Zhang, M. Ghosh, H. L. Jelks, and F. Jordan. 2008. Modeling unobserved sources of heterogeneity in animal abundance using a Dirichlet process prior. Biometrics 64:635-644.
  • D’Souza, L., and P.W. Barnes. 2008. Woody plant effects on soil seed banks in a central Texas savanna. The Southwestern Naturalist 53:495-506.
  • Hood, C.S., and A,L. Gardner. 2008. Family Emballonuridae. Pp. 188-210, In, Mammals of South America, Vol. 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats. (A.L. Gardner, ed.). Univ. Chicago Press. 669 pp.
  • Jordan, F., H. L. Jelks, S. Bortone, and R. M. Dorazio. 2008. Comparison of visual survey and seining methods for a benthic stream fish. Environmental Biology of Fishes 81:313-319.
  • Pineda, S., S. Melgar, P. Dorn, E. Agreda, A. Rodas and C. Monroy. 2008. Salivary proteins profiles distinguish Triatomine species and populations of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), J. Med. Entomol. 45:52-58.

 2007

  • Barnes, P.W., S-Y Liang, K.E. Jessup, P.A. Ramirez, L.E. D’Souza, K.G. Elliott, and P.L. Phillips. 2007. Ecological impacts of Ashe juniper on subtropical savanna parklands and woodlands. Pp. 133-155, In: Ecology and Management of Western North American Juniperus Communities: A Dynamic Vegetation Type. O.W. van Auken (ed.), Ecological Studies 196, Springer.
  • Dorn, P, P. Buekens, E. Hanford. 2007. Whac-a-mole: future trends in Chagas transmission and the importance of a global perspective on disease control. Future Microbology 2:365-367 (Invited editorial).
  • Dorn, PL, C Monroy, A Curtis. 2007. T. dimidiata: A review of its diversity across its geographic range and the relationship among populations. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 7:343-352.
  • Dorn, PL, L Perniciaro*, MJ Yabsley, DM Roellig, G Balsamo, J Diaz, D Wesson. 2007. Autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Louisiana. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13:605-607.
  • Melgar, S, JJ Chávez, P Landaverde, F Herrera, A Rodas, E Enríquez, P Dorn, C Monroy. 2007. Number of families of Triatoma dimidiata in a Guatemalan house. Mem Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 102:221-223.
  • Saltonstall, K. and D.P. Hauber. 2007. Notes on Phragmites australis (Poaceae: Arundinoideae) in North America. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1:385-388.

 2006

  • Barnes, P.W., J. R. Shinkle, S.D. Flint, and R.J. Ryel. 2006. UV-B radiation, photomorphogenesis and plant-plant interactions. pp. 313-340, In: K. Esser, U. Lüttge, W. Beyschlag, and J. Murata (eds). Progress in Botany Vol. 66, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Wujek, D.E. and J.L. Wee. 2006. Silica-scale bearing chrsyophytes from the Southern Atlantic Coastal Plain in Louisiana, USA. II. Identification, ecology, and distribution. Algol. Stud. 119:91-103.

 2005

  • Baber, M. J., K. J. Babbitt, F. Jordan, H. Jelks, and W. M. Kitchens. 2005. Relationships between habitat type, hydrology, predator composition, and distribution of larval anurans in the Florida Everglades. Pages 154-160 in Amphibians and Reptiles: Status and Conservation in Florida. W. E Meshaka, Jr. and K. J. Babbitt (Eds.), Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida.
  • Dorazio, R. M., H. L. Jelks, and F. Jordan . 2005. Improving removal-based estimates of abundance by sampling a population of spatially distinct subpopulations. Biometrics online publication 12-May-2005.
  • Dorn, P.L., S Melgar , C Combe, A Rodas, C Monroy . 2005. Analysis of microsatellite markers for population genetic studies of the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma dimidiata. Infection, Genetics & Evolution suppl. 2005.
  • Han M, Yang X, Taylor G, Burdsal CA , Anderson RA, Muneoka K. 2005. Limb regeneration in higher vertebrates: developing a roadmap. Anat Rec B New Anat. 287:14-24.
  • Ruetz, C. R., J. C. Trexler, F. Jordan, W. F. Loftus, and S. A. Perry. 2005. Population dynamics of wetland fishes: spatio-temporal patterns synchronized by hydrological disturbance? Journal of Animal Ecology 74:322-332.
  • Shinkle JR, Derickson DL, Barnes PW. 2005. Comparative photobiology of growth responses to two UV-B wavebands and UV-C in dim-red-light- and white-light-grown cucumber (Cucumis sativus) seedlings: Physiological evidence for photoreactivation. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 81:1069-1074.
  • Zou, CB; Barnes, PW; Archer, S; McMurtry CR 2005. Soil moisture redistribution as a mechanism of facilitation in Savanna tree-shrub clusters. Oecologia 145:32-40.
  • Shuh, M. , and M. Beilke. 2005. The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1): new insights into the clinical aspects and molecular pathogenesis of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) and tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM). Microscopy Research and Technique, 68:176-96.
  • Shuh, M., and Douglas C. Hixson. 2005. V(D)J recombination of chromosomally integrated, wild-type deletional and inversional substrates occurs at similar frequencies with no preference for orientation. Immunology Letters 97(1):69-80.
  • Wee, J.L., A.M. James*, and C.S. Hood. 2005. Exploratory investigations of palmella-stage formation in the Synurophyceae. - In: Kristiansen, J. & G. Cronberg (eds.): Chrysophytes - past and present. Proceedings of the Sixth International Chrysophyte Symposium 2-7 August 2004, Lammi, Finland. - Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 128: 257-266.

 2004

  • Barnes , P.W., J. R. Shinkle, S.D. Flint , and R.J. Ryel. 2004. UV-B radiation, photomorphogenesis and plant-plant interactions. Progress in Botany Vol. 66 ( Esser, K.; Lüttge, U.; Beyschlag, W.; Murata, J., editors), 420 pp., Springer, Berlin .
  • Calderón, C I; P L. Dorn , S Melgar, J J Chávez, A Rodas, R Rosales, C M. Monroy. 2004. A preliminary assessment of genetic differentiation of Triatoma dimidiata , (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Guatemala by RAPD-PCR. Journal of Medical Entomology 41:882-887
  • Gauthier , J. D., J. A. Jenkins and J. F. LaPeyre. 2004. Flow cytometric analysis of lectin binding to in vitro-cultured Perkinsus marinus surface carbohydrates. J. Parasitology 90:446-454.
  • Ngo-Muller, V., Shaoguang Li, Scott A. Schaller, Manjong Han, Jennifer Farrington, Minoru Omi, R.Anderson , and Ken Muneoka. 2004.  FGF4 and Skeletal Morphogenesis.  In : The Skeleton, Biochemical, Genetic, and Molecular Interactions in Development and Homeostasis  (E.J. Massaro, J.M. Rogers, Eds.), Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey. pp 131-145
  • Shinkle, J.R., A.K. Atkins, E.E. Humphrey, C.W. Rodgers, S.L. Wheeler, and P.W. Barnes . 2004. Short and long wavelength UV-B radiation induce different growth and morphological responses in cucumbers (Cucumis sativum) and other dicotyledonous seedlings. Physiologia Plantarum 120:240-248.
  • White , D.A., D.P. Hauber , & C.S. Hood . 2004. Clonal differences in Phragmites australis from an unique wetland landscape: the Mississippi River delta . Southeastern Naturalist 3:531-544.
  • White , D.A., & C.S. Hood . 2004. Vegetation patterns and environmental gradients in tropical dry forests of the northern Yucatan peninsula, Mexico . Journal Vegetation Science 15:151-160.

 2003

  • Dorn, P. L, S. Melgar, V. Rouzier*, A. Gutierrez*, C. Combe*, R. Rosales, A. Rodas, S. Kott*, D. Salvia*, and C. M. Monroy. 2003. The Chagas vector, Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera:Reduviidae), is panmictic within and among adjacent villages in Guatemala. Journal of Medical Entomology 40:436-440.
  • Guill, J.M., C.S. Hood, & D.C. Heins. 2003. Female body shape variation within and among three species of darters. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 12:134-140.
  • Guill, J.M., D.C. Heins, & C.S. Hood. 2003. The effect of phylogeny on interspecific body shape variation in darters. Systematic Biology 52:488–500.
  • Joachim*, R. D., J. M. Guill , and D. C. Heins. 2003. Female reproductive life history traits of the rock darter, Etheostoma rupestre , from Flat Creek , Alabama . American Midland Naturalist 150:268-274.
  • Tercek, M.T., D.P. Hauber, S.P. Darwin. 2003. Genetic and historical relationships among geothermally adapted Agrostis ("Bentgrass") of North America and Kamchatka: evidence for a previously unrecognized thermally-adapted taxon. American Journal of Botany 90:1306-1312.

 2002

  • Hood, C. S. 2002. Review of Ontogeny, Functional Ecology and Evolution of Bats. RA.Adams & S.C. Pedersen, eds. Journal of Mammalogy. 83:628-630.
  • Jordan, F. 2002. Field and laboratory evaluation of habitat use by rainwater killifish (Lucania parva) in the St. Johns River estuary, Florida. Estuaries 25:288-295.
  • Martinez, M.L., G. Vazquez, D.A. White, G. Thivet*, and M. Brenges*. 2002. Germination responses of five tropical beach dune species exposed to artificial sand burial and inundation by fresh and seawater. Canadian Journal of Botany 80:416-424.
  • Omi, Minoru, Rosalie Anderson, and Ken Muneoka. 2002. Differential cell affinity and sorting of anterior and posterior cells during outgrowth of recombinant avian limb buds. Developmental Biology 250:292-304.
  • White, D.A. and S.A. Skojac*. 2002. Remnant bottomland forests near the terminus of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana. Castanea 67:134-145.
  • Wujek, D.E., J.L. Wee & J.E. Van Kley. 2002. Silica-scaled chrysophytes and synurophytes from east Texas. Texas Journal of Science 54:27-36.

 2001

  • Dorn, PL, J Flores*, B Brahney*, A Gutierrez*, R Rosales, A Rodas, C Monroy. Comparison of Polymerase Chain Reaction on fresh tissue samples and fecal drops on filter paper for detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in Rhodnius prolixus. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 96:503-505.
  • Furlotte*, A. E., Ferguson, J. A. & Wee, J. L. A floristic survey of the Synurophyceae from southeastern Australia. Nordic Journal of Botany 20:247-256.
  • Green, G.R. Phosphorylation of histone variant regions in chromatin: unlocking the linker? Biochemistry and Cell Biology 79:275-287.
  • Green, G.R., R.R. Ferlita*, W.F. Walkenhorst, and D.L. Poccia. Linker DNA destabilizes condensed chromatin. Biochemistry and Cell Biology 79:349-363.
  • Jordan, F. and D. A. Arrington. Weak trophic interactions between large predatory fishes and herpetofauna in the channelized Kissimmee River, Florida, USA. Wetlands 21:155–159.
  • Schaller, S. A., S. Li, V. Ngo-Muller, M. Han, M. Omi, R. Anderson, and K. Muneoka. Cell biology of limb patterning. International Review of Cytology 203: 483-517.
  • Siver, P.A & J.L. Wee (eds). Chrysophytes and related organisms: topics and issues, Proceedings of the Fifth International Chrysophyte Symposium. Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia 122:1-258.
  • Trexler, J. C., W. F. Loftus, F. Jordan, J. H. Chick, K. L. Kandl, T. C. McElroy, and O. L. Bass, Jr. Ecological scale and its implications for freshwater fishes in the Florida Everglades. Pages 153-181 in The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook. J. W. Porter and K. G. Porter (Eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
  • Wee, J.L. Light Microscopic Observations of Synura lapponica Skuja (Synurophyceae) In: Siver, P.A & J.L. Wee (eds). Chrysophytes and related organisms: topics and issues, Proceedings of the Fifth International Chrysophyte Symposium. Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 122:189-193.
  • Wee, J.L., Fasone* L. D., Sattler, A., Starks*, W. W. & Hurley, D. L. ITS/5.8S DNA sequence variation in 15 isolates of Synura petersenii Korshikov (Synurophyceae). In: Siver, P.A & J.L. Wee (eds). Chrysophytes and related organisms: topics and issues, Proceedings of the Fifth International Chrysophyte Symposium. Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 122:245-258.

 2000

  • Jordan, F., K. J. Babbitt, C. C. McIvor, and S. J. Miller. Contrasting patterns of habitat use by prawns and crayfish in a headwater marsh of the St. Johns River, Florida. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20:769-776.
  • Hood, C. S. Geometric morphometric approaches to the study of sexual size dimorphism in mammals. Hystrix 11:77-90.
  • Hood, C. S., and D.C. Heins. Ontogeny and allometry of body shape in the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta. Copeia 2000: 270-275.
  • Trexler, J.C., W. F. Loftus, F. Jordan, J. Lorenz, and J. Chick. Empirical assessment of fish introductions in a subtropical wetland: an evaluation of contrasting views. Biological Invasions 2:265-277.