This page collects the publications and presentations of the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

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Publications from 2024

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Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding, Kiran J. More, Harpreet Kaur, Alastair G.B. Simpson, Frederick W. Spiegel, and Joel B. Dacks

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Reducing DNA Extraction Costs Through Factorial Design for the DNAdvance Kit, Carson J. Neal, Zachery D. Zbinden, Michael E. Douglas, and Marlis R. Douglas

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Noise Leads to the Perceived Increase in Evolutionary Rates Over Short Time Scales, Brian C. O'Meara and Jeremy M. Beaulieu

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Resolution of Respect: Conrad Alan Istock (1936–2023), Steven Hecht Orzack, Julia Bell, Judith Bronstein, William Etges, and Shripad Tuljakpurkar

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Identification of differentially recognized T cell epitopes in the spectrum of tuberculosis infection, Sudhasini Panda, Jeffrey Morgan, Catherine Cheng, Mayuko Saito, Robert H. Gilman, Nelly Ciobanu, Valeriu Crudu, Donald G. Cantazaro, Antonino Cantazaro, Timothy Rodwell, Judy S.B. Perera, Teshan Chathuranga, Bandu Gunasena, Aruna D. DeSilva, Bjoern Peters, Alessandro Sette, and Cecilia S. Linderstam Arlehamn

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Transitions Into Freezing Environments Linked With Shifts in Phylogenetic Integration Between Vitaceae Leaf Traits, Charles Tomo Parins-Fukuchi, Gregory W. Stull, Jun Wen, and Jeremy M. Beaulieu

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Turtle species and ecology drive carapace microbiome diversity in three seasonally interconnected wetland habitats, Matthew Parks, Jun Sheng Lee, Kassandra Camua, and Ethan Hollender

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A Review of Rattlesnake Venoms, Phuc Phan, Anant Deshwal, Tyler Anthony McMahon, Matthew Slikas, Elodie Andrews, Brian Becker, and Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar

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Molecular Genomic Analyses of Enterococcus cecorum from Sepsis Outbreaks in Broilers, Douglas D. Rhoads, Jeff Pummill, and Adnan Ali Khalaf Alrubaye

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Diverse Origins of Near-identical Antifreeze Proteins in Unrelated Fish Lineages Provide Insights Into Evolutionary Mechanisms of New Gene Birth and Protein Sequence Convergence, Nathan Rives, Vinita Lamba, C.H. Christina Cheng, and Xuan Zhuang

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Balancing ecology and practicality to rank waterbodies for preventative invasive species management, Caleb P. Roberts, William E. Grant, Matthew L. Horton, Lindsey A.P. LaBrie, Miranda R. Peterson, Jane S. Rogosh, and Hsiao-Hsuan Wang

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Diatom Abundance in the Polar Oceans is Predicted by Genome Size, Wade R. Roberts, Adam M. Siepielski, and Andrew J. Alverson

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Bat humoral immunity and its role in viral pathogenesis, transmission, and zoonosis, Anne A. Roffler, Daniel P. Maurer, Tamika J. Lunn, Tarja Sironen, Kristian M. Forbes, and Aaron G. Schmidt

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Burkholderia Cenocepacia and Pseudomonas Fluorescens Compositions and Methods of using the Same, Clemencia M. Rojas, Ruben O. Morawicki, Ines Pinto, and Alejandro Rojas

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DNA barcoding reveals a new population of the threatened Atlantic Forest frog Sphaenorhynchus canga, Diego J. Santana, Andre Yves, Elvis A. Pereira, Priscila S. Carvalho, Lucio M. C. Lima, Henrique C. Costa, and Don Shepard

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Natural Variation in Yeast Reveals Multiple Paths for Acquiring Higher Stress Resistance, Amanda N. Scholes, Tara N. Stuecker, Stephanie E. Hood, Cader J. Locke, Carson L. Stacy, Qingyang Zhang, and Jeffrey A. Lewis

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Prospective Exploratory Evaluation of Cepheid Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis Host Response Cartridge: A Focus on Adolescents and Young Adults, Marva Seifert, Donald G. Catanzaro, Michael Gracia, Naomi Hillery, Sabira Tahseen, Faisal Masood, Uzma Majeed, Rebecca E. Colman, Rehan Syed, Antonino Catanzaro, and Timothy Rodwell

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Mitigating Toxic Metal Exposure Through Leafy Greens: A Comprehensive Review Contrasting Cadmium and Lead in Spinach, Angelia L. Seyfferth, Matthew A. Limmer, Benjamin R. Runkle, and Rufus L. Chaney

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A Simple, Inexpensive Alkaline Method for Bacterial DNA Extraction from Environmental Samples for PCR Surveillance and Microbiome Analyses, Abdulkarim Shwani, Bin Zuo, Adnan Alrubaye, Jiangchao Zhao, and Douglas D. Rhoads

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Ad fontes: Divergence-Time Estimation and the Age of Angiosperms, Stephen A. Smith and Jeremy M. Beaulieu

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Myxomycetes of Subantarctic Macquarie Island, Steven L. Stephenson

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Notes on the ecological distribution of the myxomycete Arcyria globosa, Steven L. Stephenson, Rollins W. Rollins, Theda Win Coco, and Randy G. Darrah

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Understanding tuberculosis transmission and progression: A prospective cohort study of index cases and close contacts in Moldova, Rehan R. Syed, Donald G. Cantazaro, Naomi Hillery, Valeriu Crudu, Elena Tudor, Nelly Ciobanu, Alexandru Codreanu, Maryam Kheirandish Borujeni, Antonino Cantazaro, and Timothy Rodwell

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Current and future environmental suitability for bats hosting potential zoonotic pathogens in rural Kenya, Ruut Uusitalo, Reilly T. Jackson, Tamika J. Lunn, Essi M. Kohonen, Joseph G. Ogala, Paul W. Wabala, Tarja A. Sironen, and Kristian M. Forbes

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Different currencies for calculating resource phenology result in opposite inferences about trophic mismatches, Tom S. L. Versluijs, Mikhail K. Zhemchuzhnikov, Dmitry Kutcherov, Tomas Roslin, Niels Martin Schmidt, Jan A. van Gils, and Jeroen Reneerkens

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Expanded gene and taxon sampling of diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle, Monika Wiśniewska, Erik Salomaki, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Kristina Terpis, Eva Mazancová, Petr Táborský, Vasana Jinathama, Eleni Gentekaki, Ivan Čepička, and Martin Kolisko

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A robust genome assembly with transcriptomic data from the striped bark scorpion, Centruroides vittatus, Tsunemi Yamashita, Douglas D. Rhoads, and Jeff Pummill

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New Species and Records Expand the Checklist of Cellular Slime Molds (Dictyostelids) in Jilin Province, China, Zhaojuan Zhang, Liang He, Yuqin Sun, Zhuang Li, Yingqun Yang, Chao Zhai, Steven Lee Stephenson, Xiangrui Xie, Yu Li, and Pu Liu

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Diversity of Cellular Slime Molds (Dictyostelids) in the Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve and Geographical Distribution Comparisons with Other Representative Nature Reserves in Different Climate Zones of China, Zhaojuan Zhang, Meng Li, Shufei Zhiang, Yue Qin, Jing Zhao, Yu Li, Steven L. Stephenson, Junzhi Qiu, and Pu Liu

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Slime molds (Myxomycetes) causing a “disease” in crop plants and cultivated mushrooms, Zhaojuan Zhang, Chao Zhi, Yu Li, Steven L. Stephenson, and Pu Liu

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Proteomic Analysis Reveals Major Proteins and Pathways That Mediate the Effect of 17-β-Estradiol in Cell Division and Apoptosis in Breast Cancer MCF7 Cells, Zhenqi Zhou, Brihget Sicairos, Jianhong Zhou, and Yuchun Du

Publications from 2023

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The Evolutionary Responses of Life-history Strategies to Climatic Variability in Flowering Plants, James Boyko, Eric R. Hagen, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, and Thais Vasconcelos

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Methods And Systems For Enhancing Feed-conversion-ratio In Animals Using Mobile Enzyme Sequestration Platforms (MSEP), Ruben M. Ceballos

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Genome-wide Association Identifies Key Loci Controlling Blackberry Postharvest Quality, T. Mason Chizk, John R. Clark, Carmen Johns, Lacy Nelson, Hamid Ashrafi, Rishi Aryal, and Margaret Worthington

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Occupancy and Activity Patterns of Nine-Banded Armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in a Suburban Environment, Brett DeGregorio, Matthew R. McElroy, and Emily P. Johansson

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Interactions Between Fitness Components Across the Life Cycle Constrain Competitor Coexistence, Miguel Gómez-Llano, Wade A. Boys, Taylor Ping, Simon P. Tye, and Adam M. Siepielski

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Roost Selection by Synanthropic Bats in Rural Kenya: Implications for Human-wildlife Conflict and Zoonotic Pathogen Spillover, Reilly T. Jackson, Paul W. Webala, Joseph G. Ogola, Tamika J. Lunn, and Kristian M. Forbes

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Movement Patterns of Two Bat Species Active During Winter in the Southeastern United States, Reilly T. Jackson, Emma V. Wilcox, and Riley F. Bernard

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The Effects of Landscape and Yard Features on Mammal Diversity in Residential Yards Within Northwest Arkansas, USA, Emily P. Johansson and Brett A. DeGregorio

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Striped Expression of Leucine-Rich Repeat Proteins Coordinates Cell Intercalation and Compartment Boundary Formation in the Early Drosophila Embryo, Chloe A. Kuebler and Adam C. Pare

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Effects of Landcover on Mesocarnivore Density and Detection Rate Along an Urban to Rural Gradient, Leah E. McTigue and Brett DeGregorio

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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Patients Carrying Mitochondrial Mutations Exhibit Altered Bioenergetics and Aberrant Differentiation Potential, Fibi Meshrkey, Kelly M. Scheulin, Christopher M. Littlejohn, Joshua Stabach, Bibhuti Saikia, Vedant Thorat, Yimin Huang, Thomas LaFramboise, Edward J. Lesnefsky, Raj R. Rao, Franklin D. West, and Shilpa Iyer

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Detection of dsrAB Operon Expression in Desulfotalea psychrophila Cells Subjected to Simulated Martian Conditions of Temperature and Regolith's Sulphate Minerals Composition, Sergio Mosquera, Mack Ivey, and Vincent F. Chevrier

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Effects of Habitat Management on Rodent Diversity, Abundance, and Virus Infection Dynamics, Nathaniel Mull, Amy Schexnayder, Abigail Stolt, Tarja Sironen, and Kristian M. Forbes

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AdmixPipe v3: facilitating population structure delimitation from SNP data, Steven M. Mussmann, Marlis R. Douglas, Tyler Chafin, and Michael E. Douglas

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Predicting Stringent QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus Conversions in Contacts of Tuberculosis Patients, Sheng-Wei Pan, Donald G. Catanzaro, Marva Seifert, Rehan Syed, Naomi Hillery, Mei-Lin Ho, Valeriu Crudu, Elena Tudor, Nelly Ciobanu, Alexandru Codreanu, Antonino Catanzaro, and Timonthy C. Rodwell

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Effects of Measurement Methods and Growing Conditions on Phenotypic Expression of Photosynthesis in Seven Diverse Rice Genotypes, Megan Reavis, Larry C. Purcell, Andy Pereira, and Kusum Naithani

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The Himalayan Uplift and Evolution of Aquatic Biodiversity Across Asia: Snowtrout (Cyprininae: Schizothorax) as a Test Case, Binod Regmi, Marlis R. Douglas, Karma Wangchuk, Zachery D. Zbinden, David R. Edds, Singye Tshering, and Michael E. Douglas

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The Minimal SUF System is Not Required for Fe–S Cluster Biogenesis in the Methanogenic Archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans, Jasleen Saini, Thomas M. Deere, and Daniel J. Lessner

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Different Types of Databases Reveals that CDH1 mRNA and E-cadherin Protein are Not Downregulated in Most Carcinoma Tissues and Carcinoma Cell Lines, Brihget Sicairos, Shorna Alam, and Yuchun Du