Faculty and Student Publications
2020
A hydrodynamics assessment of the hammerhead shark cephalofoil, Matthew K. Gaylord, Eric L. Blades, and Glenn Parsons
Ectomycorrhizal Plant-Fungal Co-invasions as Natural Experiments for Connecting Plant and Fungal Traits to Their Ecosystem Consequences, Jason D. Hoeksema, Colin Averill, Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Edward Brzostek, Erika Buscardo, Ko-Hsuan Chen, Hui-Ling Liao, Laszlo Nagy, Nahuel Policelli, Joanna Ridgeway, J. Alejandro Rojas, and Rytas Vilgalys
Floristic changes in the understory vegetation of mixed temperate new england freshwater island forests over a period of 33 years, Marjorie M. Holland and Mark Winkler
Normal Ethanol Sensitivity and Rapid Tolerance Require the G Protein Receptor Kinase 2 in Ellipsoid Body Neurons in Drosophila, Yuan Yuan Kang, Yusuke Wachi, Elizabeth Engdorf, Emiliano Fumagalli, Youyou Wang, Jennifer Myers, Shebna Massey, Antony Greiss, Shiyu Xu, and Gregg Roman
Gut microbiomes of sympatric Amazonian wood-eating catfishes (Loricariidae) reflect host identity and little role in wood digestion, Mark McCauley, Donovan P. German, Nathan K. Lujan, and Colin R. Jackson
Microbiomes of Caribbean Octocorals Vary Over Time but Are Resistant to Environmental Change, Mark McCauley, Colin R. Jackson, and Tamar Goulet
Two New Sulcate Species of Dichelonyx Harris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Dichelonychini) from Southern California, USA and Baja California, Mexico, Ron H. McPeak, Paul K. Lago, and Guy A. Hanley
Effects of life stage, site, and species on the dragonfly gut microbiome, Sarah Nobles and Colin R. Jackson
Timescales of variation in diversity and production of bacterioplankton assemblages in the Lower Mississippi River, Jason T. Payne, Colin R. Jackson, Justin J. Millar, and Clifford A. Ochs
Aquatic beetles influence colonization of disparate taxa in small lentic systems, Matthew R. Pintar and William J. Resetarits
The concluding chapter: Recircumscription of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) to include four allied genera with an updated infrageneric classification, Kelly A. Shepherd, Brendan J. Lepschi, Eden A. Johnson, Andrew G. Gardner, Emily B. Sessa, and Rachel S. Jabaily
Immunogenetic and tolerance strategies against a novel parasitoid of wild field crickets, Kristin L. Sikkink, Nathan W. Bailey, Marlene Zuk, and Susan L. Balenger
Cryptic diversity among Yazoo Darters (Percidae: Etheostoma raneyi) in disjunct watersheds of northern Mississippi, Ken A. Sterling, Stuart V. Nielsen, Andrew J. Brown, Melvin L. Warren, and Brice P. Noonan
The saltpan microbiome is structured by sediment depth and minimally influenced by variable hydration, Eric A. Weingarten, Lauren A. Lawson, and Colin R. Jackson
2019
Fungi in the marine environment: Open questions and unsolved problems, Anthony Amend, Gaetan Burgaud, Michael Cunliffe, Virginia P. Edgcomb, Cassandra L. Ettinger, M. H. Gutiérrez, Joseph Heitman, Erik F.Y. Hom, Giuseppe Ianiri, Adam C. Jones, Maiko Kagami, Kathryn T. Picard, C. Alisha Quandt, Seshagiri Raghukumar, Mertixell Riquelme, Jason Stajich, José Vargas-Muñiz, Allison K. Walker, Oded Yarden, and Amy S. Gladfelter
Beyond the black box: Promoting mathematical collaborations for elucidating interactions in soil ecology, Alison E. Bennett, Katharine Preedy, Antonio Golubski, James Umbanhowar, Stuart R. Borrett, Loren Byrne, Kent Apostol, James D. Bever, Lori Biederman, Aimée T. Classen, Kim Cuddington, Marie Anne De Graaff, Karen A. Garrett, Lou Gross, Alan Hastings, Jason D. Hoeksema, Volodymyr Hrynkiv, Justine Karst, Miro Kummel, Charlotte T. Lee, Chao Liang, Wei Liao, Keenan Mack, Laura Miller, Bonnie Ownley, Claudia Rojas, Ellen L. Simms, Vonda K. Walsh, Matthew Warren, and Jun Zhu
Inter- and intraspecific competition and shade avoidance in the carnivorous pale pitcher plant in a nutrient-poor savanna, J. Stephen Brewer
Two divergent genetic lineages within the horned passalus beetle, Odontotaenius disjunctus (Coleoptera: Passalidae): An emerging model for insect behavior, physiology, and microbiome research, Ryan C. Garrick, Trey Dickinson, Dana K. Reppel, and Rachel N. Yi
Molecular biogeography and host relations of a parasitoid fly, David A. Gray, Henry D. Kunerth, Marlene Zuk, William H. Cade, and Susan L. Balenger
Genome-scale fitness profile of Caulobacter crescentus grown in natural freshwater, Kristy L. Hentchel, Leila M. Reyes Ruiz, Patrick D. Curtis, Aretha Fiebig, Maureen L. Coleman, and Sean Crosson
Ecological drivers of species distributions and niche overlap for three subterranean termite species in the southern Appalachian mountains, USA, Chaz Hyseni and Ryan C. Garrick
The role of glacial-interglacial climate change in shaping the genetic structure of eastern subterranean termites in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA, Chaz Hyseni and Ryan C. Garrick
Weak warning signals can persist in the absence of gene flow, J. P. Lawrence, Bibiana Rojas, Antoine Fouquet, Johanna Mappes, Annelise Blanchette, Ralph A. Saporito, Renan Janke Bosque, Elodie A. Courtois, and Brice Noonan
A cognitive map in a poison frog, Yuxiang Liu, Lainy B. Day, Kyle Summers, and Sabrina S. Burmeister
Priming by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of plant antioxidant enzyme production: A meta-analysis, Ami Lokhandwala and Jason D. Hoeksema
Current in vivo models of varicella-zoster virus neurotropism, Ravi Mahalingam, Anne Gershon, Michael Gershon, Jeffrey I. Cohen, Ann Arvin, Leigh Zerboni, Hua Zhu, Wayne Gray, Ilhem Messaoudi, and Vicki Traina-Dorge
A new genus of Cophomantini, with comments on the taxonomic status of Boana liliae (Anura: Hylidae), Paulo D.P. Pinheiro, Philippe J.R. Kok, Brice P. Noonan, D. Bruce Means, Célio F.B. Haddad, and Julián Faivovich
Giant tortoise genomes provide insights into longevity and age-related disease, Víctor Quesada, Sandra Freitas-Rodríguez, Joshua Miller, José G. Pérez-Silva, Zi Feng Jiang, Washington Tapia, Olaya Santiago-Fernández, Diana Campos-Iglesias, Lukas F.K. Kuderna, Maud Quinzin, Miguel G. Álvarez, Dido Carrero, Luciano B. Beheregaray, James P. Gibbs, Ylenia Chiari, Scott Glaberman, Claudio Ciofi, Miguel Araujo-Voces, Pablo Mayoral, Javier R. Arango, Isaac Tamargo-Gómez, David Roiz-Valle, María Pascual-Torner, Benjamin R. Evans, Danielle L. Edwards, Ryan C. Garrick, Michael A. Russello, Nikos Poulakakis, Stephen J. Gaughran, Danny O. Rueda, Gabriel Bretones, and Tomàs Marquès-Bonet
Patch size as a niche dimension: Aquatic insects behaviorally partition enemy-free space across gradients of patch size, William J. Resetarits, Matthew R. Pintar, Jason R. Bohenek, and Tyler M. Breech
Spatio-temporal distribution of Spiroplasma infections in the tsetse fly (Glossina fuscipes fuscipes) in northern Uganda, Daniela I. Schneider, Norah Saarman, Maria G. Onyango, Chaz Hyseni, Robert Opiro, Richard Echodu, Michelle O'Neill, Danielle Bloch, Aurélien Vigneron, T. J. Johnson, Kirstin Dion, Brian L. Weiss, Elizabeth Opiyo, Adalgisa Caccone, and Serap Aksoy
Analysis of Brevundimonas subvibrioides developmental signaling systems reveals inconsistencies between phenotypes and c-di-GMP levels, Lauryn Sperling, Milagros D. Mulero Alegría, Volkhard Kaever, and Patrick D. Curtis
The gut microbiome of freshwater Unionidae mussels is determined by host species and is selectively retained from filtered seston, Eric A. Weingarten, Carla L. Atkinson, and Colin R. Jackson
Prostate cancer disparity, chemoprevention, and treatment by specific medicinal plants, Clement G. Yedjou, Ariane T. Mbemi, Felicite Noubissi, Solange S. Tchounwou, Nole Tsabang, Marinelle Payton, Lucio Miele, and Paul B. Tchounwou
2018
Tree thinning and fire affect ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and enzyme activities, Ann L. Rasmussen, J. Stephen Brewer, Colin R. Jackson, and Jason D. Hoeksema