Submissions from 2024
Progressive Greying in the Blue-Gray Tanager, Thraupis Episcopus (linnaeus, 1766), in Costa Rica, Elian Villalobos Alvarado, Jose Manuel Mora, Jorge Campos-Villalobos, and Lucia I. Lopez
Two New Prey for the Gray Hawk, Buteo Plagiatus (schlegel, 1862), Juan De Dios Astorga-Acuna and Jose Manuel Mora
Rhizobia-legume Symbiosis mediates direct and indirect interactions between plants, herbivores and their parasitoids, Carlos Bustos-Segura, Adrienne L. Godschalx, Lucas Malacari, Sergio Rasmann, Fanny Deiss, Daniel Ballhorn, and Betty Benrey
Root Nodules of Red Alder (alnus Rubra) and Sitka Alder (alnus Viridis Ssp. Sinuata) Are Inhabited by Taxonomically Diverse Cultivable Microbial Endophytes, Robyn Dove, Emily R. Wolfe, Nathan U. Stewart, Abigail Coleman, Sara Herrejon Chavez, and Daniel J. Ballhorn
Effective Dispersal Patterns in Prairie Plant Species Across Human-Modified Landscapes., Elizabeth C. Hendrickson and Mitchell B. Cruzan
Two Neotropical Snakes Attacked As Prey by Army Ants in Costa Rica, Jose Manuel Mora, Ronald Vargas, Randy Alvarado, and Lucia I. Lopez
Predation of a Yates Coral Snake, Micrurus Yatesi Taylor, 1954 by a Brown Basilisk, Basiliscus Basiliscus (linnaeus, 1758), Steven Matute, Jose Manuel Mora, Lucia I. Lopez, and Elian Villalobos Alvarado
Tissue-Specific Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Cell Cycle and Apoptosis in the Nile Tilapia (oreochromis Niloticus)., Rachel M. Palmer, Arika Sandbach, and Bradley A. Buckley
Systematics of the Rhinolophus Landeri Complex, with Evidence for 3 Additional Afrotropical Bat Species, Bruce D. Patterson, Terrence C. Demos, Laura Torrent, Amanda L. Grunwald, Cecilia Montauban, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Molly M. McDonough, Carl W. Dick, Michael Bartonjo, M. Corrie Schoeman, and multiple additional authors
Oil Identification of Harp Seal and other select marine mammals, Meghan Pinedo, Deborah A. Duffield, Dalin N. D’Alessandro, Erin R. Price, and Edgard O. Espinoza
A Genus in the Bacterial Phylum Aquificota appears to be endemic to Aotearoa-New Zealand, Jean F. Power, Carlo R. Carere, Holly E. Welford, Daniel T. Hudson, Kevin C. Lee, John W. Moreau, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Thijs J.G. Ettema, and multiple additional authors
The Value of Support: STEM Intervention Programs Impact Student Persistence and Belonging., Erin E. Shortlidge, MacKenzie J. Gray, Suzanne Estes, and Emma C. Goodwin
Genomic Comparison of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Genera Related to Aeropyrum, Thermodiscus and Caldisphaera, and Proposed Emended Description of the Family Acidilobaceae, Emily St John and Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Ubiquitous Filter Feeders Shape Open Ocean Microbial Community Structure and Function, Anne W. Thompson, Györgyi Nyerges, Kylee M. Brevick, and Kelly Sutherland
Short-Term Time-Series Observations of Phytoplankton Light-Absorption and Productivity in Prydz Bay, Coastal Antarctica, Sarat C. Tripathy, Anvita U. Kerkar, P. Sabu, Sunil K. Padhi, Sudarsana R. Pandi, Amit Sarkar, Bhaskar V. Parli, and Rahul Mohan
Autism Risk Gene Cul3 Alters Neuronal Morphology via Caspase-3 Activity in Mouse Hippocampal Neurons, Qiang-qiang Xia, Anju Singh, Jing Wang, Zhong Xin Xuan, Jeffrey D. Singer, and Craig M. Powell
Submissions from 2023
Woodpeckers in the City: Abundances Are Highest in Large Green Spaces with Complex Understories, Adam Baz and Michael T. Murphy
Novel Viruses of the Family Partitiviridae Discovered in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Angela M. Crabtree, Ignacio de la Higuera, Kenneth Stedman, and multiple additional authors
Paternity patterns in a long-term resident bottlenose dolphin community, Debbie Duffield and Randall Wells
Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes, Laura Eme, Daniel Tamarit, Eva F. Caceres, Courtney W. Stairs, Valerie De Anda, Max E. Schön, Kiley W. Seitz, Nina Dombrowski, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, and multiple additional authors
Evolutionary Codependency: Insights into the Mitonuclear interaction landscape from experimental and wild Caenorhabditis nematodes, Suzanne Estes, Zachary P. Dietz, Vaishali Katju, and Ulfar Bergthorsson
Diverse and Variable Community Structure of Picophytoplankton across the Laurentian Great Lakes, John Gale, Carey P. Sweeney, Sarah Paver, Maureen L. Coleman, and Anne W. Thompson
Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobia Affect Multitrophic Interactions in the Field, Adrienne L. L. Godschalx, Aramee C. C. Diethelm, Stefanie Kautz, and Daniel J. J. Ballhorn
Graduate Teaching Assistants Impact Student Motivation and Engagement in Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences, Emma Crystal Goodwin, Jessica R. Cary, Vivian D. Phan, Hayley Therrien, and Erin Elizabeth Shortlidge
A Review of Bats of the Genus Pseudoromicia (chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with the Description of a New Species, Amanda L. Grunwald, Terrence C. Demos, Yvette Ngueagni, Martin N. Tchamba, Ara Monadjem, Paul W. Webala, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Bruce D. Patterson, and Luis A. Ruedas
Chi Sequences Switch the RecBCD Helicase–Nuclease Complex from Degradative to Replicative Modes During the Completion of DNA Replication, Avery E. Jehru, Charmain Courcelle, Justin Courcelle, and multiple additional authors
Behavior Reference Intervals and Activity Budgets of Bottlenose Dolphins in Accredited Zoos and Aquariums, Lisa K. Lauderdale, Jill D. Mellen, Michael T. Walsh, Douglas A. Granger, and Lance J. Miller
Environmental Enrichment Factors Associated with the Activity Level of Bottlenose Dolphins under Professional Care, Lisa K. Lauderdale, K. Alex Shorter, Joaquin Gabaldon, Jill D. Mellen, and multiple additional authors
Methanocaldococcus Lauensis sp. nov., a Novel Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Hyperthermophilic Methanogen, Stéphane L'Haridon, Steven Goulaouic, Emily St John, Stephanie Fouteau, and Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Predation of a La Loma Robber Frog, Pristimantis Caryophyllaceus (barbour, 1928), by a Rhinoceros Spear Bearer, Copiphora Rhinoceros Pictet, 1888, Jose Manuel Mora, Kenneth Matarrita Gutierrez, and Lucia I. Lopez
Predation of a Dry Forest Toad, Incilius Coccifer, by a Blue-Diademed Motmot, Momotus Lessonii, in Western Central Valley, Costa Rica, Jose Manuel Mora and Miguel A. Rodriguez
Aberrant White Plumage in a Broad-Billed Motmot (electron Platyrhynchum) in Costa Rica, Jose Manuel Mora, Lucia I. Lopez, and Elian Villalobos Alvarado
Updated List of the Mammals of Costa Rica, with Notes on Recent Taxonomic Changes, Jose M. Mora and Luis A. Ruedas
Book Review of, Bird Migration: a New Understanding, Michael T. Murphy
Allosaurus Was Predominantly a Scavenger, Cameron C. Pahl and Luis A. Ruedas
Big boned: How Fat Storage and other Adaptations Influenced large theropod foraging ecology, Cameron Pahl and Luis A. Ruedas
Crispr-Influenced Symbiosis, Anna-Louise Reysenbach and Michael P. Terns
Germ Cell Recovery, Cryopreservation and Transplantation in the California white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, Amie L. Romney, Danielle M. Myers, Fatima R. Martin, Tawney N. Scanlan, and Stuart A. Meyers
Predation of Lepidophyma flavimaculatum (Squamata: Xantusiidae) by Basiliscus plumifrons (Squamata: Corytophanidae), Mauricio Quirós Rosales, José Manuel Mora, and Randy Alvarado
A Propaedeutic to the Taxonomy of the Eastern Cottontail Rabbit (lagomorpha: Leporidae: Sylvilagus Floridanus) from Central America., Luis A. Ruedas, Lucia I. Lopez, and Jose M. Mora
Embryonic Development of Natural Annual Killifish populations of the genus Austrolebias: Evolutionary parallelism and the role of environment, Hellen Schlueb, Daniel Blanco, Daniel García, and Jason Podrabsky
Drivers of Plankton Community Structure in Intermittent and Continuous Coastal upwelling systems–from microbes and microscale in-situ imaging to large scale patterns, Moritz Schmid, Su Sponaugle, Anne W. Thompson, Kelly T. Sutherland, and Robert Cowen
Computational Analysis of Plasma Lipidomics from Mice Fed Standard Chow and Ketogenic Diet, Amy L. Seufert, James W. Hickman, Jaewoo Choi, and Brooke A. Napier
A New Frontier for Fat: Dietary Palmitic Acid induces innate immune memory, Amy L. Seufert and Brooke A. Napier
Preparing Teaching Assistants to Facilitate Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in the Biological Sciences: A Call to Action, Erin Shortlidge, Amie M. Kern, Emma Goodwin, and Jeffrey T. Olimpo
Nest Structure of Pseudoanthidium Nanum Mocsary, 1880 (hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Anthidiini), and Additional Records of This Newly Introduced Bee in the Pacific Northwest, Stefanie Steele and Susan E. Masta
Selective and Differential Feeding on Marine Prokaryotes by Mucous Mesh Feeders, Carey P. Sweeney, Kelly R. Sutherland, and Anne Thompson
Astrovirology: How Viruses Enhance our Understanding of Life in the Universe, Gareth Trubl, Ken Stedman, Kathryn F. Bywaters, Emily E. Matula, Pacifica Sommers, Simon Roux, Nancy Merino, and multiple additional authors
Manganese Transporters Regulate the Resumption of Replication in Hydrogen Peroxide-Stressed Escherichia Coli, Natalie E. E. Wang, Eleanor J. J. Courcelle, Samantha M. Coltman, Raymond L. Spolek, Justin Courcelle, and Charmain Courcelle
Mutations in Acrr and RNA Polymerase Confer High-Level Resistance to Psoralen-Uva Irradiation., Travis K. Worley, Emma A. Weber, Jedidiah D. Acott, Rahul S. Shimpi, Jessica M. Cole, Charmain Courcelle, and Justin Courcelle
Effects of Heterozygous Deletion of Autism-related gene Cullin-3 in mice, Qiang-qiang Xia, Angela K. Walker, Chenghu Song, Jing Wang, James A. Mobley, Jeffrey Singer, Anju Singh, and Craig M. Powell
Cullin 3–Mediated Regulation of Intracellular Iron Homeostasis Promotes Thymic Invariant NKT Cell Maturation, Emily L. Yarosz, Ajay Kumar, Jeffrey Singer, and Cheong-Hee Chang
Submissions from 2022
Worldwide Phylogeography of Rough-Toothed Dolphins (steno Bredanensis) Provides Evidence for Subspecies Delimitation, G. Renee Albertson, Alana Alexander, Frederick Archer I, Susana Caballero, Karen K. Martien, Lenaig G. Hemery, Robin W. Baird, Marc Oremus, M. Michael Poole, Deborah A. Duffield, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Dan Kerem, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, and C. Scott Baker
Mitonuclear Mismatch is Associated With Increased Male Frequency, Outcrossing, and Male Sperm Size in Experimentally-Evolved C. elegans, Brent W. Bever, Zachary P. Dietz, Jennifer Anne Sullins, Ariana M. Montoya, Ulfar Bergthorsson, Vaishali Katju, and Suzanne Estes
Interactive Effects of Thermal and Salinity Stress Cause Cell Cycle Arrest in the Nile Tilapia., Bradley A. Buckley and Rachel M. Palmer
An Essential Role for Tungsten in the Ecology and Evolution of a Previously Uncultivated Lineage of Anaerobic, Thermophilic Archaea, Steffen Buessecker, Marike Palmer, Dengxun Lai, Joshua Dimapilis, Xavier Mayali, Damon Mosier, Jian-Yu Jiao, Daniel R. Colman, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, and multiple additional authors
Using Ultraconserved Elements to Unravel Lagomorph Phylogenetic Relationships, Estefania Cano-Sanchez, Flor Rodriguez-Gomez, Luis A. Ruedas, Ken Oyama, Livia Leon-Paniagua, Alicia Mastretta-Yanes, and Alejandro Velazquez
Species-Specific Interactions in Avian–Bryophyte Dispersal Networks, Matthew Chmielewski and Sarah Eppley
C3ar Plays Both Sides in Regulating Resistance to Bacterial Infections, Jesse A. Corcoran and Brooke A. Napier
Recombination Mediator Proteins: Misnomers That Are Key to Understanding the Genomic Instabilities in Cancer, Justin Courcelle, Travis K. Worley, and Charmain Courcelle
Fitness Effects of Somatic Mutations Accumulating during Vegetative Growth, Mitchell Cruzan, Matthew A. Streisfeld, and Jaime A. Schwoch
Viruses in Astrobiology, Ignacio de la Higuera and Ester Lázaro
Urban Green Roofs can Support a Diversity of Parasitoid Wasps, Aramee C. Diethelm and Susan Masta
Not the Same CURE: Student Experiences in Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Vary by Graduate Teaching Assistant, Emma C. Goodwin, Jessica R. Cary, and Erin E. Shortlidge
SeqCode: a Nomenclatural Code for Prokaryotes described from Sequence Data, Brian P. Hedlund, Maria Chuvochina, Philip Hugenholtz, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Alison E. Murray, Marike Palmer, Donovan H. Parks, Alexander J. Probst, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, and multiple additional authors
Phylogenetics and Genetic Variation of Heligmosomoides thomomyos in Western Pocket Gophers (Thomomys spp.), Malorri R. Hughes, Alexandra A. Gibson, Emily R. Wolfe, Cecily D. Bronson, and Deborah A. Duffield
CRUISE, a Tool for the Detection of Iterons in Circular Rep-Encoding Single-Stranded DNA Viruses, Adam Jones, George W. Kasun, Joel Stover, Kenneth M. Stedman, and Ignacio de la Higuera
Genome-wide Identification of Novel sRNAs in Streptococcus mutans, Madeline Claire Krieger, Justin Merritt, and Rahul Raghavan
New Opportunities and Untapped Scientific Potential in the Abyssal Ocean, Jeffrey J. Marlowe, Rika E. Anderson, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Jeffrey S. Seewald, Timothy M. Shank, Andreas P. Teske, V. Dorsey Wanless, and S. Adam Soule
Terrestrial Movements, Activity Patterns and Habitat Use by Kinosternon Scorpioides (testudines: Kinosternidae) in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica, Jose M. Mora and Franklin E. Castaneda
Differential Response of Migratory Guilds of Birds to Park Area and Urbanization, Michael T. Murphy, David C. Bailey, Nathanael Lichti I, and Laura A. Roberts
Weather and Climate Change Drive Annual Variation of Reproduction by an Aerial Insectivore, Michael T. Murphy, Lucas J. Redmond, Amy C. Dolan, Nathan W. Cooper, Karen Shepherdson, Christopher Michael Chutter, and Sarah Cancellieri
The Time is Right for an Antarctic Biorepository Network, Kristin M. O’Brien, Elizabeth L. Crockett, Bryon J. Adams, Charles D. Amsler, Hannah J. Appiah-Madson, Allen Collins, Thomas Desvignes, Sarah Eppley, and multiple additional authors
Riqueza, abundancia relativa y actividad de los mamíferos de una reserva en restauración en Costa Rica, Pablo Pacheco, Lucia López, Alison Vega Cambronero, and José Manuel Mora
MicroRNAs Contribute to the Host Response to Coxiella burnetii, Madhur Sachan, Katelynn Brann, Daniel E. Voth, and Rahul Raghavan
Enriched Dietary Saturated Fatty Acids Induce Trained Immunity via Ceramide Production that Enhances Severity of Endotoxemia and Clearance of Infection, Amy L. Seufert, James W. Hickman, Ste K. Traxler, Rachael M. Peterson, Trent A. Waugh, Sydney L. Lashley, Natalia Shulzhenko, Ruth J. Napier, and Brooke A. Napier
Conflictos entre humanos y fauna silvestre en una zona de amortiguamiento de San Ramón, Costa Rica, Rebeca Solano-Gómez and José Manuel Mora
Diversity, Biology, and History of Psilocybin-Containing Fungi: Suggestions for Research and Technological Development, R. C. Van Court, K. W. Meyer, M. S. Wiseman, Daniel J. Ballhorn, K. R. Amses, J. C. Slot, B.T. M. Dentinger, R. Garibay-Orijel, and J. K. Uehling
Cetacean Strandings in the US Pacific Northwest 2000–2019 Reveal Potential Linkages to Oceanographic Variability, Amanda J. Warlick, Jessica L. Huggins, Dyanna M. Lambourn, Deborah A. Duffield, Dalin Nichole D'Alessandro, James M. Rice, John Calambokidis, M. Bradley Hanson, Joseph K. Gaydos, and multiple additional authors
Upper temperature limit of larval Pacifc lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus: implications for conservation in a warming climate, Timothy A. Whitesel and Christina T. Uh
Development of the SeqCode: A Proposed Nomenclatural Code for Uncultivated Prokaryotes with DNA Sequences as Type, William Whitman, Maria Chuvochina, Brian P. Hedlund, Philip Hugenholtz, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Alison E. Murray, Marike Palmer, Donovan H. Parks, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, and multiple additional authors
Culturable Fungal Endophyte Communities of Primary Successional Plants on Mount St. Helens, WA, USA, Emily R. Wolfe, Robyn Dove, Cassandra Webster, and Daniel J. Ballhorn
Frankia Diversity in Sympatrically Occurring Red Alder (alnus Rubra) and Sitka Alder (alnus Viridis) Trees in an Early Successional Environment, Emily R. Wolfe, Sebastian Singleton, Nathan U. Stewart, Mehmet A. Balkan, and Daniel J. Ballhorn
Stable Coexistence or Competitive Exclusion? Fern Endophytes Demonstrate rapid Turnover favoring a dominant fungus, Brett Steven Younginger, Nathan U. Stewart, Mehmet Ali Balkan, and Daniel J. Ballhorn
Global Patterns of Diversity and Metabolism of Microbial Communities in Deep‑sea Hydrothermal vent deposits, Zhichao Zhou, Emily St. John, Karthik Anantharaman, and Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Submissions from 2021
Phylogenomic Analyses Recover a Clade of Large-Bodied Decapodiform Cephalopods., Frank E. Anderson and Annie R. Lindgren
The Role of Functional Diversity and Facilitation in Small-Scale Pollinator Habitat., Kerissa Battle, Catherine E. de Rivera, and Mitchell Cruzan
Coxiella Burnetii and Related Tick Endosymbionts Evolved from Pathogenic Ancestors, Amanda E. Brenner, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Madhur Sachan, Marcelo B. Labruna, and Rahul Raghavan
Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Gulf Coast Tick (Amblyomma maculatum), Amanda E. Brenner and Rahul Raghavan
Variation in Riparian and Stream Assemblages Across the Primary Succession Landscape of Mount St. Helens, USA, Shannon M. Claeson, Carri J. LeRoy, Debra S. Finn, Rosalina H. Stancheva, and Emily R. Wolfe
Sex Chromosome Transformation and the Origin of a Male-Specific X Chromosome in the Creeping Vole., Matthew B. Couger, Scott W. Roy, Noelle Anderson, Landen Gozashti, Stacy Pirro, Lindsay S. Millward, Michelle Kim, Duncan Kilburn, Kelvin J. Liu, Todd M. Wilson, Clinton W. Epps, Laurie Dizney, Luis A. Ruedas, and Polly Campbell
Weak Coupling Among Barrier Loci and Waves of Neutral and Adaptive Introgression Across an Expanding Hybrid Zone, Mitchell Cruzan, Pamela G. Thompson, Nicolas Alexander Diaz, Elizabeth C. Hendrickson, Katie R. Gerloff, Katie A. Kline, Hannah M. Machiorlete, and Jessica Persinger
Cul3 is Required for Normal Development of the Mammary Gland., Cristina M. Cummings and Jeffrey D. Singer
A Comparison of Fruit Removal in Ficus Colubrinae Between Birds and Ectophylla Alba (chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a Costa Rican Rain Forest, Edna De la Llata Quiroga, Luis A. Ruedas, and Jose Manuel Mora
Genetic Variation within a Species of Parasitic Nematode, Skrjabingylus chitwoodorum, in Skunks, Allie N. Denham, Malorri R. Hughes, Robert C. Dowler, Nicholas J. Negovetich, and Loren K. Ammerman
TREM2 is Thyroid Hormone Regulated Making the TREM2 Pathway Druggable with Ligands for Thyroid Hormone Receptor., Skylar J. Ferrara, Priya Chaudhary, Margaret J. DeBell, Gail Marracci, Hannah Miller, Evan Calkins, Edvinas Pocius, Brooke A. Napier, Ben Emery, Dennis Bourdette, and Thomas S. Scanlan
Applying Behavioral and Physiological Measures to Assess the Relative Impact of the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic Closure on Two Mammal Species at the Oregon Zoo: Cheetah (A. jubatus) and Giraffe (G. c. reticulata and G. c. tippelskirchii), Laurel Fink, Candace D. Scarlata, Becca Vanbeek, Todd Bodner, and Nadja C. Wielebnowski
A Pilot Study of Near-Field Airborne Particle Concentrations in Young Children Undergoing High Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy., Elliott T. Gall, Aurélie Laguerre, Michelle Noelck, Annalise Van Meurs, Jared A. Austin, and Byron A. Foster
Variation in Incubation Length and Hatching Asynchrony in Eastern Kingbirds: Weather Eclipses Female Effects, Samantha M. Gillette, Amanda L. Klehr, and Michael T. Murphy
Is This Science? Students' Experiences of Failure Make a Research-Based Course Feel Authentic, Emma C. Goodwin, Vladimir Anokhin, MacKenzie J. Gray, Daniel E. Zajic, Jason Podrabsky, and Erin E. Shortlidge