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Posted: Jun 04, 2024 - 11:00am

Here are some of the publications from November-May that are authored by UNM Biology's faculty, staff, and students:

Ayars J, H. Anu Kramer, Gavin M. Jones. 2023. The 2020 to 2021 California megafires and their impacts on wildlife habitat. PNAS, 120(48):e2312909120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2312909120

Baumann MJ, Sara V. Brant, Selina M. Bauernfeind, Coltin R.B. Gerhart, Jessie L. Williamson, Andrew B. Johnson, Garth M. Spellman, Samantha R. Uhrig, Steve West, Christopher C. Witt. Freshwater parasites as potential barriers to seabird dispersal: Evidence from vagrant booby specimens in western North America. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 1 September 2023; 135 (3): 327–344. doi: https://doi.org/10.1676/22-00090

Becklin KM, Julio L. Betancourt, Joseph Braasch, Olivier Dézerald, Francisca P. Díaz, Angélica L. González, Robert Harbert, Camille A. Holmgren, Angela D. Hornsby, Claudio Latorre, Marjorie D. Matocq, Felisa A. Smith. 2024. New uses for ancient middens: bridging ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 39(5):479-493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.12.003

Bethany J, Steve Kutos, Kristen Oliver, Eva Stricker. Spring Manure and Biosolid Compost Additions Affect Soil, Vegetation, and Microbial Characteristic in Dry Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 94:78-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.011

Blackburn DC, Doug M Boyer, Jaimi A Gray, Julie Winchester, John M Bates, Stephanie L Baumgart, Emily Braker, Daryl Coldren, Kevin W Conway, Alison Davis Rabosky, Noé de la Sancha, Casey B Dillman, Jonathan L Dunnum, Catherine M Early, Benjamin W Frable, Matt W Gage, James Hanken, Jessica A Maisano, Ben D Marks, Katherine P Maslenikov, John E McCormack, Ramon S Nagesan, Gregory G Pandelis, Heather L Prestridge, Daniel L Rabosky, Zachary S Randall, Mark B Robbins, Lauren A Scheinberg, Carol L Spencer, Adam P Summers, Leif Tapanila, Cody W Thompson, Luke Tornabene, Greg J Watkins-Colwell, Luke J Welton, the oVert Project Team, Edward L Stanley, Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network, BioScience, Volume 74, Issue 3, March 2024, Pages 169–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad120

Blanco CA, Gerardo Hernandez, Kevin Conover, Galen P. Dively, Urbano Nava-Camberos, Maribel Portilla, Craig A. Abel, Paul Williams, and William D. Hutchison "Severe Defoliation of Vegetative Maize Plants Does Not Reduce Grain Yield: Further Implications with Action Thresholds," Southwestern Entomologist 48(4), 791-804, (14 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.3958/059.048.0404

Bolin, L.G. and Lau, J.A. (2024), Microbial responses to stress cryptically alter natural selection on plants. New Phytol, 242: 2223-2236. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19707

Bonilla CAC, Santiago Ron, Joseph A Cook. Species richness in Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): species delimitation and expanded geographic sampling reveal high Neotropical diversity, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 105, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 241–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad124

Bowling, D. R., Schädel, C., Smith, K. R., Richardson, A. D., Bahn, M., Arain, M. A, Andrej Varlagin,  Andrew P. Ouimette,  John M. Frank,  Alan G. Barr,  Ivan Mammarella,  Ladislav Šigut,  Vanessa Foord,  Sean P. Burns,  Leonardo Montagnani,  Marcy E. Litvak,  J. William Munger,  Hiroki Ikawa,  David Y. Hollinger,  Peter D. Blanken,  Masahito Ueyama,  Giorgio Matteucci,  Christian Bernhofer,  Gil Bohrer,  Hiroki Iwata,  Andreas Ibrom,  Kim Pilegaard,  David L. Spittlehouse,  Hideki Kobayashi,  Ankur R. Desai,  Ralf M. Staebler,  T. Andrew Black. (2024). Phenology of photosynthesis in winter-dormant temperate and boreal forests: Long-term observations from flux towers and quantitative evaluation of phenology models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129, e2023JG007839. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007839

Brown, Bianca R. P., Leo M. Khasoha, Peter Lokeny, Rhiannon P. Jakopak, Courtney G. Reed, Marissa Dyck, Alois Wambua, Seth D. Newsome, Todd M. Palmer, Robert M. Pringle, Jacob R. Goheen, Tyler R. Kartzinel. 2024. “ Spatiotemporal Variation in the Gut Microbiomes of Co-Occurring Wild Rodent Species.” Ecosphere 15(5): e4854. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4854

Bu L, Mohamed R. Habib, Lijun Lu, Martin W. Mutuku, Eric S. Loker, Si-Ming Zhang. 2024. Transcriptional profiling of Bulinus globosus provides insights into immune gene families in snails supporting the transmission of urogenital schistosomiasis. Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 154:105150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2024.105150

Bustad, Ethan; Mudrock, Emma; Nilles, Elizabeth M.; Mcquate, Andrea; Bergado, Monica; Gu, Alden; Galitan, Louie; Gleason, Natalie; Ou, Henry C.; Raible, David W; Hernandez, Rafael E.; Ma, Shuyi. 2024. In vivo screening for toxicity-modulating drug interactions identifies antagonism that protects against ototoxicity in zebrafish. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2024.1363545

Cartron, Jean-Luc E., F. Jack Triepke, Dale W. Stahlecker, David P. Arsenault, Joseph L. Ganey, Charles D. Hathcock, Hunter K. Thompson, Matthieu C. Cartron, and Kenneth C. Calhoun. 2023. "Climate Change Habitat Model Forecasts for Eight Owl Species in the Southwestern US" Animals 13, no. 24: 3770. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13243770

Chaya GNM, Aisha Hamid, Adil R. Wani, Andrew Gutierrez, and Mubarak Hussain Syed. 2024. Developmental Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Drosophila Central Complex Lineages. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.top108429

Cheddadi R, David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Avner Bar-Hen, Matthew D. Hurteau. Come rain or come shine, the species richness will decline in the Moroccan mountains. Global Ecology and Conservation,52: e02986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02986

Chisholm RA, Nadiah P. Kristensen, Frank E. Rheindt, Kwek Yan Chong, John S. Ascher, Kelvin K. P. Lim, Peter K. L. Ng, Darren C. J. Yeo, Rudolf Meier, Heok Hui Tan, Xingli Giam, Yi Shuen Yeoh, Wei Wei Seah, Laura M. Berman, Hui Zhen Tan, Keren R. Sadanandan, Meryl Theng, Wan F. A. Jusoh, Anuj Jain, Blanca Huertas, David J. X. Tan, Alicia C. R. Ng, Aloysius Teo, Zeng Yiwen, Tricia J. Y. Cho, Y. C. Keita Sin. 2023. Two centuries of biodiversity discovery and loss in Singapore.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(51):e2309034120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309034120

Crockett JL, Matthew D Hurteau. Ability of seedlings to survive heat and drought portends future demographic challenges for five southwestern US conifers, Tree Physiology, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2024, tpad136, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad136

Crockett, J.L., Hurteau, M.D. Climate limits vegetation green-up more than slope, soil erodibility, and immediate precipitation following high-severity wildfire. fire ecol 20, 41 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00264-0

Dobrowski Solomon Z., Aghai Matthew M., Chichilnisky du Lac Ariella, Downer Rebecca, Fargione Joseph, Haase Diane L., Hoecker Tyler, Kildisheva Olga A., Murdoch Alix, Newman Shaw, North Malcolm, Saksa Phil, Sjoholm Matt, Baribault Tom, Buonanduci Michele S., Chambers Marin E., Gonzales-Kramer Lisa, Harvey Brian J., Hurteau Matthew D., Loevner Jonathan, Safford Hugh D., Sloan Joshua. 2024. ’Mind the Gap’—reforestation needs vs. reforestation capacity in the western United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1402124

Duszynski, Donald W; Barta, John R; Abdel-Baki, Abdel-Azeem S. 2024. Correcting the Names of Two Haemogregarina spp. from Lizards in Egypt. J. of Parasitology, 110(1):54-58. https://doi.org/10.1645/23-71

Ernst, A. R., Barak, R. S., Glasenhardt, M.-C., Kramer, A. T., Larkin, D. J., Marx, H. E., Kamakura, R. P., & Hipp, A. L. (2023). Dominant species establishment may influence invasion resistance more than phylogenetic or functional diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, 2652–2664. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14534

Ferdous, J,  Fricke, GM, Moses, ME. 2024. More Is Faster: Why Population Size Matters in Biological Search. Journal of Computational Biology, 31(5):429-444. https://doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2023.0296

Fowler, J.C., Ziegler, S., Whitney, K.D., Rudgers, J.A. & Miller, T.E.X. (2024) Microbial symbionts buffer hosts from the demographic costs of environmental stochasticity. Ecology Letters, 27, e14438. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14438

Gerstner BP, Helen J Wearing, Kenneth D Whitney. Why so many polyploids? Accounting for environmental stochasticity in unreduced gamete formation lowers the perceived barriers to polyploid establishment, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2024, Pages 325–335, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae016

Gerstner, B. P., R. G. Laport, J. A. Rudgers, and K. D. Whitney. 2024. Plant–soil microbe feedbacks depend on distance and ploidy in a mixed cytotype population of Larrea tridentata. American Journal of Botany 111: e16298. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16298

Goodfellow, S.M., Nofchissey, R.A., Morley, V.J., Kathryn E. Coan, Kurt C. Schwalm, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Diane Hanfelt-Goade, Darrell L. Dinwiddie, Daryl B. Domman, Jerry W. Dragoo, Jens H. Kuhn & Steven B. Bradfute. Genome sequencing identifies “Limestone Canyon virus” as Montaño virus (Hantaviridae: Orthohantavirus montanoense) circulating in brush deermice in New Mexico. npj Viruses 2, 11 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44298-024-00016-6

Goodwin MJ, Matthew D Hurteau. The effect of shrub cover on conifer water-use patterns, growth and response to precipitation variability in the southern Sierra Nevada, Tree Physiology, Volume 44, Issue 3, March 2024, tpae004, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpae004

Gudla B, Sarah A. Orlofske, Sara V. Brant, Vasyl V. Tkach, Shelli Dubay, Lauren Holtz, Tyler J. Achatz. 2023. Taxonomic Reassessment and Morphological Redescription of Nematostrigea serpens annulata (Digenea: Strigeidae) from Osprey in North America. J. of Parasitology, 109(6):550-558. https://doi.org/10.1645/23-41

Habib, M.R., Bu, L., Posavi, M., Daibin Zhong, Guiyun Yan & Si-Ming Zhang. Yolk proteins of the schistosomiasis vector snail Biomphalaria glabrata revealed by multi-omics analysis. Sci Rep 14, 1820 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52392-x

Hamid A, Hannah Gattuso, Aysu Nora Caglar, Midhula Pillai, Theresa Steele, Alexa Gonzalez, Katherine Nagel, Mubarak Hussain Syed. 2024. The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila. Current Biology, 34(3):473-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.020

Harrison, R.E., Yang, X., Eum, J.H., Vincent G. Martinson, Xiaoyi Dou, Luca Valzania, Yin Wang, Bret M. Boyd, Mark R. Brown & Michael R. Strand. The mosquito Aedes aegypti requires a gut microbiota for normal fecundity, longevity and vector competence. Commun Biol 6, 1154 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05545-z

Hathaway, J. J. M., Salazar-Hamm, P. S., Caimi, N. A., Natvig, D. O., Buecher, D. C., & Northup, D. E. (2023). Comparison of Fungal and Bacterial Microbiomes of Bats and Their Cave Roosting Environments at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, USA. Geomicrobiology Journal, 41(1), 82–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2023.2283427

Hecht, H., Krofcheck, D.J., Carril, D., Hurteau MD. Estimating the influence of field inventory sampling intensity on forest landscape model performance for determining high-severity wildfire risk. Sci Rep 14, 3073 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53359-8

Hewitt, R.E., DeVan, M.R.,Taylor, D.L. and Mack, M.C. (2024), Root-associated fungi and acquisitive root traits facilitate permafrost nitrogen uptake from long-term experimentally warmed tundra. New Phytol, 242: 1704-1716. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19521

Hussain, S.B., Stinziano, J., Pierre, M.O., Vincent C. Accurate photosynthetic parameter estimation at low stomatal conductance: effects of cuticular conductance and instrumental noise. Photosynth Res 160, 111–124 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-024-01092-8

Jurado V, Northup DE, Saiz-Jimenez C. 2024. Editorial: Microbial roles in caves. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1411535

Kang Z, Martinson VG, Wang Y, Coon KL, Valzania L, Strand MR.2024.Increased environmental microbial diversity reduces the disease risk of a mosquitocidal pathogen. mBio15:e02726-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02726-23 

Kazenel, M.R., Wright, K.W., Griswold, T., Kenneth D. Whitney, Jennifer A. Rudgers. Heat and desiccation tolerances predict bee abundance under climate change. Nature 628, 342–348 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07241-2

Kidner RQ, Eleanor B. Goldstone, Martina R. Laidemitt, Melissa C. Sanchez, Catherine Gerdt, Lorin P. Brokaw, Núria Ros-Rocher, Jamie Morris, W. Sean Davidson, Joseph P. Gerdt. Host lipids regulate multicellular behavior of a predator of a human pathogen. bioRxiv 2024.01.31.578218. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.31.578218

Koene Joris M., Jackson Daniel J., Nakadera Yumi, Cerveau Nicolas, Madoui Mohammed-Amin, Noel Benjamin, Jamilloux Véronique, Poulain Julie, Labadie Karine, Silva Corinne Da, Davison Angus, Feng Zhong-Ping, Adema Coen M., Klopp Christophe, Aury Jean-Marc, Wincker Patrick, Coutellec Marie-Agnès (2024). The genome of the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis reveals an evolutionary expansion of FMRFamide-like receptors. Under Review at Scientific Reports. INPRESS. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3948809/v1

Laidemitt MR, Loker ES. 2023. Vector Compatibility of New Mexico Galba Species with the Canine Schistosome Heterobilharzia americana, Including the First Report of Galba schirazensis as a Compatible Host. J. of Parasitology, 109(6):633-637 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1645/23-50

Li, Juan-juan, Xiao-yan Qiu, Yu-jun Dai, Tonny M. Nyonga, and Chang-chun Li. 2024. "Genome-Wide Identification and Co-Expression Networks of WOX Gene Family in Nelumbo nucifera" Plants 13, no. 5: 720. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050720

Lopez, GP, William L. Gannon. Developing a Graduate Class on Synthetic Cells at a Minority Serving Institution: Lessons from the University of New Mexico. ACS Synth. Biol. 2023, 12, 12, 3562–3566. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.3c00275

Lovato TL, Cripps RM. 2024. Chapter 19 - CRISPR classroom activities and case studies. In: Douglas F. Dluzen, Monika H.M. Schmidt (eds) Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetics and Genomics, Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817218-6.00021-8

Mani A, Farah Haddad, Daniel R. Barreda, Irene Salinas. The telencephalon is a neuronal substrate for systemic inflammatory responses in teleosts via polyamine metabolism. bioRxiv 2024.03.03.583242. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.03.583242

Manlick P, Maldonado K, Newsome S. Competition shapes individual foraging strategies and fitness consequences in a desert rodent ensemble. Authorea Preprints; 2024. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.170665341.17797651/v1

Manlick, P.J., Perryman, N.L., Koltz, A.M., Joseph A. Cook & Seth D. Newsome. Climate warming restructures food webs and carbon flow in high-latitude ecosystems. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 184–189 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01893-0

Marsh, Paul C.; Dowling, Thomas E.; Turner, Thomas F.; Osborne, Megan J.; and Kesner, Brian R. (2024) "Maturation of an off-channel habitat concept to conserve native fishes in the Lower Colorado River," Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist: Vol. 15, Article 1.  https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mwnan/vol15/iss1/1

Matos, I.S., McDonough, S., Johnson, B.C., Kalantar, D., Rohde, J., Sahu, R., Wang, J., Fontao, A., To, J., Carlos, S., Garcia, L., Boakye, M., Forbes, H. and Blonder, B.W. (2024), Negative allometry of leaf xylem conduit diameter and double-wall thickness: implications for implosion safety. New Phytol, 242: 2464-2478. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19771

Matsubayashi, M., Tsuchida, S., Shibahara, T., Kazunari Ushida, Eva Fuglei, Åshild Ø. Pedersen, Ólafur K. Nielsen, Donald W. Duszynski & Karl Skírnisson. Comparative molecular analyses of Eimeria Schneider (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) species from rock ptarmigan in Iceland, Svalbard-Norway, and Japan. Syst Parasitol 101, 31 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-024-10159-y

Miller KB, Michat MC, Ferreira Jr N (2024) Reclassification of Cybistrinae Sharp, 1880 in the Neotropical Region (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae), with description of new taxa. ZooKeys 1188: 125-168. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1188.110081

Montoya-Giraldo, Manuela; Piper, Kathryn R; Ikhimiukor, Odion O; Park, Cooper J; Caimi, Nicole A; Buecher, Debbie C; Valdez, Ernest W; Northup, Diana E; Andam, Cheryl P. 2024. Ecology shapes the genomic and biosynthetic diversification of Streptomyces bacteria from insectivorous bats. Microbial Genomics, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001238

Morgan-Kiss Rachael M., Popson Devon, Pereira Rochelle, Dolhi-Binder Jenna, Teufel Amber, Li Wei, Kalra Isha, Sherwell Shasten, Reynebeau Emily, Takacs-Vesbach Cristina. 2024. Sentinel protist taxa of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica: a review. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1323472

Nachman MW, Beckman EJ, Bowie RC, Cicero C, Conroy CJ, Robert Dudley, Tyrone B. Hayes, Michelle S. Koo, Eileen A. Lacey, Christopher H. Martin, Jimmy A. McGuire, James L. Patton, Carol L. Spencer, Rebecca D. Tarvin, Marvalee H. Wake, Ian J. Wang, Anang Achmadi, Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda, Michael J. Andersen, Jairo Arroyave, Christopher C. Austin, F Keith Barker, Lisa N. Barrow, George F. Barrowclough, John Bates, Aaron M. Bauer, Kayce C. Bell, Rayna C. Bell, Allison W. Bronson, Rafe M. Brown, Frank T. Burbrink, Kevin J. Burns, Carlos Daniel Cadena, David C. Cannatella, Todd A. Castoe, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Jocelyn P. Colella, Joseph A. Cook, Joel L. Cracraft, Drew R. Davis, Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Guillermo D’Elía, John P. Dumbacher, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Scott V. Edwards, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Julián Faivovich, Jon Fjeldså, Oscar A. Flores-Villela, Kassandra Ford, Jérôme Fuchs, Matthew K. Fujita, Jeffrey M. Good, Eli Greenbaum, Harry W. Greene, Shannon Hackett, Amir Hamidy, James Hanken, Tri Haryoko, Melissa TR Hawkins, Lawrence R. Heaney, David M. Hillis, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Angela D. Hornsby, Peter A. Hosner, Mohammad Irham, Sharon Jansa, Rosa Alicia Jiménez,Leo Joseph, Jeremy J. Kirchman, Travis J. LaDuc, Adam D. Leaché, Enrique P. Lessa, Hernán López-Fernández, Nicholas A. Mason, John E. McCormack, Caleb D. McMahan, Robert G. Moyle, Ricardo A. Ojeda, Link E. Olson, Chan Kin Onn, Lynne R. Parenti, Gabriela Parra-Olea, Bruce D. Patterson, Gregory B. Pauly, Silvia E. Pavan, A Townsend Peterson, Steven Poe, Daniel L. Rabosky,Christopher J. Raxworthy,Sushma Reddy,Alejandro Rico-Guevara,Awal Riyanto,Luiz A. Rocha, Santiago R. Ron, Sean M. Rovito, Kevin C. Rowe, Jodi Rowley, Sara Ruane, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Allison J. Shultz, Brian Sidlauskas, Derek S. Sikes, Nancy B. Simmons, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Bryan L. Stuart, Adam P. Summers, Jose Tavera, Pablo Teta, Cody W. Thompson, Robert M. Timm, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Gary Voelker, Robert S. Voss, Kevin Winker, Christopher Witt, Elizabeth A. Wommack, Robert M. Zink. (2023) Specimen collection is essential for modern science. PLOS Biology 21(11): e3002318. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318

North, M.P., Bisbing, S.M., Hankins, D.L., Paul F. Hessburg, Matthew D. Hurteau, Leda N. Kobziar, Marc D. Meyer, Allison E. Rhea, Scott L. Stephens & Camille S. Stevens-Rumann. Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States. fire ecol 20, 50 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00282-y

Oyler-McCance, S.J., Ryan, M.J., Sullivan, B.K., Jennifer A. Fike, Robert S. Cornman, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Shawna J. Zimmerman, Rachel L. Harrow, Shaula J. Hedwall, Blake R. Hossack, Ian M. Latella, Robert E. Lovich, Sarah Siefken, Brent H. Sigafus & Erin Muths. Genetic connectivity in the Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus): implications for conservation of a stream dwelling amphibian in the arid Southwestern United States. Conserv Genet 25, 835–848 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-024-01606-w

Parra, Amalia S., and Christopher A. Johnston. 2023. "Phase Separation as a Driver of Stem Cell Organization and Function during Development" Journal of Developmental Biology 11, no. 4: 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/jdb11040045

Pennance, T., Calvelo, J., Tennessen, J.A., Ryan Burd, Jared Cayton, Stephanie R. Bollmann, Michael S. Blouin, Johannie M. Spaan, Federico G. Hoffmann, George Ogara, Fredrick Rawago, Kennedy Andiego, Boaz Mulonga, Meredith Odhiambo, Eric S. Loker, Martina R. Laidemitt, Lijun Lu, Andrés Iriarte, Maurice R. Odiere & Michelle L. Steinauer. The genome and transcriptome of the snail Biomphalaria sudanica s.l.: immune gene diversification and highly polymorphic genomic regions in an important African vector of Schistosoma mansoni. BMC Genomics 25, 192 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10103-w

Prevéy, J.S., Jarnevich, C.S., Pearse, I.S., Seth M. Munson, Jens T. Stevens, Kevin J. Barrett, Jonathan D. Coop, Michelle A. Day, David Firmage, Paula J. Fornwalt, Katharine M. Haynes, James D. Johnston, Becky K. Kerns, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky A. Miller, Ty C. Nietupski, Jacquilyn Roque, Judith D. Springer, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard & Claire M. Tortorelli.  Non-native plant invasion after fire in western USA varies by functional type and with climate. Biol Invasions 26, 1157–1179 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03235-9 

Promy, N.T., Newberry, M. & Gulisija, D. Rapid evolution of phenotypic plasticity in patchy habitats. Sci Rep 13, 19158 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45912-8

Propst, D.L., Myers, D.J., Wick, J.M., Paggen, R.J. (2024). Dynamics of a Warmwater-Coldwater Fish Assemblage in a Wildfire-Prone Landscape. In: Lobon-Cervia, J., Budy, P., Gresswell, R. (eds) Advances in the Ecology of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids. Fish & Fisheries Series, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44389-3_27

Quinn, T. P., Epifanio, J., Moyle, P. B., Gregory, S., Hasselman, D. J., Merrill, E., Rose K, Turner TF, Wainwright, T. C. (2024). Ecological Interactions Between Non-Native American Shad and Pacific Salmon: The Columbia River Case Study. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2024.2337434

Ramírez-Otarola, N., Maldonado, K., Valdés-Ferranty, F., Seth D. Newsome & Pablo Sabat. Seasonal changes in diet, immune function, and oxidative stress in three passerines inhabiting a Mediterranean climate. Oecologia 203, 395–405 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05474-y 

Ray AM, J Andy Hubbard, Owen T Brown, Elizabeth R Schnaubelt, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Erin R Zylstra, Blake R. Hossack. 2024. Albinism in American Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus Shaw, 1802 tadpoles from the Gila River, New Mexico, USA. Herpetology Notes. 17: 239-242. USGS Publications

Resseguier J, Mai Nguyen-Chi, Jens Wohlmann, Dimitri Rigaudeau, Irene Salinas, Stefan H. Oehlers, Geert F. Wiegertjes, Finn-Eirik Johansen, Shuo-Wang Qiao, Erling O. Koppang, Bernard Verrier, Pierre Boudinot, Gareth Griffiths. Identification of a pharyngeal mucosal lymphoid organ in zebrafish and other teleosts: Tonsils in fish?.Sci. Adv.9,eadj0101(2023). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj0101

Ricote N, Constanza Weinberger, Natalia Ramírez-Otarola, Sara Bustamante, María Lucía Málaga, Gonzalo Barceló, Pablo Sabat, Seth D. Newsome, Karin Maldonado. The Interplay of Ecological Opportunity and Adult Foraging Strategies in Juvenile Sparrow Individual Specialization. bioRxiv 2024.02.29.582146. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.29.582146

Robinson E, Elizabeth Barajas Alonso, Jennifer A Waters, Cayleen Bileckyj, Carrie D House, Christopher A Johnston & Richard M Cripps (12 May 2024): pJoseph2: a family of plasmids as positive controls for bacterial protein expression, transfections, and western blots, BioTechniques, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07366205.2024.2343609  

Robinson, A.L., Elliott Smith, E.A., Besser, A.C., Newsome SD. Tissue-specific carbon isotope patterns of amino acids in southern sea otters. Oecologia 204, 13–24 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05505-8

Salazar-Hamm PS, Johnson WL, Nofchissey RA, Salazar JR, Gonzalez P, Samuel M. Goodfellow, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Steven B. Bradfute, Blas Armién, Joseph A. Cook, Daryl B. Domman, Darrell L. Dinwiddie (2024) Choclo virus (CHOV) recovered from deep metatranscriptomics of archived frozen tissues in natural history biorepositories. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18(1): e0011672. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011672

Salinas, I. Neuroimmunology, the field that welcomed me and made me want to stay. Nat Immunol 25, 376 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01766-4

Sampson JA, Kimberly A. Morrissey, Daniel C. Douek, Robert D. Miller. 2024. A family of olfactory receptors uniquely expanded in marsupial and monotreme genomes are expressed by a T cell subset also unique to marsupials and monotremes. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 154:105149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2024.105149

Sangster G, Vinciguerra NT, Gaudin J, Andersen MJ. A new genus for Dasycrotapha plateni and D. pygmaea (Aves: Zosteropidae). Zootaxa. 2023 Oct 31;5361(1):145-148. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5361.1.10

Shi, TS., Collins, S.L., Yu, K. et al. A global meta-analysis on the effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on grasslands and croplands. Nat Commun 15, 3411 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47829-w

Smith, MD; Wilkins, KD; Holdrege, MC; Wilfahrt, P; Collins, SL; Knapp, AK; Sala, OE; Dukes, JS;Phillips, RP; Yahdjian, L, et al. 2024. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. PNAS, 121(4): e2309881120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309881120

Song, Lin, Robert J. Griffin-Nolan, Taofeek O. Muraina, Jiaqi Chen, Niwu Te, Yuan Shi, Kenneth D. Whitney, Bingchuan Zhang, Qiang Yu, Melinda D. Smith, Xiaoan Zuo, Zhengwen Wang, Alan K. Knapp, Xingguo Han, Scott L. Collins, Wentao Luo. 2024. “ Grassland Sensitivity to Drought is Related to Functional Composition across East Asia and North America.” Ecology 105(2): e4220. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4220 

Speir, S. L., Rose, L. A., Blaszczak, J. R., Kincaid, D. W., Fazekas, H. M., Webster, A. J., Wolford, M. A., Shogren, A. J., & Wymore, A. S. (2024). Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review. WIREs Water, 11(2), e1702. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1702

Springer, J. D., Stoddard, M. T., Rodman, K. C., Huffman, D. W., Fornwalt, P. J., Pedersen, R. J., Laughlin, D. C., McGlone, C. M., Daniels, M. L., Fulé, P. Z., Moore, M. M., Kerns, B. K., Stevens, J. T., Korb, J. E., & Souther, S. (2024). Increases in understory plant cover and richness persist following restoration treatments in Pinus ponderosa forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61, 25–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14538 

Stone, Michael S., Shawn P. Devlin, Ian Hawes, Kathleen A. Welch, Michael N. Gooseff, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Rachael Morgan-Kiss, et al. “McMurdo Dry Valley Lake Edge ‘Moats’: The Ecological Intersection between Terrestrial and Aquatic Polar Desert Habitats.” Antarctic Science, 2024, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102024000087

Tan, D. J. X., Freymueller, N. A., Teo, K. M., Symes, W. S., Lum, S. K. Y., & Rheindt, F. E. (2024). Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of bird–building collisions in a tropical Asian city with ecological niche modeling. Conservation Biology, e14255. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14255

Taylor LD, Bhatnagar JM. 2024. Chapter 4 - Fungi in soil: a rich community with diverse functions. In: Eldor A. Paul, Serita D. Frey (eds) Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry, 5^th edition. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822941-5.00004-1

Tkach, V.V., Gasperetti, R., Fernandes, T.F.,  Carlos A. Carrión-Bonilla, Joseph A. Cook & Tyler J. Achatz. Uncovering further diversity of Ochoterenatrema Caballero, 1943 (Digenea: Lecithodendriidae) in South American bats. Syst Parasitol 101, 43 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-024-10165-0

Truong BT, Shull LC, Zepeda BJ, Lencer E, Artinger KB. Human split hand/foot variants are not as functional as wildtype human PRDM1 in the rescue of craniofacial defects. Birth Defects Res. 2024;116(3):e2327. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdr2.2327

Turner, T.F.,Propst, D.L., Brooks, J.E. (2024). Demographic and Genetic Attributes of Small, Isolated Populations of Gila Trout: Prospects for Persistence Under a Shifting Climate Regime. In: Lobon-Cervia, J., Budy, P., Gresswell, R. (eds) Advances in the Ecology of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids. Fish & Fisheries Series, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44389-3_25

Turner, T.F., Propst, D.L., Brooks, J.E. (2024). Demographic and Genetic Attributes of Small, Isolated Populations of Gila Trout: Prospects for Persistence Under a Shifting Climate Regime. In: Lobon-Cervia, J., Budy, P., Gresswell, R. (eds) Advances in the Ecology of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids. Fish & Fisheries Series, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44389-3_25

Vojdani, A., Baur, L. E., Rudgers, J. A., & Collins, S. L. (2024). Sensitivity of root production to long-term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems. Journal of Ecology, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14319

Wani AR, Hamid A, Chaya GNM, Syed MH. Lineage Analysis and Birthdating of Drosophila Central Complex Lineages. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2024 Apr 15. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108442

Williamson JL, Ethan F. Gyllenhaal, Selina M. Bauernfeind, Emil Bautista, Matthew J. Baumann, Chauncey R. Gadek, Peter P. Marra, Natalia Ricote, Thomas Valqui, Francisco Bozinovic, Nadia D. Singh, Christopher C. Witt. 2024. Extreme elevational migration spurred cryptic speciation in giant hummingbirds. PNAS, 121(21):e2313599121. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313599121

Willson, K.G., Hurteau, M.D. Abiotic Factors Modify Ponderosa Pine Regeneration Outcomes After High-Severity Fire. Ecosystems (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-024-00911-2

Witt C, Chauncey R. Gadek, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Michael J. Andersen, Mariel L. Campbell, Marialejandra Castro-Farías, Ethan F. Gyllenhaal, Andrew B. Johnson, Jason L. Malaney, Kyana N. Montoya, Andrew Patterson, Nicholas T. Vinciguerra, Jessie L. Williamson, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum. 2024. Extraordinary levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in vertebrate animals at a New Mexico desert oasis: Multiple pathways for wildlife and human exposure. Environmental Research. 249:118229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118229

Yang JC, David R. Bowling, Kenneth R. Smith, Lewis Kunik, Brett Raczka, William R.L. Anderegg, Michael Bahn, Peter D. Blanken, Andrew D. Richardson, Sean P. Burns, Gil Bohrer, Ankur R. Desai, M. Altaf Arain, Ralf M. Staebler, Andrew P. Ouimette, J. William Munger, Marcy E. Litvak. 2024. Forest carbon uptake as influenced by snowpack and length of photosynthesis season in seasonally snow-covered forests of North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 353:110054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110054

Yin, X., Sophia Zhang, Ju Hyun Lee, Huiping Dong, George Mourgkos, Gordon Terwilliger, Aurora Kraus, Luiz Henrique Geraldo, Mathilde Poulet, Suzanne Fischer, Ting Zhou, Farrah Shalima Mohammed, Jiangbing Zhou, Yongfu Wang, Seth Malloy, Nicolas Rohner, Lokesh Sharma, Irene Salinas, Anne Eichmann, Jean-Leon Thomas, W. Mark Saltzman, Anita Huttner, Caroline Zeiss, Aaron Ring, Akiko Iwasaki & Eric Song. Compartmentalized ocular lymphatic system mediates eye–brain immunity. Nature 628, 204–211 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07130-8

Zald HSJ, Carolina J. May, Andrew N. Gray, Malcolm P. North, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2023. Thinning and prescribed burning increase shade-tolerant conifer regeneration in a fire excluded mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 551: 121531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121531

Zhong D, Bu L, Habib MR, Lu L, Yan G, Zhang SM. (2024) A haplotype-like, chromosome-level assembled and annotated genome of Biomphalaria glabrata, an important intermediate host of schistosomiasis and the best studied model of schistosomiasis vector snails. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18(2): e0011983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011983

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