Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Life Sciences faculty
Submissions from 2018
The Good with the Bad: When Ecological Restoration Facilitates Native and Non‐native Species, Scott Robert Abella and Lindsay P. Chiquoine
Testing The Hypothesis Of Hierarchical Predictability In Ecological Restoration And Succession, S R. Abella, T A. Schetter, and T L. Walters
Culture‐independent Characterization of a Novel Magnetotactic Member Affiliated to the Beta Class of the Proteobacteria Phylum from an Acidic Lagoon, Fernanda Abreu, Pedro Leão, Gabriele Vargas, Jefferson Cypriano, Viviane Figueiredo, Alex Enrich-Prast, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Ulysses Lins
Microbial Dormancy and Survival in the Subsurface, Penny S. Amy
The Microbiology of the Terrestrial Deep Subsurface, Penny S. Amy
The Storage-related Phenomenon: Implications for Handling and Analysis of Subsurface Samples, Penny S. Amy
Denizens of the Deep, Penny S. Amy and L. Haldeman Dana
The Low-frequency Acoustic Structure of Mobbing Calls Differs Across Habitat Types in Three Passerine Families, Alexis C. Billings
Soil Seed Bank Assay Methods Influence Interpretation of Non-Native Plant Management, Lindsay P. Chiquoine and Scott R. Abella
Cougar Dispersal and Natal Homing in a Desert Environment, David M. Choate, Kathleen M. Longshore, and Daniel B. Thompson
Assessing Near Surface Hydrologic Processes and Plant Response Over a 1600 M Mountain Valley Gradient in The Great Basin, NV, U.S.A., Dale Devitt, Brian Bird, Brad Lyles, Lynn Fenstermaker, Richard Jasoni, Scotty Strachan, Jay Arnone III, Franco Biondi, Scott Mensing, and Laurel Saito
How Much Water Can We Save by Achieving Renewable Portfolio Standards in the Southwest United States?, Yuzhen Feng, Sachiko Sueki, Dale Devitt, and Kumud Acharya
Genome-wide Analysis Of Starvation-selected Drosophila Melanogaster-a Genetic Model Of Obesity, C M. Hardy, M K. Burke, L J. Everett, M V. Han, K M. Lantz, and A G. Gibbs
Oxygen Consumption of Desert Pupfish at Ecologically Relevant Temperatures Suggests a Significant Role for Anaerobic Metabolism, Matt Heuton, Luis Ayala, Aldo Morante, Kyle Dayton, Alexander C. Jones, Joseph R. Hunt, Austin McKenna, Frank van Breukelen, and Stanley Hillyard
Effect of the Synthetic Bile Salt Analog CamSA on the Hamster Model of Clostridium difficile Infection, Amber Howerton, Cale O. Seymour, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Zhenlin Liao, Jacqueline R. Phan, Alan Estrada, Adam J. Wagner, Chrisabelle C. Mefferd, Brian P. Hedlund, and Ernesto Abel-Santos
Genomic Inference of the Metabolism and Evolution of the Archaeal Phylum Aigarchaeota, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Yan-Ni Qu, Qiyun Zhu, En-Min Zhou, Yan-Ling Qi, Yi-Rui Yin, Yang-Zhi Rao, Ye Tian, Yu-Xian Li, Lan Liu, Cindy J. Castelle, Brian P. Hedlund, Wen-Sheng Shu, Rob Knight, and Wen-Jun Li
A Model for Investigating Developmental Eye Repair in Xenopus Laevis, Cindy X. Kha, Philip H. Son, Julia Lauper, and Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng
Developmental Dependence for Functional Eye Regrowth in Xenopus laevis, Cindy X. Kha and Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng
Association of Magnetotactic Multicellular Prokaryotes with Pseudoalteromonas Species in a Natural Lagoon Environment, Pedro Leão, Frederico J. Gueiros-Filho, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Fernanda Abreu
Synergistic Plant–microbe Interactions Between Endophytic Bacterial Communities And The Medicinal Plant Glycyrrhiza Uralensis F., Li Li, Osama Abdalla Abdelshafy Mohamad, Jinbiao Ma, Ariel D. Friel, Yangui Su, Yun Wang, Zulpiya Musa, Yonghong Liu, Brian P. Hedlund, and Wenjun Li
Genomic Expansion of Magnetotactic Bacteria Reveals an Early Common Origin of Magnetotaxis with Lineage-specific Evolution, Wei Lin, Wensi Zhang, Xiang Zhao, Andrew P. Roberts, Greig A. Paterson, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Yongxin Pan
Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Activity of Endophytic Bacterial Populations From Chinese Traditional Medicinal Plant Licorice and Characterization of the Bioactive Secondary Metabolites Produced by Bacillus atrophaeus Against Verticillium dahliae, Osama A. A. Mohamad, Li Li, Jin-Biao Ma, Shaimaa Hatab, Lin Xu, Jian-Wei Guo, Bakhtiyor A. Rasulov, Yong-Hong Liu, Brian P. Hedlund, and Wen-Jun Li
Phylogenetics and Systematics of the South Polynesian Genera Apetahia and Sclerotheca (Campanulaceae subfam. Lobelioideae), Yohan Pillon, Elizabeth Stacy, and Jean-Yves Meyer
Phylogenetics and Systematics of the South Polynesian Genera Apetahia and Sclerotheca (Campanulaceae Subfam. Lobelioideae), Yohan Pillon, Elizabeth Stacy, and Jean-Yves Meyer
Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Genome-Wide Association Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Desiccation Tolerance in Drosophila Melanogaster, Subhash Rajpurohit, Eran Gefen, Alan O. Bergland, Dmitri A. Petrov, Allen G. Gibbs, and Paul S. Schmidt
Divergence in Life-History and Developmental Traits in Silvery-Thread Moss (Bryum argenteum Hedw.) Genotypes between Golf Course Putting Greens and Native Habitats, Zane Raudenbush, Jashua L. Greenwood, D. Nicholas McLetchie, Sarah M. Eppley, Steven J. Keeley, Richard C. Castetter, and Lloyd A. Stark
Genomic Analysis of 48 Paenibacillus Larvae Bacteriophages, Casey Stamereilers, Christopher P. Fajardo, Jamison K. Walker, Katterinne N. Mendez, Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Julianne H. Grose, Sandra Hope, and Philippos K. Tsourkas
Computational Models Evaluating the Impact of Sieve Plates and Radial Water Exchange on Phloem Pressure Gradients, Ryan C. Stanfield, Paul J. Schulte, Katie E. Randolph, and Uwe G. Hacke
Climatically Driven Changes in Primary Production Propagate through Trophic Levels, David C. Stoner, Jospeh O. Sexton, David M. Choate, Jyothy Nagol, Heather H. Bernales, Steven A. Sims, Kirsten E. Ironside, Kathleen M. Longshore, and Thomas C. Edwards Jr.
Leaf Micromorphology Aids Taxonomic Delineation within the Hypervariable Genus Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) on O'ahu, Gary L. Sur, Richard Keating, and Elizabeth Stacy
A Biofilm Matrix-Associated Protease Inhibitor Protects Pseudomonas Aeruginosa from Proteolytic Attack, Boo Shan Tseng, Courtney Reichhardt, Gennifer E. Merrihew, Sophia A. Araujo-Hernandez, Joe J. Harrison, Michael J. MacCoss, and Matthew R. Parsek
Applications of Magnetotactic Bacteria, Magnetosomes and Magnetosome Crystals in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Mini-Review, Gabriele Vargas, Jefferson Cypriano, Tarcisio Correa, Pedro Leão, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Fernanda Abreu
Systematic Approach to Isolating Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis, Anthony Wayne Waddle, Marlai Sai, Joshua Levy, Ghazal Rezaei, Frank van Breukelen, and Jef R. Jaeger Ph.D.
Complete Genome Sequences of Paenibacillus Larvae Phages BN12, Dragolir, Kiel007, Leyra, Likha, Pagassa, PBL1c, and Tadhana, Jamison K. Walker, Bryan D. Merrill, Jordan A. Berg, Aziza Dhalai, Douglas W. Dingman, Chris P. Fajardo, Kiel Graves, Hunter L. Hill, Jared A. Hilton, Cameron Imahara, Bradley K. Knabe, James Mangohig, Josh Monk, Heejin Mun, Ashley M. Payne, Alicia Salisbury, Casey Stamereilers, Kathie Velez, Andy T. Ward, Donald P. Breakwell, Julianne H. Grose, Sandra Hope, and Philippos K. Tsourkas
Insights into Transcriptional Silencing and Anti-silencing in Shigella flexneri: A Detailed Molecular Analysis of the icsP Virulence Locus, Natasha Weatherspoon-Griffin, Michael A. Picker, Krystle L. Pew, Hiromichi S. Park, Daren R. Ginete, Monika MA. Karney, Pashtana Usufzy, Maria I. Castellanos, Juan Carlos Duhart, Dustin J. Harrison, Jillian N. Socea, Alexander D. Karabachev, Christopher T. Hensley, Amber J. Howerton, Rosa Ojeda-Daulo, Joy A. Immak, and Helen J. Wing
Localized High Abundance Of Marine Group Ii Archaea In The Subtropical Pearl River Estuary: Implications For Their Niche Adaptation, W Xie, H Luo, S K. Murugapiran, J A. Dodsworth, S Chen, Y Sun, B P. Hedlund, P Wang, H Fang, M Deng, and C L. Zhang
Thermus Sediminis Sp. Nov., A Thiosulfate-oxidizing and Arsenate-Reducing Organism Isolated from Little Hot Creek in the Long Valley Caldera, California, En-Min Zhou, Wen-Dong Xian, Chrisabelle C. Mefferd, Scott C. Thomas, Arinola L. Adegboruwa, Nathan Williams, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Rakesh Ganji, Meng-Meng Li, Yi-Ping Ding, Lan Liu, Tanja Woyke, Wen-Jun Li, and Brian P. Hedlund
Submissions from 2017
Forest Decline after a 15-Year “Perfect Storm” of Invasion by Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Drought, and Hurricanes, Scott R. Abella
Persistent establishment of outplanted seedlings in the mojave desert, S R. Abella
Restoring desert ecosystems, S R. Abella
Conserving Large Oaks and Recruitment Potential while Restoring Midwestern Savanna and Woodland, S R. Abella, T A. Schetter, K S. Menard, E D. Ziegler, L A. Sprow, T Gallaher, J F. Jaeger, and T L. Walters
Restoring and conserving rare native ecosystems: A 14-year plantation removal experiment, S R. Abella, T A. Schetter, and T L. Walters
Using Optogenetics In Vivo to Stimulate Regeneration in Xenopus laevis, Dany S. Adams, Ai-Sun Tseng, and Michael Levin
Assessing growth response to climate in a Great Basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) plant community, L F. Apodaca, D A. Devitt, and L F. Fenstermaker
Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives, C Badgley, T M. Smiley, R Terry, E B. Davis, L R.G. DeSantis, D L. Fox, S S.B. Hopkins, T Jezkova, M D. Matocq, N Matzke, J L. McGuire, A Mulch, B R. Riddle, V L. Roth, J X. Samuels, C A.E. Stromberg, and B J. Yanites
Origins and genetic diversity of introduced populations of the puerto rican red-eyed Coquí, Eleutherodactylus antillensis, in Saint Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands) and Panamá, B S. Barker and J A. Rodriguez Robles
Genomic comparison of two family-level groups of the uncultivated NAG1 archaeal lineage from chemically and geographically disparate hot springs, E D. Becraft, J A. Dodsworth, S K. Murugapiran, S C. Thomas, J I. Ohlsson, R Stepanauskas, B P. Hedlund, and W D. Swingley
Reversible reduction of estrone to 17β-estradiol by Rhizobium, Sphingopyxis, and Pseudomonas isolates from the Las Vegas Wash, S M. Blunt, M J. Benotti, M R. Rosen, B P. Hedlund, and D P. Moser
Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea, R M. Bowers, N C. Kyrpides, R Stepanauskas, M Harmon Smith, D Doud, T B.K. Reddy, F Schulz, J Jarett, A R. Rivers, E A. Eloe Fanrosh, S G. Tringe, N N. Ivanova, A Copeland, A Clum, E D. Becraft, R R. Malmstrom, B Birren, M Podar, P Bork, G M. Weinstock, G M. Garrity, J A. Dodsworth, S Yooseph, G Sutton, F O. Glockner, J A. Gilbert, W C. Nelson, S J. Hallam, S P. Jungbluth, T J.G. Ettema, S Tighe, and Konstantinidis
Role of ribonucleotide reductase in Bacillus subtilis stress-associated mutagenesis, K V. Castro Cerritos, R E. Yasbin, E A. Robleto, and M Pedraza Reyes
Mass transport: Circulatory system with emphasis on nonendothermic species, D A. Crossley, II; W W. Burggren; C L. Reiber; J Altimiras; and K J. Rodnick
Algae-mediated biosynthesis of inorganic nanomaterials as a promising route in nanobiotechnology-a review, S A. Dahoumane, M Mechouet, K Wijesekera, C D.M. Filipe, C Sicard, D A. Bazylinski, and C Jeffryes
Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis gen. nov., sp. nov., a magnetotactic bacterium from a brackish desert spring able to biomineralize greigite and magnetite, that represents a novel lineage in the Desulfobacteraceae, E C.T. Descamps, C L. Montell, N Menguy, N Ginet, D Pignol, D A. Bazylinski, and C T. Lefevre
Special Issue: the 3rd meeting of the Bergey’s International Society for Microbial Systematics (BISMIS), B P. Hedlund, I C. Sutcliffe, and M E. Trujillo
Variable terrestrial GPS telemetry detection rates: Addressing the probability of successful acquisitions, K E. Ironside; D J. Mattson; D Choate; D Stoner; T Arundel; J Hansen; T Theimer; B Holton; B Jansen; J O. Sexton; K Longshore; T C. Edwards; and M Peters, Jr
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and the Decline and Survival of the Relict Leopard Frog, J R. Jaeger, A W. Waddle, R Rivera, D T. Harrison, S Ellison, M J. Forrest, V T. Vrendenburg, and F van Breukelen
A Test for Gene Flow among Sympatric and Allopatric Hawaiian Picture-Winged Drosophila, L Kang, H R. Garner, D K. Price, and P Michalak
Mapping Genomic Scaffolds to Chromosomes Using Laser Capture Microdissection in Application to Hawaiian Picture-Winged Drosophila, L Kang, P George, D K. Price, I Sharakhov, and P Michalak
Proxies and databases in financial misconduct research, J M. Karpoff, A Koester, D S. Lee, and G S. Martin
Alternative Trends Estimate and Stakeout Synthetic Marijuana Use, P Kim, J J. Shen, Y J. Lee, S J. Kim, and X Liu
Diversity and ecology of and biomineralization by magnetotactic bacteria, W Lin, Y Pan, and D A. Bazylinski
An ancient origin of magnetotactic bacteria, W Lin, G A. Paterson, Q Zhu, Y Wang, E Kopylova, Y Li, R Knight, D A. Bazylinski, R Zhu, J L. Kirschvink, and Y Pan
Origin of microbial biomineralization and magnetotaxis during the Archean, W Lin, G A. Paterson, Q Zhu, Y Wang, E Kopylova, Y Li, R Knight, D A. Bazylinski, R Zhu, J L. Kirschvink, and Y Pan
Biogeography: Biological Diversity Across Space and Time, Mark V. Lomolino, Brett R. Riddle, and Robert J. Whittaker
Sustainability of utility-scale solar energy – critical ecological concepts, K A. Moore O'Leary, R R. Hernandez, D S. Johnston, S R. Abella, K E. Tanner, A C. Swanson, J Kreitler, and J E. Lovich
Impacts of solids retention time on trace organic compound attenuation and bacterial resistance to trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole, M Neyestani, E Dickenson, J McLain, E Robleto, C Rock, and D Gerrity
An update on the sociomicrobiology of quorum sensing in gram-negative biofilm development, D Passos da Silva, M C. Schofield, M R. Parsek, and B S. Tseng
Crevice-nesting auklets are early-successional species requiring disturbance to persist, H M. Renner, L R. Walker, C F. Waythomas, J C. Williams, and Y B. Artukhin
History of Biogeography, Brett R. Riddle
Making a case for case-based teaching in data literacy, D R. Riddle, J S. Beck, J J. Morgan, N Brown, and H Whitesides
How Many Arizona Walnut Trees Inhabit Walnut Canyon National Monument?, C D. Schelz, D A. Scher, T Vegh, and S R. Abella
Incipient ecological speciation between successional varieties of a dominant tree involves intrinsic postzygotic isolating barriers, E A. Stacy, B Paritosh, M A. Johnson, and D K. Price
Ecology of desiccation tolerance in bryophytes: A conceptual framework and methodology, L R. Stark
Norvegica shoots exhibit a complex inducible response to desiccation: Separating the effects of rate of drying and water content, L R. Stark, J L. Greenwood, M L. Slate, and J C. Brinda
Seeing the future: using Xenopus to understand eye regeneration, A S. Tseng
Living in a seasonal world: 15th international hibernation symposium, Breukelen F. van and J Utz
Methylisothiazolinone toxicity and inhibition of wound healing and regeneration in planaria, A V. Van Huizen, A S. Tseng, and W S. Beane
Implementation of a loss-of-function system to determine growth and stress-associated mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis, N Villegas Negrete, E A. Robleto, A Obregon Herrera, R E. Yasbin, and M Pedraza Reyes
Localized iron accumulation precedes nucleation and growth of magnetite crystals in magnetotactic bacteria, J Werckmann, J Cypriano, C T. Lefevre, K Dembele, O Ersen, D A. Bazylinski, U Lins, and M Farina
Dual recognition of chromatin and microtubules by INC ENP is important for mitotic progression, M S. Wheelock, D J. Wynne, B S. Tseng, and H Funabiki
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Synthetic Greigite and Greigite Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria, Xiaohui Zhu, Adam P. Hitchcock, Lucas Le Nagard, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Viviana Morillo, Fernanda Abreu, Pedro Leao, and Ulysses Lins
Submissions from 2016
Enhancing and Restoring Habitat for the Desert Tortoise, Scott R. Abella and K. H. Berry
Status and Management of Non-Native Plant Invasion in Three of the Largest National Parks in the United States, Scott R. Abella, Nicholas A. Fisichelli, Sarah M. Schmid, Teague M. Embrey, Debra Hughson, and Jane Cipra
Culture-independent characterization of novel psychrophilic magneto tactic cocci from Antarctic marine sediments., Fernanda Abreu, Ana Carolina, V Araujo, Pedro Leão, Karen Tavares Silva, Fabiola Marques de Carvalho, Oberdan de Lima Cunha Luiz, Gonzaga Almeida, Corey Geurink, Marcos Farina Daniel, Rodelli, Luigi Jovane, Vivian H. Pellizari, Ana Tereza de Vasconcelos, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Ulysses Lins
Role of Base Excision Repair (BER) in Transcription-associated Mutagenesis of Nutritionally Stressed Nongrowing Bacillus subtilis Cell Subpopulations, V Ambriz-Aviña, R E. Yasbin, Eduardo Robleto, and M Pedraza-Reyes
Combined genomic and structural analyses of a cultured magnetotactic bacterium reveals its niche adaptation to a dynamic environment, A C.V. Araujo, Viviana Morillo, J Cypriano, L CRS Teixeira, P Leão, S Lyra, L G. de Almeida, Dennis Bazylinski, A T.R. de Vasconcellos, F Abreu, and U Lins
Combined genomic and structural analyses of a cultured magnetotactic bacterium reveals its niche adaptation to a dynamic environment, A C. V. Araujo, Viviana K Morillo, J Cypriano, L CRS Teixeira, P Leão, S Lyra, L G. de Almeida, Dennis Bazylinski, A T.R. de Vasconcelos, F Abreu, and U Lins
Endothiovibrio diazotrophicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Nitrogen-Fixing, Sulfur-Oxidizing Gammaproteobacterium Isolated from a Salt Marsh, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Viviana Morillo, Christopher T. Lefèvre, Nathan Viloria, Bradley L. Dubbels, and Timothy J. Williams
TALEN gene editing takes aim on HIV, Ronald Benjamin, B K. Berges, A Solis-Leal, O Igbinedion, Christy Strong, and Martin Schiller
Hybrid sterility and evolution in Hawaiian Drosophila: differential gene and allele-specific expression analysis of backcross males, E Brill, L Kang, K Michalak, P Michalak, and Donald K. Price
Rapidly Restoring Biological Soil Crusts and Ecosystem Functions in a Severely Disturbed Desert Ecosystem, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, Scott R. Abella, and Matthew A. Bowker
Effects of the biocide methylisothiazolinone on Xenopus laevis wound healing and tail regeneration, Nicole Delos-Santos, Summer Azmat, Y Cuenca, J Drenth, J Lauper, and Kelly Tseng
Identification, Recombinant Expression, and Biochemical Analysis of Putative Secondary Product Glucosyltransferases from Citrus paradisi, S P. Devaiah, D K. Owens, M B. Sibhatu, T R. Sarkar, Christy Strong, V KPS Mallampalli, J Asiago, J Cooke, S Kiser, Z Lin, A Wamucho, D Hayford, B E. Williams, P Loftis, M Berhow, L M. Pike, and C A. McIntosh
Changes in groundwater oscillations, soil water content and evapotranspiration as the water table declined in an area with deep rooted phreatophytes, Dale Devitt and B Bird
Modification of a comparative biogeographic method protocol to differentiate vicariance and dispersal, Mallory E. Eckstut, Brian I. Crother, and Brett R. Riddle
Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs, E A. Eloe-Fadrosh, D Paez-Espino, J Jarett, P F. Dunfield, Brian Hedlund, A E. Dekas, S E. Grasby, A L. Brady, H Dong, B R. Briggs, W J. Li, D Goudeau, R Malmstrom, A Pati, J Pett-Ridge, E M. Rubin, T Woyke, N C. Kyrpides, and N N. Ivanova
Effects of temperature on transcriptome and cuticular hydrocarbon expression in ecologically differentiated populations of desert Drosophila, William J. Etges, Cassia de Oliveira, Sub hash Rajpurohit, and Allen G. Gibbs
Preadult life history variation determines adult transcriptome expression, William J. Etges, Cassia de Oliveira, Sub hash Rajpurohit, and Allen G. Gibbs
High-quality draft genome sequence of Thermocrinis jamiesonii GBS1T isolated from Great Boiling Spring, Nevada, Rakesh Ganji, S K. Murugapiran, J C. Ong, N Manoharan, M Huntemann, A Clum, M Pillay, K Palaniappan, N Varghese, N Mikhailova, D Stamatis, T B.K. Reddy, C Y. Ngan, C Daum, K Duffy, N Shapiro, V Markowitz, N Ivanova, N Kyrpides, T Woyke, J A. Dodsworth, and B P. Hedlund
Stationary-phase mutagenesis in stressed bacillus subtilis cells operates by Mfd-dependent mutagenic pathways, M Gómez-Marroquín, Holly Anne Martin, Amber Pepper, M E. Girard, A A. Kidman, C Vallin, R E. Yasbin, M Pedraza-Reyes, and Eduardo Robleto