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Submissions from 2020

Screening of Metrosideros Polymorpha ('Ohi'a) Varieties for Resistance to Ceratocystis Lukuohia, Blaine Luiz, Elizabeth A. Stacy, and Lisa M. Keith

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The Bacillus Subtilis K-State Promotes Stationary-Phase Mutagenesis via Oxidative Damage, Holly A. Martin, Amanda A. Kidman, Jillian Socea, Carmen Vallin, Mario Pedraza-Reyes, and Eduardo A. Robleto

Paraburkholderia youngii sp. nov. and ‘Paraburkholderia atlantica’ – Brazilian and Mexican Mimosa-Associated Rhizobia That Were Previously Known as Paraburkholderia tuberum sv. mimosae, Lazarus Mavima, Chrizelle W. Beukes, Marike Palmer, Sofie E. De Meyer, Euan K. James, Marta Maluk, Eduardo Gross, Fabio Bueno dos Reis Junior, Juanita R. Avontuur, Wai Y. Chan, Stephanus N. Venter, and Emma T. Steenkamp

The Antiactivator of Type III Secretion, OspD1, Is Transcriptionally Regulated by VirB and H-NS from Remote Sequences in Shigella flexneri, Joy A. McKenna and Helen J. Wing

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A High-Fat/High-Protein, Atkins-Type Diet Exacerbates Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection in Mice, whereas a High-Carbohydrate Diet Protects, Chrisabelle C. Mefferd, Shrikant S. Bhute, Jacqueline R. Phan, Jacob V. Villarama, Dung M. Do, Stephanie Alarcia, Ernesto Abel-Santos, and Brian P. Hedlund

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Beneficial Endophytic Bacterial Populations Associated With Medicinal Plant Thymus vulgaris Alleviate Salt Stress and Confer Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum, Osama Aballa Abdelshafy Mohamad, Jin-Bao Ma, Yong-Hong Liu, Daoyuan Zhang, Shao Hua, Shirkant Bhute, Brian P. Hedlund, Wen-Jun Li, and Li Li

C-Reactive Protein and Fracture Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies Through the Use of Both Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches, H. Mun, B. Liu, T. H. A. Pham, and Q. Wu

Author Correction: Roadmap for Naming Uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria (Nature Microbiology, (2020), 5, 8, (987-994), 10.1038/s41564-020-0733-x), Alison E. Murray, John Freudenstein, Simonetta Gribaldo, Roland Hatzenpichler, Philip Hugenholtz, Peter Kämpfer, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Christopher E. Lane, R. Thane Papke, Donovan H. Parks, Ramon Rossello-Mora, Matthew B. Stott, Iain C. Sutcliffe, J. Cameron Thrash, Stephanus N. Venter, William B. Whitman, Silvia G. Acinas, Rudolf I. Amann, Karthik Anantharaman, Jean Armengaud, Brett J. Baker, Roman A. Barco, Helge B. Bode, Eric S. Boyd, Carrie L. Brady, Paul Carini, Patrick S.G. Chain, Daniel R. Colman, Kristen M. DeAngelis, Maria Asuncion de los Rios, and Paulina Estrada-de los Santos

Roadmap for Naming Uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, Alison E. Murray, John Freudenstein, Simonetta Gribaldo, Roland Hatzenpichler, Philip Hugenholtz, Peter Kämpfer, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Christopher E. Lane, R. Thane Papke, Donovan H. Parks, Ramon Rossello-Mora, Matthew B. Stott, Cameron Thrash, Stephanus N. Venter, William B. Whitman, Silvia G. Acinas, Rudolf I. Amann, Karthik Anantharaman, Jean Armengaud, Brett J. Baker, Roman A. Barco, Helge B. Bode, Eric S. Boyd, Carrie L. Brady, Paul Carini, Patrick S. G. Chain, Daniel R. Colman, Kristen M. DeAngelis, Maria Asuncion de los Rios, Paulina Estrada-de los Santos, and Christopher A. Dunlop

Diversity and Distribution of a Novel Genus of Hyperthermophilic AquificaeViruses Encoding a Proof-Reading Family-A DNA Polymerase, Marike Palmer, Brian P. Hedlund, Simon Roux, Philippos K. Tsourkas, Ryan K. Doss, Casey Stemereilers, Astha Mehta, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Michael Lodes, Scott Monsma, Tijana Glavina del Rio, Thomas W. Schoenfield, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, and David A. Mead

All ANIs Are Not Created Equal: Implications for Prokaryotic Species Boundaries and Integration of ANIs Into Polyphasic Taxonomy, Marike Palmer, Emma T. Steenkamp, Jochen Bloom, Brian P. Hedlund, and Stephanus N. Venter

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MicroRNA Profiling in the Weddell Seal Suggests Novel Regulatory Mechanisms Contributing to Diving Adaptation, Luca Penso-Dolfin, Wilfried Haerty, Allyson Hindle, and Federica Di Palma

Seed Germination of a Rare Gypsum-Associated Species, Arctomecon Californica (Papaveraceae), in the Mojave Desert, Tiffany J. Pereira, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, Alejandra J. Larranaga, and Scott R. Abella

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Non-Native Spiders Change Assemblages of Hawaiian Forest Fragment Kipuka Over Space and Time, Julien Pétillon, Kaїna Privet, George K. Roderick, Rosemary G. Gullespie, and Don K. Price

Non-Analog Increases to Air, Surface, and Belowground Temperature Extreme Events Due to Climate Change, M. D. Petrie, J. B. Bradford, W. K. Lauenroth, D. R. Schlaepfer, C. M. Andrews, and D. M. Bell

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Analysis of Genomic Sequence Data Reveals the Origin and Evolutionary Separation of Hawaiian Hoary Bat Populations, Corinna A. Pinzari, Lin Kang, Pawel Michalak, Lars S. Jermiin, Donald K. Price, and Frank J. Bonaccorso

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In Vivo Biosynthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials Using Eukaryotes - A Review, Ashiqur Rahman, Julia Lin, Francisco E. Jaramillo, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Clayton Jeffryes, and Si Amar Dahoumane

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Post-Eclosion Temperature Effects on Insect Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles, Subhash Rajpurohit, Vladimír Vrkoslav, Robert Hanus, Allen G. Gibbs, Josef Cvačka, and Paul S. Schmidt

Solid Mechanics of the Torus–Margo in Conifer Intertracheid Bordered Pits, Paul J. Schulte and Uwe G. Hacke

Importin-alpha2 Mediates Brain Development, Learning and Memory Consolidation in Drosophila, Christine N. Serway, Brian S. Dunkelberger, Denise Del Padre, Nicole W. C. Nolan, Stephanie Georges, Stephanie Freer, Andrew J. Andres, and J. Steven de Belle

To Dry Perchance to Live: Insights From the Genome of the Desiccation-Tolerant Biocrust Moss Syntrichia Caninervis, Anderson T. Silva, Bei Gao, Kirsten M. Fisher, Brent D. Mishler, Jenna T.B. Ekwealor, Lloyd R. Stark, Xiaoshuang Li, Daoyuan Zhang, Matthew A. Bowker, John C. Brinda, Kirsten K. Coe, and Melvin J. Oliver

Prehydration Mitigates Damage Accrued From Prolonged Periods of Desiccation in Cultured Shoot Apices of Syntrichia ruralis, Mandy L. Slate, John C. Brinda, Kirsten K. Coe, Joshua L. Greenwood, and Lloyd R. Stark

Estimation of Future Native Grass Seed Demand for Restoring Oil and Gas-Energy Sprawl in West Texas, USA, Forrest S. Smith, Jon P. Pierre, Michael H. Young, and Dale A. Devitt

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Floral Variation across Three Varieties of the Landscape-Dominant Tree Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtaceae): Insights from a Hawaii Island Common Garden, Elizabeth A. Stacy and Melissa A. Johnson

Surveillance of Root-associated Microbiome of Oxalogenic Colocasia esculenta (Linn) Plant Reveals Distinct Bacterial Species Diversity, Mangesh Vasant Suryavanshi, Nidhi Bharti, Shrikant Subhash Bhute, Vipin Chembili, Pooja Chavan, and Yogesh Shripad Shouche

Variation in the Hemostatic Complement (C5a) Responses to in Vitro Nitrogen Bubbles in Monodontids and Phocids, Laura A. Thompson, Allyson G. Hindle, Sandra R. Black, and Tracy A. Romano

Paenibacillus larvae Bacteriophages: Obscure Past, Promising Future, Philippos K. Tsourkas

Novel Biochemical Properties and Physiological Role of the Flavin Mononucleotide Oxidoreductase YhdA from Bacillus subtilis, Luz I. Valenzuela-Garcia, Blanca L. Zapata, Norma Ramirez-Ramirez, Juan P. Huchin-Mian, Eduardo A. Robleto, Victor M. Ayala-Garcia, and Mario Pedraza-Reyes

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Complete Genome Sequences of Cluster P1 and Cluster C1 Mycobacterium smegmatis Phages Jung and Ronan, Richard Van, William Nie, Feruz Abdela, Bardia Eivazi, Dolores Kickbusch, Michael Finkle, Cody Cris, Matthew Rubinstein, Baylor Akavan, Mahdeed Raja, Jessica Vergara, Wilson Andrade, Abimael Barajas, Jocelyn Sanchez, Maria Duenas, Kurt Regner, Christy Strong, Philippos K. Tsourkas, and Jay Barilla

The Saguaro Cactus: A Natural History, Lawrence R. Walker

Pinniped Ontogeny as a Window Into the Comparative Physiology and Genomics of Hypoxia Tolerance, Emma L. Weitzner, Cornelia E. Fanter, and Allyson G. Hindle

Initiation of a Stable Convective Hydroclimatic Regime in Central America Circa 9000 Years BP, Amos Winter, Davide Zanchettin, Matthew Lachniet, Rolf Vieten, Francesco S. R. Pausata, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Thomas Miller, Sara Rubinetti, Angelo Rubino, and Carla Taricco

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Evapotranspiration of Urban Landscape Trees and Turfgrass in an Arid Environment: Potential Trade-offs in the Landscape, Tamara Wynne and Dale Devitt

Submissions from 2019

Fourteen Years of Swamp Forest Change From the Onset, During, and After Invasion of Emerald Ash Borer, Scott A. Abella, Constance E. Hausman, John F. Jaegar, Karen S. Menard, Timothy A. Schetter, and Oscar J. Rocha

Developing Methods of Assisted Natural Regeneration for Restoring Foundational Desert Plants, Scott R. Abella, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, and James F. Weigand

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Persistence and Turnover in Desert Plant Communities during a 37-yr Period of Land Use and Climate Change, Scott R. Abella, Ross J. Guida, Chris L. Roberts, Carrie M. Norman, and James S. Holland

Predicting Post-Fire Tree Survival for Restoring Oak Ecosystems, Scott R. Abella, LaRae A. Sprow, and Timothy A. Schetter

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Muscular Apoptosis but Not Oxidative Stress Increases with Old Age in a Long-Lived Diver, the Weddell Seal, Kaitlin N. Allen, Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina, John M. Lawler, Jo-Ann E. Mellish, Markus Horning, and Allyson G. Hindle

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Heterogeneity in Surface Sensing Suggests a Division of Labor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Populations, Catherine R. Armbuster, Calvin K. Lee, Jessica Parker-Gilham, Jaime de Anda, Aiguo Xia, Kun Zhao, Keiji Murakami, Boo Shan Tseng, Lucas R. Hoffman, Fan Jin, Caroline S. Harwood, Gerard CL Wong, and Matthew R. Parsek

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Starvation Resistance is Associated with Developmentally Specified Changes in Sleep, Feeding and Metabolic Rate, Elizabeth B. Brown, Melissa E. Slocumb, Milan Szuperak, Arianna Kerbs, Allen G. Gibbs, Matthew S. Kayser, and Alex C. Keene

Care and Propagation of Captive Pupfish from the Genus Cyprinodon: Insight into Conservation, George C. Burg, Jamie Johnson, Savannah Spataro, Amelia O'Keefe, Natasha Urbina, Georgina Puentedura, Matt Heuton, Sean Harris, Stanley D. Hillyard, and Frank van Breukelen

Cryptic Diversity of a Widespread Global Pathogen Reveals Expanded Threats to Amphibian Conservation, Allison Q. Byrne, Vance T. Vrendenburg, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Rayna C. Bell, David C. Blackburn, Molly C. Bletz, Jaime Bosch, Cheryl J. Briggs, Rafe M. Brown, Alessandro Catenazzi, Mariel Familiar Lopez, Raul Figueroa-Valenzuela, Sonia L. Ghose, Jef R. Jaeger, Andrea J. Jani, Miloslav Jirku, Roland A. Knapp, Antonio Munoz, Daniel M. Portik, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Heidi Rockney, Sean M. Rovito, Tariq Stark, Hasan Sulaeman, Nguyen Thien Tao, Jamie Voyles, Anthony W. Waddle, Zhiyong Yuan, and Erica Bree Rosenblum

Cryptic Diversity of a Widespread Global Pathogen Reveals Expanded Threats to Amphibian Conservation, Allison Q. Byrne, Vance T. Vrendenburg, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Rayna C. Bell, David C. Blackburn, Molly C. Bletz, Jaime Bosch, Cheryl J. Briggs, Rafe M. Brown, Alessandro Catenazzi, Mariel Familiar Lopez, Raul Figueroa-Valenzuela, Sonia L. Ghose, Jef R. Jaeger, Andrea J. Jani, Miloslav Jirku, Roland A. Knapp, Antonio Munoz, Daniel M. Portik, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Heidi Rockney, Sean M. Rovito, Tariq Stark, Hasan Sulaeman, Nguyen Thien Tao, Jamie Voyles, Anthony W. Waddle, Zhiyong Yuan, and Erica Bree Rosenblum

Pushing beyond the Envelope: the Potential Roles of OprF in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation and Pathogenicity, Erin K. Cassin and Boo Shan Tseng

Sex Ratio and Sex Expression in an Urban Population of the Silver Moss, Bryum argenteum Hedw., Richard C. Castetter, Nicholas D. McLetchie, Sarah M. Eppley, and Lloyd R. Stark

Unexpected Side Effects in Biocrust After Treating Non-Native Plants Using Carbon Addition, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, Scott R. Abella, Joshua L. Greenwood, and Adria DeCorte

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Divergent Selection and Primary Gene Flow Shape Incipient Speciation of a Riparian Tree on Hawaii Island, Jae Young Choi, Michael Purugganan, and Elizabeth A. Stacy

Divergent Selection and Primary Gene Flow Shape Incipient Speciation of a Riparian Tree on Hawaii Island, Jae Young Choi, Michael Purugganan, and Elizabeth A. Stacy

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Correction to: Transcriptome Analyses of Tumor-Adjacent Somatic Tissues Reveal Genes Co-Expressed with Transposable Elements, Micky Chung, G. M. Jonaid, Sophia Quinton, Austin Ross, Corinne E. Sexton, Adrian Alberto, Cody Clymer, Daphnie Churchill, Omar Navarro Leija, and Mira V. Han

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Transcriptome Analyses of Tumor-Adjacent Somatic Tissues Reveal Genes Co-Expressed with Transposable Elements, Micky Chung, G. M. Jonaid, Sophia Quinton, Austin Ross, Corinne E. Sexton, Adrian Alberto, Cody Clymer, Daphnie Churchill, Omar Navarro Leija, and Mira V. Han

Morphological and Physiological Traits in Relation to Carbon Balance in a Diverse Clade of Dryland Mosses, Kristen K. Coe, Nora B. Howard, Mandy L. Slate, Matthew A. Bowker, Brent D. Mishler, Riley Butler, Joshua Greenwood, and Lloyd R. Stark

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Uptake and persistence of bacterial magnetite magnetosomes in a mammalian cell line: Implications for medical and biotechnological applications., Jefferson Cypriano, Jacques Werckmann, Gabriele Vargas, Adrana Lopes dos Santos, Karen T. Silva, Pedro Leao, Fernando P. Almeida, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Marcos Farina, Ulysses Lins, and Fernanda Abreu

Function-Driven Single-Cell Genomics Uncovers Cellulose-Degrading Bacteria from the Rare Biosphere, Devin F. R. Doud, Robert M. Bowers, Frederik Schulz, Markus De Raad, Kai Deng, Angela Tarver, Evan Glasgow, Brian Fox, Sam Deutsch, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Trent Northen, Brian P. Hedlund, Steven W. Singer, Natalia Ivanova, and Tanja Woyke

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Magnetosome Gene Duplication as an Important Driver in the Evolution of Magnetotaxis in the Alphaproteobacteria, Haijian Du, Wenyan Zhang, Wensi Zhang, Weijia Zhang, Hongmiao Pan, Yongxin Pan, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Long-Fei Wu, Tian Xiao, and Wei Lin

Targeted Amplicon Sequencing of 40 Nuclear Genes Supports a Single Introduction and Rapid Radiation of Hawaiian Metrosideros (Myrtaceae), Julian R. Dupuis, Yohan Pillon, Tomoko Sakishima, Chrissen E. C. Gemmill, Srikar Chamala, W. Brad Barbazuk, Scott N. Geib, and Elizabeth A. Stacy

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Varieties of the Highly Dispersible and Hypervariable Tree, Metrosideros Polymorpha, Differ in Response to Mechanical Stress and Light Across a Sharp Ecotone, Jill M. Ekar, Donald K. Price, Melissa A. Johnson, and Elizabeth A. Stacy

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Hawaiian Picture‐Winged Drosophila Exhibit Adaptive Population Divergence along a Narrow Climatic Gradient on Hawaii Island, Jon Eldon, M. Renee Bellinger, and Donald K. Price

Modeling Genomes to Phenomes to Populations in a Changing Climate: The Need for Collaborative Networks, Nika Galic, Allyson G. Hindle, John P. DeLong, Karen Watanabe, Valery Forbes, and C. Loren Buck

Modeling Genomes to Phenomes to Populations in a Changing Climate: The Need for Collaborative Networks, Nika Galic, Allyson G. Hindle, John P. DeLong, Karen Watanabe, Valery Forbes, and C. Loren Buck

When Do We Eat? The Clock is Ticking, Allen G. Gibbs

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Effects of Rate of Drying, Life History Phase, and Ecotype on the Ability of the Moss Bryum Argenteum to Survive Desiccation Events and the Influence on Conservation and Selection of Material for Restoration, Joshua Lee Greenwood, Lloyd R. Stark, and Lindsay P. Chiquoine

Germination Timing and Chilling Exposure Create Contingency in Life History and Influence Fitness in the Native Wildflower Streptanthus Tortuosus, Jennifer R. Gremer, Chenoa J. Wilcox, Alec Chiono, Elena Suglia, and Johanna Schmitt

Assessing Historical and Future Habitat Models for Four Conservation-Priority Mojave Desert Species, Ross J. Guida, Scott R. Abella, Chris L. Roberts, Carrie M. Norman, and William J. Smith

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Robust Cullin-RING Ligase Function Is Established by a Multiplicity of Poly-Ubiquitylation Pathways, Spencer Hill, Kurt Reichermeier, Daniel C. Scott, Lorena Samentar, Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington, Luisa Izzi, Xiaojing Tang, Rebeca Ibarra, Thierry Bertomeu, Annie Moridian, Michael J. Sweredoski, Nora Caberoy, Brenda A. Schulman, Frank Sicheri, Mike Tyers, and Gary Kleiger

Low Guanylyl Cyclase Activity in Weddell Seals: Implications for Peripheral Vasoconstriction and Perfusion of the Brain During Diving, Allyson G. Hindle, Kaitlin N. Allen, Annabelle J. Batten, Luis A. Hückstädt, Jason Turner-Maier, S. Anne Schulberg, Jeremy Johnson, Elinor Karlsson, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Daniel P. Costa, Donald B. Bloch, Warren M. Zapol, and Emmanuel S. Buys

Identification of Candidate miRNA Biomarkers for Glaucoma, Allyson Hindle, Robrecht Thoonen, Jessica V. Jasien, Robert M. H. Grange, Krishna Amin, Jasen Wise, Mineo Ozaki, Robert Ritch, Rajeev Malhotra, and Emmanuel S. Buys

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Best Practice Recommendations for the Use of External Telemetry Devices on Pinnipeds, Markus Horning, Russel D. Andrews, Amanda M. Bishop, Peter L. Boveng, Daniel P. Costa, Daniel E. Crocker, Martin Haulena, Mark Hindell, Allyson G. Hindle, Rachel R. Holser, Sascha K. Hooker, Luis A. Hückstädt, Shawn Johnson, Mary-Anne Lea, Birgitte I. McDonald, Clive R. McMahon, Patrick W. Robinson, Renae L. Sattler, Courtney R. Shuert, Sheanna M. Steingass, Dave Thompson, Pamela A. Tuomi, Cassondra L. Williams, and Jamie N. Womble

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Insights into the Ecological Roles and Evolution of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase-Containing Hot Spring Archaea, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Yu-Lin Wang, Paul N. Evans, Yan-Ni Qu, Kian Mau Goh, Yang-Zhi Rao, Sun Yat-Sen University Qi, Yu-Xian Li, Min-Jun Huang, Jian-Yu Jiao, Ya-Ting Chen, Wen-Sheng Shu, Wael Hozzein, Brian P. Hedlund, Gene W. Tyson, Tong Zhang, and Wen-Jun Li

Insights into the Ecological Roles and Evolution of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase-Containing Hot Spring Archaea, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Yu-Lin Wang, Paul N. Evans, Yan-Ni Qu, Kian Mau Goh, Yang-Zhi Rao, Yan-Ling Qi, Yu-Xian Li, Min-Jun Huang, Jian-Yu Jiao, Ya-Ting Chen, Wen-Sheng Shu, Wael Hozzein, Brian P. Hedlund, Gene W. Tyson, Tong Zhang, and Wen-Jun Li

Multi-Object Portion Tracking in 4D Fluorescence Microscopy Imagery With Deep Feature Maps, Yang Jiao, Mo Weng, and Mei Yang

Multiple Colonizations, Hybridization and Uneven Diversification in Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) Lineages on Hawai'I Island, Melissa A. Johnson, Yohan Pillon, Tokomo Sakishima, Donald K. Price, and Elizabeth A. Stacy

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Investigating the DNA-Binding Site for VirB, a Key Transcriptional Regulator of Shigella Virulence Genes, Using an In Vivo Binding Tool, Monika M.A. Karney, Joy A. McKenna, Natasha Weatherspoon-Griffin, Alexander D. Karabachev, Makensie E. Millar, Eliese A. Potoceck, and Helen J. Wing

Studying In Vivo Retinal Progenitor Cell Proliferation in Xenopus laevis, Cindy X. Kha, Dylan J. Guerin, and Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng

Using the Developmental Eye Regrowth System to Distinguish the Role of Developmental Versus Regenerative Mechanisms, Cindy X. Kha, Dylan J. Guerin, and Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng

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Using the Xenopus Developmental Eye Regrowth Stystem to Distinguish the Role of Developmental Versus Regenerative Mechanisms, Cindy X. Kha, Dylan J. Guerin, and Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng

Biogeochemical and Physical Controls on Methane Fluxes from Two Ferruginous Meromictic Lakes, Nicholas Lambrecht, Sergei Katsev, Chad Wittkop, Steven J. Hall, Cody S. Sheik, Aude Picard, Mojtaba Fakhraee, and Elizabeth D. Swanner

Magnetosome Magnetite Biomineralization in a Flagellated Protist: Evidence for an Early Evolutionary Origin for Magnetoreception in Eukaryotes, Pedro Leão, Lucas Le Nagard, Hao Yuan, Jefferson Cypriano, Inacio Da Silva-Neto, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Daniel Acosta-Avalos, Henrique L. de Barros, Adam P. Hitchcock, Ulysses Lins, and Fernanda Abreu

Magnetite Magnetosome Biomineralization in Magnetospirillum magneticum Strain AMB-1: A Time Course Study, Lucas Le Nagard, Xiaohui Zhu, Hao Yuan, Karim Benzerara, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Cécile Fradin, Adrien Besson, Sufal Swaraj, Stefan Stanescu, Rachid Belkhou, and Adam P. Hitchcock

Misalignment Between the Magnetic Dipole Moment and the Cell Axis in the Magnetotactic Bacterium Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1, Lucas Le Negard, Liu Yu, Solomon Barkley, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Adam P. Hitchcock, and Cecile Fradin

On the Origin of Microbial Magnetoreception, Wei Lin, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Greig A. Paterson, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Yongxin Pan

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Ecological Effects of Fear: How Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Predation Risk Influences Mule Deer Access to Forage in a Sky‐Island System, Christopher Lowrey, Kathleen M. Longshore, David M. Choate, Jyoteshwar R. Nagol, Joseph Sexton, and Daniel Thompson

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Mfd Protects Against Oxidative Stress in Bacillus Subtilis Independently of its Canonical Function in DNA Repair, Holly Anne Martin, Katelyne E. Porter, Carmen Vallin, Tatiana Ermi, Natalie Contreras, Mario Pedraza-Reyes, and Eduardo Robleto

Rate of Drying Influences Tolerance of Low Water Contents in the Moss Funaria hygrometrica (Funariaceae), Nicholas McLetchie and Lloyd R. Stark

Two New Day-Flying Species of Agrotis Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from the Alpine Summit of the Maunakea Volcano, Matthew J. Medeiros, Jessica Kirkpatrick, Christine H. Elliott, Andersonn Prestes, Jesse Eiben, and Daniel Rubinoff

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Sulphur and Carbon Isotopes as Tracers of Past Sub-seafloor Microbial Activity, Patrick Meister, Benjamin Brunner, Aude Picard, Michael E. Böttcher, and Bo Barker Jørgensen

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Tunnel-Tube and Fourier Methods for Measuring Three-Dimensional Medium Reaction Force in Burrowing Animals, Alexis Moore Crisp, Clinton J. Barnes, and David V. Lee

Phylogeography and taxonomic revision of Nelson's Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus nelsoni), Sean A. Neiswenter, David J. Hafner, Jessica E. Light, Gabriella D. Cepeda, Kathleen C. Kinzer, and Brett R. Riddle

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Prioritization of Variants for Investigation of Genotype-Directed Nutrition in Human Superpopulations, Pascal D. Nilsson, Jacklyn M. Newsome, Henry M. Santos, and Martin R. Schiller

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The Anti-Sigma Factor MucA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Dramatic Differences of a mucA22 vs. a ΔmucA Mutant in Anaerobic Acidified Nitrite Sensitivity of Planktonic and Biofilm Bacteria in vitro and During Chronic Murine Lung Infection, Warunya Panmanee, Shengchang Su, Michael J. Schurr, Gee W. Lau, Xiaoting Zhu, Zhaowei Ren, Cameron T. McDaniel, Long J. Lu, Dennis E. Ohman, Daniel A. Muruve, Ralph J. Panos, Hongwei D. Yu, Thomas B. Thompson, Boo Shan Tseng, and Daniel J. Hassett

Badlands, Seed Banks, and Community Disassembly, Lora B. Perkins, Kelsey R. Ducheneaux, Gary Hatfield, and Scott R. Abella

Differing Climate and Landscape Effects on Regional Dryland Vegetation Responses During Wet Periods Allude to Future Patterns, Matthew D. Petrie, Debra P.C. Peters, N. Dylan Burruss, Wenjie Ji, and Heather M. Savoy

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Local‐Regional Similarity in Drylands Increases During Multiyear Wet and Dry Periods and in Response to Extreme Events, Matthew D. Petrie, D. P.C. Peters, N. D. Bruss, W. Ji, and H. M. Savoy

Authigenic Metastable Iron Sulfide Minerals Preserve Microbial Organic Carbon in Anoxic Environments, Aude A. Picard, Amy Gartan, Julie Cosmidis, Martin Obst, Charles Vidoudez, David R. Clarke, and Peter R. Girguis

Genetic Signatures of Historical and Contemporary Responses to Climate Change, Brett R. Riddle

How is Phylogeography Shaping our Understanding of the Geography of Diversity, Diversification, and Range Dynamics in Mammals?, Brett R. Riddle and Tereza Jezkova

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Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium smegmatis Phages Chewbacca, Reptar3000, and Riparian, Isolated in Las Vegas, Nevada, Alicia Salisbury, Erin Cassin, Kevin Ayala-Pineda, Nicolas Barroga, Vanessa Cadiz, Ramiro Cisneros, Joseph Fersini, Tiffany Jeanite, Jonathan Juste, Juvie Ines, Gabriel Leyva, Dyanne Macalinao, Spencer Muscelli, Sophia Nhan, Gustavo S. Reyes, Heather Rhoden, Rodney Tan, Erika Torres, Krystal Tran, Georgette Uriarte-Valle, Christopher Wallace, Simon Wong, Kurt Regner, Christy Strong, and Philippos K. Tsourkas

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Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacterium smegmatis Phages NihilNomen and Carlyle, Isolated in Las Vegas, Nevada, Alicia Salisbury, Ryan Doss, Astha Mehta, Khadija Bhatti, Ciera Dapra, Audrey Huntsinger, Stephanie Rodriguez, Scott Yacek, Rylee Sandberg, Alexis Gildore, Jacinda Knudtson, Frances Tibayan, Tiannah Ohta, Neha Zafar, Guadalupe Mercado, Alan Le, Natalie Mekhaeel, Justin Willer, Edith Rodrich-Zuniga, Merissa McFarland, Kurt Regner, Christy Strong, and Phillippos K. Tsourkas

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A Method for Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of Bacteriophage Genome Annotation, Alicia Salisbury and Philippos K. Tsourkas

Reproductive Capacity Evolves in Response to Ecology through Common Changes in Cell Number in Hawaiian Drosophila, Didem P. Sarikaya, Samuel H. Church, Laura P. Lagomarsino, Karl M. Magnacca, Steven L. Montgomery, Donald K. Price, Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro, and Cassandra G. Extavour

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Paired-End Mappability of Transposable Elements in the Human Genome, Corinne E. Sexton and Mira V. Han