Faculty research from the School of Life Sciences.
Submissions from 2015
Phylogeny and physiology of candidate phylum 'Atribacteria' (OP9/JS1) inferred from cultivation-independent genomics, Masaru Nobu, Jeremy Dodsworth, Senthil Murugapiran, Christian Rinke, Esther Gies, Gordon Webster, Patrick Schwientek, Peter Kille, John Parkes, Henrik Sass, Bo Jorgensen, Andrew Weightman, Wen-Tso Liu, Steven Hallam, George Tsiamis, Tanja Woyke, and Brian P. Hedlund
Decoupling of Sexual Reproduction and Genetic Diversity in the Female-Biased Mojave Desert MossSyntrichia caninervis(Pottiaceae), Amber E. Paasch, Brent D. Mishler, Sonja Nosratinia, Lloyd R. Stark, and Kirsten M. Fisher
Tobacco drought stress responses reveal new targets for Solanaceae crop improvement., Roel C. Rabara, Prateek Tripathi, R Neil Reese, Deena L. Rushton, Danny Alexander, Michael P. Timko, Qingxi J. Shen, and Paul J. Rushton
Structure and Evolution of WRKY Transcription Factors, Charles I. Rinerson, Rabara C. Rabara, Prateek Tripathi, Qingxi J. Shen, and Paul J. Rushton
The WRKY transcription factor family and senescence in switchgrass, Charles I. Rinerson, Erin D. Scully, Nathan A. Palmer, Teresa Donze-Reiner, Roel C. Rabara, Prateek Tripathi, Qingxi J. Shen, Scott E. Sattler, Jai S. Rohila, Gautam Sarath, and Paul J. Rushton
Genetic divergence and diversity in the Mona and Virgin Islands Boas, Chilabothrus monensis (Epicrates monensis) (Serpentes: Boidae), West Indian snakes of special conservation concern, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Tereza Jezkova, Matthew K. Fujita, Peter J. Tolson, and Miguel A. García
Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes, Jimmy Saw, Anja Spang, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, Lina Juzokaite, Jeremy Dodsworth, Senthil Murugapiran, Dan Colman, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Brian P. Hedlund, Lionel Guy, and Thijs Ettema
Zeolite dissolution in laboratory and natural settings, and implications for Mars, Renee E. Schofield, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, and S. R. Gainey
The Interactome of Soybean GmWRKY53 using Yeast 2-Hybrid Library Screening to Saturation, Prateek Tripathi, Roel C. Rabara, Mani Kant Choudhary, Marissa A. Miller, Ying Sheng Huang, Qingxi J. Shen, Stephanie Blachon, and Paul J. Rushton
Rodent mounds facilitate shrubs and shrubs inhibit seedlings in the Mojave Desert, {USA}, Lawrence R. Walker, Steven S. Vrooman, and Daniel B. Thompson
Tiling Assembly: a new tool for reference annotation-independent transcript assembly and novel gene identification by RNA-sequencing, Kenneth A. Watanabe, Arielle Homayouni, Tara Tufano, Jennifer Lopez, Patricia Ringler, Paul Rushton, and Qingxi J. Shen
Hot and not-so-hot females: reproductive tradeoffs associated with thermoregulation in female Arizona Bark Scorpions (Centruroides sculpturatus), Michael M. Webber, Allen G. Gibbs, and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles
Distribution and Diversity of Aerobic Carbon Monoxide-Oxidizing Bacteria in Geothermal Springs of China, the Philippines, and the United States, Jian Yang, Enmin Zhou, Hongchen Jiang, Wenjun Li, Geng Wu, Liuqin Huang, Brian P. Hedlund, and Hailiang Dong
Three WRKY transcription factors additively repress abscisic acid and gibberellin signaling in aleurone cells, Liyuan Zhang, Lingkun Gu, Patricia Ringler, Stanley Smith, Paul J. Rushton, and Qingxi J. Shen
Submissions from 2014
Effectiveness of Exotic Plant Treatments on National Park Service lands in the United States, Scott R. Abella
Impacts and Management of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in National Parks of the Eastern United States, Scott R. Abella
Ecology and Conservation of Acacia and Prosopis (Fabaceae) Woodlands of the Mojave Desert, U.S.A., Scott R. Abella and Kenneth L. Chittick
Watercourse-Upland and Elevational Gradients in Spring Vegetation of a Mojave-Great Basin Desert landscape, Scott R. Abella, Jill E. Craig, Sara L. McPherson, and Jessica E. Spencer
Diverse Responses Across Soil Parent Materials During Ecological Restoration, Scott R. Abella, John E. Crouse, W W. Covington, and Judith D. Springer
Effects of Tree Cutting and Fire on Understory Vegetation in Mixed Conifer Forests, Scott R. Abella and Judith D. Springer
An Ecosystem Cassification Approach to Assessing Forest Change in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, M Forbes Boyle II, Scott R. Abella, and Victor B. Shelburne
Plant Colonization and Soil Properties on Newly Exposed Shoreline During Drawdown of Lake Mead, Mojave Desert, E C. Engel, Scott R. Abella, and Kenneth L. Chittick
Climate, Trees, Pests, and Weeds: Change, Uncertainty, and Biotic Stressors in Eastern U.S. National Park Forests, Nicholas A. Fisichelli, Scott R. Abella, Matthew Peters, and Frank J. Krist
Climate Change and Desert Vegetation Distribution: Assessing Thirty Years of Change in Southern Nevada's Mojave Desert, Ross J. Guida, Scott R. Abella, William J. Smith, Haroon Stephen, and Chris L. Roberts
Genetic consequences of postglacial range expansion in two codistributed rodents (genus Dipodomys) depend on ecology and genetic locus., Tereza Jezkova, Brett R. Riddle, Daren C. Card, Drew R. Schield, Mallory E. Eckstut, and Todd A. Castoe
Post-Fire Recovery of Desert Bryophyte Communities: Effects of Fires and Propagule Soil Banks, Robert J. Smith, Scott R. Abella, and Lloyd R. Stark
Long-Term Response of a Mojave Desert Winter Annual Plant Community to a Whole-Ecosystem Atmospheric CO2 Manipulation (FACE), Stanley D. Smith, Therese N. Charlet, Stephen F. Zitzer, Scott R. Abella, Cheryl H. Vanier, and Travis E. Huxman
Submissions from 2013
Great Basin Montane Forests, Scott Abella
Soil, Vegetation, and Seed Bank of a Sonoran Desert Ecosystem Along an Exotic Plant (Pennisetum ciliare) Treatment Gradient, Scott R. Abella, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, and Dana M. Backer
Characterizing Soil Seed Banks and Relationships to Plant Communities, Scott R. Abella, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, and Cheryl H. Vanier
Soil Development in Vegetation Patches of Pinus Ponderosa Forests: Interface with Restoration Thinning and Carbon Storage, Scott R. Abella, Charles W. Denton, Rory W. Steinke, and David G. Brewer
Influences of Wildfires on Organic Carbon, Total Nitrogen, and Other Properties of Desert Soils, Scott R. Abella and E C. Engel
Annual-Perennial Plant Relationships and Species Selection for Desert Restoration, Scott R. Abella and Stanley D. Smith
Treatment Alternatives and Timing Affect Seeds of African Mustard (Brassica Tournefortii), an Invasive Forb in American Southwest Arid lLands, Scott R. Abella, Alexis A. Suazo, Carrie M. Norman, and Alice C. Newton
Distribution of Exotic Plant Species and Relationship to Vegetation Type at Bryce Canyon National Park, USA, Scott R. Abella and Amy Tendick
Magnetotactic Bacteria from Extreme Environments, Dennis A. Bazylinski and Christopher T. Lefèvre
Soil Seed Banks of the Exotic Annual Grass Bromus Rubens on a Burned Desert Landscape, Benjamin S. Junrad and Scott R. Abella
Seed Bank Longevity and Carry Over of the Exotic Annual Grass Bromus Rubens in the Mojave Desert, USA, Benjamin S. Junrad, Scott R. Abella, and Alexis A. Suazo
Seed Removal Patterns in Burned and Unburned Desert Habitats: Implications for Ecological Restoration, Alexis A. Suazo, Donovan J. Craig, C H. Vanier, and Scott R. Abella
Estimating Wildfire Risk on a Mojave Desert Landscape Using Remote Sensing and Field Sampling, Peter F. Van Linn III, Kenneth E. Nussear, Todd C. Esque, Lesley A. Defalco, Richard D. Inman, and Scott R. Abella
Submissions from 2012
Restoration of Desert Ecosystems, Scott Abella
Ecological Characteristics of Sites Invaded by Buffelgrass (Pennisetum Ciliare), Scott R. Abella, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, and Dana M. Backer
Identifying Native Vegetation for Reducing Exotic Species During the Restoration of Desert Ecosystems, Scott R. Abella, Donovan J. Craig, Stanley B. Smith, and Alice C. Newton
Outplanting but not Seeding Establishes Native Desert Perennials, Scott R. Abella, Donovan J. Craig, and Alexis A. Suazo
Biophysical Correlates with the Distribution of the Invasive Annual Red Brome (Bromus Rubens) on a Mojave Desert Landscape, Scott R. Abella, Teague M. Embrey, Sarah M. Schmid, and Kathryn A. Prengaman
Relationships of Exotic Plant Communities with Native Vegetation, Environmental Factors, Disturbance, and Landscape Ecosystems of Pinus Ponderosa Forests, USA, Scott R. Abella, E Cayenne Engel, Judith D. Springer, and W Wallace Covington
Overstory-Understory Relationships along Forest Type and Environmental Gradients in the Spring Mountains of Southern Nevada, USA, Scott R. Abella, James C. Hurja, Douglas J. Merkler, Charles W. Denton, and David G. Brewer
A Hierarchical Analysis of Vegetation on a Mojave Desert landscape, USA, Scott R. Abella, K A. Prengaman, T M. Embrey, S M. Schmid, A C. Newton, and D J. Merkler
Soil Seed banks in a Mature Coniferous Forest Landscape: Dominance of Native Perennials and Low Spatial Variability, Scott R. Abella and Judith D. Springer
Thirty New Localities for Eriogonum Jonesii, T M. Embrey, J Curtis, S E. Henke, K J. Edwards, K A. Prengaman, S M. Schmid, and Scott R. Abella
N-terminal Dbl domain of the RhoGEF, Kalirin., Vitaliy Y. Gorbatyuk, Martin Schiller, Oksana I. Gorbatyuk, Marek Barwinski, and Jeffrey C. Hoch
Wildlife and biological resources: Chapter 5 in A synthesis of aquatic science for management of Lakes Mead and Mohave, Paul B. Holden, Ron B. Kegerries, Jef R. Jaeger, Erik Orsak, Sudeep Chandra, Scott R. Abella, Joseph G. Barnes, Brandon A. Albrecht, E Cayenne Engel, and Steven L. Goodbred
The human phosphotyrosine signaling network: evolution and hotspots of hijacking in cancer., Lei Li, Chabane Tibiche, Cong Fu, Tomonori Kaneko, Michael F. Moran, Martin Schiller, Shawn Shun-Cheng Li, and Edwin Wang
Effects of Flight on Gene Expression and Aging in the Honey Bee Brain and Flight Muscle, Joseph Margotta, Georgina E. Mancinelli, Azucena A. Benito, Andrew Ammons, Stephen P. Roberts, and Michelle M. Elekonich
Reducing false-positive prediction of minimotifs with a genetic interaction filter, Jerlin Camilus Merlin, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Tian Mi, and Martin Schiller
Minimotif Miner 3.0: database expansion and significantly improved reduction of false-positive predictions from consensus sequences., Tian Mi, Jerlin Camilus Merlin, Sandeep Deverasetty, Michael R. Gryk, Travis J. Bill, Andrew W. Brooks, Logan Lee, Viraj Rathnayake, Christian A. Ross, David P. Sargeant, Christy L. Strong, Paula Watts, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, and Martin Schiller
Achieving High Accuracy Prediction of Minimotifs, Tian Mi, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Jerlin Camilus Merlin, Michael R. Gryk, and Martin Schiller
Secondary Structure, a Missing Component of Sequence- Based Minimotif Definitions, David P. Sargeant, Michael R. Gryk, Mark W. Maciejewsk, Vishal Thapar, Vamsi Kundeti, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Pedro Romero, Keith Dunker, Shun-Cheng Li, Tomonori Kaneko, and Martin Schiller
Submissions from 2011
How well do U.S. Forest Service Terrestrial Ecosystem Surveys Correspond with Measured Vegetation Properties?, Scott R. Abella
Relationships of native desert plants with red brome (Bromus rubens): Toward identifying invasion-reducing species, Scott R. Abella, Donovan J. Craig, Kathryn A. Prengaman, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, Sarah M. Schmid, and Teague M. Embrey
Using a terrestrial ecosystem survey to estimate the historical density of ponderosa pine trees, Scott R. Abella, Charles W. Denton, David G. Brewer, Wayne A. Robbie, Rory W. Steinke, and W. Wallace Covington
Responses of native and non-native Mojave Desert winter annuals to soil disturbance and water additions, Scott R. Abella, E. Cayenne Engel, Jessica E. Spencer, and Alex A. Suazo
A survey of monitoring and management activities for conserving rare plants in national parks and protected areas, Arizona and Nevada, USA, Scott R. Abella and Judith D. Springer
Effects of burial depth and substrate on the emergence of Bromus rubens and Brassica tournefortii, Scott R. Abella, Alex A. Suazo, and A. C. Lee
Loss-of-Function Mutations of ILDR1 Cause Autosomal-Recessive Hearing Impairment DFNB42, Guntram Borck, Atteeq Ur Rehman, Kwanghyuk Lee, Hans-Martin Pogoda, Naseebullah Kakar, Simon von Ameln, Nicolas Grillet, Michael S. Hildebrand, Zubair M. Ahmed, Gudrun Nürnberg, Muhammad Ansar, Sulman Basit, Qamar Javed, Robert J. Morell, Nabilah Nasreen, A. Eliot Shearer, Adeel Ahmad, Kimia Kahrizi, Rehan S. Shaikh, Rana A. Ali, Shaheen N. Khan, Ingrid Goebel, Nicole C. Meyer, William J. Kimberling, Jennifer A. Webster, Dietrich A. Stephan, Martin Schiller, Melanie Bahlo, Hossein Najmabadi, Gillespie G. Gillespie, Peter Nürnberg, Bernd Wollnik, Saima Riazuddin, Richard J. H. Smith, Wasim Ahmad, Ulrich Müller, Matthias Hammerschmidt, Thomas B. Friedman, Sheikh Riazuddin, Suzanne M. Leal, Jamil Ahmad, and Christian Kubisch
Order I. Opitutales, Jang-Cheon Cho
Class I. Lentisphaeria class. nov., Jang-Cheon Cho, Muriel Derrien, and Brian P. Hedlund
Order I. Lentisphaerales, Jang-Cheon Cho and Brian P. Hedlund
Class II. Opitutae, Jang-Cheon Cho, Peter H. Janssen, Kyle C. Costa, and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Opitutaceae, Jang-Cheon Cho, Peter H. Janssen, Wung Yang Shieh, and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Puniceicoccaceae, Jang-Cheon Cho, Jaewoo Yoon, and Brian P. Hedlund
Order II. Puniceicoccales, Jang-Cheon Cho, Jaewoo Yoon, and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Victivallaceae fam. nov., Muriel Derrien, Jang-Cheon Cho, and Brian P. Hedlund
Ammonia oxidation, denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in two US Great Basin hot springs with abundant ammonia-oxidizing archaea, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, B. A. Hungate, and Brian P. Hedlund
Measuring nitrification, denitrification, and related biomarkers in continental geothermal ecosystems, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Bruce A. Hungate, Jose de la Torre, Hongchen Jiang, and Brian P. Hedlund
Vegetation Recovery in a Desert Landscape after Wildfires: Influences of Community Type, Time since Fire and Contingency Effects, E Cayenne Engel and Scott R. Abella
SciReader enables reading of medical content with instantaneous definitions, Patrick R. Gradie, Megan Litster, Rinu Thomas, Jay Vyas, and Martin Schiller
Genus II. Prosthecobacter, Brian P. Hedlund
Phylum XXII. Lentisphaerae, Brian P. Hedlund, Jang-Cheon Cho, Muriel Derrien, and Kyle C. Costa
Potential role of Thermus thermophilus and T. oshimai in high rates of nitrous oxide (N2O) production in ∼80 °C hot springs in the US Great Basin, Brian P. Hedlund, Austin McDonald, Jenny Lam, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, J. R. Brown, and B. A. Hungate
Class III. Spartobacteria class. nov., Peter H. Janssen, Kyle C. Costa, and Brian P. Hedlund
Class I. Verrucomicrobiae, Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Chthoniobacteraceae fam. nov., Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Victivallaceae fam. nov., Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Order I. Chthoniobacterales ord. nov., Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Order I. Verrucomicrobiales, Peter H. Janssen, Brian P. Hedlund, and Muriel Derrien
The impact of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and biological soil crust on Ca distribution in arid soils of the Mojave Desert, Southern Nevada., B. Myers, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, and S. McDonnell
Algorithms for Local Structural Alignment And Structural Motif Identification, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Vamsi Kundeti, and Martin Schiller
A computational tool for identifying minimotifs in protein-protein interactions and improving the accuracy of minimotif predictions., Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Jerlin Camilus Merlin, Vamsi Kundeti, Tian Mi, Aaron Oommen, Jay Vyas, Izua Alaniz, Keith Chung, Farah Chowdhury, Sandeep Deverasetty, Tenisha M. Irvey, David Lacambacal, Darlene Lara, Subhasree Panchangam, Viraj Rathnayake, Paula Watts, and Martin R. Schiller
HIVToolbox, an Integrated Web Application for Investigating HIV, David P. Sargeant, Sandeep Deverasetty, Yang Luo, Angel Villahoz Baleta, Stephanie Zobrist, Viraj Rathnayake, Jacqueline C. Russo, Jay Vyas, Mark A. Muesing, and Martin Schiller
Genus II. Alterococcus, Wung Yang Shieh and Brian P. Hedlund
Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on rhizosphere soil microbial communities in a Mojave Desert ecosystem, S. D. Smith
The Temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: A seven desert synthesis, S. D. Smith, M. E. Loik, D. T. Tissue, Therese N. Charlet, Robert S. Nowak, Matt Rogers, and Travis E. Huxman
Responses of a Biological Crust Moss to Increased Monsoon Precipitation and Nitrogen Deposition in the Mojave Desert, S. D. Smith, Lloyd Stark, and Nicholas N. McLetchie
Genus II. Candidatus Xiphinematobacter, Tom T.M. Vandekerckhove, Jason B. Navarro, August Coomans, and Brian P. Hedlund
Diversity of archaea in terrestrial hot springs and role in ammonia oxidation, Chuanlun L. Zhang, Brian P. Hedlund, and Jun Meng
Submissions from 2010
Disturbance and plant succession in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the American southwest, Scott R. Abella
Exotic species, Scott R. Abella
Native species interactions with red brome: Suggestions for burn-area revegetation, Scott R. Abella
Renewable energy projects in southwestern deserts – Update on our involvement, Scott R. Abella