Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Life Sciences faculty
Submissions from 2013
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
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
Survey of resource managers completed on monitoring and management actions for rare plants in Arizona and Nevada, Scott R. Abella
Thinning pine plantations to reestablish oak openings species in northwestern Ohio, Scott R. Abella
Undergraduate and graduate programs in environmental science at UNLV, Scott R. Abella
Using a terrestrial ecosystem survey to estimate the historical density of ponderosa pine trees in northern Arizona, Scott R. Abella, Charles W. Denton, David G. Brewer, Wayne A. Robbie, Rory W. Steinke, and W. Wallace Covington
Evaluating efficacy of restoration techniques, Keys View Road reconstruction, Joshua Tree National Park, California, U.S.A, Scott R. Abella and E. Cayenne Engel
Trying to beat the brome: Understanding establishment thresholds and choosing competitive native species at Parashant National Monument, Scott R. Abella and E. Cayenne Engel
Factors Affecting Exotic Annual Plant Cover and Richness along Roadsides in the Eastern Mojave Desert, USA, Donovan J. Craig, Jill E. Craig, Scott R. Abella, and Cheryl H. Vanier
Microbiology and geochemistry of Smith Creek and Grass Valley hot springs: Emerging evidence for wide distribution of novel thermophilic lineages in the US Great Basin, Jeremy A. Dodsworth and Brian P. Hedlund
Interdomain conjugal transfer of DNA from Bacteria to Archaea, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Lei Li, Shiping Wei, Brian P. Hedlund, John A. Leigh, and Paul de Figueiredo
Loops govern SH2 domain specificity by controlling access to binding pockets., Tomonori Kaneko, Haiming Huang, Bing Zhao, Lei Li, Huadong Liu, Courtney K. Voss, Chenggang Wu, Martin Schiller, and Shawn Li
Moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacteria from hot springs in Nevada USA, Christopher T. Lefevre, Fernanda Abreu, Marian L. Schmidt, Ulysses Lins, Richard B. Frankel, Brian P. Hedlund, and Dennis A. Bazylinski
Partitioning of Minimotifs Based on Function with Improved Prediction Accuracy, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Tian Mi, Jerlin Camilus Merlin, Aaron Oommen, Patrick R. Gradie, and Martin R. Schiller
Microbiology and geochemistry of Little Hot Creek, a hot spring environment in the Long Valley Caldera, T. J. Vick, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, K. C. Costa, E. L. Shock, and Brian P. Hedlund
MimoSA: a system for minimotif annotation, Jay Vyas, Ronald J. Nowling, Thomas Meusburger, David P. Sargeant, Krishna Kadaveru, Michael R. Gryk, Vamsi Kundeti, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, and Martin Schiller
Submissions from 2009
ENV 492 undergraduate research symposium, Scott R. Abella
Post-fire Plant Recovery in the Mojave and Sonoran Desert of Western North America, Scott R. Abella
Progress in strategic research areas, Scott R. Abella
Smoke-Cued Emergence in Plant Species of Ponderosa Pine Forests: Contrasting Greenhouse and Field Results, Scott R. Abella
Synthesis completed of post-fire recovery of native perennials in the Mojave, Sonoran Deserts, Scott R. Abella
Tree canopy types constrain plant distributions in Ponderosa Pine- Gambel Oak Forests, Northern Arizona, Scott R. Abella
Spatial Variation in Reference Conditions: Historical Tree Density and Pattern on a Pinus Ponderosa Landscape, Scott R. Abella and Charles W. Denton
Heat and smoke effects on red brome soil seed banks, Scott R. Abella and E. Cayenne Engel
Early post-fire plant establishment on a Mojave Desert burn, Scott R. Abella, E. Cayenne Engel, Christina L. Lund, and Jessica E. Spencer
Using a Diverse Seed Mix to Establish Native Plants on a Sonoran Desert Burn, Scott R. Abella, John L. Gunn, Mark L. Daniels, Judith D. Springer, and Susan E. Nyoka
A systematic review of species performance and treatment effectiveness for revegetation in the Mojave Desert, USA, Scott R. Abella and Alice C. Newton
Assessing an Exotic Plant Surveying Program in the Mojave Desert, Clark County, Nevada, USA, Scott R. Abella, Jessica E. Spencer, Joshua Hoines, and Carrie Nazarchyk
Planting Trials in Northern Arizona Ponderosa Pine Forests, Scott R. Abella and Judith D. Springer
Structural conservation of a short, functional, peptide-sequence motif, Susan Fox-Erlich, Martin R. Schiller, and Michael R. Gryk
Genus Neptunomonas, Brian P. Hedlund and K. C. Costa
Bacterial Succession within an Ephemeral Hypereutrophic Mojave Desert Playa Lake, Jason B. Navarro, Andrea Flores, Christian Ross, Michael R. Rosen, Hailiang Dong, Gaosen Zhang, Duane P. Moser, and Brian P. Hedlund
Minimotif miner 2nd release: a database and web system for motif search, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Sudha Balla, Patrick R. Gradie, Michael R. Gryk, Krishna Kadaveru, Vamsi Kundeti, Mark W. Maciejewski, Tian Mi, Nicholas Rubino, Jay Vyas, and Martin R. Schiller
Ecophysiological responses of desert plants to elevated CO2: Environmental determinants and case studies, S. D. Smith, D. T. Tissue, Travis E. Huxman, and Michael E. Loik
Stereo-Specific Glucose Consumption May Be Used to Distinguish Between Chemical and Biological Reactivity on Mars: A Preliminary Test on Earth, Henry J. Sun, Vienna R. Saccomanno, Brian P. Hedlund, and Christopher P. McKay
Remote sensing of biological soil crust under simulated climate change manipulations in the Mojave Desert, S. L. Ustin, P. G. Valko, S. C. Kefauver, M. J. Santos, J. F. Zimpfer, and S. D. Smith
VENN, a tool for titrating sequence conservation onto protein structures, Jay Vyas, Michael R. Gryk, and Martin R. Schiller
A proposed syntax for Minimotif Semantics, version 1., Jay Vyas, Ronald J. Nowling, Mark W. Maciejewski, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Michael R. Gryk, and Martin R. Schiller
Submissions from 2008
A Systematic Review of Wild Burro Grazing Effects on Mojave Desert vegetation, USA, Scott R. Abella
A Unique old-growth ponderosa pine forest in northern Arizona, Scott R. Abella
Fire history and forest structural change in the Spring Mountains, Scott R. Abella
Gambel oak growth forms: Management opportunities for increasing ecosystem diversity, Scott R. Abella