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Ahn YJ, Zimmerman JL.
  Introduction of the carrot HSP17.7 into potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) enhances cellular membrane stability and tuberization in vitro. Plant Cell Environ. 2006 29:95-104. [Abstract] [PDF]
Albers PH, Klein PN, Green DE, Melancon MJ, Bradley BP, Noguchi G.
  Chlorfenapyr and mallard ducks: overview, study design, macroscopic effects, and analytical chemistry. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2006 25:438-45. [Abstract]
Ascano M, Robinson PR
  Differential phosphorylation of the rhodopsin cytoplasmic tail mediates the binding of arrestin and its splice variant, p44. Biochemistry. 2006 45:2398-2407. [Abstract]
Baker JM, Omland KE.
 

Canary Island ravens (Corvus corax tingitanus) have distinct mtDNA. Ibis. 2006 148: 174-178. [Fulltext] [PDF]

Bethel CR, Faith D, Li X, Guan B, Hicks JL, Lan F, Jenkins RB, Bieberich CJ, De Marzo AM.
 

Decreased NKX3.1 protein expression in focal prostatic atrophy, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, and adenocarcinoma: association with Gleason score and chromosome 8p deletion. Cancer Res. 2006 66:10683-10690. [Abstract] [PDF]

Bulka B, Desjardins M, Freeland SJ.
 

An interactive visualization tool to explore the biophysical properties of amino acids and their contribution to substitution matrices. BMC Bioinformatics. 2006 7:329. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Bunt SK, Sinha P, Clements VK, Leips J, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.
  Inflammation induces myeloid-derived suppressor cells that facilitate tumor progression. J Immunol. 2006 176:284-90. [Abstract] [PDF]
Carbone MA, Jordan KW, Lyman RF, Harbison ST, Leips J, Morgan TJ, Deluca M, Awadalla P, Mackay TF.
  Phenotypic variation and natural selection at catsup, a pleiotropic quantitative trait gene in Drosophila. Curr Biol. 2006 16:912-919. [Abstract] [Journal]
Cheng Q, Balzer E, Yoshida M, Wong JC, Miller SM.
  Effect of histone deactylase inhibitors on tubulin acetylation and development in Volvox carteri. J. Phycol. 2006 42:417-422. [Abstract] [PDF]
Cheng Q, Hallmann A, Edwards L, Miller SM.
  Characterization of a heat-shock-inducible hsp70 gene of the green alga Volvox carteri. Gene. 2006 371:112-120 [Abstract]
Cronin TW.
  Stomatopods. Curr Biol. 2006 16:R235-236. [Journal] [Fulltext]
Cronin TW, Warrant EJ, Greiner B.
 

Celestial polarization patterns during twilight. Appl Opt. 2006 45:5582-5589. [Abstract] [PDF]

Dai B, Kim O, Xie Y, Guo Z, Xu K, Wang B, Kong X, Melamed J, Chen H, Bieberich CJ, Borowsky AD, Kung HJ, Wei G, Ostrowski MC, Brodie A, Qiu Y.
 

Tyrosine kinase Etk/BMX Is up-regulated in human prostate cancer and its overexpression induces prostate intraepithelial neoplasia in mouse. Cancer Res. 2006 66:8058-8064. [Abstract] [PDF]

Dolan BP, Gibbs KD Jr, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.
  Tumor-specific CD4+ T cells are activated by "cross-dressed" dendritic cells presenting peptide-MHC Class II complexes acquired from cell-based cancer vaccines. J Immunol. 2006 176:1447-1455. [Abstract] [PDF]
Dolan BP, Gibbs KD Jr, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.
  Dendritic Cells Cross-Dressed with Peptide MHC Class I Complexes Prime CD8+ T Cells. J Immunol. 2006 177:6018-6024. [Abstract] [PDF]
Duncan L, Nishii I, Howard A, Kirk D, Miller SM.
  Orthologs and paralogs of regA, a master cell-type regulatory gene in Volvox carteri. Curr Genet. 2006 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [Journal]
Farabaugh PJ, Kramer E, Vallabhaneni H, Raman A
 

Evolution of +1 programmed frameshifting signals and frameshift-regulating tRNAs in the order Saccharomycetales. J Mol Evol. 2006 63:545-561. [Abstract] [PDF]

Gleason JE, Szyleyko EA, Eisenmann DM.
 

Multiple redundant Wnt signaling components function in two processes during C. elegans vulval development. Dev Biol. 2006 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [Fulltext]

Hofmann CM, Cronin TW, Omland KE.
 

Using spectral data to reconstruct evolutionary changes in coloration: carotenoid color evolution in New World orioles. Evolution Int J Org Evolution. 2006 60:1680-1691. [Abstract] [PDF]

Hong E, Brewster R
 

N-cadherin is required for the polarized cell behaviors that drive neurulation in the zebrafish. Development. 2006. [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF]

Hughes KA, Leips J.
 

Quantitative trait locus analysis of male mating success and sperm competition in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution Int J Org Evolution. 2006 60:1427-1434. [Abstract] [PDF]

Leips J, Gilligan P, Mackay TF.
 

Quantitative trait loci with age-specific effects on fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 2006 172:1595-605. [Abstract] [PDF]

Lesser KJ, Paiusi IC, Leips J.
 

Naturally occurring genetic variation in the age-specific immune response of Drosophila melanogaster. Aging Cell. 2006 5:293-295. [Abstract] [PDF]

Li X, Guan B, Maghami S, Bieberich CJ.
  NKX3.1 is regulated by protein kinase CK2 in prostate tumor cells. Mol Cell Biol. 2006 26:3008-3017. [Abstract] [PDF]
Lodato PB, Rogers EJ, Lovett PS.
  A variation of the translation attenuation model can explain the inducible regulation of the pBC16 tetracycline resistance gene in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol. 2006 188:4749-58. [Abstract] [PDF]
Newman LA, Robinson PR.
  The visual pigments of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). Vision Res. 2006. [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [Journal]
Nickle B, Wilkie SE, Cowing JA, Hunt DM, Robinson PR.
  Vertebrate opsins belonging to different classes vary in constitutively active properties resulting from salt-bridge mutations. Biochemistry. 2006 45:7307-7313.[Abstract] [PDF]
Nie L., Wu G, Zhang W.
  Correlation between mRNA and protein abundance in Desulfovibrio vulgaris: a multiple regression to identify sources of variations. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 339: 603-610. [Abstract] [Fulltext]
Nie L, Wu G, Zhang W.
  Correlation of mRNA expression and protein abundance affected by multiple sequence features related to translational efficiency in Desulfovibrio vulgaris: A quantitative analysis. Genetics. 2006 174: 2229-2243. [Abstract] [PDF]
Nie L, Wu G, Brockman FJ, Zhang W.
  Integrated analysis of transcriptomic and proteomic data of Desulfovibrio vulgaris: zero-inflated Poisson regression models to predict abundance of undetected proteins. Bioinformatics. 2006 22:1641-1647. [Abstract] [PDF]
Omland KE, Baker JM, Peters JL.
  Genetic signatures of intermediate divergence: population history of Old and New World Holarctic ravens (Corvus corax). Mol Ecol. 2006 15:795-808. [Abstract] [PDF]
Omland KE, Hofmann CM.
 

Adding color to the past: ancestral state reconstruction of bird coloration. In Bird Coloration Volume 2: Function and Evolution. (Hill GE, McGraw KE, eds., Harvard University Press). 2006 pp. 417-454.

Omland KE, Kondo B.
 

Phylogenetic studies of plumage evolution and speciation in New World Orioles (Icterus). Acta Zoologica Sinica. 2006 52(supl):320-326. [Abstract] [PDF]

Porter ML, Cronin TW, McClellan DA, Crandall KA.  
 

Molecular characterization of crustacean visual pigments and the evolution of pancrustacean opsins. Mol Biol Evol. 2006 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF]

Raman A, Guarraia C, Taliaferro D, Stahl G, Farabaugh PJ.
  An mRNA sequence derived from a programmed frameshifting signal decreases codon discrimination during translation initiation. RNA. 2006 12:1154-1160. [Abstract] [PDF]
Salas-Marco J, Fan-Minogue H, Kallmeyer AK, Klobutcher LA, Farabaugh PJ, Bedwell DM.
  Distinct paths to stop codon reassignment by the variant-code organisms Tetrahymena and Euplotes. Mol Cell Biol. 2006 26:438-47.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
Shah IM, Wolf RE Jr.
  Inhibition of Lon-dependent degradation of the Escherichia coli transcription activator SoxS by interaction with 'soxbox' DNA or RNA polymerase. Mol Microbiol. 2006 60:199-208. [Abstract] [PDF]
Shah IM, Wolf RE Jr.
  Sequence requirements for Lon-dependent degradation of the Escherichia coli transcription activator SoxS: identification of the SoxS residues critical to proteolysis and specific inhibition of in vitro degradation by a peptide comprised of the N-terminal 21 amino acid residues. J Mol Biol. 2006. 357:718-731. [Abstract] [Journal]
Spady TC, Parry JW, Robinson PR, Hunt DM, Bowmaker JK, Carleton KL.
 

Evolution of the cichlid visual palette through ontogenetic subfunctionalization of the opsin gene arrays. Mol Biol Evol. 2006. [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF]

Tal Y, Watts JEM, Schreier HJ.
  Anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (Anammox) bacteria and related activity in fixed-film biofilters of a marine recirculating aquaculture system. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006 72:2896-2904. [Abstract] [PDF]
Thompson JA, Dissanayake SK, Ksander BR, Knutson KL, Disis ML, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.
  Tumor cells transduced with the MHC Class II transactivator and CD80 activate tumor-specific CD4+ T cells whether or not they are silenced for invariant chain. Cancer Res. 2006 66:1147-1154. [Abstract] [PDF]
van Rijn J, Tal Y, Schreier HJ.
  Denitrification in recirculating systems: Theory and applications. 2006 Aquacultural Engineering 34: 364-376. [Abstract]
Wagmaister JA, Gleason JE, Eisenmann DM.
  Transcriptional upregulation of the C. elegans Hox gene lin-39 during vulval cell fate specification. Mech Dev. 2006 123:135-50. [Abstract]
Wagmaister JA, Miley GR, Morris CA, Gleason JE, Miller LM, Kornfeld K, Eisenmann DM.
 

Identification of cis-regulatory elements from the C. elegans Hox gene lin-39 required for embryonic expression and for regulation by the transcription factors LIN-1, LIN-31 and LIN-39.Dev Biol. 2006 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [Fulltext]

Weidhaas JB, Eisenmann DM, Holub JM, Nallur SV.
 

A Caenorhabditis elegans tissue model of radiation-induced reproductive cell death.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 103:9946-9951. [Abstract] [PDF]

Wu G, Nie L, Zhang W.
 

Predicted highly expressed genes in Nocardia farcinica and the implication to its primary metabolism and nocardial virulence. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 2006 89: 135-146. [Abstract] [PDF]

Wu G, Nie L, Zhang W.
 

Relation between mRNA expression and sequence information in Desulfovibrio vulgaris: Combinatorial contributions of upstream regulatory motifs and coding sequence features to variations in mRNA abundance. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 344, 114-21. [Abstract] [Fulltext]

Wu G, Wolf JB, Ibrahim AF, Vadasz S, Gunasinghe M, Freeland SJ.
  Simplified gene synthesis: A one-step approach to PCR-based gene construction. J Biotechnol. 2006 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [Journal]
Zhang W, Culley D, Wu G, Brockman F.
 

Two-component signal transduction systems of desulfovibrio vulgaris: structural and phylogenetic analysis and deduction of putative cognate pairs. J Mol Evol. 2006 62: 473-487. [Abstract] [PDF]