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Recent Publications

Welch, G. R., Physiology: A Biography of Nature. Peter Lang Academic Publisher, Bern, Switzerland, under contract.

Omland, K. E.  2012.  Tree thinking: understanding and interpreting phylogenetic trees.  Invited chapter  in J. B. Losos (ed)  Princeton Guide to Evolution (in press)

Taliaferro, L.P.*, Keen*  III, E.F., Alberola-Sanchez, N. & Wolf, R.E. 2012. Transcription activation by Escherichia coli Rob at class II promoters: protein-protein interactions between Rob's  N-terminal domain and the sigma 70 subunit of RNA polymerase. J. Mol. Biol. 419:139-157. doi:10.1016/j. jmb.2012.03.019.  *These authors contributed equally to this work. [Abstract] [Text]

Krosnowski K, Ashby S, Sathyanesan A, Luo W, Ogura T, Lin W.  Diverse populations of intrinsic cholinergic interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb.  Neuroscience.  2012 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print].

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Peterson, TA, Nehrt, NL, Park, D & Kann, MG. (2012) Incorporating molecular and functional context into the analysis and prioritization of human variants associated with cancer. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 19, 275-283. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Regan, K, Wang, K, Doughty, E, Li, H, Li, J, Lee, Y, Kann, MG & Lussier, YA. (2012) Translating Mendelian and complex inheritance of Alzheimer's disease genes for predicting unique personal genome variants. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 19, 306-316 [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Sanchez-Alberola, N; Campoy, S; Barbé, J; Erill, I. “Analysis of the SOS response of Vibrio and other bacteria with multiple chromosomes”, BMC Genomics, 13:58, (2012). [Abstract] [PDF]

Sathyanesan A, Ogura T, Lin W. 2012. Automated measurement of nerve fiber density using line intensity scan analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 206 (2012) 165-175

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Gumm, J. M., Loew, E. R. & Mendelson, T. C. 2012. Differences in spectral sensitivity within and among species of darters (genus Etheostoma). Vision Research. 55, 19-23.

Capriotti, E, Nehrt, NL, Kann, MG & Bromberg, Y. (2012) Bioinformatics for personal genome interpretation. Briefings in bioinformatics. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Welch, G. R., Talasek, J. D., and Finneran, K., editors. Visual Culture and Evolution, U. S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., in press. [Proceedings of an online symposium held 5-14 April 2010, sponsored by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences].

Kearns, A. M., Joseph, L., Omland, K. E. and Cook, L. G. 2011. Testing the effect of transient Plio-Pleistocene barriers in monsoonal Australo-Papua: did mangrove habitats maintain genetic connectivity in the Black Butcherbird? Molecular Ecology 20: 5042-5059. [Abstract]

Gina Ng*, Savanna Seabolt*, Chong Zhang, Sasan Salimian, Timley A. Watkins, Hua Lu (2011)  Genetic dissection of salicylic acid-mediated defense signaling networks in Arabidopsis. Genetics 189(3): 851-9.

* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Jacobsen, F. and Omland, K. E. 2011. Species tree inference in a recent radiation of orioles (genus Icterus): multiple markers and methods reveal cytonuclear discordance in the northern oriole group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 460-469. [Abstract]

Martin, MD, & Omland, KE. 2011. Environmental niche modeling reveals climatic differences among breeding ranges of Orchard Oriole subspecies. American Midland Naturalist: 166, 404-414. [Abstract] [PDF]