UMBC An Honors University in Maryland
UMBC Biological Sciences
departmental publications
2009

Leips, J., Richardson, J.M.L., Rodd, F.H., and Travis, J.  2009.  Adaptive maternal adjustments of offspring size in response to conspecific density in two populations of the least killifish, Heterandria formosa. Evolution 63:1341-1347. [Abstract]

Caruso, Steven M., Sandoz, James, and Kelsey, Jessica. 2009. Non-STEM Undergraduates Become Enthusiastic Phage-Hunters. CBE Life Sci Educ 8(4): 278-282 [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Friedman, N. R., Hofmann, C. M., Kondo, B. and Omland, K. E. 2009 Correlated evolution of migration and sexual dichromatism in New World orioles (Icterus). Evolution 63:3269-3274. [Abstract] [PDF]

KD Feller, S Langerholm, R. Clubwala, MT Silver, D. Haughey, JM Ryan, ER Loew, ME Deutschlander, & KL Kenyon. 2009 Characterizaiton of Photoreceptor cell types in the little brown bat Myotis lucifugus (Vespertilionidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 154(4):412-418 [Abstract]

Srivastava MK, Sinha P, Clements VK, Rodriguez P, and Ostrand-Rosenberg S. Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells Inhibit T Cell Activation by Depleting Cystine and Cysteine. Cancer Research 2010; 70: 68-77. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Harrington MJ, Hong E, Brewster R. (2009). Comparative analysis of neurulation: first impressions do not count.  Mol Reprod Dev., 76(10):954-65. [Abstract]

Humphries, E. M.*, Peters, J. L., Jónsson, J., Stone, R., Afton, A. D. and Omland, K. E. 2009. Genetic differentiation between sympatric and allopatric wintering populations of snow geese. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 121:730-738. [*Resulted from her undergraduate research.] [Abstract] [PDF]

Pappas, V. and Miller, S.M. (2009) Functional analysis of the asymmetric division protein GlsA. Mech. Dev. 126:842-51. [Abstract]

Kiere, L. M., Hofmann, C. M., Cronin, T. W., Price, J. J., and Omland, K. E. 2009. Evolution of carotenoid coloration in avian plumage: reconstructing discrete color changes in caciques (Icteridae). Journal of Avian Biology 40:605-613 [Abstract] [PDF]

Lemgruber L. Kloetzel JA, de Souza W, and Vommaro RC. Toxoplasma gondii:  further studies on the subpellicular network. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 2009 104:706-709.

Starz-Gaiano M, Melani M, Meinhardt H, Montell D. Interpretation of the UPD/JAK/STAT morphogen gradient in Drosophila follicle cells. Cell Cycle 2009 Sep 15;8(18):2917-25. [Abstract]

N.W. Roberts, T.-H. Chiou, N.J. Marshall, and T.W. Cronin. 2009. A biological quarter-wave retarder with excellent achromaticity in the visible wavelength region. Nature Photonics 3, 641-644. [PDF]

Hessheimer, A. J; Parramon, D; Guimera, A; Erill, I; Rimola, A; Garcia-Valdecasas, J. C; Villa, R; Fondevila, C. “A rapid and reliable means of assessing hepatic steatosis in vivo via electrical bioimpedance”, Transplantation, 88(5), 716-722, (2009). [Abstract] [PDF]

Sturge, R. J., Jacobsen, F., Rosensteel, B. B., Neale, R. J. and Omland, K. E. 2009 Colonization of South America from Caribbean islands confirmed by molecular phylogeny with increased taxon sampling. Condor 111: 575-579 [Abstract] [PDF]

Hua Lu  (2009) Dissection of salicylic acid-mediated defense signaling networks. Plant Signaling & Behavior . (Review) [Abstract]

A.G. Cheroske,T.W. Cronin, M.K. Durham and R.L. Caldwell. 2009. Adaptive signalling behaviour in stomatopods under varying light conditions.   Marine & Freshwater Behaviour & Physiology 42:219-232. [PDF]

M.L. Porter, M. Bok, P.R. Robinson, and T.W. Cronin. 2009. Molecular diversity of visual pigments in Stomatopoda (Crustacea). Visual Neuroscience 26: 255-266. [PDF]

Lindahl L, A. Bommankanti, X. Li, L. Hayden, A. Jones, M. Khan,T. Oni, and J.M. Zengel 2009. RNase MRP is required for entry of 35S precursor rRNA into the canonical processing pathway. RNA, 15:1407-1416 [Abstract] [PDF]

Murphy, T, Hernández-Muciño, D., Osorio-Beristain, M., Montgomerie, R., Omland, K. E. 2009. Carotenoid-based status signaling by females in the tropical streak-backed oriole. Behavioral Ecology 20:1000-1006. [Abstract] [PDF]

Joseph, L., Adcock, G. J., Linde, C., Omland, K. E., Heinsohn, R. and Roshier, D. 2009. A tangled, rampantly paraphyletic tale of two teal: population history of the Grey and Chestnut Teal of Australia. Journal of Avian Biology. 40:430-439. [Abstract] [PDF]

Vallabhaneni H, Farabaugh PJ.  Accuracy modulating mutations of the ribosomal protein S4-S5 interface do not necessarily destabilize the rps4-rps5 protein-protein interaction. RNA. 2009 15:1100-1109. [Abstract] [PDF]

Price, J. J., Lanyon, S. M. and Omland, K. E. 2009. Losses of female song with changes from tropical to temperate breeding in the New World blackbirds. Proceedings Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences. 276: 1971-1980 [Abstract] [PDF]

C.M. Hofmann, K.E. O’Quin, N.J. Marshall, T.W. Cronin, O. Seehausen, and K.L. Carleton. 2009. The eyes have it: regulatory and structural changes both underlie cichlid visual pigment diversity. PLoS Biology 7:1-13. [PDF]

T.M. Frank, M. Porter, and T.W. Cronin. 2009. Spectral sensitivity, visual pigments and screening pigments in two life history stages of the ontogenetic migrator Gnathophausia ingens.  Journal of Marine Biology of the U.K. 89:119-129. [Abstract]

Bunt SK, Clements VK, Hanson EM, Sinha P, Ostrand-Rosenberg S. Inflammation Enhances Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cell Cross-talk By Signaling Through Toll-like Receptor 4. J Leukoc Biol. 2009; 85: 996-1004. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Hanson EM, Clements VK, Sinha P, Ilkovitch D, and Ostrand-Rosenberg S. Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells Down-regulate L-Selectin Expression on CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells. J Immunology 2009; 183: 937-944. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Welch, G. R. (2009). Physiology, physiomics, and biophysics: A matter of words. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 100: 4-17.

Vallabhaneni H, Fan-Minogue H, Bedwell DM, Farabaugh PJ. Connection between stop codon reassignment and frequent use of shifty stop frameshifting. RNA 2009 15:889-897. [Abstract] [PDF]

Guerin, E.; Cambray, G.; Sanchez-Alberola, N.; Campoy, S.; Erill, I.; Da Re, S.; Gonzalez-Zorn, B.; Barbe, J.; Ploy, M.-C.; Mazel, D. The SOS Response Controls Integron Recombination (2009) Science, 324, 1034. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Ikenaga T, Ogura T, Finger E.  Vagal Gustatory Reflex Circuits for Intraoral Food Sorting Behavior in the Goldfish: Cellular Organization and Neurotransmitters. J Comp Neurol, (2009) 516:213–225. [Abstract]

Hua Lu, Sasan Salimian, Emily Gamelin, Guoying Wang, Jennifer Fedorowski, William LaCourse, Jean T. Greenberg (2009) Genetic analysis of acd6-1 reveals complex defense networks and leads to identification of novel defense genes in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 58(3): 401-12 [Abstract]

Leips, J. Invertebrate models of immunosenescence. 2009. In Handbook on Immunosenescence: basic understanding and clinical applications. G. Pawelec, C. Franceschi, K. Hirokawa and T. Fulop, eds. Springer. Pp. 87-106.

Ostrand-Rosenberg S and Sinha P. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells: Linking inflammation and cancer. J Immunol. 2009 Apr 15; 182(8): 4499-506. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Griffith, K.L., M.M. Fitzpatrick and R.E. Wolf, Jr. 2009. Two functions of the C-terminal domain of Escherichia coli Rob: mediating "sequestration-dispersal" as a novel off-on switch for regulating Rob's activity as a transcription activator and preventing degradation of Rob by Lon protease. J. Mol. Biol. 388:415-430. [Abstract]

Dowling, J. L. and Omland, K. E. 2009. Return rates in two temperate breeding orioles (Icterus). Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 121: 190-193. [undergraduate 1st author] [Abstract] [PDF]

Erill, I; O'Neill, M.C. A reexamination of information theory-based methods for DNA-binding site identification. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Feb 11;10(1):57. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Kann, M. G., Shoemaker, B. A., Panchenko, A. R. & Przytycka, T. M. (2009). Correlated evolution of interacting proteins: looking behind the mirrortree. J Mol Biol 385, 91-8.

Vasquez-Miranda, H., Navarro-Sigüenza, A. G. and Omland, K. E. 2009. Phylogeography of the Rufous-naped Wren (Campylorhynchus rufinucha): speciation and hybridization in Mesoamerica. Auk. 126:765-778. [Abstract] [PDF]

Joseph, L. and Omland, K. E. 2009. Phylogeography: its development and impact in Australo-Papuan ornithology with special reference to paraphyly in Australian birds. Emu 109: 1-23 [Abstract] [PDF]

Tal, Y., H. J. Schreier, K. R. Sowers , J. D. Stubblefield, A. R. Place and Y. Zohar.  (2009) Environmentally sustainable, fully contained, land-based marine aquaculture.  Aquaculture 286: 28-35. [Abstract]

Venditti, JJ, Mendelson, TC, Bean, BS. 2009. Fucosidases of sperm and milt in darters (Percidae: Etheostomatini). The Open Reproductive Science Journal 2:1-7.

Soha, J.A., Lohr, B., & Gill, D.E. 2009. Song development in the grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum. Animal Behaviour 77: 1479-1489.

Welch, G. R. (2009). The "fuzzy" interactome. Trends Biochem. Sci. 34: 1-2.