UMBC An Honors University in Maryland
UMBC Biological Sciences
departmental publications
2010

J. E. Gleason, and D. M. Eisenmann (2010) Wnt signaling controls the stem cell-like asymmetric division of the epithelial seam cells during C. elegans larval development. Developmental Biology 348, pages 58-66.

Nordhues A., Miller S.M., Mühlhaus T., Schroda M. (2010) New insights into the roles of molecular chaperones in Chlamydomonas and Volvox. Int. Rev. Cell Mol. Biol. 285:75-113. [Abstract]

Nishii, I., and Miller, S.M. (2010) Volvox: simple steps to developmental complexity? Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 13:1-8. [Abstract]

Wagner, CR, Kuervers, L. Baillie, DL, Yanowitz, JL. 2010. xnd-1 regulates the global recombination landscape in Caenorhabitis elegans. Nature, Oct 14;467(7317):839-43. [Abstract]

Jacobsen, F., Friedman, N. R. and Omland, K. E. 2010. Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA: combination of multiple nuclear introns resolves a well-supported phylogeny of New World orioles (Icterus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56:419-427 [Abstract] [PDF]

Miller, S. M. (2010) Volvox, Chlamydomonas, and the Evolution of Multicellularity. Nature Education 3(9):65 [Text]

Wagner, C. R. (2010) Germ Cells and Epigenetics. Nature Education 3(9):64 [Text]

Welch, G. R. and Clegg, J. S. (2010). Reply to Letter to the Editor: "Systemic cell theory, protoplasmic theory, and their logic of explanation." Amer. J. Physiol. – Cell Physiol. 299: C537.

 Peterson, T.A., Adadey, A., Santana-Cruz ,I., Sun, Y., Winder A, Kann, M.G. (2010) DMDM: Domain Mapping of Disease Mutations. Bioinformatics 26 (19), 2458-2459. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Jayachandran P., Hong E. and Brewster R. (2010). Labeling and imaging cells in the zebrafish hindbrain. J Vis Exp. PMID: 20689510.

Zafar, M.A., I.M. Shah and R.E. Wolf, Jr. 2010. Protein-protein interactions between sigma 70 region 4 of RNA polymerase and Escherichia coli SoxS, a transcription activator that functions by the prerecruitment mechanism: evidence for "off-DNA" and "on-DNA" interactions". J. Mol. Biol. 401:13-32. [Abstract]

Kramer EB, Vallabhaneni H, Mayer LM, Farabaugh PJ. 2010. A comprehensive analysis of translational missense errors in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RNA [Epub ahead of print].
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Ogura T, Krosnowski K, Zhang L, Bekkerman M, Lin W (2010) Chemoreception Regulates Chemical Access to Mouse Vomeronasal Organ: Role of Solitary Chemosensory Cells. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11924 [PDF]

Prochnik SE, Umen J, Nedelcu AM, Hallmann A, Miller SM, Nishii I, Ferris P, Kuo A, Mitros T, Fritz-Laylin LK, Hellsten U, Chapman J, Simakov O, Rensing SA, Terry A, Pangilinan J, Kapitonov V, Jurka J, Salamov A, Shapiro H, Schmutz J, Grimwood J, Lindquist E, Lucas S, Grigoriev IV, Schmitt R, Kirk D, Rokhsar DS. (2010) Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri. Science 329(5988):223-6. [Abstract]

De Luca, M., Klimentidis, Y.C., Casazza, K., Chambers, M.M., Cho, R., Harbison, S.T., Jumbo-Lucioni, P., Zhang, S., Leips, J., Fernandez, J.R. 2010. A conserved role for syndecan family members in the regulation of whole-body energy metabolism.  PLoS One. 2010 Jun 23;5(6):e11286. [Abstract]

Carroll, HD, Kann, MG, Sheetlin, SL & Spouge, JL. (2010) Threshold Average Precision (TAP-k): A Measure of Retrieval Designed for Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics 26 (14), 1708-1713. [Abstract] [PDF]

Schreier H. J., K. Saito and N. Mirzoyan. (2010) Microbial diversity of biological filters in recirculating aquaculture systems. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 21:318-325. [Abstract]

Welch, G. R. and Clegg, J. S. (2010). From protoplasmic theory to cellular systems biology: A 150-year reflection. Amer. J. Physiol. – Cell Physiol. 298: C1280–C1290 [The inaugural article in the journal's new "Historical Perspective" section].

Bhargava, N; Erill, I. "xFITOM: a generic GUI tool to search for transcription factor binding sites", Bioinformation. 01/2010; 5(2):49-51. [Abstract] [PDF]

Fox, J. M; Erill, I. "Relative Codon Adaptation: A Generic Codon Bias Index for Prediction of Gene Expression", DNA Research, doi:10.1093/dnares/dsq012 [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Dakshinamurthy A, Nyswaner KM, Farabaugh PJ, Garfinkel DJ. BUD22 affects Ty1 retrotransposition and ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2010 [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF]

Jumbo-Lucioni, P., Ayroles, J.F., Moses Chambers, M.,  Jordan, K.W., Leips, J., Mackay, T.F.C, and De Luca, M. 2010. Systems genetics analysis of body weight and energy metabolism traits in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Genomics, 11:297

T.W. Cronin. 2010. Polarized-light vision in land and aquatic animals. Encyclopedia of the Eye, vol. 3 (Darlene A. Dartt, editor). Oxford: Academic Press, pp. 461-468.

Mort, M., Evani, U.S., Krishnan, V.G., Kamati, K.K., Baenziger, P.H., Bagchi, A., Peters, B.J., Sathyesh, R., Li, B., Sun, Y., Xue, B., Shah, N.H., Kann, M.G., Cooper, D.N., Radivojac, P. & Mooney, S.D. (2010)  In silico functional profiling of human disease-associated and polymorphic amino acid substitutions. Hum Mutat 31, 335-346. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Slotnick B, Restrepo D, Schellinck H, Archbold G, Price S, Lin W. (2010) Accessory olfactory bulb function is modulated by input from the main olfactory epithelium.  Eur J Neurosci. 31(6):1108-16. [Abstract] [PDF]

T.W. Cronin, M.L. Porter, M.J. Bok, J.B. Wolf, and P.R. Robinson.  2010.  The molecular genetics and evolution of colour and polarization vision in stomatopod crustaceans.   Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 30: 460-469. [Abstract]

A.B. Lall, M.V.A. Järvilehto, T.W. Cronin, A.A. Carvalho, J.M. de Souza, M.P. Barros, C.V. Stevani, E.J.H. Bechara, D.F. Ventura, V.R. Viviani, and A.A. Hill. 2010. Vision in click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): Pigments and spectral correspondence between visual sensitivity and species bioluminescence emission.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 196: 629-638. [PDF]

Cho, I., Horn, L., Felix, T.M., Foster, L., Gregory, G., Starz-Gaiano, M., Chambers, M.M., De Luca, M., and Leips, J.  2010.  Age- and diet-specific effects of variation at S6 kinase on life history, metabolic and immune response traits in Drosophila melanogaster.  DNA and Cell Biology, 29:473-485. [Abstract]

Harrington MJ, Chalasani K, Brewster R. (2010). Cellular mechanisms of posterior neural tube morphogenesis in the zebrafish. Dev Dyn., 239(3):747-62. [Text]

Hong E., Jayachandran P. and Brewster R. (2010). The polarity protein pard3 is required for centrosome positioning during neurulation. Dev Biol., 341(2):335-45.

Alkan, C., Brudno, M., Eichler, E.E., Kann, M.G. & Sahinalp, S.C. (2010) PERSONAL GENOMICS - Session Introduction. Pac Symp Biocomput 15, 302-304. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

Kann, M.G. (2010)  Advances in translational bioinformatics: computational approaches for the hunting of disease genes. Briefings in bioinformatics 11, 96-110. [Abstract] [Text] [PDF]

B.E. Dalton, T.W. Cronin, N.J. Marshall, and K. Carleton. 2010. The fish eye view: Are cichlids conspicuous? Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 2243-2255. [PDF]

O'Rourke, C.F. and Mendelson, T.C. 2010. Male and female preference for conspecifics in a fish with male parental care. Behavioural Processes 85:157-162.