Recent publications

2008

Bridge, E. S., J. L. Hylton, M. D. Eaton, L. G. Gamble, C. Jones, and S. J. Schoech. 2008. Cryptic plumage signaling in Aphelocoma scrub-jays. Journal of Ornithology 149: 123-130.

Schoech, S. J., E. S. Bridge, R. K. Boughton, S. J. Reynolds, J. W. Atwell, and R. Bowman. 2008. Food Supplementation: a Tool to Increase Reproductive Output? A Case Study in the Threatened Florida Scrub-Jay. Biological Conservation 141: 162-173. 

Zhao, T., Gu, T., Rice, H.C., McAdams, K.L., Roark, K.M., Lawson, K., Gauthier, S.A., Reagan, K.L., and Hewes, R.S. (2008). A Drosophila gain-of-function screen for candidate genes controlling steroid-dependent neuroendocrine cell remodeling. Genetics 178:883-901. abstract

Hoefnagels, M.  2009.  Biology:  Concepts and Investigations.  McGraw-Hill Corporation.  ISBN 978-0073342528.  (Published January 2008).

Walvoord, M. E, M. H. Hoefnagels, D. D. Gaffin, D. Long, and M. Chumchal.  2008.  An analysis of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) in a science lecture classroom.  Journal of College Science Teaching 37(4): 66-73.

Schwagmeyer, P.L. and D.W. Mock. 2008. Parental provisioning and offspring fitness: size matters.  Animal Behaviour 75:2291-298.

Tobler, M., R. Riesch, F. J. García de León, Schlupp, I. and M. Plath. 2008. Two endemic and endangered fishes Poecilia sulphuraria and Gambusia eurystoma (Poeciliidae, Teleostei), as only survivors in a small sulfidic habitat. Journal of Fish Biology 72: 523-533.

Tobler, M. and I. Schlupp. 2008. Influence of black spot disease on shoaling behaviour in female Western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis (Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Environmental Biology of Fishes 81: 29-34

Plath, M., D. Blum, I. Schlupp and R. Tiedemann. 2008. Audience effect alters mating preferences in a livebearing fish, the Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana). Animal Behaviour 75: 21–29. (This paper was featured in NewScientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn13022 and recommended by the Faculty of 1000, http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1099084).

Franssen C., M. Tobler, R. Riesch, F.J. García de León, R. Tiedemann, I. Schlupp and M. Plath.  in press. Sperm production in an extremophile fish, the cave molly (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Aquatic Ecology. E-pub before print.

Plath M. and I. Schlupp. in press. Parallel evolution leads to reduced shoaling behavior in two cave dwelling populations of Atlantic mollies ( Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Environmental Biology of Fishes. E-pub before print.

Riesch R., I. Schlupp and M. Plath. in press. Female sperm limitation in natural populations of a sexual/asexual mating complex (Poecilia latipinna, Poecilia formosa). Biology Letters. E-pub before print.

Tobler M., I. Schlupp, R. Riesch, F. J. García de León and M. Plath. in press. A new and  morphologically distinct cavernicolous population of Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Environmental Biology of Fishes. E-pub before print.

Chai A, Withers J, Koh YH, Parry K, Bao H, Zhang B, Budnik V, Pennetta G.  2008.  hVAPB, the  causative gene of a heterogeneous group of motor neuron diseases in humans, is functionally interchangeable with its Drosophila homologue DVAP-33A at the neuromuscular junction. Hum Mol Genet. 17(2):266-280.

H. Wang, J. W. Kesinger, Q. Zhou, J. D. Wren, G. Martin, S. Turner, Y. Tang, M. B. Frank and M. Centola. 2008. Identification and characterization of zebrafish ocular formation genes. Genome 51:222-235.

Fincke OM & Hedström, I.  2008. Differential forest use by predatory tree hole damselflies (Pseudostigmatidae): implications for forest conversion. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 43: 35-45.

Schwagmeyer, P. L., Bartlett, T. L. and Schwabl, H.G. 2008.  Dynamics of house sparrow biparental care:  What contexts trigger partial compensation? Ethology 114:459-468.

Yanoviak SP, M Kaspari, R Dudley, G Poinar Jr. (2008) Parasite induced fruit mimicry in a tropical canopy ant. The American Naturalist. 171: 536-544.

Kaspari M, J Wright, J Yavitt, K Harms, M Garcia, M Santana. (2008). Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest Ecology Letters 11: 35-43 

Vaughn, Caryn C., S. Jerrine Nichols and Daniel E. Spooner.  2008.  Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27:409-423.

Galbraith, Heather S., Caryn C. Vaughn and C. Kate Meier. 2008. Environmental variables intearct across spatial scales to structure trichopteran assemblages in Ouachita Mountain rivers. Hydrobiologia 496:401-411.

Galbraith, Heather S., Daniel E. Spooner and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2008. Status of rare and endangered mussels in southeastern Oklahoma rivers. Southwestern Naturalist 53:45-50

Schnell, G. D., M. L. Kennedy, C. Sánchez-Hernández, María de Lourdes Romero-Almaraz, B. D. N. Estevez, J. A. Guerrero, T. L. Best, M. C. Wooten, and R. D. Owen.  2008.  Habitat preference of the endemic tawny deermouse (Peromyscus perfulvus), a species of conservation concern.  Southwestern Naturalist 53:9-20.

Costa, G. C., Colli, G. R., and Constantino, R. 2008. Can lizard richness be driven by termite diversity? Insights from the Brazilian Cerrado. Canadian Journal of Zoology 36 (1) 1–9.

Costa, G. C., Wolfe, C., Shepard, D. B., Caldwell, J. P., and Vitt, L. J. 2008. Detecting the influence of climatic variables on species’ distributions: a test using GIS niche-based models along a steep longitudinal environmental gradient. Journal of Biogeography 35 (4) 637–646.

 Braun, J. K., B. S. Coyner, M. A. Mares, and R. A. Van Den Bussche. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of South American grass mice of the Akodon varius group (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) in South America. Journal of Mammalogy 89:

 Mares, M. A., J. K. Braun, Coyner, B. S., and R. A. Van Den Bussche. 2008. Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of gerbil mice Eligmodontia (Rodentia, Cricetidae) in South America, with a description of a new species. Zootaxa, 1753:1-33.

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