Publications

Journal publications from Department of Biology laboratories on which UNC undergraduates are co-authors are listed below in reverse chronological order. Undergraduates’ names are highlighted in red. PIs’  names and journal titles are highlighted in black.

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2012

Roh-Johnson M. , Shemer G., Higgins CD., McClellan JH., Werts AD., Tulu US., GaoL., Betzig E., Kiehart DP., Goldstein B. 2012. Triggering a cell shape change by exploiting pre-existing actomyosin contractions. Science 335: 1232-35

2011

Buckley LB and Foushee MS. 2011.Footprints of climate change in US national park visitation. International Journal of Biometeorology

Pfennig, K. S. and A. B. Stewart. 2011. Asymmetric reproductive character displacement in male aggregation behavior. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 278:2348-2354.

Gruhn, JA., and P.S. White.  2011.  Magnolia grandiflora L. range expansion: a case study of a North Carolina Piedmont forest.  Southeastern Naturalist 10 (2): 275-288.

Hashemi P, Dankoski EC, Wood KM, Ambrose RE, Wightman RM. 2011. In vivo electrochemical evidence for simultaneous 5-HT and histamine release in the rat substantia nigra pars reticulata following medial forebrain bundle stimulation. J Neurochem. Sep;118(5):749-59.

Bruno, J.F., S.P. Ellner, I. Vu, K. Kim, and C.D. Harvell. 2011. Impacts of aspergillosis on sea fan coral demography: modeling a moving target. Ecological Monographs 81: 123-139

 Lee CY, Bautch VL. (2011). Ups and downs of guided vessel sprouting: the role of polarity.  Physiology (Bethesda) 26:326-33.

Randhawa PK, Rylova S, Heinz JY, Kiser S, Fried JH, Dunworth WP, Anderson AL, Barber AT, Chappell JC, Roberts DM, Bautch VL.(2011). The Ras activator RasGRP3 mediates diabetes-induced embryonic defects and affects endothelial cell migration.  Circ Res. 108:1199-208.

Roberts,D.M., Pronobis, M.I., Poulton, J.S., Waldmann, J.D., Stephenson, E.M., Hanna, S., and Peifer, M. (2011). Deconstructing the ßcatenin destruction complex: mechanistic roles for the tumor suppressor APC in regulating Wnt signaling. Molecular Biology of the Cell 22:1845-63.

Ezzeddine N, Chen J, Waltenspiel B, Burch BD, Albrecht T, Zhuo M, Warren WD, Marzluff WF, Wagner EJ. (2011) A subset of drosophila integrator proteins is essential for efficient U7 snRNA and spliceosomal snRNA 3′-end formation. Mol.Cell Biol. 31: 328-341.

Yang XC, Xu B, Sabath I, Kunduru L, Burch BD, Marzluff WF, Dominski Z. (2011) FLASH is required for the endonucleolytic cleavage of histone pre-mRNAs but is dispensable for the 5′ exonucleolytic degradation of the downstream cleavage product. Mol.Cell Biol. 31: 1492-1502..

Currie, J.D., Stewman, S., Schimizzi, G., Slep, K.C., Ma, A., Rogers, S.L. 2011. The microtubule lattice and plus-end association of Drosophila Mini spindles is spatially regulated to fine-tune microtubule dynamics Molecular Biology of the Cell, in press.

Mukhtar, MS, A-R Carvunis, M Dreze, P Epple, J Steinbrenner, J Moore, M Tasan, M Galli, T Hao, MT Nishimura, SJ. Pevzner, SE Donovan, L Ghamsari, B Santhanam, V Romero, MM Poulin, F Gebreab, BJ Gutierrez, S Tam, D Monachello, M Boxem, CJ. Harbort, N McDonald, L Gai, H Chen, Y He, EU Effectoromics Consortium, J Vandenhaute, FP Roth, DE Hill, JR Ecker, M Vidal*, J Beynon*, P Braun* and JL Dangl* (2011) Independently evolved virulence effectors converge onto hubs in a plant immune system network. Science 333, 596-601

Bonardi, V, S Tang, A Stallmann, M Roberts, K Cherkis and JL Dangl (2011) Expanded functions for a family of plant intracellular immune receptors beyond specific recognition of pathogen effectors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA. 108, 16463-1646.

Graham EB, Caro SP, Sockman KW. 2011. Change in offspring sex ratio over a very short season in Lincoln’s sparrows: the potential role of bill development. J Field Ornithol 82:44-51

Freer, S.M., Lau, D.C., Pearson, J.C., Talsky, K.B. and Crews, S.T. (2011). Molecular and functional analysis of Drosophila single-minded larval central brain expression. Gene Expr. Patterns 11, 533-546.

Sawyer, J.M., S. Glass, T. Li, G. Shemer, N.D. White, N.G. Starostina, E.T. Kipreos, C.D. Jones, and B. Goldstein (2011). Overcoming Redundancy: an RNAi Enhancer Screen for Morphogenesis Genes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 188:549-564.

2010

Moran, E. R., P.L. Reynolds, L.M. Ladwig, M.I. O’Connor, Z.T. Long, and J.F. Bruno. 2010. Predation intensity is negatively related to plant species richness in a benthic marine community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 400:277-282

Schutte, V.G.W., E.R. Selig and J.F. Bruno. 2010. Regional spatio-temporal trends in Caribbean coral reef benthic communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 402: 115-122

Taylor SM, Nevis KR, Park HL, Rogers GC, Rogers SL, Cook JG, Bautch VL. (2010). Angiogenic factor signaling regulates centrosome duplication in endothelial cells of developing blood vessels.  Blood 116:3108-17.

Characterization of the Plasticity-Related Gene, Arc, in the Frog Brain. Mangiamele LA, Thomson CJ,. Lebonville CL, Burmeister SS. 2010. Developmental Neurobiology 70: 813–825

Uncovering chromatin’s contribution to the mitotic spindle: Applications of computational and polymer models. 2010. Larson ME, Harrison BD, Bloom K. Biochimie. Dec;92(12):1741-8.

Cronin, J.P., M.E. Welsh, M.G. Dekkers, S.T. Abercrombie, C.E. Mitchell, 2010. Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential . Ecology Letters 13(10): 1221–1232 .

 Fabiszewski, AM. , J. Umbanhowar, C.E. Mitchell, 2010. Modeling landscape-scale pathogen spillover between domesticated and wild hosts: Asian soybean rust and kudzu. Ecological Applications 20(2):582-592 .

Schimizzi, G.V., Currie, J.D., Rogers, S.L. (2010).Expression levels of a kinesin-13 microtubule depolymerase modulates the effectiveness of anti-microtubule agents. PLOS One. 5:e11381

Applewhite, D.A., Grode, K.D., Keller, D., Zadeh, A., Slep, K.C., Rogers, S.L. (2010).The spectraplakin Short stop is an actin-microtubule crosslinker that contribues to organization of the microtubule network. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21: 1714-24

Hedrick, T. L. & Robinson, A. K. Within-wingbeat damping: dynamics of continuous free-flight yaw turns in Manduca sexta. 2010. Biology Letters, , 6

Coll, NS, D Vercammen, A Smidler, C Clover, F van Breusegem, JL Dangl* and P Epple* (2010) Arabidopsis type I metacaspases control cell death. Science 330, 1393-1397.

2009

Ercan S, Dick LL, and Lieb JD. 2009. The C. elegans dosage compensation complex propagates dynamically and independently of X-chromosome sequence. Current Biology  17;19(21):1777-87.

Faddah DA, Ganko EW, McCoach C, Pickrell JK, Hanlon SE, Mann FG, Mieczkowska JO, Lieb JD*, and Vision TJ* 2009. Systematic identification of balanced translocation polymorphisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics  Jun;5(6):e1000502. *co-corresponding

Boyer, K.E., J.S. Kertesz, and J.F. Bruno. 2009. Environmental context influences the effects of species richness on productivity but not stability of marine macroalgal communities. Oikos 118: 1062-1072

Vu, I., G. Smelick, S. Harris, S.C. Lee*, E. Weil, R.F. Whitehead and J.F. Bruno.  2009. Macroalgae has no effect on the severity and dynamics of Caribbean yellow band disease.  PLoS One 4(2): e4514

James JM, Gewolb C, Bautch VL. (2009). Neurovascular development uses VEGF-A signaling to regulate blood vessel ingression into the neural tube.  Development 136:833-41.

Roeth, J.F., Sawyer, J.K., Wilner, D.A., and Peifer, M. (2009). Rab11 Helps Maintain Apical Crumbs and Adherens Junctions in the Drosophila Embryonic Ectoderm. PLoS One 4, e7634.

Gates, J., ,Nowotarski,S.H., Yin, H., Mahaffey, J.P., Bridges, T., Herrera,C., Homem,C.C.F., Janody, F., Montell, D.J.and Peifer,M. (2009) Enabled and Capping protein play important roles in shaping cell behavior during Drosophila oogenesis. Developmental Biology 333, 90-107.

Yang XC, Burch BD, Yan Y, Marzluff WF, Dominski Z. (2009) FLASH, a proapoptotic protein involved in activation of caspase-8, is essential for 3′ end processing of histone pre-mRNAs. Molecular Cell 36: 267-278.

M. Anderson, J. Haase, E. Yeh and K. Bloom (2009) Function and assembly of DNA looping, clustering, and microtubule attachment complexes within a eukaryotic kinetochore. Mol Biol Cell 20: 4131-4139.

2008

M.K. Gardner, J. Haase, K. Mythreye, J.N. Molk, M. Anderson, A.P. Joglekar, E.T. O’Toole, M. Winey, E.D. Salmon, D.J. Odde and K. Bloom (2008) The microtubule-based motor Kar3 and plus end-binding protein Bim1 provide structural support for the anaphase spindle. J Cell Biol 180: 91-100.

S.T. Shibutani, A.F. de la Cruz, V. Tran, W.J. Turbyfill, 3rd, T. Reis, B.A. Edgar and R.J. Duronio (2008) Intrinsic negative cell cycle regulation provided by PIP box- and Cul4Cdt2-mediated destruction of E2f1 during S phase. Developmental Cell 15: 890-900.

T.L. Stevens, E.M. Rogers, L.M. Koontz, D.T. Fox, C.C. Homem, S.H. Nowotarski, N.B. Artabazon and M. Peifer (2008) Using Bcr-Abl to examine mechanisms by which abl kinase regulates morphogenesis in Drosophila. Mol Biol Cell 19: 378-393.

N.A. Tramm and M.R. Servedio (2008) Evolution of mate-choice imprinting: competing strategies. Evolution 62: 1991-2003.

2007

Fang, J., Hogan, G.J., Liang, G., Lieb, J.D., and Zhang, Y 2007. The S. cerevisiae histone demethylase Jhd1 fine-tunes the distribution of H3K36me2 Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jul;27(13):5055-65.

Xiao, T., Shibata, Y., Rao, B., Laribee, R.N., O’Rourke, R, Buck, M.J., Greenblatt, J.F., Krogan, N.J., Lieb, J.D., Strahl, B.D. 2007. The RNA Pol II kinase Ctk1 regulates positioning of a 5′ histone methylation boundary along genes. Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jan; 27(2):721-31

Gates, J., Mahaffey, J.P., Rogers, S.L., Emerson, M., Rogers, E.M., Sottile, S.L., Van Vactor, D., Gertler, F.B., and Peifer, M. (2007). Enabled plays key roles in Embryonic Epithelial Morphogenesis in Drosophila. Development 134, 2027-2039.

Kier, W. M. and Stella, M. P. (2007) The arrangement and function of octopus arm musculature and connective tissue. Journal of Morphology. 268: 831-843

Gabriel, W.N., R. McNuff, S.K. Patel, T.R. Gregory, W.R. Jeck, C.D. Jones and B. Goldstein (2007) The Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a New Model for Studying the Evolution of Development. Developmental Biology 312: 545-559.

L. A. Swanhart, A. N. Sanders, and R. J. Duronio (2007) Normal regulation of Rbf1/E2f1 target genes in Drosophila Type 1 protein phosphatase mutants. Dev. Dyn.236: 2567-2577.

K.E. Francis, Lam S.Y., Harrison, B.D., A.L. Bey, L.E. Berchowitz, and G.P. Copenhaver (2007) Pollen Tetrad-based Visual Assay for Meiotic Recombination in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.104: 3913-3918.

L.E. Berchowitz, K.E. Francis, A.L. Bey, and G.P. Copenhaver (2007) The role of AtMUS81 in interference-insensitive crossovers in A. thaliana. PLoS Genet 3: e132.

M. McVey, S.L. Andersen, Y. Broze, and J. Sekelsky (2007) Multiple functions of Drosophila BLM helicase in maintenance of genome stability. Genetics 176: 1979-92.

J.R. LaRocque, D.L. Dougherty, S.K. Hussain, and J. Sekelsky (2007) Reducing DNA polymerase α in the absence of Drosophila ATR leads to P53-dependent apoptosis and developmental defects. Genetics 176: 1441-1451.

S. Radford, M.Sabourin, S. McMahan, J. Sekelsky (2007) Meiotic recombination in Drosophila Msh6 mutants yields discontinuous gene conversion tracts. Genetics 176: 53-62.

2006

Hogan, G., Lee C.K. and Lieb, J.D. 2006. Cell-cycle specified fluctuation of nucleosome occupancy at gene promoters. PLoS Genetics. Sep; 2(9): e158

McCartney, B.M., Price, M.H., Webb, R., , Hayden, M.A., Holot, L., Zhou, M, Bejsovec, A., and Peifer, M. (2006). Testing hypotheses for the functions of APC family proteins using null and truncation alleles in Drosophila. Development 133, 2407-2418.

Price, M.H., Roberts, D.M., McCartney, B.M., Jezuit, E., and Peifer, M. (2006). Cytoskeletal dynamics and cell signaling during planar polarity establishment in the Drosophila embryonic denticle. Journal of Cell Science 119: 403-415.

Z. Chen, H.A. Hartmann, M.J. Wu, E.J. Friedman, J.G. Chen, M. Pulley, P. Schulze-Lefert, R. Panstruga and A.M. Jones (2006) Expression analysis of the AtMLO Gene Family Encoding Plant-Specific Seven-Transmembrane Domain Proteins. Plant Mol Biol 60: 583-597.

A.C. Godfrey, J.M. Kupsco, B.D. Burch, R.M. Zimmerman, Z. Dominski, W.F. Marzluff and R.J. Duronio (2006) U7 snRNA mutations in Drosophila block histone pre-mRNA processing and disrupt oogenesis. RNA 12: 396-409.

J.L. Knies, R. Izem, K.L. Supler, J.G. Kingsolver and C.L. Burch (2006) The genetic basis of thermal reaction norm evolution in lab and natural phage populations. PLoS Biology 4: e201.

A. Robertson, S.R. Pattishall and S.W. Matson (2006) The DNA Binding Activity of MutL Is Required for Methyl-directed Mismatch Repair in Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 281: 8399-8408.