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2014
Dispersal disruption alters plant spatial patterns and decreases plant survivorship: Analytical approximations to individual-based models, Noelle G. Beckman and F. R. Adler; 2014 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Neighborhoods have little effect on fungal attack or insect predation of developing seeds in a grassland biodiversity experiment, Noelle G. Beckman, Ray Dybzinski, and G. David Tilman; Oecologia
Sensor drift and Predicted Calibration Intervals of Handheld Temperature and Relative Humidity Meters Under Residential Field-Use Conditions, Scott A. Bernhardt, Scott C. Collingwood, Kyle Mumford, Dennis Eggett, Brianna M. Magnusson, and James D. Johnston; Journal of Environmental Health
The value of past and future research in vector control to public heatlh - local, regional, and international strategies to reduce potential disease transmission, Scott A. Bernhardt, David S. Denlinger, R. Keweshan, and L. Anderson; Local, regional, and international strategies to reduce potential disease transmission
Target-site insensitivity and metabolic detoxification mechanisms of insecticide resistance in Phlebotomus papatasi and Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies, Scott A. Bernhardt, David S. Denlinger, P. G. Lawyer, K. Saavedra-Rodriguez, S. Lozano-Fuentes, and Willaim C. Black IV; Society of Vector Ecology Conference
Evaluation of methoprene, an insect growth regulator, to potential development of resistance in Culex tarsalisa and Culex pipiens mosquitoes, Scott A. Bernhardt, R. S. Keweshan, David S. Denlinger, and J. Laine Anderson; Utah Mosquito Abatement Association Conference
Endosomal Endothelin Converting Enzyme-2: A Regulator of Opioid Receptor Trafficking, Erin N. Bobeck; International Narcotics Research Conference
μ Opioid Receptor Activity is Regulated by Endothelin Converting Enzyme-2, Erin N. Bobeck; Experimental Biology
Contribution of Adenylyl Cyclase Modulation of Pre- and Postsynaptic GABA Neurotransmission to Morphine Antinociception and Tolerance, Erin N. Bobeck, QiLiang Chen, Michael M. Morgan, and Susan L. Ingram; Neuropsychopharmacology
μ Opioid Receptor Activity Is Regulated by Endothelin Converting Enzyme-2, Erin N. Bobeck, Achla Gupta, Wakako Fujita, Ivone Gomes, and Lakshmi A. Devi; Society for Neuroscience Conference
When BigLEN Met GPR171: A Tale of a Recently Deorphanized Neuropeptide/Receptor System, Erin N. Bobeck, Jonathan H. Wardman, Ivone Gomes, and Lakshmi A. Devi; Society for Neuroscience Conference
Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: A meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival, Liza S. Comita, Simon A. Queenborough, Stephen J. Murphy, Janelle L. Eck, Kaiyang Xu, Meghna Krishnadas, Noelle G. Beckman, and Yan Zhu; Journal of Ecology
Breeding System of the Threatened Endemic, Primula cusickiana var. maguirei (Primulaceae), J. B. Davidson, Susan L. Durham, and Paul G. Wolf; Plant Species Biology
Characterizing the molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance in Phelbotomus papatasi and Lutzomyia longipalis and flies, David S. Denlinger, P. G. Lawyer, K. Saavedra-Rodriguez, and Scott A. Bernhardt; ESA Pacific Branch Meeting
Exploring the Population Genetics of Independent Gametophytes of Crepidomanes intricatum (Ferrar) Ebihara & Weakley (Hymenophyllaceae) Using Genotyping-by-Sequencing, A. M. Duffy, D. Ferrar, and Paul G. Wolf; The Annual Meeting of Botanical Society of America
Further Examination of the Geographic Range of Nile's Buckwheat, Mark W. Ellis, K. E. Mock, Paul G. Wolf, S. Bardot, J. A. Walton, S. M. Kulpa, and C. A. Rowe; The Annual Meeting of Botanical Society of America
A Heterogenous Thermal Environment Enables Remarkable Behavioral Thermoregulation in Uta Stansburiana, Maria Goller, Franz Goller, and Susannah S. French; Ecology and Evolution
Production of destruxins from Metarhizium spp. fungi in artificial medium and in endophytically colonized cowpea plants, P. S. Golo, D. R. Gardner, Michelle M. Grilley, Jon Y. Takemoto, S. B. Krasnoff, M. S. Pires, E. K. K. Férnandes, V. R. Bittencourt, and Donald W. Roberts; PLoS One
Endothelin-Converting Enzyme 2 Differentially Regulates Opioid Receptor Activity, Achla Gupta, Wakako Fujita, Ivone Gomes, Erin N. Bobeck, and Lakshmi A. Devi; British Journal of Pharmacology
Comparison of continuous and single-point measurement of residential air temperature and relative humidity, J. D. Johnston, Scott A. Bernhardt, B. M. Magnusson, D. Eggett, and S. C. Collingwood; National Environmental Health Association Conference
Aqueous Based Processing of Recombinant Spider Silks: More than Just Fibers, Justin A. Jones; International Silk Conference
Heat-induced post-stress growth delay: A biological trait of many Metarhizium isolates reducing biocontrol efficacy?, Chad A. Keyser, É. K. K. Fernandes, D. E. N. Rangel, and Donald W. Roberts; Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
A Samoan Hebeloma with phylogenetic ties to the western Pacific, Bradley R. Kropp; Mycologia
Schooling Increases Risk Exposure for Fish Navigating Past Artificial Barriers, Bertrand H. Lemasson, James W. Haefner, and Mark D. Bowen; PLOS ONE
Change in Functional Selectivity of Morphine With theDevelopment of Antinociceptive Tolerance, Tara A. Macey, Erin N. Bobeck, K. L. Suchland, Michael M. Morgan, and Susan L. Ingram; British Journal of Pharmacology
Delving Into the C-Fern Genome and Euphyllophyte Evolution, D. Blaine Marchant, Emily Butler Sessa, W. Brad Barbazuk, Paul G. Wolf, Joshua Der, Pamela S. Soltis, and Douglas E. Soltis; The Annual Meeting of Botanical Society of America
Specificity of Adaptation to a Novel Host Plant be a Seed Beetle, Frank J. Messina and D. Johnson; Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Stem Nematode Counteracts Plant Resistance of Aphids in Alfalfa, Medicago Sativa, Ricardo A. Ramirez and John M. Stark; Journal of Chemical Ecology
Müllerian Mimicry as a Result of Codivergence Between Velvet Ants and Spider Wasps, Juanita Rodriguez, James P. Pitts, Carol D. Von Dohlen, and Joseph S. Wilson; PLoS ONE
Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Populus Population Genomics: an Assessment of Genome Sampling Patterns and Filtering Approaches, M. Schilling, Paul G. Wolf, A. M. Duffy, H. S. Rai, C. A. Rowe, B. A. Richardson, and K. E. Mock; PloS One
Between Two Fern Genomes, E. B. Sessa, J. A. Banks, M. S. Barker, J. P. Der, A. M. Duffy, S. W. Graham, M. Hasebe, J. Langdale, F. W. Li, D. B. Marchant, K. M. Pryer, C. J. Rothfels, S. J. Roux, M. L. Salmi, E. M. Sigel, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, D. W. Stevenson, and Paul G. Wolf; GigaScience
Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size, N. L. Stephenson, A. J. Das, R. Condit, S. E. Russo, P. J. Baker, Noelle G. Beckman, and et al et al; Nature
Mechanical and Physical Properties of Recombinant Spider Silk Films Using Organic and Aqueous Solvents, Chauncey L. Tuckert, Justin A. Jones, Heidi Bringhurst, Cameron G. Copeland, John Bennett Addison, Warner S. Weber, Quishi Mou, Jeffry L. Yarger, and Randolph V. Lewis; Science Direct
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial nutrient acquisition in tropical soils., Bonnie G. Waring, S R. Weintraub, and R L. Sinsabaugh; Biogeochemistry
Origins of Pteridium on Galapagos Islands, Paul G. Wolf, C. A. Rowe, Martin P. Schilling, Joshua P. Der, C. J. Visger, and J. A. Thomson; The Annual Meeting of Botanical Society of America
Convergent Ear Loss and Regain in Bufonids, Molly C. Womack, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Kim L. Hoke; Congress of Neuroethology
Thermophysical properties of the dragline silk of Nephila clavipes spider, Changhu G. Xing, Troy Munro, Benjamin White, Heng Ban, Cameron Copeland, and Randolph V. Lewis; Polymer
Thermophysical property measurement of electrically nonconductive fibers by the electrothermal technique, Changhu Xing, Troy Munro, Colby Jensen, Benjamin White, Heng Ban, Cameron G. Copeland, and Randolph V. Lewis; Measurement Science and Technology
E-Spun Composite Fibers of Collagen and Dragline Silk Protein: Fiber Mechanics, Biocompatibility, and Application in Stem Cell Differentiation, Bofan Zhu, Wen Li, Randolph V. Lewis, Carlo U. Segre, and Rong Wang; Biomacromolecules
2013
Nephilia clavipes Flagelliform Silk-Like GGX Motifs Contribute to Extensibility and Spacer Motifs Contribute to Strength in Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers, Sherry L. Adrianos, Florence Teule, Michael B. Hinman, Justin A. Jones, Warner S. Weber, Jeffry L. Yarger, and Randolph V. Lewis; Biomacromolecules
Effects of Different Post-Spin Stretching Conditions on the Mechanical Properties of Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers, Amy V. Albertson, Florence Teulé, Warner Weber, Jeffery L. Yarger, and Randolph Lewis; Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Data from: The distribution of fruit and seed toxicity during development for eleven Neotropical trees and vines in Central Panama, Noelle G. Beckman; Dryad Digital Repository
The distribution of fruit and seed toxicity during development for eleven Neotropical trees and vines, Noelle G. Beckman; PLoS ONE
Dispersal disruption alters plant spatial patterns and decreases plant survivorship, Noelle G. Beckman and F. R. Adler; Field of Dreams Conference
Theory: impact of dispersal disruption on plant spatial patterns and implications for plant diversity, Noelle G. Beckman and F. R. Adler; 2013 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
The interacting effects of clumped seed deposition and insect seed predators on the spatial patterns of seedlings, Noelle G. Beckman and J. Bullock; SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems
Consequences of seed dispersal for plant recruitment in tropical forests: Interactions within the seedscape, Noelle G. Beckman and Haldre S. Rogers; Biotropica
Calcined clay improves germination of arid plant species, T Beddes, R Anderson, and Ricardo A. Ramirez; Journal of Environmental Horticulture
Molecular genetics and insecticide exposure survivorship in sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), Scott A. Bernhardt, David S. Denlinger, and P. Lawyer; Livestock Insects Research Laboratory
Are all Opioids Created Equal?, Erin N. Bobeck; Psychology Club
Ligand-Biased Mechanisms of Opioid Antinociception, Erin N. Bobeck; International Narcotics Research Conference
Opioid Inhibition of Pain: Comparison of Tolerance Mechanisms, Erin N. Bobeck; Biomedical Seminar Series
Blockade of Extracellular Regulated Kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) Alters Antinociception and Tolerance to Damgo, but Not to Fentanyl, Erin N. Bobeck, Susan L. Ingram, and Michael M. Morgan; Experimental Biology
Co-Administration of Morphine and Fentanyl Into the Pag Protects Against Tolerance to Either Opioid, Erin N. Bobeck, S. M. Taff, and Michael M. Morgan; Society for Neuroscience Conference
Opposing Mechanisms Drive Richness Patterns of Core and Transient Bird Species, Jessica R. Coyle, Allen H. Hurlbert, and Ethan P. White; The American Naturalist
Elucidation of Potential Insensitivity Resistance in Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) to Chemical Pesticides, David S. Denlinger, P. Lawyer, William C. Black IV, and Scott A. Bernhardt; Society for Vector Ecology
Molecular Characterization of insecticide resistance in Phlebotomus papatasi and Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies, David S. Denlinger, P. G. Lawyer, William C. Black IV, and Scott A. Bernhardt; American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Ecological Investigations Within an Interactive Plant Community Simulation, A. M. Duffy, Paul G. Wolf, J. Barrow, M. Longhurst, M. Campbell, and H. Beckett; Science Scope
Life History, C. W. Fox and Frank J. Messina; Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology
High-Throughput RNA Sequencing of Pseudomonas-Infected Arabidopsis Reveals Hidden Transcriptome Complexity and Novel Splice Variants, Brian E. Howard, Qiwen Hu, Ahmet Can Babaoglu, Manan Chandra, Monica Borghi, Xiaoping Tan, Luyan He, Heike Winter-Sederoff, Walter Gassmann, Paola Veronese, and Steffen Heber; PLoS ONE
Yersinia pestis infection and laboratory conditions alter flea-associated bacterial communities, Ryan T. Jones, Sara M. Vetter, John Montenieiri, Jennifer Holmes, Scott A. Bernhardt, and Kenneth L. Gage; ISME Journal
Phylogenetic relationships of Bartonella spp. Isolated from Oropsylla montana fleas collected from geographically distinct populations across the Western United States, R. S. Keweshan, K. L. Gage, M. Kosoy, J. Laine Anderson, and Scott A. Bernhardt; Society for Vector Ecology
Tradeoffs in microbial carbon allocation may mediate soil carbon storage in future climates., S N. Kivlin, Bonnie G. Waring, C Averill, and C V. Hawkes; Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology
Introducing a Rigid Loop Structure from Deer into Mouse Prion Protein Increases Its Propensity for Misfolding In Vitro, Leah Kyle, Theodore R. John, Hermann M. Schätzl, and Randolph V. Lewis; PLoS ONE
How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance, Kenneth J. Locey and Ethan P. White; Ecology Letters
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) positively affect the growth of mature northern red oak (Quercus rubra) trees., R W. Lucas, R Salguero-Gomez, D B. Cobb, Bonnie G. Waring, F Anderson, W J. McShea, and B B. Casper; Ecosphere
Nanoscale Investigations of Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers Modified by Physical and Chemical Processes, Gabriela L. Menezes, Florence Teulé, Randolph V. Lewis, Luciano P. Silva, and Elibio Rech; Polymer Journal
Adaptation to a Novel Host by a Seed Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae): Effect of Source Population, Frank J. Messina and Susan L. Durham; Environmental Entomology
Effect of Inbreeding on Host Discrimination and Other Fitness Components in a Seed Beetle, Frank J. Messina, B. D. Morris, and Charles W. Fox; Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Triploidy in Western Aspen, K. E. Mock, Paul G. Wolf, and J Shaw; Restoring the West
Common vegetable diseases, Claudia Nischwitz
Disease update – Utah, Claudia Nischwitz
Fire blight update, Utah Horticulture Association meeting, Claudia Nischwitz
Plant pathology, Claudia Nischwitz
Turf Diseases and Problems with Landscape Plants, Claudia Nischwitz
Update on IYSV - ELISA-positive weeds and post-harvest storage diseases, Claudia Nischwitz
Exploring relationships between enzyme activities and leaf litter decomposition in a wet tropical forest., Bonnie G. Waring; Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil C and N cycling: insights from meta-analysis and theoretical models., Bonnie G. Waring, C Averill, and C V. Hawkes; Ecology Letters
Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) for Population Genomics of Aspen (Populus tremuloides), Paul G. Wolf, K. E. Mock, Ethan P. White, H. S. Rai, and B. A. Richardson; The International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, USA
2012
Reproducing Natural Spider Silks' Copolymer Behavior in Synthetic Silk Mimics, Bo An, Janelle E. Jenkins, Sujatha Sampath, Gregory P. Holland, Mike Hinman, Jeffery L. Yarger, and Randolph V. Lewis; Biomacromolecules
Comparison of HIV/AIDS Rates Between U.S.-Born Blacks and African-Born Blacks in Utah, 2000-2009, Crystal Ashton, Scott A. Bernhardt, Mike Lowe, Matthew Mietchen, and Jim Johnston; The Open AIDS Journal
Important pests of ornamental aspen, F. Baker, D. Alston, and Claudia Nischwitz
The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance- and density-dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns, Noelle G. Beckman, Claudia Neuhauser, and Helene C. Muller-Landau; Journal of Ecology
What can we learn to effectively reduce disease transmission?, Scott A. Bernhardt; Research seminar - Boise State University
Rapid intraspecific evolution of miRNA and siRNA genes in the mosquito Aedes aegypti, Scott A. Bernhardt, Mark P. Simmons, Ken E. Olson, Barry J. Beaty, Carol D. Blair, and William C. Black IV; PLoS ONE
Differences in Antinociception and Tolerance Due to Ligand-Biased Signaling at the Muopioidreceptor, Erin N. Bobeck; International Narcotics Research Conference
Differential Development of Antinociceptive Tolerance to Morphine and Fentanyl Is Not Linked to Efficacy in the Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray of the Rat, Erin N. Bobeck, Rachel A. Haseman, Dana Hong, Susan L. Ingram, and Michael M. Morgan; The Journal of Pain
Role of Increased GABAergic Synaptic Transmission in Morphine Tolerance, Erin N. Bobeck, Rachel A. Haseman, Susan L. Ingram, and K. L. Suchland; Experimental Biology
Technology Use in Science Classrooms and Reformed Teaching, T. Campbell, M. Longhurst, A. Duffy, Paul G. Wolf, and B. E. Shelton; The 2012 International Conference of the Association for Science Teacher Education
Spruce in Utah landscapes, R. David, Michael R. Kuhns, and Claudia Nischwitz
Survey and detection of the western black-legged tick and the Lyme-causing bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, R. S. Davis, Scott A. Bernhardt, and Ricardo A. Ramirez; Utah State Public Health Department Lyme Disease Working Meeting
Surveying for the western black-legged tick and Lyme disease in Utah, R. S. Davis, Scott A. Bernhardt, and Ricardo A. Ramirez; Entomological Society of America
Maximumrate of mammal evolution, A. R. Evans, D. Jones, A. G. Boyer, J. H. Brown, D. P. Costa, S.K. Morgan Ernest, E. M.G. Fitzgerald, M. Fortelius, J. L. Gittleman, M. J. Hamilton, L. E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S. K. Lyons, J. G. Okie, J. J. Saarinen, R. M. Sibly, F. A. Smith, P. R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M. D. Uhen; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Perspectives on the potential of entomopathogenic fungi in biological control of ticks. Experimental Parasitology, E. K. K. Fernandes, R. E. P. Bittencourt, and Donald W. Roberts; Expirimental Parasitology
Effects of Seed Beetles on the Performance of Desert Legumes Depend on Host Species, Plant Species, Plant Stage, and Beetle Density, Charles W. Fox, W. G. Wallin, M. L. Bush, M. E. Czesak, and Frank J. Messina; Journal of Arid Environments
Improved Ex Vivo Method for Microbiocidal Activity Across Vertebrate Species, Susannah S. French and Lorin A. Neuman-Lee; Biology Open
First report of a new disease of onion in Georgia caused by a nonfluorescentPseudomonas species, R. Gitaitis, S. Mullis, K. Lewis, D. Langston, A. Watson, F. H. Sanders, R. Torrance, Justin A. Jones, and Claudia Nischwitz; Plant Disease
Carbon Flow From Plant Detritus and Soil Organic Matter to Microbes--Linking Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Semiarid Soils, T. D. Hooker and John M. Stark; Soil Science Society of America Journal
Interfamily Variation in Amphibian Early Life-History Traits: Raw Material for Natural Selection?, Gareth R. Hopkins, Brian G. Gall, Susannah S. French, and Edmund D. Brodie Jr.; Ecology and Evolution
Effect of Loading Rate on Mechanical Properties and Fracture Morphology of Spider Silk, Matthew Hudspeth, Xu Nie, Weinong Chen, and Randolph V. Lewis; Biomacromolecules
