Submissions from 2020
Plant Biomechanics: No Pain, No Gain for Birch Tree Stems, A. M. Schlegel and E. S. Haswell
Submissions from 2019
Anolis Newsletter VII, James T. Stroud, Anthony J. Geneva, and Jonathan B. Losos
Genetic and physical interactions between the organellar mechanosensitive ion channel homologs MSL1, MSL2, and MSL3 reveal a role for inter-organellar communication in plant development, Josephine S. Lee, Margaret E. Wilson, Ryan A. Richardson, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Submissions from 2018
An insoluble iron complex coated cathode enhances direct electron uptake by Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1, Karthikeyan Rengasamy, Tahina Ranaivoarisoa, Rajesh Singh, and Arpita Bose
Bringing Religious Naturalists Together Online, Ursula W. Goodenough, Michael Cavanaugh, and Todd Macalister
Draft Genome Sequence of Streptomyces sp. Strain JV178, a Producer of Clifednamide-Type Polycyclic Tetramate Macrolactams, Yunci Qi, John M. D’Alessandro, and Joshua A.V Blodgett
Elucidating a role for the cytoplasmic domain in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis mechanosensitive channel of large conductance, Nadia Herrera, Grigory Maksaev, Elizabeth S. Haswell, and Douglas Rees
Integrating species traits into species pools, Marko J. Spasojevic, Christopher P. Catano, and Joseph A. LaManna
KELCH F-BOX protein positively influences Arabidopsis seed germination by targeting PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR1, Manoj Majee, Santosh Kumar, Praveen Kumar Kathare, Shuiqin Wu, Derek Gingerich, Nihar R. Nayak, Louai Salaita, Randy Dinkins, Kathleen Martin, Michael Goodin, Lynnette M A Dirk, Taylor D. Lloyd, Ling Zhu, Joseph Chappell, Arthur G. Hunt, Richard D. Vierstra, Enamul Huq, and A Bruce Downie
New Classification of the Dictyostelids, Sanea Sheikh, Mats Thulin, James C. Cavender, Ricardo Escalante, Shin-ichi Kawakami, Carlos Lado, John C. Landolt, Vidyanand Nanjundiah, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, Frederick W. Spiegel, Steven L. Stephenson, Eduardo M. Vadell, and Sandra L. Baldauf
Nonpolar residues in the presumptive pore‐lining helix of mechanosensitive channel MSL10 influence channel behavior and establish a nonconducting function, Grigory Maksaev, Jennette K. Shoots, Simran Ohri, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Overdispersed Spatial Patterning of Dominant Bunchgrasses in Southeastern Pine Savannas, Katherines A. Hovanes, Kyle E. Harms, Paul R. Gagnon, Jonathan A. Myers, and Bret D. Elderd
Predator-by-Environment Interactions Mediate Bacterial Competition in the Dictyostelium discoideum Microbiome, R Fredrik Inglis, Odion Asikhia, Erica Ryu, David C. Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
Proteasome storage granules protect proteasomes from autophagic degradation upon carbon starvation, Richard S. Marshall and Richard D. Vierstra
The life of a microtubule, Ram Dixit and Sabine Petry
Submissions from 2017
Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane, Propane, and Butane by Marine Microbes: A Mini Review, Rajesh Singh, Michael S. Guzman, and Arpita Bose
Ancient bacteria–amoeba relationships and pathogenic animal bacteria, Joan E. Strassmann and Longfei Shu
Big brains stabilize populations and facilitate colonization of variable habitats in birds, Trevor S. Fristoe, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, and Carlos A. Botero
Bioelectrohydrogenesis and inhibition of methanogenic activity in microbial electrolysis cells - A review, Rengasamy Karthikeyan, Ka Yu Cheng, Ammaiyappan Selvam, Arpita Bose, and Jonathan W.C. Wong
Does high relatedness promote cheater-free multicellularity in synthetic lifecycles?, R F. Inglis, E Ryu, O Asikhia, Joan E. Strassmann, and David C. Queller
Draft Genome Sequences of Three Closely Related Isolates of the Purple Nonsulfur Bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, Michael S. Guzman, Beau McGinley, Natalia Santiago-Merced, Dinesh Gupta, and Arpita Bose
Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds, Michael Griesser, Szymon M. Drobniak, Shinichi Nakagawa, and Carlos A. Botero
Fundamental Theorems of Evolution, David C. Queller
Groundcover community assembly in high-diversity pine savannas: seed arrival and fire-generated environmental filtering, Kyle E. Harms, Paul R. Gagnon, Heather A. Passmore, Jonathan A. Myers, and William J. Platt
Life behind the wall: sensing mechanical cues in plants, Olivier Hamant and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Negative density dependence mediates biodiversity–productivity relationships across scales, Joseph A. LaManna, R Travis Belote, Laura A. Burkle, Christopher P. Catano, and Jonathan A. Myers
Photosensing and Thermosensing by Phytochrome B Require Both Proximal and Distal Allosteric Features within the Dimeric Photoreceptor, E Sethe Burgie, Adam N. Bussell, Shu-Hui Lye, Tong Wang, Weiming Hu, Katrice E. McLoughlin, Erin L. Weber, Huilin Li, and Richard D. Vierstra
Phyllotactic regularity requires the Paf1 complex in Arabidopsis, Kateryna Fal, Mengying Liu, Assem Duisembekova, Yassin Refahi, Elizabeth S. Haswell, and Olivier Hamant
Plant mechanosensitive ion channels: an ocean of possibilities, Debarati Basu and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Point of View: The sustainable professor, Elizabeth S. Haswell
Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity, Michael C. Gavin, Thiago F. Rangel, Claire Bowern, Robert K. Colwell, Kathryn R. Kirby, Carlos A. Botero, Michael Dunn, Robert R. Dunn, Joe McCarter, Marco Tulio Pacheco Coelho, and Russell D. Gray
Sexual selection, speciation and constraints on geographical range overlap in birds, Christopher Cooney, Joseph A. Tobias, Jason T. Weir, Carlos A. Botero, and Nathalie Seddon
Social amoebae mating types do not invest unequally in sexual offspring, T E. Douglas, David C. Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
The Arabidopsis kinesin-4, FRA1, requires a high level of processive motility to function correctly, Anindya Ganguly, Logan DeMott, and Ram Dixit
The RNA Polymerase-Associated Factor 1 Complex Is Required for Plant Touch Responses, Gregory S. Jensen, Kateryna Fal, Olivier Hamant, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
The tension-sensitive ion transport activity of MSL8 is critical for its function in pollen hydration and germination, Eric S. Hamilton
Submissions from 2016
A Parallel G Quadruplex-Binding Protein Regulates the Boundaries of DNA Elimination Events of Tetrahymena thermophila, Christine M. Carle, Hani S. Zaher, and Douglas L. Chalker
Autophagic Turnover of Inactive 26S Proteasomes in Yeast Is Directed by the Ubiquitin Receptor Cue5 and the Hsp42 Chaperone, Richard S. Marshall, Fionn McLoughlin, and Richard D. Vierstra
Crystal Structure of Deinococcus Phytochrome in the Photoactivated State Reveals a Cascade of Structural Rearrangements during Photoconversion, E Sethe Burgie, Junrui Zhang, and Richard D. Vierstra
Discrete but variable structure of animal societies leads to the false perception of a social continuum, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Carlos A. Botero, and Eileen A. Lacey
D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity, Kathryn R. Kirby, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Damián E. Blasi, Carlos A. Botero, Claire Bowern, Carol R. Ember, Dan Leehr, Bobbi S. Low, Joe McCarter, William Divale, and Michael C. Gavin
Fine-scale spatial ecology drives kin selection relatedness among cooperating amoebae, jeff smith, Joan E. Strassmann, and David C. Queller
Insights from a Convocation: Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum, Sarah C.R. Elgin, Gita Bangera, Sean M. Decatur, Erin L. Dolan, Laura Guertin, Wendy C. Newstetter, Elvyra F. San Juan, Mary A. Smith, Gabriela C. Weaver, Susan R. Wessler, Kerry A. Brenner, and Jay B. Labov
Kin Discrimination in Dictyostelium Social Amoebae, Joan E. Strassmann
Kin Selection and Its Discontents, David C. Queller
MSL1 is a mechanosensitive ion channel that dissipates mitochondrial membrane potential and maintains redox homeostasis in mitochondria during abiotic stress, Chun Pong Lee, Grigory Maksaev, Gregory S. Jensen, Monika W. Murcha, Margaret E. Wilson, Mark Fricker, Ruediger Hell, Elizabeth S. Haswell, A Harvey Millar, and Lee J. Sweetlove
Phytochrome B integrates light and temperature signals in Arabidopsis, Martina Legris, Cornelia Klose, E Sethe Burgie, Cecilia Costigliolo Rojas Rojas, Maximiliano Neme, Andreas Hiltbrunner, Philip A. Wigge, Eberhard Schäfer, Richard D. Vierstra, and Jorge J. Casal
Plastid osmotic stress influences cell differentiation at the plant shoot apex, Margaret E. Wilson, Matthew Mixdorf, R Howard Berg, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Problems of multi-species organisms: endosymbionts to holobionts, David C. Queller and Joan E. Strassmann
Purification of 26S Proteasomes and Their Subcomplexes from Plants, Richard S. Marshall, David C. Gemperline, and Richard D. Vierstra
Sex ratio and gamete size across eastern North America in Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba with three sexes, Tracy Edwards Douglas, Joan E. Strassmann, and David C. Queller
Theory of Inclusive Fitness, David C. Queller
The promise and pitfalls of β-diversity in ecology and conservation, Jonathan A. Myers and Joseph A. LaManna
Tree-mycorrhizal associations detected remotely from canopy spectral properties, Joshua B. Fisher, Sean Sweeney, Edward R. Brzostek, Tom P. Evans, Daniel J. Johnson, Jonathan A. Myers, Norman A. Bourg, Amy T. Wolf, Robert W. Howe, and Richard P. Philllips
When does intraspecific trait variation contribute to functional beta-diversity?, Marko J. Spasojevic, Benjamin L. Turner, and Jonathan A. Myers
Submissions from 2015
A Search for Parent-of-Origin Effects on Honey Bee Gene Expression, Sarah D. Kocher, Jennifer M. Tsuruda, Joshua D. Gibson, Christine M. Emore, Miguel E. Arechavaleta-Velasco, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, Christina M. Grozinger, Michael R. Gribskov, Phillip San Miguel, Rick Westerman, and Greg J. Hunt
A Structure-Function Approach to Understanding the Dual Functions of the Plant Mechanosensitive Ion Channel MSL10, Grigory Maksaev, Kira M. Veley, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Concurrent coevolution of intra-organismal cheaters and resisters, S R. Levin, D A. Brock, David C. Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
Disturbance alters beta-diversity but not the relative importance of community assembly mechanisms, Jonathan A. Myers, Jonathan M. Chase, Raelene M. Crandall, and Iván Jiménez
Early Successional Microhabitats Allow the Persistence of Endangered Plants in Coastal Sand Dunes, Eleanor A. Pardini, Kyle E. Vickstrom, and Tiffany M. Knight
Elevational Gradients in β-Diversity Reflect Variation in the Strength of Local Community Assembly Mechanisms across Spatial Scales, J Sebastián Tello, Jonathan A. Myers, Manuel J. Macia, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Leslie Cayola, Gabriel Arellano, M Isabel Loza, Vania Torrez, Maritza Cornejo, Tatiana B. Miranda, and Peter M. Jørgensen
Erika Dyck. Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice, Garland E. Allen
Expressing and Characterizing Mechanosensitive Channels in Xenopus Oocytes, Grigory Maksaev and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Fuels and fires influence vegetation via above- and belowground pathways in a high-diversity plant community, Paul R. Gagnon, Heather A. Passmore, Matthew Slocum, Jonathan A. Myers, Kyle E. Harms, William J. Platt, and C.E. Timothy Paine
Genomic Signatures of Cooperation and Conflict in the Social Amoeba, Elizabeth A. Ostrowski, Yufeng Shen, Xiangjun Tian, Richard Sucgang, Huaiyang Jiang, Jiaxin Qu, Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa, Debra A. Brock, Christopher Dinh, Fremiet Lara-Garduno, Sandra L. Lee, Christie L. Kovar, Huyen H. Dinh, Viktoriya Korchina, LaRonda Jackson, Shobha Patil, Yi Han, Lesley Chaboub, Gad Shaulsky, Donna M. Muzny, Kim C. Worley, Richard A. Gibbs, Stephen Richards, Adam Kuspa, Joan E. Strassmann, and David C. Queller
Is there specificity in a defensive mutualism against soil versus lab nematodes, Dictyostelium discoideum farmers and their bacteria?, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong,; David C. Queller; and Joan E. Strassmann
Mechanosensitive channel MSL8 regulates osmotic forces during pollen hydration and germination, Eric S. Hamilton, Gregory S. Jensen, Grigory Maksaev, Andrew Katims, Ashley M. Sherp, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Mechanosensitive Channel MSL8 Regulates Osmotic Forces During Pollen Hydration and Germination, Elizabeth S. Haswell and Eric Hamilton
Migration in the social stage of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae impacts competition, Chandra N. Jack, Neil J. Buttery, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong, Michael Powers, Christopher R.L. Thompson, David Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
O6-Methylguanosine leads to position-dependent effects on ribosome speed and fidelity, Benjamin H. Hudson and Hani S. Zaher
Queller Laboratory, David C. Queller
Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality, Xiaoyun Liao, Stephen Rong, and David C. Queller
RNA Sequencing Analysis of the msl2msl3, crl, and ggps1 Mutants Indicates that Diverse Sources of Plastid Dysfunction Do Not Alter Leaf Morphology Through a Common Signaling Pathway, Darron R. Luesse, Margaret E. Wilson, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Some Agreement on Kin Selection and Eusociality?, David C. Queller, Stephen Rong, and Xiaoyun Liao
Stochastic models for plant microtubule self-organization and structure, Ezgi Can Eren, Ram Dixit, and Natarajan Gautam
Strassmann Laboratory, Joan E. Strassmann
The Fragile Fiber1 Kinesin Contributes to Cortical Microtubule-Mediated Trafficking of Cell Wall Components, Chuanmei Zhu, Anindya Ganguly, Tobias I. Baskin, Daniel D. McClosky, Charles T. Anderson, Cliff Foster, Kristoffer A. Meunier, Ruth Okamoto, Howard Berg, and Ram Dixit
The ongoing search for the molecular basis of plant osmosensing, Elizabeth S. Haswell and Paul E. Verslues
Ubiquitin Goes Green, Zhihua Hua and Richard D. Vierstra
United in Diversity: Mechanosensitive Ion Channels in Plants, Eric S. Hamilton, Angela M. Schlegel, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Wildfire disturbance and productivity as drivers of plant species diversity across spatial scales, Laura A. Burkle, Jonathan A. Myers, and R Travis Belote
Submissions from 2014
An Active Role for the Ribosome in Determining the Fate of Oxidized mRNA, Carrie L. Simms, Benjamin H. Hudson, John W. Mosior, Ali S. Rangwala, and Hani S. Zaher
Arabidopsis MSL10 Has a Regulated Cell Death Signaling Activity That Is Separable from Its Mechanosensitive Ion Channel Activity, Kira M. Veley, Grigory Maksaev, Elizabeth M. Frick, Emma January, Sarah C. Kloepper, and Elizabeth S. Haswell
Defining success in graduate school, Sean M. Bell, Jessica Blumstein, Katja Brose, Adam Carroll, Jean Chang, Julia Charles, Elizabeth S. Haswell, Melissa Michelitsch, Julia C. Owens, Christopher K. Patil, Rebecca Smith, Jon Tupy, Emily Walsh, and Tracy Ware
Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore transport by Drosophila, jeff smith, David C. Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense, Garland E. Allen
In the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum , density, not farming status, determines predatory success on unpalatable Escherichia coli, Susanne DiSalvo, Debra A. Brock, jeff smith, David C. Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
Joint phenotypes, evolutionary conflict and the fundamental theorem of natural selection, David C. Queller
Minimal Effects of an Invasive Flowering Shrub on the Pollinator Community of Native Forbs, Y Anny Chung, Laura A. Burkle, and Tiffany M. Knight
Ontogenetic trait variation influences tree community assembly across environmental gradients, Marko J. Spasojevic, Elizabeth A. Yablon, Brad Oberle, and Jonathan A. Myers
Origins of the Classical Gene Concept, 1900–1950: Genetics, Mechanistic, Philosophy, and the Capitalization of Agriculture, Garland E. Allen
Privatization and Property in Biology, Joan E. Strassmann and David C. Queller
Ribosomes Left in the Dust: Diverse Strategies for Peptide-Mediated Translation Stalling, Benjamin H. Hudson and Hani S. Zaher
The evolution of genomic imprinting: theories, predictions and empirical tests, M M. Patten, L Ross, J P. Curley, David C. Queller, R Bonduriansky, and J B. Wolf
Tribute to Tinbergen: The Place of Animal Behavior in Biology, Joan E. Strassmann
Submissions from 2013
Aaron Gillette , Eugenics and the Nature Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century, Garland E. Allen
A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene, Pierre Stallforth, Debra A. Brock, Alexandra M. Cantley, Xiangjun Tian, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, and Jon Clardy
A force of nature: molecular mechanisms of mechanoperception in plants, Gabriele B. Monshausen and Elizabeth S. Haswell
A new social gene in Dictyostelium discoideum, chtB, Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Adam Kuspa, Gad Shaulsky, David C. Queller, and Joan E. Strassmann
A seasonal, density-dependent model for the management of an invasive weed, Esther Shyu, Eleanor A. Pardini, Tiffany M. Knight, and Hal Caswell
