Recent Publications in TAMU Biology
Aditi Subramani Raju, David M Kramer, Wayne K Versaw, Genetically manipulated chloroplast stromal phosphate levels alter photosynthetic efficiency, Plant Physiology, 2024;, kiae241, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae241
Wan, Y, Macias, LH, Garcia, LR. Unraveling the hierarchical structure of posture and muscle activity changes during mating of Caenorhabditis elegans. PNAS Nexus. 2024;3 (2):pgae032. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae032.
Wangming Ji, Sabyasachi Mandal, Yohannes H Rezenom, Thomas D McKnight, Specialized metabolism by trichome-enriched Rubisco and fatty acid synthase components, Plant Physiology, Volume 191, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 1199–1213, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac487
Biological Rotary Nanomotors, ePublication. Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2023
Tucker A, Dulin JN (2023). The Emerging Role of Biological Sex in Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury. Commentary. Neuroscience Insights 18: 26331055231153128.
Letchuman S, Tucker A, Miranda D, Adkins RL, Aceves M, Dietz V, Jagrit V, Leonards A, Lee YI, Dulin JN (2022). Transcription factor Hb9 is expressed in glial cell lineages in the developing mouse spinal cord. eNeuro. ENEURO.0214-22.2022. PMID: 36265906.
Tucker A, Aceves M, Butts JC, Dulin JN (2022). Spinal interneurons and cell transplantation. In L.V. Zholudeva and M.A. Lane (Eds.), Spinal Interneurons: Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury (381-422). Elsevier.
Pitonak M, Aceves M, Amar Kumar P, Dampf G, Green P, Tucker A, Dietz V, Miranda D, Letchuman S, Jonika MM, Bautista D, Blackmon H, Dulin JN (2022). Effects of biological sex mismatch on neural progenitor cell transplantation for spinal cord injury in mice. Nature Communications 13(1): 5380. PMID: 36104357.
Dietz V, Roberts N, Knox K, Moore S, Pitonak M, Barr C, Centeno J, Leininger S, New KC, Nowell P, Rodreick M, Geoffroy CG, Stampas A, Dulin JN (2022). Fighting for recovery on multiple fronts: The past, present, and future of spinal cord injury clinical trials. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 16: 977679. PMID: 36212690.
Dietz V, Knox K, Moore S, Roberts N, Corona KK, Dulin JN (2022). Dorsal horn neuronal sparing predicts the development of at-level mechanical allodynia following cervical spinal cord injury in mice. Experimental Neurology 352: 114048. PMID: 35304102. Selected for cover image.
Lotterhos, Katie E; M.C. Fitzpatrick, H. Blackmon. 2022. Simulation Tests of Methods in Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics: Pitfalls, Progress, and Principles. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. DOI:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-093722
Jonika, Michelle M, J.M. Alfieri, T. Sylvester, A.R. Buhrow, H. Blackmon. 2022. Why not Y naught. Heredity. DOI:10.1038/s41437-022-00543-z
Hancock, Zachary B, E.S. Lehmberg, H. Blackmon. 2022. Phylogenetics in space: How continuous spatial structure impacts tree inference. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107505
Morelli, Magnolia W, H. Blackmon, C.E. Hjelmen. 2022. Diptera and Drosophila Karyotype databases provide insights into the evolution of chromosome number and sex chromosome systems in flies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. DOI:10.3389/fevo.2022.832378
Alfieri, James M, G. Wang, M.M. Jonika, C.A. Gill, H. Blackmon, G. Athrey. 2022. A Primer for Single-Cell Sequencing in Non-Model Organisms. Genes. DOI:10.3390/genes13020380
Lo, Johnathan, H. Blackmon. 2022. Retrogene survival is not impacted by linkage relationships. PeerJ. DOI:10.7717/peerj.12822
Perry, Annabel, S. McGaugh, A.C. Keene, H. Blackmon. 2022. CaveCrawler: An interactive analysis suite for cavefish bioinformatics. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. DOI:10.1093/g3journal/jkac132
Adams, Richard, H. Blackmon, M. DeGiorgio. 2021. Of traits and trees: probabilistic distances under continuous trait models for dissecting the interplay among phylogeny, model, and data. Systematic Biology. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syab009
Figgener, Christine, Joseph Bernardo, and Pamela T. Plotkin. 2022. Delineating and characterising critical habitat for the Eastern Pacific olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea): individual differences in migratory routes present challenges for conservation measures. Front. Ecol. Evol., Sec. Biogeography and Macroecology. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.933424
Figgener, C., Bernardo, J. and Plotkin, P. T. 2022. Marine turtles are only minimally sexually size dimorphic, a pattern that is distinct from most non-marine aquatic turtles. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8963.
Goncalves J, Wan Y, Garcia LR. Stearoyl-CoA desaturases sustain cholinergic excitation and copulatory robustness in metabolically aging C. elegansmales. iScience. 2022 Mar 16;25(4):104082. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104082. PMID: 35372802; PMCID: PMC8968053.
Zhang, S., Daniels, D.A., Ivanov, S., Jurgensen, L., Müller, L.M., Versaw, W.K. and Harrison, M.J. (2022), A genetically encoded biosensor reveals spatiotemporal variation in cellular phosphate content in Brachypodium distachyon mycorrhizal roots. New Phytologist. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18081
Soliman, Y., Rowe, G., Wicksten, M. and Wei, C. 2022 (March). Diversity and zonation of benthic amphipod crustaceans affected by the Mississippi Submarine Canyon in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers of Marine Science 10. https:/doi.org.10.3389/fmars.2022.82294.
Structure of the translating Neurospora ribosome arrested by cycloheximide. Lunda Shen, Zhaoming Su, Kailu Yang, Cheng Wu, Thomas Becker, Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Junjie Zhang, Matthew S. Sachs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2021, 118 (48) e2111862118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111862118
Ding Z, Lamb TM, Boukhris A, Porter R, Bell-Pedersen D. Circadian Clock Control of Translation Initiation Factor eIF2α Activity Requires eIF2γ-Dependent Recruitment of Rhythmic PPP-1 Phosphatase in Neurospora crassa. mBio. 2021 May 18;12(3):e00871-21. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00871-21. PMID: 34006661.
Riley, B. B. (2021). Comparative assessment of Fgf’s diverse roles in inner ear development: A zebrafish perspective. Dev. Dyn. in press.
Holloway, N., Riley, B. and MacKenzie, D. (2021). Expression of the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) in reproductinve and neural tissues in teleost fish. Gen. Comp. Enochrinol. 300, 113632.
Vonica, A., Bhat, N., Phan, K., Guo, J., Iancu, L., Wber, J. A., Karger, A., Cain, J. W., Wang, C. E., DeStefano, G. M., O’Donnell-Luria, A. H., Christiano, A. M., Riley, B., Butler, S. J. and Luria, B. (2020). APCDD1 is a dual BMP/WNT inhibitor in the developing nervous system and skin. Dev. Biol. 464(1), 71-87. PMCID:PMC7307705.
Kantarci, H. Gou, Y. and Riley, B. B. (2020). The Warburg Effect and lactate signaling augment Fgf-MAPK to promote sensory-neural development in the otic vesicle. Elife 2020;9:e56301. PMCID: PMC7253172.
Sphyris N., King, C, Hoar, J, Vijay G., Miura N., Werden S., Gaharwar, A.K., Sarkar T. R. Carcinoma cells that have undergone an epithelial-mesenchymal transition differentiate into endothelial cells. Oncotarget. 2021; 12:823-844. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.27940
The small acid-soluble proteins of Clostridioides difficile are important for UV resistance and serve as a check point for sporulation
Hailee N. Nerber, Joseph A. Sorg
bioRxiv 2021.03.29.437554; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.29.437554
Salinas-de-León, P., Martí-Puig, P., Buglass, S. et al. Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands. Sci Rep 10, 13894 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70744-1
Maity, A.K, Lee, S.C., Mallick, B.K., Sarkar, T.R. 2020. Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling in Multiple Omics Data with Application to Circadian Genes. Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa286
Carrow, J.K., Singh, K.A., Jaiswal, M.K., Ramirez, A., Lokhande, G., Yeh, A., Sarkar, T.R., Singh, I., Gaharwar, A.K. 2020. Photothermal modulation of human stem cells using light-responsive 2D materials. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914345117.
Castro-Córdova, P., Mora-Uribe, P., Reyes-Ramírez, R. et al. Entry of spores into intestinal epithelial cells contributes to recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection. Nat Commun 12, 1140 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21355-5
Wan, G., Hayden, A.N., Iiams, S.E. et al. Cryptochrome 1 mediates light-dependent inclination magnetosensing in monarch butterflies. Nat Commun 12, 771 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21002-z
Anderson N., C.E. Hjelmen, H. Blackmon. 2020. The Probability of Fusions Joining Sex Chromosomes and Autosomes. Biology Letters 16(11): 20200648. DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2020.0648
Ruckman, S.N., M. Jonika, C. Casola, and H. Blackmon. 2020. Chromosome number evolves at equal rates in holocentric and monocentric clades. PLoS Genetics 16(10): e1009076. DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1009076
Sahu, A, Banerjee, S, Raju, AS, Chiou, TJ, Garcia, LR, Versaw, WK et al.. Spatial profiles of phosphate in roots indicate developmental control of uptake, recycling, and sequestration. Plant Physiol. 2020;
Zachary B. Hancock and Heath Blackmon. Ghosts of a structured past: Impacts of ancestral patterns of isolation-by-distance on divergence-time estimation. Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa042
Sylvester T., Hjelmen C.E., Hanrahan S.J., Lenhart P.A., Johnston J.S. and Blackmon H. 2020 Lineage-specific patterns of chromosome evolution are the rule not the exception in Polyneoptera insects. Proc. R. Soc. B 287:20201388 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1388
Yan Liang, Olle Hints, Peng Tang, Chenyang Cai, Daniel Goldman, Jaak Nõlvak, Erik Tihelka, Ke Pang, Joseph Bernardo, Wenhui Wang; Fossilized reproductive modes reveal a protistan affinity of Chitinozoa. Geology doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G47865.1
Salinas-de-León, P., Martí-Puig, P., Buglass, S. et al. Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands. Sci Rep 10, 13894 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70744-1
Jonika, M., Lo, J. and Blackmon, H., 2020. Mode and Tempo of Microsatellite Evolution across 300 Million Years of Insect Evolution. Genes, 11(8), p.945. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11080945
Ruckman, S.N. and Blackmon, H. The March of the Beetles: epistatic components dominate divergence in dispersal tendency in Tribolium castaneum. Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa030
Hjelmen, C.E., Holmes, V.R., Burrus, C.G., Piron, E., Mynes, M., Garrett, M.A., Blackmon, H. and Johnston, J.S., 2020. Thoracic underreplication in Drosophila species estimates a minimum genome size and the dynamics of added DNA. Evolution. 74:7 1423-1426. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14022
Merlin, Christine, Samantha E. Iiams, and Aldrin B. Lugena. “Monarch Butterfly Migration Moving into the Genetic Era.” Trends in Genetics (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2020.06.011
Establishing rod shape from spherical, peptidoglycan-deficient bacterial spores. Huan Zhang, Garrett A. Mulholland, Sofiene Seef, Shiwei Zhu, Jun Liu, Tâm Mignot, Beiyan Nan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2020, 117 (25) 14444-14452; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001384117
Zhang H, Pan Y, Hu L, et al. TrkA undergoes a tetramer-to-dimer conversion to open TrkH which enables changes in membrane potential. Nat Commun. 2020;11(1):547. Published 2020 Jan 28. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14240-9
Succinate Dehydrogenase-Regulated Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase Sustains Copulation Fitness in Aging C. elegans Males. Goncalves J, Wan Y, Guo X, Rha K, LeBoeuf B, Zhang L, Estler K, Garcia LR. iScience. 2020 Mar 19;23(4):100990. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100990.
WNT regulates programmed muscle remodeling through PLC-β and calcineurin in C. elegans males. LeBoeuf B, Chen X, Garcia LR. Development. 2020 Apr 21. pii: dev.181305. doi: 10.1242/dev.181305. PMID: 32317273
Biphasic chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to the microbiota metabolite indole. Yang J, Chawla R, Rhee KY, Gupta R, Manson MD, Jayaraman A, Lele PP. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Mar 2. pii: 201916974. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916974117. [Epub ahead of print]
pH Sensing in Bacillus subtilis: a New Path to a Common Goal. Manson MD. J Bacteriol. 2020 Jan 29;202(4). pii: e00701-19. doi: 10.1128/JB.00701-19. Print 2020 Jan 29
Molecular Mechanism for Attractant Signaling to DHMA by E. coli Tsr. Orr AA, Yang J, Sule N, Chawla R, Hull KG, Zhu M, Romo D, Lele PP, Jayaraman A, Manson MD, Tamamis P. Biophys J. 2020 Jan 21;118(2):492-504. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.3382. Epub 2019 Nov 27
Clonemate cotransmission supports a role for kin selection in a puppeteer parasite. Charles D. Criscione, Bradley J. van Paridon, John S. Gilleard, Cameron P. Goater. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2020, 201922272; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922272117
Angela M. Achorn, Gil G. Rosenthal. It’s Not about Him: Mismeasuring ‘Good Genes’ in Sexual Selection. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 206-219, ISSN 0169-5347, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.11.007
Wicksten, M.K. One to a customer: associations between squat lobsters (Chirostyloidea) and their anthozoan hosts. Mar. Biodivers. 50, 14 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-01035-w
Zarin, Aref Arzan, et al. “A multilayer circuit architecture for the generation of distinct locomotor behaviors in Drosophila.” eLife 8 (2019): e51781.
Griffing, L.R. (2019), The Lost Portrait of Robert Hooke?. Journal of Microscopy. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/jmi.12828
Lawrence Griffing and Krishna Kumar (September 11th 2019). Hydroponic Systems for Arabidopsis Extended to Crop Plants [Online First], IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89110.
Photoperiodic and clock regulation of the vitamin A pathway in the brain mediates seasonal responsiveness in the monarch butterfly. Iiams SE, Lugena AB, Zhang Y, Hayden AN, Merlin C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Nov 25. pii: 201913915. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913915116.
Acylsugar and plant defense gene networks. Sabyasachi Mandal, Wangming Ji, Thomas D. McKnight. The Plant Cell Oct 2019, tpc.00552.2019
Hancock ZB, Hardin FO, Light JE. Phylogeography of sand‐burrowing amphipods (Haustoriidae) supports an ancient suture zone in the Gulf of Mexico. J Biogeogr. 2019;00:1–16. https ://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13686
Greenwell B, Trott AJ, Beytebiere JR, Pao S, Bosley A, Beach E, Finegan P, Hernandez C, Menet JS#. (2019) Rhythmic Food Intake Drives Rhythmic Gene Expression More Potently than the Hepatic Circadian Clock in Mice. Cell Reports 27:649-657.
Caballero, I. C. and C. D. Criscione. 2019. Little to no inbreeding depression in a tapeworm with mixed mating. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32:1002-1010
Perkins, R. D., Gamboa, J. R., Jonika, M. M., Lo, J., Shum, A., Adams, R. H. & Blackmon, H. 2019. A database of amphibian karyotypes. Chromosome Research. early online
Hjelmen, C. E., Blackmon, H., Holmes, V. R., Burrus, C. G. & Johnston, J. S. 2019. Genome Size Evolution Differs Between Drosophila Subgenera with Striking Differences in Male and Female Genome Size in Sophophora. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics: g3.400560.2019. early online
Lo, J., Jonika, M. M. & Blackmon, H. 2019. micRocounter: Microsatellite Characterization in Genome Assemblies. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics: g3.400335.2019. early online
Siegele DA, LaBonte SA, Wu PI, Chibucos MC, Nandendla S, Giglio MG, Hu JC. (2019) Phenotype annotation with the ontology of microbial phenotypes (OMP). J Biomed Semantics 10:13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-019-0205-5
Liang Yan, Bernardo Joseph, Goldman Daniel, Nõlvak Jaak, Tang Peng, Wang Wenhui and Hints Olle. Morphological variation suggests that chitinozoans may be fossils of individual microorganisms rather than metazoan eggs. 286 Proc. R. Soc. B
http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1270
Figgener, C. , Bernardo, J. and Plotkin, P. T. (2019), Beyond trophic morphology: stable isotopes reveal ubiquitous versatility in marine turtle trophic ecology. Biol Rev. doi:10.1111/brv.12543
Genome-wide discovery of the daily transcriptome, DNA regulatory elements and transcription factor occupancy in the monarch butterfly brain. Lugena AB, Zhang Y, Menet JS, Merlin C (2019) Genome-wide discovery of the daily transcriptome, DNA regulatory elements and transcription factor occupancy in the monarch butterfly brain. PLOS Genetics 15(7): e1008265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008265
A Millie Burrell, Jeffrey H R Goddard, Paul J Greer, Ryan J Williams, Alan E Pepper, 2019. Sporadic Genetic Connectivity among Small Insular Populations of the Rare Geoendemic Plant Caulanthus amplexicaulis var. barbarae (Santa Barbara Jewelflower), Journal of Heredity, esz029, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esz029
Janga, M. R., Pandeya, D. , Campbell, L. M., Konganti, K. , Villafuerte, S. T., Puckhaber, L. , Pepper, A. , Stipanovic, R. D., Scheffler, J. A. and Rathore, K. S. (2019), Genes regulating gland development in the cotton plant. Plant Biotechnol J, 17: 1142-1153. doi:10.1111/pbi.13044
J Sakla, Andrew & T Detwiler, Jillian & Caballero, Isabel & Kelehear, Crystal & Criscione, Charles. (2019). Recognizing the Causes of Parasite Morphological Variation to Resolve the Status of a Cryptogenic Pentastome. The Journal of Parasitology. 105. 432-441.
Baba, K. and M. Wicksten. 2019. Chirostyloidean squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Galapagos Islands. Zootaxa 4564: 391-421.
MarTurtSI, a global database of stable isotope analyses of marine turtles. Christine Figgener, Joseph Bernardo & Pamela T. Plotkin. Scientific Datavolume 6, Article number: 16 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0030-9
Schield, D.R., D.C. Card, N.R. Hales, B.W. Perry, G.I.M. Pasquesi, H. Blackmon, R.H. Adams, A.B. Corbin, C.F. Smith, B. Ramesh, J.P. Demuth, E. Betrán, M. Tollis, J.M. Meik, S.P. Mackessy, and T.A. Castoe. The origins and evolution of chromosomes, dosage compensation, and mechanisms underlying venom regulation in snakes. Genome Research, 21 March 2019 in press. doi:10.1101/gr.240952.118
Tissue-specific BMAL1 cistromes reveal that rhythmic transcription is associated with rhythmic enhancer–enhancer interactions. Joshua R. Beytebiere, Alexandra J. Trott, Ben J. Greenwell, Collin A. Osborne, Helene Vitet, Jessica Spence, Seung-Hee Yoo, Zheng Chen, Joseph S. Takahashi, Noushin Ghaffari, and Jerome S. Menet. Genes Dev. March 1, 2019 33: 294-309; Published in Advance February 25, 2019, doi:10.1101/gad.322198.118
The genetics and epigenetics of animal migration and orientation: birds, butterflies and beyond. Christine Merlin, Miriam Liedvogel. Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 222: jeb191890 doi: 10.1242/jeb.191890. Published 6 February 2019.
Armstrong, A., N. Anderson, H. Blackmon. Inferring the potentially complex genetic architectures of adaptation, sexual dimorphism, and genotype by environment interactions by partitioning of mean phenotypes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30 January 2019 in press. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13421
Blackmon, H., J. Justison, I. Mayrose, Goldberg, E.E., Meiotic drive shapes rates of karyotype evolution in mammals. Evolution, 2019 73:3 511-523. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13682
Passow, C., A.M. Bronikowski, H. Blackmon, S. Parsai, T.S. Schwartz, S.E. McGaugh, Contrasting patterns of rapid molecular evolution within the p53 network across mammal and sauropsid lineages. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2019 11:3 629-643. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy273