Zoology Faculty Work
Submissions from 2020
Patterns of Annual and Seasonal Immune Investment in a Temporal Reproductive Opportunist, Dustin Reichard, Elizabeth M. Schultz, Christian E. Gunning, Jamie M. Cornelius, Kirk C. Klasing, and Thomas P. Hahn
Submissions from 2019
Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Xyo pseudohystrix Travassos & Kloss, 1958 (Nematoda: Oxyuridomorpha: Hystrignathidae) from Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger, 1800) (Coleoptera: Passalidae) from USA and Discussion on its Taxonomic Status, Ramon A. Carreno, Jans Morffe, Nayla Garcia, Andrew K. Davis, and Koichi Hasegawa
A New Species of Aoruroides Travassos & Kloss, 1958 (Nematoda: Oxyuridomorpha: Thelastomatidae) Parasite of the Wood-Burrowing Cockroach Panesthia angustipennis spadica (Shiraki, 1906) (Blattodea: Blaberidae: Panesthiinae) from Japan with Comments on the Validity of the Genus Aoruroides, Ramon A. Carreno, Jans Morffe, Nayla García, and Koichi Hasegawa
On the Status of Suifunema peregrinatum (Carreno, 2017) n. comb. (Nematoda: Oxyuridomorpha: Thelastomatidae) and First Record of the Species for Japan, Ramon A. Carreno, Jans Morffe, Sota Ozawa, Rina Sriwati, and Koichi Hasegawa
Assessment of Three Diet Types on Constitutive Immune Parameters in Captive Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), Elizabeth M. Schultz, Dustin G. Reichard, and Kayla A. Eggleston
Submissions from 2018
First Record of Cephalobellus brevicaudatus (Leidy, 1851) Christie, 1933 (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Thelastomatoidea), from Cranefly Larvae (Diptera: Tipulidae) in Ohio, U.S.A., Ramon A. Carreno, Laura Tuhela-Reuning, and Lauren Kiebler
Female dark‐eyed juncos Junco hyemalis thurberi produce male‐like song in a territorial context during the early breeding season, Dustin Reichard, Daniel E. Brothers, Serena E. George, Jonathan W. Atwell, and Ellen D. Ketterson
Male Courtship Preference During Seasonal Sympatry May Maintain Population Divergence, Dustin Reichard, Abigail Kimmitt, Samantha L. Dietz, and Ellen D. Ketterson
Innate Immunity and Environmental Correlates of Haemoproteus Prevalence and Intensity in an Opportunistic Breeder, Elizabeth M. Schultz, Dustin Reichard, Jamie M. Cornelius, Kirk C. Klasing, and Thomas P. Hahn
Submissions from 2017
Centriolar SAS-7 Acts Upstream of SPD-2 to Regulate Centriole Assembly and Pericentriolar Material Formation, Danielle R. Hamill, Kenji Sugioka, Joshua Lowry, Marie McNeely, Molly Enrick, Alyssa Richter, Lauren Kiebler, James Priess, and Bruce Bowerman
Effects of Activity, Genetic Selection, and Their Interaction on Muscle Metabolic Capacities and Organ Masses in Mice, Scott Kelly, Fernando Gomes, Erik Kolb, Jessica Malisch, and Theodore Garland
Prevention of Tumorigenesis in Mice by Exercise is Dependent on Strain Background and Timing Relative to Carcinogen Exposure, Scott Kelly, Liyang Zhao, Kuo-Chen Jung, Kunjie Hua, David Threadgill, Fernando Manuel de Villena, and Daniel Pomp
Condition and Context-Dependent Factors Are Related to Courtship Behavior of Paired and Unpaired Males in a Socially Monogamous Songbird, Dustin Reichard, Abigail Kimmitt, Joseph Welklin, and Ellen Ketterson
Submissions from 2016
Compensatory Dynamics Stabilize Aggregate Community Properties in Response to Multiple Types of Perturbations, Amy L. Downing, Bryan Brown, and Matthew Leibold
Long-Term Exercise in Mice Has Sex-Dependent Benefits on Body Composition and Metabolism During Aging, Scott Kelly, Rachel McMullan, Kunjie Hua, Brian Buckley, James Faber, Fernando Manuel de Villena, and Daniel Pomp
Dark-Eyed Junco Song: Linking Ontogeny and Function with a Potential Role in Reproductive Isolation, Dustin Reichard and Gonçalo C. Cardoso
Submissions from 2015
From Passion to Science, Edward H. Burtt Jr.
Levels of Infection, Pathology and Nodule Size of Onchocerca flexuosa (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) from Northern Spain, Ramon A. Carreno, María del Rosario Hidalgo-Argüello, Angélica Martínez-Delgado, S. González, M.C. Ferreras, and Natividad Díez-Baños
Distribution of Thelastomatoid Nematodes (Nematoda: Oxyurida) in Endemic and Introduced Cockroaches on the Galápagos Island Archipelago, Ecuador, Ramon A. Carreno, Devinn Sinnott, and Henri Herrera
Use of Ultraviolet Cues in Female Mate Preference in the Sailfin Molly, Poecilia latipinna, Shala Hankison and Meredith Palmer
Maternal Exercise Before and During Pregnancy Does Not Impact Offspring Voluntary Physical Activity or Body Composition in Mice, Scott Kelly, Kunjie Hua, Jennifer Wallace, Sarah Wells, Derrick Nehrenberg, and Daniel Pomp
The “Omics” of Voluntary Exercise: Systems Approaches to a Complex Phenotype, Scott Kelly, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, and Daniel Pomp
Genetic Approaches in Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology, Scott Kelly, Jay Storz, Jamie Bridgham, and Theodore Garland Jr.
An Examination of the Variation in Maternal Placentae across the Genus Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae), Tami Panhuis, Lucia Kwan, Megan Fris, Frieda Rodd, Locke Rowe, and Laura Tuhela-Reuning
Submissions from 2014
The Systematics and Evolution of Pinworms (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Thelastomatoidea) from Invertebrates, Ramon A. Carreno
Phylogeny of Rhigonematomorpha Based on the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Rhigonema thysanophora (Nematoda: Chromadorea), Ramon A. Carreno, Taeho Kim, Jiyeon Kim, Soowon Cho, Gi-Sik Min, Chungoo Park, Steven A. Nadler, and Joong-Ki Park
Multiple Diversity-Stability Mechanisms Enhance Population and Community Stability in Aquatic Food Webs, Amy L. Downing, Bryan Brown, and Matthew Leibold
Host Genetics and Diet, but Not Immunoglobulin A Expression, Converge to Shape Compositional Features of the Gut Microbiome in an Advanced Intercross Population of Mice, Scott Kelly, Larry Leamy, and Joseph Nietfeldt
Quantitative Genomics of Voluntary Exercise in Mice: Transcriptional Analysis and Mapping of Expression QTL in Muscle, Scott Kelly, Derrick Nehrenberg, Kunjie Hua, Theodore Garland Jr., and Daniel Pomp
Exercise Training Effects Hypoxic and Hypercapnic Ventilatory Responses in Mice Selected for Increased Voluntary Wheel Running, Scott Kelly, Enrico Rezende, Mark Chappell, Fernando Gomes, Erik Kolb, Jessica Malisch, Justin Rhodes, Gordon Mitchell, and Theodore Garland
On the Natural History and Functional Morphology of the Clam Shrimp, Lynceus brachyurus Müller (Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata), Wendell Patton
Submissions from 2013
Aspidodera kinsellai n. sp. (Nematoda: Heterakoidea) from Nine-Banded Armadillos in Middle America with Notes on Phylogeny and Host-Parasite Biogeography, Ramon A. Carreno, F. Agustin Jimenez, and Scott Gardner
First United States Records of the Rhigonematid Genera Heth and Ruizia (Nematoda: Rhigonematida) from the Introduced Millipede, Anadenobolus monilicornis (Diplopoda: Rhinocricidae) in Key Largo, Florida, USA, Ramon A. Carreno, David Ordsch, Josephine Koltek, Danielle Hamill, and Laura Tuhela-Reuning
A Novel Intronic Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Myosin heavy polypeptide 4 Gene Is Responsible for the MiniMuscle Phenotype Characterized by Major Reduction in Hind-Limb Muscle Mass in Mice, Scott Kelly, Timothy Bell, Sara Selitsky, Ryan Buus, Kunjie Hua, George Weinstock, Theodore Garland, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, and Daniel Pomp
Mice from Lines Selectively Bred for High Voluntary Wheel Running Exhibit Lower Blood Pressure during Withdrawal from Wheel Access, Scott Kelly, Erik Kolb, and Theodore Garland
Quantitative Trait Loci for Bone Mineral Density and Femoral Morphology in an Advanced Intercross Population of Mice, Scott Kelly, Larry Leamy, Kunjie Hua, Charles Farber, and Daniel Pomp
Genetic Determinants of Voluntary Exercise, Scott Kelly and Daniel Pomp
Allele-Specific Transcriptional Activity at Type 2 Diabetes Associated Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Regions of Pancreatic Islet Open Chromatin at the JAZF1 Locus, Tami Panhuis, Marie Fogarty, Swarooparani Vadlamudi, Martin Buchkovich, and Karen Mohlke
Submissions from 2012
Bacterial Degradability of an Intrafeather Unmelanized Ornament: A Role for Feather-Degrading Bacteria in Sexual Selection?, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Rafael Ruiz-De-Castaneda, Sonia Gonzalez-Braojos, and Juan Moreno
Discovery of an Undescribed Protostrongylid Nematode from the Endangered Pampas Deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus celer) in Argentina, Ramon A. Carreno, Dina Caporossi, Mario Beade, Carolina Marull, Marcela Uhart, David D. Markwardt, and Steven Nadler
Apoptosis in the Digestive Tract of Herbivorous Rana pipiens Larvae and Carnivorous Ceratophrys ornata Larvae: An Immunohistochemical Study, Anne Fry, Jane Kaltenbach, Katherine Colpitts, and Ellen Faszewski
Evolutionary Diversification of Mating Signals in the Mexican Sailfin Mollies (Poeciliidae: Poecilia mollienesia), Shala Hankison and Margaret Ptacek
Geographic Variation in Genetic and Morphological Structure in the Mexican Sailfin Mollies, Poecilia velifera and P. petenensis, Shala Hankison and Margaret Ptacek
Exercise and Diet Affect Quantitative Trait Loci for Body Weight and Composition Traits in an Advanced Intercross Population of Mice, Scott Kelly, Larry Leamy, Kunjie Hua, and Daniel Pomp
Advances in Comparative Genetics: Influence of Genetics on Obesity, Scott Kelly, Wendy Foulds Mathes, and Daniel Pomp
Functional Genomic Architecture of Predisposition to Voluntary Exercise in Mice: Expression QTL in the Brain, Scott Kelly, Derrick Nehrenberg, Kunjie Hua, Theodore Garland Jr., and Daniel Pomp
Phenotypic Plasticity: Molecular Mechanisms and Adaptive Significance, Scott Kelly, Tami Panhuis, and Andrew Stoehr
Submissions from 2011
Transforming Ecological Science at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions through Collaborative Networks, Laurel J. Anderson, Amy L. Downing, David R. Bowne, Martha F. Hoopes, Kathleen LoGiudice, Carolyn L. Thomas, Tracy B. Gartner, Daniel J. Hornbach, Karen Kuers, Jose-Luis Machado, and Kathleen L. Shea
Colourful Parrot Feathers Resist Bacterial Degradation, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Max Schroeder, Lauren Smith, Jenna Sroka, and Kevin McGraw
Phylogenetic Identification of Cystoisospora spp. from Dogs, Cats, and Raccoon Dogs in Japan, Ramon A. Carreno, Makoto Matsubayashi, Hiroyuki Tani, Ryusaku Yoshiuchi, Takenori Kanai, Isao Kimata, Shigehiko Uni, Masaru Furuya, and Kazumi Sasai
Thelastomatid Nematodes (Oxyurida: Thelastomatoidea) from the Peppered Cockroach, Archimandrita tesselata (Insecta: Blattaria) in Costa Rica, Ramon A. Carreno and Laura Tuhela-Reuning
A Survey of New Temperature-Sensitive, Embryonic-Lethal Mutations in C. elegans: 24 Alleles of Thirteen Genes, Danielle R. Hamill
Early Exposure to Nonlethal Predation Risk by Size-Selective Predators Increases Somatic Growth and Decreases Size at Adulthood in Three-spined Sticklebacks, Shala Hankison, A.M. Bell, N.J. Dingemanse, M.B.W. Langenhof, and K. Rollins
Brain Transcriptomic Response Of Threespine Sticklebacks To Cues of a Predator, Shala Hankison, Y. O. Sanogo, M. Band, A. Obregon, and A. M. Bell
Identification of quantitative trait loci influencing skeletal architecture in mice: Emergence of Cdh11 as a primary candidate gene regulating femoral morphology, Scott Kelly, Charles Farber, Ethan Baruch, Daniel Yu, Kunjie Hua, Derrick Nehrenberg, Fernando Pardo‐Manuel de Villena, Ryan Buus, Theodore Garland, and Daniel Pomp
Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from the Placenta of the LiveBearing Fish Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae), Tami Panhuis, Gina Broitman-Maduro, Jarrod Uhrig, Morris Maduro, and David Reznick
Submissions from 2010
How Birds' Bills Help Them See, Edward H. Burtt Jr. and Sean Williams
Parasitismo de Cervidae norteamericanos, receptividad de animals domesticos, e implicaciones en la gestion de fauna silvestre, Ramon A. Carreno
Species Richness Facilitates Ecosystem Resilience in Aquatic Food Webs, Amy L. Downing and Matthew Leibold
Submissions from 2009
A Future with Feather-Degrading Bacteria, Edward H. Burtt Jr.
Variation in Plumage Microbiota Depends on Season and Migration, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Isabelle-A. Bisson, Peter P. Marra, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, and Patrick M. Gillevet
Dark Color of the Coastal Plain Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana Nigrescens) May Be an Evolutionary Response to Occurrence and Abundance of Salt-Tolerant Feather-Degrading Bacilli in its Plumage, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Ashley Peele, Max Schroeder, and Russell Greenberg
Mermithid Nematode Infection in a Colony of Blue-Winged Grasshoppers (Tropidacris Collaris), Ramon A. Carreno, Lydia Attard, Jean Pare, Andrew Peregrine, Christopher Dutton, and Thomas Mason
Characterization of Dictyocaulus Species (Nematoda: Trichosfrongyloidea) from Three Species of Wild Ruminants in Northwestern Spain, Ramon A. Carreno, Natividad Diez-Baños, Maria del Rosario Hidalgo-Argüello, and Steven Nadler
Effects of Biodiversity on the Functioning of Ecosystems: A Summary of 164 Experimental Manipulations of Species Richness, Amy L. Downing
Diversity has Stronger Top-Down than Bottom-Up Effects on Decomposition, Amy L. Downing, Diane Srivastava, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Claire Jouseau, Mahesh Sankaran, and Justin Wright
Central Place Foraging by Beavers (Castor canadensis) in a Complex Lake Habit, A. John Gatz
The Repeatability of Behavior: A Meta-analysis, Shala Hankison, Alison Bell, and Kate Laskowski
The Pattern and Process of Speciation, Shala Hankison and Margaret Ptacek
Submissions from 2008
Seasonally Changing Preen Wax Composition: Red Knots Flexible Defense against Feather Degrading Bacteria, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Amy M. Schneider, Jeroen Reneerkens, Maaike A. Versteegh, and Theunis Piersma
Dispharynx, Echinuria, and Streptocara, Ramon A. Carreno
A New Species of Paraheligmonella (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae), Parasite of Sylvilagus floridanus (Leporidae) from Costa Rica, Ramon A. Carreno, Maria Celina Digiani, and Marie Claude Durette-Desset
Equinurbia blakei n. sp. (Nematoda: Strongyloidea: Strongylidae) from the African Forest Elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, Ramon A. Carreno and John Kinsella
Environmental Fluctuations Induce Scale-Dependent Compensation and Increase Stability in Plankton Ecosystems, Amy L. Downing, Bryan Brown, Elizabeth Perrin, Timothy Keitt, and Matthew Leibold
The Use of Floating Overhead Cover by Warmwater Stream Fishes, A. John Gatz
Effects of Repeated Electroshocking on Condition, Growth, and Movement of Selected Warmwater Stream Fishes, A. John Gatz and R. Scott Linder
Community and Ecosystem Responses to a Pulsed Pesticide Disturbance in Freshwater Ecosystems, Laura Tuhela-Reuning, Amy L. Downing, Kristen DeVanna, C. Nichole Rubeck-Schurtz, and Heather Grunkemeyer
Submissions from 2007
A Molecular Comparison of Plumage and Soil Bacteria across Biogeographic, Ecological, and Taxonomic Scales, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Isabelle-Anne Bisson, Peter P. Marra, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, and Patrick M. Gillevet
Sunlight on Feathers Inhibits Feather Degrading Bacteria, Edward H. Burtt Jr. and Vinodkumar Saranathan
Description of a New Species of Thelastoma Leidy, 1849 (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Thelastomatidae) from the Millipede Euryurus leachii (Gray, 1832) in Ohio, USA, Ramon A. Carreno
Molecular Phylogeny of Clade Ill Nematodes Reveals Multiple Origins of Tissue Parasitism, Ramon A. Carreno, Steven A. Nadler, H. Mejía-Madrid, J. Ullberg, C. Pagan, R. Houston, and J.P. Hugot
Homing Ability of Displaced Stream-Dwelling Green Sunfish, A. John Gatz
Submissions from 2006
Pattern of Damage to Albino Great Frigatebird Flight Feathers Supports Hypothesis of Abrasion by Airborne Particulates, Edward H. Burtt Jr., Ralph W. Schreiber, Elizabeth A. Schreiber, and Ashley M. Peele
Description of Babesia duncani n.sp. (Apicomplexa: Babesiidae) from humans and its differentiation from other piroplasms, Ramon A. Carreno, Patricia A. Conrad, Anne M. Kjemtrup, John Thomford, Katlyn Wainwright, Mark Eberhard, Rob Quick, Sam R. Telford III, and Barbara L. Herwaldt
Babesia conradae, sp. Nov., a Small Canine Babesia Identified in California, Ramon A. Carreno, Anne M. Kjemtrup, Katlyn Wainwright, Melissa Miller, and B.L. Penzhorn
Effects of Biodiversity on the Functioning of Trophic Groups and Ecosystems, Amy L. Downing, Bradley J. Cardinale, Diane S. Srivastava, J. Emmett Duffy, Justin P. Wright, Mahesh Sankaran, and Claire Jouseau
Submissions from 2005
A New Species of Skrjabingylus Petrov, 1927 (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea) from the Frontal Sinuses of the Hooded Skunk, Mephitis Macroura (Mustelidae), Ramon A. Carreno, Kathryn E. Reif, and Steven A. Nadler
SEM Observations on Leidynema portentosae Van Waerebeke, 1978 (Nematoda, Oxyurida) from Gromphadorhina portentosa (Insecta, Blattodea), Ramon A. Carreno, Kathryn E. Reif, and Laura M. Tuhela-Reuning
Relative Effects of Species Composition and Richness on Ecosystem Properties in Ponds, Amy L. Downing
Reinventing the Wheel in Ecology Research?, Amy L. Downing, David Raffaelli, Bradley J. Cardinale, Katharina A.M. Engelhardt, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Diane S. Srivastava, and Martin Solan
Trophic Position, Biotic Context, and Abiotic Factors Determine Species Contributions to Ecosystem Functioning, Amy L. Downing and J. Timothy Wootton
Seawi—a sea urchin piwi/argonaute family member is a component of MT-RNP complexes, Danielle R. Hamill, Alexis J. Rodriguez, Susan A. Seipel, Daniele P. Romancino, Marta Di Carlo, and Kathy A. Suprenant
Submissions from 2004
Gloger's Rule, Feather-Degrading Bacteria, and Color Variation Among Song Sparrows, Edward H. Burtt Jr. and Jann M. Ichida
Species Loss and the Structure and Functioning of Multitrophic Aquatic Systems, Amy L. Downing, Owen L. Petchey, Gary G. Mittelbach, Lennart Persson, Christopher F. Steiner, Philip H. Warren, and Guy Woodward
Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos, Amy L. Downing, Martin Solan, Bradley J. Cardinale, Katharina A.M. Engelhardt, Jennifer L. Ruesink, and Diane S. Srivastava
Bacterial Degradation of Black and White Feathers, Gerald Goldstein, Kelly R. Flory, Beth Ann Browne, Samia Majid, Jann M. Ichida, and Edward H. Burtt Jr.
Submissions from 2003
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Metastrongyloidea (Nematoda: Strongylida) inferred from Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences, Ramon A. Carreno and Steven A. Nadler
Molecular Phylogenetics and Diagnosis of Soil and Clinical Isolates of Halicephalobus gingivalis (Nematoda: Cephalobina: anagrolaimoidea), an Opportunistic Pathogen of Horses, Ramon A. Carreno, Steven A. Nadler, Byron J. Adams, Hailu Kinde, James G. Baldwin, and Manuel Mundo-Ocampo