Faculty & Research

Recent Publications by Faculty and Graduate Students

Strauch, AM, Kapust, AR, Jost, CC. 2009. Impact of livestock management on water quality and streambank structure in a semi-arid African ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments, 73: 795-803.

van Griethuijsen, L. I. and Trimmer, B. A. (2009). Kinematics of Horizontal and Vertical Caterpillar Crawling. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 1455.

Lin, H. T., Dorfmann, A. L. and Trimmer, B. A. (2009). Soft-cuticle biomechanics: A constitutive model of anisotropy for caterpillar integument. Journal of theoretical biology 256, 447-457.

Lin, H. T. and Trimmer, B. A. (2009). The substrate as a skeleton: ground reaction forces from a soft-bodied legged animal. Journal of Experiemental Biology submitted.

Rieffel, J., Saunders, F., Nadimpali, S., Zhou, H., Hassoun, S., Rife, J. and Trimmer, B. (2009). Evolving Soft Robotic Locomotion in PhysX. In Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU) Accepted, in press.

Simon, M. A. and Trimmer, B. A. (2009a). Movement encoding by a stretch receptor in the soft-bodied caterpillar, Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 1021-1031.

Simon, M. A. and Trimmer, B. A. (2009b). Visualizing internal movements during soft-bodied crawling using x-ray micro-videography. In Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Boston: SICB.

Cyr, N.E. Romero, L.M. 2009. Identifying hormonal habituation in field studies of stress. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 161:295-303.

Romero, L.M., Dickens, M.J., Cyr, N.E. 2009. The reactive scope model – a new model integrating homeostasis, allostasis, and stress. Horm. Behav. 55:375-389.

Dickens, M.J., Romero, L.M. 2009. Wild European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) adjust to captivity with sustained sympathetic nervous system drive and a reduced fight-or-flight response. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 82:603-610.

Franceschini, M.D., Lane, O.P., Evers, D.C., Reed, J.M., Hoskins, B., Romero, L.M. 2009. The corticosterone stress response and mercury contamination in tree swallows, Tachycineta Bicolor. Ecotoxicology. 18:514-521.

Alice Witsell, Daniel P. Kane, Sarah Rubin*, and Mitch McVey.  Use of Drosophila melanogaster mutants lacking the DmBlm protein increases the frequency and size of flanking dleetions obtained from imprecise excision screens with P and Minos transposons.  Genetics, in press.

DesRochers, D.W., S.R. McWilliams, and J.M. Reed. In press. Evaluating the potential for energy and protein to limit abundance of the endangered Hawaiian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis).  Journal of Wildlife Management.

DesRochers, D.W., M.D. Silbernagle, A. Nadig, and J.M. Reed. In press. Body size, growth, and feather mass of the endangered Hawaiian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis).  Pacific Science.

DesRochers, D.W., S.R. McWilliams, M.D. Silbernagle, and J.M. Reed. 2009. Macronutrient profiles of wetland plantsconsumed by the Hawaiian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis).  Wetlands 29: 845-853.

Alix Kerrest, Ranjith P. Anand, Rangapriya Sundararajan, Rodrigo Bermejo, Giordano Liberi, Bernard Dujon, Catherine H. Freudenreich and Guy-Franck Richard (2009) SRS2 and SGS1 Prevent Chromosomal Breaks and Stabilize Triplet Repeats by Restraining Recombination.  Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 16 (Feb) 159-167.

*undergraduate


Publications from 2008-2009




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