A selection of faculty publications from the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University.

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Submissions from 2009

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The Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity: Pressing Issues and Research Priorities, Friedhelm Krupp, Lytton J. Musselman, Mohammed M.A. Kotb, and Ilka Weidig

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Phytoplankton Blooms: Their Occurence and Composition Within Virginia's Tidal Tributaries, Harold G. Marshall and Todd A. Egerton

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Cold Plasma Technology: Bactericidal Effects on Geobacillus Stearothermophilus and Bacillus Cereus Microorganisms, Angela D. Morris, Gayle B. McCombs, Tamer Akan, Wayne L. Hynes, Mounir Laroussi, and Susan L. Tolle

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Genetic Variation at Hair Length Candidate Genes in Elephants and the Extinct Woolly Mammoth, Alfred L. Roca, Yasuko Ishida, Nikolaidis Sergios, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Stephen Fratpietro, Kristin Stewardson, Shannon Hensley, Michele Tisdale, Gennady Boeskorov, and Alex D. Greenwood

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Floral Thermogenesis of Three Species of Hydnora (Hydnoraceae) in Africa, Roger S. Seymour, Erika Maass, and Jay F. Bolin

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Peripheral Dendritic Cells Are Essential for Both the Innate and Adaptive Antiviral Immune Responses in the Central Nervous System, Christina D. Steel, Suzanna M. Hahto, and Richard P. Ciavarra

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Seasonal Variation in Diet of a Marginal Population of the Hispid Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus, Lynn A. Walker and Robert K. Rose

Submissions from 2008

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Exploring the Mialome of Ticks: An Annotated Catalogue of Midgut Transcripts from the Hard Tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae), Jennifer M. Anderson, Daniel E. Sonenshine, and Jesus G. Valenzuela

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Swimming Dynamics and Propulsive Efficiency of Squids Throughout Ontogeny, Ian K. Bartol, Paul S. Krueger, Joseph T. Thompson, and William J. Stewart

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Evidence of Self-Correcting Spiral Flows in Swimming Boxfishes, I. K. Bartol, M. S. Gordon, P. Webb, D. Weihs, and M. Gharib

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Oviposition Behavior Partitions Aquatic Landscapes Along Predation and Nutrient Gradients, C. A. Binckley and W. J. Resetarits Jr.

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The Genus Isoetes L. (Isoetaceae, Lycophyta) in South-Western Asia, Jay F. Bolin, Rebecca D. Bray, Mustafa Keskin, and Lytton J. Musselman

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Transmission of Panulirus Argus Virus 1 (Pav1) and its Effect on the Survival of Juvenile Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Mark J. Butler IV, Donald C. Behringer Jr., and Jeffrey D. Shields

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Ancient DNA Identification of Early 20th Century Simian T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1, Sebastien Calvignac, Jean-Michel Terme, Shannon M. Hensley, Pierre Jalinot, Alex D. Greenwood, and Catherine Hanni

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Advancing Epidemiological Science Through Computational Modeling: A Review with Novel Examples, Scott M. Duke-Sylvester, Eli N. Perencevich, Jon P. Furuno, Leslie A. Real, and Holly Gaff

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Mycobacteriosis-Associated Mortality in Wild Striped Bass (Morone Saxatilis) from Chesapeake Bay, USA, D. T. Gauthier, R. J. Latour, D. M. Heisey, C. F. Bonzek, J. Gartland, E. J. Burge, and W. K. Vogelbein

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Anther Appendages of Incarvillea Trigger a Pollen-Dispensing Mechanism, Yi Han, Can Dai, Chun-Feng Yang, Qing-Feng Wang, and Timothy J. Motley

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Using RNA Interference to Determine the Role of Varisin in the Innate Immune System of the Hard Tick Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)., Wayne L. Hynes, Martha M. Stokes, Shannon M. Hensley, S. Michelle Todd, and Daniel E. Sonenshine

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Genome-Wide Compensatory Changes Accompany Drug-Selected Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum crt Gene, Hongying Jiang, Jigar J. Patel, Ming Yi, Jianbing Mu, Jinhui Ding, Robert Stephens, Roland A. Cooper, Michael T. Ferdig, and Xin-zhuan Su

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Silencing Expression of the Defensin, Varisin, in Male Dermacentor variabilis by RNA Interference Results in Reduced Anaplasma Marginale Infections, Katherine M. Kocan, Jose de la Fuente, Raul Manzano-Roman, Victoria Naranjo, Wayne L. Hynes, and Daniel E. Sonenshine

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Physical and In Silico Approaches Identify DNA-PK in a Tax DNA-Damage Response Interactome, Emad Ramadan, Michael Ward, Xin Guo, Sarah S. Durkin, Adam Sawyer, Marcelo Vilela, Christopher Osgood, Alex Pothen, and Oliver J. Semmes

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Population Ecology of the Golden Mouse, Robert K. Rose

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Induction of Winter Breeding in Small Mammals by 6-MBOA, Robert K. Rose, Roger K. Everton, and Gregory E. Glass

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Low-Density Rodent Communities in Eastern Virginia, Robert K. Rose and Jean F. Stankavich

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Systematic Revision of Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae) in French Polynesia, with the Description of Three New Species, Germinal Rouhan, David H. Lorence, Timothy J. Motley, Judith Garrison Hanks, and Robbin C. Moran

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Molecular Characterization and Related Aspects of the Innate Immune Response in Ticks, Daniel E. Sonenshine and Wayne L. Hynes

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Enhancing Research in a Family Medicine Program: One Institution's Story, Fred Tudiver, Kaethe P. Ferguson, Jim L. Wilson, and Gary Kukulka

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Historical Mammal Extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Correlates with Introduced Infectious Disease, Kelly B. Wyatt, Paula F. Campos, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Wayne H. Hynes, Rob DeSalle, Peter Daszak, Ross D.E. MacPhee, and Alex D. Greenwood

Submissions from 2007

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A Short Biography of Pieter Bleeker, Kent E. Carpenter

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Mutations in Transmembrane Domains 1, 4 and 9 of the Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter Alter Susceptibility to Chloroquine, Quinine and Quinidine, Roland A. Cooper, Kristan D. Lane, Bingbing Deng, Jianbing Mu, Jigar J. Patel, Thomas E. Wellems, Xinzhuan Su, and Michael T. Ferdig

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Depauperate Small Mammal Communities in Managed Pine Plantations in Eastern Virginia, James D. Dolan and Robert K. Rose

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An Epidemiological Model of Rift Valley Fever, Holly D. Gaff, David M. Hartley, and Nicole P. Leahy

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Sensory Genes and Mate Choice: Evidence That Duplications, Mutations, and Adaptive Evolution Alter Variation in Mating Cue Genes and Their Receptors, Lisa Horth

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Dietary Sequestration of Defensive Steroids in Nuchal Glands of the Asian Snake Rhabdophis Tigrinus, Deborah A. Hutchinson; Akira Mori; Alan H. Savitsky; Gordon M. Burghardt; Xiaogang Wu; Jerrold Meinwald; and Frank C, Schroeder

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Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of 10-N-Substituted Acridones as Novel Chemosensitizers in Plasmodium falciparum, Jane X. Kelly, Martin J. Smilkstein, Roland A. Cooper, Kristin D. Lane, Robert A. Johnson, Aaron Janowsky, Rozalia A. Dodean, David J. Hinrichs, Rolf Winter, and Michael Riscoe

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Detection of Mitochondrial Insertions in the Nucleus (NuMts) of Pleistocene and Modern Muskoxen, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Ross DE MacPhee, and Alex D. Greenwood

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Phytoplankton Productivity in the Tidal Regions of Four Chesapeake Bay (USA) Tributaries, Kneeland K. Nesius, Harold G. Marshall, and Todd A. Egerton

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Bioelectric Effects of Intense Nanosecond Pulses, Karl H. Schoenbach, Barbara Y. Hargrave, Ravindra P. Joshi, Juergen F. Kolb, Richard Nuccitelli, Christopher J. Osgood, Andrei G. Pakhomov, Michael W. Stacey, James R. Swanson, Jody A. White, Shu Xiao, Jue Zhang, Stephen J. Beebe, Peter F. Blackmore, and E. Stephen Buescher

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Amurocrangonyx, a New Genus of Subterranean Amphipod (Crangonyctidae) from the Russian Far East, with a Redescription of the Poorly Known Crangonyx Arsenjevi and Comments on Biogeographic Relationships, Dmitry A. Sidorav and John R. Holsinger

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Review of the Crevalle Jacks, Caranx Hippos Complex (Teleostei: Carangidae), with a Description of a New Species from West Africa, William F. Smith-Vaniz and Kent E. Carpenter

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Structural Attributes of the Hypogeous Holoparasite Hydnora Triceps Drège & Meyer (Hydnoraceae), Kushan U. Tennakoon, Jay F. Bolin, Lytton J. Musselman, and Erika Maas

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Sequence and the Developmental and Tissue-Specific Regulation of the First Complete Vitellogenin Message From Ticks, Deborah M. Thompson, Sayed M.S. Khalil, Laura A. Jeffers, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Robert D. Mitchell, Christopher J. Osgood, and R. Michael Roe

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Tissue and Life Stage Distribution of a Defensin-Like Gene in the Lone Star Tick Amblyomma americanum, S. Michelle Todd, Daniel E. Sonenshine, and Wayne L. Hynes

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Termite Resource Partitioning Related to Log Diameter, Deborah A. Waller

Submissions from 2006

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The Adaptive Value of Aggregation Among Juvenile Caribbean Spiny Lobster: An Evaluation Using Individual-Based Modeling, Thomas W. Dolan III and Mark J. Butler IV

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Bogidiella indica, A New Species of Subterranean Amphipod Crustacean (Bogidiellidae) from Wells in Southeastern India, with Remarks on the Biogeographic Importance of Recently Discovered Bogidiellids on the Indian Subcontinent, John R. Holsinger, Y. Ranga Reddy, and Mohammed Messouli

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A Sex-Linked Allele, Autosomal Modifiers and Temperature-Dependence Appear to Regulate Melanism in Male Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki), Lisa Horth

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Detection of Panulirus Argus Virus 1 (PaV1) in the Caribbean Spiny Lobster Using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH), Caiwen Li, Jeffrey D. Shields, Hamish J. Small, Kimberly S. Reece, Carmony L. Hartwig, Roland A. Cooper, and Robert E. Ratzlaff

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Distribution and Status of the Southern Bog Lemming, Synaptomys cooperi, in Southeastern Virginia, Robert K. Rose

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Year-round Diet of the Marsh Rice Rat, Oryzomys palustris, in Virginia Tidal Marshes, Robert K. Rose and Shannon W. McGurk

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Tick Pheromones and Their Use in Tick Control, Daniel E. Sonenshine

Submissions from 2005

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Body-Induced Vortical Flows: A Common Mechanism for Self-Corrective Trimming Control in Boxfishes, Ian K. Bartol, Morteza Gharib, Paul W. Webb, Daniel Weihs, and Malcolm S. Gordon

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Population Dynamics of Oryzomys Palustris and Microtus Pennsylvanicus in Virginia Tidal Marshes, Christopher P. Bloch and Robert K. Rose

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Demonstration of Toxicity to Fish and to Mammalian Cells by Pfiesteria species: Comparison of Assay Methods and Strains, Joann M. Burkholder, Andrew S. Gordon, Peter D. Moeller, J. Mac Law, Kathryn J. Coyne, Alan J. Lewitus, John S. Ramsdell, Harold G. Marshall, Nora J. Deamer, S. Craig Cary, Jason W. Kempton, Steven L. Morton, and Parke A. Rublee

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Benthic Fisheries Ecology in a Changing Environment: Unraveling Process to Achieve Prediction, Mark J. Butler IV

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Recruitment in Degraded Marine Habitats: A Spatially Explicit, Individual-Based Model for Spiny Lobster, Mark J. Butler IV, Thomas W. Dolan III, John H. Hunt, Kenneth A. Rose, and William F. Herrnkind

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Feeding Ecology of Juvenile Spiny Lobster, Panulirus interruptus, on the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, Verónica Castañeda‐Fernández‐de‐Lara, Elisa Serviere‐Zaragoza, Sergio Hernández‐Vázquez, and Mark J. Butler IV

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Characterization of Pfiesteria Ichthyocidal Activity, Andrew S. Gordon, Harold G. Marshall, Sandra E. Shumway, Kathryn J. Coyne, Alan J. Lewitus, Michael A. Mallin, and Parke A. Rublee

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A Defensin-Like Gene Expressed in the Black-Legged Tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), Wayne L. Hynes, S. M. Ceraul, S. M. Todd, K. C. Seguin, and Daniel E. Sonenshine

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Phytoplankton Development Within Tidal Freshwater Regions of Two Virginia Rivers, USA, Harold G. Marshall and Lubomira Burchardt

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A Review of Phytoplankton Composition Within Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Estuaries, Harold G. Marshall, Lubomira Burchardt, and Richard Lacouture

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Comparison of Phytoplankton and Autotrophic Picoplankton Populations Over a 24-Hour Period From a Pond's Surface and Subsurface Waters, Harold G. Marshall, Lubomira Burchardt, and Elżbieta Wilk-Woźniak

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Effects of Human Disturbances on the Behavior of Wintering Ducks, Melissa L. Pease, Robert K. Rose, and Mark J. Butler

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The Architecture of a Proteomic Network in the Yeast, Emad Ramadan, Christopher Osgood, and Alex Pothern

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Mechanical Properties of the Integument of the Common Gartersnake, Thamnophis sirtalis (Serpentes: Colubridae), Gabriel Rivera, Alan H. Savitzky, and Jeffrey A. Hinkley

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The Small Mammals of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, as Revealed by Pitfall Trapping, Robert K. Rose

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New Species of Amphipod Crustaceans in the Genera Tegano and Melita (Hadzioidea : Melitidae) From Subterranean Groundwaters in Guam, Palau, and the Philippines, Thomas R. Sawicki, John R. Holsinger, and Thomas M. Iliffe

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Host Blood Proteins and Peptides in the Midgut of the Tick Dermacentor variabilis Contribute to Bacterial Control, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Wayne L. Hynes, Shane M. Ceraul, Robert Mitchell, and Tiffany Benzine

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Defensin in Ticks: Molecular Characterization, Expression, and Role in Innate Immunity, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Wayne L. Hynes, Shane M. Ceraul, and Michelle Todd

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In Vivo Role of 20-hydroxyecdysone in the Regulation of the Vitellogenin mRNA and Egg Development in the American Dog Tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say), Deborah M. Thompson, Sayed M.S. Khalil, Laura A. Jeffers, Usha Ananthapadadmanaban, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Robert D. Mitchell, Christopher J. Osgood, Charles S. Apperson, and R. Michael Roe

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3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Activates Nuclear Factor- κB, Increases Intracellular Calcium, and Modulates Gene Transcription in Rat Heart Cells, David A. Tiangco, Frank A. Lattanzio Jr., Christopher J. Osgood, Stephen J. Beebe, Julie A. Kerry, and Barbara Y. Hargrave

Submissions from 2004

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Comparative Life Histories of Georgia and Virginia Cotton Rats, Bradley J. Bergstrom and Robert K. Rose

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On the Ecological Status of the Concept "Boundary Conditions" - A Few Methodological Remarks, Lubomira Burchardt, Krzystof Lastowski, and Harold G. Marshall

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Metabolic Rate Models and the Substitutability of Predator Populations, David R. Chalcraft and William J. Resetarits Jr.

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Identification and Characterization of a Nontypeable Haemophilus Influenzae Putative Toxin-Antitoxin Locus, Dayle A. Daines, Justin Jarisch, and Arnold L. Smith

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Interactive Regulation of Dissolved Copper Toxicity by an Estuarine Microbial Community, Christina L. Dryden, Andrew S. Gordon, and John R. Donat

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Dissecting the Loci of Low-Level Quinine Resistance in Malaria Parasites, Michael T. Ferdig, Roland A. Cooper, Jianbing Mu, Bingbing Deng, Deirdre A. Joy, Xin-Zhuan Su, and Thomas E. Wellems

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Ultrastructure of Mycobacterium Marinum Granuloma in Striped Bass Morone Saxatilis, D. T. Gauthier, W. K. Vogelbein, and C. A. Ottinger

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Phytoplankton Composition Within the Tidal Freshwater-Oligohaline Regions of the Rappahannock and Pamunkey Rivers in Virginia, Harold G. Marshall and Lubomira Burchardt

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The Type Specimens of George Edward Post in Beirut and Geneva, Lytton John Musselman and Nada Sinnu Saoud

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Isolation and Characterization of Mycobacteria from Striped Bass Morone Saxatilis from the Chesapeake Bay, Martha W. Rhodes, Howard Kator, Ilsa Kaattari, David Gauthier, Wolfgang Vogelbein, and Christopher A. Ottinger

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A New Pathogenic Virus in the Caribbean Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus from the Florida Keys, Jeffrey D. Shields and Donald C. Behringer Jr.

Submissions from 2003

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Hydrodynamic Stability of Swimming in Ostraciid Fishes: Role of the Carapace in the Smooth Trunkfish Lactophrys Triqueter (Teleostei : Ostraciidae), Ian K. Bartol, Morteza Gharib, Daniel Weihs, Paul W. Webb, Jay R. Hove, and Malcolm S. Gordon

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Algal Composition and Abundance in the Neuston Surface Micro Layer From a Lake and Pond in Virginia (U.S.A.), Lubomira Burchardt and Harold G. Marshall

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An Arthropod Defensin Expressed by the Hemocytes of the American Dog Tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae), Shane M. Ceraul, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Robert E. Ratzlaff, and Wayne L. Hynes

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Experimental Mycobacteriosis in Striped Bass Morone Saxatilis, D. T. Gauthier, M. W. Rhodes, W. K. Vogelbein, H. Kator, and C. A. Ottinger

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Recognizing Toxic Species in Aquatic Habitats: A Potential Concern in Lake Management, Mikolaj Kokocinski and Harold G. Marshall

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Enhancement of Disease and Pathology by Synergy of Trichuris Suis and Campylobacter Jejuni in the Colon of Immunologically Naive Swine, Linda S. Mansfield, David T. Gauthier, Sheila R. Abner, Kathryn M. Jones, Stacey R. Wilder, and Joseph F. Urban

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Multiple Transporters Associated with Malaria Parasite Responses to Chloroquine and Quinine, Jianbing Mu, Michael T. Ferdig, Xiaorong Feng, Deirdre A. Joy, Junhui Duan, Tetsuya Furuya, G. Subramanian, L. Aravind, Roland A. Cooper, John C. Wootton, Momia Xiong, and Xin-zhuan Su

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Chemical composition of Some Components of the Arrestment Pheromone of the Black-Legged Tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari : Ixodidae) and Their Use in Tick Control, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Trevor Adams, Sandra A. Allan, John McLaughlin, and Francis X. Webster

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Increase in Biomass and Soldier Production for Coptotermes formosanus (Shiraki) Workers Maintained in the Laboratory for Up to Nine Months, Deborah Waller

Submissions from 2002

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Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization on Sperm Using Alkaline Denaturation, L. J. Aridgides, M. Stacey, L. Brihn, D. Scott, and C. Osgood

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Distribution of the Euryhaline Squid Lolliguncula Brevis in Chesapeake Bay: Effects of Selected Abiotic Factors, I. K. Bartol, R. Mann, and M. Vecchione

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Glass Capillary Tube Feeding: A Method for Infecting Nymphal Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) with the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, Anne H. Broadwater, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Wayne L. Hynes, Shane Ceraul, and Aravinda M. De Silva

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Resistance of the Tick Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) Following Challenge with the Bacterium Escherichia coli (Enterobacteriales: Enterobacteriaceae), Shane M. Ceraul, Daniel E. Sonenshine, and Wayne L. Hynes

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Evidence for Infanticide in Bottlenose Dolphins of the Western North Atlantic, Dale G. Dunn, Susan G. Barco, D. Ann Pabst, and William A. McLellan

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Rickettsial Infection in Dermacentor variabilis (Acari : Ixodidae) Inhibits Transovarial Transmission of a Second Rickettsia, Kevin R. Macaluso, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Shane M. Ceraul, and Abdu F. Azad

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Autotrophic Picoplankton: Their Presence and Significance in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Harold G. Marshall

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In Vivo Effect of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) and an Anti-LIF Polyclonal Antibody on Murine Embryo and Fetal Development Following Exposure at the Time of Transcervical Blastocyst Transfer, Michael H. Mitchell, R. James Swanson, and Sergio Oehninger

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Isoetes Toximontana (Isoetaceae), a New Quillwort with Green Megaspores from the Northern Cape of South Africa, Lytton John Musselman and J. P. Roux