Faculty Publications

Representative Publications by William & Mary Biology Faculty with students

The following list provides examples of faculty research with student co-authors (*undergraduate; **graduate).  The underlined name links to the faculty member's web page, where references to more publications may be found. Visit our Faculty Directory to view an alphabetical listing of faculty contacts and links to web pages with research. 

**Grespin ME, Bonamy GMC, **Roggero VR, *Cameron NG, *Adam LE, * Atchison AP, *Fratto VM, Allison LA. (2008) Thyroid hormone receptor alpha 1 follows a cooperative CRM1/calreticulin-mediated nuclear export pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry, in press. 

 Qian J, Bradley EL, Majewski S, Popov V, Saha MS, Smith MF, Weisenberger AG, Welsh RE. 2008. A small-animal imaging system capable of multipinhole circular/helical SPECT and parallel-hole SPECT. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 594:102-110.

**Zehmer JK, **Mahon SA, Capelli GM. 2002. Calcium as a limiting factor in the distribution of the amphipod Gammarus pseudolimnaeus. American Midland Naturalist 148:350-362.

Case MA, *Bradford ZR. 2009. Enhancing the trap of lady’s slippers: a new technique for discovering pollinators yields new data from Cypripedium parviflorum (Orchidaceae) Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1–10.

Lewis CH*, Molloy SF*, Chambers RM, Davenport J. 2007. Response of musk turtles (Sternotherus odoratus) to intraspecific chemical cues. Journal of Herpetology 41:349-353.

Cristol DA, **Brasso RL, **Condon AM, *Fovargue RE, **Friedman SL, *Hallinger KK, * Monroe AP & **White AE. 2008. The movement of aquatic mercury through terrestrial food webs. Science 320:335

Penmetsa RV, … , Engstrom EM, … , Cook DR et. al. 2008. The Medicago truncatula orhtolog of Arabidopsis EIN2, sickle, is a negative regulator of symbiotic and pathogenic microbial associations. Plant Journal 55:580-595.

Fashing NJ and Orlova EL. 2008. Functional morophology of mechanoreceptors in astigmatic mites. pp. 89-97. In: M. Bertrand, S. Kreiter, K.D. McCoy, A. Migeon, M. Navajas, M.-S. Tixier and L. Vial (Eds.) Integrative Acarology. European Association of Acarologists. ISBN 978-2-9532656-0-6.

*Goodwin AC, *Weinberger DM, **Ford CB, *Nelson JC, *Snider JD, *Hall JD, *Paules CI, Peek RM Jr, and Forsyth MH. 2008. Expression of the Helicobacter pylori adhesin SabA is controlled via phase variation and the ArsRS signal transduction system. Microbiology. 154:2231-2240.

**Braasch DC, *Deegan EM, *Grimm ER, Griffin JD. 2008. Calcitonin gene-related peptide alters the firing rates of hypothalamic temperature sensitive and insensitive neurons. BMC Neuroscience. 9:64.

Broussard DR, *Robertson JL, *Evans TJII, *Faucher GK, *Semanik MG, Heideman PD. 2008 in press. Age-related decline in reproductive sensitivity to inhibition by short photoperiod in Peromyscus leucopus. Journal of Mammalogy.

Xie Y+, Kerscher O+ ,(+ joint first authors) Kroetz MB, *McConchie HF, Sung P, Hochstrasser M. 2007.  The yeast HEX3-SLX8 heterodimer is a ubiquitin ligase stimulated by substrate sumoylation. J. Biological Chemistry. 23:34176-34184.

Burrows AE, Sceurman BK, Kosinski ME, Richie CT , Sadler PL , Schumacher JM, and Golden A 2006. The C. elegans Myt1 ortholog is required for the proper timing of oocyte maturation. Development 133(4): 697-709.

Wester MR, * Teasley DC , *Byers SL, Saha MS. 2008. Expression patterns of glycine transporters (xGlyT1, xGlyT2, and xVIAAT) in Xenopus laevis during early development. Gene Expression Patterns. 8:261-70.

Sanderson SL, Cheer AY, *Goodrich JS, *Graziano JD, *Callan WT. 2001. Crossflow filtration in suspension-feeding fishes. Nature 412:439-441. (Most Recent: *Smith JC, Sanderson SL. 2007. Mucus function and crossflow filtration in a fish with gill rakers removed versus intact. The Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 2706-2713.

Chatterjee I, ** Richmond A, Putiri E, Shakes DC, Singson A. 2005. The Caenorhabditis elegans spe-38 gene encodes a novel tetraspan integral membrane protein required for sperm function at fertilization. Development 132: 2795- 2808.

Swaddle JP and *Calos SE 2008. Increased avian diversity is associated with lower incidence of human West Nile infection: observation of the dilution effect. PLoS ONE, 3, e2488.

Watts BD, Therres GD, & Byrd MA. 2008. Recovery of the Chesapeake Bay Bald Eagle Nesting Population. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:152–158

Wawersik M, Milutinovich A, Casper AL , Matunis E, Williams B, Van Doren M. 2005. Somatic control of germline sexual development is mediated by the JAK/STAT pathway. Nature 436: 563-567. (also: Wawersik M 2006 Cell Cycle 5:1385)

Williamson SJ, Cary SC , Williamson KE, Helton RR, Bench SR, Winget D and Wommack KE. 2008. Lysogenic virus–host interactions predominate at deep-sea diffuse-flow hydrothermal vents. ISME J adv online pub doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.73

Zwollo P, Haines A, *Rosato P, and Gumulak-Smith J. 2008. Molecular and cellular analysis of B cell populations in the rainbow trout using Pax5 and immunoglobulin markers. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. (ePrint July 6)

Research-Active Emeritus Faculty.

Noor MAF, Parnell RS, Grant BS. 2008. A Reversible Color Polyphenism in American Peppered Moth (Biston betularia cognataria) Caterpillars. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3142

Scott J, Yokoyama A, Billard C, Fresnel J, Hara Y, West KA & West JA. 2008 in Press. Neorhodella cyanea, a new genus in the Rhodellophyceae (Rhodophyta). Phycologia 47.

*Prengaman KA, **Kribel JRG, Ware S. 2008, Effects of Hurricane Isabel on a maturing hardwood forest in the Virginia Coastal Plain. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135: in press. 

*Undergraduate students 
**Graduate students

 (updated 7/13/10)