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Faculty research interests intersect four major areas:

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Recent Representative Publication
for William & Mary Biology Faculty & Students

The following list provides only one of the most recent publications per faculty or student
The underlined name links to the faculty member's web page, where references to more recent publications may be found.

**Bonamy GM, Guiochon-Mantel A, Allison LA. 2005. Cancer promoted by the oncoprotein v-ErbA may be due to subcellular mislocalization of nuclear receptors. Molecular Endocrinology 19: 1213-1230.

Hammond , WT., Bradley, EL., Welsh, RE., Qian, J., Weisenerger, AG., Smith, MF., Majewski, S., Saha, MS, (2007) A Gamma Camera Re-evaluation of Potassium Iodide Blocking Efficiency in Mice. Health Physics 92(4): 396-406.

**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 , *Finn KM, *Jancaitis J, *Alley A, *Paxton A. 2007. Declining abundance of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) documented by herbarium specimens. Biological Conservation 134: 22-30.

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.

Brasso RL** Cristol DA. 2007 Effects of mercury exposure on the reproductive success of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Ecotoxicology. (In press)

Engstrom EM , Izhaki A, Bowman JL. 2004. Promoter bashing, microRNAs, and Knox genes. New insights, regulators, and targets-of- regulation in the establishment of lateral organ polarity in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 135: 685-694.

*King A, Fashing NJ.. 2007. Infanticidal behavior in the subsocial beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger) (Coleoptera: Passalidae). Journal of Insect Behavior. In Press.

*Terry CE, *McGinnis LM, *Madigan KC, Cao P, Cover TL, **Liechti GW, Peek Jr. RM, Forsyth MH. 2005. Genomic Comparison of cag Pathogenicity Island (PAI)-Positive and -Negative Helicobacter pylori Strains: Identification of Novel Markers for cag PAI-Positive Strains. Infection and Immunity 73:3794-3798.

Boul KE, Funk WC, Darst CR, Cannatella DC, Ryan MJ. 2007. Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274: 399-406.

Balanyá J, Oller JM, Huey RB, Gilchrist GW, Serra, L 2006. Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura. Science: 313:1773-1775

**Fetsch, CR, PD Heideman and JD Griffin. 2006. Effects of melatonin on thermally classified anterior hypothalamic neurons in the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus). Journal of Thermal Biology. (31) 40-49.

Heideman PD . Broussard DR , *Tate JA, and **Avigdor M. 2007. Number of immunoreactive GnRH-containing neurons is heritable in a wild-derived population of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). Physiol Biochem Zool 80:534-541.

Kerscher O. (2007) SUMO junction-what's your function? New insights through SUMO-interacting motifs. EMBO Reports 8(6): 550-555

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.

Li M, Sipe C. *Hoke K, **August L, *Wright M, Saha M. 2006. The Role of Early Lineage in GABAergic and Glutamatergic Cell Fate Determination in Xenopus laevis. Journal of Comparative Neurology 495:645-657.

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, Page LC*. 2007 High levels of environmental noise erode pair preferences in zebra finches: implications for noise pollution. Animal Behaviour 74:363-368 .

Dale, EE Jr., S.Ware, and B.Waitman. 2007. Ordination and classification of bottomland forests in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Castanea 72: 105-115.

Watts , B. D., **AC Markham, and MA Byrd. 2006. Salinity and population parameters of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the lower Chesapeake Bay. Auk 123:393-404

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)

Zwollo P , *Cole S, Bromage E, Kaattari S. 2005. B cell heterogeneity in the teleost kidney: Evidence for a maturation gradient from anterior to posterior kidney. Journal of Immunology 174: 6608-6616.

Research-Active Emeritus Faculty and Visiting Faculty.

Williams B, Akers B, Beck M, Beck RA, Via J. 2005. A summary of the annual beach-nesting and colonial waterbirds survey of the Virginia barrier islands-2000-2004. Raven. In press.

Pittman JT (Visiting Instructor) Dodd CA , and Klein B.G. 2003 Immunohistochemical changes in the mouse striatum induced by the pyrethroid insecticide permethrin. International Journal of Toxicology. 22:359-370.

West JA, Zuccarello GC, Scott JL, West KA, Kim GH, Karsten U. 2007. Rhodaphanes brevistipitata gen. et sp. nov., a new member of the Stylonematales (Rhodophyta) . Phycologia 46: 440-449.

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