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Anderson T.D., Jin-Clark Y., Begum K., Starkey S.R. & Zhu, K. Y. 2008.  Gene expression profiling reveals decreased expression of two hemoglobin genes associated with increased consumption of oxygen in Chironomus tentans exposed to atrazine:  A possible mechanism for adapting to oxygen deficiencyAquatic Toxicol.  86:  148-156.

Boina, D., S. Prabhakar, C.M. Smith, S. Starkey, L. Zhu, E. Boyko, and JC Reese. Categories of resistance to greenbug (Homoptera: Aphididae) biotype I in wheats expressing the Gby and Gbz genes. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. Volume 78 (3) 2005 pages 252-260.

Boyko, E. V., C. M. Smith, T. Vankatappa, J. Bruno, Y. Deng, S. R. Starkey, and D. Klaahsen The molecular basis of plant gene expression during aphid invasion: wheat Pto- and Pti-like sequences modulate aphid-wheat interaction. J. Econ. Entomol Volume 99 (4) 2006 pages 1430-1445.

Callahan, HS, Dhanoolal N., Ungerer M.C. Plasticity genes and plasticity costs: a new approach using an Arabidopsis recombinant inbred population New Phytologist Volume 166 2005 pages 129-140.

Carbone, M.A., K.W. Jordan, R.F. Lyman, S.T. Harbison, J. Leips, T.J. Morgan, M. DeLuca, P. Awadalla, and T.F.C. Mackay.  Phenotypic variation and natural selection at Catsup, a pleiotropic quantitative trait gene in Drosophila. Current Biology Volume 16 2006 pages 912-919.

Das, S., P., S.M. Welch, M. Gui, M. Cochran, A. Wareing, B. Babin, Adding local search to particle swarm optimization, Proceedings, World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, in press.

Fehlberg, S. D., K. A. Ford, M. C. Ungerer and C. J. Ferguson. 2008. Development, characterization and transferability of microsatellite markers for the plant genus Phlox (Polemoniaceae). Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 116-118.

Garrett, K. A., S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers. 2006.  Ecological genomics and epidemiology European Journal of Plant Pathology 115: 35-51.

Garrett, K.A., S. P. Dendy, E. E. Frank, M. N. Rouse, and S. E. Travers.  2006.  Climate change effects on plant disease: Genomes to ecosystems Annual Review of Phytopathology 44: 489-509.

Hall MC, Dworkin I, Ungerer MC and Purugganan M. (2007) Genetics of micro-environmental canalization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA  104(31): 13717-13722.

Hogenhout,S.A., Ammar, E.D., Whitfield, A.E., and Redinbaugh, M.G. 2008. Insect vector interactions with persistently transmitted viruses. Annual Review of Phytopathology 46:327-359.

Jones, K.L., Todd, T.C., and Herman, M.A., 2006,  Development of taxon-specific markers for high-throughput screening of microbial-feeding nematodes Molecular Ecology Notes,6, 712-714..

Jones, K.L., Todd, T.C., Coolon, J.D., Blair, J. M., and Herman, M.A. 2006, Molecular approach for assessing responses of microbial-feeding nematodes to burning and chronic nitrogen enrichment in a native grassland Molecular Ecology, 15, 2601-2609.

Jordan, K.W., M.A. Carbone, A. Yamamota, T.J. Morgan, and T.F.C. Mackay (2007) Quantitative genomics of locomotor behavior in Drosophila melanogasterGenome Biology 8:  R172doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-8-r172.

Kammenga, J., M. Herman, J. Ouborg, L. Johnson, and R. Breitling.  Microarray challenges in ecology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution.  22, 273-279.

Koduru, P. ,Welch, S.M., Das, S. Roe, J.L., Urupattur, S. A Multi-Objective Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for a Flowering Time Gene Network Model in A. thaliana” International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, 2005.

Koduru, P. Das, S.. Welch, S.M., Roe, J.L.,, Lopez-Dee. Z.P. A Co-evolutionary Hybrid Algorithm for Multi-objective Optimization of Gene Regulatory Network Models Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference, Washington, D. C., 2005.

Koduru, P., Hsu, W.H., Das, S.,Welch, S.M. and Roe, J.L. Dynamical Systems Prediction using Temporal Artificial Neural Networks and Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms IASTED Conference on Computational Intelligence, Calgary, Canada 2005 pages 214-219.

Konakandla, B, Y. Park and D.C. Margolies.  2006.  Whole gene amplification of Chelix-extracted DNA from a single mite: A method for studying genetics of the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilisExp. Appl. Acarol. 40: 241-247.

Liu, X.M., C.M. Smith, B.R. Friebe and B.S. Gill. 2005.  Molecular mapping and allelic relationships of Russian wheat aphid resistance genes. Crop Science  2005 Volume 45: 2273-2280.

Mackay, T.F.C., S.L. Heinsohn, R.F. Lyman, A.J. Moehring, T.J.Morgan & S.M. Rollmann.  Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior. for joint publication: In J. Hey, W.M. Fitch, F.J. Ayala, eds. Systematics and the Orgin of the Species.  On Ernst Mayr’s 100th Anniversary. National Academies Press and PNAS Volume 102, 2005, pages 6622-6629.

Milliken, G.A., K.A. Garrett, and S.E. Travers.  2007.  Experimental design for two-color microarrays applied in a pre-existing experimentStatistical Application in Genetics and Molecular Biology.  In revision.

Morgan, T.J. and T.F.C. Mackay.  Quantitative trait loci for thermotolerance phenotypes in Drosophila melanogasterHeredity Volume 96 2006 pages 232-242.

Morgan, T.J., M.A. Evans, T. Garland Jr., J.G. Swallow, and P.A. Carter.  Molecular and quantitative genetic divergence among populations of house mice with known evolutionary historiesHeredity Volume 94 2005 pages 518-525.

Nacchapa, P., D.C. Margolies, and J.R. Nechols.  Resource-dependent giving-up time of the predatory mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis. J. Insect Behav. Volume 19 2006 pages 741-752.

Nachappa, P., D.C. Margolies, J.R. Nechols and T. Loughin.  Phytoseiulus persimilis response to herbivore-induced plant volatiles as a function of mite-daysExp. Appl. Acarol. (in press).

Olsen KM and Ungerer MC. Freezing tolerance and cyanogenesis in white clover (Trifolium repens L. Fabaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences. In press.

Prabhakar, S., M.-S. Chen, E. N. Elpidina, K. S. Vinokurov, C. M. Smith, and B. Oppert. 2007. Transcriptome analysis of digestive proteases from the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Insect Mol. Biol. 16: 455-468.
Rollmann, S.M., M.M. Magwire, T.J. Morgan, E.D. Ozsoy, A. Yamamoto, T.F.C. Mackay, and R.R.H. Anholt.  Pleiotropic fitness effects of the Tre1/Gr5a region in DrosophilaNature Genetics.  Vol 38 2006 pages 824-829.

Rotenberg, D., Kumar, N.K.K., Zeitlow, C., Willis, D.K, German, T.L., Ullman, D.E. and Whitfield, A.E. Tomato spotted wilt virus transmission and vector longevity are determined by virus titer in Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande). (In progress)

Rotenberg, D., Jimenez Wells, A., Chapman, E.J., Whitfield, A.E., Goodman, R.M., and Cooperband, L.R. 2007. Soil properties associated with organic matter-mediated bean root rot suppression in field soil amended with fresh and composted paper mill residuals. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:2936-2948.

M. Saker, S. Adawy, and C. M.  Smith. 2007. Entomological and genetic variation of cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare) from Egypt. GAPP Arch. Phytopathol. Plant Protection. 40: (In Press).

Smith, C.M. and E. V. Boyko. 2007. The molecular bases of plant resistance and defense responses to aphid feeding: current status. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 122: 1–16.

Smith, C.M. MINI REVIEW 2007.  Plant expression of defense response and resistance genes elicited by aphid feeding:. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 2007 Volume 122: pages 1–16.

Smith, C.M., E. V. Boyko and S. Starkey.  Differential expression of genes in wheat, Tritucum aestivum L. controlling resistance to the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko).  IOBC wprs Bulletin Volume 28 2005 page 11.

Sotelo, P. C., P. Voothuluru, S. Starkey and C. M. Smith. Categories of resistance to the Russian wheat aphid biotype 2 operating in parents of aphid-resistant CIMMYT synthetic wheat lines. J. Econ. Entomol. (submitted). The Tribolium Genome Sequencing Consortium. (2008) The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneumNature452:949-55.

Tolmay, V., F. du Toit, and C. M. Smith.  2006.  Registration of Russian wheat aphid resistant near isogenic lines developed in South AfricaCrop Sci. 46:478-480.

Travers, S.E., M. D. Smith, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, P. S. Schnable, A. K. Knapp, G. Milliken, P. Fay, and K. A. Garrett.  2007.  Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 19-24.

Ungerer, M.C., Johnson, L.C., Herman, M.A. 2008 Ecological genomics: understanding gene functions in the natural environment. Heredity, 100, 178-183.

Ungerer, M.C., S. Strakosh, and Y. Zhen. Genome expansion in three hybrid sunflower species is associated with retrotransposon proliferationCurrent Biology 2006 Volume 16: pages 872 - 873.

Ungerer, M.C. Priming for genetics in ecology. BioScience Volume 55 (3) 2005 pages 283-285.

Voothuluru, P., L. Zhu, C. Khajuria, J. Lewis, J. Meng, C. M. Smith, G. E. Wilde and C. A. Baker. Categories and inheritance of resistance in wheat Cereal Introduction 2401 to Russian wheat aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae) biotypes 1 and 2. J. Econ. Entomol Volume 99 (5) 2006 pages 1854-61.

Weinig, C, Brock MT, Dechaine JA, Welch SM.  2006.  Resolving the genetic basis of invasiveness and predicting invasionsGenetica.  DOI 10.1007/s10709-006-9015-7.

Welch, S.M., Dong, Z., Roe, J.L., Das, S.  Flowering time control:  gene network modeling and the link to quantitative geneticsAustr. J. Ag. Res. Volume 56 2005 pages 919-936.

Welch, S.M., J. L. Roe, S. Das, Z. Cong, R. He, M. B. Kirkham.  Merging genomic control networks and Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Continuum (SPAC) Models. Agicultural Systems Volume 86 (3) 2005 pages 243-274.

Whitfield, A.E., Kumar, N.K.K., Rotenberg, D., Willis, D.K, Ullman, D.E., and German T.L. 2008. Tomato spotted wilt virus glycoprotein GN inhibits virus transmission by thrips. Phytopathology 98:45-50.

Wilson, R.H., T.J. Morgan, and T.F.C. Mackay.  High resolution mapping of quantitative trait loci affecting increased life span in Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics Volume 173 2006 pages 1455-1463.

Wisely, S.M., Santymire, R.M., Livieri, T.M., Mueting, S.A., Howard, J.G. 2008. Genotypic and phenotypic consequences of reintroduction history: case study of the black-footed ferret. Conservation Genetics 9:389-399.

Zhen Y and Ungerer MC. (2008) Clinal variation in freezing tolerance among natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 177:419-427

Zhu, L. C., C. M. Smith, and J. C. Reese. Categories of resistance to greenbug (Homoptera: Aphididae) biotype K in wheat lines containing Aegilops tauschii genes. J. Econ. Entomol Volume 98 2005 pages 2260-2265.


 

BOOKS

Garrett, K., ed. F. , V. Eviner, and R. Ostfeld, “Applied biodiversity science: Managing emerging diseases in agriculture and linked natural systems.” Chapter in Ecology of Infectious Disease, Princeton University Press. In press.

Smith, C. M. 2007. Plant Resistance to Insect and Mites. In: Buntin, D. G., Weiss, M., Pike, K. D., and Webster, J. A. (Eds.). ESA Handbook of Small Grain Insects. Entomological Society of America. (In Press).

Smith. C. M., ed: Plant Resistance to Arthropods – Molecular and Conventional Approaches. 2005 Publisher: Springer, Berlin. 423 pages.

(Report does not included updated information from Joern, Kambhampati, and Wisely as of 6/12/07)