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December 2004, Vol. 1, No. 1| Back to index

Research Briefs


From The Ecosystems Center

Klepac-Ceraj, V., M. Bahr, B. C. Crump, A. P. Teske, J. E. Hobbie, and M. F. Poltz. 2004. High overall diversity and dominance of microdiverse relationships in salt marsh sulfate-reducing bacteria. Environmental Microbiology 6 (7): 686-698.

Rastetter, E. B., B. L. Kwiatkowski, S. Le Dízes, and J. E. Hobbie. 2004. The role of down-slope water and nutrient fluxes in the response of arctic hill slopes to climate change. Biogeochemistry. 69:37-62.

Crump, B. C., C. S. Hopkinson, M. L. Sogin and J. E. Hobbie. 2004. Microbial biogeography along an estuarine salinity gradient: the combined influences of bacterial growth and residence time. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 1494-1505.

Zhuang, Q., J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, R. G. Prinn, A. D. McGuire, P. A. Steudler, B. S. Felzer, and S. Hu. 2004. Methane fluxes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere at northern high latitudes during the past century: A retrospective analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model, Global Biogeochem. Cycles 18, GB3010, doi:10.1029/ 2004GB002239.

Felzer, B., D. Kicklighter, J. Melillo, C. Wang, Q. Zhuang, and R. Prinn. 2004. Effects of ozone on net primary production and carbon sequestration in the conterminous United States using a biogeochemistry model. Tellus 56B: 230-248.

Gulledge, J., Y. Hrywna, C. Cavanaugh, and P. Steudler. 2004. Effects of long-term nitrogen fertilization on the uptake kinetics of atmospheric methane in temperate forest soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49: 389-400.

Garcia-Montiel, D. C., J. M. Melillo, P. A. Steudler, H. Tian, C. Neill, D. W. Kicklighter, B. Fiegl, M. Piccolo, and C. Cerri. 2004. Emissions of N2O and CO2 from terra firme forests in Rondônia, Brazil. Ecological Applications 14(4): S214-220.

From Marine Resources

Lindell, S. R., B. Delbos, R. Perham, J. Goldman, E. M. Hallerman, and T. O. Brenden. 2004. Performance of backcross hybrid striped bass in recirculation aquaculture systems. International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture. Vol. 5, 43-54.

Biga P. R., K. D. Cain, R. W. Hardy, G. T. Schelling, K. Overturf, S. B. Roberts, F. W. Goetz, and T. L Ott. 2004. Growth hormone differently regulates muscle myostatin 1 and -2 and increases circulating cortisol in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). General and Comparative Endocrinology. Vol. 137(1):32-41.

Roberts, S. B. 2004. Lab Studies: Genes involved with growth, development of bay scallops. Global Aquaculture Advocate. Vol. 7(3) 55-56.

Kim H-W, D. L. Mykles, F. W. Goetz, and S. B. Roberts. 2004. Characterization of an invertebrate myostatin homologue from the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Vol. 1679: 174-179.

Forsythe, J. W., N. Kangas, and R. T. Hanlon. 2004. Does the California Market Squid, Loligo opalescens, spawn naturally during the day or at night? A note on the successful use of ROVs to obtain basic fisheries biology data. Fish. Bull. 102: 389-392.

Buresch, K. C., J. G. Boal, G. T. Nagle, J. Knowles, R. Nobuhara, K. Sweeney, and R. T. Hanlon. 2004. Experimental evidence that ovary and oviducal gland extracts influence male agonistic behavior in squids. Bio. Bull. 206: 1-3.

Naud, M.-J.; R. T. Hanlon, K. C. Hall, P. W. Shaw, and J. N. Havenhand. 2004. Behavioral and genetic assessment of mating success in a natural spawning aggregation of the giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) in southern Australia. Animal Behaviour 67: 1043-1050.
Hanlon, R.T.; N. Kangas, J. W. Forsythe, 2004. Egg capsule deposition and how behavioral interactions influence spawning rate in the squid, Loligo opalescens, in Monterey Bay, California. Marine Biology. Vol. 144, No 5.

Hanlon, R. T., B. Skerry. 2004. ‘Beautiful and Beastly Squid’ National Geographic. August, Vol. 206, No. 2 (p. 30-45)

From the Furie Lab

Hansson, K., X. Ma, L. Eliasson, B. Furie, B. C. Furie, P. Rorsman, and J. Stenflo. The first Gla-containing contryphan: a selective L-type calcium ion channel blocker isolated from the venom of Conus marmoreus. J. Biol. Chem. 279:32453-32463.

Grant, M. A., K. Hansson, B. C. Furie, B. Furie, J. Stenflo, and A. C. Rigby. 2004. The metal-free and calcium-bound NMR structures of a Gla-containing contryphan from Conus marmoreus, Glacontryphan-M. J. Biol. Chem. 279:32464-32473.

Hansson, K., B. Furie, B. C. Furie, and J. Stenflo. 2004. Isolation and characterization of three novel Gla-containing Conus marmoreus venom peptides, one with a novel cysteine pattern. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 319:1081-1087, 2004.


From Lionel Jaffe

Jaffe, L. F. 2003. Epigenetic theories of cancer initiation. Adv. Cancer Res. 90: 209-230.


From the McArthur Laboratory (JBPC)

Best, A. A., H. G. Morrison, A. G. McArthur, M. L. Sogin, and G. J. Olsen. 2004. Evolution of eukaryotic transcription: insights from the genome of Giardia lamblia. Genome Research, 14:1537-1547.

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