Faculty Publications

(Names in bold are Biology Department faculty;
* denotes a student researcher.) 

2012

2011

Tomkins, J. L., Hazel, W. N., Penrose, M. A., Radwan, N. R. and LeBas, N. R. 2011. Habitat complexity drives the experimental evolution of a conditionally expressed secondary sexual trait.  Current Biology 21: 1-5.
 
Tomkins, J. L. and Hazel, W. N. 2011. Explaining phenotypic diversity: The conditional strategy and threshold trait expression. In Dung beetle ecology and evolution.  Wiley-Blackwell. 

Fox, Vanessa L., Charlotte P. Buehler*, Chad M. Byers*, Summer E. Drake*. 2010. Forest composition, leaf litter, and songbird communities in oak- vs. maple-dominated forests in the eastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 2426-2432.

Gould, K.S., Dudle, D.A., and Neufeld, H.S.  2010.  Why some stems are red: cauline anthocyanins shield photosystem II against high light stress.  Journal of Experimental Botany  61: 2707-2717.

Vaglia, Janet, Kurt White* and Alison Case.* 2010. Evolving possibilities: postembryonic axial elongation in salamanders with biphasic (Eurcyea cirrigera, Eurycea longicauda, Eurycea quadridigitata) and paedomorphic life cycles (Eurycea nana and Ambystoma mexicanum). Acta Zoologica 93: 2-13.

2010

Hazel, W.N. and Q. Deng.*  2010. Population structure and phylogeography of an acorn barnacle with induced defense and its gastropod predator in the Gulf of California. Marine Biology 157: 1989-2000. 

2009

Kinney, K.S. and N. Cohen.  2009.  Neural-immune system interactions in Xenopus.  Frontiers in Bioscience.  14: 112-129.

2008

Ross, C. L., J. H. Benedix, Jr., C. Garcia, K. Lambeth, R. Perry, V. Selwyn, and D. J. Howard.  2008.  Scale-independent criteria and scale-dependent agents determining the structure of a ground cricket mosaic hybrid zone (Allonemobius socius – A. fasciatus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 777-796.

Hazel, W. N. Alexander Berlin*, Jacqueline Betsch*, Tanya Corman*, Ryan Ely*, John Emhardt*, Dennis Fisher*, Kyle Foster*, Andrew Hadley*, Lauren Huff*, Brock Sishc*, Brian Smith*.  2008.  Why germline filters out severe mtDNA mutations.   Science.  E-Letter response (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/319/5865/958) 

Lafontant, Pascal J.. 2008.  Using tablet PCs and DyKnow vision to enhance student engagement in a human anatomy class. In The impact of tablet PCs and pen-based technology on education: evidence and outcomes. Purdue University Press.  
 
Xu X., Sarikas A., Dias-Santagata D.C., Dolios G., Lafontant P.J., Tsai S.C., Zhu W., Nakajima H., Nakajima H.O., Field L.J., Wang R., Pan Z.Q. 2008.  The CUL7 E3 ubiquitin ligase targets insulin receptor substrate 1 for ubiquitin-dependent degradation. Molecular Cell 30: 403-414.

2007

Lafontant, Pascal and Loren J. Field.  2007. Myocardial regeneration via cell cycle activation.  In Rebuilding the infarcted heart.  United Kingdom:  Informa Healthcare.

Mellencamp, K., M. Hass, A. Werne, R. Stark, and W. Hazel. 2007. The role of larval stemmata in the control of pupal color and pupation site preference in the swallowtail butterflies Papilio troilus, P. polyxenes, Eurytides marcellus, and P. glaucus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 100: 53-58.

M. Jones, L. Rakes, M. Yochum, G. Dunn, S. Wurster, K. Kinney,W. Hazel. 2007.  The proximate control of pupal color in swallowtail butterflies: implications for the evolution of environmentally-cued pupal color in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Journal of Insect Physiology 53: 40-46.

Tomkins, J. L. and Hazel, W. 2007. The status of the conditional evolutionarily stable strategy.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22: 522-528.

Kinney, K.S., T.C. Hing and R.M. Sapolsky.  2007.  Characterization of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression following a kainate model of status epilepticus.  Brain Research 1182:  138-143.

2006

Dudle, Dana A. and M. Altman.  2006.  Across the language barrier: plant gender and feminist theory.  In: Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird (eds.).  Removing barriers: women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

N. Cohen and K.S. Kinney.  2006.  A phylogenetic history of neural-immune interactions. Pages 1-38 in: R. Ader and N. Cohen, Eds., Psychoineuroimmunology, 4th edition, Academic Press, San Diego.

Schneider, H. and B. Sulner*.  2006. The innervation of dorsal and caudal fin muscles in adult zebrafish, Danio rerio. Journal of Comparative Neurology 497:  702-716.

2005

Artman (Fox), V. L., T. Hutchinson, and J. Brawn.  2005.  Fire ecology and bird populations in eastern deciduous forests.  Studies in Avian Biology 30: 127-138.

Townsend, G., Smock, R. and Hazel, W. 2005.  Using evolutionary computation methods to validate analytical models for the evolution and maintenance of conditional strategies in Chthamalus anisipoma. Pages 409-414 in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.  

K. S. Kinney and N. Cohen. 2005.  Increased splenocyte mitogenesis following sympathetic denervation in Xenopus laevis. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 29:  287-293.

2004

Klump, G. M, J. H. Benedix Jr.,  H. C. Gerhardt, and P. M. Narins.  2004.  AM-representation in green treefrog auditory-nerve fibers: neuroethological implications for pattern recognition and sound localization. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 190: 1011-1021.

Hazel, W. N., Smock, R., and Lively, C. 2004. The ecological genetics of conditional strategies. American Naturalist. 163: 888-900.

2003

Vaglia, J.L. and K.K. Smith. 2003. Early differentiation and migration of cranial neural crest in the opossum, Monodelphis domestica.  Evolution and Development 5: 121-136.

Artman (Fox), V. L., and J. F. Downhower.  2003.  Wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) nesting ecology in relation to prescribed burning of mixed-oak forest in Ohio.  Auk 120: 874-882.

Artman (Fox), V. L.  2003.  Effects of commercial thinning on breeding bird populations in        western hemlock forests.  American Midland Naturalist 149: 201-208.

2002

Hazel, W. N. 2002. The environmental and genetic control of seasonal polyphenism in larval color and its adaptive significance in a swallowtail butterfly. Evolution 56: 342-348.

Artman (Fox), V. L., and R. Dettmers.  2002.  Breeding bird communities associated with mixed-oak forests in southern Ohio.  Pages 139-155 in Sutherland, E. K. and T. F. Hutchinson, editors.  Characteristics of mixed-oak forest communities in southern Ohio prior to the reintroduction of fire. USDA Forest Service GTR NE-299.

2001

Townsend, G.and Hazel, W.  2001. Computer science and biology get a-life.  Journal of Computing in Small Colleges 17: 9-16.

G. Sonnenfeld, M. Tovey, H. Schellekens, K. S. Kinney, T. Belay, D. S. Morton, C. E. Austin, M. Reitman, T.A.T. Fong, and H. S. Vaughan.  2001. Efficacy and safety of oral/sublingual, intranasal and intraperitoneal recombinant murine interferon in the treatment of murine encephalomyocarditis virus.  Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research 21:  539-545.

Cohen, N. and K.S. Kinney. 2001.  A phylogenetic history of neural immune interactions. Pages 21-54 in R. Ader, D.L. Felten, and N. Cohen, Eds. Psychoineuroimmunology, 3rd edition. Academic Press, San Diego.  

G. Sonnenfeld, G.R. Taylor and K.S. Kinney. 2001.  Acute and chronic effects of space flight on immune functions.  Pages 279-289 in R. Ader, D.L. Felten, and N. Cohen, Eds., Psychoineuroimmunology, 3rd edition. Academic Press, San Diego.

Artman (Fox), V. L., E. K. Sutherland, and J. F. Downhower.  2001.  Prescribed burning to restore mixed-oak communities in southern Ohio:  effects on breeding bird populations. Conservation Biology 15:1423-1434.

2000

Hazel, W. N. and Smock, R. 2000.  Inheritance in the conditional strategy revisited.  Journal of Theoretical Biology 204: 307-309.

D. Dréau, M. Foster, D.S. Morton, N. Fowler, K. Kinney, and G. Sonnenfeld. 2000. Immune alterations in three mouse strains following 2-deoxy-d-glucose administration. Physiology & Behavior 70: 513-520

Kinney K. S., C. E. Austin, D. S. Morton, and G. Sonnenfeld. 2000.  Norepinephrine as a growth stimulating factor in bacteria – mechanistic studies. Life Sciences 67:  3075-3085.

Vaglia, J.L. and B.K. Hall. (2000)  Patterns of migration and regulation of trunk neural crest cells in zebrafish (Danio rerio).  International Journal of Developmental Biology 44: 867-881.

1999

Benedix, J. H. Jr., and P. M. Narins.  1999.  Competitive calling behavior by male treefrogs, Eleutherodactylus coqui  (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Copeia 1999: 1122-1126.

Starnecker, G., and W. N. Hazel. 1999. Convergent evolution of neuroendocrine control of phenotypic plasticity in pupal colour in butterflies.  Proceeding of the Royal Society Series B 266: 2409-2412.

Vaglia, J.L. and B.K. Hall. 1999.  Regulation of neural crest cell populations: occurrence, distribution and underlying mechanisms.  International Journal of Developmental Biology 43: 95-110.

Miyake, T., J.L. Vaglia and B.K. Hall. 199.)  Development of dermal denticles in skates (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea): patterning and cellular differentiation.  Journal of Morphology 241: 61-81

1998

Fornari, C.S. 1998.  Developmental genetics. Invited article for the Encyclopedia of Genetics. Jeffrey A. Knight, ed., Salem Press, Pasadena, California. 

Fornari, C.S.  1997.  Homeotic genes. Invited article for the Encyclopedia of Genetics. Jeffrey A. Knight, ed., Salem Press, Pasadena, California. 

Hazel, W. N., Ante, S*. and Stringfellow, B*. (1998)  The evolution of environmentally-cued pupal colour in swallowtail butterflies: natural selection for pupation site and pupal colour.  Ecological Entomology 23: 41-44.