Publications

Many of our undergraduate students (65 or more every year) perform significant research in the various laboratories within the Department of Biological Sciences. A number of these students have made contributions significant enough for them to serve as co-authors on publications in scientific journals. Several of these students are co-authors on more than one paper, and some are even the first author of the publication. Many undergraduates also have served as co-authors on posters presented at national and international meetings. Some examples of publications our undergraduates are co-authors and contributors to are listed below with the students’ names in bold. In addition, here are some examples of recent undergraduate research projects.

Publications of Our Undergraduate Researchers

• Stephen T. Ferguson, Alexandra R. Ruff, Kyu Y. Park, Isaac Bakis and Laurence J. Zwiebel. Odor Coding of Nestmate Recognition in the Eusocial Ant Camponotus floridanus. Journal of Experimental Biology (2020) doi:10.1242/jeb.215400. PMID: 31900348.

• Stephen T. Ferguson, Issac Bakis, Nicholas D. Edwards, and Laurence J. Zwiebel. Age and Task Modulate Olfactory Sensitivity in the Florida Carpenter Ant, Camponotus floridanus. Insects (2023)14, 724, https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14090724  Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.18.549561v1

• Stephen T. Ferguson, Issac Bakis, Nicholas D. Edwards, and Laurence J. Zwiebel. Olfactory sensitivity differentiates morphologically distinct worker castes in Camponotus floridanus. BMC Biology (2023) 21:3 https://rdcu.be/c20yH. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.01.486728v1
• Stephen T. Ferguson, Isaac Bakis and Laurence J. Zwiebel. Advances in the Study of Olfaction in Eusocial Ants (Review). Insects (2021) 12(3), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12030252. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/3/252
• Strassberg SS, Creanza N (2020). Cultural evolution and prehistoric demography. In press. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

• Surowiec A, Pichkar Y, Creanza N (2020). Cultures of cooperation: human evolution in the context of cultural variability. Current Anthropology 61(2) 207-208.

• Wright MT, Kouba L, Plate L. Thyroglobulin Interactome Profiling Uncovers Molecular Mechanisms of Thyroid Dyshormonogenesis. [bioRxiv preprint]. (2020) April; doi: 10.1101/2020.04.08.032482

• Stephen T. Ferguson, Alexandra R. Ruff, Kyu Y. Park, Isaac Bakis and Laurence J. Zwiebel (2020), Odor Coding of Nestmate Recognition in the Eusocial Ant Camponotus floridanus. Journal of Experimental Biology. doi:10.1242/jeb.215400. PMID: 31900348.

• Zi Ye, HuaHua Sun, Alex Liu, Mackenzie Barker, R. Jason Pitts and LJ Zwiebel (2020). Heterogeneous Expression of the Ammonium Transporter AgAmt in Chemosensory Appendages of the Malaria Vector. Anopheles gambiae. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. May;120:103360. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103360. Epub 2020 Feb 29. PMID: 32126276.

• Layton, E., J. On, J.I. Perlmutter, S.R. Bordenstein, J.D. Shropshire (2019) Paternal grandmother age affects the strength of Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster. mBio 10(6): e01879-19.

• Jent, D.G, Perry, Abby, Critchlow, J.T., Tate, A.T.* (2019). Natural variation in the contribution of microbial density to inducible immune dynamics. Molecular Ecology. 28:5360-5372. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15293.

• Ely ZA, Moon JM, Sliwoski GR, Sangha AK, Shen XX, LaBella AL, Meiler J, Capra JA, Rokas A (2019). The impact of natural selection on the evolution and function of placentally expressed galectins. Genome Biol. Evol. 11: 2574–2592 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz183

• Mead ME*, Borowsky AT*, Joehnk B, Steenwyk JL, Shen XX, Sil A, Rokas A (2020). Recurrent loss of abaA, a master regulator of asexual development in filamentous fungi, correlates with changes in genomic and morphological traits. (*Equal contributors) Genome Biol. Evol.: in press: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa107

• Gadbery JE*, Abraham A*, Needle C, Moth C, Sheehan J, Capra JA, Jackson LP. (2020). Integrating Structural and Evolutionary Data to Interpret Genetic Variation and Pathogenicity in Adaptor Protein Complex 4 (AP-4). Protein Sci 29 (6): 1535-1549. (*joint first authors)

• Siemann JK, Green NH, Reddy N, et. al (2019) Sequential Photoperiodic Programming of Serotonin Neurons, Signaling and Behaviors During Prenatal and Postnatal Development. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13:459.

• Smith, S. P., J. B. Phillips, M. L. Johnson, P. Abbot, J. A Capra, & A. Rokas (2019). Genome wide association analysis identifies genetic variants associated with reproductive variation across domestic dog breeds and uncovers links to domestication. (*Equal contributors) Evol. Med. Public Health: in press.

• Takar M, Huang Y, Graham TR. (2019) The PQ-loop protein Any1 segregates Drs2 and Neo1 functions required for viability and plasma membrane phospholipid asymmetry. J Lipid Res. May;60(5):1032-1042. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M093526. Epub 2019 Mar 1. PMID: 30824614

• Surowiec A, Snyder KT, Creanza N (2019). A worldwide view of matriliny: Using genetic data to shed light on the evolution of human kinship systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1780), 20180077

• Brown, L.D., L.L.M. Shapiro, G.A. Thompson, T.Y. Estévez-Lao, and J.F. Hillyer. (2019). Transstadial immune activation in a mosquito: adults that emerge from infected larvae have stronger antibacterial activity in their hemocoel yet increased susceptibility to malaria infection. Ecology and Evolution. 9:6082–6095. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5192.