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Submissions from 2019

Root Demographics: How Root Stage Distributions Alter Plant Growth, Tyler Poppenwimer, Louis J. Gross, Joe Bailey, and Megan A. Rúa

Effects Of Agrilus planipennis And Lonicera maackii On Fungal Driven Decomposition In Midwestern Forests, Adam M. Reed and Megan A. Rúa

Evaluation of a Process by which Individual Interest Supports Learning Within a Formal Middle School Classroom Context, William Romine, Chia Lin Tsai, Michele Miller, Nai En Tang, and William Folk

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The Missing Metric: An Evaluation of Fungal Importance in Wetland Assessments, Megan A. Rúa

Variation In Plant And Fungal Traits Indicates Mycorrhizal Mediated Selection For Pinus radiata, Megan A. Rúa and Jason D. Hoeksema

Coarse woody habitat and glacial lake fisheries in the Midwestern United States: knowns, unknowns, and an experiment to advance our knowledge, Greg G. Sass, Stephanie L. Shaw, Thomas P. Rooney, Andrew L. Rypel, Joshua K. Raabe, Quinnlan C. Smith, Thomas R. Hrabik, and Scott T. Toshner

Body Mass Of Pregnant Eptesicus fuscus Is Diverging With Long-Term Exposure To Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Molly C. Simonis, Lynn K. Hartzler, Gregory G. Turner, Michael R. Scafini, Joseph S. Johnson, and Megan A. Rúa

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Genetically Distinct Behavioral Modules Underlie Natural Variation in Thermal Performance Curves, Gregory W. Stegeman, Scott E. Baird, William S. Ryu, and Asher D. Cutter

Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of World Tachinidae (Diptera)., John O. Stireman III, Pierfilippo Cerretti, James E. O'Hara, Jeremy D. Blaschke, and John K. Moulton

Impacts of enquiry-based science teaching on achievement gap between high-and-low SES students: findings from PISA 2015, Nai En Tang, Chia Lin Tsai, Lloyd Barrow, and William Romine

Modeling the Transition from a Phenotypic to Genotypic Conceptualization of Genetics in a University-Level Introductory Biology Context, Amber Todd, William L. Romine, and Josefina Correa-Menendez

Geography Is More Important Than Host Plant Use for the Population Genetic Structure of a Generalist Insect Herbivore, Mayra C. Vidal, Tom W. Quinn, John O. Stireman III, Robin M. Tinghitella, and Shannon M. Murphy

Plant Density and Rhizosphere Chemistry: Does Marigold Root Exudate Composition Respond to Intra- and Interspecific Competition?, Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer, Tricia M. Montgomery, Don Cipollini, Paul A. Weston, and Brian K. Mohney

White-Tailed Deer and an Invasive Shrub Facilitate Faster Carbon Cycling in a Forest Ecosystem, Michaela J. Woods, Elizabeth Roberson, Don Cipollini, and Megan A. Rua

Lonicera maackii Increases Rates Of Nutrient Turnover During Coarse Woody Debris Decay, Michaela J. Woods and Megan A. Rúa

Submissions from 2018

Letter to the Editor—Appropriate Standards for Verification and Validation of Probabilistic Genotyping Systems, Nathaniel Adams, Roger Koppl, Dan E. Krane, William Thompson, and Sandy Zabell

The FUN(Gi) Kind Of Colonization: Effects Of Micronutrients On Mycorrhizal Association With Little Blue Stem, Kiersten P. Angelos, Chelse M. Prather, and Megan A. Rúa

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Regulation of the Sperm‐to‐oocyte Transition in Caenorhabditis briggsae Hermaphrodites by the Cbr ‐met‐2 and Cbr‐fem‐3 Genes, Aaron L. Berenson and Scott Everet Baird

Molecular Phylogenetics and Piercer Evolution in the Bug‐Killing Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae: Phasiinae), Jeremy D. Blaschke, John O. Stireman III, James E. O'Hara, Pierfilippo Cerretti, and John K. Moulton

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Remarkable Fly (Diptera) Diversity in a Patch of Costa Rican Cloud Forest: Why Inventory Is a Vital Science., Art Borkent, Brian Brown, Peter Adler, Dalton de Souza Amorim, Kevin Barber, Daniel Bickel, Stephanie Boucher, Scott Brooks, John Burger, Z L. Burington, Renato Capellari, Daniel Costa, Jeffery Cumming, Greg Curler, Carl Dick, J Epler, Eric Fisher, Stephen Gaimari, Jon Gelhaus, David Grimaldi, John Hash, Martin Hauser, Heikki Hippa, Sergio IbÁÑez-Bernal, Mathias Jaschhof, Elena P. Kameneva, Peter H. Kerr, Valery Korneyev, Cheslavo A. Korytkowski, Giar-Ann Kung, Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte, Owen Lonsdale, Stephen A. Marshall, Wayne N. Mathis, Verner Michelsen, Stefan Naglis, Allen L. Norrbom, Steven Paiero, Thomas Pape, Alessandre Pereira-Colavite, Marc Pollet, Sabrina Rochefort, Alessandra Rung, Justin B. Runyon, Jade Savage, Vera C. Silva, Bradley J. Sinclair, Jeffrey H. Skevington, John O. Stireman III, John Swann, Pekka Vilkamaa, Terry Wheeler, Terry Whitworth, Maria Wong, D Monty Wood, Norman Woodley, Tiffany Yau, Thomas J. Zavortink, and Manuel A. Zumbado

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Comprehensive Inventory Of True Flies (Diptera) At A Tropical Site, Brian V. Brown, Art Borkent, Peter H. Adler, Dalton de Souza Amorim, Kevin Barber, Daniel Bickel, Stephanie Boucher, Scott E. Brooks, John Burger, Zelia L. Burington, Renato S. Capellari, Daniel N.R. Costa, Jeffrey M. Cumming, Greg Curler, Carl W. Dick, John H. Epler, Eric Fisher, Stephen D. Gaimari, Jon Gelhaus, David A. Grimaldi, John Hash, Martin Hauser, Heikki Hippa, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Mathias Jaschhof, Elena P. Kameneva, Peter H. Kerr, Valery Korneyev, and Cheslavo A. Korytkowski

Do Alternative Instructional Approaches Result In Different Learning Progressions?, Moraima Castro-Faix, Amber Todd, William Romine, and Ravit Golan Duncan

The Potential for Host Switching via Ecological Fitting in the Emerald Ash Borer-Host Plant System, Don Cipollini and Donnie Lee Peterson

Introduction to Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Fisheries Scientists, Jason C. Doll and Stephen J. Jacquemin

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Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference, Carsten F. Dormann, Justin M. Calabrese, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Eleni Matechou, Volker Bahn, Kamil Bartoń, Colin M. Beale, Simone Ciuti, Jane Elith, Katharina Gerstner, Jérôme Guelat, Petr Keil, José J. Lahoz-Monfort, Laura J. Pollock, Björn Reineking, David R. Roberts, Boris Schröder, Wilfried Thuiller, David I. Warton, Brendan A. Wintle, Simon N. Wood, Rafael O. Wüest, and Florian Hartig

Adaptive Divergence in a Defense Symbiosis Driven from the Top Down, Jeremy J. Heath, Patrick Abbot, and John O. Stireman III

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Evolutionary History of Plant Hosts and Fungal Symbionts Predicts the Strength of Mycorrhizal Mutualism, Jason D. Hoeksema, James D. Beaver, Sounak Chakraborty, V. Bala Chaudhary, Monique Gardes, Catherine A. Gehring, Miranda M. Hart, Elizabeth Ann Housworth, Wittaya Kaonongbua, John N. Klironomos, Marc J. Lajeunesse, James Meadow, Brook G. Milligan, Bridget J. Piculell, Anne Pringle, Megan A. Rúa, James Umbanhowar, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Yen-Wen Wang, Gail W.T. Wilson, and Peter C. Zee

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Changes in Grand Lake St Marys Watershed: moving towards an improved understanding of water quality over the past decade, Stephen J. Jacquemin

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Changes in Water Quality of Grand Lake St. Marys Watershed Following Implementation of a Distressed Watershed Rules Package, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Laura T. Johnson, Theresa A. Dirksen, and Gregory J. McGlinch

Tree Species with Limited Geographical Ranges Show Extreme Responses to Ectomycorrhizas, Justine Karst, Cole Burns, Jonathan A. Cale, Pedro M. Antunes, Michaela Woods, Louis J. Lamit, Jason Hoeksema, Cartherine Zabinski, Catherine Gehring, Marc La Flèche, and Megan A. Rúa

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Regulation of RANKL-Induced Osteoclastogenesis by RING FingerProtein RNF114, Boren Lin, Qi Ke, Douglas W. Leaman, Vijay Goel, and Anand Agarwal

Convergent Evolution in Tooth Morphology of Filter Feeding Lamniform Sharks, Michaela G. Mitchell, Charles Ciampaglio, and Stephen J. Jacquemin

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Preliminary Understanding of Complexities in Swimming Performance of Common Minnow (Cyprinidae) Taxa, Crystal Nichols, Austin Smith, Stephen Huelsman, Cara Schemmel, Jason C. Doll, and Stephen J. Jacquemin

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Lakeshore Modification Reduces Secondary Production of Macroinvertebrates In Littoral But Not Deeper Zones, Marlene Pätzig, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Mario Brauns

Do Grazers Respond to or Control Food Quality Cross Scale Analysis Of Algivorous Fish In Littoral Lake Tanganyika, Munubi Nanziga Renalda, Peter B. McIntyre, and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur

Girdling Increases Survival and Growth of Emerald Ash Borer Larvae on Manchurian Ash, Chad M. Rigsby, Caterina Villari, Donnie Lee Peterson, Daniel A. Herms, Pierluigi Bonello, and Don Cipollini

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A Closer Look at the Items within Three Measures of Evolution Acceptance: Analysis of the MATE, I-SEA, and GAENE as a Single Corpus of Items, William L. Romine, Amber Todd, and Emily M. Walter

Host Genetic Background Shapes The Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Community Composition And Function Of Two Varieties Of Pinus clausa, Megan A. Rúa

Early Hospital Mortality Prediction Using Vital Signals, Reza Sadeghi, Tanvi Banerjee, and William L. Romine

The Influence of Learners Perceptions of Virtual Humans on Learning Transfer, Noah L. Schroeder, Fan Yang, Tanvi Banerjee, William L. Romine, and Scotty D. Craig

Effects of Cortisol and Lipopolysaccharide on Expression of Select Growth-, Stress- and Immune-Related Genes in Rainbow Trout Liver, Brian S. Shepherd, Allyn R. Spear, Anju M. Philip, Douglas W. Leaman, Carol A. Stepien, Osvaldo J. Sepulveda-Villet, Debra E. Palmquist, and Mathilakath M. Vijayan

Tritrophic Niches of Insect Herbivores in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change, John O. Stireman III and Michael S. Singer

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The Learning Loss Effect in Genetics: What Ideas Do Students Retain or Lose after Instruction?, Amber Todd and William L. Romine

Noradrenergic Modulation Determines Respiratory Network Activity During Temperature Changes in the in vitro Brainstem of Bullfrogs, Mauricio Vallejo, Joseph Michael Santin, and Lynn K. Hartzler

Effect Of White-Tailed Deer And Amur Honeysuckle On Soil Exoenzyme Production In A Midwestern Deciduous Forest, Michaela J. Woods, Elizabeth Roberson, Don Cipollini, and Megan A. Rúa

Submissions from 2017

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Evidence of Morphological and Functional Variation among Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus Populations across Grand Lake St Mary's Watershed Area, Anthony Bell and Stephen J. Jacquemin

Spatial Variation in Tooth Shape of Miocene Populations of Carcharocles Megalodon across Ocean Basins, Maxwell J. Bertsos, Charles Ciampaglio, and Stephen J. Jacquemin

Swimming Performance Chamber Design: A "How to Guide" on the Design, Build, and Implementation of a Novel Chamber for Ecological Research, Shawn P. Beyke, Clint J. Knape, Andrew J. Moore, and Stephen J. Jacquemin

A Decline in Benthic Algal Production may Explain Recent Hypoxic Events in Lake Erie's Central Basin, Soren Brothers, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Paul Sibley

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First Definitive Fossil of an Oestroid Fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the Dating of Oestroid Divergences, Pierfilippo Cerretti, John O. Stireman III, Thomas Pape, James E. O'Hara, Marco A. Marinho, Knut Rognes, and David A. Grimaldi

Morphological Analysis of the Blastoid Taxa Metablastus Wortheni and Tricoelocrinus Woodmani with Emphasis on Taxonomic Implications, Charles Ciampaglio, Stephen J. Jacquemin, and Alex J. Fabian

Feeding and Development of Emerald Ash Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) on Cultivated Olive, Olea europaea, Don Cipollini, Chad Michael Rigsby, and Donnie Lee Peterson

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Genetic Population Structure Across The Range Of Endangered Northeastern Bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus, Kendra Cipollini, Philip Lavretsky, Don Cipollini, and Jeffrey L. Peters

A Molecular Genetics Learning Progression Web: Using Model Search to Target Hub Ideas, Josefina Correa-Menendez, Amber Todd, and William L. Romine

Genetic Expansion of Chaperonin‐Containing TCP‐1 (CCT/TRiC) Complex Subunits Yields Testis‐Specific Isoforms Required for Spermatogenesis in Planarian Flatworms, Jenna T. Counts, Tasha M. Hester, and Labib Rouhana

Immunogenicity Modulation of VHSV-IVb upon Natural Changes in the Great Lakes and by Matrix Protein Mutation, Bartolomeo Gorgoglione, Megan D. Niner, Wade Weaver, Vikram N. Vakharia, Carol A. Stepien, and Douglas W. Leaman

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Modeling Virus Coinfection to Inform Management of Maize Lethal Necrosis in Kenya, Frank H. Hilker, Linda S. J. Allen, Vrushali A. Bokil, Cheryl J. Briggs, Zhilan Feng, Karen A. Garrett, Louis J. Gross, Frédéric M. Hamelin, Michael J. Jeger, Carrie A. Manore, Alison G. Power, Margaret G. Redinbaugh, Megan A. Rúa, and Nik J. Cunniffee

Understanding Swimming Performance Variation in Ohio Minnows(Cyprinidae), Stephen C. Huelsman, Cara Schemmel, Austin J. Smith, and Stephen J. Jacquemin

The Monophyly of the Glaurocarini (Diptera: Tachinidae: Tachininae) With the Description of a New Species of Semisuturia From Australia, Diego J. Inclan, James E. O'Hara, John O. Stireman III, Hiroshi Shima, Jaakko Pohjoismäki, Giuseppe Lo Giudice, and Pierfilippo Cerretti

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Evidence of Tooth Shape Variation in Carcharocles megalodon Across Ocean Basins, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Maxwell J. Bertsos, and Charles N. Ciampaglio

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Swimming Performance Chamber Design: A ‘How To Guide’ on the Design, Build, and Implementation of a Novel Chamber for Ecological Research, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Shawn P. Beyke, Benjamin F. Boyd, Clint J. Knapke, and Andrew J. Moore

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Understanding Swimming Performance Variation in Ohio Minnows (Cyprinidae), Stephen J. Jacquemin, Stephen C. Huelsman, and Cara G. Schemmel

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Convergent Evolution in Tooth Morphology of Filter Feeding Lamniform Sharks, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Michaela G. Mitchell, Charles N. Ciampaglio, and Stephen C. Huelsman

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Comparing Swimming Performance of Bluntnose Minnows Pimephales notatus in Lentic and Lotic Systems, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Crystal C. Nichols, and Jason C. Doll

How Does Literature Affect Empathy in Students?, Christine Junker and Stephen J. Jacquemin

Stable Isotopes Reveal Nitrogen Loading to Lake Tanganyika from Remote Shoreline Villages, Brianne Kelly, Emmanuel Mtiti, Peter B. McIntyre, and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur

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Role of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus Matrix (M) Protein in Suppressing Host Transcription, Qi Ke, Wade Weaver, Adam Pore, Bartolomeo Gorgoglione, Julia H. Wildschutte, Peng Xiao, Brian S. Shepherd, Allyn Spear, Krishnamurthy Malathi, Carol A. Stepien, Vikram N. Vakharia, and Douglas W. Leaman

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Depressed Synaptic Transmission and Reduced Vesicle Release Sites in Huntington's Disease Neuromuscular Junctions, Ahmad Khedraki, Eric J. Reed, Shannon H. Romer, Qingbo Wang, William L. Romine, Mark M. Rich, Robert J. Talmadge, and Andrew A. Voss

Negative Regulation of the RLH Signaling by the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase RNF114, Boren Lin, Qi Ke, Haiying Li, Nichole S. Pheifer, David C. Velliquette, and Douglas W. Leaman

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Animals and their Epibiota as Net Autotrophs: Size Scaling of Epibiotic Metabolism on Snail Shells, Nicole Lukens, Benjamin Kraemer, Vanessa Constant, Ellen J. Hamann, Ellinor Michel, Anne M. Socci, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Peter B. McIntyre

Exfoliating Bark Does Not Protect Platanus occidentalis from Root-Climbing Lianas, James R. Milks, Justin Hibbard, and Thomas P. Rooney

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What do College Undergraduates Know about Zika and What Precautions Are They Willing to Take to Prevent its Spread?, Michele E. Miller, William L. Romine, and Megan A. Rúa

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What do College Undergraduates Know about Zika and What Precautions Are They Willing to Take to Prevent its Spread?, Michele Miller, William L. Romine, and Megan A. Rúa

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Identification of Antigenic Sarcoptes scabiei Proteins for use in a Diagnostic Test and of Non-antigenic Proteins that may be Immunomodulatory, Majorie S. Morgan, S. Dean Rider, and Larry G. Arlian

Genetic Changes in Vhsv-Ivb Across Time in the Great Lakes and Pathogenicity Modifications, Megan D. Niner, Bartolomeo Gorgoglione, Douglas W. Leaman, and Carol A. Stepien

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Tachinid Fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) Parasitoids of Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Karen Oberhauser, Dane Elmquist, Juan Manuel Perilla-Lopez, Ilse Gebhard, Laura Lukens, and John O. Stireman III

Teaching Osmosis to Biology Students, Arthur L. Odom, Lloyd H. Barrow, and William L. Romine

Distribution, predictors, and impacts of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)(Coleoptera: Buprestidae) infestation of white fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus), Donnie Lee Peterson and Don Cipollini

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Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Augments Myoblast Adhesion and Fusion Through Homophilic Trans-Interactions, Francis X. Pizza, Ryan A. Martin, Evan M. Springer, Maxwell S. Leffler, Bryce R. Woelmer, Issac J. Recker, and Douglas W. Leaman

Modelling the Root Age Structure of Perennial Woody Plants, Tyler Poppenwimer, Louis Gross, Joseph Bailey, and Megan A. Rúa

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Allergen Homologs in the Euroglyphus maynei Draft Genome, S. Dean Rider, Majorie S. Morgan, and Larry G. Arlian

Variation in the Volatile Profiles of Black and Manchurian Ash in Relation to Emerald Ash Borer Oviposition Preferences, Chad M. Rigsby, Nathaniel B. McCartney, Daniel A. Herms, James H. Tumlinson, and Don Cipollini

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Assessment Of Scientific Literacy: Development And Validation Of The Quantitative Assessment Of Socio-Scientific Reasoning (QuASSR), William L. Romine, Troy D. Sadler, and Andrew T. Kinslow

Conceptualizing Student Affect for Science and Technology at the Middle School Level: Development and Implementation of a Measure of Affect in Science and Technology (MAST), William L. Romine, Troy D. Sadler, and Eric P. Wulff

Valuing Evidence over Authority: The Impact of a Short Course for Middle-Level Students Exploring the Evidence for Evolution, William L. Romine and Amber Todd

Understanding Patterns of Evolution Acceptance—a New Implementation of the Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) with Midwestern University Students, William L. Romine, Emily M. Walter, Ephraim Bosse, and Amber Todd

Annotated Girardia dorotocephala MA-C2 Transcriptome Sequences, Labib Rouhana

BLAST2GO Homolog, E-value, and GO Annotation for Girardia dorotocephala MA-C2 Transcriptome Assembly, Labib Rouhana

De novo Alignment of Girardia dorotocephala MA-C2 Transcriptome, Labib Rouhana and Eugene M. P. Almazan

De novo Alignment of Girardia dorotocephala Transcriptome, Labib Rouhana and Eugene M. P. Almazan

Genetic Dissection of the Planarian Reproductive System Through Characterization of Schmidtea Mediterranea Cpeb Homologs, Labib Rouhana, Junichi Tasaki, Amir Saberi, and Phillip A. Newmark

Disturbance History and Environmental Characteristics Shape the Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Community of Two Varieties of Pinus clausa, Megan A. Rúa

Accounting for Local Adaptation in Ectomycorrhizas: A Call to Track Geographical Origin of Plants, Fungi, and Soils in Experiments, Megan A. Rúa, Louis J. Lamit, Catherine Gehring, Pedro M. Antunes, Jason D. Hoeksema, Cathy Zabinski, Justine Karst, Cole Burns, and Michaela J. Woods

Accounting for Local Adaptation in Ectomycorrhizas: A Call to Track Geographical Origin of Plants, Fungi, and Soils in Experiments, Megan A. Rua, Louis J. Lamit, Catherine Gehring, Pedro M. Antunes, Jason Hoeksema, Cathy Zabinski, Justine Karst, Cole Burns, and Michaela J. Woods

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Activation of Respiratory Muscles Does Not Occur During Cold-Submergence in Bullfrogs, Lithobates Catesbeianus, Joseph Michael Santin and Lynn K. Hartzler

Synaptic Up-Scaling Preserves Motor Circuit Output After Chronic, Natural Inactivity, Joseph Michael Santin, Mauricio Vallejo, and Lynn K. Hartzler

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A New Tachinid Genus and Species Record for North America: Iceliopsis Borgmeieri Guimarães, John O. Stireman III and Jane E. Dell

Specialized Generalists? Food Web Structure of a Tropical Tachinid-Caterpillar Community, John O. Stireman III, Lee A. Dyer, and Harold F. Greeney

Development and Validation of the Learning Progression–Based Assessment of Modern Genetics in a High School Context, Amber Todd, William L. Romine, and Katahdin Abigail Cook Whitt

Modeling the Transition from a Phenotypic to Genotypic Conceptualization of Genetics in a University-Level Introductory Biology Context, Amber Todd, William L. Romine, and Josefina Correa-Menendez