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Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
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Dept 2653
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403

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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(* denotes student author)

• Aborn, D.A. (2007) Abundance, density and diversity of Neotropical migrants at the Lula Lake Land Trust, GA.  The Southeastern Naturalist in press
• Murray, S.A., Carver, E.A., and Gridley, T. (2006). Generation of a Snail1 (Snai1) conditional null allele. Genesis. 44(1):7-11.
• Alexander, S.H., Alexander, M.T., and Craddock, J.H.  (2006)  Host pathogen interactions in a segregating population of BC2F2 hybrid Castanea dentata after exposure to hypovirus-containing and hypovirus-free strains of Cryphonectria parasitica. In: Restoration of American Chestnut to Forest Lands: Proc. Of a Conference and Workshop. May 4-6, 2004.  The North Carolina Arboretum.  Poster, available as pdf on line at: http://chestnut.cas.psu.edu/nps.htm
• Craddock, J.H. (2006)  Chestnut Breeding in the United States.  Pages 109-128 in: Tree Breeding Researches: for the next half century.  Proc. International Symposium for the 50th Anniversary of KFGR & the 20th Anniversary of the late Dr, SK Hyun.  June 15-16, 2006, Forest Seed Research Center, Suanbo, Korea.  KFRI.
• Gaudin, T. J. and J. R. Wible.  2006.  Chapter 6. The phylogeny of living and extinct armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata): a craniodental analysis. Pp. 153-198 in: Carrano, M. T., Gaudin, T. J., Blob, R. W. & Wible, J. R. (eds.), Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
• Gaudin, T. J., R. J. Emry and *B. Pogue. 2006.  A new genus and species of pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the late Eocene of Inner Mongolia, China.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26(1): 146-159.
• *Smith, M.B. and T.J. Gaudin.  (2006).  Noteworthy small mammal records from Graham County, North Carolina.  Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science.  122(4): 165-167.
• Botha-Brink, J. and T. J. Gaudin. 2007.  A new pangolin (Mammalia: Pholidota) from the Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology  27(2): XX-XX  in press
• Gaudin, T.J. and H.G. McDonald. (in press)  Chapter 3. Morphology-based investigations of the phylogenetic relationships among extant and fossil Xenarthrans; in J. Loughry and S. Vizcaíno (eds.), Biology of the Xenarthra, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL.
• Halperin SJ, Koster KL. 2006. Sugar effects on membrane damage during desiccation of pea embryo protoplasts.  Journal of Experimental Botany 57, 2303-2311.
• Richards, S. and S. Cole*. 2006. Developmental Toxicity of Thirteen Pharmaceuticals to Xenopus Laevis.  Ecotoxicology, 15:647-656.
• Adair, D. , Z.Lin, S. Richards, C. Salafia, R. Miller, D. Misra, B. Duthie, and L. Mason, Human Placental Arsenic Levels Correlate with Low Birth Weigh (LBW). Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. 13 (2):198A 2006.
• Salafia,C. , D. Adair, R. Miller, D. Misra, S. Richards, L. Mason, and A. Charles. Reduced chorionic vascular "fit" is correlated with shortened gestation, and reduced observed/expected birth weight ratio. Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. 13 (2):90A 2006
• Salafia,C. , R. Miller, S. Richards, C. Adair, L. Troxler. 2006. Chorionic Vascular “Fit”, Cord Centrality And Fetal Growth Restriction. Placenta, in press.
• Conley, J. * and S. Richards. 2007. Ecotoxicology: Teratogenesis. In (ed) B. Ronan, Encyclopedia of Ecology. Invited Submission. Publisher: Elsevier, Oxford, UK, in press.
• Richards, S. , K. Adsit, D. Ford. Integrating Inquiry-Based Field Investigations into an Environmental Science Curriculum. Journal of College Science Teaching, submitted and in review.
• Richards, S. , S. Kelly*, and M. Hanson. 2007. Zooplankton chitobiase activity as an endpoint of pharmaceutical effect. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, submitted and in review.
• Tithof. P., S. Richards, M. Elgayyar, W. Guan, F. Menn, V. Vulava, L. McKay, J. Sanseverino, G. Sayler, D. Tucker, C. Leslie, K.  Lu and K. Ramos.  Activation of Group IVC phospholipase A2 by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons induces apoptosis of human coronary artery endothelial cells. 2007. Environmental Science and Biotechnology, submitted and in review.
• Moss, S. *, J. Keller, S. Richards, T. Wilson.  Levels of persistent organic pollutants in plasma from a riverine turtle assemblage from the Tennessee River Gorge.  2007. Environmental Science and Technology, submitted and in review.
• Richards,S. , K. Eckert, J. Stephens, T. Rainwater. 2007. Idiosyncratic Procyon lotor behavior associated with canine distemper virus.  Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, submitted and in review.
  Shaw, J., E. Lickey, E. E. Schilling, and R. Small. 2007. Comparison of whole chloroplast genome sequences to choose noncoding regions for phylogenetic studies in angiosperms: The tortoise and the hare III. American Journal of Botany 94.
• Horn, D. and J. Shaw. 2007. Noteworthy collection of Clematis fremontii in Tennessee. Castanea 72.
• Schorr, M.S. and *J.C. Baker. 2006.  Localized effects of coal mine drainage on fish assemblages in a Cumberland Plateau stream in Tennessee.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology 21:17-24.
• *Miller, A., T.P. Wilson, M. Smith, R. Minton, and C. Manis. 2007. Geographic distribution: Hyla cinerea (Green Treefrog). Herpetological Review. In Press.
• Keller, J.M., *Carlson, B., *Swarthout, R., *Alava, J.J., *Moss, S., *Steward, K., *Aleska, K., Wilson, T.P., and J.R. Kucklick. 2007. PBDE Concentrations and Congener Profiles among Different Turtle Species, Locations, and Sample Types. 2007. Fourth International Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants, Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 24-27, 2007. In Review.