PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

2009-2010
Barbosa, J.M., N.K. Singh, J.H Cherry, and R.D. Locy. Forthcoming, 2010. Nitrate uptake and utilization is modulated by exogenous g-aminobutyric acid in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry xxx 1-8.

Boyd, Jennifer Nagel and Xu, Cheng-Yuan and Griffin, Kevin L. (2009) Cost-effectiveness of leaf energy and resource investment of invasive Berberis thunbergii and co-occurring native shrubs. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 39 (11). pp. 2109-2118.

Chatzimanolis, S., M. S. Engel, A. Newton and D. Grimaldi. 2010. New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous Research 31(1): 77–84.

Chatzimanolis, S. and M.S. Engel. (2010) Laasbium Scudder: A genus of Tertiary earwigs, not rove beetles, and the classification of Florissant fossil Dermaptera (Insecta). Annales Zoologici 60: 1. 101-108.

Chatzimanolis, S. and J. S. Ashe. 2009. A revision of the neotropical genus Ocyolinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini). Zootaxa 2162: 1–23.

Clarke, D. and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009. Antiquity and long-term morphological stasis in a group of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Description of the oldest Octavius species, from Cretaceous Burmese amber and review of the 'Euaesthetine subgroup' fossil record. Cretaceous Research 30(6): 1426–1434.

Collins, E. and J. Shaw. 2009. Noteworthy collection of Ranunculus ficaria in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Castanea 74:434.

*Conley, J., M. S. Schorr, M.L. Hanson, S.J. Symes, S.R. Richards. 2009. Is ambient chitobiase activity a monitoring tool for impacts on secondary productivity in lotic systems? Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 66:1274-1281.

*Cookson, N. and M. S. Schorr. 2009. Correlations of watershed housing density with environmental conditions and fish assemblages in a Tennessee Ridge and Valley stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 24:553-561.

Engel, M. S. and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009. An oxyteline rove beetle in Dominican amber with possible African affinities (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 77(4): 425–429.

Gaudin, T. J., R. J. Emry, and J. R. Wible. 2009. The phylogeny of living and extinct pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and associated taxa: a morphology based analysis. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16(4): 235-305.

Huskins, S. and J. Shaw. (In press, 2010). The vascular flora of North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Natural Area, Hamilton and Sequatchie Counties, Tennessee. Castanea.

*Miller R. J., A.D. Carroll, T.P. Wilson, J. Shaw. 2009. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Three Common Wetland Invasive Plant Species Using Herbarium Specimens and Geographic Information Systems. Castanea 74(2): 133-145.

Nelson, C. H. 2009. Surface ultrastructure and evolution of tarsal attachment structures in Plecoptera (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Aquatic Insects 31:1, 523-545.

*Moss, S., J. Keller, S. Richards, T. Wilson. 2009. Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in plasma from a riverine turtle assemblage from the Tennessee River Gorge. Chemosphere 76(2):194-204.

*Simpson, J. F. and T. P. Wilson. 2009. Geographic Distribution. Acris gryllus (Southern Cricket Frog). Herpetological Review. 40 (2): 233.

Republications
Tucker, J. C. and M. A. Brown. 2009. Comparative Analysis of Pesticide Regulatory Programs in the United States and Brazil. National Ag. Law Center, University of Arkansas School of Law. Viewable at http://nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/bibarticles/tuckerbrown_comparative.pdf. Originally published at 18 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. J. 81 (1995).

2008-2009
Chatzimanolis, S. and M.S. Caterino. 2008. Conservation genetics and phylogeography of impacted Californian coastal communities: A comparative study using three beetles (Coleoptera). Insect Conservation and Diversity 1: 222-232.

Chatzimanolis, S. and M.S. Caterino. 2008. Phylogeography of the darkling beetle Coelus ciliatus in California. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(5):939-949.

Chatzimanolis, S. 2008. A revision of the neotropical beetle genus Isanopus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini). Journal of Natural History 42(25-26): 1765-1792.

Caterino, M.S. and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009. Conservation genetics of three flightless beetle species in southern California. Conservation Genetics 10:203-216.

*Conley, J., S. Symes, M. Schorr, M. Hanson, S. Richards. 2008. Spatial and temporal analysis of pharmaceutical concentrations in the Upper Tennessee River Basin. Chemosphere. 73:1178-1187.

*Conley, J., S. Symes, M. Schorr, M. Hanson, S. Richards. 2009 (in press). Is ambient chitobiase activity a monitoring tool for impacts on secondary productivity in lotic systems? Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences.

Engel, M.S. and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009 (in press). An oxyteline rove beetle in Dominican amber with possible African affinities (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae. Annals of the Carnegie Museum.

Gaudin, T.J., R.J. Emry, and J.R. Wible. 2009 (in press). The phylogeny of living and extinct pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and associated taxa: a morphology based analysis. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

Gaudin, T.J. 2009 (in press). Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful: South American Mammals. A review of “Mammals of South America. Volume 1. Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats. A. L. Gardner (ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago press. 2008.” Journal of Mammalian Evolution 16(2): XX-XX.

Kuzmicheva, G., Barbosa, J., Suh, S-J., Asaev, M. and Barbaree, J. 2008. Discovery of phage specifically recognizing Bacillus cereus spores. Proceedings of International Interdisciplinary Symposium. September 2008. Russia.

Nelson, Charles H. 2008. Hierarchical relationships of North American states and provinces: An area cladistic analysis based on the distribution of stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera). Illiesia 4(18):176-204.

*Miller, R.J., A. Carroll, T.P. Wilson, and J. Shaw. in press for June 2009. Spatiotemporal analysis of three common wetland invasive plant species using herbarium specimens and geographic information systems. Castanea.

Saint-Andre, P.-A., F. Pujos, C. Cartelle, G. DeIuliis, T.J. Gaudin, H.G. McDonald, and B.M. Quiespe. 2009. (in press) Nouveaux paresseux terrestres (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) du Neogene de l’Altiplano bolivien Geodiversitas.

*Smith, M.B., D. Aborn, T.J. Gaudin, and J.C. Tucker. 2008. Mammalian Predator Distribution around a Transmission Line. The Southeastern Naturalist. 7(2): 289-300.

*Smith M.B., J. Conley, C. Nelson, and T.J. Gaudin. 2008. First record of the water shrew, Sorex palustris, from Graham County, North Carolina. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 124(2):61-62.

Wen, J., S.T. Berggren, C.-H. Lee, S. Ickert-Bond, T.-S. Yi, K.-O. Yoo, L. Xie, J. Shaw, and D. Potter. 2008. “Phylogenetic inferences in Prunus (Rosaceae) using chloroplast ndhF and nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences.” Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46: 322-332.

2007-2008
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 S.J., Koster K.L. 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.

Department publications (* = current or former UTC student co-author, bold denotes department faculty)