Chitin: a potential new alternative nitrogen source for the tertiary, algal-based treatment of pulp and paper mill wastewater - Carrine E. Blank; Ryan W. Parks; Nancy W. Hinman (Journal of Applied Phycology, 2016)

Identification of a novel PMS2 alteration c.505C>G (R169G) in trans with a PMS2 pathogenic mutation in a patient with constitutional mismatch repair deficiency - Maureen E. Mork; Ester Borras; Melissa W. Taggart; Amanda Cuddy; Sarah A. Bannon; Y. Nancy You; Patrick M. Lynch; Pedro T. Ramirez; Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas; Eduardo Vilar (Familial Cancer, 2016)

Spring temperatures influence selection on breeding date and the potential for phenological mismatch in a migratory bird - E. Keith Bowers; Jennifer L. Grindstaff; Sheryl Swartz Soukup; Nancy E. Drilling; Kevin P. Eckerle; Scott K. Sakaluk; Charles F. Thompson (Ecology, 2016)
Climate change has affected the seasonal phenology of a variety of taxa, including that of migratory birds and their critical food resources. However, whether climate‐induced changes in breeding phenology affect individual fitness, and how these changes might therefore influence selection on breeding date remain unresolved. Here, we use a 36‐yr dataset from a long‐term, individual‐based study of House Wrens ( Troglodytes aedon ) to test whether the timing of avian breeding seasons is associated with annual changes in temperature, which have increased to a small but significant extent locally since the onset of the study in 1980. Increasing temperature was associated with an advancement of breeding date in the population, as the onset of breeding within years was closely associated with daily spring temperatures. Warmer springs were also associated with a reduced incubation period, but reduced incubation periods were associated with a prolonged duration of nestling provisioning. Nest productivity, in terms of fledgling production, was not associated with temperature, but wetter springs reduced fledging success. Most years were characterized by selection for earlier breeding, but cool and wet years resulted in stabilizing selection on breeding date. Our results indicate that climate change and increasing spring temperatures can affect suites of life‐history traits, including selection on breeding date. Increasing temperatures may favor earlier breeding, but the extent to which the phenology of populations might advance may be constrained by reductions in fitness associated with early breeding during cool, wet years. Variability in climatic conditions will, therefore, shape the extent to which seasonal organisms can respond to changes in their environment.

Carbon Flux and Carbohydrate Gene Families in Pineapple - Robert E. Paull; Nancy Jung Chen; Ray Ming; Ching Man Wai; Neil Shirley; Julian Schwerdt; Vincent Bulone (Tropical Plant Biology, 2016)

Sexual Health Concerns Among Cancer Survivors: Testing a Novel Information-Need Measure Among Breast and Prostate Cancer Patients - Sheila A. Crowley; Sallie M. Foley; Daniela Wittmann; Christina H. Jagielski; Rodney L. Dunn; Patricia M. Clark; Jennifer J. Griggs; Catherine Peterson; Marcia Leonard; Lawrence C. An; John T. Wei; James E. Montie; et al. (Journal of Cancer Education, 2016)

Engaging Elements of Cancer-Related Digital Stories in Alaska - Melany Cueva; Regina Kuhnley; Laura Revels; Nancy E. Schoenberg; Anne Lanier; Mark Dignan (Journal of Cancer Education, 2016)

Influence of the Mississippi River on Pseudo-nitzschia spp. Abundance and Toxicity in Louisiana Coastal Waters - Sibel Bargu; Melissa M. Baustian; Nancy N. Rabalais; Ross Del Rio; Benjamin Von Korff; R. Eugene Turner (Estuaries and Coasts, 2016)

Metrics for monitoring cancer inequities: residential segregation, the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE), and breast cancer estrogen receptor status (USA, 1992–2012) - Nancy Krieger; Nakul Singh; Pamela D. Waterman (Cancer Causes & Control, 2016)

Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coastal Marshes and Associated Organisms - Nancy Rabalais; R. Eugene Turner (Oceanography, 2016)

Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honeybees and bumblebees - Elijah Powell; Nalin Ratnayeke; Nancy A. Moran (Molecular Ecology, 2016)
Host‐restricted lineages of gut bacteria often include many closely related strains, but this fine‐scale diversity is rarely investigated. The specialized gut symbiont Snodgrassella alvi has codiversified with honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) and bumblebees ( Bombus ) for millions of years. Snodgrassella alvi strains are nearly identical for 16S rRNA gene sequences but have distinct gene repertoires potentially affecting host biology and community interactions. We examined S. alvi strain diversity within and between hosts using deep sequencing both of a single‐copy coding gene ( minD ) and of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. We sampled workers from domestic and feral A. mellifera colonies and wild‐caught Bombus representing 14 species. Conventional analyses of community profiles, based on the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene, failed to expose most strain variation. In contrast, the minD analysis revealed extensive strain variation within and between host species and individuals. Snodgrassella alvi strain diversity is significantly higher in A. mellifera than in Bombus , supporting the hypothesis that colony founding by swarms of workers enables retention of more diversity than colony founding by a single queen. Most Bombus individuals (72%) are dominated by a single S. alvi strain, whereas most A. mellifera (86%) possess multiple strains. No S. alvi strains are shared between A. mellifera and Bombus , indicating some host specificity. Among Bombus ‐restricted strains, some are restricted to a single host species or subgenus, while others occur in multiple subgenera. Findings demonstrate that strains diversify both within and between host species and can be highly specific or relatively generalized in their host associations.

Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest - Claire Fortunel; Renato Valencia; S. Joseph Wright; Nancy C. Garwood; Nathan J. B. Kraft (Ecology Letters, 2016)
As distinct community assembly processes can produce similar community patterns, assessing the ecological mechanisms promoting coexistence in hyperdiverse rainforests remains a considerable challenge. We use spatially explicit neighbourhood models of tree growth to quantify how functional trait and phylogenetic similarities predict variation in growth and crowding effects for the 315 most abundant tree species in a 25‐ha lowland rainforest plot in Ecuador. We find that functional trait differences reflect variation in (1) species maximum potential growth, (2) the intensity of interspecific interactions for some species, and (3) species sensitivity to neighbours. We find that neighbours influenced tree growth in 28% of the 315 focal tree species. Neighbourhood effects are not detected in the remaining 72%, which may reflect the low statistical power to model rare taxa and/or species insensitivity to neighbours. Our results highlight the spectrum of ways in which functional trait differences can shape community dynamics in highly diverse rainforests.

Herbicide management of invasive cattail (Typha × glauca) increases porewater nutrient concentrations - Beth A. Lawrence; Shane C. Lishawa; Yarency Rodriguez; Nancy C. Tuchman (Wetlands Ecology and Management, 2016)

Adverse effect of agroecosystem pond water on biological endpoints of common toad (Rhinella arenarum) tadpoles - María Selene Babini; Clarisa de Lourdes Bionda; Nancy Edith Salas; Adolfo Ludovico Martino (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2016)

Receipt of mammography recommendations among White and non-White women before and after the 2009 United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendation change - Felisa A. Gonzales; Stephen H. Taplin; Mandi Yu; Nancy Breen; Kathy A. Cronin (Cancer Causes & Control, 2016)

Bioaccumulation of Legacy and Emerging Organochlorine Contaminants in Lumbriculus variegatus - Viet D. Dang; Kevin J. Kroll; Samuel D. Supowit; Rolf U. Halden; Nancy D. Denslow (Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2016)

Vegetation of riprapped revetments along the freshwater tidal Hudson River, New York - David L. Strayer; Erik Kiviat; Stuart E. G. Findlay; Nancy Slowik (Aquatic Sciences, 2016)

Circulating angiopoietin-2 levels in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus: relation to carotid and aortic intima-media thickness - Mohamed Abo El-Asrar; Nancy Samir Elbarbary; Eman Abdel Rahman Ismail; AlShaimaa Abo Bakr (Angiogenesis, 2016)

Transferring an optimized TAP-toolbox for the isolation of protein complexes to a portfolio of rice tissues - Maarten Dedecker; Jelle Van Leene; Nancy De Winne; Dominique Eeckhout; Geert Persiau; Eveline Van De Slijke; Bernard Cannoot; Leen Vercruysse; Lies Dumoulin; Nathalie Wojsznis; Kris Gevaert; Steven Vandenabeele; et al. (Plant Molecular Biology, 2016)

What determines farmers’ adaptive capacity? Empirical evidence from Malawi - Solomon Asfaw; Nancy McCarthy; Leslie Lipper; Aslihan Arslan; Andrea Cattaneo (Food Security, 2016)

Geographic population structure and subspecific boundaries in a tidal marsh sparrow - Russell Greenberg; Kristina M. Cammen; Amy G. Wilson; Brian J. Olsen; Barbara Ballentine; Nancy C. McInerney; Robert C. Fleischer (Conservation Genetics, 2016)

Erhöhung der speicherbaren Energiemenge zweier bestehender Pumpspeicherkraftwerke - Tobias Gebler; Gerhard Rieckmann; Nancy Kersten (WASSERWIRTSCHAFT, 2016)

A review of methods for interpretation of glycopeptide tandem mass spectral data - Han Hu; Kshitij Khatri; Joshua Klein; Nancy Leymarie; Joseph Zaia (Glycoconjugate Journal, 2016)

Genome-wide SNP discovery in the annual herb, Lasthenia fremontii (Asteraceae): genetic resources for the conservation and restoration of a California vernal pool endemic - Lorena Torres-Martínez; Nancy C. Emery (Conservation Genetics Resources, 2016)

The last plant hunting expedition of David Fairchild: Venezuela and Colombia (March–April 1948) - Nancy Korber; Jafet M. Nassar; Janet Mosely; Brett Jestrow; Carl Lewis; Javier Francisco-Ortega (Brittonia, 2016)

Quorum quenching–Stören friede zwischenbakterieller Beziehungen - Nancy Weiland-Bräuer; Ruth A. Schmitz-Streit (BIOspektrum, 2016)

Formaldehyde as a carbon and electron shuttle between autotroph and heterotroph populations in acidic hydrothermal vents of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park - James J. Moran; Laura M. Whitmore; Nancy G. Isern; Margaret F. Romine; Krystin M. Riha; William P. Inskeep; Helen W. Kreuzer (Extremophiles, 2016)

Integrated molecular, physiological and in silico characterization of two Halomonas isolates from industrial brine - Ross P. Carlson; Olusegun Oshota; Matt Shipman; Justin A. Caserta; Ping Hu; Charles W. Saunders; Jun Xu; Zackary J. Jay; Nancy Reeder; Abigail Richards; Charles Pettigrew; Brent M. Peyton (Extremophiles, 2016)

Environmental niche drives genetic and morphometric structure in a widespread bat - Ariadna Morales; Fabricio Villalobos; Paúl M. Velazco; Nancy B. Simmons; Daniel Piñero (Journal of Biogeography, 2016)
Aim To explore whether environmental factors are correlated with genetic and morphometric differences in the widely distributed bat species Tadarida brasiliensis . Location North America and Central America. Methods We used an extensive sampling comprising 131 localities that represent heterogeneous environments across the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Museum specimens were examined and 25 craniodental characters were recorded. Individuals were genotyped at one mitochondrial locus (mt DNA ) and nine nuclear loci ( nDNA ). Clustering and phylogenetic analyses were used to identify differentiated groups. Environmental variables and PCA ‐env approaches were used to determine the climatic niche and to measure the niche overlap, equivalence and similarity between groups. Mantel tests between genetic groupings and environmental variables, dispersal costs, Euclidean geographical distances and niche overlap were performed. Results We identified six genetic groups within Central and North American T. brasiliensis based on nDNA . The most strongly differentiated group, in both nDNA and mt DNA , was located in central Mexico. Morphometric data showed that individuals from populations in Florida are slightly larger than the others. Niche overlap was detected among Neotropical groups but not among Nearctic groups. The currently recognized subspecies were not recovered as distinct groups with either genetic or morphometric data. Main conclusions Our approaches suggest that environmental niche variation may help shape the distribution of genetic variation across heterogeneous landscapes, particularly in widely distributed species. Environmental niche analyses suggest that genetic differences between migratory and non‐migratory groups of T. brasiliensis may be promoted by climatic variation throughout the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. In addition, genetic and morphometric analyses do not support the current subspecies classification of T. brasiliensis in North and Central America, which should be abandoned.

Antibiotics as CECs: An Overview of the Hazards Posed by Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance - Geoffrey I. Scott; Dwayne E. Porter; R. Sean Norman; C. Hart Scott; Miguel I. Uyaguari-Diaz; Keith A. Maruya; Steve B. Weisberg; Michael H. Fulton; Ed F. Wirth; Janet Moore; Paul L. Pennington; Daniel Schlenk; et al. (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016)

Murine diet/tissue and human brain tumorigenesis alter Mthfr/MTHFR 5′-end methylation - Nancy Lévesque; Daniel Leclerc; Tenzin Gayden; Anthoula Lazaris; Nicolas De Jay; Stephanie Petrillo; Peter Metrakos; Nada Jabado; Rima Rozen (Mammalian Genome, 2016)

Distinct gene expression profiles provoked by polyacrylamide beads (Biogel) during chronic and acute inflammation in mice selected for maximal and minimal inflammatory responses - Jussara Gonçalves Fernandes; Tatiane Canhamero; Andrea Borrego; José Ricardo Jensen; Wafa Hanna Cabrera; Mara Adriana Correa; Nancy Starobinas; Orlando Garcia Ribeiro; Olga Martinez Ibañez; Marcelo De Franco (Inflammation Research, 2016)

Cerebrospinal fluid white cell count: discriminatory or otherwise for enteroviral meningitis in infants and young children? - Natalie Woon Hui Tan; Elis Yuexian Lee; Gloria Mei Chin Khoo; Nancy Wen Sim Tee; Subramania Krishnamoorthy; Chew Thye Choong (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2016)

Associations between allergic conditions and pediatric brain tumors in Neurofibromatosis type 1 - Bree Porcelli; Nancy L. Zoellner; Salmafatima S. Abadin; David H. Gutmann; Kimberly J. Johnson (Familial Cancer, 2016)

Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years? - Daniel J. Zarin; Nancy L. Harris; Alessandro Baccini; Dmitry Aksenov; Matthew C. Hansen; Claudia Azevedo‐Ramos; Tasso Azevedo; Belinda A. Margono; Ane C. Alencar; Chris Gabris; Adrienne Allegretti; Peter Potapov; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2016)
Halving carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by 2020 could help bring the international community closer to the agreed goal of NYDF ). We assemble and refine a robust dataset to establish a 2001–2013 benchmark for average annual carbon emissions from gross tropical deforestation at 2.270 Gt CO 2 yr −1 . Brazil did not sign the NYDF , yet from 2001 to 2013, Brazil ranks first for both carbon emissions from gross tropical deforestation and reductions in those emissions – its share of the total declined from a peak of 69% in 2003 to a low of 20% in 2012. Indonesia, an NYDF signatory, is the second highest emitter, peaking in 2012 at 0.362 Gt CO 2 yr −1 before declining to 0.205 Gt CO 2 yr −1 in 2013. The other 14 NYDF tropical country signatories were responsible for a combined average of 0.317 Gt CO 2 yr −1 , while the other 86 tropical country non‐signatories were responsible for a combined average of 0.688 Gt CO 2 yr −1 . We outline two scenarios for achieving the 50% emission reduction target by 2020, both emphasizing the critical role of Brazil and the need to reverse the trends of increasing carbon emissions from gross tropical deforestation in many other tropical countries that, from 2001 to 2013, have largely offset Brazil's reductions. Achieving the target will therefore be challenging, even though it is in the self‐interest of the international community. Conserving rather than cutting down tropical forests requires shifting economic development away from a dependence on natural resource depletion toward recognition of the dependence of human societies on the natural capital that tropical forests represent and the goods and services they provide.

Climate change impacts on ecosystems and ecosystem services in the United States: process and prospects for sustained assessment - Nancy B. Grimm; Peter Groffman; Michelle Staudinger; Heather Tallis (Climatic Change, 2016)

Engagement with indigenous peoples and honoring traditional knowledge systems - Julie Maldonado; T. M. Bull Bennett; Karletta Chief; Patricia Cochran; Karen Cozzetto; Bob Gough; Margaret Hiza Redsteer; Kathy Lynn; Nancy Maynard; Garrit Voggesser (Climatic Change, 2016)

The Ontogeny of Encephalization: Tradeoffs Between Brain Growth, Somatic Growth, and Life History in Hominoids and Platyrrhines - Nancy L. Barrickman (Evolutionary Biology, 2016)

Nondestructive Assessment of Engineered Cartilage Composition by Near Infrared Spectroscopy - Cushla M. McGoverin; Arash Hanifi; Uday P. Palukuru; Farzad Yousefi; Padraig B. M. Glenn; Michael Shockley; Richard G. Spencer; Nancy Pleshko (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2016)

STEM Graduate Students: Learning How to be Effective Storytellers - Nancy Marcus (Oceanography, 2016)

The Individual Development Plan: A Tool to Help Graduate Students Assume Control of Their Futures - Nancy Marcus (Oceanography, 2016)

Introduction to the Special Issue on Graduate Education in the Ocean Sciences - Susan Cook; Nancy Marcus (Oceanography, 2016)

Cadaverine: a common polyamine in zygotic embryos and somatic embryos of the species Capsicum chinense Jacq. - Carlos Fernando Regla-Márquez; Adriana Canto-Flick; Susana Alejandra Avilés-Viñas; Raúl Enrique Valle-Gough; Jacobo Pérez-Pastrana; Francisco Javier García-Villalobos; Nancy Santana-Buzzy (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2016)

Study design and population pharmacokinetic analysis of a phase II dose-ranging study of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist - Kayode Ogungbenro; Sharon Hulme; Nancy Rothwell; Stephen Hopkins; Pippa Tyrrell; James Galea (Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, 2016)

Changing ideas in forestry: A comparison of concepts in Swedish and American forestry journals during the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries - Erland Mårald; Nancy Langston; Anna Sténs; Jon Moen (Ambio, 2016)

A review of 5-HT transporter linked promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism and associations with alcohol use problems and sexual risk behaviors - Muni Rubens; Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy; Jennifer Attonito; Anshul Saxena; Sandeep Appunni; Nancy Shehadeh; Jessy G. Dévieux (Journal of Community Genetics, 2016)

The relationship among computer work, environmental design, and musculoskeletal and visual discomfort: examining the moderating role of supervisory relations and co-worker support - Michelle M. Robertson; Yueng-hsiang Huang; Nancy Larson (International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2016)

Size-dependent top-down control on phytoplankton growth by microzooplankton in eutrophic lakes - Wai Hing Wong; Nancy N. Rabalais; R. Eugene Turner (Hydrobiologia, 2016)

Bilirubin as a Biomarker in Liver Disease - Nahum Méndez-Sánchez; Libor Vítek; Nancy E. Aguilar-Olivos; Misael Uribe (Exposure and Health, 2016)

Moult migration in Bullock’s orioles (Icterus bullockii) confirmed by geolocators and stable isotope analysis - Andrew G. Pillar; Peter P. Marra; Nancy J. Flood; Matthew W. Reudink (Journal of Ornithology, 2016)

Hepatitis C virus genotypes in Kenya - Joseph Mwangi; Zipporah Nganga; Solomon Mpoke; Raphael Lihana; Joyceline Kinyua; Nancy Lagat; Joseph Muriuki; Rency Lel; Sheila Kageha; Saida Osman; Hiroshi Ichimura (Archives of Virology, 2016)

Redundant synthesis of a conidial polyketide by two distinct secondary metabolite clusters in A spergillus fumigatus - Kurt Throckmorton; Fang Yun Lim; Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis; Weifa Zheng; Nancy P. Keller (Environmental Microbiology, 2016)
Summary Filamentous fungi are renowned for the production of bioactive secondary metabolites. Typically, one distinct metabolite is generated from a specific secondary metabolite cluster. Here, we characterize the newly described trypacidin ( tpc ) cluster in the opportunistic human pathogen A spergillus fumigatus . We find that this cluster as well as the previously characterized endocrocin ( enc ) cluster both contribute to the production of the spore metabolite endocrocin. Whereas trypacidin is eliminated when only tpc cluster genes are deleted, endocrocin production is only eliminated when both the tpc and enc non‐reducing polyketide synthase‐encoding genes, tpcC and encA , respectively, are deleted. EncC , an anthrone oxidase, converts the product released from EncA to endocrocin as a final product. In contrast, endocrocin synthesis by the tpc cluster likely results from incomplete catalysis by TpcK (a putative decarboxylase), as its deletion results in a nearly 10‐fold increase in endocrocin production. We suggest endocrocin is likely a shunt product in all related non‐reducing polyketide synthase clusters containing homologues of TpcK and TpcL (a putative anthrone oxidase), e.g. geodin and monodictyphenone. This finding represents an unusual example of two physically discrete secondary metabolite clusters generating the same natural product in one fungal species by distinct routes.

Marine Conservation in the Azores: Evaluating Marine Protected Area Development in a Remote Island Context - Rita C. Abecasis; Pedro Afonso; Ana Colaço; Nancy Longnecker; Julian Clifton; Luisa Schmidt; Ricardo S. Santos (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015)

Comprehension of Randomization and Uncertainty in Cancer Clinical Trials Decision Making Among Rural, Appalachian Patients - Janice L. Krieger; Angela Palmer-Wackerly; Phokeng M. Dailey; Jessica L. Krok-Schoen; Nancy E. Schoenberg; Electra D. Paskett (Journal of Cancer Education, 2015)

A Formative Study of Colon Cancer Surveillance Care: Implications for Survivor-Centered Interventions - Katherine Regan Sterba; Jane Zapka; Nancy LaPelle; Kent Armeson; Marvella E. Ford (Journal of Cancer Education, 2015)

Conservation biological control in strawberry: effect of different pollen on development, survival, and reproduction of Neoseiulus californicus (Acari: Phytoseiidae) - María F. Gugole Ottaviano; Claudia V. Cédola; Norma E. Sánchez; Nancy M. Greco (Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2015)

Predictors of survival and functional outcomes in natalizumab-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy - Tuan Dong-Si; Sarah Gheuens; Amy Gangadharan; Made Wenten; Jeffrey Philip; James McIninch; Shoibal Datta; Nancy Richert; Carmen Bozic; Gary Bloomgren; Sandra Richman; Thomas Weber; et al. (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2015)

The local food movement, public-private partnerships, and food system resiliency - Rebecca Dunning; J. Dara Bloom; Nancy Creamer (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015)

Effect of weaning age and the use of different sized Artemia nauplii as first feed for jade perch Scortum barcoo - Stijn Van Hoestenberghe; Mathieu Wille; Evelien De Swaef; Bruno M. Goddeeris; Nancy Nevejan (Aquaculture International, 2015)

Red Sea fishes in the Mediterranean Sea: a preliminary investigation of a biological invasion using DNA barcoding - Michel Bariche; Martha Torres; Colin Smith; Nancy Sayar; Ernesto Azzurro; Ryan Baker; Giacomo Bernardi (Journal of Biogeography, 2015)
Aim More than 90 marine fish species in the Mediterranean have been determined to be alien species of Red Sea origin to date and therefore it is important to prioritize research into cataloguing their distribution and impacts. The aims of this study were to establish a barcode library for alien Mediterranean fishes of probable Red Sea origin and to initiate analyses of their invasion dynamics. Location Mediterranean Sea. Methods Specimens of exotic fishes were collected directly from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lebanon or obtained from fish markets in Lebanon. Samples were first identified morphologically and later barcoded using the universal cytochrome c oxidase subunit I ( COI ) mitochondrial marker. Barcodes were compared with GenBank and BOLD database entries and analysed using genetic similarity indexes and neighbour‐joining distance trees. Results In total, 156 specimens were collected, corresponding to 43 species. The sequence similarity between these sequences and their closest GenBank and BOLD matches ranged between 100% and 83.5%. The 2% genetic distance criterion, often used as a threshold for assigning positive species identification, was met for 31 of 43 (72%) alien species. Sequences from the remaining species (28%) matched species in the databases that were either in the same genus (congeneric) or in the same family (confamilial). In two cases, namely Plotosus lineatus and Sargocentron rubrum , barcoding revealed a possible species complex ( P. lineatus ) and multiple unrecognized species existing in the Mediterranean Sea ( S. rubrum ). Main conclusions Our study presents a preliminary DNA barcode library, useful for identifying correctly alien fish species of Red Sea origin in the Mediterranean Sea. The results show that most species could be identified, yet the data also uncovered some taxa with unresolved taxonomy and possible cases of unrecognized or cryptic species invasions.

Light availability affects stream biofilm bacterial community composition and function, but not diversity - Karoline Wagner; Katharina Besemer; Nancy R. Burns; Tom J. Battin; Mia M. Bengtsson (Environmental Microbiology, 2015)
Summary Changes in riparian vegetation or water turbidity and browning in streams alter the local light regime with potential implications for stream biofilms and ecosystem functioning. We experimented with biofilms in microcosms grown under a gradient of light intensities (range: 5–152 μmole photons s −1 m −2 ) and combined 454‐pyrosequencing and enzymatic activity assays to evaluate the effects of light on biofilm structure and function. We observed a shift in bacterial community composition along the light gradient, whereas there was no apparent change in alpha diversity. Multifunctionality, based on extracellular enzymes, was highest under high light conditions and decoupled from bacterial diversity. Phenol oxidase activity, involved in the degradation of polyphenolic compounds, was twice as high on average under the lowest compared with the highest light condition. This suggests a shift in reliance of microbial heterotrophs on biofilm phototroph‐derived organic matter under high light availability to more complex organic matter under low light. Furthermore, extracellular enzyme activities correlated with nutrient cycling and community respiration, supporting the link between biofilm structure–function and biogeochemical fluxes in streams. Our findings demonstrate that changes in light availability are likely to have significant impacts on biofilm structure and function, potentially affecting stream ecosystem processes.

Effects of threat management interactions on conservation priorities - Nancy A. Auerbach; Kerrie A. Wilson; Ayesha I.T. Tulloch; Jonathan R. Rhodes; Jeffrey O. Hanson; Hugh P. Possingham (Conservation Biology, 2015)
Decisions need to be made about which biodiversity management actions are undertaken to mitigate threats and about where these actions are implemented. However, management actions can interact; that is, the cost, benefit, and feasibility of one action can change when another action is undertaken. There is little guidance on how to explicitly and efficiently prioritize management for multiple threats, including deciding where to act. Integrated management could focus on one management action to abate a dominant threat or on a strategy comprising multiple actions to abate multiple threats. Furthermore management could be undertaken at sites that are in close proximity to reduce costs. We used cost‐effectiveness analysis to prioritize investments in fire management, controlling invasive predators, and reducing grazing pressure in a bio‐diverse region of southeastern Queensland, Australia. We compared outcomes of 5 management approaches based on different assumptions about interactions and quantified how investment needed, benefits expected, and the locations prioritized for implementation differed when interactions were taken into account. Managing for interactions altered decisions about where to invest and in which actions to invest and had the potential to deliver increased investment efficiency. Differences in high priority locations and actions were greatest between the approaches when we made different assumptions about how management actions deliver benefits through threat abatement: either all threats must be managed to conserve species or only one management action may be required. Threatened species management that does not consider interactions between actions may result in misplaced investments or misguided expectations of the effort required to mitigate threats to species .

Comparison of Deconvolution-Based and Absorption Modeling IVIVC for Extended Release Formulations of a BCS III Drug Development Candidate - Filippos Kesisoglou; Binfeng Xia; Nancy G. B. Agrawal (The AAPS Journal, 2015)

MK-801 and amphetamine result in dissociable profiles of cognitive impairment in a rodent paired associates learning task with relevance for schizophrenia - John Talpos; Nancy Aerts; Jason Waddell; Thomas Steckler (Psychopharmacology, 2015)

Reconciling Harvest Intensity and Plant Diversity in Boreal Ecosystems: Does Intensification Influence Understory Plant Diversity? - H. Maureen Kershaw; Dave M. Morris; Robert L. Fleming; Nancy J. Luckai (Environmental Management, 2015)

Isolation of Bacillus cereus Group from the Fecal Material of Endangered Wood Turtles - Nancy Ngvumbo Nfor; Carly N. Lapin; Richard William McLaughlin (Current Microbiology, 2015)

Roger C. Woledge 1938–2015 - Chris Barclay; Nancy Curtin (Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility, 2015)

Archaeal enrichment in the hypoxic zone in the northern G ulf of M exico - Lauren E. Gillies; J. Cameron Thrash; Sergio deRada; Nancy N. Rabalais; Olivia U. Mason (Environmental Microbiology, 2015)
Summary Areas of low oxygen have spread exponentially over the past 40 years, and are cited as a key stressor on coastal ecosystems. The world's second largest coastal hypoxic (≤2 mg of O 2 l −1 ) zone occurs annually in the northern G ulf of M exico. The net effect of hypoxia is the diversion of energy flow away from higher trophic levels to microorganisms. This energy shunt is consequential to the overall productivity of hypoxic water masses and the ecosystem as a whole. In this study, water column samples were collected at 39 sites in the nGOM , 21 of which were hypoxic. Analysis of the microbial community along a hypoxic to oxic dissolved oxygen gradient revealed that the relative abundance (iTag) of Thaumarchaeota species 16 S rRNA genes (> 40% of the microbial community in some hypoxic samples), the absolute abundance (quantitative polymerase chain reaction; q PCR ) of Thaumarchaeota 16 S rRNA genes and archaeal ammonia‐monooxygenase gene copy number (q PCR ) were significantly higher in hypoxic samples. Spatial interpolation of the microbial and chemical data revealed a continuous, shelfwide band of low dissolved oxygen waters that were dominated by Thaumarchaeota (and E uryarchaeota), amoA genes and high concentrations of phosphate in the nGOM , thus implicating physicochemical forcing on microbial abundance.

Volatile Organic Compounds Produced by the Rhizobacterium Arthrobacter agilis UMCV2 Modulate Sorghum bicolor (Strategy II Plant) Morphogenesis and SbFRO1 Transcription In Vitro - Diana Yazmin Castulo-Rubio; Nancy Araceli Alejandre-Ramírez; Ma del Carmen Orozco-Mosqueda; Gustavo Santoyo; Lourdes I. Macías-Rodríguez; Eduardo Valencia-Cantero (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2015)

A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans - Suzanne J. Hand; Bernard Sigé; Michael Archer; Gregg F. Gunnell; Nancy B. Simmons (Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2015)

Informed Decision-Making and Satisfaction with a Church-Based Men’s Health Workshop Series for African-American Men: Men-Only vs. Mixed-Gender Format - Cheryl L. Holt; Daisy Le; Darlene R. Saunders; Min Qi Wang; Jimmie L. Slade; Bettye Muwwakkil; Ralph Williams; Nancy L. Atkinson; Tony L. Whitehead; Michael Naslund (Journal of Cancer Education, 2015)

Hearing thresholds of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) for playbacks of seal scarer signals, and effects of the signals on behavior - Ronald A. Kastelein; Lean Helder-Hoek; Robin Gransier; John M. Terhune; Nancy Jennings; Christ A. F. de Jong (Hydrobiologia, 2015)

Hearing thresholds of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) for playbacks of seal scarer signals, and effects of the signals on behavior - Ronald A. Kastelein; Lean Hoek; Robin Gransier; Christ A. F. de Jong; John M. Terhune; Nancy Jennings (Hydrobiologia, 2015)

Common toad Rhinella arenarum (Hensel, 1867) and its importance in assessing environmental health: test of micronuclei and nuclear abnormalities in erythrocytes - Favio E. Pollo; Clarisa L. Bionda; Zulma A. Salinas; Nancy E. Salas; Adolfo L. Martino (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2015)

Overexpression of a novel feedback-desensitized Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase increases proline accumulation and confers salt tolerance in transgenic Nicotiana plumbaginifolia - Ali A. M. Ahmed; Nancy Roosens; Eric Dewaele; Michel Jacobs; Geert Angenon (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2015)

Cryptotanshinone, a Stat3 inhibitor, suppresses colorectal cancer proliferation and growth in vitro - Weidong Li; Shakir M. Saud; Matthew R. Young; Nancy H. Colburn; Baojin Hua (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2015)

US trends in survival disparities among adolescents and young adults with non-Hodgkin lymphoma - Erin E. Kent; Nancy Breen; Denise R. Lewis; Janet S. de Moor; Ashley Wilder Smith; Nita L. Seibel (Cancer Causes & Control, 2015)

Genetic basis and detection of unintended effects in genetically modified crop plants - Gregory S. Ladics; Andrew Bartholomaeus; Phil Bregitzer; Nancy G. Doerrer; Alan Gray; Thomas Holzhauser; Mark Jordan; Paul Keese; Esther Kok; Phil Macdonald; Wayne Parrott; Laura Privalle; et al. (Transgenic Research, 2015)

Application of Quality by Design (QbD) Approach to Ultrasonic Atomization Spray Coating of Drug-Eluting Stents - Martin McDermott; Sharmista Chatterjee; Xiaoli Hu; Ariel Ash-Shakoor; Reginald Avery; Anastasiya Belyaeva; Celia Cruz; Minerva Hughes; Joanne Leadbetter; Conrad Merkle; Taylor Moot; Sepideh Parvinian; et al. (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2015)

Production of trichodiene by T richoderma harzianum alters the perception of this biocontrol strain by plants and antagonized fungi - Mónica G. Malmierca; Susan P. McCormick; Rosa E. Cardoza; Nancy J. Alexander; Enrique Monte; Santiago Gutiérrez (Environmental Microbiology, 2015)
Summary Trichothecenes are phytotoxic sesquiterpenic mycotoxins that can act as virulence factors in plant diseases. H arzianum A ( HA ) is a non‐phytotoxic trichothecene produced by T richoderma arundinaceum . The first step in HA biosynthesis is the conversion of farnesyl diphosphate to trichodiene ( TD ), a volatile organic compound ( VOC ), catalysed by a sesquiterpene synthase encoded by the tri5 gene. Expression of tri5 in the biocontrol strain T richoderma harzianum CECT 2413 resulted in production of TD in parallel with a reduction of ergosterol biosynthesis and an unexpected increase in the level of squalene. Transformants expressing tri5 displayed low chitinase activity and induced expression of B otrytis cinerea BOT genes, although their total antagonistic potential against phytopathogenic fungi was not reduced. VOCs released by the tri5 ‐transformant induced expression of tomato defence genes related to salicylic acid ( SA ), and TD itself strongly induced the expression of SA ‐responsive genes and reduced the development of lateral roots. Together, these results suggest that TD acts as a signalling VOC in the interactions of T richoderma with plants and other microorganisms by modulating the perception of this fungus to a given environment. Moreover, the TD ability to induce systemic defences indicates that complex trichothecene structures may not be necessary for inducing such responses.

Imaging changes associated with cognitive abnormalities in Parkinson’s disease - Yuko Koshimori; Barbara Segura; Leigh Christopher; Nancy Lobaugh; Sarah Duff-Canning; Romina Mizrahi; Clement Hamani; Anthony E. Lang; Kelly Aminian; Sylvain Houle; Antonio P. Strafella (Brain Structure and Function, 2015)

A species pair of Bivesicula Yamaguti, 1934 (Trematoda: Bivesiculidae) in unrelated Great Barrier Reef fishes: implications for the basis of speciation in coral reef fish trematodes - Nancy Trieu; Scott C. Cutmore; Terrence L. Miller; Thomas H. Cribb (Systematic Parasitology, 2015)

Bond length estimates for oxide crystals with a molecular power law expression - G. V. Gibbs; Nancy L. Ross; David F. Cox (Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2015)

Comparative study of urban ecology development in the U.S. and China: Opportunity and Challenge - Tao Lin; Nancy B. Grimm (Urban Ecosystems, 2015)

Activation of Cannabinoid Type Two Receptors (CB2) Diminish Inflammatory Responses in Macrophages and Brain Endothelium - Yuri Persidsky; Shongshan Fan; Holly Dykstra; Nancy L. Reichenbach; Slava Rom; Servio H. Ramirez (Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2015)

Agricultural research for nutrition outcomes – rethinking the agenda - John McDermott; Nancy Johnson; Suneetha Kadiyala; Gina Kennedy; Amanda J. Wyatt (Food Security, 2015)

The neural correlates of correctly rejecting lures during memory retrieval: the role of item relatedness - Caitlin R. Bowman; Nancy A. Dennis (Experimental Brain Research, 2015)

Aberrant Methylation Changes Detected in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Immunocompetent Individuals - Liming Li; Mingjun Jiang; Qinghua Feng; Nancy B. Kiviat; Joshua E. Stern; Stephen Hawes; Steve Cherne; Hiep Lu (Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2015)

Neuroimaging and cognition using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in multiple sclerosis - Jelena Stojanovic-Radic; Glenn Wylie; Gerald Voelbel; Nancy Chiaravalloti; John DeLuca (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2015)

The importance of finding the path forward to climate-safe refrigeration and air conditioning: thinking outside the box and without limits - Stephen O. Andersen; Nancy J. Sherman (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015)

Introduction to the special issue on ozone layer protection and climate change: the extraordinary experience of building the Montreal Protocol, lessons learned, and hopes for future climate change efforts - Penelope Canan; Stephen O. Andersen; Nancy Reichman; Brian Gareau (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015)

The Montreal Protocol: how today’s successes offer a pathway to the future - Marco Gonzalez; Kristen N. Taddonio; Nancy J. Sherman (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015)

Direct and indirect in vitro regeneration of Miscanthus × giganteus cultivar Freedom: effects of explant type and medium on regeneration efficiency - Dinum Perera; Daniel J. Barnes; Brian S. Baldwin; Nancy A. Reichert (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2015)

Parental age and Neurofibromatosis Type 1: a report from the NF1 Patient Registry Initiative - Qian Liu; Nancy Zoellner; David H. Gutmann; Kimberly J. Johnson (Familial Cancer, 2015)

A small unmanned aerial system for estimating abundance and size of Antarctic predators - Michael E. Goebel; Wayne L. Perryman; Jefferson T. Hinke; Douglas J. Krause; Nancy A. Hann; Steve Gardner; Donald J. LeRoi (Polar Biology, 2015)

Immunolabeling of gamma-glutamyl transferase 5 in normal human tissues reveals that expression and localization differ from gamma-glutamyl transferase 1 - Marie H. Hanigan; Elizabeth M. Gillies; Stephanie Wickham; Nancy Wakeham; Celeste R. Wirsig-Wiechmann (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2015)

Carbon Dynamics on the Louisiana Continental Shelf and Cross-Shelf Feeding of Hypoxia - Brian Fry; Dubravko Justić; Philip Riekenberg; Erick M. Swenson; R. Eugene Turner; Lixia Wang; Lora Pride; Nancy N. Rabalais; Janis C. Kurtz; John C. Lehrter; Michael C. Murrell; Elizabeth H. Shadwick; et al. (Estuaries and Coasts, 2015)

Combining and aggregating environmental data for status and trend assessments: challenges and approaches - Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner; Michael J. Harte; Nancy Molina; Robert M. Hughes; Carl Schreck; J. Alan Yeakley (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2015)

Partitioning the contributions of biochar properties to enhanced biological nitrogen fixation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) - David T. Güereña; Johannes Lehmann; Janice E. Thies; Akio Enders; Nancy Karanja; Henry Neufeldt (Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2015)

Agricultural Occupational Health and Safety Perspectives Among Latino-American Youth - M. E. Perla; Esmeralda Iman; Leticia Campos; Alexandra Perkins; Amy K. Liebman; Mary E. Miller; Nancy J. Beaudet; Catherine J. Karr (Journal of Agromedicine, 2015)

Indomethacin reverses decreased hippocampal cell proliferation in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice - Nancy Ho; Bethany R. Brookshire; Janet E. Clark; Irwin Lucki (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2015)

Evaluation of heavy metals, cytotoxicity, and antioxidant activity of tomatoes grown in toxic muddy soils - Giuseppina Tommonaro; Barbara Nicolaus; Rocco De Prisco; Rita Pergamo; Nancy Marra; Angelamaria Caporale; Ada Popolo; Carmela Saturnino (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015)

The Southern Ocean ecosystem under multiple climate change stresses ‐ an integrated circumpolar assessment - Julian Gutt; Nancy Bertler; Thomas J. Bracegirdle; Alexander Buschmann; Josefino Comiso; Graham Hosie; Enrique Isla; Irene R. Schloss; Craig R. Smith; Jean Tournadre; José C. Xavier (Global Change Biology, 2015)
A quantitative assessment of observed and projected environmental changes in the Southern Ocean ( SO ) with a potential impact on the marine ecosystem shows: (i) large proportions of the SO are and will be affected by one or more climate change processes; areas projected to be affected in the future are larger than areas that are already under environmental stress, (ii) areas affected by changes in sea‐ice in the past and likely in the future are much larger than areas affected by ocean warming. The smallest areas ( SO ) are affected by glacier retreat and warming in the deeper euphotic layer. In the future, decrease in the sea‐ice is expected to be widespread. Changes in iceberg impact resulting from further collapse of ice‐shelves can potentially affect large parts of shelf and ephemerally in the off‐shore regions. However, aragonite undersaturation (acidification) might become one of the biggest problems for the Antarctic marine ecosystem by affecting almost the entire SO . Direct and indirect impacts of various environmental changes to the three major habitats, sea‐ice, pelagic and benthos and their biota are complex. The areas affected by environmental stressors range from 33% of the SO for a single stressor, 11% for two and 2% for three, to SO ecosystem.

Novel aspinolide production by T richoderma arundinaceum with a potential role in B otrytis cinerea antagonistic activity and plant defence priming - Mónica G. Malmierca; Javier Barua; Susan P. McCormick; Inmaculada Izquierdo‐Bueno; Rosa E. Cardoza; Nancy J. Alexander; Rosa Hermosa; Isidro G. Collado; Enrique Monte; Santiago Gutiérrez (Environmental Microbiology, 2015)
Summary H arzianum A ( HA ), a trichothecene produced by T richoderma arundinaceum , has recently been described to have antagonistic activity against fungal plant pathogens and to induce plant defence genes. In the present work, we have shown that a tri5 gene‐disrupted mutant that lacks HA production overproduces two polyketides, aspinolides B and C , which were not detected in the wild‐type strain. Furthermore, four new aspinolides ( D – G ) were characterized. These compounds confirm that a terpene‐polyketide cross‐pathway exists in T . arundinaceum , and they may be responsible for the antifungal activity and the plant sensitization effect observed with the tri5 ‐disrupted mutant. In addition, the molecular changes involving virulence factors in the phytopathogenic fungus B otrytis cinerea 98 ( Bc 98) during interaction with T . arundinaceum were investigated. The expression of genes involved in the production of botrydial by Bc 98 was relatively repressed by HA , whereas other virulence genes of this pathogen were induced by the presence of T . arundinaceum , for example atrB and pg 1 which encode for an ABC transporter and endopolygalacturonase 1 respectively. In addition, the interaction with Bc 98 significantly repressed the production of HA by T . arundinaceum , indicating that a bidirectional transcriptional regulation is established between these two antagonistic fungi.

Erratum to: Uncoupling the effects of phosphorus and precipitation on arbuscular mycorrhizas in the Serengeti - Jeffrey Ryan Propster; Nancy Collins Johnson (Plant and Soil, 2015)

Uncoupling the effects of phosphorus and precipitation on arbuscular mycorrhizas in the Serengeti - Jeffrey Ryan Propster; Nancy Collins Johnson (Plant and Soil, 2015)

Genetics of Brain and Cognitive Aging: Introduction to the Special Issue of Neuropsychology Review - Nancy L. Pedersen; Lotte Gerritsen (Neuropsychology Review, 2015)

Heroin Use Promotes HCV Infection and Dysregulates HCV-Related Circulating microRNAs - Yu Zhou; Li Sun; Xu Wang; Li Zhou; Jieliang Li; Manqing Liu; Fang Wang; Jinsong Peng; Xi’en Gui; Huaqing Zhao; Nancy Reichenbach; Dunjin Zhou; et al. (Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2015)

Ecosystem impacts of the invasive bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (golden mussel) in South America - Demetrio Boltovskoy; Nancy Correa (Hydrobiologia, 2015)

Murine CLCA5 is uniquely expressed in distinct niches of airway epithelial cells - Kristina Dietert; Lars Mundhenk; Nancy A. Erickson; Katrin Reppe; Andreas C. Hocke; Wolfgang Kummer; Martin Witzenrath; Achim D. Gruber (Histochemistry and Cell Biology, 2015)

Short-term influence of compost application on maize yield, soil macrofauna diversity and abundance in nutrient deficient soils of Kakamega County, Kenya - Solomon Kamau Mbau; Nancy Karanja; Fredrick Ayuke (Plant and Soil, 2015)

Contributions of glycogen to astrocytic energetics during brain activation - Gerald A. Dienel; Nancy F. Cruz (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2015)

XXVth Congress of the International Primatological Society Compiled Minutes of the IPS Council and General Assembly - Nancy G. Caine (International Journal of Primatology, 2015)

Vitamin D in primary biliary cirrhosis, a plausible marker of advanced disease - Nancy Agmon-Levin; Ron Kopilov; Carlo Selmi; Udi Nussinovitch; María Sánchez-Castañón; Marcos López-Hoyos; Howie Amital; Shaye Kivity; Eric M. Gershwin; Yehuda Shoenfeld (Immunologic Research, 2015)

Geographic variation in the advertisement call of Hypsiboas cordobae (Anura, Hylidae) - Mariana Baraquet; Pablo Raúl Grenat; Nancy Edith Salas; Adolfo Ludovico Martino (acta ethologica, 2015)

Eco-certification and coffee cultivation enhance tree cover and forest connectivity in the Colombian coffee landscapes - Ximena Rueda; Nancy E. Thomas; Eric F. Lambin (Regional Environmental Change, 2015)

D-serine plasma concentration is a potential biomarker of (R,S)-ketamine antidepressant response in subjects with treatment-resistant depression - Ruin Moaddel; David A. Luckenbaugh; Ying Xie; Alma Villaseñor; Nancy E. Brutsche; Rodrigo Machado-Vieira; Anuradha Ramamoorthy; Maria Paz Lorenzo; Antonia Garcia; Michel Bernier; Marc C. Torjman; Coral Barbas; et al. (Psychopharmacology, 2015)

Stormwater Infrastructure Controls Runoff and Dissolved Material Export from Arid Urban Watersheds - Rebecca L. Hale; Laura Turnbull; Stevan R. Earl; Daniel L. Childers; Nancy B. Grimm (Ecosystems, 2015)

Genome sequence analysis of Pseudomonas extremaustralis provides new insights into environmental adaptability and extreme conditions resistance - Laura J. Raiger Iustman; Paula M. Tribelli; José G. Ibarra; Mariela V. Catone; Esmeralda C. Solar Venero; Nancy I. López (Extremophiles, 2015)

Reduced clearance of proteins labeled with diisopropylfluorophosphate in portacaval-shunted rats - Gerald A. Dienel; Nancy F. Cruz (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2014)

Evaluation of seven essential oils identifies cubeb oil as most effective attractant for detection of Xyleborus glabratus - Paul E. Kendra; Wayne S. Montgomery; Jerome Niogret; Elena Q. Schnell; Mark A. Deyrup; Nancy D. Epsky (Journal of Pest Science, 2014)

Educating Low-SES and LEP Survivors About Breast Cancer Research: Pilot Test of the Health Research Engagement Intervention - Alyssa Nickell; Nancy J. Burke; Elly Cohen; Maria Caprio; Galen Joseph (Journal of Cancer Education, 2014)

Educational Opportunities in Bladder Cancer: Increasing Cystoscopic Adherence and the Availability of Smoking-Cessation Programs - Marc A. Kowalkowski; Heather Honoré Goltz; Nancy J. Petersen; Gilad E. Amiel; Seth P. Lerner; David M. Latini (Journal of Cancer Education, 2014)

Olfactory impairment in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome and systemic sclerosis - Howard Amital; Nancy Agmon-Levin; Netta Shoenfeld; Yoav Arnson; Daniela Amital; Pnina Langevitz; Alexandra Balbir Gurman; Yehuda Shoenfeld (Immunologic Research, 2014)

Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia following immunization with the hepatitis B vaccine: another angle of the ‘autoimmune (auto-inflammatory) syndrome induced by adjuvants’ (ASIA) - Nancy Agmon-Levin; Yaron Zafrir; Shaye Kivity; Ari Balofsky; Howard Amital; Yehuda Shoenfeld (Immunologic Research, 2014)

Predictive value of anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies: a real life experience - Abdulla Watad; Nancy Agmon-Levin; Boris Gilburd; Merav Lidar; Howard Amital; Yehuda Shoenfeld (Immunologic Research, 2014)

CapMan: independent investigation of capacity and manipulation with a new working memory paradigm - Ekaterina Dobryakova; Adam Staffaroni; John DeLuca; James F. Sumowski; Nancy Chiaravalloti; Glenn R. Wylie (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2014)

Investigation of metal sorption behavior of Slp1 from Lysinibacillus sphaericus JG-B53: a combined study using QCM-D, ICP-MS and AFM - Matthias Suhr; Nancy Unger; Karen E. Viacava; Tobias J. Günther; Johannes Raff; Katrin Pollmann (BioMetals, 2014)

Treatment intensification with maraviroc (CCR5 antagonist) leads to declines in CD16-expressing monocytes in cART-suppressed chronic HIV-infected subjects and is associated with improvements in neurocognitive test performance: implications for HIV-associated neurocognitive disease (HAND) - Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu; Tracie Umaki; Glen M. Chew; Dominic C. Chow; Melissa Agsalda; Kalpana J. Kallianpur; Robert Paul; Guangxiang Zhang; Erika Ho; Nancy Hanks; Beau Nakamoto; Bruce T. Shiramizu; et al. (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2014)

Length polymorphism at the avpr1a locus is correlated with male reproductive behavior in a natural population of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) - Brian Keane; Sara Parsons; Byran J. Smucker; Nancy G. Solomon (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2014)

Soil phosphorus constrains biodiversity across European grasslands - Tobias Ceulemans; Carly J. Stevens; Luc Duchateau; Hans Jacquemyn; David J. G. Gowing; Roel Merckx; Hilary Wallace; Nils van Rooijen; Thomas Goethem; Roland Bobbink; Edu Dorland; Cassandre Gaudnik; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2014)
Nutrient pollution presents a serious threat to biodiversity conservation. In terrestrial ecosystems, the deleterious effects of nitrogen pollution are increasingly understood and several mitigating environmental policies have been developed. Compared to nitrogen, the effects of increased phosphorus have received far less attention, although some studies have indicated that phosphorus pollution may be detrimental for biodiversity as well. On the basis of a dataset covering 501 grassland plots throughout Europe, we demonstrate that, independent of the level of atmospheric nitrogen deposition and soil acidity, plant species richness was consistently negatively related to soil phosphorus. We also identified thresholds in soil phosphorus above which biodiversity appears to remain at a constant low level. Our results indicate that nutrient management policies biased toward reducing nitrogen pollution will fail to preserve biodiversity. As soil phosphorus is known to be extremely persistent and we found no evidence for a critical threshold below which no environmental harm is expected, we suggest that agro‐environmental schemes should include grasslands that are permanently free from phosphorus fertilization.

Multivariate analysis reveals differences in biofilm formation capacity among Listeria monocytogenes lineages - Wladir B. Valderrama; Nancy Ostiguy; Catherine N. Cutter (Biofouling, 2014)

Killer behavior within the Candida parapsilosis complex - Efrén Robledo-Leal; Mariana Elizondo-Zertuche; Licet Villarreal-Treviño; Rogelio de J. Treviño-Rangel; Nancy García-Maldonado; Juan M. Adame-Rodríguez; Gloria M. González (Folia Microbiologica, 2014)

Stroke-induced synergistic phase shifting and its possible implications for recovery mechanisms - Matt Simkins; Anne Burleigh Jacobs; Nancy Byl; Jacob Rosen (Experimental Brain Research, 2014)

Cell-type specific increases in female hamster nucleus accumbens spine density following female sexual experience - Nancy A. Staffend; Valerie L. Hedges; Benjamin R. Chemel; Val J. Watts; Robert L. Meisel (Brain Structure and Function, 2014)

Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure in School-Aged Children Living in Rice and Aquacultural Farming Regions of Thailand - Juthasiri Rohitrattana; Wattasit Siriwong; Tanasorn Tunsaringkarn; Parinya Panuwet; P. Barry Ryan; Dana Boyd Barr; Mark G. Robson; Nancy Fiedler (Journal of Agromedicine, 2014)

From Refining Sugar to Growing Tomatoes - Samuel W. Short; Nancy M.P. Bocken; Claire Y. Barlow; Marian R. Chertow (Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2014)
Summary This article seeks to advance the understanding of the relationship between industrial ecology (IE) and business model innovation for sustainability as a means and driver of new value creation and competitive advantage by expanding the understanding of industrial symbiosis (IS) and internal symbiosis. This is explored through the case study of British Sugar, which, at the time of writing, is the UK's largest sugar producer by market share. Over the past three decades, the company has systematically sought opportunities to turn waste streams and emissions from their core production processes into useful and positive inputs to new product lines. Their core business is still sugar, but the business model has evolved to offer a broad range of additional synergistic and profitable product lines, including animal feed, electricity, tomatoes, and bioethanol. The research explores the temporal dimension of dynamic business model innovation, framing it in the context of a continuous evolutionary process rather than a discrete design activity. The case will be of interest as an additional contribution to the growing literature on IS; in offering an approach for linking the themes of IE literature and sustainable business model innovation more concretely in research and practice; and, by presenting the case as an evolutionary innovation process, the article furthers the emerging literature on business model innovation for sustainability.

Sustainable Business: The New Business as Usual? - Nancy Bocken (Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2014)

Long-Term Impacts on Macroinvertebrates Downstream of Reclaimed Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills in Central Appalachia - Gregory J. Pond; Margaret E. Passmore; Nancy D. Pointon; John K. Felbinger; Craig A. Walker; Kelly J. G. Krock; Jennifer B. Fulton; Whitney L. Nash (Environmental Management, 2014)

Rainfall on wintering grounds affects population change in many species of Afro-Palaearctic migrants - Nancy Ockendon; Alison Johnston; Stephen R. Baillie (Journal of Ornithology, 2014)

Denitrification in a Laurentian Great Lakes coastal wetland invaded by hybrid cattail (Typha × glauca) - Shane C. Lishawa; KathiJo Jankowski; Pamela Geddes; Daniel J. Larkin; Andrew M. Monks; Nancy C. Tuchman (Aquatic Sciences, 2014)

Changing forest water yields in response to climate warming: results from long‐term experimental watershed sites across North America - Irena F. Creed; Adam T. Spargo; Julia A. Jones; Jim M. Buttle; Mary B. Adams; Fred D. Beall; Eric G. Booth; John L. Campbell; Dave Clow; Kelly Elder; Mark B. Green; Nancy B. Grimm; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2014)
Climate warming is projected to affect forest water yields but the effects are expected to vary. We investigated how forest type and age affect water yield resilience to climate warming. To answer this question, we examined the variability in historical water yields at long‐term experimental catchments across Canada and the United States over 5‐year cool and warm periods. Using the theoretical framework of the Budyko curve, we calculated the effects of climate warming on the annual partitioning of precipitation ( P ) into evapotranspiration ( ET ) and water yield. Deviation ( d ) was defined as a catchment's change in actual ET divided by P [ AET / P ; evaporative index ( EI )] coincident with a shift from a cool to a warm period – a positive d indicates an upward shift in EI and smaller than expected water yields, and a negative d indicates a downward shift in EI and larger than expected water yields. Elasticity was defined as the ratio of interannual variation in potential ET divided by P ( PET / P ; dryness index) to interannual variation in the EI – high elasticity indicates low d despite large range in drying index (i.e., resilient water yields), low elasticity indicates high d despite small range in drying index (i.e., nonresilient water yields). Although the data needed to fully evaluate ecosystems based on these metrics are limited, we were able to identify some characteristics of response among forest types. Alpine sites showed the greatest sensitivity to climate warming with any warming leading to increased water yields. Conifer forests included catchments with lowest elasticity and stable to larger water yields. Deciduous forests included catchments with intermediate elasticity and stable to smaller water yields. Mixed coniferous/deciduous forests included catchments with highest elasticity and stable water yields. Forest type appeared to influence the resilience of catchment water yields to climate warming, with conifer and deciduous catchments more susceptible to climate warming than the more diverse mixed forest catchments.

Foliar nitrogen characteristics of four tree species planted in New York City forest restoration sites - Nancy Falxa-Raymond; Matthew I. Palmer; Timon McPhearson; Kevin L. Griffin (Urban Ecosystems, 2014)

Vaccine Delivery to the Oral Cavity Using Coated Microneedles Induces Systemic and Mucosal Immunity - Yunzhe Ma; Wenqian Tao; Shelly J. Krebs; William F. Sutton; Nancy L. Haigwood; Harvinder S. Gill (Pharmaceutical Research, 2014)

Bile acid supplementation improves established liver steatosis in obese mice independently of glucagon-like peptide-1 secretion - Pablo Quintero; Margarita Pizarro; Nancy Solís; Juan Pablo Arab; Oslando Padilla; Arnoldo Riquelme; Marco Arrese (Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2014)

Historic impact of watershed change and sedimentation to reefs along west-central Guam - Nancy G. Prouty; Curt D. Storlazzi; Amanda L. McCutcheon; John W. Jenson (Coral Reefs, 2014)

A reconstruction of extratropical Indo-Pacific sea-level pressure patterns during the Medieval Climate Anomaly - Ian D. Goodwin; Stuart Browning; Andrew M. Lorrey; Paul A. Mayewski; Steven J. Phipps; Nancy A. N. Bertler; Ross P. Edwards; Tim J. Cohen; Tas van Ommen; Mark Curran; Cameron Barr; J. Curt Stager (Climate Dynamics, 2014)

A pilot study examining functional brain activity 6 months after memory retraining in MS: the MEMREHAB trial - Ekaterina Dobryakova; Glenn R. Wylie; John DeLuca; Nancy D. Chiaravalloti (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2014)

Increased functional connectivity within memory networks following memory rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis - Victoria M. Leavitt; Glenn R. Wylie; Peter A. Girgis; John DeLuca; Nancy D. Chiaravalloti (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2014)

Plant Hunting Expeditions of David Fairchild to The Bahamas - Javier Francisco-Ortega; Nancy Korber; Marianne Swan; Janet Mosely; Ethan Freid; Brett Jestrow (The Botanical Review, 2014)

Urban environmental stewardship and changes in vegetative cover and building footprint in New York City neighborhoods (2000–2010) - Dexter H. Locke; Kristen L. King; Erika S. Svendsen; Lindsay K. Campbell; Christopher Small; Nancy F. Sonti; Dana R. Fisher; Jacqueline W. T. Lu (Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2014)

Invasive apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) are predators of amphibians in South China - Nancy E. Karraker; David Dudgeon (Biological Invasions, 2014)

Effects of invasive Typha × glauca on wetland nutrient pools, denitrification, and bacterial communities are influenced by time since invasion - Pamela Geddes; Tanya Grancharova; John J. Kelly; David Treering; Nancy C. Tuchman (Aquatic Ecology, 2014)

The Navy Global Environmental Model - Timothy Hogan; Ming Liu; James Ridout; Melinda Peng; Timothy Whitcomb; Benjamin Ruston; Carolyn Reynolds; Stephen Eckermann; Jon Moskaitis; Nancy Baker; John McCormack; Kevin Viner; et al. (Oceanography, 2014)

Ecological release exposes genetically based niche variation - Nancy C. Emery; D. D. Ackerly (Ecology Letters, 2014)
The evolutionary trajectories of ecological niches have profound impacts on community, population and speciation dynamics, yet the underlying causes of niche lability vs. stasis are poorly understood. Here, we conducted a field experiment to quantify the effects of competition and, conversely, competitive release on the microevolutionary processes driving microhabitat niche evolution in an annual plant population restricted to California vernal pool wetlands. Removing competitors generated a strong increase in mean fitness, the exposure of genetically based niche variation and directional selection for niche evolution in the experimental population. In contrast, genetic variation in the microhabitat niche and directional selection for niche evolution were not detected in individuals growing with competitors. These results indicate that ecological opportunity (here, the removal of competitors) can trigger the immediate expression of latent, heritable niche variation that is necessary for rapid evolutionary responses; conversely, competitors may restrict niche evolution, contributing to niche conservatism in saturated communities.

Paratritirachium curvibasidium, a new heat-resistant basidiomycete from flare pit soils in Alberta, Canada - Hai D. T. Nguyen; Joey B. Tanney; Denise Chabot; Nancy L. Nickerson; Keith A. Seifert (Mycological Progress, 2014)

Spectrum of JAG1 gene mutations in Polish patients with Alagille syndrome - Dorota Jurkiewicz; Dorota Gliwicz; Elżbieta Ciara; Jennifer Gerfen; Magdalena Pelc; Dorota Piekutowska-Abramczuk; Monika Kugaudo; Krystyna Chrzanowska; Nancy B. Spinner; Małgorzata Krajewska-Walasek (Journal of Applied Genetics, 2014)

Body condition and ruminal morphology responses of free-ranging impala (Aepyceros melampus) to changes in diet - Emily P. Lane; Marcus Clauss; Nancy D. Kock; F. W. Graham Hill; Aggrey A. Majok; Antoinette Kotze; Daryl Codron (European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2014)

An assessment of the metabolic profile implied by agricultural change in two rural communities in the North of Argentina - Nancy Arizpe; Jesús Ramos-Martín; Mario Giampietro (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2014)

The Role of Nitrogen Deposition in Widespread Plant Community Change Across Semi-natural Habitats - Chris D. Field; Nancy B. Dise; Richard J. Payne; Andrea J. Britton; Bridget A. Emmett; Rachel C. Helliwell; Steve Hughes; Laurence Jones; Steven Lees; Jonathan R. Leake; Ian D. Leith; Gareth K. Phoenix; et al. (Ecosystems, 2014)

TIMP2 gene polymorphisms are associated with hypertension in patients with myocardial infarction - JOSÉ MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ-PÉREZ; NANCY MARTÍNEZ-RODRÍGUEZ; GILBERTO VARGAS-ALARCÓN; MAITE VALLEJO; IRMA ELOISA MONROY-MUÑOZ; CARLOS POSADAS-ROMERO; ERIC KIMURA-HAYAMA; TERESA JUÁREZ-CEDILLO; JOSÉ MANUEL FRAGOSO; NONANZIT PÉREZ-HERNÁNDEZ (Journal of Genetics, 2014)

Congenic mice reveal genetic epistasis and overlapping disease loci for autoimmune diabetes and listeriosis - Nancy Wang; Colleen M. Elso; Leanne Mackin; Stuart I. Mannering; Richard A. Strugnell; Odilia L. Wijburg; Thomas C. Brodnicki (Immunogenetics, 2014)

Heather Moorland Vegetation and Air Pollution: A Comparison and Synthesis of Three National Gradient Studies - Richard J. Payne; Simon J. M. Caporn; Christopher D. Field; Jacky A. Carroll; Jill L. Edmondson; Andrea Britton; Nancy B. Dise (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2014)

Erratum to: Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska - Patricia Cochran; Orville H. Huntington; Caleb Pungowiyi; Stanley Tom; F. Stuart Chapin; Henry P. Huntington; Nancy G. Maynard; Sarah F. Trainor (Climatic Change, 2014)

EFSA Guidelines on the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified animals in the EU: the process and risk assessment considerations - Sylvie Mestdagh; Yann Devos; Christina Ehlert; Yi Liu; Nancy Podevin; Stefano Rodighiero; Elisabeth Waigmann; József Kiss; Joe N. Perry; Jeremy B. Sweet (Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, 2014)

Erratum to: Invasion dynamics on a temperate rocky shore: from early invasion to establishment of a marine invader - Nancy J. O’Connor (Biological Invasions, 2014)

In Vitro Biocompatibility and Antibacterial Efficacy of a Degradable Poly(l-lactide-co-epsilon-caprolactone) Copolymer Incorporated with Silver Nanoparticles - Meghan E. Samberg; Peter Mente; Ting He; Martin W. King; Nancy A. Monteiro-Riviere (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2014)

A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands - Merritt R. Turetsky; Agnieszka Kotowska; Jill Bubier; Nancy B. Dise; Patrick Crill; Ed R. C. Hornibrook; Kari Minkkinen; Tim R. Moore; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Hannu Nykänen; David Olefeldt; Janne Rinne; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2014)
Wetlands are the largest natural source of atmospheric methane. Here, we assess controls on methane flux using a database of approximately 19 000 instantaneous measurements from 71 wetland sites located across subtropical, temperate, and northern high latitude regions. Our analyses confirm general controls on wetland methane emissions from soil temperature, water table, and vegetation, but also show that these relationships are modified depending on wetland type (bog, fen, or swamp), region (subarctic to temperate), and disturbance. Fen methane flux was more sensitive to vegetation and less sensitive to temperature than bog or swamp fluxes. The optimal water table for methane flux was consistently below the peat surface in bogs, close to the peat surface in poor fens, and above the peat surface in rich fens. However, the largest flux in bogs occurred when dry 30‐day averaged antecedent conditions were followed by wet conditions, while in fens and swamps, the largest flux occurred when both 30‐day averaged antecedent and current conditions were wet. Drained wetlands exhibited distinct characteristics, e.g. the absence of large flux following wet and warm conditions, suggesting that the same functional relationships between methane flux and environmental conditions cannot be used across pristine and disturbed wetlands. Together, our results suggest that water table and temperature are dominant controls on methane flux in pristine bogs and swamps, while other processes, such as vascular transport in pristine fens, have the potential to partially override the effect of these controls in other wetland types. Because wetland types vary in methane emissions and have distinct controls, these ecosystems need to be considered separately to yield reliable estimates of global wetland methane release.

Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects - Nancy Ockendon; David J. Baker; Jamie A. Carr; Elizabeth C. White; Rosamunde E. A. Almond; Tatsuya Amano; Esther Bertram; Richard B. Bradbury; Cassie Bradley; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Nathalie Doswald; Wendy Foden; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2014)
Shifts in species' distribution and abundance in response to climate change have been well documented, but the underpinning processes are still poorly understood. We present the results of a systematic literature review and meta‐analysis investigating the frequency and importance of different mechanisms by which climate has impacted natural populations. Most studies were from temperate latitudes of North America and Europe; almost half investigated bird populations. We found significantly greater support for indirect, biotic mechanisms than direct, abiotic mechanisms as mediators of the impact of climate on populations. In addition, biotic effects tended to have greater support than abiotic factors in studies of species from higher trophic levels. For primary consumers, the impact of climate was equally mediated by biotic and abiotic mechanisms, whereas for higher level consumers the mechanisms were most frequently biotic, such as predation or food availability. Biotic mechanisms were more frequently supported in studies that reported a directional trend in climate than in studies with no such climatic change, although sample sizes for this comparison were small. We call for more mechanistic studies of climate change impacts on populations, particularly in tropical systems.

Morphophysiology of the paracloacal (scent) glands in females of the marsupial Metachirus nudicaudatus: action of estrogens - Helder-José; Erasmo Garcia Mendes; Nancy Marques Carneiro; Manuel Jesus Simões; Edna Freymüller (Zoomorphology, 2014)

Lime and Sulphide-Free Dehairing of Animal Skin Using Collagenase-Free Alkaline Protease from Vibrio metschnikovii NG155 - Nancy George; Sonica Sondhi; Sanjeev Kumar Soni; Naveen Gupta (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2014)

Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthesis Affects Biosurfactant Production and Cell Attachment to Hydrocarbons in Pseudomonas sp. KA-08 - Carla Di Martino; Mariela V. Catone; Nancy I. López; Laura J. Raiger Iustman (Current Microbiology, 2014)

The population biology of mitigation: impacts of habitat creation on an endangered plant species - Michelle M. Halbur; Christina M. Sloop; Michael J. Zanis; Nancy C. Emery (Conservation Genetics, 2014)

Caesalpinia spinosa (Caesalpiniaceae) leaves: anatomy, histochemistry, and secondary metabolites - Carlos Martel; Nancy Rojas; Manuel Marín; Rosa Avilés; Elizabeth Neira; Julio Santiago (Brazilian Journal of Botany, 2014)

The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data - Paul M. Thompson; Jason L. Stein; Sarah E. Medland; Derrek P. Hibar; Alejandro Arias Vasquez; Miguel E. Renteria; Roberto Toro; Neda Jahanshad; Gunter Schumann; Barbara Franke; Margaret J. Wright; Nicholas G. Martin; et al. (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2014)

Homogenous HIV-1 subtype B quasispecies in Brazilian men and women recently infected via heterosexual transmission - Nancy Lima Gouveia; Michelle Camargo; Marcos Montani Caseiro; Luiz Mario Ramos Janini; Maria Cecilia Araripe Sucupira; Ricardo Sobhie Diaz (Virus Genes, 2014)

Comparison of attitudes regarding preimplantation genetic diagnosis among patients with hereditary cancer syndromes - Thereasa A. Rich; Mei Liu; Carol J. Etzel; Sarah A. Bannon; Maureen E. Mork; Kaylene Ready; Devki S. Saraiya; Elizabeth G. Grubbs; Nancy D. Perrier; Karen H. Lu; Banu K. Arun; Terri L. Woodard; et al. (Familial Cancer, 2014)

Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree - Yuval Itescu; Nancy E. Karraker; Pasquale Raia; Peter C. H. Pritchard; Shai Meiri (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2014)
Aim The island rule describes a trend toward dwarfism of large animals and gigantism of small animals on islands. Studies of vertebrates, including reptiles, report conflicting results regarding the generality of this evolutionary pattern. We studied the size evolution of insular turtles at the intra‐ and interspecific levels, as well as the clade level. We examined the evolutionary patterns, the relationship of habitat preferences and insular turtle size and whether the island rule extends to turtles. Location Islands world‐wide and adjacent continents. Methods We collected data from the literature and expanded our database by measuring turtle specimens in museum collections. We used reduced major axis regression to test the island rule at the inter‐ and intraspecific levels, after accounting for phylogenetic effects. In addition, we compared body size frequency distributions of insular versus mainland turtles at the clade level. Results Our analyses revealed no support for the island rule in turtles. Intraspecifically, we found no systematic pattern of body size evolution. Interspecifically, large turtle species tend to become larger on islands, in contrast to the island rule predictions. Islands generally harbour larger turtles than mainland regions. This pattern is especially apparent when recently extinct species are considered. We found no impact of habitat preferences on the evolution of body size on islands. Main conclusions Turtles on islands do not follow the island rule. We suggest that both physiological and ecological factors drive turtle body size evolution on islands, and their tendency for insular gigantism. Large turtles can survive longer periods of water or food shortage on small oceanic islands. Increased intraspecific competition and reduced interspecific competition and predation on islands may favour large body size. A non‐mutually exclusive explanation is that the presence of giant tortoises on islands may reflect founder effects rather than evolution – large turtles are better island colonizers.

LC-MS/MS analytical procedure to quantify tris (nonylphenyl)phosphite, as a source of the endocrine disruptors 4-nonylphenols, in food packaging materials - Pascal Mottier; Nancy Frank; Mathieu Dubois; Adrienne Tarres; Thomas Bessaire; Roman Romero; Thierry Delatour (Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 2014)

Tundra and boreal forest of interior Alaska during terminal MIS 6 and MIS 5e - Nancy H. Bigelow; Mary E. Edwards; Scott A. Elias; Thomas D. Hamilton; Charles E. Schweger (Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2014)

Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation (ASD) Combined with Soil Solarization as a Methyl Bromide Alternative: Vegetable Crop Performance and Soil Nutrient Dynamics - David M. Butler; Nancy Kokalis-Burelle; Joseph P. Albano; T. Greg McCollum; Joji Muramoto; Carol Shennan; Erin N. Rosskopf (Plant and Soil, 2014)

Interactive influence of light intensity and soil fertility on root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - Guoxi Shi; Yongjun Liu; Nancy Collins Johnson; Pål Axel Olsson; Lin Mao; Gang Cheng; Shengjing Jiang; Lizhe An; Guozhen Du; Huyuan Feng (Plant and Soil, 2014)

Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea - Matthew P. Davis; Nancy I. Holcroft; Edward O. Wiley; John S. Sparks; W. Leo Smith (Marine Biology, 2014)

Gene–gene and gene–environment interactions in ulcerative colitis - Ming-Hsi Wang; Claudio Fiocchi; Xiaofeng Zhu; Stephan Ripke; M. Ilyas Kamboh; Nancy Rebert; Richard H. Duerr; Jean-Paul Achkar (Human Genetics, 2014)

Theta frequency activity during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is greater in people with resilience versus PTSD - Nancy Cowdin; Ihori Kobayashi; Thomas A. Mellman (Experimental Brain Research, 2014)

Evaluation of cumulative PCB exposure estimated by a job exposure matrix versus PCB serum concentrations - Nancy B. Hopf; Avima M. Ruder; Paul Succop; Martha A. Waters (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2014)

Historical reconstruction of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures for workers in a capacitor manufacturing plant - Nancy B. Hopf; Avima M. Ruder; Martha A. Waters (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2014)

A Volatile Relationship: Profiling an Inter-Kingdom Dialogue Between two Plant Pathogens, Ralstonia Solanacearum and Aspergillus Flavus - Joseph E. Spraker; Kelsea Jewell; Ludmila V. Roze; Jacob Scherf; Dora Ndagano; Randolph Beaudry; John E. Linz; Caitilyn Allen; Nancy P. Keller (Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2014)

Changes in methane oxidation activity and methanotrophic community composition in saline alkaline soils - Nancy Serrano-Silva; César Valenzuela-Encinas; Rodolfo Marsch; Luc Dendooven; Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernández (Extremophiles, 2014)

A continental-scale study of seed lifespan in experimental storage examining seed, plant, and environmental traits associated with longevity - David J. Merritt; Amelia J. Martyn; Phillip Ainsley; Renee E. Young; Leahwyn U. Seed; Michael Thorpe; Fiona R. Hay; Lucy E. Commander; Nancy Shackelford; Catherine A. Offord; Kingsley W. Dixon; Robin J. Probert (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2014)

Facilitating Return to Work for Injured and Ill Animal Agriculture Workers - Iris Anne Reyes; Nancy Bellendorf; Tami Meehan; Ron Wenger; Christopher Kadolph; Shaun Halstead; Andrea Mahnke; Bryan Weichelt; William Ray; Matthew Keifer (Journal of Agromedicine, 2014)

Low dose of bisphenol A impairs the reproductive axis of prepuberal male rats - Juan Manuel Gámez; Romina Penalba; Nancy Cardoso; Osvaldo Ponzo; Silvia Carbone; Matías Pandolfi; Pablo Scacchi; Roxana Reynoso (Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2014)

Modeling regional impacts of climate teleconnections using functional data analysis - Simon J. Bonner; Nathaniel K. Newlands; Nancy E. Heckman (Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2014)

Warmer outdoor temperature is associated with task-related increased BOLD activation in patients with multiple sclerosis - Victoria M. Leavitt; Glenn Wylie; Nancy Chiaravalloti; John DeLuca; James F. Sumowski (Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2014)

Investigating a crow die-off in January–February 2011 during the introduction of a new clade of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 into Bangladesh - Salah Uddin Khan; LaShondra Berman; Najmul Haider; Nancy Gerloff; Md Z. Rahman; Bo Shu; Mustafizur Rahman; Tapan Kumar Dey; Todd C. Davis; Bidhan Chandra Das; Amanda Balish; Ausraful Islam; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2014)

Eutrophication-Driven Deoxygenation in the Coastal Ocean - Nancy Rabalais; Wei-Jun Cai; Jacob Carstensen; Daniel Conley; Brian Fry; Xinping Hu; Zoraida Quiñones-Rivera; Rutger Rosenberg; Caroline Slomp; Eugene Turner; Maren Voss; Björn Wissel; et al. (Oceanography, 2014)

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects - Allison K. Hansen; Nancy A. Moran (Molecular Ecology, 2014)
Herbivory, defined as feeding on live plant tissues, is characteristic of highly successful and diverse groups of insects and represents an evolutionarily derived mode of feeding. Plants present various nutritional and defensive barriers against herbivory; nevertheless, insects have evolved a diverse array of mechanisms that enable them to feed and develop on live plant tissues. For decades, it has been suggested that insect‐associated microbes may facilitate host plant use, and new molecular methodologies offer the possibility to elucidate such roles. Based on genomic data, specialized feeding on phloem and xylem sap is highly dependent on nutrient provisioning by intracellular symbionts, as exemplified by B uchnera in aphids, although it is unclear whether such symbionts play a substantive role in host plant specificity of their hosts. Microorganisms present in the gut or outside the insect body could provide more functions including digestion of plant polymers and detoxification of plant‐produced toxins. However, the extent of such contributions to insect herbivory remains unclear. We propose that the potential functions of microbial symbionts in facilitating or restricting the use of host plants are constrained by their location (intracellular, gut or environmental), and by the fidelity of their associations with insect host lineages. Studies in the next decade, using molecular methods from environmental microbiology and genomics, will provide a more comprehensive picture of the role of microbial symbionts in insect herbivory.

Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition - Leonard F. Koziol; Deborah Budding; Nancy Andreasen; Stefano D’Arrigo; Sara Bulgheroni; Hiroshi Imamizu; Masao Ito; Mario Manto; Cherie Marvel; Krystal Parker; Giovanni Pezzulo; Narender Ramnani; et al. (The Cerebellum, 2014)

HIV-1 progression links with viral genetic variability and subtype, and patient’s HLA type: analysis of a Nairobi-Kenyan cohort - Syed Hani Abidi; Aniqa Shahid; Laila S. Lakhani; Reena Shah; Nancy Okinda; Peter Ojwang; Farhat Abbas; Sarah Rowland-Jones; Syed Ali (Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 2014)

Replication of a GWAS signal in a Caucasian population implicates ADD3 in susceptibility to biliary atresia - Ellen A. Tsai; Christopher M. Grochowski; Kathleen M. Loomes; Kazuhiko Bessho; Hakon Hakonarson; Jorge A. Bezerra; Pierre A. Russo; Barbara A. Haber; Nancy B. Spinner; Marcella Devoto (Human Genetics, 2014)

Identification of novel double-stranded RNA mycoviruses of Fusarium virguliforme and evidence of their effects on virulence - Rita A. Marvelli; Houston A. Hobbs; Shuxian Li; Nancy K. McCoppin; Leslie L. Domier; Glen L. Hartman; Darin M. Eastburn (Archives of Virology, 2014)