Pilon-Smits EAH, LeDuc DL (2009) Phytoremediation of selenium using transgenic plants. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. In press, published online

Pilon-Smits EAH, Quinn CF, Tapken W, Malagoli M, Schiavon M (2009) Physiological functions of beneficial elements. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. In press

Freeman JL, Quinn CF, Lindblom SD, Klamper EM, Pilon-Smits EAH (2009) Selenium protects the hyperaccumulator Stanleya pinnata against black-tailed prairie dog herbivory in native seleniferous habitats. American Journal of Botany, In press + cover photo

A paper authored by former graduate student Tyler Zarubin, UC Davis Prof. Ernest Chang, and Prof. Don Mykles (Expression of recombinant eyestalk crustacean hyperglycemic hormone from the tropical land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, that inhibits Y-organ ecdysteroidogenesis in vitro) has been published in Molecular Biology Reports (36: 1231–1237).

Prof. Don Mykles coauthored a paper with postdoc Kyoung Sun Kim and former graduate students Hyun-Woo Kim and Sung Gu Lee in Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology (153B: 178-184), entitled "Twelve actin-encoding cDNAs from the American lobster, Homarus americanus: cloning and tissue expression of eight skeletal muscle, one heart, and three cytoplasmic isoforms."

Professor A.S.N. Reddy and his collaborators (Maia Vinogradova, Galina Malanina , Robert Fletterick) from University of California at San Francisco have published a paper on a microtubule motor protein from Arabidopsis   Title: Structure of the complex of a mitotic kinesin with its calcium binding regulator) in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

Stack, S.M., S.M. Royer, L.A. Shearer, S.B. Chang, J.J. Giovannoni, D.H. Westfall, R.A. White, L.K. Anderson. 2009. Role of fluorescence in situ hybridization in sequencing the tomato genome. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 124: 339-350. This was an invited article for a special issue on Chromosome Structure and Function.

Hartley, Laurel M., James K. Detling and Lisa T. Savage.  2009.  Introduced plague lessens the effects of an herbivorous rodent on grassland vegetation.  Journal of Applied Ecology 46:861-869.

Bedhomme, S. P., Bernasconi, G., Koene, J. M., Lankinen, Ã. S., Arathi, H. S., Michiels, N. K. & Anthes, N. 2009 How does breeding system variation modulate sexual antagonism? Biology Letters 5, 717-720.

Naug D, 2009. Nutritional stress due to habitat loss can explain recent honeybee colony collapses. Biol. Conserv. 142:2369-2372.

A new publication by Asst. Prof. Joe von Fischer examines the role of Arctic Lakes in amplifying global climate change.  Mazeas, O., J.C. von Fischer and R.C. Rhew (in press) “Impact of terrestrial carbon input on methane emissions from an Alaskan Arctic Lake.” Geophysical Research Letters.

S.M. Stack and L.K. Anderson. 2009. Electron microscopic immunogold localization of recombination-related proteins in spreads of synaptonemal complexes from tomato microsporocytes. in: Meiosis Vol. 2, Cytological Methods. Ed. S. Keeney.p. 147-169.

A new publication from graduate student Meribeth Huizinga was published recently in Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

M. Huizinga, C.K. Ghalambor and D.N. Reznick.  The genetic and environmental basis of adaptive differences in shoaling behavior among populations of Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(9): 1860-1866

A former Postdoctoral Research Associate Sai Prasad Goud and Professor A.S.N. Reddy have published a paper  (Title: Extensive coupling of alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs of SR genes with nonsense-mediated decay) in New Phytologist.

Cibrian-Jaramillo, A., Bacon, C.D., Garwood, N.C., Bateman, R.M., Thomas, M.M., Russell, S., Bailey, C.D., Hahn, W.J., Brdigewater, S.G.M., and DeSalle, R. 2009. Population genetics of the understory fishtail palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augustii in Belize: high genetic connectivity with local differentiation.  BMC Genetics 10:65.

Research by Asst. Prof. Joe von Fischer was included in the book Flood Cycle:  Notes from a Changing Planet (2009) by the British artist and writer John Kelly. Kelly observed von Fischer measuring methane emissions from the Arctic tundra, and described the experience: "As I stand looking at the screen, I am aware of the breathing rate of the earth."