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Lab Publications Since 2008

Cooper, BS, Hammad, LA, Fisher*, NP, Karty, JA and KL Montooth. 2012. In a variable thermal environment selection favors greater plasticity of cell membranes in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01566.x

Hammad, LA, Cooper, BS, Fisher*, NP, Montooth, KL, and JA Karty. 2011. Profiling and quantification of Drosophila melanogaster lipids using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25(19):2959-2968.

Montooth, KL, Meiklejohn, CD, Abt, DN and DM Rand. 2010. Mitochondrial-nuclear epistasis affects fitness within species but does not contribute to fixed incompatibilities between species of Drosophila.  Evolution 64(12):3364-3379.

Montooth, KL, Abt, DN, Hofmann*, JW and DM Rand. 2009. Comparative genomics of Drosophila mtDNA:  novel features of conservation and change across functional domains and lineages.  J Mol Evol 69:94-114.

Montooth, KL and DM Rand. 2008. The Spectrum of Mitochondrial Mutation Differs across Species. PLoS Biol 6(8): e213 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060213

 

Other Publications by Members of the Lab

Lockwood, BL and Somero, GN. Functional determinants of temperature adaptation in enzymes of cold- vs. warm-adapted mussels (genus Mytilus). Molecular Biology and Evolution. In Press.

Cooper, BS, Tharp*, JM, Jernberg*, II, and MJ Angilletta. 2012. Developmental plasticity of thermal tolerances in temperate and subtropical populations of Drosophila melanogaster. J Therm Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2012.01.001

Schuler, MS, Cooper, BS, Storm, JM, Sears, MW, and MJ Angilletta. 2011. Isopods failed to acclimate their thermal physiology of locomotor performance during predictable or stochastic cooling. PLoS ONE6(6): e20905. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020905.

Lockwood, BL and Somero, GN. 2011. Invasive and native blue mussels (genus Mytilus) on the California coast: the role of physiology in a biological invasion. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 400, 167-174.

Lockwood, BL and Somero, GN. 2011. Transcriptomic responses to salinity stress in invasive and native blue mussels (genus: Mytilus). Molecular Ecology 20, 517-529.

Cooper, BS, Czarnoleski, M, and MJ Angilletta. 2010. Acclimation of thermal physiology in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster: a test of an optimality model. J Evol Biol 23: 2346-2355.

Angilletta, MJ, Cooper, BS, Schuler, MS, and JG Boyles. 2010. The evolution of thermal physiology in endotherms. Frontiers in Bioscience E2, 861-881.

Lockwood BL, Sanders, JG, and Somero, GN. 2010. Transcriptomic responses to acute heat stress in invasive and native blue mussels (genus: Mytilus): molecular correlates of invasive success. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 3548-3558.

Denny, MW, Lockwood BL, and Somero, GN. 2009. Can the giant snake predict palaeoclimate? Nature 460, E3-E4.

Peng, J, Wagle, M, Mueller, T, Mathur, P, Lockwood BL, Bretaud, S, and Guo, S. 2009. Ethanol-modulated camouflage response screen in zebrafish uncovers a novel role for cAMP and extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling in behavioral sensitivity to ethanol. Journal of Neuroscience 29, 8408-8418.

Cooper, BS, Williams*, BH, and MJ Angilletta. 2008. Unifying indices of heat tolerance in ectotherms. J Therm Biol 33: 320-323.

Bretaud, S, Li, Q, Lockwood, BL, Lau, B, Lin, E, and Guo, S. 2007. A choice behavior for morphine reveals experience-dependent drug preference and underlying neural substrates in developing larval zebrafish. Neuroscience 146, 1109-1116.

Folk, DG, Hoekstra, LA, and GW Gilchrist. 2007. Critical thermal maxima in knockdown-selected Drosophila: are thermal endpoints correlated? J Exp Biol 210, 2649-2656.

Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium. 2007. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450: 203-218. (contributed assembly, annotation and analysis of mtDNAs)

Meiklejohn, CD, Montooth, KL and DM Rand. 2007. Positive and negative selection on the mitochondrial genome.  Trends in Genetics 23(6): 259-263.

Montooth, KL, Siebenthall*, KT and AG Clark. 2006. Membrane lipid physiology and toxin catabolism underlie ethanol and acetic acid tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. J Exp Biol 209: 3837-3850.

Zhang, M, Montooth, KL, Wells, MT, Clark, AG and D Zhang. 2005. Mapping multiple quantitative trait loci by Bayesian classification. Genetics 169(4): 2305-18.

Civetta, A, Montooth, KL and M Mendelson. 2005. Quantitative trait loci and interaction effects responsible for variation in female postmating mortality in Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia introgression lines. Heredity 94(1): 94-100.

Lockwood, BL, Bjerke, S, Kobayashi, K, and Guo, S. 2004. Acute effects of alcohol on larval zebrafish: a genetic system for large-scale screening. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 77, 647-654.

Montooth, KL, Marden, JH and AG Clark. 2003.  Mapping determinants of variation in energy metabolism, respiration and flight in Drosophila. Genetics 165(2): 623-635.

Montooth, KL and AG Gibbs. 2003.  Cuticular pheromones and water balance in the house fly, Musca domestica. Comp Biochem Physiol A 135(3): 457-465.

Marden, JH, Rogina, B,  Montooth, KL and SL Helfand. 2003.  Conditional tradeoffs between aging and organismal performance of Indy long-lived mutant flies. PNAS 100(6): 3369-3373.

* indicates undergraduates who have collaborated on this research