Interdepartmental Genetics Graduate Program - M.S./Ph.D.

Molecular Biology Building

A Sampling of Recent IG Student Publications 2005-2006

Hightlighted paper:
Emrich SJ, L Li, TJ Wen, MD Yandeau-Nelson*, Y Fu*, L Guo, HH Chou, S Aluru, DA Ashlock, PS Schnable (2007) Nearly identical paralogs (NIPs) and implications for maize genome evolution. Genetics, in press has just been selected as an Editor's Choice by Science magazine. *IG students. This study arose from an intensive collaboration involving three colleges (Agriculture, Engineering, and Liberal Arts and Sciences). Evolutionary studies are considered high priority at NSF.

Xiaomin Bao, Weiguo Zhang, Robert Krencik, Huai Deng, Yanming Wang, Jack Girton, Jørgen Johansen and Kristen M. Johansen (2005). The JIL-1 kinase interacts with lamin Dm0 and regulates nuclear lamina morphology of Drosophila nurse cells. Cell Science 1818, 5079-5087.

Yao H, Guo L, Fu Y, Borsuk LA, Wen TJ, Skibbe DS, Cui X, Scheffler BE, Cao J, Emrich SJ, Ashlock DA, Schnable PS (2005). Evaluation of five ab initio gene prediction programs for the discovery of maize genes. Plant Molecular Biology 57(3): 445-60.

Carr, T., Wang, Y., Huang, Z., Yeakley, J. M. Fan, J.-B. and Whitham S.A. (2006). Tobamovirus infection is independent of HSP101 mRNA induction and protein expression. Virus Research 121, 33-41.

RR. Dahlin-Laborde, T. P. Yu, and J.K. Beetham (2005). Genetic complementation to identify DNA elements that influence complement resistance in Leishmanaia chagasi. J. Parasitol 2005; 91 (5): 1058-63

Fedrigo, O., D.C. Adams, and G.J.P. Naylor (2005). DRUIDS—Detection of Regions with Unexpected Internal Deviation from Stationarity. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Vol 304B, Issue 2, pp 119-128.

Gao, H., Narayanan, N., Ellison, L., and Bhattacharyya M.K. (2005) Two classes of highly similar coiled coil-nucleotide binding-leucine rich repeat genes isolated from the Rps1-k locus encode Phytophthora resistance in soybean. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact., 18:1035-1045.

Sandhu, D., Gao, H., Cianzio, S., and Bhattacharyya, M.K. (2004)Deletion of a Disease Resistance Nucleotide-Binding-Site Leucine-Rich- Repeat-like Sequence Is Associated With the Loss of the Phytophthora Resistance Gene Rps4 in Soybean. Genetics 168: 2157-2167

Bhattacharyya, M.K., Narayanan, N. N., Gao, H., Salimath, S.S., Santra, D., Ellison, L., Kasuga, T., Liu, Y., Espinosa, B., Marek, L.F., Shoemaker, R.C., Gijzen, M. and Buzzell, R.I. (2005). Identification of a large cluster of coiled coil-nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeat-type genes from the Rps1 region containing Phytophthora resistance genes in soybean. Theor. Appl. Genet., 111: 75-86.

Hasenstein, J.R., Zhang, G., and Lamont, S.J. (2006) Analysis of Five Gallinacin Genes and Salmonella serovar Enteritidis Response in Poultry. 2006. Infection and Immunity 74(6):3375-80.

Koltes, J., R. Totir, R. Fernando, and J. Reecy (2005). Fine-mapping of a 2.8cM region associated with dwarfism in American Angus cattle. Proc. Of the 3rd Symposium of Genet of Anim. Health.

Joshua A. Udall, Jordan M. Swanson, Karl Haller, Ryan A. Rapp, Michael E. Sparks, et al.……and Jonathan F. Wendel, 2006. “A global assembly of cotton ESTs”. Genome Research 16:441-450.

Rapp, R.A., Alvarez, I., and J.F. Wendel. 2005. Molecular confirmation of the position of Gossypium trifurcatum Vollesen. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 52: 749753.

Rapp, R.A. and J.F.Wendel. 2005. Epigenetics and plant evolution. New Phytologist. 168: 81-91.

Naqvi SM, Harper A, Carter C, Ren G, Guirgis A, York WS, Thornburg RW 2005. Nectarin IV, a potent endoglucanase inhibitor secreted into the nectar of ornamental tobacco plants. Isolation, cloning, and characterization. Plant Physiol. Nov;139(3):1389-400.

Swanson-Wagner R, Y. Jia, R DeCook, LA Borsuk, D Nettleton, PS Schnable (2006). All possible modes of gene action are observed in a global comparison of gene expression in a maize F1 hybrid and its inbred parents.” PNAS, 103: 6805-6810.

An-Ping Hsia, Tsui-Jung Wen, Hsin D. Chen, Zhaowei Liu, Marna D. Yandeau-Nelson, Yanling Wei, Ling Guo and Patrick S. Schnable (2005). “Temperature gradient capillary electrophoresis (TGCE)—a tool for the high-throughput discovery and mapping of SNPs and IDPs, Theor Appl Genet, 111, pp. 218-225.

H. Zhao, D. Nettleton, M. Soller and J. C. M. Dekkers (2005). Evaluation of linkage disequilibrium measures between multi-allelic markers as predictors of linkage disequilibrium between markers and QTL. Genetical Research 86:77-87.