Many biology undergraduates have been included as co-authors with their research mentor on professional peer-reviewed publications. Students with peer-reviewed publications are often more successful in their application to graduate and professional schools. In addition, employers recognize publications as evidence of professional communication skills. The following is a selection of papers published with undergraduate biology majors. Student authors indicated by * and bold letters.
Bennett RL, *Carruthers AL, Hui T, Kerney KR, Liu X, et al. (2012) Increased Expression of the dsRNA-Activated Protein Kinase PKR in Breast Cancer Promotes Sensitivity to Doxorubicin. PLoS ONE 7(9): e46040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046040
Silliman B. R., van de Koppel J., McCoy M. W., Diller J., Kasozi G. N., *Earl K., Adams P. N., and Zimmerman A. R. (2012). Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Bouchard, F., *Lewis, S., & *Marcus, C. (2011). Using Drosophila melanogaster to test the effect of multiple introductions on the ability of a non-native population to adapt to novel environments. Evolutionary Ecology, 637-646.
Griffin, J. N., *Butler, J., *Soomdat, N. N., *Brun, K. E., *Chejanovski, Z. a, & Silliman, B. R. (2011). Top predators suppress rather than facilitate plants in a trait-mediated tri-trophic cascade. Biology letters, 7(5), 710-3.
Wayne, M., Blohm, G., & *Brooks, M. (2011). The prevalence and persistence of sigma virus, a biparentally transmitted parasite of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Ecology, 176, 323-345.
Moore, M. J., Hassan, N., Gitzendanner, M., Bruenn, R. A., Croley, M., *Vandeventer, A., H., J. W., Dhingra, A., Brockington, S. F., Latvis, M., *Ramdial, J., *Roolse, A., *Piedrahita, A., Xi, Z., Davis ,C. C., Soltis, P. S., and Soltis, D. E. (2011). Phylogenetic Analysis of the Plastid Inverted Repeat for 244 Species: Insights into Deeper-Level Angiosperm Relationships from a Long, Slowly Evolving Sequence Region. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172(4), 541-558.
Wayne, M. L., Pienaar, J., Telonis-Scott, M., *Sylvestre, L.-S., Nuzhdin, S. V., & McIntyre, L. M. (2011). Expression of defense genes in Drosophila evolves under a different selective regime from expression of other genes. Evolution, 65(4), 1068-78.
Baer, C. F., Joyner-Matos, J., *Ostrow, D., *Grigaltchik, V., *Salomon, M. P., & Upadhyay, A. (2010). Rapid decline in fitness of mutation accumulation lines of gonochoristic (outcrossing) Caenorhabditis nematodes. Evolution, 64(11), 3242-53.
Brockington, S. F., *Alexandre, R., *Ramdial, J., Moore, M. J., Crawley, S., Dhingra, A., Hilu, K., et al. (2009). Phylogeny of the Caryophyllales Sensu Lato: Revisiting Hypotheses on Pollination Biology and Perianth Differentiation in the Core Caryophyllales. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170(5), 627-643.
Buggs, R.J.A., A.N. Doust, J.A. Tate, J. Koh, K. Soltis, F.A. Feltus, A.H. Paterson, P.S. Soltis, D. E. S. (2009). Gene loss and silencing in Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae): comparison of natural and synthetic allotetraploids. Heredity 103 (1): 73-81.
Joyner-Matos, J., Upadhyay, A., *Salomon, M. P., *Grigaltchik, V., & Baer, C. F. (2009). Genetic (Co)variation for life span in rhabditid nematodes: role of mutation, selection, and history. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 64(11), 1134-45.
*Salomon, M. P., *Ostrow, D., Phillips, N., Blanton, D., Bour, W.,*Keller, T. E., Levy, L., et al. (2009). Comparing mutational and standing genetic variability for fitness and size in Caenorhabditis briggsae and C. elegans. Genetics, 183(2), 685-92, 1SI-19SI.
Klug, H., Kontax, C. I., Annis, S., & *Vasudevan, N. (2008). Operational sex ratio affects nest tending and aggression in male flagfish Jordanella floridae Goode & Bean. Journal of Fish Biology, 72(6), 1295-1305.