Papers Hot off the Press (Cal Poly students' names in bold)

Collaborative effort from Voss' and Talmadge's labs

Waters, C.W., Varuzhanyan, G., Talmadge R.J., & Voss, A.A. 2013. Huntington disease skeletal muscle is hyperexcitable owing to chloride and potassium channel dysfunction. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1220068110

Roby, T., Ashe, S., Singh, N. & Clark, C. 2013. Shaping the online experience: How administrators can influence student and instructor perceptions through policy and practice. The Internet and Higher Education 17:29-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.09.004

Méndez-Alonzo, R., Ewers F.W. & Sack, L. 2013. Ecological variation in leaf biomechanics and its scaling with tissue structure across three mediterranean-climate plant communities. Functional Ecology 27: 544-554. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12059

Biswas, A., Elmatari, D., Rothman, J., LaMunyon, C.W. & Said, H.M. 2013. Identification and functional characterization of the Caenorhabditis elegans Riboflavin Transporters rft-1 and rft-2. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58190. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058190
Liau, W.-S., Nasi, U., Elmatari, D., Rothman, J., LaMunyon, C.W. 2013. Premature sperm activation and defective spermatogenesis caused by loss of spe-46 function in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS ONE 8(3): e57266. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057266

Moriarty, D.J. 2013. A twenty-year investigation of the effects of fire on a coastal sage scrub bird community.Western Birds 44: 2-163.

Garcia, A. & Smith, J.R. 2013. Factors influencing human visitation of southern California rocky intertidal ecosystems. Ocean and Coastal Management 73: 44-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.12.006

Goddard, J.H.R., Schaefer, M.C., Hoover, C. & Valdés, A. 2013. The regional extinction of a conspicuous dorid nudibranch (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in California. Marine Biology. doi:10.1007/s00227-013-2204-x
Valdés, A., Ornelas-Gatdula, E. & DuPont, A. 2013. Color pattern variation in a shallow water species of opisthobranch mollusk. Biological Bulletin 224: 35-46. http://www.biolbull.org/content/224/1/35.abstract
Crocetta, F., Macali, A., Furfaro, G., Cooke, S., Villani, G. & Valdés, A. 2013. Alien molluscan species established along the Italian shores: an update, with discussions on some Mediterranean “alien species” categories. ZooKeys 277: 91-108. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.277.4362
Gonzalez, L., Hanson, D. & Valdés, A. 2013. Molecular divergence between two sympatric species of Dondice (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with distinct feeding specializations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315413000465
Alexander, J. & Valdés, A. 2013. The ring doesn’t mean a thing: Molecular data suggests a new taxonomy for two Pacific species of sea hares (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia, Aplysiidae). Pacific Science 67: 283-294. doi:10.2984/67.2.10

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