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Graduate Research. Recent BioGrad Publications
(2009-2011)
Bazinet, A.L., Marshall, K.E., MacMillan, H.A., Williams, C.M. & Sinclair, B.J. (2010) Rapid changes in desiccation resistance in Drosophila melanogaster are facilitated by changes in cuticular permeability. Journal of Insect Physiology 56: 2006-2012.
Carter, G.G., Fenton, M.B., Faure, P.A. (2009) White-winged vampire bats (Diaemus youngi) exchange contact calls. Canadian Journal of Zoology 87, 604-608.
Clare, E.L., Fraser, E.E., Braid, H.E., Fenton, M.B., Hebert, P.D.(2009) Species on the menu of a generalist predator, the eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis): using a molecular approach to detect arthropod prey. Molecular Ecology 18, 2532-42.
Crawford, L.A., Desjardins, S., Keyghobadi, N. (2011) Fine-scale genetic structure of an endangered population of the Mormon metalmark butterfly (Apodemia mormo) revealed using AFLPs. Conservation Genetics DOI 10.1007/s10592-011-0202-4.
Dzal, Y., McGuire, L.P., Veselka, N., Fenton, M.B. (2010) Going, going, gone: the impact of white-nose syndrome on the summer activity of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). Biology Letters, online publication.
Gerson, A.R., Guglielmo, C.G. (2011) House sparrows (Passer domesticus) increase protein catabolism in response to water restriction. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 300, R925-30.
Koscinski, D., Crawford, L.A., Keller, H.A., Keyghobadi, N. (2011) Effects of different methods of non-lethal tissue sampling on butterflies. Ecological Entomology DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01272.x.
Lazure, L., Fenton, M.B. (2011) High duty cycle echolocation and prey detection by bats. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 1131-37.
Lobo, N., Duong, M., Millar, J.S. (2009) Conifer-seed preferences of small mammals. Canadian Journal of Zoology 89, 773-780.
Lobo, N., Geary, A.B., Millar, J.S. (2010) Intraspecific behavior of Heather Voles, Phenacomys intermedius. Northwestern Naturalist 91, 165-171.
Lobo, N., Millar, .JS. (2011) The efficacy of conifer seeds as major food resources to deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) and southern red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi). Mammalian Biology 76, 274-284.
Lobo, N., Millar, J.S. (2010) Photographic Evidence of Bobcats, Lynx rufus, in the Kananaskis Valley in Southwestern Alberta. Canadian Field-Naturalist. In Press.
MacAlpine, J.L.P., Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The effects of CO2 and chronic cold exposure on fecundity of female Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 35-37.
MacMillan, H.A., Guglielmo, C.G., Sinclair, B.J. (2009) Membrane remodeling and glucose in Drosophila melanogaster: a test of rapid cold-hardening and chilling tolerance hypotheses. Journal of Insect Physiology 55, 243-249.
MacMillan, H.A., Sinclair, B.J. (2011) Mechanisms underlying insect chill-coma. Journal of Insect Physiology 57, 12-20.
MacMillan, H.A., Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The role of the gut in insect chilling-injury: cold-induced disruption of osmoregulation in the fall field cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus. Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 726-734.
MacMillan, H.A., Walsh, J.P., Sinclair B.J. (2009) The effects of selection for cold tolerance on cross-tolerance to other environmental stressors in Drosophila melanogaster Meigen. Insect Science 16, 263-276.
Maiti S., Kumar K.H., Castellani C.A., O'Reilly R., Singh S.M. (2011) Ontogenetic de novocopy number variations (CNVs) as a source of genetic individuality: studies on two families with MZD twins for schizophrenia. PLoS ONE 2, e17125.
Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2010) Repeated stress exposure results in a survival-reproduction tradeoff in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 963-969.
Marshall, K.E.& Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The sublethal effects of repeated freezing in the woolly bear caterpillar Pyrrharctia isabella. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 1205-1212.
McGuire, L.P., Fenton, M.B. (2010) Hitting the wall: light affects the obstacle avoidance ability of free-flying little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus). Acta Chiropterologica 12, 247-50.
McGuire, L.P., Fenton, M.B., Faure, P.A., Guglielmo, C.G. (2009) Determining Feeding State and Rate of Mass Change in Insectivorous Bats Using Plasma Metabolite Analysis. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 82, 812-18.
McGuire, L.P., Fenton, M.B., Guglielmo, C.G. (2009) Effect of age on energy storage during prehibernation swarming in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 87, 515-19.
McGuire, L.P., Guglielmo, C.G. (2009) What Can Birds Tell Us About the Migration Physiology of Bats?. Journal of Mammalogy 90, 1290-97.
McGuire, L.P., Guglielmo, C.G. (2010) Quantitative magnetic resonance: a rapid, noninvasive body composition analysis technique for live and salvaged bats. Journal of Mammalogy 91, 1375-80.
McGuire, L.P., Rattcliffe, J.M. (2011) Light enough to travel: migratory bats have smaller brains, but not larger hippocampi, than sedentary species. Biology Letters 7, 233-36.
Murray, K.L., Fraser, E., Davy, C., Fleming, T.H., Fenton, M.B. (2009) Characterization of the echolocation calls of bats from Exuma, Bahamas. Acta Chiropterologica 11, 415-24.
Orbach, D.N., Fenton, M.B. () Vision Impairs the Abilities of Bats to Avoid Colliding with Stationary Obstacles. PLoS ONE 5, e13912.
Orbach, D.N., Veselka, N., Dzal, Y., Lazure, L., Fenton, M.B. (2010) Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats? PLOS ONE 5, e8993.
Price, E.R. (2010) Dietary lipid composition and avian migratory flight performance: Development of a theoretical framework for avian fat storage. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 157, 297-309.
Price, E.R., McFarlan, J.T., Guglielmo, C.G. (2010) Preparing for Migration? The Effects of Photoperiod and Exercise on Muscle Oxidative Enzymes, Lipid Transporters, and Phospholipids in White-Crowned Sparrows. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 83, 252-62.
Seewagen, C.L. (2010) Threats of environmental mercury to birds: knowledge gaps and priorities for future research. Bird Conservation International 20, 112-23.
Seewagen, C.L., Guglielmo, C.G. (2010) Effects of Fat and Lean Body Mass on Migratory Landbird Stopover Duration. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122, 82-87.
Seewagen, C.L., Guglielmo, C.G. (2011) Quantitative magnetic resonance analysis and a morphometric predictive model reveal lean body mass changes in migrating Nearctic-Neotropical passerines. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 181, 413-21.
Seewagen, C.L., Slayton, E.J., Guglielmo, C.G. (2010) Passerine migrant stopover duration and spatial behaviour at an urban stopover site. Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology 36, 484-92.
Sheikh H.I., Dougherty L.R., Hayden E.P., Klein D.N., Singh S.M. (2010) Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor gene polymorphism (Leu260Phe) is associated with morning cortisol in preschoolers. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 16, 980-3.
Sheikh H.I., Hayden E.P., Kryski K.R., Smith H.J., Singh S.M. (2010) Genotyping the BDNF rs6265 (val66met) polymorphism by one-step amplified refractory mutation system PCR. Psychiatr Genet 20, 109-12.
Singh S.M., Castellani C., O'Reilly R. (2010) Autism meets schizophrenia via cadherin pathway. Schizophr Res 116, 293-4.
Springer, J., Price, E.R., Thomas, R., Guglielmo, C.G. (2011) Muscle Membrane Phospholipid Class Composition in White-Throated Sparrows in Relation to Migration. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123, 116-20.
Strachan, L.A., Tarnowski-Garner, H.E., Marshall, K.E. & Sinclair, B.J. (2011) The evolution of cold tolerance in Drosophila larvae. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84: 43-53.
Symons M.N., Weng J., Diehl E., Heo E., Kleiber M.L., Singh S.M. (2010) Delineation of the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor genes in alcohol preference in mice. Behav Genet 40, 660-71.
Williams, C.M., Pelini, S.L., Hellmann, J.J., Sinclair, B.J. (2009) Intra-individual variation allows an explicit test of the hygric hypothesis for discontinuous gas exchange in insects. Biology Letters 6, 274-277.
