YIBS 1996-1997 Annual Report

III. PUBLICATIONS

a) CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION

Francino, M. P., L. Chao, M. A. Riley, and H. Ochman. 1996. Patterns of substitutions in enterobacterial genes are generated by transcription-coupled repair. Science 272:107-108.

 

Jeong, E. Y., Ornston, L. N., and S. H. Choi. 1996. Cloning of catBCIJFD genes for catechol degradation into chromosomal pobA and genetic study of the recombinant Acinectobacter calcoaceticus. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 60:949-956.

 

Riley, M. A. and D. Gordon. 1996. The ecology and evolution of bacteriocins. J.Industrial Microbiol. 17:151-158.

 

Tan, Y. and M. A. Riley. 1996. Rapid invasion of colicinogenic bacteria with novel immunity functions. Microbiology 142:2175-2180.

 

Wagner, R. and M. A. Riley. 1996. Low synonymous site variation at the lacY locus in Escherichia coli suggests the action of positive selection. J. of Molecular Evolution 42:79-94.

 

Zawadzki, P., M. A. Riley and F. M. Cohan. 1996. Homology among nearly all plasmids infecting three Bacillus species. J. of Bacteriology 178:191-198.

 

Bolker, J. A. , M. Butler, J. Kissinger, and M. A. Riley. 1997. Addressing the Gender Gap in Evolutionary Biology. TREE 12:46-47.

 

Kok, R. G., D'Argenio, D. A., and L. N. Ornston. 1997. Combining localized PCR mutagenesis and natural transformation in direct genetic analysis of a transcriptional regulator gene, pobR. J. Bacteriol. 179:4270-4276.

 

Riley, M. A. 1997. Molecular Evolution. In LIFE, (G. Orions, et al. eds.), Sinauer Publ. (Sunderland).

 

Tan, Y. and M. A. Riley. 1997. Nucleotide polymorphism in colicin E2 genes clusters: Evidence for positive selection. Mol. Bio. Evol. 14:666-673.

 

Tan, Y. and M. A. Riley. 1997. Positive selection and recombination, major molecular mechanisms of colicin diversification. TREE 12:348-351.

 

Wernegreen, J., E. Harding, and M. A. Riley. 1997. Rhizobium gone native: Unexpected plasmid stability of indigenous R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:5483- 5488.

 

Williams, P. A., Shaw, L. M., Pitt, C. W., and M. Vreci. 1997. xylUW, two genes at the start of the upper pathway operon of Tol plasmid pWW0, appear to play no essential part in determining its catabolic phenotype. Microbiology 143:101-107.

b) CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGY

 

Dudgeon. S. and L. W. Buss. 1996. Growing with the flow: On the Gitchoff, maintenance and malleability of colony form in the hydroid Hydractinia. Am. Nat. 147:667-691.

 

Gitchoff, P. and G. P. Wagner. 1996. Recombination induced hypergraphs: a new 37-approach to mutation-recombination isomorphism. Complexity 2:43.

 

Rannala, B. and J. A. Hartigan. 1996. Estimating gene flow in island populations. Genet. Res. 67:147-158.

 

Wagner, G. P. 1996. Homologues, natural kinds and the evolution of modularity. American Zoologist 36:36-43.

Wagner, G. P. 1996. Apparent stabilizing selection and the maintenance of neutral genetic variation. Genetics 143:617-619.

 

Wagner, G. P. and L. Altenberg. 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50:967-976

 

Baatz, M. and G. P. Wagner. 1997. Adaptive inertia caused by hidden pleiotropic effects. Theoretical Population Biology 51:49-66.

 

Schmitz, O. 1997. Press perturbations and predictability of ecological interactions in an old-field food web. Ecology 78:55-69.

 

Schmitz, O. J. and G. Booth. 1997. Modeling food web complexity: The consequences of individual-based, spatially explicit behavioral ecology on trophic interactions. Evolutionary Ecology 11:379-398.

 

Wagner, G. P., Booth, G., and H. Bagheri-Chaichian. 1997. A population genetic theory of canalization. Evolution 51:329-347.

 

Bagheri-Chaichain, H. and G. P. Wagner. 1997. Representational issues in the evolution of physiological adaptations. S-European Journal for Semiotic Studies, in press.

 

Booth, G. 1997 Swarm Geko: A 2-D floating world for ecological modeling. Artificial Life, in press.

 

Fontana, W. and L. W. Buss. 1997. The barrier of objects: From dynamical systems to bounded organizations. In: J. Casti (ed.) Boundaries and Barriers. Addison- Wesley, Redwood City, CA., in press.

 

Johnston, K. and O. Schmitz. 1997. Wildlife and climate change: Assessing the sensitivity of selected species to simulated doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Global Change Biology 3, in press.

 

Laubichler, M. D. 1997. The riddle of context dependency. European J. Semiotic Studies, in press.

 

Schmitz, O., Beckerman, A., and S. Litman. 1997. The trophic dynamic consequences of adaptive foraging by herbivores. Evol . 11, in press

 

Stadler, P. And G. P. Wagner. 1997. The algebraic theory of recombination spaces. Evolutionary Computation, in press.

 

Wagner, G. P. 1997. The structure of biological concepts and its relation to the dynamics of biological organizations. S-European Journal for Semiotic Studies, in press.

 

Wagner, G. P., Laubichler, M. D. and H. Bagheri-Chaician. 1997. Genetic measurement theory of epistatic effects. Genetica, in press.

 

Wagner, G. P. and P. Stadler. 1997. Complex adaptations and the structure of recombination spaces. Proceeding of the First International Conference, in Algebraic Engineering, in press.

 

 

 

 

 

c) CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION

 

 

Fish, D. 1996. Remote sensing and landscape epidemiology. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences 911057-911063.

 

Fraser, R. H., Barten, P. K., and C. Dana Tomlin. 1996. "SEDMOD: Spatially explicit delivery model for sediment and associated nonpoint source pollutants". American Water Resources Association Symposium on "GIS and Water Resources", Ft. Lauderdale, September 1966, pp 137-146.

 

Dister, S. W., Fish, D., Bros, W. E., Frank, D. H., and B. L. Wood. 1997. Landscape characterization of peridomestic risk of Lyme Disease using satellite imagery. Journal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, in press.

 

Smith, R. B., Gleason, A. C., Gluhosky, P. A., and V. Grubisic. 1997. The wake of St. Vincent. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 54(5):606-623.

d) CENTER FOR ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS OF ANIMALS ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION (ECOSAVE)

 

Schaller, G. B. and E. S. Vrba. 1996. Description of the giant munjac (Megamuntiacus vuquangensis) in Laos, Journal of Mammalogy 77(3):675-683.

 

Vrba, E. S. 1996. Climate, heterochrony, and human evolution. Journal of Anthropological Research 52(1):1-28.

 

Gatesy, J., Amato, G., Vrba, E., Schaller, G. and DeSalle, R. 1997. A cladistic analysis of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA from Bovidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7(3):303-319.

 

Maisano, J. and J. Gauthier. 1997. Patterns of ossification and fusion in xantusiid lizards. Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Seattle, Washington.

 

Vrba, E. S. 1997. Species' habitats in relation to climate, evolution, migration and conservation. In B. Huntley, W. Cramer, A. V. Morgan, H. C. Prentice and J. R. M. Allen (eds), Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes: Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota, pp. 275-286. Proceedings of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Science of Global Environmental Change, Crieff, Scotland, June 1995. NATO ASI Series 1, Vol. 47, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

 

Saltonstall, K., Amato, G. and J. Powell. 1997. Mitochondrial DNA variability in Grauer's Gorillas of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Zaire. Journal of Heredity, in press.

 

Vrba, E. S. 1997. Habitat theory in relation to the evolution in African Neogene Biota and Hominids. In T. G. Bromage and F. Schrenk (eds.), African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Early Hominid Evolution. Plenum Press, New York, in press.

 

Vrba, E. S. 1997. (Monograph of some 200 manuscript pages.) New Fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae, Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and Phylogenetic Analysis of Living and Extinct Alcelaphini. Paleontologia africana, in press.

 

Vrba, E. S. 1997. New quantitative multiphasic growth models and the evolution of prolonged growth exemplified by human brain evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology, in press.

 

Vrba, E. S. and Schaller, G. B. 1997. Phylogeny of Bovidae (Mammalia) based on behavior, glands and skull morphology. In Vrba, E. S. and Schaller, G. B. (eds.) Deer, Antelopes, Giraffes, and Relatives: Past, Present, and Future. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, in press.

e) CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL CHANGE

 

Torgersen, T., Turekian, K. K., Turekian, V. C., Tanaka, N., DeAngelo, E. and J.

O'Donnell. 1996. 224Ra distribution in surface and deep water of Long Island Sound: Sources and horizontal transport rates. Cont. Shelf Res. 16, 1545- 1559.

 

Williams, G., Marcantonio, F. and K. K. Turekian. 1997. The behavior of natural and anthropogenic osmium in Long Island Sound, an urban estuary in the eastern U.S., Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 148, 341-347.

IV. VISITORS

a) CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGY

Susan Oyama, City University of New York

Egberth Leight, Smithsonian Institution

Peter Stadler, University of Vienna

Da-Yong Zhang, Lanzhou University, China

b) CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL CHANGE

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

Lee R. Kump, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University

Maureen Raymo, Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dan Sandweiss, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine

 

George Philander, Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University

Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland

Lloyd Keigwin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Paul Mayewski, University of New Hampshire

Richard Fairbanks, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University)

 

Katherine Freeman, Pennsylvania State University

Wallace S. Broecker, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University)

Tim Eglinton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Jeffrey Bada, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

John Hayes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Stephen A. Macko, University of Virginia

V. SPONSORED PROGRAMS

Cambodian Genocide Program, organized by the Center for International and Area Studies

Conference on Deer, Antelopes, Giraffes, and Relatives: Past, Present and Future, organized by George Schaller and Elisabeth Vrba

Fisheries for the Future, organized by the F&ES Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems and the Program in Organismal Biology

Seminars presented at Yale University in April 1997 by Margaret Catley-Carlson, President, Population Council, on Women's Reproductive Health: Mountains, Molehills, and Mifeprestone RU-486 and Population, Poverty and the Environment: Achievable Agenda or Inevitable Abyss?

10th Anniversary of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition (YSEC) with Frances Beinecke as the keynote speaker