Integrative and Comparative Biology

Metamorphosis: A Multikingdom Approach

C. D. Bishop, D. F. Erezyilmaz, T. Flatt, C. D. Georgiou, M. G. Hadfield, A. Heyland, J. Hodin, M. W. Jacobs, S. A. Maslakova, A. Pires, A. M. Reitzel, S. Santagata, K. Tanaka, and J. H. Youson

What is metamorphosis?
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 6, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 655-661; doi:10.1093/icb/icl004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cory D. Bishop, Megan J. Huggett, Andreas Heyland, Jason Hodin, and Bruce P. Brandhorst

Interspecific variation in metamorphic competence in marine invertebrates: the significance for comparative investigations into the timing of metamorphosis
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 28, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 662-682; doi:10.1093/icb/icl043 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandie M. Degnan and Bernard M. Degnan

The origin of the pelagobenthic metazoan life cycle: what's sex got to do with it?
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 15, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 683-690; doi:10.1093/icb/icl028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christos D. Georgiou, Nikolaos Patsoukis, Ioannis Papapostolou, and George Zervoudakis

Sclerotial metamorphosis in filamentous fungi is induced by oxidative stress
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on April 26, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 691-712; doi:10.1093/icb/icj034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Santelices and J. Alvarado

Applying the concept of metamorphosis to the crustose-to-erect thallus transition of macroalgae
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 12, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 713-718; doi:10.1093/icb/icl009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason Hodin

Expanding networks: Signaling components in and a hypothesis for the evolution of metamorphosis
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 20, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 719-742; doi:10.1093/icb/icl038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Heyland and Leonid L. Moroz

Signaling mechanisms underlying metamorphic transitions in animals
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 27, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 743-759; doi:10.1093/icb/icl023 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molly W. Jacobs, Sandie M. Degnan, Rick Woods, Elizabeth Williams, Kathrein E. Roper, Kathryn Green, and Bernard M. Degnan

The effect of larval age on morphology and gene expression during ascidian metamorphosis
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 14, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 760-776; doi:10.1093/icb/icl015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Flatt, Leonid L. Moroz, Marc Tatar, and Andreas Heyland

Comparing thyroid and insect hormone signaling
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 7, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 777-794; doi:10.1093/icb/icl034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael E. Baker

Evolution of metamorphosis: role of environment on expression of mutant nuclear receptors and other signal-transduction proteins
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 12, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 808-814; doi:10.1093/icb/icl019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Noah Ollikainen, Charlie Chandsawangbhuwana, and Michael E. Baker

Evolution of the thyroid hormone, retinoic acid, ecdysone and liver X receptors
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 815-826; doi:10.1093/icb/icl035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Adam M. Reitzel, James C. Sullivan, and John R. Finnerty

Qualitative shift to indirect development in the parasitic sea anemone Edwardsiella lineata
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 827-837; doi:10.1093/icb/icl032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Recent Developments in Neurobiology

Rhanor Gillette

Evolution and Function in Serotonergic Systems
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 25, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 838-846; doi:10.1093/icb/icl024 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Lovell and Leonid L. Moroz

The largest growth cones in the animal kingdom: an illustrated guide to the dynamics of Aplysia neuronal growth in cell culture
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 3, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 847-870; doi:10.1093/icb/icl042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James A. Murray, Jessica Estepp, and Shaun D. Cain

Advances in the neural bases of orientation and navigation
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 7, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 871-879; doi:10.1093/icb/icl037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nathan J. Tublitz, Michelle R. Gaston, and Poh Kheng Loi

Neural regulation of a complex behavior: body patterning in cephalopod molluscs
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 25, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 880-889; doi:10.1093/icb/icl020 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Aronowicz and C. J. Lowe

Hox gene expression in the hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii and the evolution of deuterostome nervous systems
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 18, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 890-901; doi:10.1093/icb/icl045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomic and Proteomic Approaches in Crustacean Biology

Robert W. Chapman, Javier Robalino, and Harold F. Trent, III

EcoGenomics: analysis of complex systems via fractal geometry
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 10, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 902-911; doi:10.1093/icb/icj049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David W. Towle and Christine M. Smith

Gene discovery in Carcinus maenas and Homarus americanus via expressed sequence tags
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 17, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 912-918; doi:10.1093/icb/icl002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathon H. Stillman, Kristen S. Teranishi, Abderrhamane Tagmount, Erika A. Lindquist, and Peter B. Brokstein

Construction and characterization of EST libraries from the porcelain crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 3, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 919-930; doi:10.1093/icb/icl007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nuala A. O'Leary, Harold F. Trent, III, Javier Robalino, Megan E. T. Peck, David J. McKillen, and Paul S. Gross

Analysis of multiple tissue-specific cDNA libraries from the Pacific whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 17, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 931-939; doi:10.1093/icb/icl006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy S. McClintock, Barry W. Ache, and Charles D. Derby

Lobster olfactory genomics
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 17, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 940-947; doi:10.1093/icb/icj050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David S. Durica, Doris Kupfer, Fares Najar, Hongshing Lai, Yuhong Tang, Kathryn Griffin, Penny M. Hopkins, and Bruce Roe

EST library sequencing of genes expressed during early limb regeneration in the fiddler crab and transcriptional responses to ecdysteroid exposure in limb bud explants
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 22, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 948-964; doi:10.1093/icb/icl005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sung Gu Lee and Donald L. Mykles

Proteomics and signal transduction in the crustacean molting gland
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 3, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 965-977; doi:10.1093/icb/icl047 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas H. Shafer, Michael A. McCartney, and Lindsay M. Faircloth

Identifying exoskeleton proteins in the blue crab from an expressed sequence tag (EST) library
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 20, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 978-990; doi:10.1093/icb/icl022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nora B. Terwilliger, Margaret Ryan, and Michelle R. Phillips

Crustacean hemocyanin gene family and microarray studies of expression change during eco-physiological stress
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 12, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 991-999; doi:10.1093/icb/icl012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecological Immunology: Recent Advances and Applications for Conservation and Public Health

Kelly A. Lee

Linking immune defenses and life history at the levels of the individual and the species
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 20, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1000-1015; doi:10.1093/icb/icl049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah Cohen, Joëlle Tirindelli, Marta Gomez-Chiarri, and Diane Nacci

Functional implications of Major Histocompatibility (MH) variation using estuarine fish populations
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1016-1029; doi:10.1093/icb/icl044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lynn B. Martin, II, Zachary M. Weil, and Randy J. Nelson

Refining approaches and diversifying directions in ecoimmunology
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 16, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1030-1039; doi:10.1093/icb/icl039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher R. Lage, Akshata Nayak, and Carol H. Kim

Arsenic ecotoxicology and innate immunity
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1040-1054; doi:10.1093/icb/icl048 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David H. Townson

Immune cell–endothelial cell interactions in the bovine corpus luteum
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 18, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1055-1059; doi:10.1093/icb/icl021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bram Lutton and Ian Callard

Evolution of reproductive–immune interactions
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 26, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1060-1071; doi:10.1093/icb/icl050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine J. Walsh, Carl A. Luer, A.B. Bodine, Clayton A. Smith, Heather L. Cox, David R. Noyes, and Maura Gasparetto

Elasmobranch immune cells as a source of novel tumor cell inhibitors: Implications for public health
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1072-1081; doi:10.1093/icb/icl041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John V. Fahey, Todd M. Schaefer, and Charles R. Wira

Sex hormone modulation of human uterine epithelial cell immune responses
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1082-1087; doi:10.1093/icb/icl036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecophysiology and Conservation: The Contributions of Energetics

Robert D. Stevenson

Ecophysiology and conservation: The contribution of energetics—introduction to the symposium
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 18, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1088-1092; doi:10.1093/icb/icl053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael P. O'Connor, Annette E. Sieg, and Arthur E. Dunham

Linking physiological effects on activity and resource use to population level phenomena
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 18, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1093-1109; doi:10.1093/icb/icl031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jon F. Harrison, Jennifer H. Fewell, Kirk E. Anderson, and Gerald M. Loper

Environmental physiology of the invasion of the Americas by Africanized honeybees
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 5, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1110-1122; doi:10.1093/icb/icl046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lincoln P. Brower, Linda S. Fink, and Peter Walford

Fueling the fall migration of the monarch butterfly
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1123-1142; doi:10.1093/icb/icl029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

W. P. Porter, N. Vakharia, W. D. Klousie, and D. Duffy

Po'ouli landscape bioinformatics models predict energetics, behavior, diets, and distribution on Maui
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 18, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1143-1158; doi:10.1093/icb/icl051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian K. McNab

The energetics of reproduction in endotherms and its implication for their conservation
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 11, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1159-1168; doi:10.1093/icb/icl016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. D. Stevenson and William A. Woods, Jr

Condition indices for conservation: new uses for evolving tools
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on October 20, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1169-1190; doi:10.1093/icb/icl052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Review

Mark A. Shields

Pelicans, Cormorants, and their Relatives, The Pelecaniformes. J. Bryan Nelson
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 29, 2006
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2006 46: 1206-1207; doi:10.1093/icb/icl040 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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