Recent publications from the Department of Biology

Names in bold are Hofstra faculty, underlined names are Hofstra students.

Burke, R.L. and W. Capitano. 2011. Nesting ecology and hatching success of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina, on Long Island, New York. American Midland Naturalist 165:137-142.

Del Vecchio, S., R.L. Burke, L. Rugiero, M. Capula, and L. Luiselli. 2011. Seasonal changes in the diet of Testudo hermanni hermanni in central Italy.  Herpetologica. 67:236-249. 

Del Vecchio, S., R.L. Burke, L. M. Capula, and L. Luiselli. 2011. The turtle is in the details: Microhabitat choice by Testudo hermanni is based on microscale plant distribution. Animal Biology. 61: 249-261. 

DiAngelo, Justin R., Renske Erion, Amanda Crocker and Amita Sehgal (2011).  The Central Clock Neurons Regulate Lipid Storage in Drosophila. PLoS ONE, 6(5), e19921.  

Dualan, I.V. and Williams, J.D. 2011. Palp growth, regeneration, and longevity of the obligate hermit crab symbiont Dipolydora commensalis (Annelida: Spionidae). Invertebrate Biology. 130: 264-276.

Greenwell, R.S., Nam, T.-W., and Donohue, T.J. 2011. Features of Rhodobacter sphaeroides ChrR required for stimuli to promote dissociation of σE/ChrR complexes. J. Mol. Bio. 407: 477-491.

Grigione, M.M., P. Burman, S.Clavio, S.J. Harper, D. Manning and R. J. Sarno. 2011. Diet of Florida coyotes in a protected wildland and suburban habitat. Urban Ecosystems 14:655-663.

Kanyan Xu, Justin R. DiAngelo, Michael Hughes, John Hoegenesch, and Amita Sehgal. 2011. The Circadian Clock Interacts with Metabolic Physiology to Influence Reproductive Fitness.  Cell Metabolism, 13(6): 639-654.

Konow, N., Herrel, A., Ross, C., Williams, S., German, R., Sanford, C. P., Gintoff, C. 2011. Evolution of Muscle Activity Patterns Driving Motions of the Jaw and Hyoid during Chewing in Gnathostomes. Integrative and Comparative Biology51(2): 235-246.

Willey, J. M. and A. A. Gaskell. 2011. Morphogenetic signaling molecules of the Streptomycetes. Chem. Rev. 111:174-187.

Williams, J.D., Gallardo, A. and Murphy, A. E. 2011. Crustacean parasites associated with hermit crabs from the western Mediterranean Sea, with first documentation of egg predation by the burrowing barnacle Trypetesa lampas (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica: Trypetesidae). Integrative Zoology. 6: 13-27.