Publications

• Hardy, J., Streeter, E.M., and DeCook, R. (2017). Plasma cholesterol levels in septic dogs and its association with morbidity and mortality: A retrospective study of 62 dogs (2005-2015). JVECC Vol. 28:149-156.
• Tang, J., Yi, Q., Li, H., Kopecky, B., Ding, D., Ou, H.C., DeCook, R., Chen, X., Sun, Z., Kobel, M., and Bao, J. (2015). Canertinib indues ototoxicity in three preclinical models. Hearing Research Vol. 328:59-66.
• Elliot, K.L., Houston, D.W., DeCook, R., and Fritzsch, B. (2015). Ear manipulations reveal a critical period for survival and dendritic development at the single-cell level in Mauthner neurons. Developmental Neurobiology doi: 10.1002/dneu.22287.
• Gerber, L.E., Streeter, E.M., and DeCook, R. (2015). Review of gunshot injuries in cats and dogs, and utility of triage scoring systems in predicting outcome following injury: 37 cases over years 2003-2008. JAVMA Vol. 245:923-929.
• Kopecky, B., DeCook, R., and Fritzsch, B. (2012). N-Myc and L-Myc are Essential for Hair Cell Formation but not Maintenance. Brain Research. Vol. 1484:1-14.
• Kopecky, B., DeCook, R., and Fritzsch, B. (2011). Mutational ataxia resulting from abnormal vestibular acquisition and processing is partially compensated for. Behavioral Neuroscience. Vol. 126:301-313.
• Chin, S., DeCook, R., Street, W.N., and Eichmann, D. (2010). Query-based text normalization selection models for enhanced retrieval accuracy. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Semantic Search, Los Angeles. W10-12:19-26.
• Swanson-Wagner, R., DeCook, R., Yia, J., Nettleton, D., and Schnable, P.S. (2009). Paternal dominance of trans-eQTL influences gene expression in maize hybirds. Science, Vol. 326: 1118-1120.
• Swanson, R., Jia, Y., DeCook, R., Borsuk, L.A., Nettleton, D., and Schnable, P.S. (2006). All possible modes of gene action are observed in a global comparison of gene expression in a maize F1 hybrid and its parents. PNAS, Vol. 103: 6805-6810.
• DeCook, R., Lall, S., Nettleton, D., and Howell, S.H. (2006). Genetic regulation of gene expression during shoot development in Arabidopsis. Genetics, Vol. 172: 1155-1164.
• DeCook, R., Nettleton, D., Foster, C., and Wurtele, E.S. (2006). Identifying differentially expressed genes in unreplicated multiple-treatment microarray timecourse experiments. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 50: 518-532.
• Fridley, B., DeCook, R., and Butler, H. (2005). Expanding your statistical computing toolbox with Python. Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter, Vol. 16 no. 1.
• Lall, S., Nettleton, D., DeCook, R., Che, P., and Howell, S.H. (2004). QTLs associated with adventious shoot formation in tissue culture and the program of shoot development in Arabidopsis. Genetics, Vol. 167: 1883-1892.
• DeCook, R., and Carriquiry, A. (2004). Does gender matter? A report on gender and salary in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty at Iowa State University. Preparing Future Faculty Program unpublished report, June.

Working Papers

• Schnelle, T., and DeCook, R. (2019). Recreational services and student success at the University of Iowa.
• Umbarger, M., DeCook, R., and Rautiainen, R. (2012). Medication use and agricultural injury.

Technical Reports

• Jenkins, C., DeCook, R., and Neiman, M. (2010). An experimental test of the density-dependent selection hypothesis for sex reveals complex relationships between population composition and fitness in asexual freshwater snails.