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View article: Rapid genome-wide introgression reveals fitness advantage of immigrant genotypes
Rapid genome-wide introgression reveals fitness advantage of immigrant genotypes Open
Evolutionary biology has long recognized the tendency for populations to be locally adapted to their ancestral habitat, resulting in higher resident fitness. However, immigrants can also introduce beneficial alleles. The resulting adaptive…
View article: Needle in a haystack: A droplet digital polymerase chain reaction assay to detect rare helminth parasites infecting natural host populations
Needle in a haystack: A droplet digital polymerase chain reaction assay to detect rare helminth parasites infecting natural host populations Open
Helminths infect humans, livestock, and wildlife, yet remain understudied despite their significant impact on public health and agriculture. Because many of the most prevalent helminth-borne diseases are zoonotic, the health of diverse hos…
View article: The potential of roadside verges as insect habitat: Road salt has few effects on monarch butterfly performance and migration
The potential of roadside verges as insect habitat: Road salt has few effects on monarch butterfly performance and migration Open
Roadside habitat has been touted as a conservation opportunity for insect pollinators, including the declining monarch butterfly. The spectacular monarch migration is under threat from the loss of habitat and the decline of their milkweed …
View article: Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies
Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies Open
Life-history theory predicts that increased investment in traits related to reproduction will be associated with a reduced ability to invest in survival or longevity. One mechanistic explanation for this trade-off is that metabolic stress …
View article: Dietary road salt and monarch butterflies: minimal effects on larval growth, immunity, wing coloration, and migration to Mexico
Dietary road salt and monarch butterflies: minimal effects on larval growth, immunity, wing coloration, and migration to Mexico Open
The spectacular migration of the monarch butterfly is under threat from the loss of habitat and the decline of their milkweed host plants. In the northern part of their range, roadsides could potentially produce millions of monarchs annual…
View article: Opposing Responses to Scarcity Emerge from Functionally Unique Sociality Drivers
Opposing Responses to Scarcity Emerge from Functionally Unique Sociality Drivers Open
From biofilms to whale pods, organisms across taxa live in groups, thereby accruing numerous diverse benefits of sociality. All social organisms, however, pay the inherent cost of increased resource competition. One expects that when resou…
View article: Broadening the Taxonomic Breadth of Organisms in the Bio-Inspired Design Process
Broadening the Taxonomic Breadth of Organisms in the Bio-Inspired Design Process Open
(1) Generating a range of biological analogies is a key part of the bio-inspired design process. In this research, we drew on the creativity literature to test methods for increasing the diversity of these ideas. We considered the role of …
View article: Supplementary data for Shephard et al. 2023 from Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies
Supplementary data for Shephard et al. 2023 from Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies Open
Life-history theory predicts that increased investment in traits related to reproduction will be associated with a reduced ability to invest in survival or longevity. One mechanistic explanation for this tradeoff is that metabolic stress g…
View article: Data & code for "Opposing responses to scarcity emerge from functionally unique sociality drivers"
Data & code for "Opposing responses to scarcity emerge from functionally unique sociality drivers" Open
Please see the 0.readMe.txt file for explanations. These files contain the data and code associated with a model of how the shifts in resource abundance affect group size in groups with different primary benefits of social…
View article: An Experimental Analysis of the Fine-Scale Effects of Nest Ectoparasites on Incubation Behavior
An Experimental Analysis of the Fine-Scale Effects of Nest Ectoparasites on Incubation Behavior Open
Avian incubation is a highly complex, adjustable behavior essential to embryo development and survival. When incubating, parents face a tradeoff between investing in incubation to maintain optimal temperatures for egg development or in sel…
View article: The Promise of Cross-Species Coexpression Analysis in Studying the Coevolution and Ecology of Host-Symbiont Interactions
The Promise of Cross-Species Coexpression Analysis in Studying the Coevolution and Ecology of Host-Symbiont Interactions Open
Measuring gene expression simultaneously in both hosts and symbionts offers a powerful approach to explore the biology underlying species interactions. Such dual or simultaneous RNAseq approaches have primarily been used to gain insight in…
View article: Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response
Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response Open
Closely related populations often differ in resistance to a given parasite, as measured by infection success or failure. Yet, the immunological mechanisms of these evolved differences are rarely specified. Does resistance evolve via change…
View article: Rapid Evolution of Parasite Resistance via Improved Recognition and Accelerated Immune Activation and Deactivation
Rapid Evolution of Parasite Resistance via Improved Recognition and Accelerated Immune Activation and Deactivation Open
Closely related populations often differ in resistance to a given parasite, as measured by infection success or failure. Yet, the immunological mechanisms of these evolved differences are rarely specified. Does resistance evolve via change…
View article: Complete mitochondrial genomes provide current refined phylogenomic hypotheses for relationships among ten <i>Hirundo</i> species
Complete mitochondrial genomes provide current refined phylogenomic hypotheses for relationships among ten <i>Hirundo</i> species Open
Hirundo is the most species-rich genus of the passerine swallow family (Hirundinidae) and has a cosmopolitan distribution. Here we report the complete, annotated mitochondrial genomes for 25 individuals from 10 of the 14 extant H…
View article: Students as ecologists: Strategies for successful mentorship of undergraduate researchers
Students as ecologists: Strategies for successful mentorship of undergraduate researchers Open
Guiding undergraduates through the ecological research process can be incredibly rewarding and present opportunities to break down barriers to inclusion and diversity in scientific disciplines. At the same time, mentoring undergraduate res…
View article: Transforming mentorship in <scp>STEM</scp> by training scientists to be better leaders
Transforming mentorship in <span>STEM</span> by training scientists to be better leaders Open
Effective mentoring is a key component of academic and career success that contributes to overall measures of productivity. Mentoring relationships also play an important role in mental health and in recruiting and retaining students from …
View article: How Parasite Communities Shape Host Evolution: from Individual-Level Experiments to Population-Level Comparisons
How Parasite Communities Shape Host Evolution: from Individual-Level Experiments to Population-Level Comparisons Open
Parasites generate strong selective pressures that can shape host physiology, behavior, and evolutionary history. My dissertation research examines how complex interactions among hosts and parasites can shape patterns across spatial scales…
View article: The importance of cross-validation, accuracy, and precision for measuring plumage color: A comment on Vaquero-Alba et al. (2016)
The importance of cross-validation, accuracy, and precision for measuring plumage color: A comment on Vaquero-Alba et al. (2016) Open
Vaquero-Alba and colleagues published a study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances comparing objective color measurements of plumage taken in the field directly on a bird's body to those taken in the lab on collected feathers arranged to em…
View article: Transforming Graduate Training in STEM Education
Transforming Graduate Training in STEM Education Open
The need for improved instruction in college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses is a prominent national policy issue (Brewer and Smith 2011, Olson and Riordan 2012). To address this need, instruction in many college …