Faculty Publications from 2025
Segregating Sites Enhance Accuracy of Species Abundance Estimates From eDNA, Kara J. Andres
The CURE-Comm Framework: A Guide for Infusing CUREs with Science Communication, Rebekka Darner and Ebenezer Korkor
Evolution of Mate Guarding Intensity in Crickets as a Possible Adaptation to Sexual Conflict Over Sperm Transfer, Bert Foquet, Jack Thomas McKermitt, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, and Scott K. Sakaluk
Faculty Publications from 2024
Characterization of the Disease-Causing Mechanism of KIF3B Mutations from Ciliopathy Patients, Jessica M. Adams, Caleb Sawe, Skye Rogers, Jordyn Reid, Ronith Dasari, and Martin F. Engelke
Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution of the Male Nuptial Gift and Female Feeding Behaviour in Decorated Crickets, Samuel Burns-Dunn, Tassie Mortys, Clarissa M. House, Christopher Mitchell, Kristin R. Duffield, Bert Foquet, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk, and John Hunt
Data for Context-Dependence of an Antipredator Response in Neotropical Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones), Austin Calhoun, Rachel Bowden, and Ben Sadd
Past and Recent Anthropogenic Pressures Drive Rapid Changes in Riverine Fish Communities, Alain Danet, Xingli Giam, Julian D. Olden, and Lise Comte
KIF3A Tail Domain Phosphorylation Is Not Required for Ciliogenesis in Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts, Ayoola Fasawe, Jessica M. Adams, and Martin Engelke
Avian Extraembryonic Membranes Respond to Yolk Corticosterone Early in Development, Emily P. Harders, Mitch Agustin, and Ryan T. Paitz
The Transfer of Male Cuticular Hydrocarbons Provides a Reliable Cue of the Risk and Intensity of Sperm Competition in Decorated Crickets, Clarissa M. House, Kristin Duffield, James Rapkin, Scott K. Sakaluk, and John Hunt
Effects of Hemiparasites in Grassland Restorations Are Not Universal, Anna Scheidel and Victoria Borowicz
Effects of Hemiparasites in Grassland Restorations Are Not Universal, Anna Marie Scheidel and Victoria Borowicz
Impacts of Harvest Date and Concurrent Alkali Pretreatment and Ensiling on Anaerobic Digestion of Pennycress Biomass, Liangcheng Yang, Tuba Yasmin Lubna, Michael A. Moklak, Barsanti Gautum, Nicholas J. Heller, Robert L. Rhykerd, David E. Kopsell, and John C. Sedbrook
Faculty Publications from 2023
Experiencing Short Heat Waves Early in Development Changes Thermal Responsiveness of Turtle Embryos to Later Heat Waves, Anthony Breitenbach, Rosario A. Marroquín-Flores, Ryan T. Paitz, and Rachel M. Bowden
Not all cities are the same: variation in animal phenotypes across cities within urban ecology studies, Javier delBarco-Trillo and Breanna J. Putman
Decision Rules for Egg-Color-Based Rejection by Two Cavity-Nesting Hosts of the Brown-Headed Cowbird, Alexander J. Di Giovanni, Juliana Villa, Mark T. Stanback, Charles F. Thompson, Scott K. Sakaluk, Mark E. Hauber, and Daniel Hanley
Song Structure of Male Northern House Wrens and Patterns of Song Production and Delivery Across the Nesting Cycle, Rachael A. DiSciullo, Scott K. Sakaluk, and Charles Thompson
A novel ruthenium-silver based antimicrobial potentiates aminoglycoside activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Gracious Yoofi Donkor, Greg M. Anderson, Michael Stadler, Patrick Ofori Tawiah, Carl D. Orellano, Kevin A. Edwards, and Jan-Ulrik Dahl
Survival-Larval Density Relationships in the Field and Their Implications for Control of Container-Dwelling Aedes Mosquitoes, Katherine G. Evans, Zoey R. Neale, Brendan Holly, Cecilia C. Canizela, and Steven A. Juliano
Transcriptomic Responses of Females to Consumption of Nuptial Food Gifts as a Potential Mediator of Sexual Conflict in Decorated Crickets, Bert Foquet, James Rapkin, Manmohan D. Sharma, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk, and John Hunt
Asynchronous student engagement in analysis of climate data achieves learning objectives related to climate change understanding, statistical competence, and climate anxiety, Thomas Meixner, B. Ciancarelli, E. P. Farrell, D. Silva Garcia, T. Josek, M. M. Kelly, Paul Antone Meister, D. Soule, and Rebekka Darner
Disentangling Effects of Mating, Nuptial Gifts and Accessory Gland Proteins on Reproduction in Female Crickets, Ian G. Rines, Audrey E. Harrod, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, and Scott K. Sakaluk
Faculty Publications from 2022
Multi-Scale Threat Assessment of Riverine Ecosystems in the Colorado River Basin, Lise Comte, Julian D. Olden, Stacy Lischka, and Brett G. Dickson
Morphological Stability of Rural Populations Supports Their Use as Controls in Urban Ecology Studies, Javier delBarco-Trillo and Tania Regacho
Induction of Multiple Immune Signaling Pathways in Gryllodes sigillatus Crickets during Overt Viral Infections, Kristin R. Duffield, Bert Foquet, Judith A. Stasko, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk, and José L. Ramirez
Predation in Many Dimensions: Spatial Context Is Important for Meaningful Functional Response Experiments, Steven A. Juliano, Jonah A. Goughnour, and Geoffrey D. Ower
Genetic Covariance in Immune Measures and Pathogen Resistance in Decorated Crickets is Sex and Pathogen Specific, Corinne Letendre, Kristin Duffield, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk, Clarissa M. House, and John Hunt
Evolution of Immune Function in Response to Dietary Macronutrients in Male and Female Decorated Crickets, Corinne Letendre, Alejandro Rios-Villamil, Alexandria Williams, James Rapkin, Scott K. Sakaluk, Clarissa M. House, and John Hunt
Sex-Specific Effects of Hatching Order on Nestling Baseline Corticosterone in a Wild Songbird, Madison A. Rittinger, Rachel M. Bowden, Logan A. Sauers, Ryan T. Paitz, Christine J. Poppe, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk
How Does Flow Alteration Propagate Across a Large, Highly Regulated Basin? Dam Attributes, Network Context, and Implications for Biodiversity, Albert Ruhi, Jeongwoo Hwang, Naresh Devineni, Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay, Hemant Kumar, Lise Comte, Scott Worland, and A. Sankarasubramanian
Non-linear relationships between density and demographic traits in three Aedes species, Logan A. Sauers, Steven A. Juliano, and Kelsey E. Hawes
Redox-Mediated Inactivation of the Transcriptional Repressor RcrR is Responsible for Uropathogenic Escherichia coli’s Increased Resistance to Reactive Chlorine Species, Sadia Sultana, Mary E. Crompton, Kennadi Meurer, Olivia Jankiewicz, Grace H. Morales, Colton Johnson, Elise Horbach, Kevin Pierre Hoffmann, Pooja Kr, Ritika Shah, Greg M. Anderson, Jonathan E. Schmitz, Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Alessandro Foti, and Jan-Ulrik Dahl
Faculty Publications from 2021
Dataset for Response of the Invasive Alliaria Petiolata to Extreme Temperatures and Drought, Roger C. Anderson, Rebecca Anderson, Jonathan T. Bauer, Christopher Loebach, Alicia Mullarkey, and Megan Engelhardt
Intralocus Sexual Conflict over Optimal Nutrient Intake and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Life Span and Reproduction, Michael Hawkes, Sarah M. Lane, Scott K. Sakaluk, John Hunt, Clarissa M. House, Kim Jensen, and James Rapkin
Mutational Analysis Reveals Potential Phosphorylation Sites in Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 1A That are Important for its Activity, Maria K. Mateyak, Dongming He, Pragati Sharma, and Terri Goss Kinzy
Asp56 in Actin is Critical for the Full Activity of the Amino Acid Starvation-Responsive Kinase Gcn2, Rashmi Ramesh, Martina Dautel, Yongook Lee, Yeonsoo Kim, Kirsty Storey, Susanne Gottfried, Terri Goss Kinzy, Won-Ki Huh, and Evelyn Sattlegger
Impacts of fungal entomopathogens on survival and immune responses of Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens mosquitoes in the context of native Wolbachia infections, Jose L. Ramirez, Molly K. Schumacher, Geoff Ower, Debra E. Palmquist, and Steven A. Juliano
Active and Covert Infections of Cricket Iridovirus and Acheta domesticus Densovirus in Reared Gryllodes sigillatus Crickets, Scott K. Sakaluk, Kristin Duffield, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, Brenda Oppert, José L. Ramirez, Karyna Rosario, and Robert W. Behle
Faculty Publications from 2020
Macronutrient Intake and Simulated Infection Threat Independently Affect Life History Traits of Male Decorated Crickets, Kristin Duffield, Kylie J. Hampton, James Rapkin, John Hunt, Scott K. Sakaluk, Ben M. Sadd, and Thomas M. Houslay
Importance of Taxonomic Group, Life Stage and Circumstance of Rescue upon Wildlife Rehabilitation in Ontario, Canada, Gillian Kelly and Javier delBarco-Trillo
Tardigrade Abundance in Relation to Urbanisation and Highly Anthropogenic Substrates, Thomas McCarthy and Javier delBarco-Trillo
Changes in the Home Range Sizes of Terrestrial Vertebrates in Response to Urban Disturbance: A Meta-Analysis, Kate O'Donnell and Javier delBarco-Trillo
Faculty Publications from 2019
The Effect of Management Practices on Bumblebee Densities in Hedgerow and Grassland Habitats, Fiach Byrne and Javier delBarco-Trillo
How Do Trait-Mediated Non-lethal Effects of Predation Affect Population-Level Performance of Mosquitoes?, Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran and Steven A. Juliano
Tardigrades in the City: A Review of Diversity Patterns in Response to Urbanization, Javier delBarco-Trillo
P-Mail: The Information Highway of Nocturnal, But Not Diurnal or Cathemeral, Strepsirrhines, Christine M. Drea, Thomas E. Goodwin, and Javier delBarco-Trillo
Finding the sweet spot: What levels of larval mortality lead to compensation or overcompensation in adult production?, Zoey R. Neale and Steven A. Juliano
The demographic and life-history costs of fear: Trait-mediated effects of threat of predation on Aedes triseriatus, Geoffrey D. Ower and Steven A. Juliano
Microplastic prevalence in two fish species in two U.S. reservoirs, William Perry, Catherine M. O'Reilly, and Raven Hurt
Supplementary Feeding Can Attract Red Squirrels (Sciurus Vulgaris) to Optimal Environments, Anna Starkey and Javier delBarco-Trillo
Identifying Dopamine Receptor Genes and Transcription Marbled Crayfish, Wolfgang Stein and Saisupritha Talasu
Faculty Publications from 2018
Divergent Coevolutionary Trajectories in Parent–offspring Interactions and Discrimination Against Brood Parasites Revealed by Interspecific Cross-fostering, Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Anne-Katrin Eggert, Scott K. Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger, and Elena Ruiz de la Torre
Context-dependent interactive effects of non-lethal predation on larvae impact adult longevity and body composition, Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran, Samyuktha Rao Kandregula, Suhel Quader, and Steven A. Juliano
Shyer and Larger Bird Species Show More Reduced Fear of Humans When Living in Urban Environments, Javier delBarco-Trillo
Is Male Reproductive Senescence Minimized in Mus Species With High Levels of Sperm Competition?, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Maximiliano Tourmente, María Varea-Sánchez, and Eduardo R S Roldan
Demonstration of Translation Elongation Factor 3 Activity From a Non-Fungal Species, Phytophthora infestans, Maria K. Mateyak, Justyna K. Pupek, Alexandra E. Garino, McCllelan C. Knapp, Sarah F. Colmer, Terri Goss Kinzy, and Stephen Dunaway
The Geometry of Nutrient Space–Based Life-History Trade-Offs: Sex-Specific Effects of Macronutrient Intake on the Trade-Off between Encapsulation Ability and Reproductive Effort in Decorated Crickets, James Rapkin, Clarissa M. House, John Hunt, Scott K. Sakaluk, Kim Jensen, C. Ruth Archer, and Enrique del Castillo
Offspring Dependence on Parental Care and the Role of Parental Transfer of Oral Fluids in Burying Beetles, Scott K. Sakaluk, Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Madlen A. Prang, Stephen T. Trumbo, Heiko Vogel, Anne-Katrin Eggert, and Sandra Steiger
Faculty Publications from 2017
Breaking the Silos of Protein Synthesis, Maria K. Mateyak and Terri Goss Kinzy
Faculty Publications from 2016
No Effect of Blood Sampling or Phytohaemagglutinin Injection on Postfledging Survival in a Wild Songbird, Emerson Keith Bowers, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk
From Facultative to Obligatory Parental Care: Interspecific Variation in Offspring Dependency on Post-hatching Care in Burying Beetles, Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Eva M. Keppner, Manfred Ayasse, Heiko Vogel, Anne-Katrin Eggert, Scott K. Sakaluk, and Sandra Steiger
Seasonal Differences in Density But Similar Competitive Impact of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) on Aedes aegypti (L.) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Daniel Cardoso Portela Camara, Claudia Torres Codeço, Steven A. Juliano, Philip Lounibos, Thais Irene Souza Riback, Glaucio Rocha Pereira, and Nildimar Alves Honorio
A Cost for High Levels of Sperm Competition in Rodents: Increased Sperm DNA Fragmentation, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Olga García-Álvarez, Ana Josefa Soler, Maximiliano Tourmente, and José Julián Garde
Beyond Aggression: Androgen-Receptor Blockade Modulates Social Interaction in Wild Meerkats, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Lydia K. Greene, Ines Bragga Goncalves, Miriam Fenkes, and Jillian H. Wisse
Mechanism and Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Thomas E. Dever, Terri Goss Kinzy, and Graham D. Pavitt
Design for mosquito abundance, diversity, and phenology sampling within the National Ecological Observatory Network, David Hoekman, Y. P. Springer, C. M. Barker, R. Barrera, M. S. Blackmore, W. E. Bradshaw, D. H. Foley, H. S. Ginsberg, M. H. Hayden, C. M. Holzapfel, Steven A. Juliano, L. D. Kramer, S. L. LaDeau, T. P. Livdahl, C. G. Moore, R. S. Nasci, W. K. Reisen, and H. M. Savage
The Unique Evolutionary Distribution of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 3, Maria Mateyak, Arjun N. Sasikumar, Stephen Dunaway, and Terri Goss Kinzy
What’s in the Gift? Towards a Molecular Dissection of Nuptial Feeding in a Cricket, Yannick Pauchet, Natalie Wielsch, Paul A. Wilkinson, Aleš Svatoš, Scott K. Sakaluk, Richard H. ffrench-Constant, David G. Heckel, and John Hunt
Tick-, mosquito-, and rodent-borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network, Yuri P. Springer, David Hoekman, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Paul A. Duffy, Rebecca A. Hufft, David T. Barnett, Brian F. Allan, Brian R. Amman, Christopher M. Barker, and Steven A. Juliano
Faculty Publications from 2015
A multifaceted trophic cascade in a detritus-based system: density-, trait-, or processing-chain-mediated effects, Daniel Albeny-Simões, Ebony G. Murrell, Evaldo F. Vilela, and Steven A. Juliano
Differences in the Fatty-Acid Composition of Rodent Spermatozoa are Associated to Levels of Sperm Competition, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Rafael Mateo, and Eduardo R. S. Roldan
No Evidence of Trade-Offs in the Evolution of Sperm Numbers and Sperm Size in Mammals, M. Tourmente, Javier delBarco-Trillo, and E.R.S. Roldan
Faculty Publications from 2014
What does not kill them makes them stronger: larval environment and infectious dose alter mosquito potential to transmit filarial worms, Jennifer A. Breaux, Molly K. Schumacher, and Steven A. Juliano
Socioecological and Phylogenetic Patterns in the Chemical Signals of Strepsirrhine Primates, Javier delBarco-Trillo and Christine M. Drea
Effects of Metabolic Rate and Sperm Competition on the Fatty-Acid Composition of Mammalian Sperm, Javier delBarco-Trillo and E.R.S. Roldan
In Vivo [35 S]-Methionine Incorporation, Anthony M. Esposito and Terri Goss Kinzy
The Behavior of Female Meadow Voles, Microtus Pennsylvanicus, During Postpartum Estrus and the Responses of Males to Them, Michael H. Ferkin and Javier delBarco-Trillo
She’s a femme fatale: Low-density larval development produces good disease vectors, Steven A. Juliano, Gabriel Sylvestre Ribeiro, Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Márcia G. Castro, Claudia Codeço, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, and L Philip Lounibos
Spatial and Temporal Habitat Segregation of Mosquitoes in Urban Florida, Paul T. Leisnham, Shannon L. LaDeau, and Steven A. Juliano
Methylation of Translation Elongation Factor 1A by the METTL10-Like See1 Methyltransferase Facilitates Tombusvirus Replication in Yeast and Plants, Zhenghe Li, Paulina Alatriste Gonzalez, Zsuzsanna Sasvari, Terri Goss Kinzy, and Peter D. Nagy
Food Supplementation Fails to Reveal a Trade-Off between Incubation and Self-Maintenance in Female House Wrens, Cassie J. Lothery, Charles F. Thompson, Megan L. Lawler, and Scott K. Sakaluk
Translation Elongation Factor 1A Mutants with Altered Actin Bundling Activity Show Reduced Aminoacyl-tRNA Binding and Alter Initiation via eIF2α Phosphorylation, Winder B. Perez and Terri Goss Kinzy
Genetic and Environmental Variation in Condition, Cutaneous Immunity, and Haematocrit in House Wrens, Scott K. Sakaluk, Laura A. Vogel, Alastair J. Wilson, E. Keith Bowers, L. Scott Johnson, Brian S. Masters, Bonnie GP Johnson, Anna M. Forsman, and Charles F. Thompson
Mutations in the Chromodomain-like Insertion of Translation Elongation Factor 3 Compromise Protein Synthesis Through Reduced ATPase Activity, Arjun N. Sasikumar and Terri Goss Kinzy
An in vivo Assay for Simultaneous Monitoring of Neuronal Activity and Behavioral Output in the Stomatogastric Nervous System of Decapod Crustaceans, Wolfgang Stein and Florian Diehl
Faculty Publications from 2013
Linezolid Exerts Greater Bacterial Clearance but No Modification of Host Lung Gene Expression Profiling: A Mouse MRSA Pneumonia Model, Jiwang Chen, Gang Feng, Yang Song, Juliane B. Wardenburg, Simon Lin, Ichiro Inoshima, Michael Otto, and Richard G. Wunderink
Amphetamine Elicits Opposing Actions on Readily Releasable and Reserve Pools for Dopamine, Dan P. Covey, Steven A. Juliano, and Paul A. Garris
Metabolic Rate Limits the Effect of Sperm Competition on Mammalian Spermatogenesis, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Maximiliano Tourmente, and Eduardo R. S. Roldan
Deletion of the TPM1 and MDM20 Genes Affect the Mechanical and Structural Properties of Yeast Cells, Annette Doyle, Steven R. Crosby, David R. Burton, Francis Lilley, Gary Johnston, Winder B. Perez, Terri Goss Kinzy, and Mark F. Murphy
The "Secret" in Secretions: Methodological Considerations in Deciphering Primate Olfactory Communication, Christine M. Drea, Marylene Boulet, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Lydia K. Greene, and Caitlin R. Sacha
ADP-ribosylation of Translation Elongation Factor 2 by Diphtheria Toxin in Yeast Inhibits Translation and Cell Separation, Maria K. Mateyak and Terri Goss Kinzy
Multivariate Sexual Selection on Male Song Structure in Wild Populations of Sagebrush Crickets, Cyphoderris Strepitans (Orthoptera: Haglidae), Scott K. Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger, John Hunt, Geoffrey D. Ower, Kevin A. Judge, Rebecca A. Smith, and Kyle J. Caron
Additional Routes to Staphylococcus aureus Daptomycin Resistance as Revealed by Comparative Genome Sequencing, Transcriptional Profiling, and Phenotypic Studies, Yang Song, Aileen Rubio, Radheshyam K. Jayaswal, Jared A. Silverman, and Brian J. Wilkinson
Faculty Publications from 2012
Chemical Differences Between Voided and Bladder Urine in the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis): Implications for Olfactory Communication Studies, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Innocent H. Harelimana, Thomas E. Goodwin, and Christine M. Drea
Asymmetric Learning to Avoid Heterospecific Males in Mesocricetus Hamsters, Javier delBarco-Trillo and Robert E. Johnston
Interactions With Heterospecific Males Do Not Affect How Female Mesocricetus Hamsters Respond to Conspecific Males, Javier delBarco-Trillo and Robert E. Johnston
Eulemur, Me Lemur: The Evolution of Scent-Signal Complexity in a Primate Clade, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Caitlin R. Sacha, George R. Dubay, and Christine M. Drea
abd-A Regulation by the iab-8 Noncoding RNA, Maheshwar Gummalla, Robert K. Maeda, Javier J. Castro Alvarez, Henrik Gyurkovics, Kevin A. Edwards, Swetha Singari, and Welcome Bender
Seasonal Photoperiods Alter Developmental Time and Mass of an Invasive Mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), Across Its North-South Range in the United States, Steven A. Juliano, Donald A. Yee, and Steven M. Vamosi
A Comparison of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone on the Induction of Spermiation and Amplexus in the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus), Andrew J. Kouba, Javier delBarco-Trillo, Carrie K. Vance, Callie Milam, and Meghan Carr