Recent Publications

Elevated rates of positive selection drive the evolution of pestiferousness in the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Say)


Author(s): Zachary P. Cohen, Kristian Brevik, Yolanda H. Chen, David J. Hawthorne, Benjamin D. Weibel, Sean D. Schoville


Tree Diversity Reduces Fungal Endophyte Richness and Diversity in a Large-Scale Temperate Forest Experiment

| Diversity
Author(s): Eric A. Griffin, Joshua G. Harrison, Melissa K. McCormick, Karin T. Burghardt, John D. Parker


Urban legacies: Aquatic stressors and low aquatic biodiversity persist despite implementation of regenerative stormwater conveyance systems

| Freshwater Science
Author(s): Rosemary M. Fanelli, Karen L. Prestegaard, Margaret A. Palmer


Detection and Quantification of Spongospora subterranea Sporosori in Soil by Quantitative Real-Time PCR

| Plant Disease
Author(s): Ipsita Mallik, Ana Cristina Fulladolsa, S. K. R. Yellareddygari, Francisco G. Bittara, Amy O. Charkowski, Neil C. Gudmestad


Ready Species One: Exploring the Use of Augmented Reality to Enhance Systematic Biology with a Revision of Fijian Strumigenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Insect Systematics and Diversity
Author(s): Eli M Sarnat, Francisco Hita Garcia, Kenneth Dudley, Cong Liu, Georg Fischer, Evan P Economo, István Mikó


Revision of the Highly Specialized Ant Genus Discothyrea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropics with X-Ray Microtomography and 3D Cybertaxonomy

| Insect Systematics and Diversity
Author(s): Francisco Hita-Garcia, Ziv Lieberman, Tracy L Audisio, Cong Liu, Evan P Economo, Brendon Boudinot, István Mikó


Exploring the Efficacy and Mechanisms of a Crop Sterilant for Reducing Infestation by Spotted-Wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Steven Van Timmeren, Philip D Fanning, Torsten Schöneberg, Kelly Hamby, Jana Lee, Rufus Isaacs


Impacts of an indigenous settlement on the taxonomic and functional structure of dung beetle communities in the Venezuelan Amazon

| Biodiversity and Conservation
Author(s): Juanita Choo, Bruce D. Gill, Alain F. Zuur, Eglee Zent, Evan P. Economo


Linkages between flow regime, biota, and ecosystem processes: Implications for river restoration

| Science
Author(s): Margaret Palmer, Albert Ruhi


Differential Impacts of Yeasts on Feeding Behavior and Development in Larval Drosophila suzukii (Diptera:Drosophilidae)

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Margaret T. Lewis, Kelly A. Hamby


A review of progress toward field application of transgenic mosquitocidal entomopathogenic fungi

| Pest Management Science
Author(s): Brian Lovett, Etienne Bilgo, Abdoulaye Diabate, Raymond St. Leger


Regulate GM fungi to protect ecosystems—Response

| Science
Author(s): Raymond St. Leger, Abdoulaye Diabate, Brian Lovett


Demystifying dominant species

| New Phytologist
Author(s): Meghan L. Avolio, Elisabeth J. Forrestel, Cynthia C. Chang, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Karin T. Burghardt, Melinda D. Smith


Taxonomy of Arabian Temnothorax Mayr (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) with description of a new species enhanced by x-ray microtomography

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Mostafa R. Sharaf, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood, Evan P. Economo, Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo, Francisco Hita Garcia


Complex interplay of ancient vicariance and recent patterns of geographical speciation in north-western North American temperate rainforests explains the phylogeny of jumping slugs (Hemphillia spp.)

| Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): Andrew M Rankin, Thomas Wilke, Michael Lucid, William Leonard, Anahí Espíndola, Megan L Smith, Bryan C Carstens, Jack Sullivan


Characterizing members of the Cladosporium cladosporioides species complex as fruit rot pathogens of red raspberries in the mid-Atlantic and co-occurrence with Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing drosophila)

| Phytoparasitica
Author(s): Cassandra L. Swett, Kelly A. Hamby, Elizabeth M. Hellman, Christa Carignan, Tyler B. Bourret, Emmi E. Koivunen


The Ants of Fiji


Author(s): Eli M. Sarnat, Evan P. Economo


Relationship Between Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys) and Fumonisin Contamination of Field Corn in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.

| Plant Disease
Author(s): Joseph Opoku, Nathan M. Kleczewski, Kelly A. Hamby, D. Ames Herbert, Sean Malone, Hillary L. Mehl


A test of trophic and functional island biogeography theory with the avifauna of a continental archipelago

| Journal of Animal Ecology
Author(s): Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross, Nicholas R. Friedman, Julia Janicki, Evan P. Economo, Sonya Clegg


Advocating for Science: Amici Curiae Brief of Wetland and Water Scientists in Support of the Clean Water Rule

| Wetlands
Author(s): Royal C. Gardner, Erin Okuno, Steph Tai, M. Siobhan Fennessy, Carol A. Johnston, Marinus L. Otte, Margaret Palmer, James E. Perry, Charles Simenstad, Benjamin R. Tanner, et. al


Transgenic
Metarhizium
rapidly kills mosquitoes in a malaria-endemic region of Burkina Faso

| Science
Author(s): Brian Lovett, Etienne Bilgo, Souro Abel Millogo, Abel Kader Ouattarra, Issiaka Sare, Edounou Jacques Gnambani, Roch K. Dabire, Abdoulaye Diabate, Raymond J. St. Leger


The Relationship Between Pollinator Visits and Climatic Suitabilities in Specialized Pollination Interactions

| Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Author(s): Anahí Espíndola, Patricio Pliscoff