Recent Publications

Taxonomy and biogeography of hemphillia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Arionidae) in North American rainforests, with description of a new species (skade’s jumping-slug, Hemphillia Skadei sp nov.)

| Canadian Journal of Zoology
Author(s): Lucid, M.K., Rankin, A., Espíndola, A., Chichester, L., Ehlers, S., Robinson, L., Sullivan, J.


Influence of winter cover crop mulch on arthropods in a reduced tillage Cucurbit system

| Environmental Entomology
Author(s): Buchanan, A.L., Hooks, C.R.R.


Origin of Pest Lineages of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Victor M Izzo, Yolanda H Chen, Sean D Schoville, Cong Wang, David J Hawthorne


Can conservation tillage reduce N2O emissions on cropland transitioning to organic vegetable production?

| Science of the Total Environment
Author(s): Chen, G., Kolb, L., Cavigelli, M.A., Weil, R.R., Hooks, C.R.R.


The effect of barley cover crop residue and herbicide management on the foliar arthropod community in no-till soybeans

| Agronomy
Author(s): Rosario-Lebron, A., Leslie, A.W., Chen, G., Hooks, C.R.R.


A Guide to the Identification of the Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) of Maryland

| Northeastern Naturalist
Author(s): Shultz, J.W.


Combining allele frequency and tree-based approaches improves phylogeographic inference from natural history collections

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Ruffley, M., Smith, M.L., Espíndola, A., Carstens, B., Sullivan, J., Tank, D.C.


Vertical foraging shifts in Hawaiian forest birds in response to invasive rat removal

| PLOS ONE
Author(s): Rankin, E. E. W., Knowlton, J. L., Gruner, D. S., Flaspohler, D. J., Giardina, C. P., Leopold, D. R., Buckardt, A., Pitt, W. C., Fukami, T.


Conservation and variation in pair-rule gene expression and function in the intermediate-germ beetle Dermestes maculatus

| Development
Author(s): Jie Xiang, Katie Reding, Alison Heffer, Leslie Pick


Risks to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species

| Nature Ecology & Evolution
Author(s): Adam J. Vanbergen, Anahí Espíndola, Marcelo A. Aizen


Contemporary evolution of a Lepidopteran species, Heliothis virescens, in response to modern agricultural practices.

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Fritz ML, DeYonke AM, Papanicolaou A, Micinski S, Westbrook J, Gould F


Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways

| Ecology
Author(s): Eric M. Lind, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Eric W. Seabloom, Juan Alberti, Oscar Iribarne, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S. Gruner, Adam D. Kay, Jesus Pascal, Justin P. Wright, et. al


Establishment of molecular genetic approaches to study gene expression and function in an invasive hemipteran, Halyomorpha halys

| EvoDevo
Author(s): Yong Lu, Mengyao Chen, Katie Reding, Leslie Pick


Alternative transcription start site selection in Mr-OPY2 controls lifestyle transitions in the fungus Metarhizium robertsii

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Na Guo, Ying Qian, Qiangqiang Zhang, Xiaoxuan Chen, Guohong Zeng, Xing Zhang, Wubing Mi, Chuan Xu, Raymond J. St. Leger, Weiguo Fang


Pyruvate Accumulation Is the First Line of Cell Defense against Heat Stress in a Fungus

| mBio
Author(s): Xing Zhang, Raymond J. St. Leger, Weiguo Fang


10-min: PBT, Pest Control

| Entomology 2017


Listening to ecosystems: data-rich acoustic monitoring through landscape-scale sensor networks

| Ecological Research
Author(s): Samuel R. P. -J. Ross, Nicholas R. Friedman, Kenneth L. Dudley, Masashi Yoshimura, Takuma Yoshida, Evan P. Economo


Global phylogeography of the insect pest Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchinae) relates to the history of its main host, Vigna unguiculata

| Journal of Biogeography
Author(s): Khadim Kébé, Nadir Alvarez, Midori Tuda, Göran Arnqvist, Charles W. Fox, Mbacké Sembène, Anahí Espíndola