Recent Publications

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

TRANSGENIC INSECT KILLING FUNGUS BETTER KILLS INSECTICIDE-RESISTANT, MALARIA-VECTOR MOSQUITOES

| AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Molecular evolutionary trends and feeding ecology diversification in the Hemiptera, anchored by the milkweed bug genome


Author(s): Kristen A. Panfilio, Iris M. Vargas Jentzsch, Joshua B. Benoit, Deniz Erezyilmaz, Yuichiro Suzuki, Stefano Colella, Hugh M. Robertson, Monica F. Poelchau, Robert M. Waterhouse, Panagiotis Ioannidis, et. al

Climate variation alters the synchrony of host–parasitoid interactions

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Miles T. Wetherington, David E. Jennings, Paula M. Shrewsbury, Jian J. Duan

Genome‐wide identification of pathogenicity, conidiation and colony sectorization genes in Metarhizium robertsii

| Environmental Microbiology
Author(s): Guohong Zeng, Xiaoxuan Chen, Xing Zhang, Qiangqiang Zhang, Chuan Xu, Wubin Mi, Na Guo, Hong Zhao, Yue You, Farah‐Jade Dryburgh, et. al

Taxonomic overview of the hyperdiverse ant genusTetramoriumMayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in India with descriptions and X-ray microtomography of two new species from the Andaman Islands

| PeerJ
Author(s): Gaurav Agavekar, Francisco Hita Garcia, Evan P. Economo

Laboratory rearing of Halyomorpha halys: methods to optimize survival and fitness of adults during and after diapause

| Journal of Pest Science
Author(s): Christopher M. Taylor, Peter L. Coffey, Kelly A. Hamby, Galen P. Dively

Field surveys of egg mortality and indigenous egg parasitoids of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, in ornamental nurseries in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA

| Journal of Pest Science
Author(s): Ashley L. Jones, David E. Jennings, Cerruti R. R. Hooks, Paula M. Shrewsbury

Demographic model selection using random forests and the site frequency spectrum

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Megan L. Smith, Megan Ruffley, Anahí Espíndola, David C. Tank, Jack Sullivan, Bryan C. Carstens

Assessing the potential of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within species radiations: The fly genus Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) as a case study

| Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Author(s): Tomasz Suchan, Anahí Espíndola, Sereina Rutschmann, Brent C. Emerson, Kevin Gori, Christophe Dessimoz, Nils Arrigo, Michał Ronikier, Nadir Alvarez

Indigenous arthropod natural enemies of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug in North America and Europe

| Journal of Pest Science
Author(s): Paul K. Abram, Kim A. Hoelmer, Angelita Acebes-Doria, Heather Andrews, Elizabeth H. Beers, J. Christopher Bergh, Ric Bessin, David Biddinger, Paul Botch, Matthew L. Buffington, et. al

Rise of the spiny ants: diversification, ecology and function of extreme traits in the hyperdiverse genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): Eli M Sarnat, Nicholas R Friedman, Georg Fischer, Beatrice Lecroq-Bennet, Evan P Economo

Next-generation morphological character discovery and evaluation: an X-ray micro-CT enhanced revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) in the Afrotropics

| ZooKeys
Author(s): Francisco Hita Garcia, Georg Fischer, Cong Liu, Tracy L. Audisio, Evan P. Economo

Pollinators and crossability as reproductive isolation barriers in two sympatric oil-rewarding Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species

| Evolutionary Ecology
Author(s): Maureen Murúa, Anahí Espíndola, Alejandra González, Rodrigo Medel

Smaller beaks for colder winters: Thermoregulation drives beak size evolution in Australasian songbirds

| Evolution
Author(s): Nicholas R. Friedman, Lenka Harmáčková, Evan P. Economo, Vladimír Remeš

Metarhizium robertsii produces indole-3-acetic acid, which promotes root growth in Arabidopsis and enhances virulence to insects

| Microbiology
Author(s): Xinggang Liao, Brian Lovett, Weiguo Fang, Raymond J. St Leger

Improved efficacy of an arthropod toxin expressing fungus against insecticide-resistant malaria-vector mosquitoes

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Etienne Bilgo, Brian Lovett, Weiguo Fang, Niraj Bende, Glenn F. King, Abdoulaye Diabate, Raymond J. St. Leger

Economic analysis of revenue losses and control costs associated with the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), in the California raspberry industry

| Pest Management Science
Author(s): Derek Farnsworth, Kelly A Hamby, Mark Bolda, Rachael E Goodhue, Jeffrey C Williams, Frank G Zalom

Do 120,000 years of plant–pollinator interactions predict floral phenotype divergence in Calceolaria polyrhiza? A reconstruction using species distribution models

| Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Author(s): M. Sosa-Pivatto, A. Cosacov, M. C. Baranzelli, M. R. Iglesias, A. Espíndola, A. N. Sérsic

Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

| Nature Ecology & Evolution
Author(s): Wayne Dawson, Dietmar Moser, Mark van Kleunen, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Bernd Lenzner, Tim M. Blackburn, et. al

Effects of the emerald ash borer invasion on the community composition of arthropods associated with ash tree boles in Maryland, U.S.A.

| Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Author(s): David E. Jennings, Jian J. Duan, Dick Bean, Kimberly A. Rice, Gaye L. Williams, Steven K. Bell, Aaron S. Shurtleff, Paula M. Shrewsbury

Life history traits influence the strength of distance- and density-dependence at different life stages of two Amazonian palms

| Annals of Botany
Author(s): Juanita Choo, Cecilia Carasco, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Beryl B. Simpson, Evan P. Economo

Assembling a species–area curve through colonization, speciation and human‐mediated introduction

| Journal of Biogeography
Author(s): Evan P. Economo, Milan Janda, Benoit Guénard, Eli Sarnat

Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

| Ecology Letters
Author(s): Anikó Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anahí Espíndola, Adam J. Vanbergen, Josef Settele, Claire Kremen, Lynn V. Dicks