Recent Publications

Protective neighboring effect from ash trees treated with systemic insecticide against emerald ash borer

| Pest Management Science
Author(s): Rafael B de Andrade, Kristopher Abell, Jian J Duan, Paula Shrewsbury, Daniel S Gruner


Optimizing Caneberry Spray Coverage for Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Management on Diversified Fruit Farms

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Margaret T Lewis, Kelly A Hamby


Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), genome: putative underpinnings of polyphagy, insecticide resistance potential and biology of a top worldwide pest

| BMC Genomics
Author(s): Michael E. Sparks, Raman Bansal, Joshua B. Benoit, Michael B. Blackburn, Hsu Chao, Mengyao Chen, Sammy Cheng, Christopher Childers, Huyen Dinh, Harsha Vardhan Doddapaneni, et. al


Metarhizium: jack of all trades, master of many

| Open Biology
Author(s): Raymond J. St. Leger, Jonathan B. Wang


Regional differences in gene regulation may underlie patterns of sensitivity to novel insecticides in Leptinotarsa decemlineata

| Pest Management Science
Author(s): Galen P Dively, Michael S Crossley, Sean D Schoville, Nathalie Steinhauer, David J Hawthorne


Mandibular morphology, task specialization, and bite mechanics inPheidoleants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)


Author(s): C.L. Klunk, M.A. Argenta, A. Casadei-Ferreira, E.P. Economo, M.R. Pie


Developing generalized sampling schemes with known error properties: the case of a moving observer

| Ecography
Author(s): Nao Takashina, Evan P. Economo


Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

| Nature Communications
Author(s): E. T. Borer, W. S. Harpole, P. B. Adler, C. A. Arnillas, M. N. Bugalho, M. W. Cadotte, M. C. Caldeira, S. Campana, C. R. Dickman, T. L. Dickson, et. al


Evidence for a thoracic crop in the workers of some Neotropical Pheidole species (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

| Arthropod Structure & Development
Author(s): A. Casadei-Ferreira, G. Fischer, E.P. Economo


Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot

| ZooKeys
Author(s): Cong Liu, Georg Fischer, Francisco Hita Garcia, Seiki Yamane, Qing Liu, Yan Qiong Peng, Evan P. Economo, Benoit Guénard, Naomi E. Pierce


The loss of flight in ant workers enabled an evolutionary redesign of the thorax for ground labour

| Frontiers in Zoology
Author(s): Christian Peeters, Roberto A. Keller, Adam Khalife, Georg Fischer, Julian Katzke, Alexander Blanke, Evan P. Economo


Evolutionary biogeography of the reef-building coral genus Galaxea across the Indo-Pacific ocean

| Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Author(s): Patricia H. Wepfer, Yuichi Nakajima, Makamas Sutthacheep, Veronica Z. Radice, Zoe Richards, Put Ang, Tullia Terraneo, Mareike Sudek, Atsushi Fujimura, Robert J. Toonen, et. al


Acoustic Detection of an Unknown Bat Species in Okinawa

| Mammal Study
Author(s): Vladimir Dinets, Nicholas R. Friedman, Masashi Yoshimura, Masako Ogasawara, Evan P. Economo


Invasive grass (Microstegium vimineum) indirectly benefits spider community by subsidizing available prey

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Andrew P. Landsman, Karin T. Burghardt, Jacob L. Bowman


Self-Compatibility Not Associated with Morphological or Genetic Diversity Reduction in Oil-Rewarding Calceolaria Species

| Plants
Author(s): Maureen Murúa, Anahí Espíndola, Fernanda Pérez


Regulatory gene function handoff allows essential gene loss in mosquitoes

| Communications Biology
Author(s): Alys M. Cheatle Jarvela, Catherine S. Trelstad, Leslie Pick


The Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist

| ZooKeys
Author(s): Ratnayake Kaluarachchige Sriyani Dias, Benoit Guénard, Shahid Ali Akbar, Evan P. Economo, Warnakulasuriyage Sudesh Udayakantha, Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo


Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

| Journal of Vegetation Science
Author(s): Kathryn J. Bloodworth, Mark E. Ritchie, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Zaal Kikvidze


Socially Parasitic Ants Evolve a Mosaic of Host-Matching and Parasitic Morphological Traits

| Current Biology
Author(s): Georg Fischer, Nicholas R. Friedman, Jen-Pan Huang, Nitish Narula, L. Lacey Knowles, Brian L. Fisher, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Evan P. Economo


Genetic variation for resistance to the specific fly pathogen Entomophthora muscae

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Jonathan B. Wang, Carolyn Elya, Raymond J. St. Leger


Influence of Landscape Factors and Abiotic Conditions on Dispersal Behavior and Overwintering Site Selection by Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): John P Cullum, Laura J Nixon, William R Morrison, Michael J Raupp, Paula M Shrewsbury, P Dilip Venugopal, Holly Martinson, J Christopher Bergh, Tracy C Leskey


Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Nicholas R. Friedman, Beatrice Lecroq Bennet, Georg Fischer, Eli M. Sarnat, Jen‐Pan Huang, L. Lacey Knowles Knowles, Evan P. Economo