Recent Publications

Neonicotinoids can cause arrested pupal ecdysis

| Scientific Reports


Climate and land‐use interactively shape butterfly diversity in tropical rainforest and savanna ecosystems of southwestern China

| Insect Science
Author(s): Bai‐Ge Miao, Yan‐Qiong Peng, Da‐Rong Yang, Yasuhiro Kubota, Evan P. Economo, Cong Liu


Effects of seasonal inundation on methane fluxes from forested freshwater wetlands

| Environmental Research Letters
Author(s): Kelly L Hondula, C Nathan Jones, Margaret A Palmer


High-throughput detection of eukaryotic parasites and arboviruses in mosquitoes.

| Biology open
Author(s): Cannon MV, Bogale HN, Bhalerao D, Keita K, Camara D, Barry Y, Keita M, Coulibaly D, Kone AK, Doumbo OK, et. al


Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β‐diversity

| Ecosphere
Author(s): Xin Jing, Case M. Prager, Elizabeth T. Borer, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Daniel S. Gruner, Jin‐Sheng He, Kevin Kirkman, Andrew S. MacDougall, Rebecca L. McCulley, Suzanne M. Prober, et. al


Patterns of morphological simplification and innovation in the megadiverse Holometabola (Insecta)

| Cladistics
Author(s): Rolf Georg Beutel, Frank Friedrich, Evan P. Economo


Comparative phylogeography of two Northern Rocky Mountain endemics: the widespread Anguispira kochi occidentalis and the narrow-range Anguispira nimapuna (Gastropoda: Discidae)

| Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): Andrew M Rankin, Frank E Anderson, Stephanie A Clutts, Anahí Espíndola, Bryan C Carstens, Michael Lucid, Jack Sullivan


Evaluating toxicity of Varroa mite (Varroa destructor)-active dsRNA to monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larvae

| PLOS ONE
Author(s): Niranjana Krishnan, Guy Smagghe, Maura J. Hall, Richard L. Hellmich, Joel R. Coats, Steven P. Bradbury


Mandibular morphology, task specialization and bite mechanics in Pheidole ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Author(s): Cristian L. Klunk, Marco A. Argenta, Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Evan P. Economo, Marcio R. Pie


Alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: the first database of records

| Biological Invasions
Author(s): Madai Rosas-Mejía, Benoit Guénard, Mario Josué Aguilar-Méndez, Adrian Ghilardi, Miguel Vásquez-Bolaños, Evan P. Economo, Milan Janda


Harvestmen in the first twenty years: a scientometric analysis of Zootaxa’s contribution to opilionology (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones)

| Zootaxa
Author(s): ABEL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, LUIS E. ACOSTA, DANIEL N. PROUD, JEFFREY W. SHULTZ


Head and mandible shapes are highly integrated yet represent two distinct modules within and among worker subcastes of the ant genus Pheidole

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Alexandre Casadei‐Ferreira, Nicholas R. Friedman, Evan P. Economo, Marcio R. Pie, Rodrigo M. Feitosa


Effects of Using High Resolution Satellite‐Based Inundation Time Series to Estimate Methane Fluxes From Forested Wetlands

| Geophysical Research Letters
Author(s): Kelly L. Hondula, Ben DeVries, C. Nathan Jones, Margaret A. Palmer


Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trap-jaw mechanism in ants

| PLOS Biology
Author(s): Douglas B. Booher, Joshua C. Gibson, Cong Liu, John T. Longino, Brian L. Fisher, Milan Janda, Nitish Narula, Evropi Toulkeridou, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Andrew V. Suarez, et. al


Differential Gene Expression in the Heads of Behaviorally Divergent Culex pipiens Mosquitoes

| Insects
Author(s): Anna Noreuil, Megan L. Fritz


Sweet Corn Sentinel Monitoring for Lepidopteran Field-Evolved Resistance to Bt Toxins

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): G P Dively, T P Kuhar, S Taylor, H B Doughty, K Holmstrom, D Gilrein, B A Nault, J Ingerson-Mahar, J Whalen, D Reisig, et. al


Cultural Control of Drosophila suzukii in Small Fruit—Current and Pending Tactics in the U.S.

| Insects
Author(s): Torsten Schöneberg, Margaret T. Lewis, Hannah J. Burrack, Matthew Grieshop, Rufus Isaacs, Dalila Rendon, Mary Rogers, Nikki Rothwell, Ashfaq A. Sial, Vaughn M. Walton, et. al


Utility of acoustic indices for ecological monitoring in complex sonic environments

| Ecological Indicators
Author(s): Samuel R.P-J. Ross, Nicholas R. Friedman, Masashi Yoshimura, Takuma Yoshida, Ian Donohue, Evan P. Economo


Identification of novel bacterial biomarkers to detect bird scavenging by invasive rats

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Carly R. Muletz‐Wolz, Erin Wilson Rankin, Sarah McGrath‐Blaser, Madhvi Venkatraman, Jesús E. Maldonado, Daniel S. Gruner, Robert C. Fleischer


On the problematic placement of the fossil arthropod Devonopilio hutchinsoni in Opiliones (Arachnida)

| Zootaxa
Author(s): ABEL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, JEFFREY W. SHULTZ