2024 Publications from the Department of Ecology and Evolution (updated Apr.2024)

• Dr. Tara Smiley's New Article, linkages between Cenozoic mountain building and faunal change in the U.S.  Read More .
• Dr. Natasha Vitek - published article about the Oldest record of a crown anomaluroid rodent: Read More.
• E&E Alum participated in research and article, "Why We Die"  which discusses the only known immortal animal, Hydra.  Read More.
• Yukilevich, Roman & Aoki, Fumio & Egan, Scott & Zhang, Linyi. (2024). Coevolutionary Interactions between Sexual and Habitat Isolation during Reinforcement. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 16. a041431. 10.1101/cshperspect.a041431. 
• Joon-Hyun Song, Liliana M. Dávalos, Thomas MacCarthy, Mehdi Damaghi (2024). Evolvability of cancer-associated genes under APOBEC3A/B selection. iScience 109433, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224006540
• Neal Anthwal, Ronald P. Hall, Frederik Aneudy de la Rosa Hernandez, Michael Koger, Laurel R. Yohe, Brandon P. Hedrick, Kalina T.J. Davies, Gregory L. Mutumi, Charles C. Roseman, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Liliana M. Dávalos, Stephen J. Rossiter, Alexa Sadier, Karen E. Sears (2023). Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution. The Anatomical Record 2023, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25353
• Natalie Weber, Martina Nagy, Wanda Markotter, Juliane Schaer -Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Jack Sutton, Liliana M. Dávalos, Marie-Claire Dusabe, Imran Ejotre, M. Brock Fenton, Mirjam Knörnschild, Adrià López-Baucells, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Markus Metz, Samira Mubareka, Olivier Nsengimana, M. Teague O’Mara, Paul A. Racey, Merlin Tuttle, Innocent Twizeyimana, Amanda Vicente-Santos, Marco Tschapka, Christian C. Voigt, Martin Wikelski, Dina K.N. Dechmann, DeeAnn M. Reeder (2023). Robust evidence for bats as reservoir hosts is lacking in most African virus studies: a review and call to optimize sampling and conserve bats. Biology Letters 19, 20230358. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0358
• Francisco X. Castellanos, Diana D. Moreno-Santillán, Graham M. Hughes, Nicole S. Paulat, Nicolette Sipperly, Alexis M. Brown, Katie Martin, Gregory M. Poterewicz, Marisa C.W. Lim, Amy L. Russell, Marianne S. Moore, Matthew G. Johnson, Angelique P. Corthals, David A. Ray, Liliana M. Dávalos (2023). The evolution of antimicrobial peptides in Chiroptera. Frontiers in Immunology 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1250229
• Levinton, Jeffrey S. (2024) Extinction in the Fossil Record. In: Scheiner Samuel M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 3rd edition, vol. 7, pp. 319–335. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00148-1
• Gallagher, K., M. Cimino, M.S. Dinniman, and H.J. Lynch. 2024. Quantifying potential marine debris sources and potential threats to penguins on the West Antarctic Peninsula. Environmental Pollution 347: 123714.
• Pertierra, L.R., G. Varliero, A. Barbosa, E.M. Biersma, P. Convey, S.L. Chown, D. Cowan, A. De los Rios, P. Escribano-Alvarez, D. Fontaneto, C.I. Fraser, M. Harris, K.A. Hughes, H.J. Griffiths, P.C. le Roux, X.P. Liu, H.J. Lynch, P.A. Martinez, M.A. Molina-Montenegro, M.A. Olalla-Tarraga, L. Peck, A. Quesada, Y. Ropert-Coudert, L. Sancho, A. Terauds, J.A. Vianna, A. Wilmotte, J. Hortal, and M. Greve. 2024. ANTALIFE 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of all Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms in the continent. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e106199.
• Herman, R.W., G. Clucas, J. Younger, J. Bates, B. Robinson, S. Reddy, J. Stepanuk, K. O’Brien, K. Veeramah, and H.J. Lynch. 2024. Whole genome sequencing reveals stepping stone dispersal buffered against founder effects in a range expanding seabird. Molecular Ecology 00:e17282.
• Nehm, R.H. (2024). When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning. Journal of Biological Education. DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2024.2320106
• Sbeglia, G. Nehm, R.H. (2024). Building conceptual and methodological bridges between SSE’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement and educational actions in evolutionary biology. Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae026
• RG Duncan, R Krishnamoorthy, U Harms, M Haskel-Ittah, K Kampourakis, N Gericke, M Hammann, M Jimenez-Aleixandre, RH Nehm, MJ Reiss, A Yarden (2024). The sociopolitical in human genetics education. Science. Vol 383, Issue 6685 pp. 826-828
• Nehm, R.H. (2024). Considering Explanatory Diversity and Holistic Understanding of Biological Phenomena. The American Biology Teacher. February. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2024.86.2.55
• Nehm, R.H. (2024). AI in Biology Education Assessment: How Automation Can Drive Educational Transformation. In: Zhai, X. et al. (Eds.) Uses of Artificial Intelligence in STEM Education. Oxford University Press.
• Poddar, U., Gurevitch, J., Meiners, S. J., & D’Andrea, R. (2024). Similar trait-based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences. Journal of Ecology, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14304
• Liliana M. Dávalos, Editor-in-Chief, The Quarterly Review of Biology, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/qrb/current
• Gil-Gomez, A., J.S. Rest. 2024. Wiring between close nodes in molecular networks evolves more quickly than between distant nodes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae098, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae098.
• Collier, J.L., J.S. Rest, L. Gallot-Lavallée, E. Lavington, A. Kuo, J. Jenkins, C. Plott, J. Pangilinan, C. Daum, I.V. Grigoriev, G.V. Filloramo, A. Vanclova, J.M. Archibald. 2023. The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses. Current Biology, 33(23), pp.5199-5207. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223013684
• Tara M. Smiley, Alireza Bahadori, E. Troy Rasbury, William E. Holt, and Catherine Badgley, 2024, Tectonic extension and paleoelevation influence mammalian diversity dynamics in the Basin and Range Province of western North America. Sci. Adv. 10, eadn6842(2024). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adn6842
• Title P.O., Singhal S., Grundler M.C., Costa G.C., Pyron R.A., Colston T.J., Grundler M.R., Prates I., Stepanova N., Jones M.E.H., Cavalcanti L.B.Q., Colli G.R., Di-Poï N., Donnellan S.C., Moritz C., Mesquita D.O., Pianka E.R., Smith S.A., Vitt L.J., Rabosky D.L. 2024. The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes. Science 383, 918-923.
• True, J.R. and Abreu, E. 2024 Comparing learning outcomes of two collaborative activities on random genetic drift in an upper-division genetics course. Evolution: Education & Outreach 17(2) 17, 2 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-024-00195-z
• Li, T., Zhang, R.S., and True, J.R. 2024 Genetic variation for sexual dimorphism in developmental traits in Drosophilamelanogaster. G3 jkae010, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae010
• Lavrov DV, Diaz MC, Maldonado M, Morrow CC, Perez T, Pomponi SA, Thacker RW. (2023) Phylomitogenomics bolsters the high-level classification of Demospongiae (phylum Porifera). PLoS ONE 18(12): e0287281, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287281
• Turner TL, Rouse GW, Weigel BL, Janusson C, Lemay MA, Thacker RW. 2024. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the family Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in California. Zootaxa. 5447(1): 1-28. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.1.1
• Vencl, F. V., et al., (2024). Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on the performance of a diet specialized Neotropical herbivore and it's host plant. Biotropica, in press.
• Vencl, F. V., Bartram, S., Winter, K., Boland, W., Srygley, R. B. (2024). Effects of elevated CO 2 and temperature on the performance of a diet specialized neotropical herbivore and it's host plant. Biotropica 56(6): e13371.
• Kirsch, R., Okamura, Y., García-Lozano, M., Weiss, B., Keller, J., Vogel, H., Fukumori, K., Fukatsu, T., Konstantinov, A. S., Montagna, M., Moseyko, A. G., Riley, E. G., Slipinski, A., Vencl, F. V., Windsor, D. M., Salem, H., Kaltenpoth, M.,
Pauchet, Y. (2024).
 Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles. Current Biology, in press.
• Blackburn, D.C., Boyer, D.M., Gray, J.A., Winchester, J., Bates, J.M., Baumgart, S.L., Braker, E. Coldren, D., Conway, K.W., Rabosky, A.D., de la Sancha, N., Dillman, C.B., Dunnum, J.L., Early, C.M., Frable, B.W., Gage, M.W., Hanken, J., Maisano, J.A., Marks, B.D., Maslenikov, K.P., McCormack, J.E., Nagesan, R.S., Pandelis, G.G., Prestridge, H.L., Rabosky, D.L., Randall, Z.S., Robbins, M.B., Scheinberg, L.A., Spencer, C.L., Summers, A.P., Tapanila, L. Thompson, C.W., Tornabene, L., Watkins-Colwell, G.J., Welton, L.J., the oVert Project Team, and Stanley, E.L. 2024. Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: the openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network. BioScience. 0:1-18. [Vitek Member of oVert project team, full list of team authors in supplementary data].https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad120
• Wilburn, B. P., Raper, K., Raposa, K. B., Gray, A. B., Mozdzer, T. J., & Watson, E. B. (2024). Promoting success in thin layer sediment placement: effects of sediment grain size and amendments on salt marsh plant growth and greenhouse gas exchange. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14141
• Cherneskie, K., Njie, D., Champlin, L., Perger, D. S., & Watson, E. (2024). Drainage Influences Coastal Salt Marsh Productivity and Soil Biogeochemistry. Aquatic Botany, 103772.
• Champlin, L.K., Moore, T.N., Jeppesen, R., Haskins, J., Sayre, B. and Watson, E.B., 2024. Biological and physical controls on multidecadal acidification in a eutrophic estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(3), e2023JC020405.
• Shikuzawa J, Watson EB, Tanner K, Wilburn B, Fork SK, Larson S, Fountain MC, Thomsen A, Wasson K. 2024. Ecosystem functions of plant diversity: Comparisons from a large‐scale marsh restoration experiment in California, USA. Ecosphere 15(1):e4742.
• Courtney, S., Montalto, F., & Watson, E. B. (2024). Climate and Vegetation Change in a Coastal Marsh: Two Snapshots of Groundwater Dynamics and Tidal Flooding at Piermont Marsh, NY Spanning 20 Years. Wetlands, 44(1), 8.