2008 Spring Publications from the Department of Ecology and Evolution

• Akçakaya, H.R., G. Mills, and C. P. Doncaster. 2007. The role of metapopulations in conservation. Pages 64-84 in Key Topics in Conservation Biology. D.W. Macdonald and K. Service, editors. Blackwell.
• Akçakaya, H.R., S.H.M. Butchart, G.M. Mace, S.N. Stuart, and C. Hilton-Taylor. 2006. Use and misuse of the IUCN Red List Criteria in projecting climate change impacts on biodiversity. Global Change Biology 12:2037-2043.
• Butchart, S., H.R. Akçakaya, J. Chanson, J.E.M. Baillie, B. Collen, S. Quader, W. R. Turner, R. Amin, S.N. Stuart, C. Hilton-Taylor. 2007. Improvements to the Red List Index. PLoS ONE 2(1): e140. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000140.
• Butchart, S., H.R. Akçakaya, E. Kennedy, L. Master and C. Hilton-Taylor. 2006. Biodiversity indicators based on trends in conservation status: strengths of the IUCN Red List Index. Conservation Biology 20:579–581.
• Dunham, A.E., H.R. Akçakaya, T. S. Bridges. 2006. Using scalar models for precautionary assessments of threatened species. Conservation Biology 20: 1499-1506.
• Radeloff, V.C., D.J. Mladenoff, E.J. Gustafson, R.M. Scheller, H.S. He, P.A. Zollner, H.S He, and H.R. Akçakaya. 2006. Modeling forest harvesting effects on landscape pattern in the Northwest Wisconsin Pine Barrens. Forest Ecology and Management 236: 113-126.
• Reed, J.M., H.R. Akçakaya, M. Burgman, D. Bender, S.R. Beissinger, and J.M. Scott. 2006. Critical habitat. Pages 164-177 in The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-dominated Landscapes (volume 2). J.M. Scott, D.D. Goble, and F.W. Davis, editors. Island Press, Washington.
• Banta, J. A., S. C. Stark, M. H. H. Stevens, T. H. Pendergast, A. Baumert, and W. P. Carson. 2008. Light reduction predicts widespread patterns of dominance between asters and goldenrods. Plant Ecology: DOI:10.1007/s11258-11008-19412-11253.
• Bossdorf, O., C. Richards, et al. 2008. Epigenetics for ecologists. Ecology Letters 11:106-115.
• Dávalos LM, Perkins SL. 2008. Saturation and base composition bias explain phylogenomic conflict in Plasmodium. Genomics. 2008 May;91(5):433-42. Epub 2008 Mar 4.
• Dustin Brisson, Daniel E. Dykhuizen and Richard S. Ostfeld. 2008. Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic. Proc. R. Soc. B (2008) 275, 227–235, doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1208.
• Evgeni V. Sokurenko, Richard Gomulkiewicz and Daniel E. Dykhuizen. 2006. Source–sink dynamics of virulence evolution. NATURE REVIEWS, MICROBIOLOGY, 548-555, Vol.4, July 2006.
• Natalia Korotkova, Sujay Chattopadhyay, Tami A. Tabata, Viktoria Beskhlebnaya, Vladimir Vigdorovich, Brett K. Kaiser, Roland K. Strong, Daniel E. Dykhuizen, Evgeni V. Sokurenko and Steve L. Moseley. 2007. Selection for functional diversity drives accumulation of point mutations in Dr adhesins of Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology (2007) 64(1), 180–194 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05648.x.
• Sujay Chattopadhyay, Michael Feldgarden, Scott J. Weissman, Daniel E. Dykhuizen, Gerald van Belle, Evgeni V. Sokurenko. 2007. Haplotype Diversity in "Source-Sink" Dynamics of Escherichia coli Urovirulence. J. Mol. Evol. (2007) 64:204–214, DOI: 10.1007/s00239-006-0063-5.
• Sujay Chattopadhyay, Daniel E. Dykhuizen, Evgeni V. Sokurenko. 2007. ZPS: visualization of recent adaptive evolution of proteins. BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:187 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-187.
• Byun-McKay, S. A. and Geeta, R. 2007. Protein subcellular relocalization: a new perspective on the origin of novel genes. Trends Ecol. Evol. 22:338-344.
• Champagne, C.E.M., Goliber, T. E., Wojciechowski, M. F., Mei, R. W., Townsley, B. T., Wang, K., Paz M. W., Geeta, R., and Neelima R. Sinha. 2007. Compound Leaf Development and Evolution in the Legumes. Plant Cell 19 3369-3378.
• Geeta, R. and Gharaibeh, W. 2007. Historical evidence for a pre-Columbian presence of Datura in the Old World and implications for a first millenium transfer from the New World. J. Biosci. 32: 1227-1244.
• Tellez, V.O. and Geeta, R. (in press). Dioscorea howardiana, a new species in section Trigonobasis (Dioscoreaceae). Brittonia.
• Tellez, V.O. and Geeta, R. (accepted). Sinopsis taxonómica de la sección Apodostemon (Dioscorea; Dioscoreaceae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad.
• Ginzburg, L.R. and Damuth, J. 2008. The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimension, literally. American Naturalist 171:125-131.
• Ginzburg, L.R., and Jensen, C.XJ. 2008. From controversy to consensus: the indirect interference functional response. SIL Biology 30/2, April 2008.
• Ginzburg, L.R., Jensen, CX. J. and Yule, J.V. 2007. Aiming the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" at ecological theory. Ecological Modeling 207, pp.356-362.
• Ginzburg, L.R. and Colyvan, M. 2004. Ecological Orbits: how planets move and populations grow. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
• Jensen, C, Jeschke, J.M. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2007. A direct, experimental test of resource vs. consumer dependence: comment. Ecology 88(6), pp.1600-1602.
• Jensen, C. X., and Ginzburg, L. R. 2005. Paradoxes or theoretical failures? The jury is still out. Ecological Modeling. 118 (2005):3-14.
• N. Mouquet, T. Daufresne, S. M. Gray and T. E. Miller. 2008. Modelling the relationship between a pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and its phytotelma community: mutualism or parasitism? Functional Ecology 22:728-737.
• Hoch, JM. 2008. Variation in penis morphology and mating ability in the barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 359 pp.126-130. 9 May 2008.
• Levinton, J.S., Pochron, S. 2008. Temporal and geographic trends in mercury concentrations in muscle tissue in five species of Hudson River, USA, fish. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 27:1691-1697.
• Norris Z. Muth and Massimo Pigliucci, 2007. Implementation of a novel framework for assessing species plasticity in biological invasions: responses of Centaurea and Crepis to phosphorus and water availability. Journal of Ecology 95:1001-1013.
• Pigliucci, M. 2008. The borderlands between science and philosophy: an introduction. Quarterly Review of Biology 83(1):7-15.
• Pigliucci, M. 2008. Is evolvability evolvable? Nature Reviews Genetics 9:75-82.
• Pigliucci, M. 2007. Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis? Evolution 61(12):2743-2749.
• Pigliucci, M. 2007. Finding the way in phenotypic space: the origin and maintenance of constraints on organismal form. Annals of Botany 100:433-438.
• Banta, J. A., J. Dole, M. B. Cruzan, and M. Pigliucci. 2007. Evidence of local adaptation to coarse-grained environmental variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolution 61(10):2419-2432.
• Harcourt-Smith, W. H. E., M. Tallman, S. R. Frost, D. F. Wiley, F. J. Rohlf, E. Delson. 2008 (In press). Analysis of selected hominoid joint surfaces using laser scanning and geometric morphometrics: a preliminary report. Pp.000-000 in E. J. Sargis and M. Dagosto (eds.) Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. Springer: Dordrecht.
• Amaral, Ana R., M. Manuela Coelho, Jesús Marugán-Lobón and F. James Rohlf. 2008 (in press). Geometric morphometric analysis of cranial shape in closely related delphinid cetacean species: an evolutionary approach: Evolutionary morphology the skull in delphinids on the basis of geometric morphometric procedures. Zoology.
• Antonyshyn , O. M., J. G. Mainprize, F. J. Rohlf, and M. A. Pahuta 2008 (in press). Biometric Morphing: a novel technique for the analysis of morphological outcomes following facial surgery. Annals of Plastic Surgery.
• J. Khai Tran, Tiina Ylioja, Ronald F. Billings, Jacques Régnière, and Matthew P. Ayres. 2007. IMPACT OF MINIMUM WINTER TEMPERATURES ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS. Ecological Applications, 17(3), 2007, pp.882–899.