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Recent Publications

Feller, KD & TW Cronin. In press. Chaper 8: Sensory Ecology of Vision. In: The Natural History of Crustaceans: Crustacean Nervous Systems and Their Control of Behavior. C. Derby & M. Thiel (eds.), Vol III. Oxford University Press.

Feller, KD. In press. Stomatopoda: Larvae. In: Treatise on Zoology – Crustacea. FR Schram & JC von Vaupel Klein (eds.), vol. 7. Brill, Leiden.

Omland, K. E.  2013.  Tree thinking: understanding and interpreting phylogenetic trees.  Invited chapter  in J. B. Losos (ed)  Princeton Guide to Evolution (in press)

Ciccotto, P.J. In press. Morphometric distinctness of an isolated population of Percina peltata (Shield Darter) on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Maryland, USA. Copeia.

Sathyanesan, A., Feijoo, A.A., Mehta, S.T., Nimarko, A.F., and Lin, W. 2013. Expression profile of G-protein βγ subunit gene transcripts in the mouse olfactory sensory epithelia. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 7:84. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00084 [Abstract]

Ciccotto, P.J., J.M. Gumm, and T.C. Mendelson. 2013. No evidence for color or size preference in either sex of a dichromatic stream fish, Percina roanoka. Environmental Biology of Fishes. Available Online First.

Ciccotto, P.J., J.M. Gumm, and T.C. Mendelson. 2013. Male association preference for conspecifics in the Redband Darter, Etheostoma luteovinctum (Teleostei: Percidae) based on visual cues. Copeia 2013(1):154-159.

Leips, J., Rodd, F.H,, and Travis, J. 2013. The adaptive significance of population differentiation in offspring size of the least killifish, Heterandria formosa.  Ecology and Evolution, in press.

O'Rourke, C.F. and Mendelson, T.C. 2013. Behavioural responses to season and adult sex ratio in the fantail darter Etheostoma flabellare. Animal Behaviour 85: 43-49

Welch, G. R., Physiology: A Biography of Nature. Peter Lang Academic Publisher, Bern, Switzerland, under contract.

Jacobsen, F. and Omland, K. E. 2012. Extensive introgressive hybridization within the northern oriole group (Genus Icterus) revealed by three-species isolation with migration analysis. Ecology and Evolution. 2:2413-2429 [Abstract] [PDF]

McDonald, R., H. J. Schreier and J. E. M. Watts. (2012) Phylogenetic analysis of microbial communities in different regions of the gastrointestinal tract in Panaque nigrolineatus, a wood-eating fish. PLoS ONE 7(10): e48018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048018 [Text] [PDF]

Hodges, T.K., Laskowski, K.L., Squadrito, G.L., De Luca, M., Leips, J. 2012. Defense traits of larval Drosophila melanogaster exhibit genetically based tradeoffs against different species of parasitoids. Evolution in press.

Jackson, B.J. and Eisenmann, D. M. 2012. Beta-catenin dependent Wnt signaling in C. elegans: Teaching an old dog a new trick. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a007948. [Abstract]

Sinha P, Parker KH, Horn L, and Ostrand-Rosenberg S. Tumor-induced myeloid-derived suppressor cell function is independent of IFNg and IL4Rα. European Journal of Immunology August 2012; 42(8): 2052–2059.

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