Recent Publications by Students and Faculty in the Population and Conservation Biology Program


*Lucas, L. K., J. A. Fordyce, and C. Nice. 2008. Patterns of genitalic morphology around suture zones in North American Lycaeides (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): Implications for taxonomy and historical biogeography. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(1):172-180. PDF

Forister, M L., C. C. Nice, J. A. Fordyce, Z. Gompert* and A. M. Shapiro. 2008. Considering evolutionary processes in the use of single-locus genetic data for conservation, with examples from the Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Conservation 12:37-51. PDF

Robinson, D. M., C. Gabor and A. Aspbury. 2007. Differential sperm expenditure by male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, in a unisexual–bisexual species complex and the influence of spermiation during mating. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. DOI 10.1007/s00265-007-0495-y PDF

Egan, S. P. and J. R. Ott. 2007. Host plant quality and local adaptation determine the distribution of a gall-forming herbivore. Ecology 88(11):2868-2879. PDF

*Gompert, Z, J. A. Fordyce, M. L. Forister, A. M. Shapiro and C. C. Nice. 2006. Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat. Science 314:1923-1925. PDF

Forister, M L., J. A. Fordyce, C. C. Nice, Z. Gompert* and A,. M. Shapiro. 2006. Egg morphology varies among populations and habitats along a suture zone in the Lycaeides idas-melissa species complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(5):933-937. PDF

Fordyce, J. A., C. C. Nice and A. M. Shapiro. 2006. A novel trade-off of insect diapause affecting a sequestered chemical defense. Oecologia 149:101-106. PDF

Crutsinger, G. M., M. D. Collins, J. A. Fordyce, Z. Gompert*, C. C. Nice and N. J. Sanders. 2006. Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process. Science 313:966-968 (18 August 2006). PDF, SOM

*Gompert, Z., C. C. Nice, J. A. Fordyce, M. L. Forister and A. M. Shapiro. 2006. Identifying units for conservation using molecular systematics: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly. Molecular Ecology 15:1759-1768. PDF

Nice, C. C. and J. A. Fordyce. 2006. How caterpillars avoid overheating: behavioral and phenotypic plasticity of pipevine swallowtail larvae. Oecologia 146:541-548. PDF

* Population and Conservation Biology Student Authors