Graduate Student Publications

Graduate Students in bold; Mentors in italics.

Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

  • Balakrishnan CN, KM Sefc & MD Sorenson. 2009. Incomplete reproductive isolation following host shift in brood parasitic indigobirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276: 219-228.
  • Balakrishnan CN & MD Sorenson. 2006. Premating reproductive isolation among sympatric indigobird species and host races. Behavioral Ecology 17: 473-478
  • Balakrishnan CN & MD Sorenson. 2007. Dispersal ecology versus host specialization as determinants of ectoparasite distribution in brood parasitic indigobirds and their estrildid finch hosts. Molecular Ecology 16: 217-229
  • Caldwell MS, JG McDaniel & KM Warkentin. 2009. Frequency information in the vibration-cued escape hatching of red-eyed treefrogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 566-575
  • Calleri DV, EM Reid, RB Rosengaus, EL Vargo & JFA Traniello. 2006. Inbreeding and disease resistance in a social insect: effects of heterozygosity on immunocompetence in the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 273: 2633-2640
  • Calleri DV, RB Rosengaus & JFA Traniello. 2006. Trade-offs between immunity and reproduction in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Insectes Sociaux 53: 204-211
  • Calleri DV, RB Rosengaus & JFA Traniello. 2007. Immunity and reproduction during colony foundation in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Physiological Entomology 32: 136-142
  • Fefferman NH, JFA Traniello, RB Rosengaus & DV Calleri. 2007. Evolution of disease prevention and resistance in social insects: modeling the survival consequences of immunity, hygienic behavior and colony organization. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 565-577
  • Campbell C, CJ Schneider, A Zubaid, AM Adnan & TH Kunz. 2007. Morphological and ecological correlates in Malaysian fruit bats. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 105-118
  • Campbell P & TH Kunz. 2006. Cynopterus horsfieldi. Mammalian Species 802: 1-5
  • Campbell P, CJ Schneider, AM Adnan, A Zubaid &TH Kunz. 2006. Comparative population structure of Cynopterus fruit bats in peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. Molecular Ecology 15: 29-47
  • Campbell P, NM Reid, A Zubaid, AM Adnan & TH Kunz. 2006. Comparative roosting ecology of Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) fruit bats in peninsula Malaysia. Biotropica 38: 725-734.
  • Chaverri G & TH Kunz. 2006. Reproductive biology and postnatal development in the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Zoology (London) 270: 650-656.
  • Chaverri G & TH Kunz. 2006. Roosting ecology of the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. Biotropica 38: 77-84.
  • Chaverri G, CJ Schneider & TH Kunz. 2008. Mating system of the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, in press
  • Chaverri G, M Gamba-Rios & TH Kunz. 2007. Ecological correlates of social strategies in the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni: roost fidelity and group stability. Ethology 113: 598-605
  • Chaverri G, M Gamba-Rios & TH Kunz. 2007. Range overlap and association patterns in the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. Animal Behaviour 73: 157-164
  • Chaverri G, OE Quirós & TH Kunz. 2007. Ecological correlates of range size in the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 477-486
  • Darling JA, AM Reitzel, & JR Finnerty. 2006. Characterization of microsatellite loci in the widely introduced estuarine anemone Nematostella vectensis. Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 803-805
  • Federico P, TG Hallam, GF McCracken, ST Purucker, WE Grant, AN Correa Sandoval, JK Westbrook, RA Medellín, CJ Cleveland, CG Sansone, M Betke, JW Horn, A Moreno-Valdez, JD López & TH Kunz. 2008. Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) as insect predators in transgenic and conventional cotton crops. Ecological Applications, in press
  • Ferster B, M Pie & JFA Traniello. 2006. Morphometric variation in North American Pogonomyrmex and Solenopsis ants: caste evolution through ecological release or dietary change? Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 18: 19-32
  • Harrigan RJ, ME Mazza & MD Sorenson. 2008. Computation versus cloning: evaluation of two methods for haplotype determination. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1239-1248.
  • Hood WR, OT Oftedal & TH Kunz. 2006. Variation in body composition of female big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) during lactation. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 176: 807-819
  • Betke M, DE Hirsh, NC Makris, GF McCracken, M Procopio, NI Hristov, S Teng, A Bacchi, JD Reichard, JW Horn, S Crampton, CJ Cleveland & TH Kunz. 2008. Thermal imaging reveals significantly smaller Brazilian free-tailed bat colonies than previously estimated. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 18-24
  • Horn JW & TH Kunz. 2008. Analyzing NEXRAD Doppler radar images to assess population changes and nightly dispersal patterns of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). Integrative and Comparative Biology, in press
  • Horn JW, EB Arnett & TH Kunz. 2008. Behavioral responses of bats to operating wind turbines. Journal of Wildlife Management 72: 123-132
  • Cleveland CJ, JD Frank, P Federico, I Gomez, TG Hallam, JW Horn, J Lopez, GF McCracken, RA Medellin, A Moreno-V, C Sansone, JK Westbrook & TH Kunz. 2006. Economic value of the pest control service provided by Brazilian free-tailed bat in south-central Texas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4: 238-243
  • Jarrín–V P & TH Kunz. 2008. Taxonomic history of the genus Anoura (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with insights into the challenges of morphological species delimitation. Acta Chiropterologica 10:257-269.
  • Kingston T, S. Juliana, SK Rakhmad, CD Fletcher, A Benton-Browne, M Struebig, A Wood, SW Murray, TH Kunz & A Zubaid. 2006. The Malaysian Bat Conservation Research Unit: Research, Capacity Building and Education in an Old World Hotspot. Pp. 41-60, In: Proceedings of the National Seminar on Protected Areas (O Sahir, HY Siti, E Sivananthan, MN Shukor, A Norhayati, A Mohd, S Sah eds.). Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia
  • Kunz TH, SA Gauthreaux Jr, NI Hristov, JW Horn, G Jones, EKV Kalko, RP Larkin McCracken, SW Swartz, RB Srygley, R Dudley, JK Westbrook, M Wikelski. 2008. Aeroecology: probing and modeling the aerosphere. Integrative and Comparative Biology, in press
  • Mazza ME, K Pang, MQ Martindale & JR Finnerty. 2007. Genomic organization, gene structure, and developmental expression of three clustered otx genes in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Journal of Experimental Biology, Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution 308B: 494-506
  • Meegaskumbura M, K Manamendra-Arachchi & CJ Schneider, R Pethiyagoda. 2007. New species amongst Sri Lanka’s extinct shrub frogs (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae: Philautus). Zootaxa 1397: 1-15
  • Meegaskumbura S, M Meegaskumbura, R Pethiyagoda, K Manamendra-Arachchi & CJ Schneider. 2007. Crocidura hikmiya, a new shrew (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 1665: 19-30
  • Mertl AL, Traniello JFA. Behavioral evolution in the major worker subcaste of twig-nesting Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Does morphological specialization influence task plasticity? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., in press.
  • Mertl AL, Ryder Wilkie KT, Traniello JFA. 2009. Impact of flooding on the species richness, density and composition of Amazonian litter-nesting ants. Biotropica, online early.
  • Mertl AL & JFA Traniello. 2006. Subcaste morphology and behavioral plasticity in a community of tropical Pheidole. Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Union of the Study of Social Insects, Washington, DC. p113
  • Miller-Rushing AJ, TL Lloyd-Evans RB Primack & P Satzinger. 2008. Bird migration times, climate change, and declining population sizes. Global Change Biology, in press
  • Miller-Rushing AJ & RB Primack. 2006. Thoreau and climate change science. Thoreau Society Bulletin 256: 6–7
  • Miller-Rushing AJ & RB Primack. 2007. Global warming and flowering times in Thoreau’s Concord: a community perspective. Ecology 89: 332-341
  • Miller-Rushing AJ & RB Primack. 2008. A comparison of the impacts of winter temperatures on two birch (Betula) species. Tree Physiology, in press
  • Miller-Rushing AJ & RB Primack. 2008. Archival data show biological responses to climate change in Boston. In C. Wright and T. Penna [eds.], Remaking Boston: the city and environmental change over the centuries. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in press
  • Miller-Rushing AJ & RB Primack. 4 Feb 2007. Global phenomenon in your back yard. Boston Globe.
  • Miller-Rushing AJ, RB Primack & R. Stymeist. 2008. Interpreting variation in bird migration times as observed by volunteers. Auk, in press
  • Miller-Rushing AJ, RB Primack, D Primack & S Mukunda. 2006. Photographs and herbarium specimens as tools to document phenological changes in response to global warming. American Journal of Botany 93: 1667-1674
  • Miller-Rushing AJ, T Katsuki, RB Primack, Y Ishii, SD Lee & H Higuchi. 2007. Impact of global warming on a group of related species and their hybrids: cherry tree flowering at Mt. Takao, Japan. American Journal of Botany 94: 1470-1478
  • Muñoz M, & TH Kunz. 2008. Dorsal patch and novel precopulatory behavior of males in the Curacaoan long-nosed bats, Leptonycteris curasoae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, in press
  • Muñoz-Fuentes V, AJ Green, MD Sorenson, JJ Negro & C Vilà. 2006. The ruddy duck Oxyura jamaicensis in Europe: natural colonisation or human introduction? Molecular Ecology 15: 1441-1454
  • Muñoz-Fuentes V, C Vilà, AJ Green, JJ Negro & MD Sorenson. 2007. Hybridization between white-headed ducks and introduced ruddy ducks in Spain. Molecular Ecology 16: 629-638
  • Muñoz-Romo M, EA Herrera & TH Kunz. 2008. Roosting behavior, social structure, and group stability of the big fruit-eating bat Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Mammalian Biology, in press
  • Berglund JL, M Genuardi, ML Muscedere & JFA Traniello. 2006. Polymorphism and division of labor in the leaf-cutter ant Acromyrmex octospinosus during cycles of foraging and gardening. Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Union of the Study of Social Insects, Washington, DC. pp 242-243
  • Muscedere ML, Willey TA, Traniello JFA. 2009. Age and task efficiency in the ant Pheidole dentata: young minor workers are not specialist nurses. Anim. Behav. 77, 911-918.
  • Muscedere ML & JFA Traniello. 2006. Comparative neuromorphology of North American Pheidole: evidence for the evolution of a mosaic brain. Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Union of the Study of Social Insects, Washington, DC. pp 261-262
  • Njabo KY, RCK Bowie & MD Sorenson. 2008. Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomy of the African wattle-eyes (Aves: Passeriformes: Platysteiridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 136-149.
  • Pie MR & JFA Traniello. 2007. Morphological evolution in the ant genus Pheidole. Journal of Zoology 271: 99-109
  • Primack RB, AJ Miller-Rushing, D Primack & S Mukunda. 2007. Using photographs to show the effects of climate change on flowering. Arnoldia 65: 3-9
  • Primack RB & AJ Miller-Rushing. 2006. Local signs of a warming planet. In: M. Michaels, ed. CBS4 2007 Weather Almanac. p. 28
  • Primack RB & AJ Miller-Rushing. 2008. Tracking global warming in public gardens and arboreta. Public Gardens, in press
  • Reitzel AM, JA Darling, JC Sullivan & JR Finnerty. 2008. Global population genetic structure of the starlet anemone Nematostella vectensis: multiple introductions and implications for conservation policy. Biological Invasions, in press
  • Reitzel AM, JC Sullivan, & JR Finnerty. 2006. Qualitative shift to indirect development in the parasitic sea anemone Edwardsiella lineata. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 827-883
  • Reitzel AM, JC Sullivan, BK Brown, DW Chin, EK Cira, SK Edquist, BM Genco, OC Joseph, CA Kaufman, K Kovitvongsa, MM Muñoz, TL Negri, JR Taffel, RT Zuehlke, & JR Finnerty. 2007. Ecological and developmental dynamics of a host-parasite system involving a sea anemone and two ctenophores. Journal of Parasitology 93: 1392-1402
  • Reitzel AM, JC Sullivan, N Traylor-Knowles & JR Finnerty. 2008. A genomic inventory of stress responsive elements in the model organism Nematostella vectensis. Biological Bulletin, in press.
  • Reitzel AR, P Burton, C Krone & JR Finnerty. 2007. Comparison of alternate developmental trajectories in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Stephenson): embryogenesis, regeneration, and two forms of asexual fission. Invertebrate Biology 126: 99-112
  • Reynolds RS, JC Sullivan & TH Kunz. 2008. Evaluation of total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC) to estimate the body composition of a small mammal, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilioniadae). Journal of Wildlife Management, in press
  • Rinehart JB & TH Kunz. 2006. Rhinophylla pumilio. Mammalian Species 791: 1-3
  • Ryan JF, ME Mazza, K Pang, DQ Matus, A Baxevanis, MQ Martindale & JR Finnerty. (2007) Pre-bilaterian origins of the Hox cluster and the Hox code: Evidence from the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. PLoS ONE 2(1):e153
  • Ryan JF, PM Burton, ME Mazza, GK Kwong, JC Mullikin & JR Finnerty. 2006. The cnidarian-bilaterian ancestor possessed at least 56 homeoboxes. Evidence from the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. Genome Biology 7: R64
  • Ryder-Wilkie KT, AL Mertl & JFA Traniello. 2009. Diversity of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in primary and secondary forests in Amazonian Ecuador. Myrmecol. News 12: 139-147
  • Ryder-Wilkie KT, AL Mertl & JFA Traniello. 2007. Biodiversity below ground: probing the subterranean ant fauna of Amazonian Ecuador. Naturwissenschaften 94: 725-731 (with cover illustration)
  • Ryder-Wilkie KT, AL Mertl & JFA Traniello. 2006. Tropical subterranean biodiversity: a new method for studying an understudied ant fauna. Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Union of the Study of Social Insects, Washington, DC. pp 213-214
  • Schulz LC, KT Townsend, TH Kunz & EP Widmaier. 2006. Leptin and placental development in the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). Journal of Experimental Zoology 305: 174-183
  • Schulz LC, KT Townsend, TH Kunz & EP Widmaier. 2007. Inhibition of trophoblast invasiveness in vitro by immunoneutralization of leptin in the bat, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera). General and Comparative Endocrinology 150: 59-65
  • Seid MA, Goode K, Li C., Traniello JFA. 2008. Age- and subcaste-related patterns of serotonergic immunoreactivity in the optic lobes of the ant Pheidole dentata. Devel. Neurobiol. 68, 1325-1333.
  • Seid M & JFA Traniello. 2006. Age-related repertoire expansion and division of labor in Pheidole dentata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a new perspective on temporal polyethism and behavioral plasticity in ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60: 631-644
  • Moran Y, Weinberger H, JC Sullivan, AM Reitzel, JR Finnerty & M Gurevitz. 2008. Concerted evolution of sea anemone neurotoxin genes is revealed through analysis of the Nematostella vectensis genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, in press
  • Sullivan JC & JR Finnerty. 2007. Human disease genes in a simple “basal” animal, the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Genome 50: 689-692
  • Sullivan JC, AM Reitzel, & JR Finnerty. 2006. A high percentage of introns in human genes were present early in animal evolution—Evidence from the basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis. Genome Informatics 17: 219-229
  • Sullivan JC, AM Reitzel, & JR Finnerty. 2008. Upgrades to StellaBase facilitate medical and genetic studies on the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. Nucleic Acids Research 36: D607-D611
  • Sullivan JC, KJ Buscetta, RH Michener, JO Whitaker, JR Finnerty, TH Kunz. 2006. Models developed from 13C and 15N of skin tissue indicate non-specific habitat use by the big brown bat. Ecoscience 13: 11-22
  • Sullivan JC, D Kalaitzidis, TD Gilmore & JR Finnerty. 2007. Rel Homology domain-containing transcription factors in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis. Development Genes and Evolution 217: 63-72
  • Sullivan JC, JF Ryan , JA Watson, J Webb, JC Mullikin, & JR Finnerty. 2006. StellaBase — the Nematostella vectensis genomics database. Nucleic Acids Research 34: D495-D499
  • Sullivan JC, JF Ryan, JC Mullikin, & JR Finnerty. 2007. Conserved and novel Wnt clusters in the basal eumetazoan Nematostella vectensis. Development, Genes, and Evolution 217: 235-239
  • Sullivan JC, KJ Buscetta, RH Michener, JO Whitaker Jr, JR Finnerty & TH Kunz. 2006. Models developed from d13C and d15N of skin tissue indicate non-specific habitat use by the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Ecoscience 13: 11-22
  • Touchon, JC & KM Warkentin 2008. Reproductive mode plasticity: Aquatic and terrestrial oviposition in a treefrog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:7495-7499.
  • Touchon JC & KM Warkentin. 2008. Fish and dragonfly nymph predators induce opposite shifts in color and morphology of tadpoles. Oikos 117: 634-640.
  • Gomez-Mestre, I, JC Touchon , VL Saccoccio & KM Warkentin. 2008. Genetic variation in pathogen-induced early hatching of toad embryos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
  • Gomez-Mestre, I, JC Touchon & KM Warkentin. 2006. Amphibian embryo and parental defenses and a larval predator reduce egg mortality from water mold. Ecology 87: 2570-2581
  • Touchon, JC, I Gomez-Mestre & KM Warkentin. 2006. Hatching plasticity in two temperate anurans: responses to a pathogen and predation cues. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 556-563
  • Townsend KL, TH Kunz &EP Widmaier. 2008. Changes in body mass, plasma leptin, and mRNA levels of leptin receptor isoforms during the premigration/prehibernation period in Myotis lucifugus. Journal Comparative PhysiologyB 178: 217-223
  • Traniello JFA, DV Calleri, EM Reid, EL Vargo & RB Rosengaus. 2006. Inbreeding, outbreeding and infection resistance in the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Union of the Study of Social Insects, Washington, DC. p 63
  • Voigt CC, DKN Dechmann, J Bender, JB Rinehart, RH Michener & TH Kunz. 2007. Mineral licks attract neotropical seed-dispersing bats. Ecology Research Letters, ID 34212, 4 pp. (doi:10.1155/2007/34212)
  • Warkentin KM, MS Caldwell & JG McDaniel. 2006. Temporal pattern cues in vibrational risk assessment by red-eyed treefrog embryos, Agalychnis callidryas. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1376-1384
  • Warkentin KM, MS Caldwell, TD Siok, AT D’Amato & JG McDaniel. 2007. Flexible information sampling in vibrational risk assessment by red-eyed treefrog embryos. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 614-619
  • Willey T, ML Muscedere & JFA Traniello. 2006. Age and brood care in the ant Pheidole dentata: are callows really specialists? Proceedings of the XV Congress of the International Union of the Study of Social Insects, Washington, DC. pp 244-245