Summary

The w88 casino games lab works in the areas of specialization, diversification, and plant-insect ecology. Specific questions and topics include the evolution of diet breadth, evolutionary interactions across trophic levels, phenology and population regulation. We are also interested in the conservation and management of insect diversity. In the field, our research includes the Great Basin, the Sierra Nevada, and much of the western hemisphere including tropical sites. In the lab, we combine physiological and behavioral experiments with genomic sequencing of novel-model organisms.

About the Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Research Professorship in w88 casino games

Mathematics Professor Trevor McMinn served 25 years at the University, retiring in 1988. After his passing, the University received a gift from McMinn's estate, which was used to create professorships w88 casino games College of Science. Established: 2015. (College of Science)

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• w88 casino games, M. L., Novotny, V., Panorska, A. K., Baje, L., Basset, Y., Butterill, P. T., Cizek, L., Coley, P. D., Dem, F., Diniz, I. R., Drozd, P., Fox, M., Glassmire, A., Hazen, R., Hrcek, J., Jahner, J. P., Kama, O., Kozubowski, T. J., Kursar, T. A., Lewis, O. T., Lill, J., Marquis, R. J., Miller, S. E., Morais, H. C., Murakami, M., Nickel, H., Pardikes, N., Ricklefs, R. E., Singer, M. S., Smilanich, A. M., Stireman, J. O., Villamarín-Cortez, S., Vodka, S., Volf, M., Wagner, D. L., Walla, T., Weiblen, G. D., and L. A. Dyer. (2015) The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:442-447
• Pardikes, N., Dyer, L. A., and w88 casino games, M. L. (2015) Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient. Ecology 96:2891-2901
• Richards, L. A., Dyer, L. A., w88 casino games, M. L., Smilanich, A. M., Dodson, C. D., Leonard, M. D., and Jeffrey, C. S. (2015) Phytochemical diversity drives diversity of tropical plant-insect communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112: 10973-10978
• Wilson, J. S., Jahner, J. P., w88 casino games, M. L., Sheehan, E. S., Williams, K. A., and Pitts, J. P. (2015) North American velvet ants form one of the world's largest known Müllerian mimicry complexes. Current Biology 25:R693-R710
• Gompert, Z., Jahner, J. P., Scholl, C. F., Wilson, J. S., Lucas, L. K., Soria-Carrasco, V., Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C. C., Buerkle, C. A., w88 casino games, M. L. (2015) The evolution of novel host use is not constrained by tradeoffs or a lack of genetic variation. Molecular Ecology 24:2777-2793
• Harrison, J. G., Shapiro, A. M., Espeset, A. E., Nice, C. C., Jahner, J. P., and w88 casino games, M. L. (2015) Species with more volatile population dynamics are differentially impacted by weather. Biology Letters 11: 20140792.
• Gompert, Z., Lucas, L., Buerkle, C. A., w88 casino games, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., and Nice, C. A. (2014) Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants. Molecular Ecology 23:4555-4573.
• Nice, C. C., w88 casino games, M. L., Gompert, Z., Fordyce, and J. A., Shapiro, A. M. (2014) A hierarchical perspective on the diversity of butterfly species' responses to weather across 38 years in the high Sierra Nevada mountains. Ecology 95:2155-2168
• Scholl, C. F., Burls, K. J., Newton, J. L., Young, B., and w88 casino games, M. L. (2014) Parasitism and mutualism in a lycaenid butterfly: temporal and geographic variation in parasitoid attack with no evidence for ant protection. Ecological Entomology 39:168-176
• Lucas, A. M., Scholl, C. F., Murphy, D. D., Tracy, C. R., w88 casino games, M. L. (2014) Geographic distribution, habitat association, and host quality for one of the rarest butterflies in North America: Thorne's hairstreak (Mitoura thornei). Insect Conservation and Diversity 7:343-354
• w88 casino games, M. L., Scholl, C. F. (2012) Exotic host use affects mate choice in an insect herbivore. The American Naturalist doi:10.1086/665647
• w88 casino games, M. L., Dyer, L. A., Singer, M. S., Stireman, J. O., and Lill, J. T. (2012) Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions. Ecology 93:981-991
• Wilson, J. S., w88 casino games, M. L., Dyer, L. A., O'Connor, J. M., Burls, K., Feldman, C. R., Jaramillo, M. A., Miller, J. S., and Young, B. (2012) Host conservatism, host shifts and diversification across three trophic levels in two neotropical forests. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:532-546
• Jahner, J. P., Shapiro, A. M., and w88 casino games, M. L. (2012) Drivers of hybridization in a 66-generation record from Colias butterflies. Evolution 66:818-830
• w88 casino games, M. L., Jahner, J. P., Casner, K. L., Wilson, J. S., and Shapiro, A. M. (2011) The race is not to the swift: long-term data reveal pervasive declines in California's low-elevation butterfly fauna. Ecology 92:2222-2235
• Jahner, J. P., Bonilla, M. M., Badik, K. J., Shapiro, A. M., and w88 casino games, M. L. (2011) Use of exotic hosts by lepidoptera: widespread species colonize more novel hosts. Evolution 65:2719-2724
• w88 casino games, M. L., Gompert, Z., Fordyce, J. A., and Nice, C. C. (2011) After sixty years, an answer to the question: what is the Karner blue butterfly? Biology Letters 7:399-402
• w88 casino games, M. L., Gompert, Z., Nice, C. C., w88 casino games, G. W., and Fordyce, J. A. (2011) Ant association facilitates the evolution of diet breadth in a lycaenid butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1539-1547
• w88 casino games, M. L., and Feldman, C. R. (2011) Phylogenetic cascades and the evolution of tropicaldiversity. Biotropica 43:270-278
• w88 casino games, M. L., McCall, A. C., Sanders, N. J., Fordyce, J. A., Thorne, J. H., O'Brien, J., Waetjen, D. P., and Shapiro, A. M. (2010) Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:2088-2092

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Education

• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Stony Brook w88 casino games, January 2005 to July 2006
• Ph.D., w88 casino games, University of California, Davis, 2004