FIU Discovery

Fast mvSLOUCH: Multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-based models of trait evolution on large phylogenies.  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.  15:1507-1515.

Analytical advances alleviate model misspecification in non-Brownian multivariate comparative methods.  EVOLUTION.  78:389-400.

Green armoured tardigrades (Echiniscidae: Viridiscus), including a new species from the Southern Nearctic, exemplify problems with tardigrade variability research.  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS.  13.

A Cautionary Note on "A Cautionary Note on the Use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck Models in Macroevolutionary Studies".  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY.  72:955-963.

Model Selection Performance in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Under Multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Models of Trait Evolution.  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY.  72:275-293.

Genome Size Changes by Duplication, Divergence, and Insertion in Caenorhabditis Worms.  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.  40.

Low microbiome diversity in threatened amphibians from two biodiversity hotspots

Increased superfetation precedes the evolution of advanced degrees of placentotrophy in viviparous fishes of the family Poeciliidae.  BIOLOGY LETTERS.  18.

How to culture limnoterrestrial heterotardigrades

Moss phyllid morphology varies systematically with substrate slope.  PLANT ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.  154:419-431.

Trichoderma infection of limno-terrestrial tardigrades.  JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY.  186.

Does Body Shape in Fundulus Adapt to Variation in Habitat Salinity?.  FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY.  10.

In Vivo Forward Genetic Screen to Identify Novel Neuroprotective Genes in Drosophila melanogaster.  JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS. 

Evolutionary stable sex ratios with non-facultative male-eggs first sex allocation in fig wasps.  OIKOS.  128:859-868.

Macroevolution of life-history traits in passerine birds: adaptation and phylogenetic inertia.  ECOLOGY LETTERS.  16:571-576.

A phylogenetic comparative method for studying multivariate adaptation.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  314:204-215.

Disentangling determinants of egg size in the Geometridae (Lepidoptera) using an advanced phylogenetic comparative method

The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  108:15908-15913.

EXPRESSION OF DEFENSE GENES IN DROSOPHILA EVOLVES UNDER A DIFFERENT SELECTIVE REGIME FROM EXPRESSION OF OTHER GENES.  EVOLUTION.  65:1068-1078.

A comparative method for studying adaptation to a randomly evolving environment.  EVOLUTION.  62:1965-1977.

Adaptive non-Fisherian sex ratios in a patchily distributed population with outbreeding.  EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY.  20:431-445.

Different male morphs of Otitesella pseudoserrata fig wasps have equal fitness but are not determined by different alleles.  ECOLOGY LETTERS.  6:286-289.

Maternal control of offspring sex and male morphology in the Otitesella fig wasps

Male morphological variation and the determinants of body size in two Otiteselline fig wasps.  BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY.  15:735-741.

Genome size changes by duplication, insertion and divergence in Caenorhabditis worms

Evolution of Thermal Physiology in Liolaemus Lizards: Adaptation, Phylogenetic Inertia, and Niche Tracking.  AMERICAN NATURALIST. 204-220.