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2022
Boisseau, R.P., Büscher, T.H., Klawitter, L.J., Gorb, S.N., Emlen, D.J. and Tobalske, B.W. Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22(1), pp.1-18.
Sells, S.N., Mitchell, M.S., Podruzny, K.M., Ausband, D.E., Emlen, D.J., Gude, J.A., Smucker, T.D., Boyd, D.K. and Loonam, K.E. Competition, prey, and mortalities influence gray wolf group size. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 86(3), p.e22193.
Morita, S., Sakura, K., Gotoh, H., Emlen, D.J. and Niimi, T. Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylusdichotomus using next generation sequencing technology. Current Opinion in Insect Science, p.100901.
Sells, S.N., Mitchell, M.S., Ausband, D.E., Luis, A.D., Emlen, D.J., Podruzny, K.M. and Gude, J.A., 2022. Economical defence of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 289(1966), p.20212512.
Morita, S., Shibata, T.F., Nishiyama, T., Kobayashi, Y., Yamaguchi, K., Toga, K., Ohde, T., Gotoh, H., Kojima, T., Weber, J. and Salvemini, M. The draft genome sequence of Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus. bioRxiv.
2021
del Sol, J., Hongo, Y., Boisseau, R. P., Allen, C. E., Berman, G., Emlen, D. J. Population differences in the strength of sexual selection match relative weapon size in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Evolution 75(2), 394-413.
2020
Boisseau, R. P., Ero, M. M., Makai, S., Bonneau, L. J. G., Emlen, D. J. 2020. Sexual dimorphism divergence between sister species is associated with a switch in habitat use and mating system in thorny devil stick insects. Behavioural Processes 181, 104263.
Fea, M. P., Boisseau, R. P., Emlen, D. J., Holwell, G. I. 2020. Cybernetic combatants support the importance of duels in the evolution of extreme weapons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 287: 20200254.
2019
O'Brien, Devin M., Boisseau, Romain P., Duell, Meghan, McCullough, Erin, Powell, Erin C., Somjee, Ummat, Solie, Sarah, Hickey, Anthony J., Holwell, Gregory L., Painting, Christina J., Emlen, Douglas J. Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 286: 20191063.
Buchalski, Benjamin, Gutierrez, Eric, Emlen, Douglas J., Lavine, Laura, Swanson, Brook. Variation in an Extreme Weapon: Horn Performance Differences across Rhinoceros Beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus) Populations. Insects 10: 346.
2018
Metz, M.C., Emlen, D.J., Stahler, D.R., MacNulty, D.R., Smith, D.W., Hebblewhite, M. Predation shapes the evolutionary traits of cervid weapons. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1619–1625.
Ohde, T., Morit, S., Shigenobu, S., Morita, J., Mizutani, T., Gotoh, H., Zinna, R. A., Nakata, M., Ito, Y., Wada, K., Kitano, Y., Yuzaki, K., Toga, K., Mase, M., Kadota, K., Rushe, J., Corley Lavine, L., Emlen, D. J., Niimi, T. Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles. PLoSGenetics 14: e1007651.
O'Brien, D. M., Allen, C. E., Van Kleeck. M. J., Hone, D., Knell, R., Knapp, A., Christiansen S., Emlen, D. J. On the evolution of extreme structures: static scaling and the function of sexually selected signals. Animal Behaviour 144: 95-108.
McCullough, E. L., Emlen. The research bias is unfortunate but also unsurprising: a comment on Tinghitella et al. Behavioral Ecology 4: 798.
Zinna. R., Emlen, D., Lavine, L. C., Johns, A., Gotoh, H., Niimi, T., Dworkin, I. Sexual dimorphism and heightened conditional expression in a sexually selected weapon in the Asian rhinoceros beetle. Molecular Ecology 27: 5049-5072.
2017
O’Brien, D. M., Katsuki, M., Emlen D. J. Selection on an extreme weapon in the frog legged leaf beetle (Sagra femorata). Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13336.
Gotoh, H., Zinna, R. A., Ishikawa, Y., Miyakawa, H., Ishikawa, A., Sugime, Y., Emlen, D. J., Lavine, L. C., Miura, T. The function of appendage patterning genes in mandible development of the sexually dimorphic stag beetle. Developmental Biology 422: 24-32.
2016
McCullough, E., Miller, C. W., Emlen, D. J. Why sexually selected weapons are not ornaments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 742-751. (With Cover)
Cooley, N.L., Emlen, D. J., Woods, H. A. Self-heating by largfe insect larvae? Journal of Thermal Biology 62: 76-83.
Gotoh, H., Zinna, R., Warren, I., DeNieu, M., Niimi, T., Dworkin, I., Emlen, D.,Miura, T., Lavine, L. Identification and functional analyses of sex determination genes in the sexually dimorphic stag beetle Cyclommatus metallifer. BMC Genomics, 17: 250.
Zinna, R. S., H. Gotoh, C. S. Brent, A. Dolezal, A. L. Kraus, D. J. Emlen, L. S.Lavine. Endocrine control of exaggerated trait growth in rhinoceros beetles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56: E250.
Lin, X., Y. Yao, B. Wang, D. J. Emlen, L. S. Lavine. Ecological Trade-offs between Migration and Reproduction Are Mediated by the Nutrition-Sensitive Insulin-Signaling Pathway. International Journal of Biological Sciences 12: 607.
Smith, J. N., Emlen, D. J., Pearson, D. E. Linking native and invader traits explains native spider population responses to plant invasion. PloS One e0153661.
2015
Lavine, L., Gotoh, H., Brent, C. S., Dworkin, I. and Emlen, D. 2015. Exaggerated trait growth in insects. Annual Review of Entomology, 60: 453-72.doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-021045.
Gotoh, H., Hust, J. A., Miura, T., Niimi, T., Emlen, D. J., Lavine, L. C. The Fat/Hippo Signaling pathway links within-disc morphogen patterning to whole-animal signals during phenotypically plastic growth. Developmental Dynamics 244: 1039-1045.
McCullough, E., Ledger, K. J., O’Brien, D. M., Emlen, D. J. Variation in the allometry of exaggerated rhinoceros beetle horns. Animal Behavior 109: 133-144.
See full list at Google scholar
PDF's available on request (email Doug)
2022
Boisseau, R.P., Büscher, T.H., Klawitter, L.J., Gorb, S.N., Emlen, D.J. and Tobalske, B.W. Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22(1), pp.1-18.
Sells, S.N., Mitchell, M.S., Podruzny, K.M., Ausband, D.E., Emlen, D.J., Gude, J.A., Smucker, T.D., Boyd, D.K. and Loonam, K.E. Competition, prey, and mortalities influence gray wolf group size. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 86(3), p.e22193.
Morita, S., Sakura, K., Gotoh, H., Emlen, D.J. and Niimi, T. Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylusdichotomus using next generation sequencing technology. Current Opinion in Insect Science, p.100901.
Sells, S.N., Mitchell, M.S., Ausband, D.E., Luis, A.D., Emlen, D.J., Podruzny, K.M. and Gude, J.A., 2022. Economical defence of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 289(1966), p.20212512.
Morita, S., Shibata, T.F., Nishiyama, T., Kobayashi, Y., Yamaguchi, K., Toga, K., Ohde, T., Gotoh, H., Kojima, T., Weber, J. and Salvemini, M. The draft genome sequence of Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus. bioRxiv.
2021
del Sol, J., Hongo, Y., Boisseau, R. P., Allen, C. E., Berman, G., Emlen, D. J. Population differences in the strength of sexual selection match relative weapon size in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Evolution 75(2), 394-413.
2020
Boisseau, R. P., Ero, M. M., Makai, S., Bonneau, L. J. G., Emlen, D. J. 2020. Sexual dimorphism divergence between sister species is associated with a switch in habitat use and mating system in thorny devil stick insects. Behavioural Processes 181, 104263.
Fea, M. P., Boisseau, R. P., Emlen, D. J., Holwell, G. I. 2020. Cybernetic combatants support the importance of duels in the evolution of extreme weapons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 287: 20200254.
2019
O'Brien, Devin M., Boisseau, Romain P., Duell, Meghan, McCullough, Erin, Powell, Erin C., Somjee, Ummat, Solie, Sarah, Hickey, Anthony J., Holwell, Gregory L., Painting, Christina J., Emlen, Douglas J. Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 286: 20191063.
Buchalski, Benjamin, Gutierrez, Eric, Emlen, Douglas J., Lavine, Laura, Swanson, Brook. Variation in an Extreme Weapon: Horn Performance Differences across Rhinoceros Beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus) Populations. Insects 10: 346.
2018
Metz, M.C., Emlen, D.J., Stahler, D.R., MacNulty, D.R., Smith, D.W., Hebblewhite, M. Predation shapes the evolutionary traits of cervid weapons. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1619–1625.
Ohde, T., Morit, S., Shigenobu, S., Morita, J., Mizutani, T., Gotoh, H., Zinna, R. A., Nakata, M., Ito, Y., Wada, K., Kitano, Y., Yuzaki, K., Toga, K., Mase, M., Kadota, K., Rushe, J., Corley Lavine, L., Emlen, D. J., Niimi, T. Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles. PLoSGenetics 14: e1007651.
O'Brien, D. M., Allen, C. E., Van Kleeck. M. J., Hone, D., Knell, R., Knapp, A., Christiansen S., Emlen, D. J. On the evolution of extreme structures: static scaling and the function of sexually selected signals. Animal Behaviour 144: 95-108.
McCullough, E. L., Emlen. The research bias is unfortunate but also unsurprising: a comment on Tinghitella et al. Behavioral Ecology 4: 798.
Zinna. R., Emlen, D., Lavine, L. C., Johns, A., Gotoh, H., Niimi, T., Dworkin, I. Sexual dimorphism and heightened conditional expression in a sexually selected weapon in the Asian rhinoceros beetle. Molecular Ecology 27: 5049-5072.
2017
O’Brien, D. M., Katsuki, M., Emlen D. J. Selection on an extreme weapon in the frog legged leaf beetle (Sagra femorata). Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13336.
Gotoh, H., Zinna, R. A., Ishikawa, Y., Miyakawa, H., Ishikawa, A., Sugime, Y., Emlen, D. J., Lavine, L. C., Miura, T. The function of appendage patterning genes in mandible development of the sexually dimorphic stag beetle. Developmental Biology 422: 24-32.
2016
McCullough, E., Miller, C. W., Emlen, D. J. Why sexually selected weapons are not ornaments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 742-751. (With Cover)
Cooley, N.L., Emlen, D. J., Woods, H. A. Self-heating by largfe insect larvae? Journal of Thermal Biology 62: 76-83.
Gotoh, H., Zinna, R., Warren, I., DeNieu, M., Niimi, T., Dworkin, I., Emlen, D.,Miura, T., Lavine, L. Identification and functional analyses of sex determination genes in the sexually dimorphic stag beetle Cyclommatus metallifer. BMC Genomics, 17: 250.
Zinna, R. S., H. Gotoh, C. S. Brent, A. Dolezal, A. L. Kraus, D. J. Emlen, L. S.Lavine. Endocrine control of exaggerated trait growth in rhinoceros beetles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56: E250.
Lin, X., Y. Yao, B. Wang, D. J. Emlen, L. S. Lavine. Ecological Trade-offs between Migration and Reproduction Are Mediated by the Nutrition-Sensitive Insulin-Signaling Pathway. International Journal of Biological Sciences 12: 607.
Smith, J. N., Emlen, D. J., Pearson, D. E. Linking native and invader traits explains native spider population responses to plant invasion. PloS One e0153661.
2015
Lavine, L., Gotoh, H., Brent, C. S., Dworkin, I. and Emlen, D. 2015. Exaggerated trait growth in insects. Annual Review of Entomology, 60: 453-72.doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-021045.
Gotoh, H., Hust, J. A., Miura, T., Niimi, T., Emlen, D. J., Lavine, L. C. The Fat/Hippo Signaling pathway links within-disc morphogen patterning to whole-animal signals during phenotypically plastic growth. Developmental Dynamics 244: 1039-1045.
McCullough, E., Ledger, K. J., O’Brien, D. M., Emlen, D. J. Variation in the allometry of exaggerated rhinoceros beetle horns. Animal Behavior 109: 133-144.
See full list at Google scholar