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Nathan Whelan, EEOB Associate Professor and Director of the Museum of Biological Diversity, received an award from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) that will support work on the…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Casey Pennock, secured an additional $230K under his 5-year cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation. His work will inform recovery efforts of threatened and…
From Andes to the dry diagonal: phylogenomics and trait evolution elucidate the radiation of cacti in South American drylands.
Monique Romeiro-Brito, Flávia M. Lanna, Milena C. Telhe, Bryan C…
Rapid and repeated evolution of increased competitive ability in a global invader
Dávid U. Nagy, Ragan M. Callaway, S. Luke Flory, Christopher D. Barratt, Walter Durka, Ylva Lekberg, Marilia S…
Ecological stability of zooplankton communities in changing arctic lakes over three decades
Casey A. Pennock, Gary P. Thiede, Phaedra Budy, Anne Giblin, Chris Luecke, George W. Kling. Ecology…
From Data to Discovery: Characterizing the Scope and Limitations of Seedling Trait Studies in the U.S. With the EPiC Database
Nia M Johnson, Leah J Lenzo, Amelia G Renner, Sofia M A Al‐Shayeb,…
A multi-model framework for evaluating and partitioning environmental change impacts on fish population dynamics: a case study with Lake Erie Yellow Perch
Luoliang Xu, George C Brooks, Rujia Bi,…
Two new species of the subgenus Aliolus Say of the genus Eubazus Nees (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Brachistinae) from the United States
Cheng-jin Yan, Zhenhua Zu, Cornelis van Achterberg, Sufeng…
EEOB Professor, Stu Ludsin, gave the first plenary address at the 2026 American Fisheries Society (AFS) meeting in Columbus. Watch the video on Vimeo website. His introduction and presentation…
From collection trays to AI-ready data: An operational framework for automated batch entomological specimen processing
East, Alyson & Rayeed, S M & Campolongo, Elizabeth & Cain, Nathan & Earl,…
The convergent evolution of the pelvic suction cup: A unique key innovation in spiny-finned fishes
Emily P. Mcfarland, Aline P. M. Medeiros, Carmen D. R. Pedraza-Marrón, Lily C. Hughes, Stacy…
Beyond phoresy: ecological patterns, effects of host attributes, and temporal variation in mites...
Maria Beatriz Nunes-Souza, Maria Eduarda Barbosa Almeida, Erika Luiza dos Santos Torres, Hans…
Jeanne Serb, Professor and Chair of EEOB was recently featured on the Voices of Excellence podcast. She discussed how eyes evolved independently across animals, and outlined her research…
Determining ecological niche overlap between reservoir Blue Catfish and other sport fishes using stable isotopes and stomach contents
Jacob L Bentley , Stephen M Tyszko , Joseph D Conroy , Stuart…
Guest-ant social parasites avoid conflict with social hosts using venom signaling
Matthew R. Boot ,Kyle S. Sozanski, Mazie Davis, Ian M. Hamilton, Rachelle M. M. Adams .2026. PLoS One 21(8):…
From Andes to the dry diagonal: phylogenomics and trait evolution elucidate the radiation of cacti in South American drylands
Monique Romeiro-Brito, Flávia M. Lanna, Milena C. Telhe, Bryan C…
Integration promotes morphological innovation in deep-sea anglerfishes (Eupercaria: Lophiiformes)
HoWan Chan , Elizabeth C Santos , Kory M Evans. Evolution, qpag139, DOI: 10.1093…
Functional traits explain responses of Appalachian birds to vertical and horizontal forest structure
Trevor Roberts, Marta A Jarzyna, Chenyang Wei, Colin P Sweeney, Hikaru Keebler, Daniel Fink,…
Mandy Slate and Steve Hovick were awarded a grant from the EPA for "Enhancing wetland mitigation outcomes through symbiotic soil interactions."
Congratulations, Mandy & Steve!
Jenn Hellmann was awarded an NSF grant for "Vertical transmission of horizontally-acquired social information: Implications for transgenerational plasticity.”
Congratulations, Jenn!
Tracing early life stress in human molar morphology: Associations between linear enamel hypoplasia and maxillary first molar form
Erin C. Blankenship-Sefczek, Alan H. Goodman, Mark Hubbe, John P…
Revisiting a random model of lateral gene transfer in phylogenetics
Laura Kubatko, Simone Linz, Kristina Wicke. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2607.14653
Processes such as incomplete lineage sorting …
Integrating Science and Management to Improve Seed-Based Restoration
Laura C. Shriver, Jared D. Huxley, Samuel E. Jordan, Amy J. Symstad, Lesley A. DeFalco, John B. Bradford, Todd C. Esque,…
High quality genome for the threatened Louisiana Pearlshell Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
Samantha A Donohoo, Nathan V Whelan. Journal of Molluscan Studies, Volume 92, Issue 3, September…
Comment on “Assessing the potential for Smallmouth Bass population establishment in Grand Canyon”
Charles B Yackulic, Drew E Eppehimer, Lindsey A Bruckerhoff, Anna Amidon, Kevin R Bestgen,…
Assessing the Evolutionary Potential of Endangered Populations Using Genomic Analyses of Selection in Ecologically Important Gene Regions
Peri E Bolton, Drew R Schield, Daphne Kaur, H Lisle Gibbs…
Recognition of unfamiliar predators in domestic horses through only visual predator cues
Hofacker, R., Sebunia, N., Pihlblad, J., & Benderlioglu, Z. 2026. PLOS ONE, 21(7), e0349298. DOI: 10.1371…
EEOB Senior Lecturer, Zeynep Benderlioglu, and a team of undergraduate researchers from the Undergraduate Research Lab™ had their PLOS One journal article, Recognition of unfamiliar…
Repeated evolutionary turnover of vertebrate skeletal muscle myosins
Christina M. Harvey, Eric R. Schuppe, Michael S. Brainard, Matthew J. Fuxjager, James B. Pease. Proc. R. Soc. B (2026) 293 …
EEOB Associate Professor, James Pease, and recent lab graduate, Christina Harvey, were featured in an Ohio State news article for their newest publication, Repeated evolutionary turnover of…
EEOB Professor, Stuart Ludsin, was featured in an Arts and Sciences Voices of Excellence podcast recently. He discussed his research and the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory - Ohio Division of…
Ohio State News highlighted a recent Ecological Indicators publication by EEOB Ph.D. student, Seth Drake, EEOB assistant professors, Casey Pennock and Lindsey Bruckerhoff, and EEOB…
We have specimens at home: efficacy comparison of methods for genomic DNA capture in fluid-preserved crayfish specimens
Jesse R. Wallace, Quinton M. Skelly, Bryan C. Carstens, Marymegan Daly…
Managing for resilience with ecological structure: Portfolio effects in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Kayla RS Hale, Timothy J Fernandes, Reilly F O'Connor, Charlotte A Ward, Kevin Cazelles, Joey R…
Who stays, who leaves? Recreational fishing responses to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie
Yining Wu, Brent L. Sohngen, Stuart A. Ludsin. Ecological Economics, Volume 249, 2026, 109123, ISSN 0921…
Neural dynamic N-mixture model: a deep learning framework to infer demographic rates from count data
François Leroy 1, Marta A. Jarzyna. 2026. DOI: 10.32942/X23979
AbstractChanges in…
Beyond Flat Labels: Level-Restricted Contrastive Learning for Hierarchical Fine-Grained Vision Classification
Zhiyuan Tao, Srikumar Sastry, Matthew J Thompson, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Net Zhang,…
Cross-Modal Corroboration for Annotation-Free Wildlife Monitoring
Bharath Pillai, Varun Viswapriyan, Christopher Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Jenna Kline.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.21613
Genomic and physiological changes in a sexually selected and frugivorous bird radiation
Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Yasuka Toda, Meng-Ching Ko, Morgan E. Wirthlin, Robert J. Driver, Peri E…
Water quality improvements correspond with increased human use and occurrence of fish, aquatic insects, and freshwater mussels
Seth A. Drake, Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff, Robert Miltner, Nathaniel F…
Corrected identity of the alien sea anemone Cereus pedunculatus (Pennant, 1777) (Actiniaria: Sagartiidae) in South Africa
Miranda N. Andersen, Marymegan Daly, Tamara B. Robinson. Zootaxa, 5821 (4)…
FAIR^2 Drones: An AI-Ready Standard for Cross-Domain Wildlife Drone Datasets
Jenna Kline, Kilian Meier, Vandita Shukla, Edouard G. A. Rolland, Elena Iannino, Lucie Laporte-Devylder, Constanza…
EEOB PhD candidate David Hibler's work was recently featured in the American Institute of Stress' Combat Stress magazine spring issue! David's work focuses on using beekeeping as a…
Widespread Variation in Retinochrome Spectral Absorbance Across Scallop Phylogeny
Kyle E. McElroy, Anna K. G. Ward, Jorge A. Audino, Jeanne M. Serb. 2026. Molecular Ecology 35, no. 11: e70390. DOI…
Fire-survival strategies of first-year acacia seedlings
Arjun B. Potter, Charles D. Luchagula, Shira Mitchell, Nicholas Kortessis, James Pease, T. Michael Anderson. 2026. Journal of Ecology, 114,…
A Model of Subordinate Helping Decisions Under Varying Levels of Uncertainty
R Layne Gaynor, Ian M Hamilton. 2026. Behavioral Ecology, arag057, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arag057.
AbstractIn many…
Environmental and demographic mechanisms underlying population dynamics provide relative stability in an island songbird
James C. Mouton, Mario Pesendorfer, Nathan J. Hostetter, Scott A. Morrison,…
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a stronger inhibitor of overwintering dormancy than urban warming in mosquitoes
Lydia R. Fyie, Megan E. Meuti, Frances Sivakoff, Maria A. Fiorta, Mary M…
Leveraging Latent Visual Reasoning in Silence
Dongyao Zhu, Zhen Wang, Xi Xiao, Han Jiang, Saeed Vahidian, Wei-Lun Chao, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su, Raju Vatsavai, Jianyang Gu. 2026. DOI: 10.48550…
Ocular and extraocular expression of opsins reveals evolutionary trends underlying visual and non-visual functions in bivalves (Pteriomorphia)
Jorge A. Audino, Kyle E. McElroy, Jeanne M. Serb,…
Bank-dwelling beavers contribute to the wood regime in a dryland river
Casey A. Pennock, William W. Macfarlane, Phaedra Budy, Julianne Scamardo, Daniel C. White. 2026. Ecology107(5): e70396. DOI:…
EEOB associate professor, Rachelle Adams' proposal on using ants as biosensors has been selected for funding by Women & Philanthropy. She and her team are researching how ants' ability to detect…
OSU News has featured EEOB associate professor, John Hunter's recent Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology article on tooth wear in juvenile and adult hadrosaurs and its…
Building Resilience in Dryland Ecosystems: A Climate Adaptation Strategy Menu for Pinyon–Juniper Woodlands
Jesse E. Gray, Mandy Slate, Alyson S. Ennis, Courtney L. Peterson, John B. Bradford, Adam…
The Effect of Heterospecific Song and Anthropogenic Sound on the Development of Life History Traits in a Field Cricket
Troy A. Bowers, Susan N. Gershman. 2026. Ethology1–11. DOI: 10.1111/eth.70077…
A new species of Salfacarus (Acari: Notostigmata) from South Africa with comparative notes on the genus
Ma. Magdalena Vázquez, Hans Klompen, Nancy E. Hernández-Magaña. Systematic and Applied…
An Ecological Dipole in North American Mast-Eating Small Mammal Dynamics
Jessica H. Barton, Ivy V. Widick, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Courtenay Strong, Marta A. Jarzyna, Jalene M. LaMontagne. 2026…
The Undergraduate Research Lab™ Spring 2026 Funding, Jobs, and Scholarships Newsletter for all OSU undergraduates is now available on the ArcGIS Story Maps site.
Centering Ecological Goals in Automated Identification of Individual Animals
Lukas Picek, Timm Haucke, Lukáš Adam, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Lasha Otarashvili, Kostas Papafitsoros, Tanya Berger-Wolf,…
Overlooked pathways into ecology and implications for representation, identity, and retention: A focus group analysis
Ariel Rawson, Becky Mansfield, Carmen R. Cid, Amy E. Kulesza, Maria N. Miriti…
EEOB graduate student, Devan Mathie, was named the 2026 Center for Life Sciences Education (CLSE) Outstanding Lab & Recitation Instructor. This honor celebrates his sustained excellence in…
Advantages of experiential legacies are determined by interaction of environment and life history: A matrix-model approach
L. Zoe Almeida, Elizabeth A. Marschall. Ecological Modelling, Volume 517,…
Seasonality of Functional Distinctiveness in Global Avifauna
Marta Jarzyna, Reymond Miyajima, André Bellvé, Trevor Fristoe, James Mouton. 2026. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9247363/v1
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Corallorhiza striata is the first example of a pseudocopulatory orchid in North America and an instance of “double deception” in fully mycoheterotrophic plants
John V. Freudenstein, Craig…
Madison VonDeylen, a PhD student in the Meuti lab, won the Graduate School's Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) for the second year in a row!
View the entire list of recipients on the…
Joey Jaros, an EEOB PhD student in the Hovick Lab, won the ASC Graduate Student Award for Mentoring! Joey's feedback stated "...you’re making a profound impact on the student experience. The…
EEOB's Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD) was recently featured in Axios Columbus. Nathan Whelan, the director of the museum, was quoted and also featured in the article. The…
John Hunter, Associate Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State Newark campus, discusses his research in the evolution, paleoecology, and…
Open letter: A call to integrate plant regeneration into sustainability science and policy
Fernando A. O. Silveira, Angelino Carta, Roberta L. C. Dayrell, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Magda…
Spatial Patterns of Intraspecific Genetic Diversity Follow no General Rule Across Climatic and Geographic Gradients
Matthew O Moreira, Maria J Paúl, André V Liz, Ana C Carnaval, Bryan C Carstens,…
Adaptive Capacity of Freshwater Organisms in North America: Current Understanding and Future Applications
H. S. Embke, K. M. Alofs, D. O. Bunnell, C. Caudill, C. Chu, C. Dunn, K. Fogelman, S…
EEOB professors, Tanya Berger-Wolf and Stu Ludsin, are among 4 Ohio State University scientists elected to 2025 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. The…
Ecology and Reproduction of Bunodeopsis in Tropical Northwestern Atlantic Seagrass Ecosystems
Isabel A. M. Pen, Luisa F. Dueñas, Juan Armando Sánchez, Diana Carolina Vergara-Flórez, Carlos E…
Feeding ecology of Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish in Ohio reservoirs
Jacob L Bentley , Stephen M Tyszko , Stuart A Ludsin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, vqag002, DOI: 10.1093…
Tooth wear in juvenile and adult hadrosaurs: implications for parental care in Maiasaura
John P. Hunter, Christine M. Janis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 690…
Tracking Phenological Status and Ecological Interactions in a Hawaiian Cloud Forest Understory using Low-Cost Camera Traps and Visual Foundation Models
Anirudh Potlapally, Luke Meyers, Yuyan Chen,…
The perceptual and spatial architecture of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius Butterflies
Christopher Lawrence, Michelle Ramirez, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Owen McMilan, Daniel Rubenstein. doi: 10.64898…
Surviving the Squeeze: Genomic Analysis of a Successful Invasion by European Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis) in North America (Ohio, USA)
Emily R Bode, Andrew J Mason, Peri E Bolton, Ken…
Spatiotemporal environmental gradients shape early life stage fish densities, assemblage structure, and growth in river-reservoir ecosystems
Justin Furby and Casey A. Pennock. Canadian Journal of…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Robin Bagley, has been selected to receive a 2025-2026 ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award! This award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas -…
EEOB graduate alumna, Naava Schottenstein, was recently awarded the 2026 Remarkable Woman of the Year-Central Ohio, sponsored by NBC4i. Naava earned a Ph.D. in 2020 from The Ohio State University,…
EEOB assistant professor, Mandy Slate, was recently quoted in an article by National Public Radio discussing a new effort that seeks to protect specific types of plants. "Creating this…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Jenn Hellmann, was recently awarded a Department of Defense grant for her work, Predicting paternal resilience: mitigating intergenerational consequences of paternal…
Fire history and frequency alter arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal traits, community dynamics, and symbioses
Jacob R. Hopkins, Kristian Harris, and Alison E. Bennett. 2026. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2026…
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
François Leroy, Marta A. Jarzyna, and Petr Keil. Science, 26 Feb 2026, Vol 391, Issue 6788, pp. 917-9
Chronic predation risk induces sex-specific effects in behavior but does not induce long-term oxidative damage
Michaela M. Rogers, Jennifer K. Hellmann. doi: 10.64898/2026.02.23.707534
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The latest paper from Marta Jarzyna, Francois Leroy, and collaborator Petr Keil, entitled Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Preservation biases in the fossil record distort species ecological niche and distribution models
André M. Bellvé, Val J. P. Syverson, Jessica L. Blois, Marta A. Jarzyna. Ecography, 2026: e08085…
Invasion potential of nonnative fishes through a large western dam into an iconic and vulnerable ecosystem
Barrett Friesen, Casey A. Pennock & Phaedra Budy. Hydrobiologia (2026). DOI: 10.1007…
Braden DeMattei, a doctoral student in EEOB was recently named the recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s 2026 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award. The…
Analysis of genomic data leads to an improved understanding of the phylogeny and biogeography of yellow bats
Sydney K Decker, Loren K Ammerman, Bryan C Carstens. 2026. Journal of Mammalogy,…
Putting the ‘Adaptive’ in Adaptive Monitoring: From Fast Data to Meaningful Ecological Change
Laura J Pollock, Pedro Henrique Pereira Braga, Christopher R. Florian, Katherine Hébert , Jenna Kline,…
Molecular data and museum collections reframe Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea) diversity and conservation priorities...
Nathan V. Whelan, Annika Baldwin, Jeffrey T. Garner, Paul D. Johnson…
Jim Hood and Stu Ludsin, EEOB faculty at in the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, were both recently awarded Ohio Department of Higher Education Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative (ODHE HABRI)…
Dr. Chenyang Wei earned first place in the postdoctoral competition of the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) for his talk, Space Birding: AI Meets Community Science. The 3MT was…
The Museum of Biological Diversity is excited to announce the Open House is back! The 2026 Open House will take place at the museum on March 28 from 10 am to 3 pm. This event is free and open to…
Megalomyrmex milenae Transcriptome Reveals a Complex Venom Cocktail
Kyle S Sozanski 1,†, Guilherme R Coelho 1,2,†, Marcela Akemi Ishihara 3, Alonso Delgado 1,4, Rachelle M M Adams. Toxins…
Updated chronologies for North American small mammal fossil localities in the Neotoma Paleoecology Database
Val J. P. Syverson, Simon J. Goring, Nicola Cullen, Marta A. Jarzyna, André M. Bellvé,…
John Hunter, an associate professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State Newark, has published an invited commentary in Proceedings of…
Agus Muñoz-Garcia, associate professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State Mansfield, joined Spanish-language science podcast Cumbre Kids to talk…
Sensitive Environmental DNA Methods for Low-Risk Surveillance of At-Risk Bumble Bees
Rodney T. Richardson, Grace Avalos, Cameron J. Garland, Regina Trott, Olivia Hager, Mark J. Hepner, Clayton…
A new approach to an old problem: homology of postcanine teeth in therian mammals Open Access
John P. Hunter. Proc Biol Sci (2026) 293 (2063): 20252852. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.2852
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An evolving view of species tree inference
Laura Kubatko. 2026. Systematic Biology, syag002, DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syag002
AbstractNearly all modern studies that address evolutionary…
A continental-scale dataset of ground beetles with high-resolution images and validated morphological trait measurements
S M Rayeed, Mridul Khurana, Alyson East, Isadora E. Fluck, Elizabeth G…
DynaSTy: A Framework for SpatioTemporal Node Attribute Prediction in Dynamic Graphs
Namrata Banerji, Tanya Berger-Wolf. 2026. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.05391
AbstractAccurate multistep…
James Dowling, PhD Student with Casey Pennock, was recently featured alongside several of our Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Wildlife collaborators in a video documenting…
Molecular mechanisms underlying early functional divergence in snake venom inferred from the genomes of two pitviper lineages
Andrew J. Mason, Pedro G. Nachtigall, Darin R. Rokyta, Christopher L…
Unique Genetic Diversity Patterns and Extreme Endemism in Temperate Springs: Evidence From Narrow-Range Endemic Snails
Samantha A. Donohoo, Paul D. Johnson, Nathan V. Whelan. DOI: 10.1111/fwb…
The golden lancehead genome reveals distinct selective processes acting on venom genes of an island endemic snake
Pedro G Nachtigall , Andrew J Mason , Darin R Rokyta , H Lisle Gibbs , Felipe G…
Nitrogen deposition reveals global patterns in plant and animal stoichiometry
Angélica L. González, Julian Merder, Karl Andraczek, Ulrich Brose, Michał Filipiak, W. Stanley Harpole, Helmut…
The Aquatic Ecology Laboratory hosted the annual Lake Erie & Inland Waters Research Review meeting at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center December 11 and 12. The meeting is the annual…
Revisiting Anthopleura cascaia (nomen nudum): Description of Anthopleura correae sp. nov. and the taxonomic challenges of a variable lineage...
Jeferson A. Durán-Fuentes, Ricardo González-Muñoz,…
Evaluating the effects of three Alabama River dams on movements and population connectivity of Freshwater Drum and White Crappie...
Christopher L Rotar , Dennis R DeVries , Russell A Wright ,…
Tanya Berger-Wolf was elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the premier international AI organization. She is recognized for significant…
Evaluating the impacts of a total solar eclipse on Midwest prairie soundscape
Madison F. Von Deylen, Sabeel Haddad & Susan N. Gershman. 2025. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1080/03949370…
INQUIRE-Search: A Framework for Interactive Discovery in Large-Scale Biodiversity Databases
Edward Vendrow, Julia Chae, Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan, Isaac Eckert, Jazlynn Hall, Marta Jarzyna, Reymond…
Towards Open-Ended Visual Scientific Discovery with Sparse Autoencoders
Samuel Stevens, Jacob Beattie, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su. 2025. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2511.17735
AbstractScientific…
EEOB graduate students, Charlotte Benedict and Aryel Camero Goes, were both awarded the 2025-2026 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the…
Collaborating With Early Career Researchers to Enhance the Future of Scholarly Publication: A Guide for Publishers
Friederike E. Kohrs, Vartan Kazezian, Robin K. Bagley, Matthieu P. Boisgontier,…
In vitro culture media type impacts gene expression in the freshwater mussel Lampsilis siliquoidea (Bivalvia: Unionidae)
Kaitlin E. Ulin, Alexandra R. Phelps, Chase J. Ellis, Marymegan Daly & Ieva…
Evenness at the Edges: Transition Zones as Hotspots of Sea Anemone Diversity
Charlotte Benedict, Maanas Nukala, Mike Broe and Marymegan Daly. Diversity 2025, 17(11), 761; DOI: 10.3390/d17110761
Ohio State News recently featured Liz Santos, EEOB Assistant Professor, and her work illustrating the effects of different deep sea environments on the evolution of fish body shape. The study was…
Extreme rainfall shifts the drivers of Zea mays yield across a tillage-intensity gradient
Jacob R. Hopkins and Alison E. Bennett. Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 216, December 2025, 106566. DOI: 10…
A multifaceted approach to identify disease response genes in the endangered massasauga rattlesnake
Peri E Bolton, Samarth Mathur, H Lisle Gibbs. 2025. Journal of Heredity, esaf088, DOI: 10.1093…
OBCP was founded at the university in 2010 and Lisle Gibbs has been the director since its inception. The partnership is a collaboration between Ohio State’s Department of Evolution, Ecology, and…
Geologic History Explains Freshwater Fish Species Richness Across the Conterminous USA
Brian K. Gallagher, Elizabeth C. Santos, Michael Dumelle, Philip R. Kaufmann, Joseph L. Ebersole. 2025…
Vegetation biomass and landscape context influence web-building spider dietary breadth in urban vacant lots
Ellen Danford, Yvan A. Delgado de la flor, Nicole Hoekstra, Rodney Richardson, Frances…
Distinct evolutionary signatures underlie body shape diversity across deep sea habitats Open Access
Elizabeth Christina Santos, Sarah T Friedman, Christopher M Martinez. 2025. Evolution,…
Nuclear Phylogenomic Insights into Relationships, Support, and Conflict Among the Early Diverging Lineages of the Megadiverse Epidendroid Orchids
Craig F Barrett, John V Freudenstein, Samuel V…
Bacterial communities of fungus-growing ant queens are species-specific and suggest vertical transmission
Victoria A. Sadowski ,Panagiotis Sapountzis,Pepijn W. Kooij,Jacobus J. Boomsma,Rachelle M…
Gardening strategies of termite farmers
Termites use microbe-infused soil to protect a fungal symbiont
Aryel C. Goes and Rachelle M. M. Adams. Science, 25 Sep 2025, Vol 389, Issue 6767, pp…
Cranial modularity drives phenotypic diversification and adaptive radiation of Antarctic icefishes
Mayara P. Neves, HoWan Chan, Elizabeth C. M. Santos, and Kory M. Evans. 2025. Proc. Natl. Acad…
Exploring Bacterial Interactions Under the Stress Gradient Hypothesis in Response to Selenium Stress
Kristian J. Harris, Alison E. Bennett. Environmental Microbiology Reports. September 202517(5)…
Differential gene reactions reveal drought response strategies in African acacias
Ellen I. Weinheimer, Scott T. Cory, Nicholas Kortessis, T. Michael Anderson, James B. Pease. 2025. DOI: 10.1111…
Thermally resistant coral Stylophora pistillata survives but does not thrive under chronic elevated baseline temperature
Ann Marie Hulver, Éric Béraud, Shannon Dixon, Aurélie Moya, Rachel…
Notes on the reproductive biology of Edwardsiella (Cnidaria, Actiniaria): new insights into Edwardsiella loveni
Barbara M.T. Chagas, Marymegan Daly, Rhian Waller & Sérgio N. Stampar. 2025. DOI: 10…
Mesozooplankton grazing patterns and preferences during a cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (cHAB) in a large eutrophic lake
Daniel I. Peters, Lyndsie M. Collis, Morgan D. Shaw, Zak J. Slagle,…
Resolving Acuticulata (Metridioidea: Enthemonae: Actiniaria), a clade containing many invasive species of sea anemones
Isabel A. M. Pen, Charlotte Benedict, Michael B. Broe, Alonso Delgado,…
Conflict and cooperation in male-male partnerships alters paternal care behavior in the ocellated wrasse
Jennifer K Hellmann, Kelly A Stiver, Susan Marsh-Rollo, Suzanne H Alonzo. Behavioral…
Temperature and nitrogen availability interact to shape N‐acquisition pathways and metabolism in stream biofilms
Lyndsie M. Collis, Jonathan P. Benstead, Wyatt F. Cross, Alexander D. Huryn, Jill R…
Africoseiulella Kreiter (Acari, Mesostigmata): description of a new species...
Shahrooz Kazemi, Hans Klompen, Farid Faraji. 2025. Systematic and Applied Acarology 30(8):1474-1496
DOI:10.11158…
A new study from the Gibbs Lab suggests the established conservation practice of relocating animals from large, genetically diverse populations to small communities of inbred endangered species…
Shrinking channels, growing threats: Habitat degradation from channel narrowing and invasive vegetation in three dryland rivers
Benjamin J. Miller, Mark C. McKinstry, Peter R. Wilcock, William W…
The effects of urbanization on species interactions
Pablo Moreno-García, Amy Savage, Ana L. Salgado, Elena S. Tartaglia, Jennifer M. Cocciardi, Myla F. J. Aronson, Marta A. Jarzyna, Marina Alberti…
Sex and mating success impact resource allocation and life history traits in Gryllus vocalis field crickets
Madison F Von Deylen, Susan N Gershman, Agustí Muñoz-Garcia. J Exp Biol. 2025 Jul 11:jeb…
Stable isotope composition of feathers and foraging behavior parallel bill shape divergence of Island Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma insularis) in...
Brooke Yeatts, Rebecca G. Cheek, James C…
Whole genome data demonstrate that episodic population expansion and secondary contact shaped population genetic structure in the North American water vole (Microtus richardsoni)
Bryan C…
Meg Daly, EEOB professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, was recently elected President of the Society of Systematic Biologists. The Society, founded in 1947 as the Society of…
Many EEOB personnel contributed to the 2025 Data Science Summer Camp at OSU from July 7 - 11. The camp, for students in grades 7-9, is directed by Amber Pasternak and Dr. Asuman Turkmen and is…
Estimating drivers and identifying uncertainties in smallmouth bass population dynamics in an invaded river network
Lindsey Bruckerhoff, Charles B. Yackulic, Drew E. Eppehimer, Kevin R Bestgen, M…
The Undergraduate Research Lab- UResearch is pleased to announce its extension of the Behavior, Ecology, and Environment (BEE) research program in summer 2025 with our latest newsletter…
Integrating the disconnected: enhancing wetland restoration by uniting invasive species management and native revegetation
Carrie Reinhardt Adams, Stephen M. Hovick, Karin M. Kettenring. DOI: 10…
Ecology of Lake Erie: Causes, consequences and management of eutrophication
Mohiuddin Munawar, Stuart A. Ludsin. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 28(1):1-4 (2025). DOI: 10.14321/aehm.028.01…
Harmful algal bloom impacts on foodweb structure in western Lake Erie
Stuart A Ludsin, Paris D Collingsworth, Warren J.S Currie, Joel C Hoffman, Mohiuddin Munawar, Kristina Fite, Kaitlyn Abbuhl,…
Stable isotopes reveal an imprint of harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie
K.C Benesh, A Banerji, S.A Ludsin, T Jicha, P.D Collingsworth, A. Opseth Fosso, W.J.S Currie, J.M Hood, M Manubolu, L.G…
Recruitment of Channel Catfish stocked as fingerlings and yearlings in Ohio reservoirs
Stephen M Tyszko , Jeremy J Pritt , Jay E Kelly , Michael A Figueroa , Richard D Zweifel , Stuart A Ludsin ,…
Between the Poles: Rethinking Global Patterns in Sea Anemone Biodiversity
Charlotte Benedict, Michael Broe, Marymegan Daly, Maanas Nukala. 2025. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.15167
Abstract AimTo assess…
South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change
Joy McCorriston ,Lawrence Ball,Michael J. Harrower,Ian M. Hamilton,Sarah J. Ivory,Matthew J. Senn,Tara…
BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
Jianyang Gu, Samuel Stevens, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Matthew J Thompson, Net Zhang, Jiaman Wu, Andrei Kopanev, Zheda…
Prompt-CAM: Making Vision Transformers Interpretable for Fine-Grained Analysis
Arpita Chowdhury, Dipanjyoti Paul, Zheda Mai, Jianyang Gu, Ziheng Zhang, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Elizabeth G. Campolongo,…
Rapid recovery of an arctic lake ecosystem from a pulse disturbance caused by thermokarst failure
Phaedra Budy, Casey. A. Pennock, Sarah Messenger, Hunter Pehrson, Emily Adler, Gary P. Thiede,…
Repeatome diversity in sea anemone genomics (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) based on the Actiniaria-REPlib library.
Jeferson A. Durán-Fuentes, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Octavio M. Palacios-Gimenez, Elio R…
EEOB Professor, Karen Goodell, was awarded the OSU Newark Faculty Service Award for her exceptional dedication to service at every level of the university, within her profession, and across the…
The promise of composite likelihood for species-level phylogenomic inference
Laura S. Kubatko, Sungsik Kong, Emerson Webb, Zixuan Chen. 2025. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, kzaf008,…
Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools
Marta A. Jarzyna, Leo Ohyama, Evan P. Economo, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Rilquer Mascarenhas, Jordan G. Okie, Clara Qin, Daniel L. Rabosky, Phillip P. A…
Life history and chromosome organization determine chemoreceptor gene expression in rattlesnakes
Michael P Hogan, Matthew L Holding, Gunnar S Nystrom, Kylie C Lawrence, Emilie M Broussard, Schyler…
Three-Dimensional Habitat Structure Drives Avian Functional and Trait Diversity Across North America
Colin P Sweeney, William Peterman, Kaiguang Zhao, Karen Goodell, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Marta A…
Genomic evaluation of assisted gene flow options in an endangered rattlesnake
Mathur, Samarth & Gibbs, H. 2025. DOI: 10.22541/au.174160442.25339601/v1
Abstract Assisted gene flow is used to…
Madison Von Deylen has been named a 2025 recipient of the Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes outstanding teaching by a graduate student within…
Fungicide consumption exacerbates the negative effects of a common gut parasite in bumble
bee microcolonies
Emily Runnion, Ellen Klinger, James Strange and Frances Sivakoff. R. Soc. Open
Sci…
Spatial and seasonal variation in avian dietary strategies
André M. Bellvé, Reymond J. Miyajima, and Marta A. Jarzyna. 2025. DOI: 10.32942/X2362C
AbstractDiet is a fundamental aspect of…
StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content
Angélica L. González, Julian Merder, Karl Andraczek, Ulrich Brose, Michał Filipiak, W. Stanley Harpole, Helmut Hillebrand,…
Fire Frequency Driven Increases in Burn Heterogeneity Promote Microbial Beta Diversity: A Test of the Pyrodiversity-Biodiversity Hypothesis
Jacob R Hopkins, Alison E Bennett, Thomas P McKenna. Mol…
A remarkable new species of Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), parasitoid of eggs of Phloea subquadrata (Hemiptera, Phloeidae) in Brazil
Valmir A. Costa, Norman Johnson, Adriana…
David Hibler, a PhD student in the Hamilton Lab and former combat medic, is a 2025 recipient of a Graduate Associate Leadership Award (GALA). The GALA is Ohio State's recognition of the…
The effect of turbidity on foraging by prerostrum juvenile Paddlefish
Ethan Hood, James M Long, Daniel E Shoup, Casey A Pennock, Andrew R Dzialowski, Jason D Schooley. 2025. Transactions of the…
Ian Hamilton, professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology and mathematics was selected as a 2024 AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to the fields of behavioral ecology and…
Structure and variability in the female genital atrium of Uropodina (Acari: Parasitiformes)
Jeremy Naredo, J. Orlando Combita-Heredia, Thomas van de Kamp, Marcus Zuber, Elias Hamann, Ma. Magdalena…
A special issue of the UResearch Newsletter is now available! The UResearch Lab is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research experiences in natural and behavioral sciences in the Department of…
Environmental and demographic mechanisms provide relative stability for a vulnerable island songbird in novel conditions
James C. Mouton, Mario Pesendorfer, T. Scott Sillett. 2025. doi: 10.1101…
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator
James C Mouton, Peter Larramendy, Scott A Morrison, Cameron K Ghalambor, T Scott Sillett. Behavioral…
EEOB Professor, Bryan Carstens, is a recipient of this year’s Distinguished Scholar Award. The Distinguished Scholar Awards are among the highest annual honors Ohio State bestows on a faculty…
EEOB Clinical Assistant Professor, Kellen Calinger-Yoak, received the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer. All lecturers, senior lecturers and other associated faculty who…
WildWing: An open-source, autonomous and affordable UAS for animal behaviour video monitoring
Jenna Kline, Alison Zhong, Kevyn Irizarry, Charles V. Stewart, Christopher Stewart, Daniel I…
Jenny Pfaff, Aquatic Ecology Laboratory Research Operations Analyst, and Tamaki Yuri, Museum of Biological Diversity Curator of the Tetrapod Collection, have been awarded 2024-2025 ASC Outstanding…
Building Machine Learning Challenges for Anomaly Detection in Science
Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Yuan-Tang Chou, Ekaterina Govorkova, Wahid Bhimji, Wei-Lun Chao, Chris Harris, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Hilmar…
Compounding negative effects of leaf litter absence and below ground competition from an invasive spring ephemeral...
Grace Gutierrez and Stephen Hovick. DOI:10.22541/au.173711012.24594636/v1
EEOB Associate Professor, Agus Muñoz-Garcia, was recently featured in On Campus and OSU Mansfield's webpage. His lab's work with cockroaches provides insight into how organisms allocate resources…
Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in biodiversity knowledge
Laura J. Pollock, Justin Kitzes, Sara Beery, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Marta A. Jarzyna, Oisin Mac Aodha, Bernd…
In a remote Norwegian field station, Erin Murray spent a month with a research team studying the impacts of noise from a nearby offshore windfarm upon key species of the local…
New Distributional Record of the Federally Threatened Rabbitsfoot (Theliderma Cylindrica) Mussel in Oklahoma
Hunter M. Torolski, James M. Long, Robert C. Lonsinger, Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff…
Lake Powell Fish Sampling: Glen Canyon Dam Forebay Area, 2022 and 2023
Phaedra Budy and Casey Pennock. 2025. Browse all Datasets. Paper 240. DOI: 10.26078/mwwq-c034
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Microbiome metabolic capacity is buffered against phylotype losses by functional redundancy
Kayla Cross, Noelle Beckman, Benjamin Jahnes, Zakee L. Sabree. 2025. DOI: 10.1128/aem.02368-24.
Sparse Autoencoders for Scientifically Rigorous Interpretation of Vision Models
Samuel Stevens, Wei-Lun Chao, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su. 2025. arXiv:2502.06755 [cs.CV]
To truly understand…
EEOB Associate Professor, Zakee Sabree, was interviewed in Science Magazine about the postdoctoral relocation support program he implemented during his tenure as faculty…
Finer-CAM: Spotting the Difference Reveals Finer Details for Visual Explanation
Ziheng Zhang, Jianyang Gu, Arpita Chowdhury, Zheda Mai, David Carlyn, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su, Wei-Lun Chao. 2025…
PROMPT-CAM: A Simpler Interpretable Transformer for Fine-Grained Analysis
Arpita Chowdhury, Dipanjyoti Paul, Zheda Mai, Jianyang Gu, Ziheng Zhang, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Elizabeth G. Campolongo,…
Phylogenomics and intergenomic conflict in a challenging orchid clade (Calypsoinae): monophyly of Corallorhiza, paraphyly of Oreorchis, and resurrection of Kitigorchis
Craig F Barrett, John V…
Paternal response to novel predator exposure correlates with transgenerational response in offspring of threespined stickleback
Michaela M. Rogers and Jennifer K. Hellmann. R. Soc. Open Sci. 12:…
Two recent graduates from the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology were selected for the 45th class of the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship and will spend a year in Washington, D…
Integrating social learning, social networks, and non-parental transgenerational plasticity
Jennifer K. Hellmann, Andrew Sih. 2025. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, ISSN 0169-5347, doi.org/10.1016/j…
Behavioural co-option of plant secondary compounds by a cavity-nesting bird is an adaptation against competition and predation
James C. Mouton, Riccardo Ton, T. Scott Sillett, Thomas E. Martin,…
Deep dive into KABR: a dataset for understanding ungulate behavior from in-situ drone video
Maksim Kholiavchenko, Jenna Kline, Maksim Kukushkin, Otto Brookes, Sam Stevens, Isla Duporge, Alec…
Insights from the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) genome for MHC gene architecture and evolution in threatened rattlesnakes
Marissa A Roseman, Andrew J Mason, Emily R Bode, Peri E Bolton,…
Ohio State News recently featured research conducted by Stuart Ludsin, EEOB professor and Co-Director of the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, along with collaborator, Don Scavia, professor emeritus at…
Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution
Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, M. Maruf, Josef C. Uyeda, Wasila Dahdul, Caleb Charpentier, Yasin Bakı,…
Telenomus dendrolimi (Matsumura) (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) reared from the eggs of Dendrolimus houi (Lajonquiere) (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae) from China
Hua-Yan Chen, Elijah Talamas, Zachary…
Telenomus dendrolimi (Matsumura) (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) reared from the eggs of Dendrolimus houi (Lajonquiere) (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae) from China
Hua-Yan Chen, Elijah…
Characterizing and Modeling AI-Driven Animal Ecology Studies at the Edge
Jenna Kline, Austin O’Quinn, Christopher Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf. arXiv:2412.01000v1 [eess.SY] 1 Dec 2024
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Leveraging traits for insight into the fungal ecology of burned ecosystems
Jacob R. Hopkins, Alison E. Bennett. Ecosphere. 2024;15:e70008.
AbstractFungi play key roles in the fire-fuel…
Postdocs should receive relocation benefits from the universities that hire them
Zakee L. Sabree, Kayla Cross, James Gentry, Katie McAfee. 2024. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Abstract…
Selenium alters the gene content but not the taxonomic composition of the soil microbiome
Alison E. Bennett, Scott Kelsey, Casey Saup, Mike Wilkins & Antonino Malacrinò. Environmental Microbiome…
Are talonids more evolvable than trigonids? Evidence from North American Paleogene primates
John P. Hunter, Naava Schottenstein, & Jukka Jernvall. Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 539–552.
Upper molar…
Are talonids more evolvable than trigonids? Evidence from North American Paleogene primates
John P. Hunter, Naava Schottenstein, & Jukka Jernvall. Ann. Zool. Fennici 61: 539–552.
Upper molar…
Orchid phylogenetics and evolution: history, current status and prospects
John V Freudenstein. 2024. Annals of Botany, mcae202.
Abstract BackgroundOrchidaceae are one of the two largest…
Best practices for the naming of species
Luis A Ruedas, Ryan W Norris, Robert M Timm. 2024. Journal of Mammalogy, gyae113.
AbstractThe process of describing a species has evolved…
The Ecosystem Approach in the 21st Century: Guiding Science and Management – A Synthesis
Ludsin S.A., Carlson A.K., Duncan A.T., Febria C.M., Hartig J.H., Kellogg W.A., Minns C.K., Munawar M.,…
A perspective on successful implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to management and conservation in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Stuart A. Ludsin, Charles K. Minns, Mohiuddin Munawar, Peter J…
Research from EEOB associate professor, Jim Hood, and his lab was recently featured in the Ohio Sea Grant news. Hood’s team worked to develop a new modeling approach to characterize how phosphorus…
Undergraduate Research Lab in EEOB has partnered with the SAS Institute , a global software and AI company to award an academic specialization certificate in applied data analysis to…
The UResearch Lab has announced the release of the Fall 2024 Newsletter. The newsletter highlights research support for undergraduates, the new ASC honors program, and the new certificate…
Stu Ludsin, EEOB Professor and Director of Fish Management in Ohio Partnership with ODNR, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You can read more about the…
Water quality–fisheries tradeoffs in a changing climate underscore the need for adaptive ecosystem–based management
Donald Scavia, Stuart A. Ludsin, Anna M. Michalak, Daniel R. Obenour, Mingyu Han…
Paleobiogeographic insights gained from ecological niche models: progress and continued challenges
Blois, JL, AM Bellvé, MA Jarzyna, EE Saupe, and VJP Syverson. 2024. Paleobiology.
Abstract
Myrmozercon mites are highly host specific: two new species of Myrmozercon Berlese associated with sympatric Camponotus ants in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico
Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud, Hans Klompen,…
Evaluation of post-stocking re-encounters of an endangered fish using a large, multi-agency database to inform recovery
Casey A. Pennock, Dave W. Speas, Gary P. Thiede, Christopher Michaud. ESR 55…
The Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) at The Ohio State University invites applications and nominations of individuals for the position of Professor/Associate…
Myrmecophily among mesostigmatid mites
Klompen, H., Campbell, K.U. Insect. Soc. (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s00040-024-01003-z
AbstractAnt nests are biodiversity hot spots, concentrating…
A global test of hybrid ancestry from genome-scale data
Haque, Md Rejuan, Kubatko, Laura. Publication: Berlin Boston, Mass. De Gruyter, 2024
AbstractMethods based on the multi-species…
Differentially expressed microRNAs in brains of adult females may regulate the maternal block of diapause in Sarcophaga bullata Julie A. Reynolds, Emma M. Waight. Current Research in Insect…
Fine-Tuning is Fine, if Calibrated
Zheda Mai ,Arpita Chowdhury,Ping Zhang, Cheng-Hao Tu, Hong-You Chen, Vardaan Pahuja, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Song Gao, Charles Stewart, Yu Su, Wei-Lun Chao. arXiv…
Plant versus pollinator protection: balancing pest management against floral contamination for insecticide use in Midwestern US cucurbits Keng…
Nate Shoobs, Curator of Mollusks, Crustaceans, and general invertebrates at the Museum of Biological Diversity, was interviewed for a story on Big Darby Creek and its mussel fauna in this month's…
Plant versus pollinator protection: balancing pest management against floral contamination for insecticide use in Midwestern US cucurbits Keng…
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development Julie A Reynolds. Current Opinion in Insect Science, Volume 66, 2024,…
Introducing a unique animal ID and digital life history museum for wildlife metadata
Martin Wikelski, Michael Quetting, John Bates, Tanya Berger- Wolf, Gil Bohrer, Luca Börger, Taylor Chapple,…
Updated Distribution for Two Freshwater Mussel Species of Conservation Concern in Oklahoma Hunter M. Torolski, James M. Long, Robert C. Lonsinger, Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff…
VLM4Bio: ABenchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images
M. Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Harish Babu Manogaran, Abhilash Neog,…
AI for Nature: From Science to Impact Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf. KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3672192 Abstract…
The research of EEOB graduate student, Zoe Almeida, was featured in Ohio State News. She found that parent size and the conditions in which actively spawning adults lived are the most influential…
Ecology of Lake Erie - Nutrients, microbes, algae, and dreissenid mussels: A synthesis
S.A., Ludsin, M., Munawar, S.A., Bocaniov, L.T., Johnson, D.D., Kane, et al. Aquatic Ecosystem Health &…
Lingering legacies: Past growth and parental experience influence somatic growth in a fish population
L. Zoe Almeida, Stuart A. Ludsin, Matthew D. Faust, Elizabeth A. Marschall. 2024. doi.org/10…
Acceleration and demographic rates behind bird decline in North America
François Leroy, Marta A. Jarzyna, Petr Keil. 2024. EcoEvoRxiv
AbstractAcceleration of human activities over the past…
Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution
Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, Caleb Charpentier, M. Maruf, Josef C. Uyeda, Yasin Bakış, Wasila Dahdul,…
Movement patterns of a small-bodied minnow suggest nomadism in a fragmented, desert river
Martinique J. Chavez, Phaedra Budy, Casey A. Pennock, Thomas P. Archdeacon & Peter D. MacKinnon. Mov…
Bryan Carstens' study, recently published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, suggests that the genetic variation of two species, the Brazilian sibilator frog…
CLOCI: unveiling cryptic fungal gene clusters with generalized detection
Zachary Konkel, Laura Kubatko, Jason C Slot
Nucleic Acids Research, gkae625, doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae625
Capture–translocation restores spawning migration connectivity of Razorback Suckers in the fragmented San Juan River
Matthew R. Bogaard, Keith B. Gido, Mark C. McKinstry, Casey A. Pennock, Adam…
Wood you believe it? Experimental addition of nonnative wood enhances instream habitat for native dryland fishes
BJ Miller, MC McKinstry, P Budy, CA Pennock. River Research and Applications, 2024…
1100. Corallorhiza trifida Châtel.: Orchidaceae
Michael F. Fay, Reinhild Raistrick, John V. Freudenstein. 2024. Curtis's Botanical Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12558
Summary
Phylogenetic Relationships within Monotropoideae (Ericaceae): Implications for Taxonomy and Character Evolution
John V. Freudenstein; Michael B. Broe. 2024. Systematic Botany.
Abstract
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently hosted a distinguished lecture by EEOB professor and pioneering figure in the emerging field of Imageomics, Tanya Berger-Wolf.
The event, part…
Population life-history differences and their correlates across a regional spatial scale in largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans)
Rachael E. Finigan, Elizabeth A. Marschall. Ecol Freshw Fish…
Nate Shoobs, curator of mollusks and crustaceans at The Ohio State University’s Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD), uses the Heliscan to perform micro computed-tomography (microCT) to see inside…
Novel Rickettsia and host records for argasid ticks, including Alveonasus cooleyi, on wild mammals in Baja California, Mexico.
Andrés M. López-Pérez, Laura Backus, Lorenza Beati, Hans Klompen,…
Suppression of reed canarygrass by assisted succession: A sixteen-year restoration experiment
Kattia Palacio-Lopez, Stephen M. Hovick, Kali Z. Mattingly, Leah M. Weston, Nathaniel P. Hofford,…
Artificial intelligence enables unified analysis of historical and landscape influences on genetic diversity
Emanuel M. Fonseca, Bryan C. Carstens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Volume…
Nutritional supplementation, tooth crown size, and trait expression in individuals from Tezonteopan, Mexico
Erin C. Blankenship-Sefczek, Alan H. Goodman, Mark Hubbe, John P. Hunter, Debbie…
BaboonLand Dataset: Tracking Primates in the Wild and Automating Behaviour Recognition from Drone Videos
Isla Duporge, Dan Rubenstein, Julie Barreau, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Meg Crofoot, Roi Harel,…
Organellar phylogenomics at the epidendroid orchid base, with a focus on the mycoheterotrophic Wullschlaegelia
Craig F Barrett, Matthew C Pace, Cameron W Corbett, Aaron H Kennedy, Hana L Thixton…
Consumption of pollen contaminated with field-realistic concentrations of fungicide causes sublethal effects in Bombus impatiens...
Emily N Runnion, James P Strange, Frances S Sivakoff…
3D habitat structure drives avian functional and trait diversity across North America
Colin Sweeney, William Peterman, Kaiguang Zhao, Karen Goodell, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Marta Jarzyna. ESS Open…
Calling to the collective: contact calling rates within groups of disc-winged bats do not vary by kinship or association
Gloriana Chaverri, Maria Sagot, Jennifer L. Stynoski, Marcelo Araya-Salas,…
Translocation in a fragmented river provides demographic benefits for imperiled fishes
Casey A. Pennock, Brian D. Healy, Matthew R. Bogaard, Mark C. McKinstry, Keith B. Gido, C. Nathan Cathcart,…
Soil microbiota and herbivory drive the assembly of tomato plant-associated microbial communities through different mechanisms
Antonino Malacrinò & Alison E. Bennett. Communications Biology volume…
Environmental warming increases the importance of high-turnover energy channels in stream food webs
James R Junker, Wyatt F Cross, James M Hood, Jonathan P Benstead, Alexander D Huryn, Daniel…
Trade-offs between Winter Survival and Reproduction in Female Insects
Megan E Meuti, Lydia R Fyie, Maria Fiorta, David L Denlinger. 2024. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icae027, https://doi…
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats
C. Raven A. Hartman, Gerald S. Wilkinson, Imran Razik, Ian M. Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Hobson and Gerald G…
Alissa Geisse, EEOB graduate student in the Adams Megalomyrmex lab received the 2023-2024 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Mentoring Excellence. This award honors a student…
Meg Daly, professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and associate dean of undergraduate education was elected to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science…
EEOB Professor and Chair Bryan Carstens and collection curator Tamaki Yuri have received an NSF Collections Improvement Award for $474,462. This project will…
EEOB Associate Professor Zakee Sabree, in collaboration with TDAI Director and Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf and Statistics Professor Asuman Turkmen
EEOB Emeritus Professor Tod Stuessy has published a book describing his many field trips to the isolated Robinson Crusoe Islands 400 miles off the coast of Chile over 40 years of field work…
Influence of the management of rice crops and wild vegetation on the diversity of Scelionidae egg parasitoids of Pentatomidae
Jahnke, S.M., da Silva, G.d.S. & Johnson, N.F. BioControl (2024). doi…
Antholoba fabiani sp. nov. (Actiniaria, Metridioidea, Antholobidae fam. nov.), a new species and family of sea anemone of the southwestern Atlantic, Brazil
Durán-Fuentes, J.A., González-Muñoz, R.,…
Taxonomy and nomenclature in the widespread and well-known sea anemone Metridium de Blainville, 1824
Daly, M., Glon, H. & Li, Y. Mar. Biodivers. 54, 33 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01425-9…
Dr. Frances Sivakoff just received a 2024 OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. This is one of OSU's top awards for teaching and is given annually to up to 10 faculty members across all…
Dry, drier, driest: Differentiating flow patterns across a gradient of intermittency
Benjamin T. Kelly and Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff. 2024. Rive Research and Applications. doi.org/10.1002/rra.4289
First record of Telenomus dilophonotae (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), parasitizing eggs of Erinnyis ello (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in western Paraná...
Ana P. G. S. Wengrat, Leidiane Coelho Carvalho…
The genetic regulatory architecture and epigenomic basis for age-related changes in rattlesnake venom
Michael P. Hogan, Matthew L. Holding, Gunnar S. Nystrom, Timothy J. Colston, Daniel A…
Genetic structure and landscape effects on gene flow in the Neotropical lizard Norops brasiliensis (Squamata: Dactyloidae)
Emanuel M. Fonseca, Nathaniel S. Pope, William E. Peterman, Fernanda P…
Acceleration and demographic rates behind bird decline in North America
François Leroy, Marta A. Jarzyna, Petr Keil. 2024. doi.org/10.32942/X21032
Acceleration of human activities over the…
Modeling the evolution and formation of animal friendship
Gerald G. Carter. 2024. PNAS 121 (15) e2403318121. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2403318121
Friendship is fundamental to our health and well…
Investigating Channel Narrowing and Nonnative Vegetation Encroachment in Three Dryland Rivers
Casey Pennock, Benjamin Miller, Phaedra Budy. 2024. Browse all Datasets. Paper 225.
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Marta Jarzyna, EEOB Assistant Professor, received the 2023-2024 ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award. The Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three…
The Sustainability Institute at Ohio State has committed funding to the Jennings Hall Courtyard and Raingarden renovation project submitted by Dr. Alison Bennett, EEOB Associate Professor.
Social regulation of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin systems in a wild group-living fish
Brett M. Culbert, Isaac Y. Ligocki, Matthew G. Salena, Marian Y.L. Wong, Ian M. Hamilton, Nicholas J…
Two new species of brush-tailed mouse, genus Calomyscus (Rodentia: Calomyscidae), from the Iranian Plateau
Elham Rezazadeh, Hessamodin Zali, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Roohollah Siahsarvie, C William…
Two EEOB undergraduates, Olivia Houpt and Natalie Sebunia won third place and honorable mention, respectively, in the category "Insect and Other Animal Sciences" at the 2024 Richard J. and Martha…
The effect of sex and mating opportunity on ecological immunity in Brood X cicadas
Catherine M. Hord, Caleb C. Cummings, Frances Anagbonu & Susan N. Gershman. 2024. Ethology Ecology & Evolution,…
Predicting genetic biodiversity in salamanders using geographic, climatic, and life history traits
Danielle J. Parsons, Abigail E. Green, Bryan C. Carstens and Tara A. Pelletier. bioRxiv 2024…
Feasibility of implementing an integrated long-term database to advance ecosystem-based management in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin
Richard R. Budnik, Kenneth T. Frank, Lyndsie M. Collis,…
Integrating Biological Data into Autonomous Remote Sensing Systems for In Situ Imageomics: A Case Study for Kenyan Animal Behavior...
Jenna M. Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Otto Brookes, Tanya…
When can we expect natural habitats to enhance pest control by generalist predators? Insights from a simple, simulated agricultural landscape
Andrew Corbett, Jay A. Rosenheim, Frances Sivakoff…
EEOB PhD candidate Alonso Delgado was recently cited in an article by Smithsonian Magazine, titled, "Clownfish can ‘count’ stripes on other fish to identify intruders."…
Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates
Sydney K. Decker, Kaiya L. Provost, and Bryan C. Carstens. 2024. Link to article.…
Geographic source of bats killed at wind-energy facilities in the eastern United States
Jamin G. Wieringa, Juliet Nagel, C.J. Campbell, David M. Nelson, Bryan C. Carstens, H. Lisle Gibbs. PeerJ…
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie
Jenna Bailey, James M. Hood. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 2024. Link to article.
AbstractEnvironmental…
Dental complexity and diet in amniotes: A meta-analysis
Anessa C. DeMers, John P. Hunter. PloS one 2024. Link to article.
AbstractTooth morphology is among the most well-studied indicators…
Fire season and time since fire determine arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal trait responses to fire
Jacob R. Hopkins, Thomas P. McKenna & Alison E. Bennett. Plant Soil (2024). Link to article.
Platygastroidea in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: taxonomic updates and a photographic catalog of type specimens
Elijah J. Talamas, Jessica Awad, Francesco Tortorici, Norman F…
Body size is a better predictor of intra- than interspecific variation of animal stoichiometry across realms
Mark P. Nessel, Olivier Dézerald, Julian Merder, Karl Andraczek, Ulrich Brose, Michał…
Declining reservoir elevations following a two-decade drought increase water temperatures and non-native fish passage facilitating a downstream invasion
Eppehimer, D.E., Yackulic, C.B.,…
Between the months of October and November, Associate Professor Dr. Rachelle Adams and Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Livia Pires do Prado, from the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal…
Flower morphology variation in Five species oF Penstemon (plantaginaceae) displaying hymenoptera pollination syndrome
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The transgenerational consequences of paternal social isolation and predation exposure in threespined sticklebacks
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