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Each semester, EEOB's undergraduate research lab prepares a university‑wide newsletter highlighting current funding opportunities, research jobs, internships, and scholarships available to…
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
Rosa A. Rodríguez-Peña1 and Andrea D. WolFe. Botanical Sciences 101 (1): 217…
The transgenerational consequences of paternal social isolation and predation exposure in threespined sticklebacks
Jennifer K. Hellmann, Michaela M. Rogers. DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.16.575739
Acute toxicity and bioaccumulation of common urban metals in Bombus impatiens life stages
Sarah B. Scotta, Roman Lanno, Mary M. Gardiner. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016…
Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity of parental care behaviour in male three-spined stickleback fish across two generations
Jennifer K. Hellmann†, Jason Keagy†, Erika R. Carlson, Shayne…
Controls on in-stream nitrogen loss in western Lake Erie tributaries
Rebecca M. Kreiling, Lynn A. Bartsch, Patrik M. Perner, Kenna J. Gierke, Tanja N. Williamson, James M. Hood, Nathan F. Manning,…
Description of the second species of Cingulacarus Elsen (Acari, Mesostigmata, Diplogyniidae), and notes on the genus
SHAHROOZ KAZEMI and HANS KLOMPEN. Zootaxa. ISSUE: VOL. 5397 NO. 2: 4 JAN. 2024…
Bringing Back the Context: Camera Trap Species Identification as Link Prediction on Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
Vardaan Pahuja, Weidi Luo, Yu Gu, Cheng-Hao Tu, Hong-YouChen, Tanya Berger-Wolf,…
Reciprocity versus pseudo-reciprocity: A false dichotomy
Gerald G. Carter. 2023. DOI: 10.1111/eth.13431
AbstractReciprocity and pseudo-reciprocity are two important models for the evolution…
Prospects of pollinator community surveillance using terrestrial environmental DNA metagenetics
Grace Avalos, Regina Trott, John Ballas, Chia Hua Lin, Clayton Raines, Deborah Iwanowicz, Karen…
A landmark environmental law looks ahead
Robert L. Fischman, J. B. Ruhl, Brenna R. Forester, Tanya M. Lama, Marty Kardos, Grethel Aguilar Rojas, Nicholas A. Robinson, Patrick D. Shirey, Gary A…
Machine learning reveals that climate, geography, and cultural drift all predict bird song variation in coastal Zonotrichia leucophrys
Jiaying Yang, Bryan C Carstens, Kaiya L Provost. 2023…
KABR: In-Situ Dataset for Kenyan Animal Behavior Recognition from Drone Videos
Maksim Kholiavchenko, Jenna Kline, Michelle Ramirez, Alec Sheets, Reshma Babu, Namrata Banerji, Matthew Thompson,…
Effect of climate, anther morphology and pollination syndrome on pollen availability in penstemon
Rosa A. Rodríguez-Peña and Andrea D. Wolfe. 2023. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 35(16), 2023,…
Fire effects on soil biota alter the strength and direction of plant-soil feedbacks
Jacob Hopkins, Alison E. Bennett. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3717241/v1
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BIOCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life
Samuel Stevens, Jiaman Wu, Matthew J Thompson1, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Chan Hee Song, David Edward Carlyn, Li Dong, Wasila M Dahdul,…
Reduced representation approaches produce similar results to whole genome sequencing for some common phylogeographic analyses
Drew J. Duckett, Kailee Calder, Jack Sullivan, David C. Tank, Bryan C…
Understanding temporal variability across trophic levels and spatial scales in freshwater ecosystems
Tadeu Siqueira, Charles P. Hawkins, Julian D. Olden, Jonathan Tonkin, Lise Comte, Victor S…
Assessing multiple free-roaming dog control strategies in a flexible agent-based model
A.J. Yoak, K.M. Calinger & E. Hiby. Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 19826 (2023)
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A simple interpretable transformer for fine-grained image classification and analysis
Dipanjyoti Paul, Arpita Chowdhury, Xinqi Xiong, Samuel Stevens, Kaiya L Provost, Anuj Karpatne, Charles…
Halyomorpha halys in Mediterranean areas: local and landscape predictors, genetic diversity, and potential biological control
Laterza, Ilaria; Sabree, Zakee L.; Martinez-Sañudo, Isabel; Scaccini,…
Holistic Transfer: Towards Non-Disruptive Fine-Tuning with Partial Target Data
Cheng-Hao Tu, Hong-You Chen, Zheda Mai, Jike Zhong, Vardaan Pahuja, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Song Gao, Charles Stewart, Yu…
A new study on genomic analysis in snakes, led by EEOB professor, Lisle Gibbs, suggests making a transition from “old school” genetics to “new school” genomics for species…
Kyle Sozanski (Adams lab), Kristian Harris (Bennett lab), Emily Runnion (Sivakoff lab) and Alonso Delgado (Daly lab) were ALL awarded grants through the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research (AGGRS)…
Agent-Based Modeling in Mixed Methods Research
Mark Moritz, Chelsea E. Hunter, Daniel C. Peart, Ian M. Hamilton. Agent-Based Modeling in Mixed Methods Research. Ruth, A., Wutich, A., & Bernard, H…
Bellactis lux n. sp. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Aiptasiidae), a new sea anemone from the Gulf of Mexico
ALONSO DELGADO, PAUL LARSON, NANCY SHERIDAN, MARYMEGAN DALY. Zootaxa VOL. 5353 NO. 4:…
Functional genomic diversity is correlated with neutral genomic diversity in populations of an endangered rattlesnake
Samarth Mathur, Andrew J. Mason, Gideon S. Bradburd, and H. Lisle Gibbs. PNAS…
EEOB Professor and Chair, Bryan Carstens (Principal Investigator), and Co-PI Tamaki Yuri, EEOB Curator of Tetrapods, were awarded a $474,462.00 National Science Foundation Grant for: ICBR…
Functional reorganization of North American wintering avifauna
Quimbayo JP, Murphy S, Jarzyna M. Authorea Preprints; 2023. DOI: 10.22541/au.169659761.18669676/v1.
AbstractWintering birds…
EEOB Associate Professor, Zakee Sabree (Principal Investigator), and Co-PIs Tanya Berger-Wolf, EEOB Professor, and Asuman Turkmen, were awarded a $1,234,547.00 National Science Foundation Grant…
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish Get access
Macie D Benincasa, Ryan L Earley, Ian M Hamilton. Behavioral Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 6, November/December 2023,…
Expanded diversity of novel hemoplasmas in rare and undersampled Neotropical bats
Dmitriy V. Volokhov, Lauren R. Lock, Kristin E. Dyer, Isabella K. DeAnglis, Benjamin R. Andrews, Molly C. Simonis,…
Tanya Berger-Wolf (Principal Investigator), faculty director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), and Marta Jarzyna (Co-Principal Investigator), Assistant Professor of EEOB and a…
Dr. Benderlioglu is the founder and director of the Undergraduate Research Lab, an undergraduate research program in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at Ohio State. Her…
Progress on Mechanisms and Impacts of Wetland Plant Invasions: A Twenty-Year Retrospective Analysis and Priorities for the Next Twenty
Stephen M. Hovick, Carrie Reinhardt Adams, Neil O. Anderson &…
Tanya Berger-Wolf, EEOB Professor and Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) faculty director, has been elected to the National Academies Board on Life Sciences, an…
Life in the fast lane: Revisiting the fast growth—High survival paradigm during the early life stages of fishes
Dominique Robert, Ignacio A. Catalán, Su Sponaugle, Evan K. D'Alessandro, John F…
David Hibler, an EEOB PhD candidate in the Hamilton Lab and former combat medic, was named 2023 Tillman Scholar. Hibler is one of the 60 U.S. service members, veterans and military spouses chosen…
Ohio State News recently featured the research of EEOB professor, Karen Goodell, who analyzed bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. Researchers found that bees don’t always…
Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks
Mohannad Elhamod, Josef C. Uyeda, Yasin Bakış, Hilmar Lapp, David Carlyn, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Mridul…
Genetic history, structure and gene flow among populations of Belgica antarctica, the only free-living insect in the western Antarctic Peninsula
Hilary Edgington, Vitor A.C. Pavinato, Drew Spacht,…
Tanya Berger-Wolf, professor in the departments of EEOB, CSE, and ECE, was featured in a Climate in Crisis segment on NBC Bay Area news. She discusses the energy consumption drawbacks of AI versus…
Metals could challenge pollinator conservation in legacy cities
Sarah B. Scott, Frances S. Sivakoff, Megan E. Meuti & Mary M. Gardiner
Journal of Insect Conservation volume 27, pages 361…
A recently published paper about growing season elongation by EEOB Assistant Professor, Kellen Calinger-Yoak, has been getting quite a bit of press. It has been featured in a BBC article and…
EEOB graduate students, Jesse Wallace (advisors: Meg Daly and Bryan Carstens) and Troy Bowers (advisor: Susan Gershman), were both awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research…
EEOB Assistant professor, Rachelle Adams, was awarded the 2022-2023 ASC Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award! This award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research,…
Spore traits mediate disturbance effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition and mutualisms
Jacob R. Hopkins, Alison E. Bennett. 2023. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4016…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Robin Bagley, was selected for the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award this year. This award honors individuals who have demonstrated success in…
Roundup and immune challenge have different effects on a native field cricket and its introduced competitor
Mullins LR, Brown DJ, Lovsey SR, Bowers TA, Gershman SN. 2023. Research Square. DOI: 10…
EEOB Associate Professor, Susan Gershman, discusses her career path in the Marion Star's feature, Aces of Trades. You can read the article on the Marion Star website.
Molecular Mechanisms of Winter Survival
Nicholas M. Teets, Katie E. Marshall, and Julie A. Reynolds. 2023. Annual Review of Entomology, 68:319…
EEOB Research Scientist, Julie Reynolds, collaborated with Coyote Peterson and Brave Wilderness on a video about maggots: 300,000 Maggots vs. Human Feet!
Watch the video on YouTube!
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Never, Ever Make an Enemy… Out of an Anemone: Transcriptomic Comparison of Clownfish Hosting Sea Anemone Venoms
Alonso Delgado, Charlotte Benedict, Jason Macrander and Marymegan Daly. Mar. Drugs…
The second round of tiger beetle specimen data transcription is up on Notes from Nature, an online platform where citizen scientists from around the world can collaborate with museums and museum…
Macy Wiktorowski, an undergraduate in the Bagley lab, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship from the Arts and Sciences Honors Committee for her proposal. She is working with Dr. Robin…
The UResearch Lab has announced the release of their Fall 2022 Newsletter. You can read about activities, current projects, researchers, and courses with this on the ArcGIS StoryMaps site.
EEOB graduate students, Danielle Parsons and Imran Razik, were awarded the 2022-2023 Presidential Fellowship! The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School…
Limited genetic differentiation of Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos in Parque National Soberanía, Panama: Implications for queen dispersal
Cody Raul Cardenas, Andrew J. Mularo, Andreas S. Chavez,…
Sal Sidoti, co-advised by Susan Gershman and Stu Ludsin, successfully defended his dissertation entitled, Predator Cues Induce Transgenerational Behavioral Plasticity in the Wolf Spider
Dave Hibler, veteran and EEOB Ph.D. student, and Joy Omslaer, a social worker for brain injury survivors at the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical…
Cody Cardenas, a former Master's student in Rachelle Adams' Mega Ant Lab, just published his second chapter on a Panamanian fungus-growing ant. Cardenas and Andrew Mularo (a former undergraduate…
Woody Foster, EEOB professor emeritus, co-authored a recent study on the hunting habits of mosquito larvae. The team used a 16-millimeter film camera that had been designed for the U.S. military…
Phylogeny and taxonomy of Haloclavidae (Verrill, 1899) with a redescription of the parasitic, burrowing sea anemone, Peachia chilensis Carlgren, 1931
Natalie Hamilton, Luciana C. Gusmão, Takato…
EEOB Professor, Maria Miriti, will begin an interim appointment as Associate Dean of the Graduate School Oct. 1. She will assume the Associate Dean responsibilities related to curriculum and…
Vampire bats infected with the rabies virus aren’t likely to act stereotypically “rabid,” according to a new study from the Carter Lab. The study, published recently in Biology Letters,…
Catalogue of the free-living and arthropod-associated Laelapidae Canestrini (Acari: Mesostigmata), with revised generic concepts and a key to genera
GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES, GRAZIELLE FURTADO…
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) awarded Tim Berra, EEOB Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, the 2022 Friend of Darwin Award for his lifetime service to the teaching of…
Rachelle Adams, EEOB Assistant professor, and her work are featured in the Environmental Monitor publication. She discusses the coevolutionary relationship between fungus growing ants and…
Eleanor MacDonald, an Evolution and Ecology major in the Goodell Lab, won first place at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in Animal and Insect Sciences for her poster and abstract on …
EEOB Professor, Karen Goodell, and Rodney Richardson ’18 PhD will pioneer a method using environmental DNA (eDNA) to monitor for rare and endangered pollinators. With nearly $1 million in funding…
A new analysis of a beaver anklebone fossil found in Montana suggests the evolution of semi-aquatic beavers may have occurred in North America at least 7 million years earlier than previously…
Congratulations to former Goodell Lab graduate student, Sarah Cusser, on winning the Ecology Letters Early Career Researcher Award 2021!
Read Sarah's paper, How long…
River phosphorus cycling during high flow may constrain Lake Erie cyanobacteria blooms
Whitney M.King, Susan E.Curless, James M.Hood. Water Research, Volume 222, 15 August 2022, 118845. https:/…
EEOB Associate Professor, Zakee Sabree, has received funding from the Ohio State Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and W.K. Kellogg Foundation Postdoctoral Recruitment and Onboarding…
Spatial and temporal non-stationarity in long-term population dynamics of over-wintering birds of North America
Stephen Murphy, Marta Jarzyna. Authorea. July 27, 2022. DOI: 10.22541/au.165890198…
Zoology alumnus John Koprowski ’83 received the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award from The Wildlife Society, the world's largest professional society committed to wildlife management…
New funding begins for the Adams Mega Ant Lab this month. EEOB Assistant Professor, Dr. Rachelle Adams, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant that will fund venom evolution research for five…
EEOB professor and dean emerita, Joan Herbers, has co-authored a book titled Beyond Discovery: Moving Academic Research to the Market which details ways researchers working in academe can…
EEOB professor, Bryan Carstens, has been appointed chair of the department for a four-year term, effective July 1, 2022. Carstens, who has been with Ohio State since 2012 and was vice chair of…
Ecological stability propagates across spatial scales and trophic levels in freshwater ecosystems
Tadeu Siqueira1, Charles P. Hawkins, Julian Olden, Jonathan Tonkin, Lise Comte, Victor S. Saito,…
EEOB Post-Doctoral scholar, May Dixon, studied long term memory in a wild population of fruit eating bats. The findings are published in Current Biology and featured in Ohio…
Trends in functional composition of small mammal communities across millennial time scales
Collin S. VanBuren and Marta A. Jarzyna. Ecography 2022: e06096. doi: 10.1111/ecog.06096.
Rich…
EEOB Graduate Student, Alissa Geisse, is a recipient of the 2021-22 Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service.
Congratulations, Alissa!
Bryan Carstens has just been named a recipient of the 2021-2022 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award. The Hatcher Award recognizes a full professor in the College of Arts…
EEOB Assistant Professor Gerald Carter and graduate students Imran Razik and Bridget Brown found that Vampire bat pairs that live together for a…
Analysis of biodiversity data suggests that mammal species are hidden in predictable places
Danielle J. Parsons, Tara A. Pelletier, Jamin G. Wieringa, Drew J. Duckett, and Bryan C. Carstens. PNAS…
EEOB graduate student, Danielle Parsons, and EEOB Professor, Bryan Carstens, discuss new research that suggests at least hundreds of so-far unidentified species of mammals are hiding in plain…
Exploring microbiomes for plant disease management
Antonino Malacrinò, Ahmed Abdelfattah, Gabriele Berg, Maria-Soledad Benitez, Alison E.Bennett, Laura Böttner, Shuqing Xu, Leonardo Schena…
EEOB Associate Professor, Andy Roberts, is PI on an OSU Newark project that recently received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support economically disadvantaged students…
The Triplehorn Collection’s team was awarded a nearly half-million-dollar NSF grant that allows for substantial curatorial upgrades to specimen housing and labeling, specifically that of the…
Genetic and Morphological Comparisons of Lesser Celandine (Ficaria Verna) Invasions Suggest Regionally Widespread Clonal and Sexual Reproduction
Kali Zoe Mattingly, Charles T. C. Day, Emily S. J…
Arts and Sciences Center for Career and Professional Success is hosting the 2022 Summer Internship & Opportunity Fair. This event is in-person on February 15, and online on the Handshake Platform…
EEOB graduate students, Colin Sweeney and Ian Brackett, received the 2022 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award from The Ecological Society of America (ESA). This award provides…
EEOB professor, Karen Goodell, is senior author on a study that monitored pollinator habitat plot experiments at the Wilds for 10 years. Read the full article on the Ohio State News site.
Temporal scope influences ecosystem driver-response relationships: A case study of Lake Erie with implications for ecosystem-based management
Michael E. Fraker, James S. Sinclair, Kenneth T.Frank,…
Infection Patterns in an Amphibian Fungal Pathogen in Ohio
Chelsea A. Korfel, Richard M. Lehtinen, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Julia Fregonara, P.
Kelly Williams, Andrew Loudon, Brandon…
A natural history account of Megalomyrmex ayri Brandão, 1990 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)
L. P. Prado, R. R. Silva, C. R. F. Brandão, M. S. C. Morini & R. M. M. Adams. Insect. Soc. (2021)…
The annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America was held 31 Oct – 03 Nov in Denver. Johanna Schwartz won the DeLong poster competition in the Department of Entomology, an award that…
The Great Lakes FST workshop will introduce participants to the intriguing study of fisheries science and will explore careers in fisheries ecology, management, and conservation.
We will…
EEOB Professors Tanya Berger-Wolf and Bryan Carstens are helping to create a new field of study that could potentially transform biomedical, agricultural and basic biological sciences. The new…
Phoretic mite infestations associated with Rhynchophorus palmarum (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in southern California
Francesc Gómez-marco, Hans Klompen, Mark Hoddle. Systematic & Applied Acarology…
Maria Miriti, EEOB Associate Professor, uses experimental and demographic methods to address factors that regulate plant populations and communities. She joins David Staley, host…
Research on evolutionary advantages that accompany breeding limitations of small, isolated populations by EEOB professor, Lisle Gibbs, was featured in Ohio State News.
Read the article on…
Vampire bats whose “friendships” carry over from captivity to the wild also hunt together and meet up over meals after independent departures from the roost, according to a study co-authored by…
After 15 years of work, the Johnson lab's reclassification of the wasps they study has been published. View the paper on Wiley Online.
Herbivory shapes the rhizosphere bacterial microbiota in potato plants
Antonino Malacrinò, Mingyuan Wang, Sandra Caul, Alison J. Karley, and Alison E. Bennett. 2021. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12998
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Which factors determine the long-term effect of poor early-life nutrition? A meta-analytic review.
Almeida, L. Z., S. M. Hovick, S. A. Ludsin, and E. A. Marschall. 2021. Ecosphere 12(8):e03694. 10…
Bryan Carstens, professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, has been appointed chair of the department for a four-year term.
Carstens'…
An AI research project led by Tanya Berger-Wolf, professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology and director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute, measures air…
Congratulations to Emily Runnion on her North Central Region SARE Graduate Student Grant! With it, Emily will investigate the synergistic potential of fungicides and parasites as stressors of…
Norm Johnson and Luciana Musetti were awarded a grant from the National Science Collection to support the Triplehorn Insect Collection: “CSBR: An inordinate fondness for beetles - expanding access…
Using an integrative taxonomic approach to delimit a sibling species, Mycetomoellerius mikromelanos sp. nov. (Formicidae: Attini: Attina)
Cody Raul Cardenas, Amy Rongyan Luo, Tappey H. Jones, Ted…
Heather Glon, a PhD candidate in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, was recently selected for the prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, a yearlong program…
Female vampire bats establish an egalitarian community within a roost rather than one based on a hierarchy of dominance often seen in animal groups, suggests a new study authored by Gerald…
Data from: QTL mapping identifies candidate alleles involved in adaptive introgression and range expansion in a wild sunflower
Whitney, Kenneth D.; Broman, Karl W.; Kane, Nolan C.; Hovick,…
EEOB Professor, Meg Daly, studies animal systematics and ecology and serves as associate dean of undergraduate education. She shared her research with David Staley on Voices of Excellence. Listen…
Longitudinal patterns and linkages in benthic fine particulate organic matter composition, respiration, and nutrient uptake
James M. Hood, Lyndsie M. Collis, John D. Schade, Rebecca A. Stark,…
By comparing uncategorized fossil specimens to other fossils and bone samples, EEOB Assistant Professor, Jonathan Calede, and Gonzaga Assistant Professor, John Orcutt, have discovered a massive,…
Multiple concurrent and convergent stages of genome reduction in bacterial symbionts across a stink bug family
Alejandro Otero-Bravo & Zakee L. Sabree. 2021. Scientific Reports volume 11, Article…
Rachelle Adams, assistant professor of EEOB, discusses new research on Indian jumping ants that shows they can undergo dramatic reversible changes previously unknown in insects. Read the article…
Some snake venom is more complex than others: it all depends on the meal it is paired with. New research co-authored by Lisle Gibbs, professor of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, is…
Rapid stress hardening in the Antarctic midge improves male fertility by increasing courtship success and...
Oluwaseun M. Ajayi, J. D. Gantz, Geoffrey Finch, Richard E. Lee Jr., David L. Denlinger…
Alexandra Cabanelas-Bermudez, an EEOB Graduate Student in Elizabeth Marschall's lab, was awarded the 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). The GRF Program…
EEOB grad student, Ryan McCarthy, EEOB alumni, John Ballas, and other members of the OSU chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration were featured on the SER website for their restoration…
Bumble bee species distributions and habitat associations in the Midwestern USA, a region of declining diversity
Jessie Lanterman Novotny, Paige Reeher, Megan Varvaro, Andrew Lybbert, Jesse Smith,…
Imran Razik, an EEOB graduate student in Gerry Carter's lab, observed a female vampire bat adopting an unrelated pup after the baby's mother died. The 2 adult bats were close social partners.
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Xin Lin, an EEOB PhD student in the Bennett lab, was awarded 5th place in this year's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. For many years, OSU has participated in an in-house, regional, and…
You can help drive change, share your feedback and ideas as we create an extraordinary experience at Ohio State by applying for the Student Experience and Engagement Delegates (SEEDs) program. Led…
Single and combined abiotic stressors affect maize rhizosphere bacterial microbiota
Rosa Vescio, Antonino Malacrinò, Alison E. Bennett, Agostino Sorgonà. 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100318
EEOB Graduate Students, Kali Mattingly (advisor: Steve Hovick) and Zach Lahey (advisor: Norm Johnson) have been named Autumn 2020 Presidential Fellows. The Presidential Fellowship is the most…
Climate change influences mycorrhizal fungal–plant interactions, but conclusions are limited by geographical study bias
ALISON E. BENNETT AND AIMEE T. CLASSEN. 2020. Climate change…
Julian Roberts is a delight to all that know her. She is a remarkable woman with academic talent that warrants praise and respect. Despite her compressed academic schedule that allowed her to…
In a recent election of officers for the executive committee of the AFS Early Life History Section, EEOB Professor, Stu Ludsin was voted in as the new President-Elect. He will serve in this…
Identification and expression of chemosensory receptor genes in the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis
Huayan Chen, Zachary Lahey, Elijah J. Talamas, Norman F. Johnson. 2020. https://doi.org/10…
Algal blooms in a freshwater reservoir – A network community detection analysis of potential forcing parameters
Gerald R. Allen, Franklin W. Schwartz, David R. Cole, Roman P. Lanno, Anirudh Prabhu…
Research from EEOB Graduate student, Zach Lahey, was featured in the most recent Ohio State Alumni Magazine.
Read more about it on the OSU Alumni Magazine site.
EEOB professor, Marymegan Daly, shares her insight into the significance of new research that has allowed researchers to create a new evolutionary history of coral and sea anemones dating back to…
ASC Communications released the following story:
Bats are often vilified and looked at with contempt and fear. But to bat biologists like EEOB assistant professor Gerald Carter, the…
Species Distribution Models for a Native Imperiled Minnow and a Nonnative Sport Fish in a Western Ohio River
Kenneth J. Oswald, Sophia Beery, Kalyn Rossiter, Yong Wang, Marc R. Kibbey. North Amer…
Description of A New Species of Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) Parasitic on Eggs of Megymenum gracilicorne Dallas (Hemiptera: Dinidoridae)
Kazunori MATSUO, Yoshimi HIROSE and Norman…
A new course introduced by the Undergrad Research Lab, EEOB 3194: Infectious Disease Ecology, Evolution, And Transmission, is featured in ASC College News. This class aims to enable undergraduate…
Otolith microchemistry shows natal philopatry of walleye in western Lake Erie
Kuan-YuChen, Stuart A. Ludsin, Benjamin J. Marcek, John W. Olesik, Elizabeth A. Marschall. 2020. Journal of Great…
Lyndsie Collis, EEOB PhD student at the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, is featured in the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLAR) spring newsletter. Read the article on CIGLAR's…
Jim Hood's ODHE grant was highlighted in the Arts and Sciences newsletter article on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) posted in the Arts and Sciences College News.
Read the article on the ASC…
Wetland plant community variation across replicate urban to rural gradients: non-native species as both drivers and passengers in systems impacted by anthropogenic land-use
Christian M. King &…
EEOB PhD Student, Mael Glon, has described a pair of very interesting crayfish species.
The Banded Mudbug is so named because of its bright orange bands. The scientific name, Lacunicambarus…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Ryan Norris, has been awarded the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research and…
A new study by Jonathan Calede, EEOB Assistant Professor, has uncovered a new species of rodent with horns that lived in Nebraska during the Miocene epoch. His paper, published in the Journal of…
Small-scale anthropogenic changes impact floodplain hydraulics: Simulating the effects of fish canals on the Logone floodplain
Apoorv Shastry, Michael Durand, Jeffrey Neal, Alfonso…
Kali Mattingly is the recipient of the 2020 EEOB Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. This award recognizes excellence in furthering the teaching mission of the department and university…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Alison Bennett, will be presenting an online talk about fungi on Thursday, May 7th, 7:30PM-9:00PM. The event will be hosted on Zoom by Columbus Science Pub. Find out more…
EEOB Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, Meg Daly, is a 2020 recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Service Award. Faculty members are recognized for contributions to the…
Origin and evolution of the symbiosis between sea anemones (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria) and hermit crabs, with additional notes...
C. Gusmão, Vanessa Van Deusen, Marymegan Daly, Estefanía…
The Graduate Evolution and Ecology Students Organization (GEES) is working with the Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD) to launch a series of Facebook live events featuring grad students doing Q…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Marta Jarzyna is leading a new research project that will use supercomputing to combine massive datasets of North American bird diversity to identify trends in…
EEOB Postdoctoral Scholar, Simon Ripperger, is featured in Ohio State News. The article discusses the ability of researchers to track the movements of tiny animals with minuscule backpacks that…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Gerry Carter, was featured in Ohio State News. His new study supports the “raising-the-stakes” model of the development of cooperative relationships, which suggests that…
Interspecific Eavesdropping on Ant Chemical Communication
Rachelle M. M. Adams, Rachel L. Wells, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Christopher J. Frost, and Eduardo G. P. Fox. 2020. Front. Ecol. Evol. https:/…
The Carter Lab’s new paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology, “When sickness changes a social network, different kinds of social ties respond in different ways,” was recently featured by Ohio State…
EEOB had a great showing at the Denman this year!
Anna Starkey (E&E major, incoming EEOB masters student) won first prize in the Animal and Environmental Sciences category and Cassidy…
The 2020 Museum of Biological Diversity Open House is postponed indefinitely. We make this decision to support the health of our staff, volunteers, and community…
Disconnects between Communicated Impact and Ecological Impact of Biological Invasions
Kali Z Mattingly, Tara A Pelletier, Jessie Lanterman, Danielle Frevola, Benjamin Stucke, Kaitlin Kinney,…
Climate change influences mycorrhizal fungal–plant interactions, but conclusions are limited by geographical study bias
Alison E. Bennett Aimée T. Classen. 2020. Ecology. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2978…
The alumni newsletter for the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology is now available!
EEOB Professor, Bryan Carstens, begins a one-year appointment with University Libraries as Faculty Fellow for Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Economy, starting with the new year. He will…
Biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spore traits along an aridity gradient, and responses to experimental rainfall manipulation
Coline Deveautour, Jeff Chieppa, Uffe N. Nielsen, Matthias…
EEOB PhD student, Mael Glon, has been awarded a Graduate School Presidential Fellowship to support the completion of his dissertation work.
Congratulations, Mael!
EEOB Professors Bryan Carstens and Laura Kubatko were elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), recognizing their contributions to scholarship.
EEOB assistant professor, Gerald Carter, and his postdoctoral fellow, Simon Ripperger, offer a rare glimpse into wild vampire bats’ friendship-like behaviors and new insights into how social…
Fish Diet Shifts Associated with the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone
Cassandra N. Glaspie, Melissa Clouse, Klaus Huebert, Stuart A. Ludsin, Doran M. Mason, James J. Pierson, Michael R. Roman,…
EEOB Professor, Bryan Carstens discusses bat research and folklore, and problems impacting bat populations. Read the article on the ASC website.
Dr. Tom Watters, Curator of Molluscs in the Department of EEOB’s Museum of Biological Diversity, and the founding Science Director of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Freshwater Mussel Conservation…