Biology Faculty, Staff, Student Scholarship
This collection holds the creative and scholarly works of the Department of Biology's faculty, staff, and students. It includes scholarly content such as journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, etc.
Submissions from 2025
Edge Feathering Across Forest-Meadow Ecotones Increases Light Heterogeneity and Understory Plant Diversity, Aruni Kadawatha and Jean H. Burns
Submissions from 2024
Single-Fly Genome Assemblies Fill Major Phylogenomic Gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life, K. Nicole Crown, Sarah E. Diamond, and Ryan A. Martin
Biotic Interactions Vary Across Species' Ranges and Are Likely Conserved through Geological Time, Iulian Gherghel and Ryan Andrew Martin
Melanism in Polymorphic Terrestrial Snakes: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review, Ryan A. Martin
Variation in Diet and Leafy Browse Offerings AmongColobus Monkeys (Colobus spp.) and Langurs(Trachypithecus spp.) in AZA Facilities, Maura R. Plocek and Noah T. Dunham
Submissions from 2023
Factor in Fear: Interference Competition in Polymorphic Spadefoot Toad Tadpoles and Its Potential Role in Disruptive Selection, Ryan A. Martin
When Will a Changing Climate Outpace Adaptive Evolution?, Ryan A. Martin and Sarah E. Diamond
Spatiotemporal Walking Gait Kinematics of Semi-Arboreal Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens), Maura R. Plocek and Noah T. Dunham
Submissions from 2022
A Theory of City Biogeography and the Origin of Urban Species, Ryan A. Martin
Reproductive Biology of Gazella Arabica: Predictors of Offspring Weight and Short- and Long-Term Offspring Survival, Ryan A. Martin
You Can’t Betray a Fish: One Reason Eating Fish may Cause Less Harm than Eating Cows, Ronald G. Oldfield
The Mid‑Pleistocene Transition: A Delayed Response to an Increasing Positive Feedback?, Anne Willem Omta and Peter Thomas
Submissions from 2021
In a Nutshell, A Reciprocal Transplant Experiment Reveals Local Adaptation and Fitness Trade-offs in Response to Urban Evolution in an Acorn-Dwelling Ant, Ryan A. Martin, Lacy D. Chick, Matthew L. Garvin, and Sarah E. Diamond
Submissions from 2020
Is Romania Ready To Face the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak? The Role of Incoming Travelers and that of Romanian Diaspora, Iulian Gherghel
Postglacial Recolonization of North America by Spadefoot Toads: Integrating Niche and Corridor Modeling to Study Species’ Range Dynamics over Geologic Time, Iulian Gherghel and Ryan Andrew Martin
Evidence for the Evolution of Thermal Tolerance, but not Desiccation Tolerance, in Response to Hotter, Drier City Conditions in a Cosmopolitan, Terrestrial Isopod, Aaron R. Yilmaz, Sarah E. Diamond, and Ryan A. Martin
Submissions from 2019
Evolution, Not Transgenerational Plasticity, Explains the Adaptive Divergence of Acorn Ant Thermal Tolerance Across an Urban–Rural Temperature Cline, Ryan A. Martin, Lacy D. Chick, Aaron R. Yilmaz, and Sarah E. Diamond
Submissions from 2018
A Roadmap for Urban Evolutionary Ecology, Sarah E. Diamond and Ryan A. Martin
Submissions from 2017
Precipitation Drives Global Variation in Natural Selection, Ryan A. Martin
Submissions from 2016
The Interplay between Plasticity and Evolution in Response to Human-Induced Environmental Change, Sarah E. Diamond and Ryan A. Martin
Submissions from 2014
Parental Care in the Cuatro Ciénegas cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi (Teleostei: Cichlidae), Ronald G. Oldfield and M. Xavier Nieves
Submissions from 2012
Does Diet Breadth Resolve Variation in Climate Driven Range Shifts of Ohio Butterflies?, Lydia Beera, Angie Lenard, and Sarah E. Diamond
Changes in Expression Profiles of Energy Metabolism and Cellular Calcium Balance Genes in the Mammalian Inner Ear During Development, Audrey Freedman
Wheelchair Athlete Concussion Baseline Data: A Pilot Retrospective Analysis, Jonathan Lee, Michael Harper, Michael Uihlein, and Kenneth Lee
Widespread Disruptive Selection in the Wild is Associated with Intense Resource Competition, Ryan A. Martin
Behavioral Observations Surrounding a Diet Change of Zoo-Housed Matschie's Tree Kangaroos (Dendrolagus matschiei), Sarah Miller, Noah T. Dunham, and Diana Koester
Determination of Potential Azotobacter vinelandii Bacteriophage Gene Sequences: A Bioinformatics Approach, Anish Reddy and Sarah Bagby
Changes in Meiotic Crossover Distribution and Frequency In Response to Chromosome Structural Variants, Christiana Wang and Nicole Crown
Optimizing Aplysia californica's Living Conditions, Ruiying Xu
Submissions from 2010
Submissions from 2008
The Distribution, and Size Implications of the Human Skeletal Anomaly Medial Cuneiform Bipartum, Allison Early, Lyman Jellema, and Bruce Latimer
Identifying Simple Sequence Repeats in the Flax Genome, Sachin Gadani, Cory Johnson, and Chris A. Cullis