Undergraduate Publications

Here is a partial list of peer reviewed papers from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with undergraduate authors. The undergraduate author is listed in bold font.

• Parson, W, Zhong, B, and V.H.W. Rudolf. 2013. Mating status and kin recognition determine cannibalism rates. Animal Behaviour 85: 365-369
• Wundrow, EJ, Carrillo, J, Gabler, CA, Horn, KC, and E Siemann 2012. Facilitation and competition among invasive plants: A field experiment with alligatorweed and water hyacinth. PLOS ONE 7(10):e48444 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048444
• Delclos, P. and V.H.W. Rudolf. (2011): Effects of size structure and habitat complexity on predator-prey interactions. Ecological Entomology 36: 744-750
• Baskett, CA, SM Emery, and JA. Rudgers. (2011) Pollinator visits to threatened species are restored following invasive plant removal. International Journal of Plant Sciences 172:(3) 411-422.
• Craig, S, S Kannadan, SL Flory, EK Seifert, KD Whitney, and JA Rudgers. (2011) Potential for endophyte symbiosis to increases resistance of the native grass Poa alsodes to invasion by the non-native grass Microstegium vimineum. Symbiosis 53:17-28.
• Savage AM, SD Johnson, KD Whitney,and JA Rudgers. (2011) Do invasive ants respond more strongly to carbohydrate availability than co-occurring non-invasive ants? A test along an active Anoplolepis gracilipes invasion front. Austral Ecology 36 (3): 310-319.
• Yule KM, JB Woolley and JA Rudgers. (2011) Water availability alters the tri-trophic consequences of a plant-fungal symbiosis. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 5:(1) 19-27.
• Davitt, A J, C Chen, and JA Rudgers (2011) Understanding context-dependency in plant-microbe symbiosis: the influence of abiotic and biotic contexts on host fitness and the rate of symbiont transmission. Environmental and Experimental Botany 71:137-145.
• Davitt AJ, M Stansberry, and JA Rudgers. (2010) Do the costs and benefits of fungal endophyte symbiosis vary with light availability? New Phytol. 188(3):824-834.
• Simao, MCM., S. Luke Flory, and J. A. Rudgers (2010) Experimental plant invasion reduces arthropod abundance and richness across multiple trophic levels. Oikos 119:(10) 1553-1562
• Thomas, AM. and V.H.W. Rudolf 2010. Challenges of metamorphosis in invertebrate hosts: Maintaining parasite resistance across life-history stages. Ecological Entomology 35: 200-205
• Diaz, JC, Y Song, A Moore, JN Borchert and MH Kohn. (2010). Analysis of vkorc1 polymorphisms in Norway rats using the roof rat as outgroup. BMC Genetics 11:43
• Rudgers, JA., S. Fischer, and K. Clay (2010) Managing plant symbioses: Fungal endophyte genotype alters plant community composition. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 468-477
• Whitney, K. D., J. R. Ahern, L. G. Campbell, L. P. Albert, and MS. King. 2010. Patterns of hybridization in plants. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics12: 175-182.
• Rudgers, JA. and S. Orr (2009) Non-native grass alters growth of native tree species via leaf and soil microbes. Journal of Ecology 97:247-255
• Rudgers, J A. and AL. Swafford (2009) Benefits of a fungal endophyte in Elymus virginicus decline under drought stress. Basic and Applied Ecology 10:43-51PDF
• Holland, J.N., S.C. Chamberlain, A.M. Waguespack, and A.S. Kinyo. 2009. Effects of pollen load and donor diversity on variation in seed and fruit size in a columnar cactus, Pachycereus schottii (Cactaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 170: 467-475. pdf
• Kannadan, S. and JA. Rudgers 2008. Endophyte symbiosis benefits a rare grass under low water availability. Functional Ecology 22:706-713. PDF
• Johnson, SD., KC Horn, AM. Savage, S. Windhager, MT Simmons, and JA. Rudgers 2008. Timing of prescribed burns affects abundance and composition of arthropods in the Texas Hill Country. Southwestern Naturalist 53:137-145. PDF
• Song, Y, N Vera, MH Kohn. (2008) Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1 (Vkorc1) haplotype diversity in mouse priority strains. BMC Research Notes1:125
• Jack, CN, Ridgeway, JG, Mehdiabadi, NJ, Jones, EI, Edwards, TA, Queller, DC, and Strassmann, JE. 2008. Segregate or cooperate- a study of the interaction between two species of Dictyostelium. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:293.
• Afkhami, ME, and Strassmann, JE. 2007. Adult yellow-crowned night-herons face in opposite directions at the nest. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 119: 747-749
• Mehdiabadi, NJ, Jack, CN, Farnham, TT, Platt, TG, Kalla, SE, Shaulsky, G, Queller, DC, and Strassmann, JE. 2006. Kin preference in a social microbe. Nature. 442: 881-882
• Butterfield, B.J., W.E. Rogers and E. Siemann. 2004. Growth of Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum) and four native trees along a water gradient (22 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, Texas Journal of Science [Big Thicket Science Conference Special Issue])
• *Lankau, R.L., W.E. Rogers and E. Siemann. 2004. Constraints on the utilization of the invasive Chinese Tallow Tree (Sapium sebiferum) by generalist native herbivores in coastal prairies. Ecological Entomology 29:66-75.
• Strassmann, J. E., Nguyen, J. S., Arevalo, E., Cervo, R., Zacchi, F., Turillazzi, S., and Queller, D.C.2003. Worker interests and male production in Polistes gallicus, a Mediterranean social wasp. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 16: 254-259.
• Rogers, W.E., E. Siemann and R.A. Lankau. 2003. Damage induced production of extrafloral nectaries in native and introduced seedlings of Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum) American Midland Naturalist 149:413-417.
• Nijjer, S., R.A. Lankau, W.E. Rogers and E. Siemann. 2002. Effects of temperature and light on Chinese Tallow (Sapium sebiferum) and Texas Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata) seed germination. Texas Journal of Science 54:63-68.
• Keay, J., W.E. Rogers, R. Lankau, and E. Siemann. 2000. The role of allelopathy in the invasion of the Chinese Tallow Tree (Sapium sebiferum). Texas Journal of Science 52S: 57-64. pdf
• Rogers, W.E., S. Nijjer, C.L. Smith, and E. Siemann. 2000. Effects of resources and herbivory on leaf demography and physiology on Chinese Tallow (Sapium sebiferum) Texas Journal of Science 52S:43-56. pdf