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Eben Gering studies the evolution, behavior, and diseases of invasive and feral animals. Info about past and current research projects can be found at www.ebenflow.weebly.com.

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Eben Gering studies the evolution, behavior, and diseases of invasive and feral animals. Info about past and current research projects can be found at www.ebenflow.weebly.com.

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Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with costly boldness toward felids in a wild host (Eben Gering, Zachary M Laubach, Patty Sue D Weber, et al.) Nature Communications (2021)

Toxoplasma gondii is hypothesized to manipulate the behavior of warm-blooded hosts to promote trophic transmission into the parasite’s definitive feline hosts. A key prediction of this hypothesis is that T. gondii infections of non-feline hosts ...

ddPCR Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Florida Wastewater (Eben Gering, Jacob Colbert, Sarah Schmedes, et al.) medRxiv (2021)

Wastewater was screened for the presence of functionally significant mutations in SARS-CoV-2 associated with emerging variants of concern (VOC) by ddPCR, and results accorded with sequencing of clinical samples from the same region. We propose ...

Academic Ecosystems Must Evolve to Support a Sustainable Postdoc Workforce (Murielle Ålund, Nathan Emery, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, et al.) Nature Ecology and Evolution (2020)

The postdoctoral workforce comprises a growing proportion of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) community, and plays a vital role in advancing science. Postdoc professional development, however, remains rooted in outdated realities. We propose ...

Getting Back to Nature: Feralization in Animals and Plants (Eben Gering, Darren Incorvaia, R. Henriksen, et al.) Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2019)

Formerly domesticated organisms and artificially selected genes often escape controlled cultivation, but their subsequent evolution is not well studied. In this review, we examine plant and animal feralization through an evolutionary lens, including how natural ...

Maladaptation in Feral and Domesticated Animals (Eben Gering, Darren Incorvaia, R. Henriksen, et al.) Evolutionary Applications (2019)

Selection regimes and population structures can be powerfully changed by domestication and feralization, and these changes can modulate animal fitness in both captive and natural environments. In this review, we synthesize recent studies of these ...

Untangling the Cecal Microbiota of Feral Chickens by Culturomic and Metagenomic Analyses (Chiara Ferrario, Giulia Alessandri, Leonardo Mancabelli, et al.) Environmental Microbiology (2017)

Different factors may modulate the gut microbiota of animals. In any particular environment, diet, genetic factors and human influences can shape the bacterial communities residing in the gastrointestinal tract. Metagenomic approaches have significantly expanded our ...

Male‐Mimicking Females Increase Male‐Male Interactions, and Decrease Male Survival and Condition in a Female‐Polymorphic Damselfly (Eben Gering) Evolution (2017)

Biologists are still discovering diverse and powerful ways sexual conflicts shape biodiversity. The present study examines how the proportion of females in a population that exhibit male mimicry, a mating resistance trait, influences conspecific males’ ...

Larger Females are Choosier in the Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) (Michael C. Kuczynski, Thomas Getty and Eben Gering) Behavioural Processes (2017)

Individual variation in female mate choice has important implications for sexual trait evolution and the maintenance of phenotypic diversity. In this study we examined several potential drivers of individual variation in female choosiness for the ...

Feralisation Targets Different Genomic Loci to Domestication in the Chicken (M. Johnsson, Eben Gering, P. Willis, et al.) Nature Communications (2016)

Feralisation occurs when a domestic population recolonizes the wild, escaping its previous restricted environment, and has been considered as the reverse of domestication. We have previously shown that Kauai Island's feral chickens are a highly ...

Context and Condition Dependent Plasticity in Sexual Signaling in Gray Treefrogs (Michael C. Kuczynski, Eben Gering and Thomas Getty) Behavioural Processes (2016)

For many species sexual signaling is a very costly activity, both in terms of energetic expenditure and increased conspicuousness to predators. One potential strategy to limit the costs of signaling is to only signal at ...

Male Treefrogs in Low Condition Resume Signaling Faster Following Simulated Predator Attack (Michael C. Kuczynski, Levi Storks, Eben Gering, et al.) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2016)

Current models indicate that an organism’s sensitivity to risk may be heavily influenced by the trade-off between current and future reproduction. Individuals that have fewer future reproductive opportunities are expected to show more risky behavior ...

Mixed Ancestry and Admixture in Kauai's Feral Chickens: Invasion of Domestic Genes into Ancient Red Junglefowl Reservoirs (Eben Gering, M. Johnsson, P. Willis, et al.) Molecular Ecology (2015)

A major goal of invasion genetics is to determine how establishment histories shape non‐native organisms' genotypes and phenotypes. While domesticated species commonly escape cultivation to invade feral habitats, few studies have examined how this process ...

Five Decades of Invasion Genetics (Kenneth Whitney and Eben Gering) New Phytologist (2014)

Multimodal Sensory Reliance in the Nocturnal Homing of the Amblypygid Phrynus pseudoparvulus (Class Arachnida, Order Amblypygi)? (Eileen A. Hebets, Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio, Samuel Aguilar-Arguello, et al.) Behavioural Processes (2014)

Like many other nocturnal arthropods, the amblypygid Phrynus pseudoparvulus is capable of homing. The environment through which these predators navigate is a dense and heterogeneous tropical forest understory and the mechanism(s) underlying their putatively complex ...

Nocturnal Homing in the Tropical Amblypygid Phrynus pseudoparvulus (Class Arachnida, Order Amblypygi) (Eileen A. Hebets, Eben Gering, Verner P. Bingman, et al.) Animal Cognition (2014)

Arthropods are renowned for their navigational capabilities, with numerous examples known from insects and crustaceans. Early studies of amblypygids (Class Arachnida, Order Amblypygi) also suggest complex nocturnal navigation, despite their apparent lack of visual adaptations ...

All the Better to See You With: A Review of Odonate Color Vision with Transcriptomic Insight into the Odonate Eye (Seth M. Bybee, K. Kaihileipihamekeola Johnson, Eben Gering, et al.) Organisms Diversity & Evolution (2012)

Although dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) represent some of the most advanced visual systems among insects, odonate visual systems are not as well understood as those of model or more economically important insects. Yet, with ...

A Method for Rearing Large Quantities of the Damselfly, Ischnura ramburii (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), in the Laboratory (Jason L. Locklin, Joshua S. Huckabee and Eben Gering) Florida Entomologist (2012)

Laboratory based experimental designs typically require large sample sizes of genetically related organisms at the same developmental stage. Several described methods for rearing damselflies have been published, but these methods require laborious techniques when rearing ...

Variation in Flight Morphology in a Damselfly with Female-Limited Polymorphism (Emily Jane McTavish, Genevieve K. Smith, Rafael F. Guerrero, et al.) Evolutionary Ecology Research (2012)

Background: Female-limited colour polymorphisms occur in many species of dragonflies and damselflies. Often one female morph appears male-like in coloration (androchromes) whereas one or more others are distinct from males (gynochromes). These androchromes are hypothesized ...

Aposematic Signal Variation Predicts Male-Male Interactions in a Polymorphic Poison Frog (Laura Crothers, Eben Gering and Molly Cummings) Evolution (2011)

Many species use conspicuous “aposematic” signals to communicate unpalatability/unprofitability to potential predators. Although aposematic traits are generally considered to be classic examples of evolution by natural selection, they can also function in the context of ...

Theobroma Cacao L. (Malvaceae) Agroecology in Kauai: A Case Study (Genevieve K. Smith, Eben Gering, Rafael F. Guerrero, et al.) Pacific Agriculture and National Resources (2009)

Theobroma cacao L. (cacao) is a widely cultivated tree of Neotropical origin and the source of cocoa beans and chocolate. Limited cocoa production is currently underway on the islands of Hawaii, but the factors that ...

Molecular Evolution of Cytochrome b in High- and Low-Altitude Deer Mice (Genus Peromyscus) (Eben Gering, J. C. Opazo and J. F. Storz) Heredity (2008)

Patterns of amino-acid polymorphism in human mitochondrial genes have been interpreted as evidence for divergent selection among populations that inhabit climatically distinct environments. If similar patterns are mirrored in other broadly distributed mammalian species, then ...

Prevalence and Diversity of Avian Hematozoan Parasites in Asia: A Regional Study (Farah Ishtiaq, Eben Gering, Jon H. Rappole, et al.) Journal of Wildlife Diseases (2007)

Tissue samples from 699 birds from three regions of Asia (Myanmar, India, and South Korea) were screened for evidence of infection by avian parasites in the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus. Samples were collected from November ...

The Molecular Basis of High-Altitude Adaptation in Deer Mice (Jay F. Storz, Stephen J. Sabatino, Federico G. Hoffmann, et al.) PLoS Genetics (2007)

Elucidating genetic mechanisms of adaptation is a goal of central importance in evolutionary biology, yet few empirical studies have succeeded in documenting causal links between molecular variation and organismal fitness in natural populations. Here we ...

Avian Hematozoa in South America: a Comparison of Temperate and Tropical Zones (Kate L. Durrant, Jon S. Beadell, Farah Ishtiaq, et al.) Ornithological Monographs (2006)

We used screening techniques based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to explore the avian hematozoan parasites (Plasmodium spp. and Haemoproteus spp.) of two previously uninvestigated regions of continental South America. Comparisons of tropical-zone Guyana and ...

Prevalence and Differential Host‐Specificity of Two Avian Blood Parasite Genera in the Australo‐Papuan Region (Jon S. Beadell, Eben Gering, Jeremy Austin, et al.) Molecular Ecology (2004)

The degree to which widespread avian blood parasites in the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus pose a threat to novel hosts depends in part on the degree to which they are constrained to a particular host ...