Browsing by Author "Pierce, Naomi"

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    • Animals in a Bacterial World, A New Imperative for the Life Sciences 

      McFall-Ngai, M.; Hadfield, M. G.; Bosch, T. C. G.; Carey, H. V.; Domazet-Loso, T.; Douglas, A. E.; Dubilier, N.; Eberl, G.; Fukami, T.; Gilbert, S. F.; Hentschel, U.; King, N.; Kjelleberg, S.; Knoll, Andrew Herbert; Kremer, N.; Mazmanian, S. K.; Metcalf, J. L.; Nealson, K.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Rawls, J. F.; Reid, A.; Ruby, E. G.; Rumpho, M.; Sanders, Jon Gregory; Tautz, D.; Wernegreen, J. J. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013)
      In the last two decades, the widespread application of genetic and genomic approaches has revealed a bacterial world astonishing in its ubiquity and diversity. This review examines how a growing knowledge of the vast range ...

    • Are Mutualisms Maintained by Host Sanctions or Partner Fidelity Feedback? 

      Weyl, Eric Glen; Frederickson, Megan E.; Yu, Douglas W.; Pierce, Naomi Ellen (National Academy of Sciences, 2010)
      Although mutualisms are common in all ecological communities and have played key roles in the diversification of life, our current understanding of the evolution of cooperation applies mostly to social behavior within a ...

    • Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade of Entomoplasmatales Bacteria 

      Funaro, Colin F.; Kronauer, Daniel J. C.; Moreau, Corrie S.; Goldman-Huertas, Benjamin; Pierce, Naomi E.; Russell, Jacob A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2010)
      In this article, we describe the distributions of Entomoplasmatales bacteria across the ants, identifying a novel lineage of gut bacteria that is unique to the army ants. While our findings indicate that the Entomoplasmatales ...

    • Asexual reproduction in introduced and native populations of the antCerapachys biroi 

      Kronauer, Daniel J. C.; Pierce, Naomi Ellen; Keller, Laurent (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      Asexual reproduction is particularly common among introduced species, probably because it helps to overcome the negative effects associated with low population densities during colonization. The ant Cerapachys biroi has ...

    • Asynchronous Diversification in a Specialized Plant-Pollinator Mutualism 

      Ramírez, Santiago R.; Eltz, Thomas; Fujiwara, Mikiko K.; Gerlach, Günter; Goldman-Huertas, Benjamin; Tsutsui, Neil D.; Pierce, Naomi E. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011)
      Most flowering plants establish mutualistic associations with insect pollinators to facilitate sexual reproduction. However, the evolutionary processes that gave rise to these associations remain poorly understood. We ...

    • Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants 

      Russell, J. A.; Moreau, C. S.; Goldman-Huertas, B.; Fujiwara, M.; Lohman, David J.; Pierce, Naomi E. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
      Ants are a dominant feature of terrestrial ecosystems, yet we know little about the forces that drive their evolution. Recent findings illustrate that their diets range from herbivorous to predaceous, with “herbivores” ...

    • Challenging Cooperation: Inequality, Global Commons, Future Generations 

      Hauser, Oliver Paul (2016-04-25)
      Cooperation is abundant in the world around us, spanning all levels of biological and social organisation. Yet the existence and maintenance of cooperation is puzzling from an evolutionary perspective because the costs ...

    • Comparison of rainforest butterfly assemblages across three biogeographical regions using standardized protocols 

      Basset, Yves; Eastwood, Rodney Gordon; Sam, Legi; Lohman, David J.; Novotny, Vojtech; Treuer, Tim; Miller, Scott E.; Weiblen, George D.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Sakchoowong, Watana; Kongnoo, Pitoon; Osorio-Arenas, Miguel A. (The Lepidoptera Research Foundation, 2011)
      Insects, like most other organisms, are more diverse in tropical than in temperate regions, but standardized comparisons of diversity among tropical regions are rare. Disentangling the effects of ecological, evolutionary, ...

    • Complexity in Mutualisms: Indirect Interactions With Multiple Parties 

      Baker, Christopher CM (2015-09-23)
      Ant-plants provide ants with rewards such as housing and food in exchange for protection from herbivores. These protection mutualisms are complex webs of both direct interactions, such as ants feeding on host plant extrafloral ...

    • Convergence in Multispecies Interactions 

      Bittleston, Leonora Sophia; Pierce, Naomi E.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Pringle, Anne (Elsevier BV, 2016)
      The concepts of convergent evolution and community convergence highlight how selective pressures can shape unrelated organisms or communities in similar ways. We propose a related concept, convergent interactions, to ...

    • Convergent Interactions Among Pitcher Plant Microcosms in North America and Southeast Asia 

      Bittleston, Leonora (2016-08-03)
      Ecosystems are composed of diverse suites of organisms whose interactions are mediated by both the biotic and abiotic constraints of their environments. The complexity of ecosystems makes them both resilient and difficult ...

    • Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring 

      Basset, Yves; Eastwood, Rodney Gordon; Sam, Legi; Lohman, David J.; Novotny, Vojtech; Treuer, Tim; Miller, Scott E.; Weiblen, George D.; Pierce, Naomi Ellen; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Sakchoowong, Watana; Kongnoo, Pitoon; Osorio-Arenas, Miguel A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      1. Standardised transect counts of butterflies in old-growth rainforests in different biogeographical regions are lacking. Such data are needed to mitigate the influence of methodological and environmental factors within ...

    • The Direct and Ecological Costs of an Ant-Plant Symbiosis 

      Frederickson, Megan E.; Ravenscraft, Alison; Miller, Gabriel; Hernández, Lina M. Arcila; Booth, Gregory; Pierce, Naomi Ellen (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
      How strong is selection for cheating in mutualisms? The answer depends on the type and magnitude of the costs of the mutualism. Here we investigated the direct and ecological costs of plant defense by ants in the association ...

    • Disentangling the Coevolutionary Histories of Animal Gut Microbiomes 

      Sanders, Jon G. (2015-05-17)
      Animals associate with microbes in complex interactions with profound fitness consequences. These interactions play an enormous role in the evolution of both partners, and recent advances in sequencing technology have ...

    • The double cloak of invisibility: phenotypic plasticity and larval decoration in a geometrid moth,Synchlora frondaria, across three diet treatments 

      Canfield, Michael Ross; Chang, Sue; Pierce, Naomi E. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
      1. Crypsis is one of the main defences that insects use to avoid predators, and both the juveniles and adults of many geometrid moths are remarkable in their ability to blend into different host backgrounds. The larvae of ...

    • The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes 

      Kocher, Sarah D; Li, Cai; Yang, Wei; Tan, Hao; Yi, Soojin V; Yang, Xingyu; Hoekstra, Hopi E; Zhang, Guojie; Pierce, Naomi E; Yu, Douglas W (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Taxa that harbor natural phenotypic variation are ideal for ecological genomic approaches aimed at understanding how the interplay between genetic and environmental factors can lead to the evolution of complex ...

    • Draft Genome Sequence of Erwinia tracheiphila, an Economically Important Bacterial Pathogen of Cucurbits 

      Shapiro, Lori R.; Scully, Erin D.; Roberts, Dana; Straub, Timothy J.; Geib, Scott M.; Park, Jihye; Stephenson, Andrew G.; Salaau Rojas, Erika; Liu, Quin; Beattie, Gwyn; Gleason, Mark; De Moraes, Consuelo M.; Mescher, Mark C.; Fleischer, Shelby G.; Kolter, Roberto; Pierce, Naomi; Zhaxybayeva, Olga (American Society for Microbiology, 2015)
      Erwinia tracheiphila is one of the most economically important pathogens of cucumbers, melons, squashes, pumpkins, and gourds in the northeastern and midwestern United States, yet its molecular pathology remains uninvestigated. ...

    • Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism 

      Weyl, E; Frederickson, M. E.; Yu, D. W.; Pierce, Naomi E. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)
      Although mutualisms are common in all ecological communities and have played key roles in the diversification of life, our current understanding of the evolution of cooperation applies mostly to social behavior within a ...

    • Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation 

      Archetti, Marco; Scheuring, István; Hoffman, Moshe; Frederickson, Megan E.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Yu, Douglas W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      We review recent work at the interface of economic game theory and evolutionary biology that provides new insights into the evolution of partner choice, host sanctions, partner fidelity feedback and public goods. (1) The ...

    • Erratum to: The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes 

      Kocher, Sarah D; Li, Cai; Yang, Wei; Tan, Hao; Yi, Soojin V; Yang, Xingyu; Hoekstra, Hopi E; Zhang, Guojie; Pierce, Naomi E; Yu, Douglas W (BioMed Central, 2015)
      During the type-setting of the final version of the article [1] some of the additional files were swapped, and several were completely replaced. The correct files are republished in this Erratum. Electronic supplementary ...