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Coleman Mackie (undergraduate)

2007 Munguia, P., C. Mackie and D.R. Levitan. The influence of stage-dependent dispersal on the population dynamics of three amphipod species. Oecologia 153:533-541


Casey terHorst

2007 Levitan, D.R., C.P. terHorst, N.D. Fogarty. The risk of polyspermy in three congeneric sea urchins and its implications for gametic incompatibility and reproductive isolation. Evolution 61:2007-2014

2007 Hoekman, D., C.P. terHorst, A. Bauer, S. Braun, P. Gignac, R. Hopkins, S. Joshi, K. Laskis, N. Sanscrainte, J. Travis, and T. E. Miller. Oviposition decreased in response to enriched water: a field study of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Ecological Entymology 32:92-96


Tamara McGovern

2005. Levitan, D.R. and T.M. McGovern. The Allee effect in the Sea. In (E.A. Norse and L.B. Crowder eds) Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity. Island Press

2004 Levitan, D.R., H. Fukami, J. Jara, D. Kline, T.A. McGovern, K.M. McGhee, C.A. Swanson and N. Knowlton. Mechanisms of reproductive isolation among sympatric broadcast-spawning corals of the Montastraea annularis complex. Evolution 58:308-323

2004 McGovern, T.M. Plastic reproductive strategies in a clonal marine invertebrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270: 2517-2522

2002 McGovern, T.M. Patterns of sexual and clonal reproduction in the brittle star Ophiactis savignyi (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) in the Florida Keys. Marine Ecology Progress Series 230:119-126

2002 McGovern, T.M. Sex ratio bias and clonal reproduction in the brittle star Ophiactis savignyi. Evolution 56:511-517


Greg Farley

2002 Farley, G.S. Helical nature of sperm swimming affects the fit of fertilization-kinetics models to empirical data. Biological Bulletin 203:51-57.

2001 Farley, G.S. and D.R. Levitan. The role of jelly coats in sperm-egg encounters, fertilization success, and selection on egg size in echinoids. American Naturalist 157:626-636.


Stacey Irvine (undergraduate)

2001 Levitan, D.R. and S.D. Irvine. Fertilization selection on egg and jelly-coat size in the sand dollar Dendraster excentricus. Evolution 55:2479-2483.

Katie McGhee

2006 McGhee, KE. The importance of life-history stage and individual variation in the allorecognition system of a marine sponge. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology in press.

2004 Levitan, D.R., H. Fukami, J. Jara, D. Kline, T.A. McGovern, K.M. McGhee, C.A. Swanson and N. Knowlton. Mechanisms of reproductive isolation among sympatric broadcast-spawning corals of the Montastraea annularis complex. Evolution.


David Ferrell

2006 Levitan, D.R. and D.L. Ferrell. Selection on gamete recognition proteins depends on sex, density and genotype frequency. Science 312:267-269

2005 Ferrell DL. Competitive equivalence maintains persistent inter-clonal boundaries. Oecologia 142:184-190

2004 Ferrell, D.L. Gastropod shell size and architecture influences conspecific interactions in an encrusting hydroid. Marine Ecology Progress Series 275:153-162

2004 Ferrell, D.L. Fitness consequences of allorecognition-mediated agonistic interactions in the colonial hydroid Hydractinia [GM]. Biological Bulletin 206:173-187


Pablo Munguia

2007 Munguia, P., C. Mackie and D.R. Levitan. The influence of stage-dependent dispersal on the population dynamics of three amphipod species. Oecologia 153:533-541

2007 Miller, T.E., J. H. Burns, P. Munguia, E. L. Walters, J. M. Kneitel, P. M. Richards, N. Mouquet, and H. L. Buckley. Evaluating Support for the Resource-Ratio Hypothesis: A Reply to Wilson et al. American Naturalist, 169:707-

2007 Munguia, P. Spatial structure of communities on dead pen shells (Atrina rigida) in seagrass beds. Marine Biology, in press

2006 Munguia, P., G. Guzman, F. Ramirez. Seasonal community structure of macromycetes in Veracruz, Mexico. Ecography, 29:57-65

2005 Miller, T.E., J.H. Burns, P. Munguia, E.L. Walters, J.M. Kneitel, P.M. Richards, N. Mouquet, H. Buckley. A Critical Review of Twenty Years' Use of the Resource-ratio Theory. The American Naturalist 165:439-448.

2005 Munguia, P., P. Lopez, I. Fortes. 2005. Seasonal changes in habitat characteristics for migrant waterbirds in Sayula, Western Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 50:318-322.

2004 Buckley, H., J. Burns, J. Kneitel, E.L. Walters, P. Munguia, and T.E. Miller. Patterns in the community structure of Sarracenia purpurea inquiline communities at a small scale. Community Ecology 5:181-188

2004 Munguia, P. Successional patterns of pen shell communities at local and regional scales. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:64-74

2004. Srivastava, D.S., J. Kolasa, J. Bengtsson, A. Gonzalez, S.P. Lawler, T. Miller, P. Munguia, D. Schneider, M.K. Trzcinski. Miniature worlds: Are natural microcosms the new model systems for ecology? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 379-384

2003 Guzman, G., P. Munguia, F. Rodriguez. Introduccin a la micobiota del Estado de Veracruz (Mexico). Boletin de la Sociedad Micologica de Madrid 27:223-229

2003 Munguia, P., L. Guzman-Davalos, and O. Rodriguez. Phenological approximations of macromycetes in western Mexican forests. Southwestern Naturalist 48:661-665

2003 Mouquet, N., P. Munguia, J. Kneitel and T.E. Miller. Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness. Oikos 103:618-626


Nicole Fogarty

2007 Levitan, D.R., C.P. terHorst, N.D. Fogarty. The risk of polyspermy in three congeneric sea urchins and its implications for gametic incompatibility and reproductive isolation. Evolution 61:2007-2014

2006 Vermeig, MJA, N. Fogarty and MW Miller. Pelagic conditions affect larval behavior, survival and settlement patterns in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata. Marine Ecology Progress Series 320:119-128

Cheryl Swanson

2004 Swanson, C.A. Effect of substrate availability and conspecific cues on communal ovipositon in the apple murex snail, Phyllonotus pomum. Marine Ecology Progress Series 275:185-197

2004 Levitan, D.R., H. Fukami, J. Jara, D. Kline, T.A. McGovern, K.M. McGhee, C.A. Swanson and N. Knowlton. Mechanisms of reproductive isolation among sympatric broadcast-spawning corals of the Montastraea annularis complex. Evolution 58:308-323