Publications

Here is a list of selected publications. Crawford Lab authors are in bold.

2020

Guerra, V., Haynes, G., Byrne, M., Yasuda, N., Adachi, S., Nakamura, M., … & Hart, M. W. (2020). Nonspecific expression of fertilization genes in the crown‐of‐thorns Acanthaster cf. solaris: Unexpected evidence of hermaphroditism in a coral reef predator. Molecular Ecology, 29(2), 363-379.

2019

Tucker, C. M., Aze, T., Cadotte, M. W., Cantalapiedra, J. L., Chisholm, C., Díaz, S., Mooers, A. Ø., … & Pennell, M. W. (2019). Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history. Biological Reviews, 94(5), 1740-1760.

Crespi, B. J. (2019). Comparative psychopharmacology of autism and psychotic-affective disorders suggests new targets for treatment. Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2019(1), 149-168.

Ponisio, L. C., de Valpine, P., M’Gonigle, L. K., & Kremen, C. (2019). Proximity of restored hedgerows interacts with local floral diversity and species’ traits to shape long‐term pollinator metacommunity dynamics. Ecology letters, 22(7), 1048-1060.

Crespi, B. J. (2019). Why and how imprinted genes drive fetal programming. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 10.

Morgan, C. C., & Hart, M. W. (2019). Molecular evolution of mammalian genes with epistatic interactions in fertilization. BMC evolutionary biology, 19(1), 154.

Wood, B., & Collard, M. (2019). The meaning of Homo. Ludus Vitalis, 9(15), 63-74.

Raffield, B., Price, N., & Collard, M. (2019). Religious belief and cooperation: a view from Viking-age Scandinavia. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 9(1), 2-22.

Cenzer, M., & M’Gonigle, L. K. (2019). Local adaptation in dispersal in multi‐resource landscapes. Evolution, 73(4), 648-660.

Salminen, I. I., Crespi, B. J., & Mokkonen, M. (2019). Baby food and bedtime: Evidence for opposite phenotypes from different genetic and epigenetic alterations in Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. SAGE open medicine, 7, 2050312118823585.

Weedop, K. B., Mooers, A. Ø., Tucker, C. M., & Pearse, W. D. (2019). The effect of phylogenetic uncertainty and imputation on EDGE Scores. Animal Conservation, 22(6), 527-536.

Monroe, M. J., Butchart, S. H., Mooers, A. O., & Bokma, F. (2019). The dynamics underlying avian extinction trajectories forecast a wave of extinctions. Biology Letters, 15(12), 20190633.

Biega, A. M., Lamont, M., Mooers, A., Bowkett, A. E., & Martin, T. E. (2019). Guiding the prioritization of the most endangered and evolutionary distinct birds for new zoo conservation programs. Zoo biology, 38(3), 305-315.

Crespi, B., & Dinsdale, N. (2019). Autism and psychosis as diametrical disorders of embodiment. Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2019(1), 121-138.

Crespi, B., Dinsdale, N., Read, S., & Hurd, P. (2019). Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning. PloS one, 14(3), e0213456.

Salminen, I., Read, S., Hurd, P., & Crespi, B. (2019). Genetic variation of UBE3A is associated with schizotypy in a population of typical individuals. Psychiatry research, 275, 94-99.

Beausoleil, M. O., Frishkoff, L. O., M’Gonigle, L. K., Raeymaekers, J. A., Knutie, S. A., De León, L. F., … & Podos, J. (2019). Temporally varying disruptive selection in the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1916), 20192290.

Lertzman-Lepofsky, G., Mooers, A. Ø., & Greenberg, D. A. (2019). Ecological constraints associated with genome size across salamander lineages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1911), 20191780.

2018

Stein, R. W., Mull, C. G., Kuhn, T. S., Aschliman, N. C., Davidson, L. N., Joy, J. B., … & Mooers, A. O. (2018). Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras. Nature ecology & evolution, 2(2), 288-298.

Nosil, P., Villoutreix, R., de Carvalho, C. F., Farkas, T. E., Soria-Carrasco, V., Feder, J. L., … Crespi, B. J. & Gompert, Z. (2018). Natural selection and the predictability of evolution in Timema stick insects. Science, 359(6377), 765-770.

Mokkonen, M., Koskela, E., Procyshyn, T., & Crespi, B. (2018). Socio-reproductive Conflicts and the Father’s Curse Dilemma. The American Naturalist, 192(2), 250-262.

McCauley, B., Maxwell, D., & Collard, M. (2018). A Cross-cultural Perspective on Upper Palaeolithic Hand Images with Missing Phalanges. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 1(4), 314-333.

Kremen, C., M’Gonigle, L. K., & Ponisio, L. C. (2018). Pollinator community assembly tracks changes in floral resources as restored hedgerows mature in agricultural landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, 170.

Hart, M. W., Stover, D. A., Guerra, V., Mozaffari, S. V., Ober, C., Mugal, C. F., & Kaj, I. (2018). Positive selection on human gamete-recognition genes. PeerJ, 6, e4259.

Chaudhary, A., Pourfaraj, V., & Mooers, A. O. (2018). Projecting global land use‐driven evolutionary history loss. Diversity and Distributions, 24(2), 158-167.

Del Giudice, M., & Crespi, B. J. (2018). Basic functional trade-offs in cognition: An integrative framework. Cognition, 179, 56-70.

Crespi, B., Read, S., Salminen, I., & Hurd, P. (2018). A genetic locus for paranoia. Biology letters, 14(1), 20170694.

Chaudhary, A., & Mooers, A. O. (2018). Terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity loss under future global land use change scenarios. Sustainability, 10(8), 2764.

2017

Mazel, F., Mooers, A. O., Riva, G. V. D., & Pennell, M. W. (2017). Conserving phylogenetic diversity can be a poor strategy for conserving functional diversity. Systematic Biology, 66(6), 1019-1027.

Hart, M. W., & Guerra, V. (2017). Finding genes and lineages under selection in speciation. Molecular ecology, 26(14), 3587-3590.

McCarthy, I. P., Collard, M., & Johnson, M. (2017). Adaptive organizational resilience: an evolutionary perspective. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 28, 33-40.

Riesch, R., Muschick, M., Lindtke, D., Villoutreix, R., Comeault, A. A., Farkas, T. E., … Crespi, B. J. & Nosil, P. (2017). Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation. Nature ecology & evolution, 1(4), 1-13.

Greenberg, D. A., & Mooers, A. Ø. (2017). Linking speciation to extinction: Diversification raises contemporary extinction risk in amphibians. Evolution Letters, 1(1), 40-48.

Dinsdale, N. L., & Crespi, B. J. (2017). Revisiting the wandering womb: Oxytocin in endometriosis and bipolar disorder. Hormones and Behavior, 96, 69-83.

Raffield, B., Price, N., & Collard, M. (2017). Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 13, 165-209.

M’Gonigle, L. K., Williams, N. M., Lonsdorf, E., & Kremen, C. (2017). A tool for selecting plants when restoring habitat for pollinators. Conservation letters, 10(1), 105-111.

Puritz, J. B., Keever, C. C., Addison, J. A., Barbosa, S. S., Byrne, M., Hart, M. W., … & Toonen, R. J. (2017). Life‐history predicts past and present population connectivity in two sympatric sea stars. Ecology and evolution, 7(11), 3916-3930.

Frishkoff, L. O., de Valpine, P., & M’Gonigle, L. K. (2017). Phylogenetic occupancy models integrate imperfect detection and phylogenetic signal to analyze community structure. Ecology, 98(1), 198-210.

Procyshyn, T. L., Spence, J., Read, S., Watson, N. V., & Crespi, B. J. (2017). The Williams syndrome prosociality gene GTF2I mediates oxytocin reactivity and social anxiety in a healthy population. Biology letters, 13(4), 20170051.

Greenberg, D. A., Palen, W. J., & Mooers, A. Ø. (2017). Amphibian species traits, evolutionary history and environment predict Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection patterns, but not extinction risk. Evolutionary applications, 10(10), 1130-1145.

Carleton, W. C., Campbell, D., & Collard, M. (2017). Increasing temperature exacerbated Classic Maya conflict over the long term. Quaternary Science Reviews, 163, 209-218.

Tucker, C. M., Cadotte, M. W., Carvalho, S. B., Davies, T. J., Ferrier, S., Fritz, S. A., Mooers, A.,… & Pavoine, S. (2017). A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology. Biological Reviews, 92(2), 698-715.

Ponisio, L. C., & M’Gonigle, L. K. (2017). Coevolution leaves a weak signal on ecological networks. Ecosphere, 8(4), e01798.

Crespi, B. J. (2017). Shared sociogenetic basis of honey bee behavior and human risk for autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(36), 9502-9504.

Armeanu, R., Mokkonen, M., & Crespi, B. (2017). Meta-analysis of BDNF levels in autism. Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 37(5), 949-954.

Raffield, B., Price, N., & Collard, M. (2017). Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon: an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(3), 315-324.

Waldron, A., Miller, D. C., Redding, D., Mooers, A., Kuhn, T. S., Nibbelink, N., … & Gittleman, J. L. (2017). Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending. Nature, 551(7680), 364-367.

Mazel, F., Pennell, M. W., Cadotte, M. W., Diaz, S., Dalla Riva, G. V., Grenyer, R., Mooers, A., … & Pearse, W. D. (2018). Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-9.

2016

Dembo, M., Radovic, D., Garvin, H.M., Laird, M.F., Schroeder, L., Scott, L.E., Ackermann, R.R., de Ruiter, D.J., Mooers, A.O., & M. Collard. 2016. The evolutionary relationships and age of Homo naledi: an assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods. Journal of Human Evolution 97:17-26.

Biega, A., Greenberg, D.A., Mooers, A.O,  Jones, O.R., and T. E. Martin. 2016.  Global representation of threatened amphibians ex situ is bolstered by non-traditional zoos, but gaps remain.  Animal Conservation. Early on-line version.

Jensen, E.L., Mooers, A.O., Caccone, A., and M. Russello. 2016. Determining the optimum complementary sets of taxa for conservation using evolutionary isolation. PeerJ.  10.7717/peerj.2350.

Hurteau, L.A., Mooers, A.O., Reynolds, J.D., and M.D. Hocking. 2016. Salmon nutrients are associated with the phylogenetic dispersion of riparian flowering-plant assemblages. Ecology. online version (an undergraduate thesis: congratulations to Leslie for application and tenacity.)

Tucker, C.M., Cadotte, M.W., Carvalho, S.B., Davies, T.J., Ferrier, S., Fritz, S.A., Grenyer, R., Helmus, M.R., Jin, L.S., Mooers, A.O., Pavoine, S., Purschke, O., Redding, D.W., Rosauer, D.F., Winter, W., and F. Mazel. 2016. A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology. Biological Reviews. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12252

Sandkam, B., Young, M., and F. Breden. Beauty in the eyes of the beholders: Color vision is tuned to mate preference in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Molecular Ecology (in press).

Procyshyn, T., Hurd, P., Crespi, B. (2016) Association testing of vasopressin receptor 1a microsatellite polymorphisms in non-clinical autism spectrum phenotypes. Autism Research (in press).

Crespi, B. (2016) Autism as a disorder of high intelligence. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Jun 30;10:300. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00300. (PDF)

Armeanu, R., Mokkonen, M., and Crespi, B. (2016) Meta-analysis of BDNF in autism. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (published online 8 August 2016). (PDF)

Crespi, B., Leach, E., Dinsdale, N., Hurd , P. (2016) Imagination in human social cognition, autism, and psychotic-affective conditions. Cognition 150:181-199. (PDF)

Robinson, K.J., Hurd, P. Read, S., Crespi, B. (2016) The PCSK6 gene is associated with handedness, the autism spectrum, and magical ideation in a non-clinical population. Neuropsychologia 84:205-212. (PDF)

Dinsdale, N., Mokkonen, M., Crespi, B. (2016) The ‘extreme female brain’; increased cognitive empathy as a dimension of psychopathology. Evolution and Human Behaviour 37:323-336. (PDF)

Crespi, B. (2016) The kin selection of Religion.  In: Oxford Handbook of the Evolution of Religion. Edited by J. M. Liddle and T. Shackleford. (PDF)