Microbial Communities of Lycaenid Butterflies Do Not Correlate with Larval Diet

por Whitaker, Melissa R. L., Salzman, Shayla, Sanders, Jon, Kaltenpoth, Martin, Pierce, Naomi E.
Publicado 2016

Experimental evidence challenges the presumed defensive function of a “slow toxin” in cycads

por Whitaker, Melissa R. L., Gilliéron, Florence, Skirgaila, Christina, Mescher, Mark C., De Moraes, Consuelo M.
Publicado 2022

Combining stable isotope analysis with DNA metabarcoding improves inferences of trophic ecology

por Whitaker, Melissa R. L., Baker, Christopher C. M., Salzman, Shayla M., Martins, Dino J., Pierce, Naomi E.
Publicado 2019

Bacterial communities within Phengaris (Maculinea) alcon caterpillars are shifted following transition from solitary living to social parasitism of Myrmica ant colonies

por Szenteczki, Mark A., Pitteloud, Camille, Casacci, Luca P., Kešnerová, Lucie, Whitaker, Melissa R.L., Engel, Philipp, Vila, Roger, Alvarez, Nadir
Publicado 2019

Gut microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) are rich in siderophore biosynthesis

por Gutiérrez-García, Karina, Whitaker, Melissa R. L., Bustos-Díaz, Edder D., Salzman, Shayla, Ramos-Aboites, Hilda E., Reitz, Zachary L., Pierce, Naomi E., Cibrián-Jaramillo, Angélica, Barona-Gómez, Francisco
Publicado 2023

Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

por Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A., Quental, Tiago B., Tonini, João Filipe R., Talavera, Gerard, Crall, James D., Lamas, Gerardo, Busby, Robert C., Carvalho, Ana Paula S., Morais, Ana B., Oliveira Mega, Nicolás, Romanowski, Helena Piccoli, Liénard, Marjorie A., Salzman, Shayla, Whitaker, Melissa R. L., Kawahara, Akito Y., Lohman, David J., Robbins, Robert K., Pierce, Naomi E.
Publicado 2021