Department of Biology

Fordyce, J. A., R. D. DiMarco, B. A. Blankenship, and C. C. Nice. 2010. Host plant trichomes and the advantage of being big: progeny size variation of the pipevine swallowtail. Ecological Entomology 35:104-107. PDF

Nice, C. C., Z. Gompert, M. L. Forister, and J. A. Fordyce. 2009. An unseen foe in arthropod conservation efforts: The case of Wolbachia infections
in the Karner blue butterfly. Biological Conservation: 142:3137-3146. PDF

Forister, M L., C. C. Nice, J. A. Fordyce, and Z. Gompert. 2009. Host range evolution is not driven by the optimization of larval performance: the case of Lycaeides melissa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and the colonization of alfalfa. Oecologia 160:551-561. PDF

Lucas, L. K.,  Z. Gompert, J. R. Ott and C. C. Nice. 2009. Geographic and genetic isolation in spring-associated Eurycea salamanders endemic to the Edward’s Plateau region of Texas. Conservation Genetics 10:1309-1319. PDF

Lucas, L. K.,  J. N. Fries, C. R. Gabor and C. C. Nice. 2009. Genetic variation and structure in Eurycea nana, a federally threatened salamander endemic to the San Marcos springs. Journal of Herpetology 43(2):220-227. PDF

Gompert, Z.,, M.L. Forister, J.A. Fordyce & C.C. Nice. 2008.Widespread mito-nuclear discordance with evidence for introgressive hybridization and selective sweeps in Lycaeides. Molecular Ecology 17:5231-5244. PDF

Gompert, Z, J. A. Fordyce, M. L. Forister, and C. C. Nice. 2008. Recent colonization and radiation of North American Lycaeides (Plebejus) inferred from mtDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:461-490. PDF

Fordyce, J. A.  and C. C. Nice. 2008. Antagonistic, stage-specific selection on defensive chemical sequestration in a toxic butterfly. Evolution 62: 1610-1617. PDF

Lucas, L. K., J. A. Fordyce, and C. Nice. 2008. Patterns of genitalic morphology around suture zones in North American Lycaeides (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): Implications for taxonomy and historical biogeography. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(1):172-180. PDF

Forister, M L., C. C. Nice, J. A. Fordyce, Z. Gompert and A. M. Shapiro. 2008. Considering evolutionary processes in the use of single-locus genetic data for conservation, with examples from the Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Conservation 12:37-51. PDF

Gompert, Z, J. A. Fordyce, M. L. Forister, A. M. Shapiro and C. C. Nice. 2006. Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat. Science 314: 1923-1925. PDF SOM [Published online 30 November 2006 (10.1126/science.1135875) Abstract PDF]

Crutsinger, G. M., M. D. Collins, J. A. Fordyce, Z. Gompert, C. C. Nice and N. J. Sanders. 2006. Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process. Science 313:966-968 (18 August 2006). PDF, SOM

Nice, C. C. and J. A. Fordyce. 2006. How caterpillars avoid overheating: behavioral and phenotypic plasticity of pipevine swallowtail larvae. Oecologia 146:541-548. PDF