Publications

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Manuscripts in THE PIPELINE

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  • Zhao E, de Roode JC, Villa SM. Divergent migratory behavior facilitates pre-zygotic reproductive isolation among populations of monarch butterflies. (in prep)


Published

2023

  • Villa SM*, Chen JZ*, Kwong Z, Acosta A, Vega NM, Gerardo NM. 2023. Specialized acquisition behaviors maintain reliable environmental transmission in an insect-microbial mutualism. Current Biology. 33: 1-9. * These authors contributed equally to this work. [ pdf ] [ Press: Science, Science News, New Scientist, The Science Times ]

2022

  • Babalola T, de Roode JC, Villa SM. 2022. Experimental inoculations reveal the influence of parasites on monarch butterfly mating success. Journal of Parasitology. 108: 289-300. [ pdf ]

  • Villa SM, Kelly KP, Hollimon MG, Protil III KJ, de Roode JC. 2022. Lack of inbreeding avoidance during mate selection in monarch butterflies. Behavioural Processes. 198: 104630. [ pdf ]

  • Alaidrous W, Villa SM, de Roode JC, Majewska AA . 2022. Crowding does not affect monarch butterflies’ resistance to a protozoan parasite. Ecology and Evolution. 12: e8791. [ pdf ]

2021

  • Villa SM, Han D, Jordan ME, Gerardo NM. 2021. The resilience of reproductive interference. Evolutionary Ecology 35: 537:553. [ pdf ]

  • Baldwin-Brown JG, Villa SM, Vickery AI, Johnson KP, Bush SE, Clayton DH, Shapiro MD. 2021. The assembled and annotated genome of the pigeon louse Columbicola columbae, a model ectoparasite. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 11: jkab009. [ pdf ]

2019

  • Villa SM, Altuna JA, Ruff JS, Beach AB, Mulvey LI, Poole EJ, Campbell HE, Johnson KP, Shapiro MD, Bush SE, and Clayton DH. 2019. Rapid experimental evolution of reproductive isolation from a single natural population. PNAS 116: 13440-13445.

    [ pdf ] [ Recommenced by faculty of 1000 ]

2018

  • Villa SM, Koop JAH, Le Bohec C, and Clayton DH. 2018. Beak of the pinch: anti-parasite traits are similar among Darwin’s finch species. Evolutionary Ecology 32: 443-452. [ pdf ] [ Recommended by faculty of 1000 ]

  • Villa SM, Evans MD, Subhani YK, Altuna JA, Bush SE and Clayton DH. 2018. Body size and fecundity are correlated in feather lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): Implication of Harrison’s Rule. Ecological Entomology 43: 394-396. [ pdf ]

2017

  • Sweet AD, Boyd BM, Allen JM, Villa SM, Valim MP, Rivera-Parra JL, Wilson RE and Johnson KP. 2017. Integrating phylogenomic and population genomic patterns in avian lice provides a more complete picture of parasite evolution. Evolution 72: 95-112. [ pdf ]

  • Boyd BM, Allen JA, Nguyen N, Sweet AD, Warnow T, Shapiro MD, Villa SM, Bush SE, Clayton DH and Johnson KP. 2017. Phylogenomics using target-restricted assembly resolves intra-generic relationships of parasitic lice (Phthiraptera: Columbicola). Systematic Biology 66: 896-911. [ pdf ]

2016

  • Villa SM*, Goodman GB*, Ruff JS and Clayton DH. 2016. Does allopreening control avian ectoparasites? Biology Letters 12: 20160362. * These authors contributed equally to this work. [ pdf ]

  • Villa SM, Campbell HE, Bush SE and Clayton DH. 2016. Does anti-parasite behavior improve with experience? An experimental test of the priming hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology 27: 1167-1171. [ pdf ]

  • Bartlow A, Villa SM, Thompson MW and Bush SE. 2016. Walk or ride? Phoretic behavior of amblyceran and ischnoceran lice. International Journal of Parasitology 46: 221-227. [ pdf ] [ issue cover ]

2014

  • Makarikov AA, Tkach VV, Villa SM and Bush SE. 2014. Description of two new species of Hymenolepis Weiland, 1858 (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) from rodents on the Luzon Island, Philippines. Systematic Parasitology 90: 27-37. [ pdf ]

2013

  • Villa SM, Le Bohec C, Koop JAH, Proctor HC and Clayton DH. 2013. Diversity of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) on Darwin's finches. Journal of Parasitology 99: 756-762. [ pdf ]

2012

  • Bush SE, Villa SM , Boves TJ , Brewer D and Belthoff JR. 2012. Influence of bill and foot morphology on the ectoparasites of Barn Owls. Journal of Parasitology 98: 256–261. [ pdf ]