2025
Title: A Quantitative Survey of Cogradient and Countergradient Variation in Nature
Authors: Albecker, MA, Bittar, T., Trussell, GC, Lotterhos, KE.
Published in: Accepted at American Naturalist.
Title: Responses of Littorina spp. Intertidal Snails to Thermal Extremes Indicate Countergradient Variation in Fitness
Authors: Titmuss, FD, Albecker, MA, Lotterhos, KE.
Published in: Ecology and Evolution. Link to paper.
2023
Title: Responses to saltwater exposure vary across species, populations, and life-stages in anuran amphibians
Authors: Albecker, MA, McCoy, MW.
Published in: Conservation Physiology. Link to paper.
Title: Developmental plasticity in anurans: Meta-analysis reveals effects of larval environments on metamorphosis timing and body size
Authors: Albecker, MA, Strobel, SMK, Womack, MC.
Published in: Integrative and Comparative Biology. Link to paper.
2022
Title: Incorporating nonlinearity with generalized functional responses to simulate multiple predator effects
Authors: McCoy MW, Hamman, E., Albecker, MA, Wodjak, J. Vonesh, JR, Bolker, BM.
Published in: PeerJ. Link to paper.
Title: A novel quantitative approach for co-gradient variation and countergradient variation.
Authors: Albecker, MA, Trussell, GC, Lotterhos, KE.
Published in: Ecology Letters. Link to paper.
2021
Title: Does a complex life cycle promote or constrain adaptation to environmental change? Genome-informed approaches and insights for characterizing selection across stages of a life cycle
Authors: Albecker, MA*, Wilkins, L.*, Krueger-Hadfield, SA, Bashevkin, S., Sewell, MA, Hare, M., Hahn, M., Lotterhos, KE, Kindsvater, H., & Reitzel, A. (* Co-first Authors)
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science, Biology. Special Issue on Evolution in Changing Seas. Link to paper.
Title: Evolution in Changing Seas
Authors: Lotterhos, KE., Albecker, MA., Trussell, GC.
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science, Biology. Editorial for Special Issue on Evolution in Changing Seas. Link to paper.
Title: Functional genomics of local adaptation to saltwater environments in an amphibian
Authors: Albecker, MA, Stuckert, AMM., Balakrishnan, CN, McCoy, MW.
Published in: Molecular Ecology. Link to paper.
2020
Title: Influence of density and salinity larval development of salt-adapted and salt-naïve frog populations
Authors: Albecker, MA, M. Pahl, M. Smith, JG Wilson, MW McCoy.
Published in: Ecology and Evolution. Link to paper.
2019
Title: Local adaptation for enhanced salt tolerance reduces non-adaptive plasticity caused by osmotic stress
Authors: Albecker, MA and McCoy, MW
Published in: Evolution. Link to paper.
Title: Variation in the slimy salamander (Plethodon spp.) skin and gut microbial assemblages is explained by geographic distance and host affinity
Authors: Walker, DM, Hill, AJ, Albecker, MA, McCoy, MW, Grisnik, M., Romer, A., Grajal-Puche, A., Camp, C., Kelchear, C., Wooten, J., Rheubert, J., Graham, SP.
Published in: Microbial Ecology. Link to paper.
2018
Title: Comparative analysis of anuran skin microbiome in freshwater and saltwater invaded wetlands
Authors: Albecker, MA., Belden, LK, and McCoy, MW
Published in: Microbial Ecology. Link to paper.
Title: Habitat salinity alters dietary content and nematode infection in the American Green Treefrog, Hyla cinerea
Authors: Albecker, MA, Brantley Jr., WB, and MW. McCoy.
Published in: Southeastern Naturalist. Link to paper.
2017
Title: Adaptive responses to salinity stress across multiple life stages in anuran amphibians
Authors: Albecker, MA and McCoy, MW
Published in: Frontiers in Zoology. Link to paper.
2015
Title: Mismatched anti-predator behavioral responses in predator-naïve larval anurans.
Authors: Albecker, MA. and Vance-Chalcraft, HD
Published in: PeerJ. Link to paper
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