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2025

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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.

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2023

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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​2021

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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.

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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.

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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.​

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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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