Linnen lab publications (click on title for link to pdf)

Vertacnik, K.L., Herrig, D.Kl, Godfrey, R.K., Hill, T., Geib, S.M., Unckless, R.L., Nelson, D.R., and Linnen, C.R. 2021. Ecological correlates of gene family size in a pine-feeding sawfly genome and across Hymenoptera. bioRxiv.

Bendall, E., Mattingly, K.M., Moehring, A. and Linnen, C.R., 2020. Lack of intrinsic postzygotic isolation in haplodiploid male hybrids despite high genetic distance. bioRxiv.

Terbot, J.W. and Linnen, C.R., 2019. Mother knows best: maternal egg-clutch size predicts larval group size in pine sawflies (genus Neodiprion). bioRxiv.

Bendall, E.E., Bagley, R.K., Sousa,V.C.*, and Linnen, C.R.*. 2022. Faster-haplodiploid evolution under divergence-with-gene-flow: simulations and empirical data from pine-feeding hymenopterans. Molecular Ecology, Accepted. (*authors contributed equally)

Lindstedt, C., Bagley, R.K., Calhim, S. Jones, M. and Linnen, C.R. 2022. The impact of life stage and pigment source on the evolution of novel warning signal traits. Evolution, In Press.

Harris, R.B., Irwin, K., Jones, M.R., Laurent, S., Barrett, R.D.H., Nachman, M.W., Good, J.M., Linnen, C.R., Jensen, J.D. and Pfeifer, S.P., 2019. The population genetics of crypsis in vertebrates: recent insights from mice, hares, and lizards. Heredity, 124(1), pp.1-14.

Linnen, C.R., 2018. Predicting evolutionary predictability. Molecular ecology, 27(12), pp.2647-2650.

Linnen, C.R., O’Quin, C.T., Shackleford, T., Sears, C.R. and Lindstedt, C., 2018. Genetic basis of body color and spotting pattern in redheaded pine sawfly larvae (Neodiprion lecontei). Genetics, 209(1), pp.291-305.

Pfeifer, S.P., Laurent, S., Sousa, V.C., Linnen, C.R., Foll, M., Excoffier, L., Hoekstra, H.E. and Jensen, J.D., 2018. The evolutionary history of Nebraska deer mice: local adaptation in the face of strong gene flow. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(4), pp.792-806.

Bendall, E.E., Vertacnik, K.L. and Linnen, C.R., 2017. Oviposition traits generate extrinsic postzygotic isolation between two pine sawfly species. BMC evolutionary biology, 17(1), p.26.

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Glastad, K.M., Arsenault, S.V., Vertacnik, K.L., Geib, S.M., Kay, S., Danforth, B.N., Rehan, S.M., Linnen, C.R., Kocher, S.D. and Hunt, B.G., 2017. Variation in DNA methylation is not consistently reflected by sociality in Hymenoptera. Genome biology and evolution, 9(6), pp.1687-1698.

Terbot, J.W., Gaynor, R.L. and Linnen, C.R., 2017. Gregariousness does not vary with geography, developmental stage, or group relatedness in feeding redheaded pine sawfly larvae. Ecology and Evolution, 7(11), pp.3689-3702.

Vertacnik, K.L. and Linnen, C.R., 2017. Evolutionary genetics of host shifts in herbivorous insects: insights from the age of genomics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1389(1), pp.186-212.

Bagley, R.K., Sousa, V.C., Niemiller, M.L. and Linnen, C.R., 2017. History, geography and host use shape genomewide patterns of genetic variation in the redheaded pine sawfly (Neodiprion lecontei). Molecular Ecology, 26(4), pp.1022-1044. Cover:

Mallarino, R., Linden, T.A., Linnen, C.R. and Hoekstra, H.E., 2017. The role of isoforms in the evolution of cryptic coloration in Peromyscus mice. Molecular Ecology, 26(1), pp.245-258.

Thompson, K.L., Linnen, C.R. and Kubatko, L., 2016. Tree-based quantitative trait mapping in the presence of external covariates. Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology, 15(6), pp.473-490.

Harper, K.E., Bagley, R.K., Thompson, K.L. and Linnen, C.R., 2016. Complementary sex determination, inbreeding depression and inbreeding avoidance in a gregarious sawfly. Heredity, 117(5), pp.326-335.

Patten, M.M., Carioscia, S.A. and Linnen, C.R., 2015. Biased introgression of mitochondrial and nuclear genes: a comparison of diploid and haplodiploid systems. Molecular ecology, 24(20), pp.5200-5210.

Brady, C.M., Asplen, M.K., Desneux, N., Heimpel, G.E., Hopper, K.R., Linnen, C.R., Oliver, K.M., Wulff, J.A. and White, J.A., 2014. Worldwide populations of the aphid Aphis craccivora are infected with diverse facultative bacterial symbionts. Microbial ecology, 67(1), pp.195-204.

Linnen, C.R., Poh, Y.P., Peterson, B.K., Barrett, R.D., Larson, J.G., Jensen, J.D. and Hoekstra, H.E., 2013. Adaptive evolution of multiple traits through multiple mutations at a single gene. Science, 339(6125), pp.1312-1316.

Thompson, K.L., Charnigo, C. and Linnen, C.R., 2013. Using Ancestral Information to Inform Analyses of Complex Data Sets. Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics, 4(5), 3pp.

Linnen, C.R. and Smith, D.R., 2012. Recognition of two additional pine-feeding Neodiprion species (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) in the eastern United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 114(4), pp.492-500.

Linnen, C.R. and Farrell, B.D., 2010. A test of the sympatric host race formation hypothesis in Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1697), pp.3131-3138.

Manceau, M., Domingues, V.S., Linnen, C.R., Rosenblum, E.B. and Hoekstra, H.E., 2010. Convergence in pigmentation at multiple levels: mutations, genes and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1552), pp.2439-2450.

Weber, J.N., Peters, M.B., Tsyusko, O.V., Linnen, C.R., Hagen, C., Schable, N.A., Tuberville, T.D., McKee, A.M., Lance, S.L., Jones, K.L. and Fisher, H.S., 2010. Five hundred microsatellite loci for Peromyscus. Conservation Genetics, 11(3), pp.1243-1246.

Linnen, C.R., Kingsley, E.P., Jensen, J.D. and Hoekstra, H.E., 2009. On the origin and spread of an adaptive allele in deer mice. Science, 325(5944), pp.1095-1098.

Linnen, C.R. and Hoekstra, H.E., 2009. Measuring natural selection on genotypes and phenotypes in the wild. In Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (Vol. 74, pp. 155-168). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Linnen, C.R. and Farrell, B.D., 2008. Comparison of methods for species-tree inference in the sawfly genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Systematic Biology, 57(6), pp.876-890. Cover:

Linnen, C.R. and Farrell, B.D., 2008. Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes reveals evolutionary relationships and mitochondrial introgression in the sertifer species group of the genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48(1), pp.240-257.

Linnen, C.R. and Farrell, B.D., 2007. Mitonuclear discordance is caused by rampant mitochondrial introgression in Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) sawflies. Evolution, 61(6), pp.1417-1438

Hunter, M.D., Linnen, C.R. and Reynolds, B.C., 2003. Effects of endemic densities of canopy herbivores on nutrient dynamics along a gradient in elevation in the southern Appalachians. Pedobiologia, 47(3), pp.231-244.

Linnen, C., Tatar, M. and Promislow, D., 2001. Cultural artifacts: a comparison of senescence in natural, laboratory-adapted and artificially selected lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 3(8), pp.877-888.