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List of works by Scott P. Egan

A keeper of many crypts: a behaviour-manipulating parasite attacks a taxonomically diverse array of oak gall wasp species

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

A keeper of many crypts: the parasitoid Euderus set manipulates the behavior of a taxonomically diverse array of oak gall wasp species

A test of adaptive divergence in a newly discovered host association of the soapberry bug <i>Jadera haematoloma</i> on Mexican buckeye, <i>Ungnadia speciosa</i>

scientific article published on 18 November 2021

A test of genomic modularity among life-history adaptations promoting speciation with gene flow

scientific article

Asymmetric, but opposing reductions in immigrant viability and fecundity promote reproductive isolation among host-associated populations of an insect herbivore

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Can the genomics of ecological speciation be predicted across the divergence continuum from host races to species? A case study in Rhagoletis

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Cascading reproductive isolation: Plant phenology drives temporal isolation among populations of a host-specific herbivore

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Chromosomes of Belonocnema treatae Mayr, 1881 (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Coevolutionary Interactions between Sexual and Habitat Isolation during Reinforcement

scholarly article

Conservation in a cup of water: estimating biodiversity and population abundance from environmental DNA.

scientific article

Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores

scientific article published in 2021

Cryptic diversity in the North American Dromochorus tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae): a congruence-based method for species discovery

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Cynipid gall wasps

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

DNA-based species detection capabilities using laser transmission spectroscopy

scientific article published on 26 September 2012

Describing biodiversity in the genomics era: A new species of Nearctic Cynipidae gall wasp and its genome

scientific article

Description of a new species of Euderus Haliday from the southeastern United States (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae): the crypt-keeper wasp

scientific article (publication date: 12 January 2017)

Description of the herbivore and natural enemy community associated with the seeds of an invasive plant in Brazil

scientific article published in 2023

Development and field validation of an environmental DNA (eDNA) assay for invasive clams of the genus Corbicula

article

Developmental trajectories of gene expression reveal candidates for diapause termination: a key life-history transition in the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella

scientific article published in December 2011

Digest: Disentangled bank: Less diverse urban environments modify the shape and magnitude of natural selection

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Divergence and evolution of reproductive barriers among three allopatric populations of Rhagoletis cingulata across eastern North America and Mexico

Divergent host-plant use promotes reproductive isolation among cynipid gall wasp populations

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2012)

Diversity and distribution of Wolbachia in relation to geography, host plant affiliation and life cycle of a heterogonic gall wasp

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Early detection monitoring for aquatic non-indigenous species: Optimizing surveillance, incorporating advanced technologies, and identifying research needs.

scientific article

Ecological Adaptation and Speciation: The Evolutionary Significance of Habitat Avoidance as a Postzygotic Reproductive Barrier to Gene Flow

article

Ecologically dependent postmating isolation between sympatric host forms of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles

scientific article published on 29 October 2009

Environment and shipping drive environmental <scp>DNA</scp> beta‐diversity among commercial ports

scientific article published in 2023

Environmental DNA (eDNA) detects the invasive crayfishes Orconectes rusticus and Pacifastacus leniusculus in large lakes of North America

article

Environmental DNA (eDNA) detects the invasive rusty crayfish Orconectes rusticus at low abundances

scientific article

Environmental DNA detection of aquatic invasive plants in lab mesocosm and natural field conditions

scientific article published on 05 April 2018

Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Evidence for a recent horizontal transmission and spatial spread of Wolbachia from endemic Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera: Tephritidae) to invasive Rhagoletis cingulata in Europe.

scientific article published on 12 July 2013

Evidence for spatial clines and mixed geographic modes of speciation for North American cherry-infesting <i>Rhagoletis</i> (Diptera: Tephritidae) flies

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Experimental evidence of genome-wide impact of ecological selection during early stages of speciation-with-gene-flow

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Fate of Environmental Proteins (eProteins) from Genetically Engineered Crops in Streams is Controlled by Water pH and Ecosystem Metabolism

scientific article published on 23 March 2021

Genetic Evidence for the Introduction of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) into the Northwestern United States

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

Genetic identification of an unknown Rhagoletis fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) infesting Chinese crabapple: implications for apple pest management

scientific article published on 01 June 2013

Genome-wide congealing and rapid transitions across the speciation continuum during speciation with gene flow

scientific article

Genomic Differentiation during Speciation-with-Gene-Flow: Comparing Geographic and Host-Related Variation in Divergent Life History Adaptation in Rhagoletis pomonella.

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Geographic Life History Differences Predict Genomic Divergence Better than Mitochondrial Barcodes or Phenotype

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Geographic and Ecological Dimensions of Host Plant-Associated Genetic Differentiation and Speciation in the Rhagoletis cingulata (Diptera: Tephritidae) Sibling Species Group

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Heterogeneous genomic differentiation between walking-stick ecotypes: "isolation by adaptation" and multiple roles for divergent selection

scientific article published on 12 November 2007

Host plant associations and geography interact to shape diversification in a specialist insect herbivore

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Host plant quality and local adaptation determine the distribution of a gall-forming herbivore

scientific article published in November 2007

Human-mediated disturbance in multitrophic interactions results in outbreak levels of North America's most venomous caterpillar

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Hybridization and the build-up of genomic divergence during speciation

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Hybridization and the spread of the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae), in the northwestern United States

scientific article

Individual advantages to ecological specialization: insights on cognitive constraints from three conspecific taxa

scientific article published in April 2006

Interspecific patterns of phenotypic selection do not predict intraspecific patterns

scientific article published on 29 October 2013

Isolation by adaptation in Neochlamisus leaf beetles: host-related selection promotes neutral genomic divergence

scientific article published on October 14, 2011

Limited genetic evidence for host plant-related differentiation in the Western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens

article

Modelling heterogeneity among fitness functions using random regression

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Multilocus approaches for the measurement of selection on correlated genetic loci.

scientific article

Natural selection on gall size: variable contributions of individual host plants to population-wide patterns

scientific article published on July 21, 2011

One hundred and sixty years of taxonomic confusion resolved: Belonocnema (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) gall wasps associated with live oaks in the USA

scientific article

Ormyrus labotus (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae): Another Generalist That Should not be a Generalist is not a Generalist

scholarly article published in 2022

Parallel host‐plant‐associated differences in an extended phenotype between populations of six species of gall‐forming insects

scientific article published on 05 January 2022

Parallel patterns of morphological and behavioral variation among host-associated populations of two gall wasp species

scientific article

Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems

scientific article published in 2023

Patterns of genomic differentiation between ecologically differentiated M and S forms of Anopheles gambiae in West and Central Africa

scientific article published on January 2012

Phylogeography of Walnut-Infesting Rhagoletis suavis (Diptera: Tephritidae) Flies

article published in 2018

Postmating isolation and genetically variable host use in ecologically divergent host forms of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles

scientific article published on July 4, 2011

Rapid Invasive Species Detection by Combining Environmental DNA with Light Transmission Spectroscopy

article

Rapid molecular detection of invasive species in ballast and harbor water by integrating environmental DNA and light transmission spectroscopy

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Rapid quantitative protein detection by light transmission spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Risk Analysis and Bioeconomics of Invasive Species to Inform Policy and Management

article

Riverine distribution of mussel environmental DNA reflects a balance among density, transport, and removal processes

Selection and genomic differentiation during ecological speciation: isolating the contributions of host association via a comparative genome scan of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles

scientific article

Sequential divergence and the multiplicative origin of community diversity

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both

scientific article published in 2022

Species Diversity in the Braconid Wasp Genus Allorhogas (Doryctinae) Associated With Cynipid Galls on Live Oaks (Quercus: Fagaceae) Using Natural History, Phylogenetics, and Morphology

scientific article

Standing geographic variation in eclosion time and the genomics of host race formation in fruit flies

scientific article published in 2019

Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection's role in parallel speciation

scientific article

Tales from the crypt: a parasitoid manipulates the behaviour of its parasite host

scientific article published in January 2017

Target-Enriched Endosymbiont Sequencing (TEEseq): A New High-Throughput Sequencing Approach Applied to the Comprehensive Characterization of Endosymbionts

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Temporal isolation between sympatric host plants cascades across multiple trophic levels of host-associated insects

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Testing the Role of Habitat Isolation among Ecologically Divergent Gall Wasp Populations

scientific article published in 2012

The Geographic Distribution of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Western United States: Introduced Species or Native Population?

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The genomics of speciation-with-gene-flow

scientific article published on April 18, 2012

The potential role of spatial sorting in speciation and adaptive radiations

scientific article published in 2022

Tissue‐specific gene expression shows a cynipid wasp repurposes oak host gene networks to create a complex and novel parasite‐specific organ

scientific article published in 2021

Trade-off between fecundity and survival generates stabilizing selection on gall size

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Transport and instream removal of the Cry1Ab protein from genetically engineered maize is mediated by biofilms in experimental streams.

scientific article

Ultraconserved elements-based systematics reveals evolutionary patterns of host-plant family shifts and phytophagy within the predominantly parasitoid braconid wasp subfamily Doryctinae

scholarly article published in 2022

Water Flow and Biofilm Cover Influence Environmental DNA Detection in Recirculating Streams

scientific article published on 26 July 2018