Publications

institutional access open access PDF * mentored undergraduate author

Chappell CR, Goddard PC, Golden LA, Hernandez J, Ortiz Chavez D, Hossine M, Herrera Paredes S, VanValkenburg E, Nell LA, Fukami T, Dhami MK. 2025. Transcriptional responses to priority effects in nectar yeast. Molecular Ecology 34(15): e17553. doi:10.1111/mec.17553

Botsch JC, Zaveri AN, Nell LA, McCormick AR, Book KR, Phillips JS, Einarsson Á, Ives AR. 2024. Disentangling the drivers of decadal body size decline in an insect population. Global Change Biology 30(1): e17014.
Nell LA, Weng YM, Phillips JS, Botsch JC, Book KR, Einarsson Á, Ives AR, Schoville SD. 2024. Shared features underlying compact genomes and extreme habitat use in chironomid midges. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(5): evae086.
Nell LA, Kishinevsky M, Bosch MJ, Sinclair C*, Bhat K*, Ernst N*, Boulaleh H*, Oliver KM, Ives AR. 2024. Dispersal stabilizes coupled ecological and evolutionary dynamics in a host-parasitoid system. Science 383(6688): 1240–1244. doi:10.1126/science.adg4602

McCary MA, Phillips JS, Ramiadantsoa T, Nell LA, McCormick AR, Botsch JC. 2021. Transient top-down and bottom-up effects of resources pulsed to multiple trophic levels. Ecology 102(1): e03197.
Northfield TD, Ripa J, Nell LA, Ives AR. 2021. Coevolution, diversification, and alternative states in two-trophic communities. Ecology Letters 24(2): 269–278.

Li D, Dinnage R, Nell LA, Helmus MR, Ives AR. 2020. phyr: an R package for phylogenetic species-distribution modelling in ecological communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1455–1463.
Nell LA. 2020. jackalope: a swift, versatile phylogenomic and high-throughput sequencing simulator. Molecular Ecology Resources 20(4): 1132–1140.

Brun A, Fernández Marinone G, Price ER, Nell LA, Simões BMV, Castellar A, Gontero-Fourcade M, Cruz-Neto AP, Karasov WH, Caviedes-Vidal E. 2019. Morphological bases for intestinal paracellular absorption in bats and rodents. Journal of Morphology 280(9): 1359–1369.

Greenbarg EH, Jiménez DA, Nell LA, Schmiedt CW. 2018. Pilot study: use of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in feline renal transplant recipients. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 20(4): 393–398.

Nell LA, Frederick PC, Mazzotti FJ, Vliet KA, Brandt LA. 2016. Presence of breeding birds improves body condition for a crocodilian nest protector. PLOS ONE 11(3): e0149572.

Nell LA, Frederick PC. 2015. Fallen nestlings and regurgitant as mechanisms of nutrient transfer from nesting wading birds to crocodilians. Wetlands 35(4): 723–732.

Barclay VC, Sim D, Chan BHK, Nell LA, Rabaa MA, Bell AS, Anders RF, Read AF. 2012. The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. PLOS Biology 10(7): e1001368.