Publications
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current and former lab members in bold
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Published or In Press
2025
Sahlean, T.C., R.A. Martin, P. Spaseni, I. Gherghel, A. Strugariu. 2025. Melanism in polymorphic terrestrial snakes: A meta-analysis and systematic review. Journal of Biogeography. 52:27-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15013
2024
Diamond*, S.E., L. Kolaske, R.A. Martin*. 2024. Physiology evolves convergently but lags behind warming in cities. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64:402-413. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae034
Kim, B.Y., H.R. Gellert, S.H. Church, A. Suvorov, S.S. Anderson, O. Barmina, S.G. Beskid, A.A. Comeault, K.N. Crown, S.E. Diamond, S. Dorus, T. Fujichika, J.A. Hemker, J. Hrcek, M. Kankare, T. Katoh, K.N. Magnacca, R.A. Martin, T. Matsunaga, M.J. Medeiros, D.E. Miller, S. Pitnick, M. Schiffer, S. Simoni, T.E. Steenwinkel; Z.A. Syed, A. Takahashi, K. H-C Wei, T. Yokoyama, M.B. Eisen, A. Kopp, D. Matute, D.J. Obbard, P.M. O’Grady, D.K. Price, M.J. Toda, T. Werner, D.A. Petrov. 2024. Single-fly genome assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life. PLoS Biology. 22:e3002697 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002697
Prileson, E.G., R.A. Martin. 2024. Evolution and plasticity of physiological traits in the collembolan Orchesella villosa at fine spatial scales within the city. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. blae038. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae038.
Gherghel, I., R.A. Martin. Biotic interactions vary across species' ranges and are likely conserved through geological time. In Press. Journal of Biogeography.
2023
Maren Wellenreuther, Anne-Laure Ferchaud, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Nicolas Bierne, Alberto Soares Correa, Kathryn Elmer, Dylan Fraser, Danna Gifford, Zachariah Gompert, Marc Johnson, Rees Kassen, Ryan Martin, Mariah Meek, Joachim Mergeay, Claire Mérot, Kerry Naish, Shawn Narum, Paul Sunnucks, Frédéric Thomas, Peter Thrall, José Manuel Yáñez, Jiasui Zhan, Xiangjiang Zhan. 2023. For the love of fish, nature and people: A tribute to Professor Louis Bernatchez (1960–2023). Evolutionary Applications. 16:1663-1670.
Martin, R.A., C.R.B. da Silva, M.P. Moore, S.E. Diamond. When will a changing climate outpace adaptive evolution? 2023. WIRES Climate Change. e852. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.852 open access
E.G. Prileson, J. Clark, S.E. Diamond, A. Lenard, O.A. Medina Báez, A.R. Yilmaz, R.A. Martin. 2023. Keep your cool: Overwintering physiology in response to urbanization in the acorn ant, Temnothorax curvispinosus.. Journal of Thermal Biology. 114, 103591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103591
Strugariu, A., R.A. Martin. 2023. Factor in fear: Interference competition in polymorphic spadefoot toad tadpoles and its potential role in disruptive selection. Animals. 13:1264. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13071264 open access
R.A. Martin, Riesch, R. M. Plath, N.A. Al Hanosh T. Wronski. 2023. Reproductive Biology of Gazella arabica: Predictors of Offspring weight and Short- and Long-Term Offspring Survival. Current Zoology. zoac084, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac084
open access
2022
Diamond*, S.E., R.A. Martin*, G. Bellino, K.N. Crown, E.G. Prileson. 2022. Urban evolution of thermal physiology in a range-expanding, mycophagous fruit fly, Drosophila tripunctata. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. blac094, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac094.
Diamond, S.E., E.G. Prileson, R.A. Martin. Adaptation to urban environments. 2022. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 51:100893 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2022.100893
Yilmaz, A.R., Yoder, A., Diamond, S. E., Martin, R.A. 2022. Adaptation to urban heat islands enhances thermal performance following development under chronic thermal stress, but not benign conditions. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 95:302-316. https://doi.org/10.1086/720333
R. Riesch, Araújo, M.S., Bumgarner, S., Filla, C., de Pennafort Dezen, L., Goins, T.R., Lucion, D., Makowicz, A., Martin, R.A., Pirroni, S., Langerhans, R.B. 2022. Resource competition explains rare cannibalism in the wild in livebearing fish. Ecology and Evolution. 12:e8872. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8872 open access
Dunn, R.R., J.R. Burger, E.J. Carlen, A.M. Koltz, J.E. Light, R.A. Martin, J. Munshi-South, L.M. Nichols, E.L. Vargo, S. Yitbarek, Y. Zhao, A. Cibrian-Jaramillo. 2002. Urban Archipelagos: A Theory of City Biogeography and the Origin of Species. Frontiers in Conservation Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2022.761449 open access
2021
Diamond*, S.E., R. A. Martin*. 2021. Evolution in cities. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 52:519-540. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-021402
Moore, M.P., R.A. Martin. 2021. Natural selection on adults has trait-dependent consequences for juvenile evolution in dragonflies. The American Naturalist. 197:677–689. https://doi.org/10.1086/714048.
Martin, R.A., Chick, L., Garvin, M.L., S.E. Diamond. 2021. In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in response to urban adaptation in an acorn dwelling ant. Evolution. 75:876-887. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14191. open access
Diamond*, S. E., R. A. Martin*. 2021. Physiological adaptation to cities as a proxy to forecast global-scale responses to climate change. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(Suppl. 1). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.229336. open access
Diamond*, S. E., R. A. Martin*. Buying time: plasticity and population persistence. 2021. (book chapter in Phenotypic Plasticity: Causes, Consequences, Controversies, Edited by David Pfennig). open access
Yilmaz†, A.R., S.E. Diamond, R.A. Martin. 2021. Evidence for the evolution of thermal tolerance, but not desiccation tolerance, in response to hotter, drier city conditions in a cosmopolitan, terrestrial isopod. Evolutionary Applications. 14:12-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13052. open access
2020
de la Serna Buzón, S., R.A. Martin, D.W. Pfennig. 2020. Carryover effects and the evolution of polyphenism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131:622–631. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa133
Gherghel, I., R.A. Martin. 2020. Postglacial recolonization of North America by spadefoot toads: integrating niche and corridor modeling to study species’ range dynamics over geologic time. Ecography. 143:499-1509. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04942. open access
Diamond*, S.E., R.A. Martin*. 2020. Evolution is a double-edged sword, not a silver bullet, to confront climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Science for the Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. 1469:38-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14410
Lis3, C., M.P. Moore, R.A. Martin. 2020. Warm developmental temperatures induce non-adaptive plasticity in the intrasexually selected coloration of a dragonfly. Ecological Entomology. 45:663-670. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12839
Diamond*, S.E., R.A. Martin*. 2020. Evolutionary Consequences of the Urban Heat Island. In: Urban Evolutionary Biology. Edited by Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South and Anne Charmantier, Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press.DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198836841.003.0006
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, R.B. Langerhans. 2020. Multiple traits and multifarious environments:
integrated divergence of morphology and life history. Oikos. 129:480-492. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06344
Caruso, C.M., H. Maherali, R.A. Martin. 2020. A meta-analysis of natural selection on plant functional traits. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 181:44-55. https://doi.org/10.1086/706199
In the special issue Functional Trait Evolution
2019
Moore, M.P., R.A. Martin. On the evolution of carry-over effects. 2019. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88: 1832-1844. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13081
Moore, M.P., H. H. Whitman, and R.A. Martin. 2019. A mother’s legacy: the strength of maternal effects in animal populations. Ecology Letters. 22:1620-1628. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13351
Yilmaz, A.R., L. Chick, A. Perez, S.A. Strickler, S. Vaughn, R.A. Martin, S.A. Diamond. 2019. Remarkable insensitivity of acorn ant morphology to temperature decouples the evolution of physiological tolerance from body size under urban heat islands. Journal of Thermal Biology. 85: 102426 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102426
In the special issue The Evolution and adaptation of thermoregulation
Martin*, R.A., L. Chick, A. Yilmaz, S.E. Diamond*. 2019. Evolution, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the adaptive divergence of acorn ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline. Evolutionary Applications. 12:1678-1687. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12826. open access
Moore, M.P., C. Lis, I. Gherghel, and R.A. Martin. 2019. Temperature shapes the costs, benefits, and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly. Ecology Letters. 22:437-446. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13200
Rivkin L.R., J.S. Santangelo, M. Alberti, M.F.J. Aronson, C.W. de Keyzer, S.E. Diamond, M. Fortin, L.J. Frazee, A.J. Gorton, A.P. Hendry, Y. Liu, J.B. Losos, J.S. MacIvor, R.A. Martin, M. McDonnell, L.S. Miles, J. Munshi-South, R. Ness, A.E.M. Newman, M.R. Stothart, P. Theodorou, K.A. Thompson, B.C. Verrelli, A. Whitehead, K.M. Winchell, M.T.J. Johnson. 2019. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications. 12: 284-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12734. open access
Chick, L, S.A. Strickler, A. Perez1, R.A. Martin, and S.E. Diamond. 2019. Urban heat islands advance the timing of reproduction in a social insect. Journal of Thermal Biology. 80:119-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.01.004
Caruso, C.M., K. Eisen, R. A. Martin, and N. Sletvold. 2019. A meta-analysis of the agents of selection on floral traits. Evolution. 73:4-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13639
2018
Moore, M.P., C. Lis, R.A. Martin. 2018. Immune deployment increases larval vulnerability to predators and inhibits adult life-history traits in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31:1365-1376. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13337
Diamond, S.E., L. Chick, A. Perez, S.A. Strickler, and R.A. Martin. 2018. Evolution of thermal tolerance and its fitness consequences: parallel and non-parallel responses to urban heat islands across three cities. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 285:(1882). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0036
In the special issue The evolution of city life
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, S.E. Diamond, J. Jourdan, M. Plath, and R.B. Langerhans. 2018. Thermal regime drives a latitudinal gradient in morphology and life history in a livebearing fish. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125: 126–141. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly095
Moore, M.P., and R.A. Martin. 2018. Trade-offs between larval survival and adult ornament development depend on predator regime in a territorial dragonfly. Oecologia. 188: 97-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4171-x
Siepielski, A., M.B. Morrissey, M. Buoro, S. Carlson, C.M. Caruso, S.M. Clegg, T. Coulson, J. Di Battista, K.M. Gotanda, C.D. Francis, J. Hereford, J.G. Kingsolver, K.E. Augustine, L.E.B. Kruuk, R.A. Martin, B.C. Sheldon, N. Sletvold, E.I. Svensson, M.J. Wade, A.D.C. MacColl. 2018. Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection". Science. 359: eaan5760. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5760
Moore, M.P., C. Lis, and R.A. Martin. 2018. Larval body condition mediates predator-induced life-history variation in a dragonfly. Ecology.91: 224-230. doi:10.1002/ecy.2056. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2056
2017
Levis, N.A., R.A. Martin, K.A. O’Donnell, and D.W. Pfennig. 2017. Intraspecific adaptive radiation: competition, ecological opportunity, and the evolution of cryptic ecomorphological diversity within species. Evolution. 71: 2496–2509. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13313
Caruso*, C.M., R.A. Martin*, N. Sletvold, M.B. Morrissey, M.J. Wade, K.E. Augustine1, S.C. Carlson, A.D.C. MacColl, A.M. Siepielski, and J.G. Kingsolver. 2017. What are the environmental determinants of phenotypic selection? A meta-analysis of experimental studies. The American Naturalist 190: 363-376. https://doi.org/10.1086/692760
Krynak, K.L., D.J. Burke, R.A. Martin, P.M. Dennis. 2017. Gut microbiome composition is associated with cardiac disease in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). FEM Microbiology Letters 364: fnx149. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnx149
Diamond, S.E., L. Chick, A. Perez, S.A. Strickler, and R.A. Martin. 2017. Rapid evolution of ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121: 248-257. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blw047. open access
Recommended by Faculty of 1000 - DOI: 10.3410/f.732106108.793538826
Siepielski, A., M.B. Morrissey, M. Buoro, S. Carlson, C.M. Caruso, S.M. Clegg, T. Coulson, J. Di Battista, K.M. Gotanda, C.D. Francis, J. Hereford, J.G. Kingsolver, K.E. Augustine, L.E.B. Kruuk, R.A. Martin, B.C. Sheldon, N. Sletvold, E.I. Svensson, M.J. Wade, A.D.C. MacColl. 2017. Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science 355:959-962. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag2773
2016
Diamond*, S.E., and R.A. Martin*. 2016. The interplay between plasticity and evolution in response to human-induced environmental change. F1000 Research. 5(F1000 Faculty Rev):2835. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9731.1. open access
Moore, M.P., and R.A. Martin. 2016. Intrasexual selection favors an immune-correlated color ornament in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29:2256-2265. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12953
Dugas, M.B., M.P. Moore, R.A. Martin, C.L. Richards-Zawacki, and C.G. Sprehn. 2016. The payoffs of maternal care increase as offspring develop, favouring extended provisioning in an egg-feeding frog. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29:1977-1985. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12921
Dugas, M.B., L. McCormack, A. Gadau, and R.A. Martin. 2016. Choosy cannibals preferentially consume siblings with relatively low fitness prospects. The American Naturalist. 188:124-131. https://doi.org/10.1086/686729
Moore, M.P., R. Riesch and R.A. Martin. 2016. The predictability, and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes. Ecology Letters 19:435-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12576
Dugas, M.B., N.R. Franssen, and R.A. Martin. 2016. Morphological correlates of river velocity and reproductive development in an ornamented stream fish. Evolutionary Ecology 30:21-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9790-7
2015
Diamond, S.E., R.R. Dunn, S.F. Frank, N.M. Haddad, and R.A. Martin. 2015. Shared and unique responses of insects to the interaction of urbanization and background environment. Current Opinion in Insect Science 11:71-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2015.10.001
Dugas, M.B., M.P. Moore, C.N. Wamelink, C.L. Richards-Zawaki, and R.A. Martin. 2015. An experimental test for age-related improvements in reproductive performance in a frog that cares for its young The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 102:48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-015-1302-7
Pfennig, K.S., D.W. Pfennig, C. Porter, and R.A. Martin. 2015. Sexual selection’s impacts on ecological specialisation: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 282: 20150217. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0217
Martin, R.A., M.D. McGee, and R.B. Langerhans. 2015. Predicting ecological and phenotypic differentiation in the wild: a case of piscivorous fish in a fishless environment. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114:588-607. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12449
2014
Martin, R.A., R. Reisch, J. L. Heinen, and R.B. Langerhans. 2014. Evolution of male coloration during a post-Pleistocene radiation of Bahamas mosquitofish. Evolution 68:397-411. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12277
2013
Martin, R.A., and S.C. Garnett. 2013. Relatedness and resource availability interact to affect the intensity of competition. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110:689-695. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12146doi.org/10.1111/bij.12146
Riesch R., R.A. Martin, H. Lerp, M. Plath, and T. Wronski. 2013. Size and sex matter: reproductive biology and intrinsic determinants of offspring survival in Gazella marica. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110:116-127.
Heinen, J.L., M.W. Coco2, A.S. Johnson, M.S. Marcuard, D.N White, M.N. Peterson, R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. 2013. Environmental drivers of variation in demographics, habitat use, and behavior during a post-Pleistocene radiation of Bahamas mosquitofish. Evolutionary Ecology 27:971-991.
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. 2013. Predation’s role in life-history evolution of a livebearing fish and a test of the Trexler-DeAngelis model of maternal provisioning. The American Naturalist 181:78-93.
2012
Paull, J., R.A. Martin, and D.W. Pfennig. 2012. Increased competition as a cost of specialization during the evolution of resource polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107:845-853.
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2012. Widespread disruptive selection in the wild is associated with intense resource competition. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:136.
Pfennig, K.S., S. Allenby, R.A. Martin, A. Monroy, and C.D. Jones. 2012. A suite of molecular markers for identifying species, detecting introgression, and describing population structure in spadefoot toads (Spea spp.). Molecular Ecology Resources 12:909-917.
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, D. Bierbach, M. Plath, R.B. Langerhans, and L. Arias-Rodriguez. 2012. Natural history, diet, and life history of Priapella chamulae Schartl, Meyer and Wilde 2006 (Teleostei: Poeciliidae). Aqua, International Journal of Icthyology 18:95-102.
2011
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2011. Evaluating the targets of selection during character displacement. Evolution 65:2946-2958.
Martin, R.A. 2011. Evaluating a novel technique for individual identification of anuran tadpoles using coded wire tags. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:168-173.
Diamond, S.E., A.M. Frame, R.A. Martin and L.B. Buckley. 2011. Species’ traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies. Ecology 92:1005-1012.
Recommended by Faculty of 1000 - DOI: 10.3410/f.11582956.12639054
2010
Pfennig D.W. and R.A. Martin. 2010. Proximate basis of character displacement in spadefoot toads: Different mechanisms in different species. Evolution 64:2331-2341.
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2010. Maternal investment influences expression of resource polymorphism in amphibians: Implications for the evolution of novel resource-use phenotypes. PLoS ONE 5(2)e9117.
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2010. Field and experimental evidence that competition and ecological opportunity promote resource polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100:73-88.
2009
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2009. Disruptive selection in natural populations: The roles of ecological specialization and resource competition. The American Naturalist 174:268-281.
Pfennig D.W. and R.A. Martin. 2009. A maternal effect mediates rapid population divergence and character displacement in spadefoot toads. Evolution 63:898-909.
2007
Pfennig D.W., A.M. Rice, and R.A. Martin. 2007. Field and experimental evidence for competitions role in phenotypic divergence. Evolution 61:257-271.
2006
Pfennig D.W., A.M. Rice, and R.A. Martin. 2006. Ecological opportunity and phenotypic plasticity interact to promote character displacement and species coexistence. Ecology 87:769-779.
Manuscripts In Review or Revision
Miranda, R.B., K.C. Abbott, R.A. Martin, R.A. Brandao. Body size, habitat fragmentation, and lizard extinction: A long-term case study on artificial islands in the Brazilian Cerrado.
Diamond* S.E., R.A. Martin*, A. Avery, G. Bellino, D. Fleming, K.E. McCluney, E.G. Prileson, M. Sasaki. Thermophilization over space but not time among communities of ground-dwelling arthropods in a desert city.
Balman, M., N. Mannen, R.A. Martin. Microbiome composition, but not behavior, differs between urban and rural populations of Red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus.
Yilmaz, A.R., G. Bellino, R.A. Martin. What are the ecological consequences of urban adaptation? A test of eco-evolutionary dynamics in a terrestrial isopod (Oniscus asellus).
Caruso, C.M., K. Eisen, R.A. Martin, N. Sletvold. Natural selection on floral traits is not primarily mediated by pollinators:A meta-analysis. In revision.
Prileson, E.G., R. A. Martin. Trait correlations shift in sign and magnitude in response to urbanization
Published Meta-analysis Datafiles
Siepielski A, Morrissey MB, Buoro M, Carlson SM, Caruso CM, Clegg SM, Coulson T, DiBattista J, Gotanda KM, Francis CD, Hereford J, Kingsolver JG, Augustine KE, Kruuk LEB, Martin RA, Sheldon BC, Sletvold N, Svensson EI, Wade MJ, MacColl ADC (2017) Data from: Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.52650
Caruso CM, Martin RA, Sletvold N, Morrissey MB, Wade MJ, Augustine KE, Carlson SM, MacColl ADC, Siepielski AM, Kingsolver JG (2017) Data from: What are the environmental determinants of phenotypic selection? A meta-analysis of experimental studies. The American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r19f8
Moore M, Riesch R, Martin RA (2016) Data from: The predictability and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes. Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8cb69
Non-Refereed Publications
Martin, R.A., 2012. The ecology of mate choice: dicey climates and sexual selection. The Signal 13(7):7.
Martin, R.A., 2010. Coping with an arid habitat. The Signal 12(1):2-3.
*equal author contribution
current and former lab members in bold
google scholar profile
Published or In Press
2025
Sahlean, T.C., R.A. Martin, P. Spaseni, I. Gherghel, A. Strugariu. 2025. Melanism in polymorphic terrestrial snakes: A meta-analysis and systematic review. Journal of Biogeography. 52:27-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15013
2024
Diamond*, S.E., L. Kolaske, R.A. Martin*. 2024. Physiology evolves convergently but lags behind warming in cities. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64:402-413. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae034
Kim, B.Y., H.R. Gellert, S.H. Church, A. Suvorov, S.S. Anderson, O. Barmina, S.G. Beskid, A.A. Comeault, K.N. Crown, S.E. Diamond, S. Dorus, T. Fujichika, J.A. Hemker, J. Hrcek, M. Kankare, T. Katoh, K.N. Magnacca, R.A. Martin, T. Matsunaga, M.J. Medeiros, D.E. Miller, S. Pitnick, M. Schiffer, S. Simoni, T.E. Steenwinkel; Z.A. Syed, A. Takahashi, K. H-C Wei, T. Yokoyama, M.B. Eisen, A. Kopp, D. Matute, D.J. Obbard, P.M. O’Grady, D.K. Price, M.J. Toda, T. Werner, D.A. Petrov. 2024. Single-fly genome assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life. PLoS Biology. 22:e3002697 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002697
Prileson, E.G., R.A. Martin. 2024. Evolution and plasticity of physiological traits in the collembolan Orchesella villosa at fine spatial scales within the city. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. blae038. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae038.
Gherghel, I., R.A. Martin. Biotic interactions vary across species' ranges and are likely conserved through geological time. In Press. Journal of Biogeography.
2023
Maren Wellenreuther, Anne-Laure Ferchaud, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Nicolas Bierne, Alberto Soares Correa, Kathryn Elmer, Dylan Fraser, Danna Gifford, Zachariah Gompert, Marc Johnson, Rees Kassen, Ryan Martin, Mariah Meek, Joachim Mergeay, Claire Mérot, Kerry Naish, Shawn Narum, Paul Sunnucks, Frédéric Thomas, Peter Thrall, José Manuel Yáñez, Jiasui Zhan, Xiangjiang Zhan. 2023. For the love of fish, nature and people: A tribute to Professor Louis Bernatchez (1960–2023). Evolutionary Applications. 16:1663-1670.
Martin, R.A., C.R.B. da Silva, M.P. Moore, S.E. Diamond. When will a changing climate outpace adaptive evolution? 2023. WIRES Climate Change. e852. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.852 open access
E.G. Prileson, J. Clark, S.E. Diamond, A. Lenard, O.A. Medina Báez, A.R. Yilmaz, R.A. Martin. 2023. Keep your cool: Overwintering physiology in response to urbanization in the acorn ant, Temnothorax curvispinosus.. Journal of Thermal Biology. 114, 103591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103591
Strugariu, A., R.A. Martin. 2023. Factor in fear: Interference competition in polymorphic spadefoot toad tadpoles and its potential role in disruptive selection. Animals. 13:1264. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13071264 open access
R.A. Martin, Riesch, R. M. Plath, N.A. Al Hanosh T. Wronski. 2023. Reproductive Biology of Gazella arabica: Predictors of Offspring weight and Short- and Long-Term Offspring Survival. Current Zoology. zoac084, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac084
open access
2022
Diamond*, S.E., R.A. Martin*, G. Bellino, K.N. Crown, E.G. Prileson. 2022. Urban evolution of thermal physiology in a range-expanding, mycophagous fruit fly, Drosophila tripunctata. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. blac094, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac094.
Diamond, S.E., E.G. Prileson, R.A. Martin. Adaptation to urban environments. 2022. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 51:100893 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2022.100893
Yilmaz, A.R., Yoder, A., Diamond, S. E., Martin, R.A. 2022. Adaptation to urban heat islands enhances thermal performance following development under chronic thermal stress, but not benign conditions. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 95:302-316. https://doi.org/10.1086/720333
R. Riesch, Araújo, M.S., Bumgarner, S., Filla, C., de Pennafort Dezen, L., Goins, T.R., Lucion, D., Makowicz, A., Martin, R.A., Pirroni, S., Langerhans, R.B. 2022. Resource competition explains rare cannibalism in the wild in livebearing fish. Ecology and Evolution. 12:e8872. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8872 open access
Dunn, R.R., J.R. Burger, E.J. Carlen, A.M. Koltz, J.E. Light, R.A. Martin, J. Munshi-South, L.M. Nichols, E.L. Vargo, S. Yitbarek, Y. Zhao, A. Cibrian-Jaramillo. 2002. Urban Archipelagos: A Theory of City Biogeography and the Origin of Species. Frontiers in Conservation Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2022.761449 open access
2021
Diamond*, S.E., R. A. Martin*. 2021. Evolution in cities. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 52:519-540. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-021402
Moore, M.P., R.A. Martin. 2021. Natural selection on adults has trait-dependent consequences for juvenile evolution in dragonflies. The American Naturalist. 197:677–689. https://doi.org/10.1086/714048.
Martin, R.A., Chick, L., Garvin, M.L., S.E. Diamond. 2021. In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in response to urban adaptation in an acorn dwelling ant. Evolution. 75:876-887. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14191. open access
Diamond*, S. E., R. A. Martin*. 2021. Physiological adaptation to cities as a proxy to forecast global-scale responses to climate change. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(Suppl. 1). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.229336. open access
Diamond*, S. E., R. A. Martin*. Buying time: plasticity and population persistence. 2021. (book chapter in Phenotypic Plasticity: Causes, Consequences, Controversies, Edited by David Pfennig). open access
Yilmaz†, A.R., S.E. Diamond, R.A. Martin. 2021. Evidence for the evolution of thermal tolerance, but not desiccation tolerance, in response to hotter, drier city conditions in a cosmopolitan, terrestrial isopod. Evolutionary Applications. 14:12-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13052. open access
2020
de la Serna Buzón, S., R.A. Martin, D.W. Pfennig. 2020. Carryover effects and the evolution of polyphenism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131:622–631. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa133
Gherghel, I., R.A. Martin. 2020. Postglacial recolonization of North America by spadefoot toads: integrating niche and corridor modeling to study species’ range dynamics over geologic time. Ecography. 143:499-1509. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04942. open access
Diamond*, S.E., R.A. Martin*. 2020. Evolution is a double-edged sword, not a silver bullet, to confront climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Science for the Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology. 1469:38-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14410
Lis3, C., M.P. Moore, R.A. Martin. 2020. Warm developmental temperatures induce non-adaptive plasticity in the intrasexually selected coloration of a dragonfly. Ecological Entomology. 45:663-670. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12839
Diamond*, S.E., R.A. Martin*. 2020. Evolutionary Consequences of the Urban Heat Island. In: Urban Evolutionary Biology. Edited by Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South and Anne Charmantier, Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press.DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198836841.003.0006
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, R.B. Langerhans. 2020. Multiple traits and multifarious environments:
integrated divergence of morphology and life history. Oikos. 129:480-492. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06344
Caruso, C.M., H. Maherali, R.A. Martin. 2020. A meta-analysis of natural selection on plant functional traits. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 181:44-55. https://doi.org/10.1086/706199
In the special issue Functional Trait Evolution
2019
Moore, M.P., R.A. Martin. On the evolution of carry-over effects. 2019. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88: 1832-1844. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13081
Moore, M.P., H. H. Whitman, and R.A. Martin. 2019. A mother’s legacy: the strength of maternal effects in animal populations. Ecology Letters. 22:1620-1628. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13351
Yilmaz, A.R., L. Chick, A. Perez, S.A. Strickler, S. Vaughn, R.A. Martin, S.A. Diamond. 2019. Remarkable insensitivity of acorn ant morphology to temperature decouples the evolution of physiological tolerance from body size under urban heat islands. Journal of Thermal Biology. 85: 102426 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102426
In the special issue The Evolution and adaptation of thermoregulation
Martin*, R.A., L. Chick, A. Yilmaz, S.E. Diamond*. 2019. Evolution, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the adaptive divergence of acorn ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline. Evolutionary Applications. 12:1678-1687. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12826. open access
Moore, M.P., C. Lis, I. Gherghel, and R.A. Martin. 2019. Temperature shapes the costs, benefits, and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly. Ecology Letters. 22:437-446. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13200
Rivkin L.R., J.S. Santangelo, M. Alberti, M.F.J. Aronson, C.W. de Keyzer, S.E. Diamond, M. Fortin, L.J. Frazee, A.J. Gorton, A.P. Hendry, Y. Liu, J.B. Losos, J.S. MacIvor, R.A. Martin, M. McDonnell, L.S. Miles, J. Munshi-South, R. Ness, A.E.M. Newman, M.R. Stothart, P. Theodorou, K.A. Thompson, B.C. Verrelli, A. Whitehead, K.M. Winchell, M.T.J. Johnson. 2019. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Applications. 12: 284-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12734. open access
Chick, L, S.A. Strickler, A. Perez1, R.A. Martin, and S.E. Diamond. 2019. Urban heat islands advance the timing of reproduction in a social insect. Journal of Thermal Biology. 80:119-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.01.004
Caruso, C.M., K. Eisen, R. A. Martin, and N. Sletvold. 2019. A meta-analysis of the agents of selection on floral traits. Evolution. 73:4-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13639
2018
Moore, M.P., C. Lis, R.A. Martin. 2018. Immune deployment increases larval vulnerability to predators and inhibits adult life-history traits in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31:1365-1376. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13337
Diamond, S.E., L. Chick, A. Perez, S.A. Strickler, and R.A. Martin. 2018. Evolution of thermal tolerance and its fitness consequences: parallel and non-parallel responses to urban heat islands across three cities. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 285:(1882). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0036
In the special issue The evolution of city life
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, S.E. Diamond, J. Jourdan, M. Plath, and R.B. Langerhans. 2018. Thermal regime drives a latitudinal gradient in morphology and life history in a livebearing fish. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125: 126–141. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly095
Moore, M.P., and R.A. Martin. 2018. Trade-offs between larval survival and adult ornament development depend on predator regime in a territorial dragonfly. Oecologia. 188: 97-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4171-x
Siepielski, A., M.B. Morrissey, M. Buoro, S. Carlson, C.M. Caruso, S.M. Clegg, T. Coulson, J. Di Battista, K.M. Gotanda, C.D. Francis, J. Hereford, J.G. Kingsolver, K.E. Augustine, L.E.B. Kruuk, R.A. Martin, B.C. Sheldon, N. Sletvold, E.I. Svensson, M.J. Wade, A.D.C. MacColl. 2018. Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection". Science. 359: eaan5760. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5760
Moore, M.P., C. Lis, and R.A. Martin. 2018. Larval body condition mediates predator-induced life-history variation in a dragonfly. Ecology.91: 224-230. doi:10.1002/ecy.2056. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2056
2017
Levis, N.A., R.A. Martin, K.A. O’Donnell, and D.W. Pfennig. 2017. Intraspecific adaptive radiation: competition, ecological opportunity, and the evolution of cryptic ecomorphological diversity within species. Evolution. 71: 2496–2509. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13313
Caruso*, C.M., R.A. Martin*, N. Sletvold, M.B. Morrissey, M.J. Wade, K.E. Augustine1, S.C. Carlson, A.D.C. MacColl, A.M. Siepielski, and J.G. Kingsolver. 2017. What are the environmental determinants of phenotypic selection? A meta-analysis of experimental studies. The American Naturalist 190: 363-376. https://doi.org/10.1086/692760
Krynak, K.L., D.J. Burke, R.A. Martin, P.M. Dennis. 2017. Gut microbiome composition is associated with cardiac disease in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). FEM Microbiology Letters 364: fnx149. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnx149
Diamond, S.E., L. Chick, A. Perez, S.A. Strickler, and R.A. Martin. 2017. Rapid evolution of ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121: 248-257. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blw047. open access
Recommended by Faculty of 1000 - DOI: 10.3410/f.732106108.793538826
Siepielski, A., M.B. Morrissey, M. Buoro, S. Carlson, C.M. Caruso, S.M. Clegg, T. Coulson, J. Di Battista, K.M. Gotanda, C.D. Francis, J. Hereford, J.G. Kingsolver, K.E. Augustine, L.E.B. Kruuk, R.A. Martin, B.C. Sheldon, N. Sletvold, E.I. Svensson, M.J. Wade, A.D.C. MacColl. 2017. Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science 355:959-962. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag2773
2016
Diamond*, S.E., and R.A. Martin*. 2016. The interplay between plasticity and evolution in response to human-induced environmental change. F1000 Research. 5(F1000 Faculty Rev):2835. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9731.1. open access
Moore, M.P., and R.A. Martin. 2016. Intrasexual selection favors an immune-correlated color ornament in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29:2256-2265. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12953
Dugas, M.B., M.P. Moore, R.A. Martin, C.L. Richards-Zawacki, and C.G. Sprehn. 2016. The payoffs of maternal care increase as offspring develop, favouring extended provisioning in an egg-feeding frog. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29:1977-1985. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12921
Dugas, M.B., L. McCormack, A. Gadau, and R.A. Martin. 2016. Choosy cannibals preferentially consume siblings with relatively low fitness prospects. The American Naturalist. 188:124-131. https://doi.org/10.1086/686729
Moore, M.P., R. Riesch and R.A. Martin. 2016. The predictability, and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes. Ecology Letters 19:435-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12576
Dugas, M.B., N.R. Franssen, and R.A. Martin. 2016. Morphological correlates of river velocity and reproductive development in an ornamented stream fish. Evolutionary Ecology 30:21-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9790-7
2015
Diamond, S.E., R.R. Dunn, S.F. Frank, N.M. Haddad, and R.A. Martin. 2015. Shared and unique responses of insects to the interaction of urbanization and background environment. Current Opinion in Insect Science 11:71-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2015.10.001
Dugas, M.B., M.P. Moore, C.N. Wamelink, C.L. Richards-Zawaki, and R.A. Martin. 2015. An experimental test for age-related improvements in reproductive performance in a frog that cares for its young The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 102:48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-015-1302-7
Pfennig, K.S., D.W. Pfennig, C. Porter, and R.A. Martin. 2015. Sexual selection’s impacts on ecological specialisation: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 282: 20150217. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0217
Martin, R.A., M.D. McGee, and R.B. Langerhans. 2015. Predicting ecological and phenotypic differentiation in the wild: a case of piscivorous fish in a fishless environment. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114:588-607. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12449
2014
Martin, R.A., R. Reisch, J. L. Heinen, and R.B. Langerhans. 2014. Evolution of male coloration during a post-Pleistocene radiation of Bahamas mosquitofish. Evolution 68:397-411. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12277
2013
Martin, R.A., and S.C. Garnett. 2013. Relatedness and resource availability interact to affect the intensity of competition. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110:689-695. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12146doi.org/10.1111/bij.12146
Riesch R., R.A. Martin, H. Lerp, M. Plath, and T. Wronski. 2013. Size and sex matter: reproductive biology and intrinsic determinants of offspring survival in Gazella marica. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110:116-127.
Heinen, J.L., M.W. Coco2, A.S. Johnson, M.S. Marcuard, D.N White, M.N. Peterson, R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. 2013. Environmental drivers of variation in demographics, habitat use, and behavior during a post-Pleistocene radiation of Bahamas mosquitofish. Evolutionary Ecology 27:971-991.
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. 2013. Predation’s role in life-history evolution of a livebearing fish and a test of the Trexler-DeAngelis model of maternal provisioning. The American Naturalist 181:78-93.
2012
Paull, J., R.A. Martin, and D.W. Pfennig. 2012. Increased competition as a cost of specialization during the evolution of resource polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107:845-853.
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2012. Widespread disruptive selection in the wild is associated with intense resource competition. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:136.
Pfennig, K.S., S. Allenby, R.A. Martin, A. Monroy, and C.D. Jones. 2012. A suite of molecular markers for identifying species, detecting introgression, and describing population structure in spadefoot toads (Spea spp.). Molecular Ecology Resources 12:909-917.
Riesch, R., R.A. Martin, D. Bierbach, M. Plath, R.B. Langerhans, and L. Arias-Rodriguez. 2012. Natural history, diet, and life history of Priapella chamulae Schartl, Meyer and Wilde 2006 (Teleostei: Poeciliidae). Aqua, International Journal of Icthyology 18:95-102.
2011
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2011. Evaluating the targets of selection during character displacement. Evolution 65:2946-2958.
Martin, R.A. 2011. Evaluating a novel technique for individual identification of anuran tadpoles using coded wire tags. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:168-173.
Diamond, S.E., A.M. Frame, R.A. Martin and L.B. Buckley. 2011. Species’ traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies. Ecology 92:1005-1012.
Recommended by Faculty of 1000 - DOI: 10.3410/f.11582956.12639054
2010
Pfennig D.W. and R.A. Martin. 2010. Proximate basis of character displacement in spadefoot toads: Different mechanisms in different species. Evolution 64:2331-2341.
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2010. Maternal investment influences expression of resource polymorphism in amphibians: Implications for the evolution of novel resource-use phenotypes. PLoS ONE 5(2)e9117.
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2010. Field and experimental evidence that competition and ecological opportunity promote resource polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100:73-88.
2009
Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2009. Disruptive selection in natural populations: The roles of ecological specialization and resource competition. The American Naturalist 174:268-281.
Pfennig D.W. and R.A. Martin. 2009. A maternal effect mediates rapid population divergence and character displacement in spadefoot toads. Evolution 63:898-909.
2007
Pfennig D.W., A.M. Rice, and R.A. Martin. 2007. Field and experimental evidence for competitions role in phenotypic divergence. Evolution 61:257-271.
2006
Pfennig D.W., A.M. Rice, and R.A. Martin. 2006. Ecological opportunity and phenotypic plasticity interact to promote character displacement and species coexistence. Ecology 87:769-779.
Manuscripts In Review or Revision
Miranda, R.B., K.C. Abbott, R.A. Martin, R.A. Brandao. Body size, habitat fragmentation, and lizard extinction: A long-term case study on artificial islands in the Brazilian Cerrado.
Diamond* S.E., R.A. Martin*, A. Avery, G. Bellino, D. Fleming, K.E. McCluney, E.G. Prileson, M. Sasaki. Thermophilization over space but not time among communities of ground-dwelling arthropods in a desert city.
Balman, M., N. Mannen, R.A. Martin. Microbiome composition, but not behavior, differs between urban and rural populations of Red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus.
Yilmaz, A.R., G. Bellino, R.A. Martin. What are the ecological consequences of urban adaptation? A test of eco-evolutionary dynamics in a terrestrial isopod (Oniscus asellus).
Caruso, C.M., K. Eisen, R.A. Martin, N. Sletvold. Natural selection on floral traits is not primarily mediated by pollinators:A meta-analysis. In revision.
Prileson, E.G., R. A. Martin. Trait correlations shift in sign and magnitude in response to urbanization
Published Meta-analysis Datafiles
Siepielski A, Morrissey MB, Buoro M, Carlson SM, Caruso CM, Clegg SM, Coulson T, DiBattista J, Gotanda KM, Francis CD, Hereford J, Kingsolver JG, Augustine KE, Kruuk LEB, Martin RA, Sheldon BC, Sletvold N, Svensson EI, Wade MJ, MacColl ADC (2017) Data from: Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.52650
Caruso CM, Martin RA, Sletvold N, Morrissey MB, Wade MJ, Augustine KE, Carlson SM, MacColl ADC, Siepielski AM, Kingsolver JG (2017) Data from: What are the environmental determinants of phenotypic selection? A meta-analysis of experimental studies. The American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r19f8
Moore M, Riesch R, Martin RA (2016) Data from: The predictability and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes. Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8cb69
Non-Refereed Publications
Martin, R.A., 2012. The ecology of mate choice: dicey climates and sexual selection. The Signal 13(7):7.
Martin, R.A., 2010. Coping with an arid habitat. The Signal 12(1):2-3.