Publications
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(*undergraduate coauthor)
in press
Tomkins J, Moczek AP in press. Patterns of threshold evolution in polyphenic insects under different developmental models. Evolution in press.
Moczek AP in press. The origin, elaboration, and radiation of beetle horns: causes, mechanisms, and consequences. In: Current Topics in Developmental Biology (CTDB). Ed. by: W Jeffery. Elsevier / Academic Press, New York.
Snell-Rood EC, Moczek AP in press. Horns, hormones, and hox genes: the role of development in the evolution of beetle contests. In: Animal Contests. Ed. by: ICW Hardy & M Briffa. Cambridge University Press, UK.
Parzer HF, Moczek AP 2008. Rapid antagonistic coevolution between primary and secondary sexual characters in horned beetles. Evolution 62-9: 2423-2428.
Moczek AP, Snell-Rood EC 2008. The basis of bee-ing different: the role of gene silencing in plasticity (Commentary). Evolution and Development 10: 511-513.
Moczek AP 2008. On the origin of novelty in development and evolution. Bioessays 5: 432-447.
Moczek AP 2008. Developmental plasticity and the origins of diversity: a case study on horned beetles. In: Phenotypic plasticity in insects: mechanisms and consequences. Edited by: TN Ananthakrishnan & D Whitman. Science Publishers, Inc. Plymouth, UK. in press.
Shepherd BL*, Prange HD, Moczek AP 2008. Some like it hot: body and weapon size affect thermoregulation in horned beetles. Journal of Insect Physiology 54: 604-611.
Pizzo A, Roggero A, Palestrini C, Moczek AP, Rolando A 2008. Rapid shape divergences between natural and introduced populations of a horned beetle partly mirror divergences between species. Evolution and Development 10: 166-175.
2007
Moczek AP 2007. Pupal remodeling and the evolution and development of alternative male morphologies in horned beetles. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 151.
Moczek AP, Andrews J, Kijimoto T, Yerushalmi Y, Rose D 2007. Emerging model systems in evo-devo: horned beetles and the origins of diversity. Evolution and Development 9: 323-328.
Moczek AP 2007. Developmental capacitance, genetic accommodation, and adaptive evolution. Evolution and Development 9: 299-305.
Shelby JA*, Madewell R*, Moczek AP 2007. Juvenile hormone mediates sexual dimorphism in horned beetles. Journal of Experimental Zoology B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution 308B: 417-427.
Moczek AP, Cruickshank, TE, Shelby JA* 2006. When ontogeny reveals what phylogeny hides: gain and loss of horns during development and evolution of horned beetles. Evolution 60: 2329-2341.
Moczek AP 2006. Pupal remodeling and the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism in horned beetles. The American Naturalist 168: 711-729. (American Naturalist Feature article of the month, Faculty 1000 review)
Moczek AP, Rose D, Sewell W, Kesselring BR 2006. Conservation, innovation, and the evolution of horned beetle diversity. Development Genes and Evolution 216: 655-665.
Moczek AP 2006. Integrating micro- and macroevolution of development through the study of horned beetles. Heredity 97: 168-178.
Madewell R*, Moczek AP 2006. Horn possession reduces maneuverability in a horn-polyphenic beetle. Journal of Insect Science 6.21..
Moczek AP 2006. A matter of measurements: challenges and approaches in the comparative analysis of static allometries. The American Naturalist 167: 606-611.
Moczek AP, *Cochrane J 2006. Intraspecific female brood parasitism in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus. Ecological Entomology 31: 1-6.
Moczek AP 2006. The origins of diversity: A review of Evolution of the Insects, by David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel. Evolution & Development 8: 111-112.
Moczek AP 2005. The evolution and development of novel traits, or how beetles got their horns. BioScience 11: 935-951. (Faculty of 1000 review)
Moczek AP, Nagy LM 2005. Diverse developmental mechanisms contribute to different levels of diversity in horned beetles. Evolution & Development 7: 175-185.
Moczek AP, Bruehl, CB, Krell FTK 2004. Linear and threshold dependent expression of secondary sexual traits in the same individual: insights from a horned beetle. Biological Jounal of the Linnean Society 83: 473-480
Moczek AP, Nijhout HF 2004. Tradeoffs during the development of primary and secondary sexual traits in a dimorphic beetle. The American Naturalist 163: 184-191
Moczek AP 2003. The behavioral ecology of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle. Behavioral Ecology 14: 831-854
Moczek AP, Nijhout HF 2003. Rapid evolution of a polyphenic threshold. Evolution & Development 5: 259-268
Moczek AP 2002. Allometric plasticity in a polyphenic beetle. Ecological Entomology 27: 58-67
Moczek AP, Nijhout HF 2002a. Developmental mechanisms of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle. Evolution & Development 4: 252-264
Moczek AP, Nijhout HF 2002b. A method for sexing third instar larvae of the genus Onthophagus LATREILLE (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Coleopterist Bulletin 56: 279-284
Moczek AP, Hunt J, Emlen DJ, Simmons LW 2002. Evolution of a developmental threshold in exotic populations of a polyphenic beetle. Evolutionary Ecology Research 4: 587-601
Moczek AP 2002. How complexity pervades biology (Book review). Complexity 7: 16-17
*Shafiei M, Moczek AP, Nijhout HF 2001. Food availability controls onset of metamorphosis in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Physiological Entomology 26: 173-180
Moczek AP, Emlen DJ 2000. Male horn dimorphism in the scarab beetle Onthophagus taurus: do alternative reproductive tactics favor alternative phenotypes? Animal Behaviour 59: 459-466
Moczek AP 1999. Facultative paternal investment in the polyphenic beetle Onthophagus taurus: the role of male morphology and social context. Behavioral Ecology 10: 641-647
Moczek AP, Emlen DJ 1999. Proximate determination of male horn dimorphism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12: 27-37
Moczek AP 1998. Horn polyphenism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus: diet quality and plasticity in parental investment determine adult body size and male horn morphology. Behavioral Ecology 9: 636-641