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Posted: Sep 23, 2026 - 12:00pm

Here are some of the publications from June and July that are authored by UNM Biology's faculty, staff, and students: 

Anaya C, Benhaïm D, Hanelt B, Bolek MG, Vredevoe L. PARASITIC WORMS IMPAIR NUTRIENT ASSIMILATION AND REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT WITHOUT ALTERING MACRONUTRIENT PREFERENCE IN FEMALE HOUSE CRICKETS. The Journal of Parasitology. 2026 Jul; 112(4):406–416. https://doi.org/10.1645/25-104  

Asevedo L, Gina M. Semprebon, Thaís Rabito Pansani, Jesus da S. Paixão, Mário André Trindade Dantas. 2026. Feeding ecology of pleistocene herbivorous megamammals from southern Brazilian Amazon revealed by stable isotopes and stereoscopic microwear, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 383, 109993, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109993 

Bertuol-Garcia, D., van den Brink, L., Carbognani, M., Chandregowda, M. H., Churchill, A. C., Cusack, D. F., Dubbert, M., Dukes, J. S., DuPre, M. E., Eisenhauer, N., Forte, T. G. W., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Henry, H. A. L., Jentsch, A., Koerner, S., Kübert, A., Ladouceur, E., Laughlin, D. C., Ohlert T. … Shackelford, N. (2026). Long-term aridity shapes grassland drought resistance and modulates the roles of plant diversity and functional composition. Journal of Ecology, 114, e70384. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70384 

Blanco, Carlos A., Maribel Portilla, Don Haukom, Gerardo Hernandez, Felipe de Jesús Mondragón-Serrano "It takes eight days for Tenebrio molitor and 29 days for Zophobas morio larvae to pass a diet through their digestive tract," Southwestern Entomologist, 51(2), 818-839, (9 June 2026). https://doi.org/10.3958/059.051.0232  

Bujnáková, D., du Plessis, S.J., Falcinelli, D., Gundlach, C., Holmala, K., Keller, J.S., Khumri, M., Korbin, J., Mysłajek, R.W., Nowak, S., Paule, L., Raundrup, K., Rowland, M.K., Sinding, M.-H.S., Tamagnini, D., Valtonen, M., Aspi, J., Kvist, L. and Hipsley, C.A. (2026), Global Drivers of Morphological Variation in Grey Wolves. Divers Distrib, 32: e70228. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70228 

Doneski SM, Quinlyn Baine, Kelly Ricks, Steven J. Cary, Kelly B. Miller. 2026. "Rediscovery and Ecology of the Capulin Mountain Alberta Arctic Butterfly: Informing Data Collection for Rare Endemics," The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 80(2), 97-107. https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.80i2.a3  

Feldman, A. F., S. C. Reed, K. Wessels, Litvak M., et al. 2026. “Adaptation and Response in Drylands: A Dryland Research Agenda and Campaign Strategy.” Global Change Biology 32, no. 7: e70975. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70975. 

Griffin, L.P., Shipley, O.N., Adams, A.J., Newsome S.,et al. Discrete foraging landscapes support large scale migrations of a marine fish. Mov Ecol 14, 63 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-026-00677-3  

Halter SH, Blair O Wolf, Carlos Martínez del Rio, Migratory strategies, fat loads, and torpor use in migrating hummingbirds, Ornithology, 2026, ukag027, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukag027 

Harms, T.K., Webster, A.J. & Pastick, N.J. Fluvial Export of Carbon and Nutrients from Boreal Catchments Disturbed by Fire and Permafrost Thaw. Ecosystems 29, 44 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-026-01063-1 

Karlstrom, K.E., Heizler, M.T., Aslan, A., I. W. Hillenbrand, S. M. Cather, T. F. Turner, M. J. Osborne, C. D. Henry & L. J. Crossey. Tectonically driven integration of the 4.8 Ma Colorado River USA tracked with detrital sanidine and fish genetics. Nat Commun 17, 8812 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75006-8 

Lucash, M.S., Lamping, J.E., Nowell, B. Robert M. Scheller, Tirtha Banerjee, W. Cole Buettner, Jennifer E. Fawcett, Matthew D. Hurteau, Sean A. Parks, Wesley Rancher, Zachary J. Robbins, Lise St. Denis, Amanda M. Stasiewicz, Alexandra K. Urza & Shelby A. Weiss. Roadmap for the future of extreme wildfire events. Fire Ecol, 22, 126 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-026-00526-z 

Luo, W., Shi, Y., Te, N., Tian, J., Chuan, Q., Wang, H., Yu, Q., Mariotte, P., Han, X., & Collins, S. L. (2026). Species turnover drives responses of community fine-root traits to recurrent droughts. Journal of Ecology, 114, e70395. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70395 

Martinson VG, Quinlyn Baine, Manuela Londoño-Gaviria, Hanna E. Sikora, Ivana Gulisija, Branden E. White, Ellen O. Martinson. 2026. Rapid ecological speciation in gall inducers, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 223, 108670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108670. 

Miller KB, Robert W. Sites "Sheoldytes ozarkensis Miller and Sites, New Genus, New Species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Hydroporini), a Troglomorphic Species from the Ozark Mountains, Missouri, USA," The Coleopterists Bulletin, 80(2), 228-232, (21 June 2026), https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-80.2.228 

Mussmann, S.M., Saltzgiver, M.J., Diver, T.A., Eliza I. Gilbert, Michael A. Farrington & Benjamin J. Schleicher. Semipermeable species boundaries permit gene flow but prevent a hybrid swarm among sympatric catostomids of a desert ecosystem. Heredity (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-026-00867-0 

Neff N.C., Geraldine Busquets-Vass, Erin E. Ray, Mark Robinson, Amy E. Thompson, Jose Mes, Douglas J. Kennett, Seth D. Newsome, Keith M. Prufer. Nutritional adaptations to early maize cultivation: Earliest isotopic evidence of maize-based animal provisioning in the Neotropics. Sci. Adv. 12, eaec3522 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec3522 

Newsome, S. D., Elliott Smith, E. A., Mancuso, C. J., Fowler, D. N., & Hobson, K. A. (2026). Exploring the use of amino acid stable hydrogen isotope (δ²H) analysis to improve geographic assignment of wildlife. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2026.2699461 

Okie J.G., J.H. Brown, A. Kodric-Brown, J.R. Burger, T.P. Flanagan, T.S. Fristoe, S.T. Hammond, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, & J. Richter, 2026. Three centuries of technological innovation: Opportunity is the mother of invention, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (26) e2525310123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2525310123 

Øksnebjerg DB, Sascha Dreyer Nielsen, Guangji Chen, Michael J Andersen, Vanessa Almagro, Roberto Ambrosini, Shigeki Asai, Sharon M Birks, Robb T Brumfield, Vojtěch Brlík, Annaïs Carbajal, Theresa M Burg, Sandra Bouwhuis, Shuang Wang, Wanjun Chen, Santiago Claramunt, Fuqiang Lin, Jiaqi Xu, Wei Dai, Scott V Edwards, Mary Margaret Ferraro, Joerns Fickel, Jon Fjeldså, Giulio Formenti, Jérôme Fuchs, Guido Roberto Gallo, Luca Gianfranceschi, Gary R Graves, Grzegorz Grzywaczewski, Wei Han, Tri Haryoko, Ando Haruko, Olof Hellgren, Juan Carlos Illera, Erich D Jarvis, Lars E Johannessen, Arild Johnsen, Ulf S Johansson, Knud Andreas Jønsson, Wei Jiang, Victoria Jayne, Takaharu Kawashima, Adam D Leaché, Fumin Lei, Jan T Lifjeld, Miriam Liedvogel, Yang Liu, Irby J Lovette, Sarah S T Mak, Isao Nishiumi, Michelle F O’Brien, Manabu Onuma, Bent Petersen, Martin Päckert, Marco Pavia, Alivia Price, Javier Quesada, Carsten Rahbek, Andrew Hart Reeve, Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Markus Risch, Vanya G Rohwer, Takema Saitoh, C Jonathan Schmitt, Anna Schnelle, Manuel Schweizer, Simona Secomandi, Paula Serres-Corral, Sara Shopland, Gang Song, Tamás Székely, Ivan J Starikov, Josefin Stiller, Xulan Shen, Zhongyi Sun, Dieter Thomas Tietze, Pavel S Tomkovich, Alfréd Trnka, Araxi O Urrutia, Sölvi Rúnar Vignisson, Kees Wanders, Michael Wink, Kevin Winker, Christopher C Witt, Jack J Withrow, Jessie L Williamson, Glenn Yannic, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Zhengwang Zhang, M Thomas P Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Shaohong Feng, Peter A Hosner, A comprehensive reference genome assembly dataset of birds inhabiting Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, GigaScience, Volume 15, 2026, giag078, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giag078 

Prince MNH, Wishwa Herath, Balasubramanian Chellammal Muthubharathi, Nikhil Sain, Chitra Shaji, Md Rafiqul Islam Rupam, Aadil Qadir Bhat, Adil R. Wani, Mubarak Hussain Syed, Tae-Hyung Kim, Mark C. Walker, Olga Ponomarova, and Tonmoy Chakraborty, "Reflected inline detection in epi-oblique plane microscopy," Optica 13, 1151-1164 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.592569 

Salazar-Hamm, P.S., Romero-Jiménez, MJ., Caimi, N.A., Kevin R. Amses, Jennifer J. Marshall Hathaway, Debbie C. Buecher, Ernest W. Valdez, Lindsay K. Caesar, Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Diana E. Northup. Bat skin microbiome and the association of ecoregion and bat species that impacted isolation of members with bioactivity against Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Anim Microbiome 8, 97 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-026-00591-4 

Salinas, I. Antiviral immunity regulates cnidarian viriomes. Nat Ecol Evol 10, 1395–1396 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03113-2 

Shamsid-Deen, M.L., Whitney, K.D. Is phenotypic plasticity associated with colonization success? Comparisons of Eurasian colonizers, North American colonizers, and relict groups of Arabidopsis thaliana. Biol Invasions 28, 166 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-026-03885-5  

Shihadih DS, Runkel Baez E, Asgari M, Berl J, Chouinard AJ, Gutzler SJ, Heinrich KK, Riordan E, Lee SW, Shortlidge EE. 2026. Assessing the Evolving the Culture of Biology program through the lens of the Teacher-Centered Systemic Reform model. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 27:e00064-26. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00064-26 

Vahsen, M.L., Van Ee, J.J., Gamba, D., Maxwell, T.M., Pirtel, N., Romero, S.J., Barnett, D.T., Baughman, O., Ensing, D.J., Gill, R., Holdrege, M.C., Hufbauer, R.A., Hufft, R., Moffat, C.E., Ott, J., Pyle, L., Schroeder, C., Schupp, E.W., Shriver, R.K., Stemkovski, M., Symstad, A.J., Urza, A.K., Blumenthal, D.M., Brown, C., Germino, M.J., Hooten, M.B., Lasky, J.R., Leger, E.A., Porensky, L.M. and Adler, P.B. (2026), Eco-evolutionary context modifies a destructive plant invader's response to climate. New Phytol, 251: 2980-2994. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.71329 

Vazquez AI, Yifei Li, Guanqi Lu, Harish Neelam, Molly S Bray, Sadeep Shrestha, Richard J Reynolds, Hongsheng Gui, Davorka Gulisija. Hiding in plain sight: uncovering the genetic basis of complex phenotypes through low-risk groups, Genetics, Volume 234, Issue 1, September 2026, iyag162, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyag162 

Will KW, Kanda K, Wild AL, Schmidt J, Moore W, Miller KB, Gómez RA, Maddison DR (2026) Phylogenetic analysis of Adephaga (Coleoptera) with extensive taxon sampling reveals unexpected relationships within the hyperdiverse beetle subfamily Harpalinae (Carabidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 73(1): 193-254. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.73.189689 

Yazzie SJ, Mijung Oh, Eunju Lim, Onamma Edeh, Edward Barr, Ting Jiang, Tou Yia Vue, Shuguang Leng, Eric Prossnitz, Robert Miller, Kartika Wardhani, Connor Dixson, Jennifer Gillette, Katherine E. Zychowski. 2026. Acute wood smoke exposure is associated with cell-specific hippocampal transcriptomic responses in an accelerated ovarian failure mouse model, Neuro Toxicology, Volume 115, 103476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2026.103476. 

For a full list of our department's publications, visit our Zotero Library. Please send any additions or corrections to jennafonta@unm.edu.