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Nicolas Dowdy

0000-0002-5453-2569

Head of Zoology & Director of Collections Informatics (Biological sciences; Animal behaviour; Behavioural ecology; Evolutionary biology not elsewhere classified; Genomics; Invertebrate biology; Molecular evolution; Speciation and extinction; Zoology not elsewhere classified; Animal systematics and taxonomy; Biogeography and phylogeography)

Milwaukee, WI, USA

Dr. Dowdy obtained his Ph.D. from WFU under the mentorship of Dr. William E. Conner in 2017. His dissertation work focused on the behavioral and chemical ecology of arctiine anti-predator defenses. In 2018, after a collections-based postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University with Dr. Jen Zaspel, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology which supports his current work on tiger moth phylogenomics. Recently, he accepted a permanent position as Head of Zoology and Director of Collections Informatics at the MPM. His on-going research includes the taxonomy, systematics, and evolution of anti-predator and mating strategies within Arctiinae.

Publications

  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-013-0359-0
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152981
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00480/full
  • https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12983-019-0345-6
  • https://peerj.com/articles/8086/
  • https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/2/1/obaa046/6064153
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/syen.12433
  • Characteristics of tiger moth (Erebidae: Arctiinae) anti-bat sounds can be predicted from tymbal morphology
  • A deeper meaning for shallow‐level phylogenomic studies: nested anchored hybrid enrichment offers great promise for resolving the tiger moth tree of life (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
  • Extreme Duty Cycles in the Acoustic Signals of Tiger Moths: Sexual and Natural Selection Operating in Parallel
  • Assessment of North American arthropod collections: Prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research
  • Factors affecting the strength of Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae).
  • Nonchalant Flight in Tiger Moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae) Is Correlated With Unpalatability
  • Acoustic aposematism and evasive action in select chemically defended arctiine (lepidoptera: Erebidae) species: Nonchalant or not?
  • TaxoTracker: A collaborative platform for taxonomic resource maintenance
  • High duty cycle moth sounds jam bats echolocation: Bats counter with compensatory changes in buzz duration
  • Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap
  • Building a community-based taxonomic resource for digitization of parasites and their hosts

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Paige Chesshire

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