Publications


Abbot P. 2022. Defense in social insects: Diversity, division of labor, and evolution. Annual Review of Entomology 67: 407-436.

Benton ML, Abraham A, LaBella AL, Abbot P, Rokas AR, Capra JA. 2021. The influence of evolutionary history on human health and disease. Nature Reviews Genetics 22, 269-283.

Mandel JR, Ramsey AJ, Holley JM, Scott VA, Mody D, Abbot P. 2020. Disentangling complex inheritance patterns of plant organellar genomes: an example from carrot. Journal of Heredity, esaa037

LaBella AL, Abraham A, Pichkar Y. et al. 2020. Accounting for diverse evolutionary forces reveals mosaic patterns of selection on human preterm birth loci. Nature Communications 11, 3731.

Birnbaum SSL, Abbot P. 2020. Gene expression and diet breadth in plant-feeding insects: Summarizing trends. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35, 259-277.

Gloss AD, Abbot P, Whiteman NK. 2019. How interactions with plant chemicals shape insect genomes. Current Opinions in Insect Science 36, 149-156.

Kocher S, Abbot P. 2019. Editorial overview: Major transitions in social behavior in the 21st century. Current Opinion in Insect Science 34, VI-VIII.

Smith SP, Phillips JB, Johnson JL, Abbot P, Capra JA, & Rokas A. 2019. Genome-wide association analysis uncovers variants for reproductive variation across dog breeds and links to domestication. Evolution, Medicince, & Public Policy 1, 2019: 93-103.

Moon JM, Capra JA, Abbot P, & Rokas A. 2019. Signatures of recent positive selection in enhancers across 41 human tissues. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 9: 2761-2774.

Eidem HR, Steenwyk J, Wisecaver J, Capra JA, Abbot P, & Rokas A. 2018. integRATE: a desirability-based data integration framework for the prioritization of candidate genes across heterogeneous omics and its application to preterm birth. BMC Medical Genomics.11, 107. doi.org/10.1186/s12920-018-0426-y

Birnbaum SL, Rinker DC, & Abbot P. 2018. Maintaining biological cultures and measuring gene expression in Aphis nerii: A Non-model System for plant-insect interactions. J. Vis. Exp. (138), e58044, doi:10.3791/58044

Abbot P, Eidem HR, & Rokas A. 2018. Preterm Birth. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Fewell J & Abbot P. 2018. Insect sociality. IN: Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences. Córdoba-Aguilar A, González-Tokman D & González-Santoyo I (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Abbot P, Tooker J, Lawson SP. 2018. Chemical ecology and sociality in aphids: Opportunities and directions. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 16, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0955-z.

Heath J, Abbot P, & Stireman JO. 2018. Adaptive divergence in a defense symbiosis driven from the top down. The American Naturalist 192, E21-E36.

Birnbaum SSL & Abbot P. 2018. Insect adaptations towards plant toxins in milkweed-herbivore systems – a review. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 58, 579-589.

Moon JM, Aronoff DM, Capra JA, Abbot P, Rokas A. 2018. Examination of signatures of recent positive selection on genes involved in human sialic acid biology. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8, 1315-1325.

Abbot P & Chapman TC. 2017. Sociality in aphids & thrips. IN: Rubenstein D & Abbot P. (eds) Comparative Social Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Rubenstein D & Abbot P. 2017. The evolution of social evolution. IN: Rubenstein D & Abbot P. (eds) Comparative Social Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rubenstein D & Abbot P. 2017. Social synthesis: Opportunities for comparative social evolution. IN: Rubenstein D & Abbot P. (eds). Comparative Social Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Abbot P & Capra JA. 2017. What is a placental mammal anyway? eLife, 6:e30994.

Abbot P & Rokas A. 2017. Quick guide: Mammalian Pregnancy. Current Biology 27, R123–R138

Birnbaum SSL, Rinker D, Gerardo N, & Abbot P. 2017. Transcriptional profile and differential fitness across a cardenolide gradient in a specialist milkweed insect. Molecular Ecology, 26, 6742-6741.

Eidem H, McGary KL, Capra JA, Abbot P, & Rokas A. 2017. The transformative potential of an integrative approach to pregnancy. Placenta, 57: 204–215.

Lawson SP, Sigle L, Legan A, Lind A, Mezzanote JN, Honegger WH, & Abbot P. 2017. An alternative pathway to eusociality: Exploring the molecular and functional basis of fortress defense. Evolution, 71, 1986-1998.

Eidem H., Rinker DC, Ackerman WE IV, Buhimschi IA, Buhimschi CS, Dunn-Fletcher C, Kallapur SG, Pavlicev M, Muglia LJ, Abbot P, & Rokas A. 2016. Comparing human and macaque placental transcriptomes to disentangle preterm birth pathology from gestational age effects. Placenta: 41, 71-82.

Kim, M., Cooper BA, Venkat R, Phillips JB, Eidem HR, Hirbo J, Nutakki S, Williams SM, Muglia LJ, Capra JA, Petren K, Abbot P, Rokas A, McGary KL. 2016. GEneSTATION 1.0: a synthetic resource of diverse evolutionary and functional genomic data for studying the evolution of pregnancy-associated tissues and phenotypes. Nucleic Acids Research 44, Database issue: D908-916.

Abbot P. 2015. The physiology and genomics of social transitions in aphids. In: Zayed A, Kent CF, editors. Genomics, Physiology and Behaviour of Social Insects. Vol. 48. Advances in Insect Physiology. Elsevier. pp. 163–188.

Eidem HR, Ackerman WE, McGary KL, Abbot P, Rokas A. 2015. Gestational tissue transcriptomics in term and preterm human pregnancies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medical Genomics 8, 529–13.

Phillips JB, Abbot P, Rokas A. 2015. Is preterm birth a human specific syndrome? Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health 2015:136-48.

Hirbo J, Eidem HR, Rokas A, Abbot P. 2015. Integrating diverse types of genomic data to identify genes that underlie adverse pregnancy phenotypes.  PLoS ONE 10: e0144155.

Miller DG, Lawson SP, Rinker DC, Estby H, Abbot P. 2015. The origin and genetic differentiation of the socially parasitic aphid Tamalia inquilinus. Molecular Ecology 24, 5751–5766.

Abbot P. 2014. Ecological Genomics. Oxford Online Bibliography: Ecology.

Lawson SP, Christian N, & Abbot P. 2014. Comparative analysis of the biodiversity of fungal endophytes in insect-induced galls and surrounding foliar tissue. Fungal Diversity 66, 89–97.

Lawson SP, Legan AW, Graham C, & Abbot P. 2014. Comparative phenotyping across a social transition in aphids. Animal Behaviour 96, 117–125.

Cobbs C., Heath J, Stireman JO, & Abbot P. 2013. The evolution of laterally-transferred genes for carotenoid biosynthesis in gall midges. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 68, 221-228.

Stireman JO, Devlin H, & Abbot P. 2012. Rampant host and defensive phenotype associated diversification in a goldenrod gall midge. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25, 1991-2004.

Erickson DM, Wood EA, Oliver KM, Billick I, & Abbot P. 2012. The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, Hamiltonella defensa. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105, 447-453.

Abbot P. 2011. A closer look at the spatial architecture of aphid clones. Molecular Ecology 20, 4587-4589.

Cafaro MJ, Poulsen M, Little AEF, Price SL, Gerardo NM, Wong B, Stuart AE, Larget B, Abbot P, and Currie CR. 2011. Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 278, 1814-1822.

Abbot P, Abe J, Alcock J, et al. 2011. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471, E1-E4.

Janson EM, Peeden ER, Stireman JO, & Abbot P. 2010. Complexity without co-evolution in a mutualistic symbiosis Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 2212-2228.

Mikheyev AS, Mueller UG, & Abbot P. 2010. Comparative dating of attine ant and lepiotaceous cultivar phylogenies reveals coevolutionary synchrony and discord. The American Naturalist 175: E126-E133.

Grogan K, Chhatre V, & Abbot P. 2010. The cost of conflict in aphid societies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 185-193.

Stireman JO, Devlin H, Carr TG, & Abbot P. 2010. Evolutionary diversification of the gall midge genus Asteromyia (Cecidomyiidae) in a multitrophic context. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 194-210.

Gibbons JG, Janson EM, Hittinger CT, Johnston M, Abbot P, & Rokas A. 2009. The applicability of short-read next generation sequencing to evolutionary studies of non-model organisms. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26: 2731-2744.

Janson EM, Grebenok RJ, Behmer ST & Abbot P. 2009. Same host-plant, different sterols: variation in sterol metabolism in an insect herbivore community. Journal of  Chemical Ecology 35: 1309-1319.

Rokas A & Abbot P. 2009.  Harnessing genomics for evolutionary insights.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 192-200.

Abbot P. 2009. On dispersal and altruism in aphids.  Evolution 63: 2687-2696.

Chhatre V, Morales M, & Abbot P. 2009. Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite loci in an ant-tended treehopper, Publilia concava. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1185-1188.

Stireman JO, Janson EM, Carr TG, Devlin H, & Abbot P. 2008. Evolutionary radiation of Asteromyia carbonifera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) gall morphotypes on the goldenrod Solidago altissima (Asteraceae).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 840-858.

Abbot P, Grinath J, Brown J, Peeden E, Erickson D, & Billick I. 2008. Insect herbivore stoichiometry: The relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists.  Ecological Entomology 33: 497-502.

Janson EM, Stireman JO, Singer ME & Abbot P. 2008.  Perspective:  Phytophagous insect-microbe mutualisms and adaptive evolutionary diversification. Evolution 62: 997-1012.

 

 

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