Douglas Emlen

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Douglas Emlen is affiliated with the following schools: University of Montana, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of New Mexico, Duke University

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PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University
Bachelors Biology Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Douglas Emlen is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Montana. He has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, and the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists. His research provides insights into the development and evolution of exaggerated male weaponry, such as the horns found in scarab beetles. He combines approaches from behavioral ecology, genetics, phylogenetics, and developmental biology to understand how evolution has shaped these bizarre structures. His current projects include an examination of how altered expression of appendage patterning genes contributes to species differences in the shape of horns, and how the insulin receptor pathway modulates the size of male weapons in response to the larval nutritional environment. He recently starred in documentaries about his work for the BBC and NOVA , and released his first narrative nonfiction book for middle school readers, Beetle Battles: One Scientist’s Journey of Adventure and Discovery in December 2019. He is the grandson of John T. Emlen.

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Douglas Emlen's Published Works

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The Evolution of Animal Weapons (2008) (563)
The development and evolution of exaggerated morphologies in insects. (2000) (444)
Male horn dimorphism in the scarab beetle, Onthophagus taurus: do alternative reproductive tactics favour alternative phenotypes? (2000) (395)
A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually Selected Ornaments and Weapons (2012) (388)
Competition among body parts in the development and evolution of insect morphology. (1998) (382)
Alternative reproductive tactics and male-dimorphism in the horned beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (1997) (371)
Environmental control of horn length dimorphism in the beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (1994) (330)
Size and shape: the developmental regulation of static allometry in insects (2007) (313)
Costs and the Diversification of Exaggerated Animal Structures (2001) (308)
Evolutionary trade-off between weapons and testes (2006) (288)
DIVERSITY IN THE WEAPONS OF SEXUAL SELECTION: HORN EVOLUTION IN THE BEETLE GENUS ONTHOPHAGUS (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) (2005) (263)
The developmental basis for allometry in insects. (1999) (253)
ARTIFICIAL SELECTION ON HORN LENGTH‐BODY SIZE ALLOMETRY IN THE HORNED BEETLE ONTHOPHAGUS ACUMINATUS (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) (1996) (235)
Hormonal control of male horn length dimorphism in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). (1999) (227)
On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns (2007) (182)
Diet alters male horn allometry in the beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (1997) (151)
Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism and Male Dimorphism in the Expression of Beetle Horns: Phylogenetic Evidence for Modularity, Evolutionary Lability, and Constraint (2005) (149)
Endocrine Control of Insect Polyphenism (2012) (140)
Developmental Link between Sex and Nutrition; doublesex Regulates Sex-Specific Mandible Growth via Juvenile Hormone Signaling in Stag Beetles (2014) (127)
Why Sexually Selected Weapons Are Not Ornaments. (2016) (119)
Insulin signaling and limb-patterning: candidate pathways for the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle ‘horns’ (2006) (118)
Integrating Development with Evolution:A Case Study with Beetle Horns (2000) (111)
Threshold evolution in exotic populations of a polyphenic beetle (2002) (111)
Hormonal control of male horn length dimorphism in Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): a second critical period of sensitivity to juvenile hormone. (2001) (103)
Genotype to Phenotype: Physiological Control of Trait Size and Scaling in Insects1 (2003) (102)
SPERM COMPETITION GAMES BETWEEN SNEAKS AND GUARDS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS USING DIMORPHIC MALE BEETLES (2007) (93)
Juvenile Hormone Regulates Extreme Mandible Growth in Male Stag Beetles (2011) (93)
Exaggerated trait growth in insects. (2015) (78)
A general mechanism for conditional expression of exaggerated sexually‐selected traits (2013) (77)
Structural adaptations to diverse fighting styles in sexually selected weapons (2014) (77)
Two Thresholds, Three Male Forms Result in Facultative Male Trimorphism in Beetles (2009) (65)
Evolution: Making Sense of Life (2012) (64)
Variation in the allometry of exaggerated rhinoceros beetle horns (2015) (64)
Evaluating the costs of a sexually selected weapon: big horns at a small price (2013) (59)
EXPERIMENTAL INDUCTION OF INFANTICIDE IN FEMALE WATTLED JACANAS (1989) (58)
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle (2014) (49)
Soldier morphogenesis in the damp-wood termite is regulated by the insulin signaling pathway. (2013) (47)
Heightened condition-dependent growth of sexually selected weapons in the rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). (2014) (45)
Costs of elaborate weapons in a rhinoceros beetle: how difficult is it to fly with a big horn? (2012) (44)
On the evolution of extreme structures: static scaling and the function of sexually selected signals (2018) (41)
Selection on an extreme weapon in the frog‐legged leaf beetle (Sagra femorata) (2017) (41)
Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles (2018) (37)
No fecundity cost of female secondary sexual trait expression in the horned beetle Onthophagus sagittarius (2008) (37)
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades (2012) (36)
The Fat/Hippo signaling pathway links within‐disc morphogen patterning to whole‐animal signals during phenotypically plastic growth in insects (2015) (35)
Ecological Trade-offs between Migration and Reproduction Are Mediated by the Nutrition-Sensitive Insulin-Signaling Pathway (2016) (30)
Alternative Reproductive Tactics: The roles of genes and the environment in the expression and evolution of alternative tactics (2008) (28)
Sexual dimorphism and heightened conditional expression in a sexually selected weapon in the Asian rhinoceros beetle (2018) (27)
Phylogenetic Evidence for an Association Between Tunneling Behavior and the Evolution of Horns in Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) (2006) (27)
Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons (2019) (27)
Dynamic effects of oviposition site on offspring sexually-selected traits and scaling relationships (2010) (26)
Across- and Within-Population Differences in the Size and Scaling Relationship of a Sexually Selected Trait in Leptoscelis tricolor (Hemiptera: Coreidae) (2010) (23)
Identification and functional analyses of sex determination genes in the sexually dimorphic stag beetle Cyclommatus metallifer (2016) (22)
Insights into the Development and Evolution of Exaggerated Traits Using De Novo Transcriptomes of Two Species of Horned Scarab Beetles (2014) (21)
Experimental approaches to studying the evolution of animal form: The shape of things to come (2009) (20)
Cloning and characterization of an mRNA encoding an insulin receptor from the horned scarab beetle Onthophagus nigriventris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). (2013) (20)
Predation shapes the evolutionary traits of cervid weapons (2018) (16)
Flight behavior of the rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus during electrical nerve stimulation (2012) (13)
Reproductive contests and the evolution of extreme weaponry (2014) (13)
Endocrine Control of Exaggerated Trait Growth in Rhinoceros Beetles. (2016) (12)
The function of appendage patterning genes in mandible development of the sexually dimorphic stag beetle. (2017) (11)
Population differences in the strength of sexual selection match relative weapon size in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) † (2020) (10)
Linking Native and Invader Traits Explains Native Spider Population Responses to Plant Invasion (2016) (6)
Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect (2022) (5)
Sexual dimorphism divergence between sister species is associated with a switch in habitat use and mating system in thorny devil stick insects (2020) (4)
A new method for observing underground and soil surface behaviors (1993) (3)
Competition, prey, and mortalities influence gray wolf group size (2022) (3)
Economical defence of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore (2022) (3)
A Developmental View of Exaggerated Growth and Conditional Expression in the Weapons of Sexual Selection (2021) (2)
The research bias is unfortunate but also unsurprising: a comment on Tinghitella et al (2018) (2)
Singing Beetles? Figuring out how male rhinoceros beetles produce their courtship songs. (2020) (2)
Variation in an Extreme Weapon: Horn Performance Differences across Rhinoceros Beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus) Populations (2019) (2)
Dung beetles unaffected by army ant swarm (1996) (1)
Dig It, and They Will Come: A female dung beetle in her tunnel is sure to atract suitors big and small. (2000) (1)
Multi-modal locomotor costs explain sexual size but not shape dimorphism in a leaf-mimicking insect (2021) (1)
Self-heating by large insect larvae? (2016) (1)
The draft genome sequence of Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus (2022) (1)
Supplementary material from "Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons" (2019) (0)
BIOL 410.01: Insect Biology (2003) (0)
Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus using next generation sequencing technology. (2022) (0)
Selected Ornaments and Weapons A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually (2012) (0)
Flight Control of a Biological Robot via Neurocybernetics Interface (2010) (0)
Science Signaling Podcast: 14 August 2012 (2012) (0)
Identification and functional analyses of sex determination genes in the sexually dimorphic stag beetle Cyclommatus metallifer (2016) (0)
BIOB 272.00: Genetics and Evolution (2018) (0)
Predation shapes the evolutionary traits of cervid weapons (2018) (0)
Figure S1; Tables S1 - S4 from Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons (2019) (0)
Cybernetic combatants support the importance of duels in the evolution of extreme weapons (2020) (0)
Opinion Why Sexually Selected Weapons Are Not Ornaments (2016) (0)
Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect (2022) (0)
Insect Cyborg with Control of Allomyrina dichotoma Based on Neurocybernetics (2010) (0)
BIOB 595.01: Special Topics - Advanced Topics in Genetics and Evolution (2014) (0)
Evolution of horn length and lifting strength in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus (2023) (0)
BIOE 406.00: Behavior and Evolution (2014) (0)
EXAGGERATED MORPHOLOGIES IN INSECTS (2000) (0)
DISCO: A deep learning ensemble for uncertainty-aware segmentation of acoustic signals (2023) (0)
Approach to Insect Cyborg : Flight Control of Allomyrina dichotoma by Neurobynetics (2010) (0)

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