Robert M Plowes
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Bowman E, Hawkes C, Jones N, Plowes R, Martins D, Gilbert L
Mol Ecol
. 2024 Dec;
34(2):e17609.
PMID: 39665802
Plants host diverse assemblages of fungi on their foliar tissues, both in internal compartments and on exterior surfaces. When plant distributions shift, they can move with their fungal associates (i.e.,...
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Rhodes A, Plowes R, Bowman E, Gaitho A, Ngiru I, Martins D, et al.
Ecol Evol
. 2024 May;
14(5):e11350.
PMID: 38737568
Invasive grasses cause devastating losses to biodiversity and ecosystem function directly and indirectly by altering ecosystem processes. Escape from natural enemies, plant-plant competition, and variable resource availability provide frameworks for...
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Smith M, Wilkins K, Holdrege M, Wilfahrt P, Collins S, Knapp A, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2024 Jan;
121(4):e2309881120.
PMID: 38190514
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term (~1 y) drought events-the most common duration of drought-globally. Yet the impact of this intensification of drought on ecosystem functioning...
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LeBrun E, Jones M, Plowes R, Gilbert L
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2022 Mar;
119(14):e2114558119.
PMID: 35344435
SignificanceInvasive social insects are among the most damaging of invasive organisms and have proved universally intractable to biological control. Despite this, populations of some invasive social insects collapse from unknown...
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LeBrun E, Plowes R, Folgarait P, Bollazzi M, Gilbert L
PLoS One
. 2019 Nov;
14(11):e0225597.
PMID: 31756233
How workers within an ant colony perceive and enforce colony boundaries is a defining biological feature of an ant species. Ants fall along a spectrum of social organizations ranging from...
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Plowes R, Folgarait P, Gilbert L
Zootaxa
. 2015 Dec;
4032(2):215-20.
PMID: 26624354
Ongoing studies in South America of phorid flies of the genus Pseudacteon Coquillett 1907 have revealed two further new species in this genus that are described here: P. obtusitus and...
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Plowes R, Becnel J, LeBrun E, Oi D, Valles S, Jones N, et al.
J Invertebr Pathol
. 2015 Jun;
129:45-56.
PMID: 26031565
A new microsporidian genus and species, Myrmecomorba nylanderiae, is described from North American populations of the tawny crazy ant, Nylanderia fulva. This new species was found to be heterosporous producing...
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Valles S, Oi D, Plowes R, Sanchez-Arroyo H, Varone L, Conant P, et al.
J Invertebr Pathol
. 2013 Apr;
113(3):232-6.
PMID: 23623900
Solenopsis invicta virus 1 (SINV-1) was found regularly and prevalently in S. invicta. In sampled locations where S. invicta and S. geminata are sympatric (specifically, Gainesville, FL and Travis, TX),...
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McFrederick Q, Cannone J, Gutell R, Kellner K, Plowes R, Mueller U
Appl Environ Microbiol
. 2013 Jan;
79(6):1803-12.
PMID: 23291551
Lactobacilli (Lactobacillales: Lactobacillaceae) are well known for their roles in food fermentation, as probiotics, and in human health, but they can also be dominant members of the microbiota of some...
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LeBrun E, Plowes R, Gilbert L
J Anim Ecol
. 2012 Feb;
81(4):884-95.
PMID: 22292743
1. Habitat disturbance and species invasions interact in natural systems, making it difficult to isolate the primary cause of ecosystem degradation. A general understanding requires case studies of how disturbance...