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Ontogenetic shape trajectory of Trichomycterus areolatus varies in response to water velocity environment by Searle, Peter C, Mercer, Margaret, Habit, Evelyn, Belk, Mark C

“…Body and head shape among fishes both vary between environments influenced by water velocity and across ontogeny. Although the shape changes associated with…”
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Cost of Reproduction, Resource Quality, and Terminal Investment in a Burying Beetle by Creighton, J. Curtis, Heflin, Nicholas D., Belk, Mark C.

“…We evaluate the cost‐of‐reproduction hypothesis in the burying beetleNicrophorus orbicollisand examine how the importance of this trade‐off changes as females…”
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Comparative Shape of Two Recently Diverged Species of Pacific Rockfish: Sebastes ciliatus and S. variabilis by Smith, Jonah, Sorensen, Michael, Shiozawa, Dennis K, Belk, Mark C

“…Species delimitation can be based on the consideration of several different criteria, including the differentiation of ecological or functional traits. Two…”
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Comparison of Trophic Niche Position, Size, and Overlap in an Assemblage of Pacific Rockfish (Genus Sebastes) for Testing Community Composition Models by Suchomel, Andrew D, Belk, Mark C

“…Rockfish (genus Sebastes) assemblages can inform mechanisms of coexistence and maintenance of diversity in ecological communities. Coexistence theory…”
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No evidence for increased fitness of offspring from multigenerational effects of parental size or natal carcass size in the burying beetle Nicrophorus marginatus by Damron, Ethan P, Momcilovitch, Ashlee N. Smith, Jo, Dane, Belk, Mark C

“…Multigenerational effects (often called maternal effects) are components of the offspring phenotype that result from the parental phenotype and the parental…”
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Behavioral constraints on local adaptation and counter‐gradient variation: Implications for climate change by Quinby, Brandon M., Belk, Mark C., Creighton, J. Curtis

“…Resource allocation to growth, reproduction, and body maintenance varies within species along latitudinal gradients. Two hypotheses explaining this variation…”
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Morphological divergence driven by predation environment within and between species of Brachyrhaphis fishes by Ingley, Spencer J, Billman, Eric J, Belk, Mark C, Johnson, Jerald B

“…Natural selection often results in profound differences in body shape among populations from divergent selective environments. Predation is a well-studied…”
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Bigger Is Better, Sometimes: The Interaction between Body Size and Carcass Size Determines Fitness, Reproductive Strategies, and Senescence in Two Species of Burying Beetles by Belk, Mark C., Meyers, Peter J., Creighton, J. Curtis

“…The cost of reproduction hypothesis suggests that allocation to current reproduction constrains future reproduction. How organisms accrue reproductive costs…”
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Life History Divergence in Livebearing Fishes in Response to Predation: Is There a Microevolution to Macroevolution Barrier? by Belk, Mark C., Ingley, Spencer J., Johnson, Jerald B.

“…A central problem in evolutionary biology is to determine whether adaptive phenotypic variation within species (microevolution) ultimately gives rise to new…”
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Predation affects body shape in the knife livebearer Alfaro cultratus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) by Ardon, Diego A., Golden, Kaitlyn B., Williams, Trevor J., Belk, Mark C., Johnson, Jerald B.

“…Livebearing fishes are a common model for studying the effects of predation on prey biology. Numerous studies have found differences in life history, sexual…”
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Variation in Isotopic Trophic Niche of Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) and Shortraker Rockfish (Sebastes borealis) in the Northeast Pacific by Wilson, Raquel, Hatcher, Tessa J., Suchomel, Andrew D., Belk, Mark C.

“…Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria, Anoplopomatidae) and shortraker rockfish (Sebastes borealis, Sebastidae) co-occur in deepwater marine habitats in the northeast…”
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Dynamics of biparental care in a burying beetle: experimental handicapping results in partner compensation by Creighton, J. Curtis, Smith, Ashlee N, Komendat, April, Belk, Mark C

“…Negotiation models of biparental care predict that parents should partially compensate for a reduction in the level of care that their partner provides. A…”
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Why does it take two to tango? Lifetime fitness consequences of parental care in a burying beetle by Smith, Ashlee N, Creighton, J Curtis, Belk, Mark C

“…In species that require parental care, each parent can either care for their offspring or leave them in the care of the other parent. For each parent this…”
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Revisiting the ecology and evolution of burying beetle behavior (Staphylinidae: Silphinae) by Potticary, Ahva L., Belk, Mark C., Creighton, J. Curtis, Ito, Minobu, Kilner, Rebecca, Komdeur, Jan, Royle, Nick J., Rubenstein, Dustin R., Schrader, Matthew, Shen, Sheng‐Feng, Sikes, Derek S., Smiseth, Per T., Smith, Rosemary, Steiger, Sandra, Trumbo, Stephen T., Moore, Allen J.

“…Investigating fundamental processes in biology requires the ability to ground broad questions in species‐specific natural history. This is particularly true in…”
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Differences in Patterns of Reproductive Allocation between the Sexes in Nicrophorus orbicollis by Smith, Ashlee N, Creighton, J Curtis, Belk, Mark C

“…Organisms are selected to maximize lifetime reproductive success by balancing the costs of current reproduction with costs to future survival and fecundity…”
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Nematode Parasites of Rockfish (Sebastes spp.) and Cod (Gadus spp.) from Waters near Kodiak Island Alaska, USA by Oğuz, Mehmet Cemal, Campbell, Andrea McRae, Bennett, Samuel P., Belk, Mark C.

“…Distribution and abundance of common parasitic nematodes in marine fishes is not well documented in many geographic regions. Understanding the influence of…”
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Heterochronic shift in gene expression leads to ontogenetic morphological divergence between two closely related polyploid species by Searle, Peter C., Shiozawa, Dennis K., Evans, R. Paul, Hill, Jonathon T., Suli, Arminda, Stark, Michael R., Belk, Mark C.

“…Heterochrony—alteration to the rate or timing of development—is an important mechanism of trait differentiation associated with speciation. Heterochrony may…”
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Residency time as an indicator of reproductive restraint in male burying beetles by Smith, Ashlee N, Belk, Mark C, Creighton, J Curtis

“…The cost of reproduction theory posits that there are trade-offs between current and future reproduction because resources that are allocated to current…”
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Bergmann’s Rule in Ectotherms: A Test Using Freshwater Fishes by Belk, Mark C., Houston, Derek D.

“…Understanding patterns of variation in body size within and among species is a central question in evolutionary ecology. To provide information on patterns of…”
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Age and Growth of Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger) at High Latitude by Christoffersen, Camron J., Shiozawa, Dennis K., Suchomel, Andrew D., Belk, Mark C.

“…Data on age and growth of fishes is critical for effective management; however, growth rates documented in one location may not be representative of other…”
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