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PERSPECTIVE: REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION CAUSED BY NATURAL SELECTION AGAINST IMMIGRANTS FROM DIVERGENT HABITATS by Nosil, Patrik, Vines, Timothy H, Funk, Daniel J

“…The classification of reproductive isolating barriers laid out by Dobzhansky and Mayr has motivated and structured decades of research on speciation. We argue,…”
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SPECIES-LEVEL PARAPHYLY AND POLYPHYLY: Frequency, Causes, and Consequences, with Insights from Animal Mitochondrial DNA by Funk, Daniel J, Omland, Kevin E

“…Many uses of gene trees implicitly assume that nominal species are monophyletic in their alleles at the study locus. However, in well-sampled gene trees,…”
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Ecological divergence exhibits consistently positive associations with reproductive isolation across disparate taxa by Funk, D.J, Nosil, P, Etges, W.J

“…To what degree is the divergent adaptation responsible for life's phenotypic variety also responsible for generating the millions of species that manifest this…”
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Isolating a role for natural selection in speciation: host adaptation and sexual isolation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles by Funk, D.J

“…Muller (1942) and Mayr (1963) hypothesized that natural selection indirectly causes the evolution of reproductive barriers between allopatric populations by…”
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Herbivorous insects: model systems for the comparative study of speciation ecology by Funk, Daniel J, Filchak, Kenneth E, Feder, Jeffrey L

“…Does ecological divergence drive species-level evolutionary diversification? How so and to what degree? These questions were central to the thinking of the…”
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Individual advantages to ecological specialization: insights on cognitive constraints from three conspecific taxa by Egan, S.P, Funk, D.J

“…make many host-associated decisions in nature, our results suggest that cognitive constraints may play a major role in the evolutionary dynamics of ongoing…”
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Temperature-Dependent Far-Infrared Spectra of Single Crystals of High Explosives Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy by Barber, Jeffrey, Hooks, Daniel E, Funk, David J, Averitt, Richard D, Taylor, Antoinette J, Babikov, Dmitri

“…Survey spectra of single-crystal HMX (octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine), RDX (hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine), and PETN…”
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Time resolved study of the laser ablation induced shockwave by Hauer, M., Funk, D.J., Lippert, T., Wokaun, A.

“…Laser ablation is used in laser plasma thrusters (LPT), in which the created plasma provides the thrust that is used to stabilize the trajectory of satellites…”
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THE EVOLUTION OF UNISEXUALITY IN CALLIGRAPHA LEAF BEETLES: MOLECULAR AND ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS ON MULTIPLE ORIGINS VIA INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION by Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Funk, Daniel J, Vogler, Alfried P

“…Interspecific hybridization is a well-established cause of unisexual origins in vertebrates. This mechanism is also suspected in other apomictic taxa, but…”
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Shock Induced Reaction Observed via Ultrafast Infrared Absorption in Poly(vinyl nitrate) Films by McGrane, S. D, Moore, D. S, Funk, D. J

“…Ultrafast laser shock generation methods and broad-band infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy have provided evidence that shock-induced chemistry in a…”
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Shock temperature measurement using neutron resonance spectroscopy by YUAN, V. W, BOWMAN, J. David, FUNK, D. J, MORGAN, G. L, RABIE, R. L, RAGAN, C. E, QUINTANA, J. P, STACY, H. L

“…We report a direct measurement of temperature in a shocked metal using Doppler broadening of neutron resonances. The 21.1-eV resonance in 182W was used to…”
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Molecular systematics of cytochrome oxidase I and 16S from Neochlamisus leaf beetles and the importance of sampling by Funk, D J

“…If a gene tree is to be judiciously used for inferring the histories of closely related taxa, (1) its topology must be sufficiently resolved and robust that…”
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Specialists make faster decisions than generalists: experiments with aphids by Bernays, E.A, Funk, D.J

“…Theoretical studies and a few recent experimental reports suggest that the evolution of diet breadth in herbivorous insects is constrained by a limited neural…”
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Measurement of shock wave rise times in metal thin films by Gahagan, K T, Moore, D S, Funk, D J, Rabie, R L, Buelow, S J, Nicholson, J W

“…We have measured the rise time of laser-generated shock waves in vapor plated metal thin films using frequency-domain interferometry with subpicosecond time…”
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Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Vibrational Spectra of the α, β, and δ Phases of Octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) by Brand, Holmann V, Rabie, Ronald L, Funk, David J, Diaz-Acosta, Irina, Pulay, Peter, Lippert, Thomas K

“…The vibrational spectra of the α, β, and δ phases of octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) have been investigated by complimentary theoretical…”
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Intraspecific Variation in Symbiont Genomes: Bottlenecks and the Aphid-Buchnera Association by Funk, Daniel J, Wernegreen, Jennifer J, Moran, Nancy A

“…Buchnera are maternally transmitted bacterial endosymbionts that synthesize amino acids that are limiting in the diet of their aphid hosts. Previous studies…”
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Mutation exposed: a neutral explanation for extreme base composition of an endosymbiont genome by Wernegreen, Jennifer J, Funk, Daniel J

“…The influence of neutral mutation pressure versus selection on base composition evolution is a subject of considerable controversy. Yet the present study…”
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Intraspecific phylogenetic congruence among multiple symbiont genomes by Funk, Daniel J., Helbling, Louise, Wernegreen, Jennifer J., Moran, Nancy A.

“…Eukaryotes often form intimate endosymbioses with prokaryotic organisms. Cases in which these symbionts are transmitted cytoplasmically to host progeny create…”
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Spectrally modified chirped pulse generation of sustained shock waves by McGrane, S. D., Moore, D. S., Funk, D. J., Rabie, R. L.

“…A method is described for generating shock waves with 10–20 ps risetime followed by >200 ps constant pressure, using spectrally modified (clipped) chirped…”
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A Conservative Test of Genetic Drift in the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Buchnera: Slightly Deleterious Mutations in the Chaperonin groEL by Herbeck, Joshua T, Funk, Daniel J, Degnan, Patrick H, Wernegreen, Jennifer J

“…The obligate endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola shows elevated rates of sequence evolution compared to free-living relatives, particularly at…”
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