Publications
Snell-Rood, E. C, and D. R. Papaj. 2009. Patterns of phenotypic plasticity in common and rare environments: a study of host use and color learning in the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae. American Naturalist 173: 615–631. DOI: 10.1086/597609 PDF Appendix A Appendix B
Snell-Rood,
E. C., D. R. Papaj, and W. Gronenberg. 2009. Brain size: a global or induced
cost of learning? In press, Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 73:111–128.
DOI: 10.1159/000213647 PDF
Snell-Rood,
E. C., and A. V. Badyaev.
2008. Ecological gradient
of sexual selection: Elevation and song complexity in finches. Oecologia
157: 545-551. link
Moczek, A. P., and E. C. Snell-Rood. 2008. The basis of bee-ing different: the role of gene silencing in plasticity. (commentary) Evolution and Development 10: 511-513. PDF
Papaj, D. R., and E. C. Snell-Rood. 2007. Memory flies sooner from flies that learn faster (commentary). PNAS 104: 13539-13540. PDF
Snell-Rood, E. C., and D. R. Papaj.
2006. Learning signals within sensory environments: does host cue learning
in butterflies depend on background? Animal Biology 56: 173-192. PDF
Snell-Rood, E. C., and
D. A. Cristol. 2005. Prior residence, per se, increases social status
in wintering flocks of White-throated Sparrows. Ethology 111:441-454.
PDF
Badyaev, A. V., and E. C. Snell-Rood. 2003. Rapid evolutionary divergence
of environment-dependent sexual traits in speciation: a paradox? Pp. 315-319
in W. J. Bock and R. Schodde, eds. Proceedings of XXIII International
Ornithological Congress. Beijing. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52 (Supplement).
Beijing. PDF
Snell-Rood, E. C., and D. A. Cristol. 2003. Avian communities of created
and natural wetlands: bottomland forests in Virginia. Condor 105:
303-315. PDF
In preparation:
Snell-Rood, E. C., G. Davidowitz, and D. R. Papaj. Variation in life history traits with learning ability and leaning experience.
Battus philenor eggs
on host plant
Northern Cardinal singing
Collecting Pieris rapae
updated
April 2009
all photos by E. Snell-Rood