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D-Index
36
Citations
4828
World Ranking
7150
National Ranking
2407

Overview

Alicia Mathis is affiliated with Missouri State University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Biomedical Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research addresses a range of topics, notably Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics, Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications, Covalent Organic Framework Applications, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Mathis has contributed publications in various scientific journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Crystallinity of covalent organic frameworks controls immune responses, 2024, Nature Communications
  • When neighbors cheat: a test of the dear enemy phenomenon in southern red-backed salamanders, 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Behavior in Transition: Recovery of Behavior by an Obligate Parasitic Ant (Formica subintegra) Following Host Removal, 2020, Journal of Insect Behavior
  • Freshwater sponges in the southeastern U.S. harbor unique microbiomes that are influenced by host and environmental factors, 2025, PeerJ
  • Do darters (Etheostoma sp.) in streams with introduced trout exhibit increased wariness?, 2021, Hydrobiologia

Throughout their career, Mathis has collaborated with several coauthors, frequently working alongside Arezoo Esrafili, Abhirami Thumsi, Madhan Mohan Chandra Sekhar Jaggarapu, Richard Nile, and Joshua Kupfer.

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Journal of Insect Behavior
  • PeerJ
  • Hydrobiologia

Best Publications

  • Fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, learn to recognize northern pike, Esox lucius, as predators on the basis of chemical stimuli from minnows in the pike's diet

    Alicia Mathis;R.Jan F. Smith

  • Chemical alarm signals increase the survival time of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) during encounters with northern pike (Esox Lucius)

    Alicia Mathis;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Cultural transmission of predator recognition in fishes: intraspecific and interspecific learning

    Alicia Mathis;Douglas P. Chivers;R.Jan F. Smith

  • Population declines of a long-lived salamander: a 20+-year study of hellbenders, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis

    Benjamin A Wheeler;Ethan Prosen;Alicia Mathis;Robert F Wilkinson

  • TERRITORIALITY IN A TERRESTRIAL SALAMANDER: THE INFLUENCE OF RESOURCE QUALITY AND BODY SIZE

    Alicia Mathis

  • Territories of male and female terrestrial salamanders: costs, benefits, and intersexual spatial associations

    Alicia Mathis

  • Epidermal ‘alarm substance’ cells of fishes maintained by non-alarm functions: possible defence against pathogens, parasites and UVB radiation

    Douglas P Chivers;Brian D Wisenden;Carrie J Hindman;Tracy A Michalak

  • Intraspecific and Cross‐Superorder Responses to Chemical Alarm Signals by Brook Stickleback

    Alicia Mathis;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Chemical Alarm Signals: Predator Deterrents or Predator Attractants?

    Alicia Mathis;Douglas P. Chivers;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Learning by embryos and the ghost of predation future

    Alicia Mathis;Maud C.O Ferrari;Nathan Windel;François Messier

  • Differential use of visual and chemical cues in predator recognition and threat-sensitive predator-avoidance responses by larval newts (Notophthalmus viridescens)

    Alicia Mathis;Frank Vincent

  • Do Experience and Body Size Play a Role in Responses of Larval Ringed Salamanders, Ambystoma annulatum, to Predator Kairomones? Laboratory and Field Assays

    Alicia Mathis;Kevin L. Murray;Caleb R. Hickman

  • Chemical labeling of northern pike (Esox lucius) by the alarm pheromone of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas).

    Alicia Mathis;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Population Differences in Responses of Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) to Visual and Chemical Stimuli from Predators

    Alicia Mathis;Douglas P. Chivers;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Territorial salamanders assess sexual and competitive information using chemical signals

    Alicia Mathis

  • Male salamanders with high-quality diets have faeces attractive to females

    Susan C. Walls;Alicia Mathis;Robert G. Jaeger;William F. Gergits

  • Acquired Recognition of Chemical Stimuli from an Unfamiliar Predator: Associative Learning by Adult Newts, Notophthalmus viridescens

    David R. Woody;Alicia Mathis

  • Avoidance of areas marked with a chemical alarm substance by fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) in a natural habitat

    Alicia Mathis;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Innate Predator Recognition and the Problem of Introduced Trout

    Brian G. Gall;Alicia Mathis

  • Does Temporal Variation in Predation Risk Influence the Intensity of Antipredator Responses? A Test of the Risk Allocation Hypothesis

    Reehan S. Mirza;Alicia Mathis;Douglas P. Chivers

  • Chemosensory Recognition of Northern Pike (Esox Lucius) By Brook Stickleback (Culaea Inconstans): Population Differences and the Influence of Predator Diet

    Cherie M. Gelowitz;Alicia Mathis;R. Jan F. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas P. Chivers
Douglas P. Chivers University of Saskatchewan
R. Jan F. Smith
R. Jan F. Smith University of Saskatchewan
Reehan S. Mirza
Reehan S. Mirza Nipissing University
Maud C. O. Ferrari
Maud C. O. Ferrari University of Saskatchewan
Grant E. Brown
Grant E. Brown Concordia University
Andrew R. Blaustein
Andrew R. Blaustein Oregon State University
Brian D. Wisenden
Brian D. Wisenden Minnesota State University Moorhead
Susan C. Walls
Susan C. Walls United States Geological Survey
Joseph M. Kiesecker
Joseph M. Kiesecker The Nature Conservancy
Jörgen I. Johnsson
Jörgen I. Johnsson University of Gothenburg

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