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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Douglas J. Emlen is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields of study, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Insect Science. Their main research topics focus on areas such as Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Douglas J. Emlen's recent papers include the following:

  • Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect, 2022, BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • Economical defence of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Population differences in the strength of sexual selection match relative weapon size in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), 2020, Evolution
  • Competition, prey, and mortalities influence gray wolf group size, 2022, Journal of Wildlife Management
  • Sexual dimorphism divergence between sister species is associated with a switch in habitat use and mating system in thorny devil stick insects, 2020, Behavioural Processes

Douglas J. Emlen regularly collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Romain Boisseau
  • Teruyuki Niimi
  • Shinichi Morita
  • Hiroki Gotoh
  • Jesse N. Weber

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, PLoS ONE, SSRN Electronic Journal, and BMC Ecology and Evolution.

Douglas J. Emlen was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The Evolution of Animal Weapons

    Douglas J. Emlen

  • The Development and Evolution of Exaggerated Morphologies in Insects

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  • Alternative reproductive tactics and male-dimorphism in the horned beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    Douglas J. Emlen

  • Male horn dimorphism in the scarab beetle, Onthophagus taurus: do alternative reproductive tactics favour alternative phenotypes?

    Armin P. Moczek;Armin P. Moczek;Douglas J. Emlen

  • A mechanism of extreme growth and reliable signaling in sexually selected ornaments and weapons

    Douglas J. Emlen;Ian A. Warren;Annika Johns;Ian Dworkin

  • Competition among body parts in the development and evolution of insect morphology

    H. F. Nijhout;D. J. Emlen

  • Environmental Control of Horn Length Dimorphism in the Beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    Douglas J. Emlen

  • Size and shape: the developmental regulation of static allometry in insects.

    Alexander W. Shingleton;W. Anthony Frankino;Thomas Flatt;H. Frederik Nijhout

  • Costs and the diversification of exaggerated animal structures.

    Douglas J. Emlen

  • Evolutionary trade-off between weapons and testes.

    Leigh W. Simmons;Douglas J. Emlen

  • ARTIFICIAL SELECTION ON HORN LENGTH-BODY SIZE ALLOMETRY IN THE HORNED BEETLE ONTHOPHAGUS ACUMINATUS (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE)

    Douglas J. Emlen

  • Diversity in the weapons of sexual selection: horn evolution in the beetle genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    Douglas J. Emlen;Jennifer Marangelo;Bernard Ball;Clifford W. Cunningham

  • The developmental basis for allometry in insects.

    David L. Stern;Douglas J. Emlen

  • Proximate determination of male horn dimorphism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    A.P. Moczek;D.J. Emlen

  • Hormonal control of male horn length dimorphism in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    D J. Emlen;H F. Nijhout

  • Endocrine Control of Insect Polyphenism

    K. Hartfelder;D.J. Emlen

  • On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns.

    Douglas J. Emlen;Laura Corley Lavine;Ben Ewen-Campen

  • Diet alters male horn allometry in the beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    Douglas J. Emlen

  • Why Sexually Selected Weapons Are Not Ornaments.

    Erin L. McCullough;Christine W. Miller;Douglas J. Emlen

  • Evolution of sexual dimorphism and male dimorphism in the expression of beetle horns: phylogenetic evidence for modularity, evolutionary lability, and constraint.

    Douglas J. Emlen;John Hunt;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Developmental link between sex and nutrition; doublesex regulates sex-specific mandible growth via juvenile hormone signaling in stag beetles.

    Hiroki Gotoh;Hitoshi Miyakawa;Asano Ishikawa;Yuki Ishikawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Toru Miura
Toru Miura University of Tokyo
Leigh W. Simmons
Leigh W. Simmons University of Western Australia
Gregory I. Holwell
Gregory I. Holwell University of Auckland
Armin P. Moczek
Armin P. Moczek Indiana University
Bret W. Tobalske
Bret W. Tobalske University of Montana
Stephen T. Emlen
Stephen T. Emlen Cornell University
H. Frederik Nijhout
H. Frederik Nijhout Duke University
Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology
John Hunt
John Hunt Western Sydney University
Dean E. Pearson
Dean E. Pearson United States Department of Agriculture

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