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Kyle Summers is affiliated with East Carolina University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, with a particular focus on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. Their subfields of study include ecology, genetics, global and planetary change, and social psychology.

Their work covers a variety of key topics such as amphibian and reptile biology, animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, neurobiology and insect physiology research, primate behavior and ecology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and melanin and skin pigmentation.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Kyle Summers include:

  • The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences (2023, Journal of Evolutionary Biology)
  • RETRACTED: The genomics of mimicry: Gene expression throughout development provides insights into convergent and divergent phenotypes in a Müllerian mimicry system (2021, Molecular Ecology)
  • Mechanisms for Color Convergence in a Mimetic Radiation of Poison Frogs (2020, The American Naturalist)
  • Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution (2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Neural crest cell genes and the domestication syndrome: A comparative analysis of selection (2022, PLoS ONE)

Kyle Summers frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Molecular Ecology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

Their work also involves collaboration with multiple coauthors, including:

  • Adam M. M. Stuckert
  • Andrew O. Rubio
  • Rasmus Nielsen
  • Matthew D. MacManes
  • Mélanie McClure

Best Publications

  • Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog Dendrobates pumilio.

    Afsheen Siddiqi;Thomas W. Cronin;Ellis R. Loew;Misha Vorobyev

  • Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages

    Juan C Santos;Luis A Coloma;Kyle Summers;Janalee P Caldwell

  • The evolution of coloration and toxicity in the poison frog family (Dendrobatidae).

    Kyle Summers;Mark E. Clough

  • Evolutionary biology of cancer

    Bernard Crespi;Kyle Summers

  • Visual mate choice in poison frogs.

    Kyle Summers;Kyle Summers;Rebecca Symula;Rebecca Symula;Mark E. Clough;Thomas Cronin

  • Genetic structure is correlated with phenotypic divergence rather than geographic isolation in the highly polymorphic strawberry poison-dart frog

    Ian J. Wang;Kyle Summers

  • Adaptive evolution of genes underlying schizophrenia.

    Bernard Crespi;Kyle Summers;Steve Dorus

  • A Key Ecological Trait Drove the Evolution of Biparental Care and Monogamy in an Amphibian

    Jason L. Brown;Victor Morales;Kyle Summers

  • Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis.

    Rebecca Symula;Rainer Schulte;Kyle Summers

  • Behavioral, ecological, and molecular genetic analyses of reproductive strategies in the Amazonian dart-poison frog, Dendrobates ventrimaculatus

    K. Summers;W. Amos

  • A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae)

    Jason L. Brown;Evan Twomey;Adolfo Amézquita;Moisés Barbosa De Souza

  • Sexual selection and intra-femalecompetition in the green poison-dart frog, Dendrobates auratus

    Kyle Summers;Kyle Summers

  • Conserved transcriptomic profiles underpin monogamy across vertebrates.

    Rebecca L. Young;Michael H. Ferkin;Nina F. Ockendon-Powell;Veronica N. Orr

  • Parasitic exploitation as an engine of diversity.

    Kyle Summers;Sea McKEON;Jon Sellars;Mark Keusenkothen

  • The evolution of parental care and egg size: a comparative analysis in frogs

    Kyle Summers;Christian Sea McKeon;Heather Heying

  • Variation in Spectral Reflectance Among Populations of Dendrobates Pumilio, the Strawberry Poison Frog, in the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago, Panamá

    Kyle Summers;Kyle Summers;Thomas W. Cronin;Timothy Kennedy

  • The evolutionary ecology of despotism

    Kyle Summers

  • Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the poison frogs: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequences

    Mark Clough;Kyle Summers

  • Phytotelm size in relation to parental care and mating strategies in two species of Peruvian poison frogs

    Jason L. Brown;Evan Twomey;Victor Morales;Kyle Summers

  • Phenotypic and Genetic Divergence in Three Species of Dart-Poison Frogs With Contrasting Parental Behavior

    Summers K;Bermingham E;Weigt L;McCafferty S

  • Paternal care and the cost of polygyny in the green dart-poison frog

    Kyle Summers;Kyle Summers

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason L. Brown
Jason L. Brown Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Bernard J. Crespi
Bernard J. Crespi Simon Fraser University
Thomas W. Cronin
Thomas W. Cronin University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Janalee P. Caldwell
Janalee P. Caldwell University of Oklahoma
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Molly E. Cummings
Molly E. Cummings The University of Texas at Austin
Hans A. Hofmann
Hans A. Hofmann The University of Texas at Austin
Timothy E. Kennedy
Timothy E. Kennedy Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Brian C. Trainor
Brian C. Trainor University of California, Davis
Michael H. Ferkin
Michael H. Ferkin University of Memphis

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