Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The University of Arkansas
Evolutionary genetics, genomics, and ecology group

Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The University of Arkansas

Evolutionary genetics, genomics, and ecology group

*People:*
PI: William J. Etges Laboratory Research Associate/Coordinator: Giselle Almeida Postdoctoral Fellow: Cássia Cardoso de Oliveira Graduate Students: Julie Havens, Ph.D. candidate Jason Desormeaux, MS candidate Undergraduate Students: Jim Sloan Natalie Brown
Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arkansas Graduate/Undergraduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities
*Resources:* Drosophila stocks available Frozen Drosophila species available Key to Arkansas drosophilids (by Frances E. Clayton) Key to southern Arizona drosophilids (by William B. Heed)

Jennings, J. H. and W. J. Etges. 2010. Species hybrids in the lab but not in nature: a reanalysis of premating isolation between Drosophila arizonae and D. mojavensis. Evolution 64:587-598.

Levitan, M. and W. J. Etges. 2009. Rapid response to perturbation of chromosome frequencies in natural populations of Drosophila robusta. Genetica 137:1-8. doi:10.1007/s10709-009-9364-0

Etges, W. J., C. C. de Oliveira, M. G. Ritchie, and M. A. F. Noor. 2009. Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. II. Host plants and mating status influence cuticular hydrocarbon QTL expression and G x E interactions. Evolution 63:1712-1730. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00661.x

Etges, W. J. and M. Levitan. 2008. Variable evolutionary response to regional climate change in a polymorphic species. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 95:702-716.

Etges, W. J. and A. D. Tripodi. 2008. Premating isolation is determined by larval rearing substrates in cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis. VIII. Mating success mediated by epicuticular hydrocarbons within and between isolated populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:1641-1652.

Beckenbach, A. T., W. B. Heed, and W. J. Etges. 2008. A mitochondrial DNA analysis of vicariant speciation in two lineages in the Drosophila mulleri subgroup. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:475-492.

(journal cover - W. B. Heed)

Oliveira, D. C. S. G., M. Leonidas, W. J. Etges, P. M. O’Grady, and R. DeSalle. 2008. Species delimitation in the Drosophila aldrichi subcluster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) using DNA sequences. Zootaxa 1725:37-47.

Etges, W. J. 2007. In Memoriam. William B. Heed, 1926-2007. Evolution 61:2739-2742.

Etges, W. J., C. C. de Oliveira, E. Gragg, D. Ortíz-Barrientos, M. A. F. Noor and M. G. Ritchie. 2007. Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. I. Male courtship song, mating success and genotype x environment interactions. Evolution 61:1106-1119.

Funk, D. J., P. Nosil, and W. J. Etges. 2006. Ecological divergence exhibits consistently positive associations with reproductive isolation across disparate taxa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103:3209–3213.

Levitan, M. and W. J. Etges. 2005. Climate change and recent genetic flux in populations of Drosophila robusta. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005 5:4.

Contact Information:

William J. Etges

Department of Biological Sciences

SCEN 632

1 University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201 USA

http://comp.uark.edu/~wetges/wetges.html

office: (479) 575-6358

lab:(479) 575-7437

FAX (479) 575-4010

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Jennings, J. H. and W. J. Etges. 2010. Species hybrids in the lab but not in nature: a reanalysis of premating isolation between Drosophila arizonae and D. mojavensis. Evolution 64:587-598.
Levitan, M. and W. J. Etges. 2009. Rapid response to perturbation of chromosome frequencies in natural populations of Drosophila robusta. Genetica 137:1-8. doi:10.1007/s10709-009-9364-0
Etges, W. J., C. C. de Oliveira, M. G. Ritchie, and M. A. F. Noor. 2009. Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. II. Host plants and mating status influence cuticular hydrocarbon QTL expression and G x E interactions. Evolution 63:1712-1730. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00661.x
Etges, W. J. and M. Levitan. 2008. Variable evolutionary response to regional climate change in a polymorphic species. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 95:702-716.
Etges, W. J. and A. D. Tripodi. 2008. Premating isolation is determined by larval rearing substrates in cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis. VIII. Mating success mediated by epicuticular hydrocarbons within and between isolated populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:1641-1652.
Beckenbach, A. T., W. B. Heed, and W. J. Etges. 2008. A mitochondrial DNA analysis of vicariant speciation in two lineages in the Drosophila mulleri subgroup. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:475-492.	(journal cover - W. B. Heed)
Oliveira, D. C. S. G., M. Leonidas, W. J. Etges, P. M. O’Grady, and R. DeSalle. 2008. Species delimitation in the Drosophila aldrichi subcluster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) using DNA sequences. Zootaxa 1725:37-47.
Etges, W. J. 2007. In Memoriam. William B. Heed, 1926-2007. Evolution 61:2739-2742.
Etges, W. J., C. C. de Oliveira, E. Gragg, D. Ortíz-Barrientos, M. A. F. Noor and M. G. Ritchie. 2007. Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. I. Male courtship song, mating success and genotype x environment interactions. Evolution 61:1106-1119.
Funk, D. J., P. Nosil, and W. J. Etges. 2006. Ecological divergence exhibits consistently positive associations with reproductive isolation across disparate taxa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103:3209–3213.
Levitan, M. and W. J. Etges. 2005. Climate change and recent genetic flux in populations of Drosophila robusta. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005 5:4.