Melissa Whitaker

Chemical ecology of symbioses in cycads, an ancient plant lineage

Salzman, S., Bustos-Díaz, E. D., Whitaker, M. R. L., Sierra, A. M., Cibrián-Jaramillo, A., Barona-Gómez, F. & Villarreal Aguilar, J. C., May 2025, In: New Phytologist. 246, 4, p. 1494-1504 11 p.

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Foraging Under Fire: A Robotic Flower System Incorporating Multimodal Signaling and Aversive Stimuli

Foley, J., Mathieson, S., Zollinger, D. & Whitaker, M., May 10 2025, In: Integrative and Comparative Biology. icaf031.

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BMAA in cycad-feeding Lepidoptera: defensive sequestration or bioaccumulation?

Whitaker, M. R. L., Banack, S. A., Mescher, M. C., Cox, P. A. & De Moraes, C. M., 2023, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11, 1114636.

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Experimental evidence challenges the presumed defensive function of a “slow toxin” in cycads

Whitaker, M. R. L., Gilliéron, F., Skirgaila, C., Mescher, M. C. & De Moraes, C. M., Dec 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 6013.

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Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Valencia-Montoya, W. A., Quental, T. B., Tonini, J. F. R., Talavera, G., Crall, J. D., Lamas, G., Busby, R. C., Carvalho, A. P. S., Morais, A. B., Oliveira Mega, N., Romanowski, H. P., Liénard, M. A., Salzman, S., Whitaker, M. R. L., Kawahara, A. Y., Lohman, D. J., Robbins, R. K. & Pierce, N. E., May 12 2021, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288, 1950, 20202512.

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