Summer 2023 - Welcome to the lab new grad students Angela Robles and Christina Flores!
Fall 2022 - Welcome to the lab new grad student Jomel Thomas!
Spring & Summer 2021 - Congratulations Brian and Karina on the successful completion of their thesis and defense!
As part of the ecology class each semester student groups have surveyed the bird community along the Calaveras river on campus (200m transect). The figure on the right is the updated species accumulation curve for birds on the campus transect from 2011 to 2021.
As part of the ecology class each semester student groups have surveyed the bird community along the Calaveras river on campus (200m transect). The figure on the right is the updated species accumulation curve for birds on the campus transect from 2011 to 2021.
Fall 2020 - Welcome to the lab new grad students Rylie Towne and Laura Heller!
Field Work Summer 2019 - Karina, and undergraduate students Rylie Towne and Connor Soderstrom spent the summer studying Adelpha host relationships in eastern Ecuador. Additional field work this summer focused on observations of Speyeria in the California Sierra Nevada and Oregon Cascades. With the good snow pack this year adults were on the wing very late in the season.
Recent Publications (✚ undergraduate co-author, ✚✚ graduate co-author):
- C.E. Rush✚✚, A.V.L. Freitas, L. Magaldi, K.R. Willmott, R. I. Hill. 2023. One generalist or several specialists? Comparative analysis of the polyphagous butterfly Adelpha serpa celerio and its serpa-group relatives. Zool. Scripta.
- Hill, R. I. 2021. Convergent flight morphology among Müllerian mimic mutualists. Evolution 75: 2460-2479.
- Prusa, L.✚✚ & R. I. Hill. 2021. Umbrella of protection: spatial and temporal dynamics in a temperate Batesian mimicry system. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 132(4): 1-19.
- Mullen, S. P., N. W. VanKuren, W. Zhang, S. Nallu, E. B. Kristiansen, Q. Wuyun, K. Liu, R. I. Hill, A. Briscoe, & M. R. Kronforst. 2020. Disentangling population history and character evolution among hybridizing lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(5):1295-1305.
- Thompson, E.✚✚, J. Baumsteiger & R. I. Hill. 2019. Phylogenomic analyses clarify true species within the butterfly genus Speyeria despite evidence of a recent adaptive radiation. Insects. 10:209.
- Torres, K.✚✚, P. Salazar, K. R. Willmott & R. I. Hill. 2019. Life history descriptions of Adelpha attica attica, Adelpha epione agilla, and Adelpha jordani from an eastern Ecuador lowland forest. Tropical Lepidoptera Research. 29(1).
- Hill, R. I. & S. Mullen. 2019. Unprofitability of Neotropical Adelpha and its potential mechanisms: a role for adult resources? Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 73(1): 66-69