Find below a list our works on sexual selection, ecology, evolution, genetics, speciation, phylogeny and species concepts:
Oh, K.P. and Shaw, K.L. 2022. Axes of multivariate sexual signal divergence among incipient species: Concordance with selection, genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity. J Evol Biol. 00:1–15.
Xu, M. and Shaw, K. L. 2021. Extensive linkage and genetic coupling of song and preference loci underlying rapid speciation in Laupala crickets. Journal of Heredity 112: 204-213.
Hembry, D.H., Bennett G., Bess, E., Cooper, I., Jordan, S., Liebherr, J., Magnacca, K., Percy, D.M., Polhemus, D., Daniel Rubinoff, D., Shaw, K.L. and Patrick M. O’Grady, P.M. 2021. Insect Radiations on Islands: Biogeographic pattern and evolutionary process in Hawaiian insects. Q. Rev. Biol. 96 (4).
Xu, M. and Shaw, K. L. 2020. Spatial mixing between calling males of two closely related, sympatric crickets may facilitate species coexistence in a non-adaptive radiation. Journal of Heredity 111: 84-91.
Gillespie, R.G., Bennett, G.M., De Meester, L., Feder, J. L., Fleischer, R.C., Harmon, L.J., Hendry, A.P., Knope, M.L., Mallet, J., Martin, C., Parent, C.E., Patton, A.H., Pfennig, K.S., Rubinoff, D., Schluter, D., Seehausen, O., Shaw, K.L., Stacey, E., Stervander, M., Stroud, J.T., Wagner, C., and Wogan, G.O.U. 2020. Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa. Journal of Heredity 111:1–20.
Blankers, T., Oh, K.P. and Shaw, K. L. 2019. Parallel genomic architecture underlies repeated sexual signal divergence in Hawaiian crickets. Proc. R. Soc. London B Vol. 286, Issue 1912. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1479
Stamps, G. F. and Shaw, K. L. 2019. Male use of chemical signals in sex discrimination of Laupala pruna. Animal Behavior156: 111-120.
Xu, M. and Shaw, K.L. 2019. Colocalization of signal and preference loci facilitates evolution of a behavioral barrier during rapid speciation. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B Vol. 286, Issue 1913. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1607
Gao, Q, Turnell, B. R., Baozhen, H. and Shaw, K. L. 2019. The effect of nuptial gift number on fertilization success in a Hawaiian swordtail cricket. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 73: 92.
Xu, M. and Shaw, K. L. 2019. Evolution and genetics of rhythmic mating song underlying rapid speciation: From quantitative variation to Mendelian segregation of behavior. Genetics, 211: 1089-1104. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301706Editor’s Choice award for 2019
Hiller, A. E., Goodman, K. R., Shaw, K. L., O’Grady, P. M. and Gillespie, R. G. 2019. Niche conservatism predominates in adaptive radiation: comparing the diversification of Hawaiian arthropods using ecological niche modeling. Biological J. Linn. Soc. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz023
Blankers, T. Oh, K.P., Shaw, K.L. 2018. The genetics of a behavioral speciation phenotype in an island system. Genes9: 346-367. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9070346
Blankers, T., Oh, K. P., Bombarely, A. and Shaw, K. L. 2018. The genomic architecture of a rapid island radiation: recombination rate variation, chromosome structure, and genome assembly of the Hawaiian cricket Laupala. Genetics. 209:1329-13.
Turnell, B. R., Shaw, K.L., and Reeve, H.K. 2018. Modeling strategic sperm allocation: tailoring the predictions to the species. Evolution. 72: 414-425.
Shaw, K. L. and Gillespie, R. G. 2017. Comparative phylogeography of oceanic archipelagos. In: In the Light of Evolution, Volume X: Comparative Phylogeography (Avise, J.C. and Ayala, F.J., eds.), p. 5–21. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.17226/23542.
Rominger, A., Roesch Goodman, K., Lim, JY, Armstrong, E., Becking, L., Bennett, G., Brewer, M., Cotoras, D., Ewing, C., Harte, J., Martinez, N., O'Grady, P., Percy, D., Price, D., Roderick, G., Shaw, K.L., Valdovinos, F., Gruner, D., Gillespie, R. 2016. Community assembly on isolated islands: Macroecology meets evolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 769–780.
Shaw, K. L. and Gillespie, R. G. 2016. Comparative phylogeography of oceanic archipelagos: hotspots for inferences of evolutionary process. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 113: 7986-7993.
Turnell, B. R. and Shaw, K. L. 2015. Polyandry and postcopulatory sexual selection in a wild population. Molecular Ecology, 24: 6278–6288.
Turnell, B. R. and Shaw, K. L. 2015. High opportunity for postcopulatory sexual selection under field conditions. Evolution 69: 2094–2104.
Shaw, K. L. and Mullen, S. P. 2014. Speciation continuum. Journal of Heredity 105 (S1): 741-742.
Shaw, K. L. and Lambert, J. L. 2014. Dissecting speciation phenotypes. Bioessays 36: 1050–1053.
Mullen, S. P. and Shaw, K. L. 2014. Insect speciation rules: unifying concepts in speciation research. Annual Review of Entomology, 59:339-61.
Oh, K. P. and Shaw, K. L. 2013. Multivariate sexual selection in a rapidly evolving speciation phenotype. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 280: 20130482.
Ellison, C. K. and Shaw, K. L. 2013. Additive genetic architecture underlying a rapidly evolving sexual signaling phenotype in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala. Behavior Genetics 43: 445-454.
Mendelson, T. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2013. Further misconceptions about species recognition: a reply to to Padian & Horner. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:252-3.
Fergus, D. J. and Shaw, K. L. 2013. Circadian rhythms and period expression in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala. Behavior Genetics, 43: 241-53.
Oh, K. P., Conte, G. and Shaw, K. L. 2013. Founder effects and the evolution of asymmetrical sexual isolation in a rapidly-speciating clade. Current Zoology, 59: 230-238.
Shaw, K. L. and Mendelson, T. C. 2013. The targets of selection during reinforcement. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 286–287.
Mendelson, T. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2012. The (mis)concept of species recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 421-427.
Fedorka, K. M., Winterhalter, W. E., Shaw, K. L., Brogan, W. E., and Mousseau, T. A. 2012. The role of gene flow asymmetry along an environmental gradient in constraining local adaptation and range expansion in the ground cricket Allonemobius socius. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1676-1685.
deCarvalho, T. N., Fergus, D. J., Bell, R. and K. L. Shaw, K. L. 2012. Rhythmic male reproductive behavior controls timing of courtship and mating in Laupala cerasina. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 1333-1340.
Oh, K. P., Fergus, D. J., Grace, J. L. and Shaw, K. L. 2012. Interspecific genetics of speciation phenotypes: song and preference coevolution in Hawaiian crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1500-1512.
Shaw, K. L. 2012. Species and speciation: overview. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd: Chichester.
Grace, J. L. and Shaw, K. L. 2012. Incipient sexual isolation in Laupala cerasina: Females discriminate population-level divergence in acoustic characters. Current Zoology 58: 416−425.
Wiley, C., Ellison, C. K. and Shaw, K. L. 2012. Widespread genetic linkage of mating signals and preferences in the Hawaiian cricket Laupala. Proc. R. Soc. London B 279:1203-1209.
Singh, N. D. and Shaw, K. L. 2012. On the scent of pleiotropy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 109: 5-6.
Shaw, K. L., Ellison, C. K., Oh, K. P. and Wiley, C. 2011. Pleiotropy and the evolution of “sexy” traits. Behav. Ecol. 22:1154–1155.
Shaw, K. L. and Mullen, S. P. 2011. Genes versus phenotypes in the study of speciation. Genetica 139: 649-661.
Ellison, C. K., Wiley, C. and Shaw, K. L. 2011. The genetics of speciation: genes of small effect underlie sexual isolation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:1110-1119.
Grace, J. L. and Shaw, K. L. 2011. Coevolution of male signal and female preference during early lineage divergence of the Hawaiian cricket, Laupala cerasina. Evolution 65: 2184-2196.
Fergus, D. J. deCarvalho, T. N. and Shaw, K. L. 2011. Genetically regulated temporal variation of novel courtship elements in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala. Behavior Genetics 41: 607-614.
Ellison, C. K. and Shaw, K. L. 2010. Mining non-model genomic libraries for microsatellites: BAC versus EST libraries and the generation of allelic richness. BMC Genomics 11: 428-438.
Wiley, C. and Shaw, K. L. 2010. Multiple genetic linkages between female preference and male signal in rapidly speciating Hawaiian crickets. Evolution 64: 2238-2245.
deCarvalho, T. N. and Shaw, K. L. 2010. Divergence of courtship and mating behaviors among endemic Hawaiian swordtail crickets. Behavior 147: 479-504.
deCarvalho, T. N. and Shaw, K. L. 2010. Nuptial gifts enhance sperm transfer in the Hawaiian swordtail cricket, Laupala cerasina. Animal Behavior 79: 819-826.
Shaw, K. L. and Wiley, C. 2010. The genetic basis of behavior. In: Fox and Westneat (eds.), Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Shaw, K. L., and Lesnick, S. C. 2009. Genomic linkage of male song and female acoustic preference QTL underlying a rapid species radiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 106: 9737-9742.
Cummings, M. P., Neel, M. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2008. Genealogical sorting index: a statistic to quantify common ancestry of labeled individuals on a phylogenetic tree. Evolution 62: 2411-2422.
Shaw, K. L. and Wagner, K. 2008. Cricketsim: A genetic and evolutionary computer simulation. J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(1): 3 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/3.html>.
Mullen, S. P., Millar, J., Schal, C. and Shaw, K. L. 2008. Identification and characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons from a rapid species radiation of Hawaiian swordtailed crickets (Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae: Laupala). J. Chem. Ecol. 34: 198-204.
Shaw, K. L. 2008. In the light of evolution. Review of Evolution, by N. H. Barton, Derek E. G. Briggs, Jonathan A. Eisen, David B. Goldstein and Nipam H. Patel. Bioscience 58: 988-989.
Danley, P. D., Fergus, D. J., de Carvalho, T. N., and Shaw, K. L. 2007. A clockwork cricket: Reproductive asynchrony and the divergence of Hawaiian crickets. Ethology, 113:1125-1132.
Shaw, K. L., Parsons, Y. M. and Lesnick, S. 2007. A QTL analysis of a rapid speciation phenotype in the Hawaiian cricket Laupala. Molecular Ecology, 16: 2879–2892.
Danley, P. D., Mullen, S. P., Lui, F., Quackenbush, J. and Shaw, K. L. 2007. A cricket gene index: A genomic resource for studying neurobiology, speciation and molecular evolution. BMC Genomics 8:109-125.
Mullen, S. P., Mendelson, T. C., Schal, C. and Shaw, K. L. 2007. Rapid evolution of cuticular hydrocarbons in a species radiation of acoustically diverse Hawaiian crickets (Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae: Laupala). Evolution 61: 223-231.
Mendelson, T. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2006. The effect of close-range acoustic signaling on mate choice in Hawaiian crickets (Gryllidae: Laupala). Behav. Ecol. Soc. 59: 770–776.
Jost, M. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2006. Phylogeny of the Ensifera (Hexapoda: Orthoptera) using 3 ribosomal loci, with implications for the evolution of acoustic communication. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 510-530.
deCarvalho, T. N. and Shaw, K. L. 2005. Nuptial feeding of spermless spermatophores in the Hawaiian swordtail cricket, Laupala pacifica (Gryllidae: Triginodiinae). Naturwissenshaften 92: 483-487.
Shaw, K. L., T. C. Mendelson, T. C. and G. Borgia. 2005. Evolution by sexual selection. In: Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation. (Cracraft, J. and R. Bybee, eds.) Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Springs, CO.
Danley, P. D. and Shaw, K. L. 2005. Differential developmental programs between two closely related Hawaiian crickets. Annals of the Entomological Society of America98: 219-226.
Mendelson, T. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2005. Use of AFLP markers in surveys of arthropod diversity. Pp. 161-177. InMolecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data, B, Zimmer, E. A. and Roalson, E. (eds.).
Mendelson, T. C., Siegel, A. M. and Shaw, K. L. 2004. Testing geographical pathways of speciation in a recent island radiation. Molecular Ecology13: 3787 –3796.
Grace, J. L. and Shaw, K. L. 2004. Effects of developmental environment on signal preference coupling in a Hawaiian cricket. Evolution58: 1627-1633.
Shaw, K. L. and Khine, A. 2004. Courtship behavior in the Hawaiian cricket Laupalacerasina: males provide spermless spermatophores as nuptial gifts. Ethology110: 81-96.
Shaw, K. L. and Danley, P. D. 2003. Behavioral genomics and the study of speciation at a porous species boundary. Zoology104: 261-274.
Otte, D., DeCarvalho, T. and Shaw, K. L. 2003. Two new introduced species of Trigonidiinae recorded from Maui and Hawaii (Grylloidea, Gryllidae, Trigonidiinae). Bishop Museum Occassional Papers73: 47-53.
Shaw, K. L. 2002. Conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies of a recent species radiation: what mitochondrial DNA reveals and conceals about modes of speciation in Hawaiian crickets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 99: 16122-16127.
Parsons, Y. M. and Shaw, K. L. 2002. Mapping unexplored genomes: a genetic linkage map of the Hawaiian cricket, Laupala. Genetics162:1275-1282.
Mendelson, T. C. and Shaw, K. L. 2002. Genetic and behavioral components of the cryptic species boundary between Laupalacerasina and L. kohalensis (Orthoptera: Gyllidae). Genetica. 116: 301-310.
Shaw, K.L. and Parsons, Y.M. 2002. Divergence of mate recognition and its consequences for genetic architectures of speciation. The American Naturalist, 159: S61-S75.
Shaw, K. L. 2002. Do we need species concepts? Review of Genes, Categories and Species, by J. Hey. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. Science, 295: 1238-1239.
Shaw, K.L. 2001. The genealogical view of speciation. Commentary on C-I. Wu, The genic view of the process of speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 880-882.
Parsons, Y.M. and Shaw, K.L. 2001. Species boundaries and genetic diversity among Hawaiian crickets of the genus Laupalaidentified using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism. Molecular Ecology10:1765-1772.
Shaw, K. L. and Lugo, E. 2001. Mating asymmetry and mate recognition evolution in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala. Molecular Ecology10:751-759.
Shaw, K. L. 2000. Interspecific genetics of mate recognition: Inheritance of female acoustic preference in Hawaiian crickets. Evolution54:1303-1312.
Shaw, K. L. 2000. Further acoustic diversity in Hawaiian forests: Two new species of Hawaiian cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Laupala). The Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society129: 73-91.
Shaw, K. L. and Herlihy, D. 2000. Acoustic preference functions and song variability in the Hawaiian cricket Laupalacerasina. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 577-584.
Petrov, D. A., T. A. Sangster, J. S. Johnston, D. L. Hartl, and K. L. Shaw. 2000. Evidence for DNA loss as a determinant of genome size. Science287:1060-1062.
Shaw, K. L. 1999. A nested analysis of song groups and species boundaries in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 11:332-341.
Shaw, K.L. 1998. Species and the Diversity of Natural Groups. In: Endless Forms: Species and Speciation. (D. J. Howard and S. H. Berlocher, eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 44-56.
Shaw, K.L. 1996 What are 'good species'? Trends in Ecology and Evolution11:174.
Shaw, K.L. 1996. Sequential radiations and patterns of speciation in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala, inferred from DNA sequences. Evolution50: 237-255.
Shaw, K.L. 1996. Polygenic inheritance of a behavioral phenotype: interspecific genetics of song in the Hawaiian cricket genus Laupala. Evolution50: 256-266.
Shaw, K. L. 1995. Biogeographic patterns of two independent Hawaiian cricket radiations (Laupala and Prognathogryllus). In: Hawaiian Biogeography: Evolution on a Hot Spot. Archipelago (W. L. Wagner and V. A. Funk, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, pp. 39-56.
Baum, D. A. and K. L. Shaw. 1995. Genealogical perspectives on the species problem. In: Experimental and Molecular Approaches to Plant Biosystematics. (P. C. Hoch and A. G. Stephenson, eds.). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 53: 289-303.
Shaw, K. L. 1995. Phylogenetic tests of the sensory exploitation model of sexual selection. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 10:117-120.
Crandall, K. A. and K.L. Shaw. 1992. Review of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology, by P. H. Harvey and M. D. Pagel. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology54:685-689.
Templeton, A. R., Shaw, K. L., Routman, E. and Davis, S. 1990. The genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 77:13-27.