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Matthew L. Aardema

Associate Professor of Biology, Montclair State University
Verified email at montclair.edu
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Parallel molecular evolution in an herbivore community

Y Zhen, ML Aardema, EM Medina, M Schumer… - science, 2012 - science.org
Numerous insects have independently evolved the ability to feed on plants that produce toxic
secondary compounds called cardenolides and can sequester these compounds for use in …

The Enigmatic Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) Species Complex: Phylogenetic Challenges and Opportunities From a Notoriously Tricky Mosquito Group

ML Aardema, SK Olatunji… - Annals of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of how natural selection and demographic processes produce and maintain
biological diversity remains limited. However, developments in high-throughput genomic …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the Population Structure of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Using Multilocus Sequence Typing

…, D Schaarschmidt-Kiener, M Ganter, ML Aardema… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… We therefore constructed a maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree using the use all …
to the most informative variable sites, a further ML tree was constructed from the 284 samples …

[HTML][HTML] Sex chromosome mosaicism and hybrid speciation among tiger swallowtail butterflies

K Kunte, C Shea, ML Aardema, JM Scriber… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Hybrid speciation, or the formation of a daughter species due to interbreeding between two
parental species, is a potentially important means of diversification, because it generates …

[HTML][HTML] Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene “horned” crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus

…, R Meredith, M Russello, ML Aardema… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Ancient DNA is transforming our ability to reconstruct historical patterns and mechanisms
shaping modern diversity and distributions. In particular, molecular data from extinct Holocene …

Sexual dimorphism and retinal mosaic diversification following the evolution of a violet receptor in butterflies

…, F Yuan, Y Zhen, ML Aardema… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Numerous animal lineages have expanded and diversified the opsin-based photoreceptors
in their eyes underlying color vision behavior. However, the selective pressures giving rise …

[HTML][HTML] Global evaluation of taxonomic relationships and admixture within the Culex pipiens complex of mosquitoes

ML Aardema, BM Vonholdt, ML Fritz, SR Davis - Parasites & vectors, 2020 - Springer
… We used a maximum likelihood (ML) approach to examine … Our ML analysis for the four-fold
degenerative site dataset … Because of a greater amount of data, our ML analysis for the …

Updating the Bibliography of Interbreeding among Canis in North America

BM vonHoldt, ML Aardema - Journal of Heredity, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This bibliography provides a collection of references that documents the evolution of studies
evidencing interbreeding among Canis species in North America. Over the past several …

The evolution of cardenolide‐resistant forms of Na+,K+‐ATPase in Danainae butterflies

ML Aardema, Y Zhen, P Andolfatto - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cardenolides are a class of plant secondary compounds that inhibit the proper functioning
of the Na + , K + ‐ATPase enzyme in susceptible animals. Nonetheless, many insect species …

Considering local adaptation in issues of lepidopteran conservation—a review and recommendations

ML Aardema, JM Scriber, JJ Hellmann - The American Midland Naturalist, 2011 - BioOne
… as species ranges increasingly shift with climate change (Aardema et al., In Prep.). A …
We thank CA Hamm for co-organizing this symposium with ML Aardema. We also thank the …