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Aryn Wilder, Ph.D.

Hendricks, S., A.Y. Navarro, T. Wang, A. Wilder, O.A. Ryder, D.M. Shier. 2020. Patterns of genetic partitioning and gene flow in the endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami parvus) and implications for conservation management. Conservation Genetics. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-020-01289-z.

Wilder, A.P., A.Y. Navarro, S.N.D. King, W.B. Miller, S.M. Thomas, C.C. Steiner, O.A. Ryder, D.M. Shier. 2020. Fitness Costs Associated with Ancestry to Isolated Populations of an Endangered Species. Conservation Genetics 21(3). 589-601.

Wilder, A.P., S.R. Palumbi, D.O. Conover, N.O. Therkildsen. 2020. Footprints of local adaptation span hundreds of linked genes in the Atlantic silverside genome. Evolution Letters. DOI: 10.1002/evl3.189.

Therkildsen, N.O., A.P. Wilder, D.O. Conover, S.B. Munch, H. Baumann, S.R. Palumbi. 2019. Contrasting genomic shifts underlie parallel phenotypic evolution in response to fishing. Science 365. 487-490.

Lou, R., N.K. Fletcher, A.P. Wilder, D.O. Conover, N.O. Therkildsen, J.B. Searle. 2018. Full mitochondrial genome sequences reveal new insights about postglacial expansion and regional phylogeographic structure in the Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia). Marine Biology. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-018-3380-5.

Wilder, A.P., T.H. Kunz, M.D. Sorenson. 2015. Population genetic structure of a common host predicts the spread of white-nose syndrome, an emerging infectious disease in bats. Molecular Ecology 24. 5495-5506.

Wilder, A.P., W.F. Frick, K.E. Langwig, T.H. Kunz. 2011. Risk factors associated with mortality from white-nose syndrome among hibernating bat colonies. Biology Letters 7(6). 950-953.

Eisen, R.J., J.N. Borchert, J.L. Holmes, G. Amatre, K. Van Wyk, R.E. Enscore, N. Babi, L. Atiku, A.P. Wilder, S.M. Vetter, S.W. Bearden, J.A. Montenieri, K.L. Gage. 2008. Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) and their potential role as vectors in a plague endemic region of Uganda. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine 78. 949-956.

Wilder, A.P., R.J. Eisen, S.W. Bearden, J.A. Montenieri, D.W. Tripp, R.J. Brinkerhoff, K.L. Gage, M.F. Antolin. 2008. Transmission efficiency of two flea species (Oropsylla tuberculata cynomuris and Oropsylla hirsuta) involved in plague epizootics among prairie dogs. Ecohealth 5. 205-212.

Wilder, A.P., R.J. Eisen, S.W. Bearden, J.A. Montenieri, K.L. Gage, M.F. Antolin. 2008. Oropsylla hirsuta (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) can support plague epizootics in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) by early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases! 8. 359-368.

Eisen, R.J., A.P. Wilder, S.W. Bearden, J.A. Montenieri, K.L. Gage. 2007. Early-phase transmission of the plague agent, Yersinia pestis, by unblocked oriental rat fleas, Xenopsylla cheopis, is as efficient as transmission by blocked fleas. Journal of Medical Entomology 44. 678-682.

Salkeld, D.J., R.J. Eisen, P. Stapp, A.P. Wilder, J. Lowell, D.W. Tripp, D. Albertson, M.F. Antolin. 2007. The potential role of swift foxes and their fleas in plague-prairie dog outbreaks. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43. 425-4.1.

Eisen, R.J., S.W. Bearden, A.P. Wilder, J.A. Montenieri, M.F. Antolin, K.L. Gage. 2006. Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked fleas as a mechanism explaining rapidly spreading plague epizootics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103. 15380-15385.

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