Publications

In Revision

​​Plakke, M. S. “Inbreeding Depression among Captive Cheetahs and Implications for Wild Populations.” ​

In Print

​Plakke, M. S., Deutsch, A. B., Meslin, C., Clark, N. L., & Morehouse, N. I. (2015). Dynamic digestive physiology of a female reproductive organ in a polyandrous butterfly. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(10), 1548–1555. http://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.118323

​Plakke, M. S., Walker, J. L., Lombardo, J. B., Goetz, B. J., Pacella, G. N., Durrant, J. D., Clark, N. L., Morehouse, N. I. (2019). Characterization of female reproductive proteases in a butterfly from functional and evolutionary perspectives. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 19(6), 579-590. https://doi.org/10.1086/705722

Meslin, C., Plakke, M. S., Deutsch, A. B., Small, B. S., Morehouse, N. I., & Clark, N. L. (2015). Digestive Organ in the Female Reproductive Tract Borrows Genes from Multiple Organ Systems to Adopt Critical Functions. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(6), 1567–1580. http://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv048

Meslin, C., Cherwin, T. S., Plakke, M. S., Small, B. S., Goetz, B. J., Morehouse, N. I., & Clark, N. L. (2017). Structural complexity and molecular heterogeneity of a butterfly ejaculate reflect a complex history of selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(27). http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707680114

Echeverri, S.A., Miller, A.E., Chen, J., McQueen, E.W., Plakke, M., Spicer, M., Hoke, K.L., Stoddard, M.C., Morehouse, N.I. (2021). How signaling geometry shapes the efficacy and evolution of animal communication systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(3), 787-813. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab090