Culumber Lab

Publications

Research contributions

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  1. Eastis AN, Fast KM, Gutierrez-Rodriguez C, Culumber ZW, and Sandel M. In press. Genomic insights into the origins and demographic history of the invasive green swordtail (Xiphophorus hellerii). Ecology of Freshwater Fish.
  2. Culumber ZW and Giltner KN. In press. Detour-task performance in color polymorphic male mosquitofish. Behavioural Processes.
  3. Dougherty J and Culumber ZW. 2024. Effects of a common antidepressant on behavior and dispersal in the globally invasive freshwater eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). Environmental Biology of Fishes 107(1):19–31.
  4. Culumber ZW. 2022. Variation in behavioral traits across a broad latitudinal gradient in a livebearing fish. Evolutionary Ecology 36:75–91.
  5. Culumber ZW. 2020. Behavioural response to simulated avian predation varies with latitude and predation intensity of natural populations. Evolutionary Ecology 34:1037–1046.
  6. Culumber ZW. 2020. Thermal stress increases activity and risk-taking behavior but not anxiety in a livebearing fish. Environmental Biology of Fishes 103(4):313–317.
  7. Culumber ZW, Engel N, Travis J, and Hughes KA. 2020. Larger female brains do not reduce male sexual coercion. Animal Behaviour 160:15–24.
  8. Culumber ZW, Anaya-Rojas JM, Booker WW, Hooks AP, Lange EC, Pluer B, and Travis J. 2019. Widespread biases in ecological and evolutionary studies. BioScience 69(8):631–640.
  9. Culumber ZW, Kraft B, Travis J, and Hughes KA. 2018. G×G epistasis in growth and condition and the maintenance of genetic polymorphism in Gambusia holbrooki. Evolution 72(5):1146–1154.
  10. Culumber ZW and Tobler M. 2018. Correlated evolution of thermal niches and functional physiology in tropical freshwater fishes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31(5):722–734.
  11. Culumber ZW and Tobler M. 2017. Sex-specific evolution during the diversification of livebearing fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:1185–1191.
  12. Tobler M and Culumber ZW. 2016. Perspective: Swimming in polluted waters. Science 354(6317):1232–1233.
  13. Culumber ZW and Tobler M. 2016. Ecological divergence and conservatism: Spatiotemporal patterns of niche evolution in a genus of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae: Xiphophorus). BMC Evolutionary Biology 16(1):44.
  14. Culumber ZW and Tobler M. 2016. Spatiotemporal environmental heterogeneity and the maintenance of the tailspot polymorphism in the variable platyfish (Xiphophorus variatus). Evolution 70(2):408–419.
  15. Culumber ZW, Hopper G, Barts N, Passow CN, Morgan S, Brown A, Arias-Rodriguez L, and Tobler M. 2016. Habitat use of two extremophile, highly endemic, and critically endangered fish species (Gambusia eurystoma and Poecilia sulphuraria; Poeciliidae). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26(6):1155–1167.
  16. Culumber ZW. 2016. Variation in the evolutionary integration of melanism with behavioral and physiological traits in Xiphophorus variatus. Evolutionary Ecology 30(1):9–20.
  17. Culumber ZW. 2015. Poeciliid fry responses to conspecific, heterospecific, and predator visual cues. Behaviour 152:1463–1479.
  18. Culumber ZW, Schumer M, Monks S, and Tobler M. 2015. Environmental heterogeneity generates opposite gene-by-environment interactions for two fitness-related traits within a population. Evolution 69(2):541–550.
  19. Johnson JB, Culumber ZW, Easterling R, and Rosenthal GG. 2015. Boldness and predator evasion in naturally hybridizing swordtails (Teleostei: Xiphophorus). Current Zoology 61(4):596–603.
  20. Culumber ZW and Monks S. 2014. Does fin coloration signal social status in a dominance hierarchy of the livebearing fish Xiphophorus variatus? Behavioural Processes 107:158–162.
  21. Culumber ZW, Bautista-Hernández CE, Monks S, Arias-Rodriguez L, and Tobler M. 2014. Variation in melanism and female preference in proximate but ecologically distinct habitats. Ethology 120(11):1090–1100.
  22. Culumber ZW, Ochoa OM, and Rosenthal GG. 2014. Assortative mating and the maintenance of population structure in a natural hybrid zone. The American Naturalist 184(2):225–232.
  23. Culumber ZW. 2014. Pigmentation in Xiphophorus: An emerging system in ecological and evolutionary genetics. Zebrafish 11(1):57–70.
  24. Culumber ZW and Monks S. 2014. Resilience to extreme temperature events: Acclimation capacity and body condition of a polymorphic fish in response to thermal stress. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111(3):504–510.
  25. Culumber ZW, Bautista-Hernández CE, and Monks S. 2014. Physiological stress and the maintenance of adaptive genetic variation in a livebearing fish. Evolutionary Ecology 28(1):117–129.
  26. Culumber ZW, Miranda R, and Monks S. 2013. First report of Xiphophorus hellerii in the arid Metztitlán Canyon Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Environmental Biology of Fishes 97(2):157–161.
  27. Culumber ZW and Rosenthal GG. 2013. Mating preferences do not maintain the conspicuous tailspot polymorphism in the platyfish, Xiphophorus variatus. Behavioral Ecology 24(6):1286–1291.
  28. Culumber ZW and Rosenthal GG. 2013. Population-level mating patterns and fluctuating asymmetry in swordtail hybrids. Naturwissenschaften 100(8):801–804.
  29. Culumber ZW, Shepard DB, Coleman SW, Rosenthal GG, and Tobler M. 2012. Physiological adaptation along environmental gradients and replicated hybrid zone structure in swordtails (Teleostei: Xiphophorus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25(9):1800–1814.
  30. Verzijden MN, Culumber ZW, and Rosenthal GG. 2012. Opposite effects of learning cause asymmetric mate preferences in hybridizing species. Behavioral Ecology 23(5):1133–1139.
  31. Plath M, Riesch R, Culumber ZW, Streit B, and Tobler M. 2011. Giant water bug (Belostoma sp.) predation on a cave fish (Poecilia mexicana): Effects of female body size and gestational state. Evolutionary Ecology Research 13:133–144.
  32. Culumber ZW, Fisher HS, Tobler M, Mateos M, Sorenson MD, Barber PH, and Rosenthal GG. 2011. Replicated hybrid zones of Xiphophorus swordtails along an elevational gradient. Molecular Ecology 20(2):342–356.
  33. Tobler M, Culumber ZW, Plath M, Winemiller KO, and Rosenthal GG. 2011. An indigenous religious ritual selects for resistance to a toxicant in a fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae). Biology Letters 7(2):229–232.
  34. Coleman SW, Culumber ZW, Meaders A, Henson J, and Rosenthal GG. 2009. Inducible molecular defenses, ultraviolet radiation, and melanomagenesis in natural Xiphophorus hybrids: A field-based investigation of lab-based cancer models. Environmental Biology of Fishes 86(2):279–284.
  35. Purdy Drew KR, Sanders LK, Culumber ZW, Zribi O, and Wong GCL. 2008. Cationic amphiphiles increase activity of aminoglycoside antibiotic tobramycin in the presence of airway polyelectrolytes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(2):486–493.