What’s an integrated phenotype?

Our first review published for the year in Animal Behaviour! My paper is a pert of a special issue in Animal Behaviour on Behavioural Plasticity and Evolution. Kasumovic, M. M. 2013. The multidimensional consequences of the juvenile environment: towards an integrative...

Males, mitochondria and metabolic rates.

Our first paper published by the lab in 2013! Kasumovic MM, Seebacher F. 2013 The active metabolic rate predicts a male spider’s proximity to females and expected fitness. Biol Lett 9: 2012.1164. Download the PDF here. Here’s a pop sci summary in The...

Good things come in threes

The more I talk to people, the more people seem to agree that it has definitely been a tough year. But thankfully we got this paper accepted to make it three this year! Kasumovic, M.M., M. D. Hall, H. Try, and R. Brooks. 2012. Developmental plasticity affects...

Finally accepted!

It’s been a long hard battle with this manuscript, but after submissions to 7 different journals over two years and over 21 reviews, the paper has finally found a home in Journal of Insect Physiology! Stoltz, J. A., M. C. B. Andrade, and M. M. Kasumovic. 2012....

The first of 2012!

It has been a tough year! But after making the rounds of the evolutionary journals, the paper has found a home at Ecology and Evolution! The most impressive aspect was the fact that it took 2 days to accept–nice! Something to be said about using already...