Publications
DeNieu M, K Mounts, D Bhojwani, X Lai, CNA Wong, and MK Manier. in revision. Two gut microbes are necessary and sufficient for normal cognition in Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/593723
Chebbo S, S Josway, J Belote, and MK Manier. in review. A novel role for Eip74EF in male reproduction in promoting sperm elongation at the cost of fecundity. Molecular Reproduction and Development. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/752451
Lüpold S, JB Reil, MK Manier, V Zeender, JM Belote, and S Pitnick. in review. Female×male and male×male interactions have limited influence on competitive fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution Letters. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/702720v1
Lopatto D, A Rosenwald, … M Manier, … W Leung, L Reed, and SCR Elgin. Accepted. Facilitating growth through frustration: using genomics research in a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
Zajitschek SRK, F Zajitschek, S Josway, R Al Shabeeb, H Weiner, and MK Manier. 2019. Costs and benefits of giant sperm and sperm storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology in press. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13529.
Manier MK, G Welch, C Van Nispen, M Bakst, and J Long. 2019. Low mobility sperm phenotype in the turkey: impact on sperm morphometrics and early embryonic death. Reproduction in Domestic Animals 2019: 1-9. doi: 10.1111/rda.13403.
Firman R, C Gasparini, MK Manier, and T Pizzari. 2017. Postmating control: 20 years of studying cryptic female choice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 368-382. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.010.
Firman R, C Gasparini, MK Manier, and T Pizzari. 2017. Reply to Eberhard. Cryptic female choice: a general phenomenon. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 807-808. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.010.
Elgin SCR, C Hauser, TM Holzen, C Jones, A Kleinschmit, J Leatherman and Genomics Education Partnership. 2017. The GEP: Crowd-sourcing big data analysis with undergraduates. Trends in Genetics 33: 81-85. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2016.11.004. PDF
Zajitschek F, S Zajitschek and MK Manier. 2017. High-protein paternal diet confers an advantage to sons in sperm competition. Biology Letters 13: 20160914. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0914. PDF
Zajitschek F, S Zajitschek and MK Manier. 2017. Correction to ‘High-protein paternal diet confers an advantage to sons in sperm competition’. Biology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0297. PDF
Ala-Honkola O and MK Manier. 2016. Multiple mechanisms of cryptic female choice act on intraspecific male variation in Drosophila simulans. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 519-532. doi: 10.1007/s00265-016-2069-3. PDF
Lüpold S, MK Manier, N Puniamoorthy, C Schoff, WT Starmer, SH Buckley-Luepold, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2016. How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation. Nature 533: 535-538. doi:10.1038/nature18005. PDF
Ala-Honkola O, MK Manier, S Lüpold, EM Droge-Young, WF Collins, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2014. No inbreeding depression in sperm storage ability or offspring viability in Drosophila melanogaster females. Journal of Insect Physiology 60: 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2013.10.005. PDF
Ala-Honkola O, DJ Hosken, MK Manier, S Lüpold, EM Droge-Young, KS Berben, WF Collins, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2013. Inbreeding reveals mode of past selection on male reproductive characters in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology and Evolution 3: 2089-2102. doi:10.1002/ece3.625. PDF
Belote, JB, S Lüpold, MK Manier and S Pitnick. 2013. Opening a window onto sperm competition. Molecular Reproduction and Development 80: 79. doi:10.1002/mrd.22155. PDF
Gress BE, RJ Waltzer, S Lüpold, EM Droge-Young, MK Manier and S Pitnick. 2013. Alternative mating tactics in the yellow dung fly: resolving the mechanisms of small male advantage off pasture. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 281: 20132164. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2164. PDF
Lüpold S, S Pitnick, KS Berben, CS Blengini, JM Belote and MK Manier. 2013. Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.1300954110. PDF
Manier MK, JM Belote, S Lüpold, KS Berben, O Ala-Honkola, WF Collins and S Pitnick. 2013. Rapid diversification of sperm precedence traits and processes among three siblingDrosophila species. Evolution 67: 2348-2362. doi:10.1111/evo.12117. PDF
Manier, MK, S Lüpold, JM Belote, WT Starmer, KS Berben, O Ala-Honkola, WF Collins and S Pitnick. 2013. Postcopulatory sexual selection generates speciation phenotypes in Drosophila. Current Biology 23: 1853-1862. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.086. PDF
Manier MK, S Lüpold, S Pitnick, WT Starmer. 2013. An analytical framework for estimating fertilization bias from multiple sperm storage organs. American Naturalist doi:10.1086/671782. PDF
Droge-Young EM, MK Manier, S Lüpold, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2012. Covariance among premating, postcopulatory and viability fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster and their influence on paternity measurement. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1555-1563. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02540.x. PDF
Lüpold S, MK Manier, KS Berben, KJ Smith, BD Daly, SH Buckley, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2012. How multivariate ejaculate traits determine competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology 22: 1667-1672. doi:10.1073/pnas.1300954110. PDF Supp
Pespeni MH, DA Garfield, MK Manier and SR Palumbi. 2012. Genome-wide polymorphisms show unexpected targets of natural selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1412-1420. PDF
Ala-Honkola O, MK Manier, S Lüpold and S Pitnick. 2011. No evidence for postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 65: 2699-2705 doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01317.x. PDF
Lüpold S, MK Manier, O Ala-Honkola, J Belote, S Pitnick. 2011. Male Drosophila melanogaster adjust ejaculate size based on female mating status, fecundity and age. Behavioral Ecology 122:184-191 doi:10.1093/beheco/arq193. PDF Supp
Manier MK, KS Berben, J Belote, D Novikov, WT Stuart and S Pitnick. 2010. Resolving mechanisms of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science 328: 354-357. PDF Supp
(Highlighted as Current Biology “Dispatch” 20: R444-R446; in Science 327: 1443; Journal of Experimental Biology 10.1242/jeb.036715; selected by Faculty of 1000)
Oliver TA, DA Garfield, MK Manier, R Haygood, GA Wray and SR Palumbi. 2010. Whole-genome positive selection and habitat-driven evolution in a shallow and deep-sea urchin. Genome Biology and Evolution 2:800-814. PDF
Pespeni MH, TA Oliver, MK Manier and SR Palumbi. 2010. Restriction Site Tiling Analysis: Accurate discovery and quantitative genotyping of genome-wide polymorphisms using nucleotide arrays. Genome Biology 11: R44. PDF
Howard D, SR Palumbi, L Birge and MK Manier. 2009. Sperm and speciation. Pp. 367-403 In Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective (TR Birkhead, DJ Hosken and S Pitnick, eds.). Elsevier. Burlington, MA.
Pitnick SS, KRH Henn, S Maheaux, DM Higginson, JL Hurtado-Gonzales, MK Manier, KS Berben, C Guptill and JAC Uy. 2009. Size-dependent alternative male mating tactics in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276: 3229-3237 doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0632. PDF
Manier MK and SR Palumbi. 2008. Intraspecific divergence in sperm morphology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: implications for selection in broadcast spawners. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 283. PDF
Manier MK, CM Seylor and SJ Arnold. 2007. Adaptive divergence between ecotypes of the terrestrial garter snake, Thamnophis elegans, assessed with FST-QST comparisons. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1705-1719. PDF Supp1 Supp2
Manier MK and SJ Arnold. 2006. Ecological correlates of population genetic structure: a comparative approach using a vertebrate metacommunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273: 3001-3009. PDF
Manier MK and SJ Arnold. 2005. Population genetic analysis identifies source-sink dynamics for two sympatric garter snake species (Thamnophis elegans and T. sirtalis). Molecular Ecology 14: 3965-3976. PDF
Manier MK. 2004. Geographic variation in the long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei): beyond the subspecies debate. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 65-85. PDF
DeNieu M, K Mounts, D Bhojwani, X Lai, CNA Wong, and MK Manier. in revision. Two gut microbes are necessary and sufficient for normal cognition in Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/593723
Chebbo S, S Josway, J Belote, and MK Manier. in review. A novel role for Eip74EF in male reproduction in promoting sperm elongation at the cost of fecundity. Molecular Reproduction and Development. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/752451
Lüpold S, JB Reil, MK Manier, V Zeender, JM Belote, and S Pitnick. in review. Female×male and male×male interactions have limited influence on competitive fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution Letters. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/702720v1
Lopatto D, A Rosenwald, … M Manier, … W Leung, L Reed, and SCR Elgin. Accepted. Facilitating growth through frustration: using genomics research in a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
Zajitschek SRK, F Zajitschek, S Josway, R Al Shabeeb, H Weiner, and MK Manier. 2019. Costs and benefits of giant sperm and sperm storage organs in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology in press. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13529.
Manier MK, G Welch, C Van Nispen, M Bakst, and J Long. 2019. Low mobility sperm phenotype in the turkey: impact on sperm morphometrics and early embryonic death. Reproduction in Domestic Animals 2019: 1-9. doi: 10.1111/rda.13403.
Firman R, C Gasparini, MK Manier, and T Pizzari. 2017. Postmating control: 20 years of studying cryptic female choice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 368-382. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.010.
Firman R, C Gasparini, MK Manier, and T Pizzari. 2017. Reply to Eberhard. Cryptic female choice: a general phenomenon. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 807-808. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.010.
Elgin SCR, C Hauser, TM Holzen, C Jones, A Kleinschmit, J Leatherman and Genomics Education Partnership. 2017. The GEP: Crowd-sourcing big data analysis with undergraduates. Trends in Genetics 33: 81-85. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2016.11.004. PDF
Zajitschek F, S Zajitschek and MK Manier. 2017. High-protein paternal diet confers an advantage to sons in sperm competition. Biology Letters 13: 20160914. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0914. PDF
Zajitschek F, S Zajitschek and MK Manier. 2017. Correction to ‘High-protein paternal diet confers an advantage to sons in sperm competition’. Biology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0297. PDF
Ala-Honkola O and MK Manier. 2016. Multiple mechanisms of cryptic female choice act on intraspecific male variation in Drosophila simulans. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 519-532. doi: 10.1007/s00265-016-2069-3. PDF
Lüpold S, MK Manier, N Puniamoorthy, C Schoff, WT Starmer, SH Buckley-Luepold, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2016. How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation. Nature 533: 535-538. doi:10.1038/nature18005. PDF
Ala-Honkola O, MK Manier, S Lüpold, EM Droge-Young, WF Collins, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2014. No inbreeding depression in sperm storage ability or offspring viability in Drosophila melanogaster females. Journal of Insect Physiology 60: 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2013.10.005. PDF
Ala-Honkola O, DJ Hosken, MK Manier, S Lüpold, EM Droge-Young, KS Berben, WF Collins, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2013. Inbreeding reveals mode of past selection on male reproductive characters in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology and Evolution 3: 2089-2102. doi:10.1002/ece3.625. PDF
Belote, JB, S Lüpold, MK Manier and S Pitnick. 2013. Opening a window onto sperm competition. Molecular Reproduction and Development 80: 79. doi:10.1002/mrd.22155. PDF
Gress BE, RJ Waltzer, S Lüpold, EM Droge-Young, MK Manier and S Pitnick. 2013. Alternative mating tactics in the yellow dung fly: resolving the mechanisms of small male advantage off pasture. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 281: 20132164. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2164. PDF
Lüpold S, S Pitnick, KS Berben, CS Blengini, JM Belote and MK Manier. 2013. Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.1300954110. PDF
Manier MK, JM Belote, S Lüpold, KS Berben, O Ala-Honkola, WF Collins and S Pitnick. 2013. Rapid diversification of sperm precedence traits and processes among three siblingDrosophila species. Evolution 67: 2348-2362. doi:10.1111/evo.12117. PDF
Manier, MK, S Lüpold, JM Belote, WT Starmer, KS Berben, O Ala-Honkola, WF Collins and S Pitnick. 2013. Postcopulatory sexual selection generates speciation phenotypes in Drosophila. Current Biology 23: 1853-1862. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.086. PDF
Manier MK, S Lüpold, S Pitnick, WT Starmer. 2013. An analytical framework for estimating fertilization bias from multiple sperm storage organs. American Naturalist doi:10.1086/671782. PDF
Droge-Young EM, MK Manier, S Lüpold, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2012. Covariance among premating, postcopulatory and viability fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster and their influence on paternity measurement. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1555-1563. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02540.x. PDF
Lüpold S, MK Manier, KS Berben, KJ Smith, BD Daly, SH Buckley, JM Belote and S Pitnick. 2012. How multivariate ejaculate traits determine competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology 22: 1667-1672. doi:10.1073/pnas.1300954110. PDF Supp
Pespeni MH, DA Garfield, MK Manier and SR Palumbi. 2012. Genome-wide polymorphisms show unexpected targets of natural selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1412-1420. PDF
Ala-Honkola O, MK Manier, S Lüpold and S Pitnick. 2011. No evidence for postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 65: 2699-2705 doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01317.x. PDF
Lüpold S, MK Manier, O Ala-Honkola, J Belote, S Pitnick. 2011. Male Drosophila melanogaster adjust ejaculate size based on female mating status, fecundity and age. Behavioral Ecology 122:184-191 doi:10.1093/beheco/arq193. PDF Supp
Manier MK, KS Berben, J Belote, D Novikov, WT Stuart and S Pitnick. 2010. Resolving mechanisms of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science 328: 354-357. PDF Supp
(Highlighted as Current Biology “Dispatch” 20: R444-R446; in Science 327: 1443; Journal of Experimental Biology 10.1242/jeb.036715; selected by Faculty of 1000)
Oliver TA, DA Garfield, MK Manier, R Haygood, GA Wray and SR Palumbi. 2010. Whole-genome positive selection and habitat-driven evolution in a shallow and deep-sea urchin. Genome Biology and Evolution 2:800-814. PDF
Pespeni MH, TA Oliver, MK Manier and SR Palumbi. 2010. Restriction Site Tiling Analysis: Accurate discovery and quantitative genotyping of genome-wide polymorphisms using nucleotide arrays. Genome Biology 11: R44. PDF
Howard D, SR Palumbi, L Birge and MK Manier. 2009. Sperm and speciation. Pp. 367-403 In Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective (TR Birkhead, DJ Hosken and S Pitnick, eds.). Elsevier. Burlington, MA.
Pitnick SS, KRH Henn, S Maheaux, DM Higginson, JL Hurtado-Gonzales, MK Manier, KS Berben, C Guptill and JAC Uy. 2009. Size-dependent alternative male mating tactics in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276: 3229-3237 doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0632. PDF
Manier MK and SR Palumbi. 2008. Intraspecific divergence in sperm morphology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: implications for selection in broadcast spawners. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 283. PDF
Manier MK, CM Seylor and SJ Arnold. 2007. Adaptive divergence between ecotypes of the terrestrial garter snake, Thamnophis elegans, assessed with FST-QST comparisons. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1705-1719. PDF Supp1 Supp2
Manier MK and SJ Arnold. 2006. Ecological correlates of population genetic structure: a comparative approach using a vertebrate metacommunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273: 3001-3009. PDF
Manier MK and SJ Arnold. 2005. Population genetic analysis identifies source-sink dynamics for two sympatric garter snake species (Thamnophis elegans and T. sirtalis). Molecular Ecology 14: 3965-3976. PDF
Manier MK. 2004. Geographic variation in the long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei): beyond the subspecies debate. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 65-85. PDF
