The past week has been a good one for papers!  We’ve had two papers accepted that we’re really excited to see coming out soon.

The first is a paper from Celina Baines‘ doctoral work “Parasitism risk and infection alter host dispersal” (Baines, Diab, and McCauley) which has been accepted for publication in the American Naturalist.  This paper presents work from a large scale study of dispersal in our experimental ponds at KSR as well as results from experimental work conducted by Celina and an ROP student in the lab, Salma Diab.  This work sheds new light on the complex effects parasites can have on the propensity and capacity of hosts to disperse.

The second paper is one conducted with Denon Start from the Gilbert lab on forces that affect the structure of research labs.  This paper “Gender underlies the formation of STEM research groups” (Start & McCauley) has been accepted at Ecology & Evolution. We found that gender ratios in STEM research groups are strongly affected by who applies to work with PIs of different genders.