Sexual Selection in Fireflies

South, A., K. LeVan, L. Leombruni, C. Orians, and S.M. Lewis. 2008. Examining the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in firefly species recognition. Ethology 114: 916–92.

South, A., T. Sota, N. Abe, M. Yuma, and S.M. Lewis. 2008. The production and transfer of spermatophores in three Asian species of Luciola fireflies. Journal of Insect Physiology 54; 861-866.

Lewis, S.M. and C.K. Cratsley. 2008. Flash signal evolution, mate choice and predation in fireflies. Annual Review of Entomology 53:293–321.

Demary, K. and S.M. Lewis 2007. Male courtship attractiveness and paternity success in Photinus greeni fireflies. Evolution, in press.

Demary, K. and S.M. Lewis 2007. Male reproductive allocation in Photinus fireflies. Invertebrate Biology, in press.

Michaelidis, C.*, Demary, K., and S.M. Lewis. 2006. Male courtship signals and female signal assessment in Photinus greeni fireflies, Behavioral Ecology, 17:329-335 (Download PDF).

Demary, K., C. Michaelidis*, and S.M. Lewis. 2005. Firefly courtship: Behavioral and morphological predictors of male mating success in Photinus greeni, Ethology, 112:485-492 (Download PDF).

Cratsley, C.K. and S.M. Lewis. 2005. Seasonal variation in mate choice of Photinus ignitus fireflies. Ethology, 111:89-100. (Download PDF)

Lewis, S.M., C.K. Cratsley, and K. Demary. 2005. Mate recognition and choice in Photinus fireflies. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 41:809-821. (Download PDF)

Lewis, S.M., C.K. Cratsley, and J.A. Rooney. 2004. Nuptial gifts and sexual selection in Photinus fireflies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44: 234-237. (Download PDF)

Cratsley, C.K., J. Rooney, and S.M. Lewis. 2003. Limits to nuptial gift production by male fireflies, Photinus ignitus. Journal of Insect Behavior 16: 361-370. (Download PDF)

Cratsley, C.K. and S.M. Lewis. 2003. Female preference for male courtship flashes in Photinus ignitus fireflies. Behavioral Ecology 14: 135-140. (Download PDF)

Rooney, J.A. and S.M. Lewis. 2002. Fitness advantage of nuptial gifts in female fireflies. Ecological Entomology 27:373-377. (Download PDF)

Rooney, J. and S.M. Lewis. 2000. Notes on the life history and mating behavior of Ellychnia corrusca (Coleoptera: Lamypridae). Florida Entomologist 83:324-334. (Download PDF)

Rooney, J. and S.M. Lewis. 1999. Differential allocation of male-derived nutrients in two lamyprid beetles with contrasting life-history characteristics. Behavioral Ecology 10:97-104. (Download PDF)

van der Reijden, E., J. Monchamp, and S.M. Lewis. 1997. The formation, transfer, and fate of male spermatophores in Photinus fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 1202-1205.

Lewis, S.M. and J.D. Monchamp, 1994. Sexual and temporal differences in phorid parasitism of Photinus marginellus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) fireflies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87:572-575.

Lewis, S.M. and O. Wang, 1991. Reproductive ecology of two species of Photinus fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Psyche 98: 293-307.

Popular Science Articles

Flashes in the night. Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuary Magazine, 2001

Summer flings: firefly courtship, sex, and death. Natural History Magazine 2003.

Physiology of Firefly Bioluminescence

Woods, W., H. Hendrickson*, J. Mason*, and S.M. Lewis. 2007. Energy and predation costs of firefly courtship signals. The American Naturalist 170: 702-708.

Trimmer, B.A., J.R. Aprille, D.M. Dudzinski, C.J. Lagace, S.M. Lewis, T. Michel, S. Qazi, and R.M. Zayas. 2001. Nitric oxide and the control of firefly flashing. Science 292: 2486-2488. (Download PDF)

Aprille, J.R., C. Lagace, S. Lewis, T. Michel, J. Modica-Napolitano, B. Trimmer, and R. Zayas. 2002. Mechanism of firefly flash control: nitric oxide inhibition of oxygen consumptionin lantern mitochondria is reversed by light. Pp. 25-28 In: P. Stanley and L. Kricka (eds), Bioluminescence & Chemiluminescence: Progress & Current Applications, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.

Aprille, J., C. Lagace, S. Lewis, T. Michel, J. Modica-Napolitano, B. Trimmer, R. Zayas. 2002. Mechanism of firefly flash control: nitric oxide inhibition of oxygen consumption in lantern mitochondria is reversed by light. Luminescence 17: 79-82.

Sexual Selection & Mechanisms of Sperm Precedence

LeVan, K.*, T. Fedina, and S.M. Lewis. 2008. Testing multiple hypotheses for the maintenance of male homosexual copulatory behavior in flour beetles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, in press.

Fedina, T. and S.M. Lewis. An integrative view of sexual selection in Tribolium flour beetles. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 83: 151-171.

Fedina, T. and S.M. Lewis. 2007. Effect of Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) nutritional environment, sex and mating statuson response to commercial pheromone traps Journal of Economic Entomology 100: 1924-1927.

Fedina, T. and S.M. Lewis. 2007. Male attractiveness, insemination success, and female trade-up of sequential mates. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:2138-2143.

Fedina, T. and S.M. Lewis. 2006. Proximal traits and mechanisms for biasing paternity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:844-853 (Download PDF)

Lewis, S.M., A. Kobel, T. Fedina, and R.W. Beeman. 2005. Sperm stratification and paternity success in red flour beetles, Physiological Entomology 30: 303-307 (Download PDF).

Fedina, T.Y. and S.M. Lewis. 2004. Female influence over offspring paternity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 271:1393-1399. (Download PDF)

Lewis, S.M. 2004. Multiple mating and repeated copulations; effects on male reproductive success in red flour beetles. Animal Behaviour 67:799-804. (Download PDF)

Bloch Qazi, M., C.R.B. Boake, and S.M. Lewis. 1998. The femoral setiferous glands of Tribolium castaneum. males and production of the pheromone 4,8-dimethyldecanal. Entomologia Experimentalis at Applicata 89: 313-317.

Bloch Qazi, M., J.R. Aprille, and S.M. Lewis. 1998. Female role in sperm storage in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 120: 641-647. (Download PDF)

Lewis, S.M. and E. Jutkiewicz. 1998. Sperm storage and sperm precedence in multiply-mated red flour beetles. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 43: 365-69.

Lewis, S.M. and J. Iannini, 1995. Fitness consequences of differences in male mating behaviour in relation to female reproductive status in flour beetles. Animal Behaviour 50:1157-1160.

Lewis, S.M. and S.N. Austad, 1994. Sexual selection in flour beetles: The relationship between sperm precedence and male olfactory attractiveness. Behavioral Ecology 5: 219-224.

Lewis, S.M. and S.N. Austad, 1990. Sources of intraspecific variation in sperm precedence in red flour beetles. The American Naturalist 135:351-359. (Download PDF)

Marine Ecology

Rotjan, R.D. and S.M. Lewis. 2008. The impact of coral predators on tropical reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, in press.

Rotjan, R.D., J.L. Dimond, D. Thornhill, J. Leichter, B. Helmuth, D. Kemp, and S. M. Lewis. 2006. Chronic parrotfish grazing impedes coral recovery after bleaching. Coral Reefs 25: 361-368. (Download PDF)

 Rotjan, R.D. and S.M. Lewis. 2006. Parrotfish abundance and selective corallivory on a Belizean coral reef. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 335: 292-301. (Download PDF)

Rotjan, R.D. and S.M. Lewis. 2005. Selective predation by parrotfishes on the reef coral, Porites asteroides. Marine Ecology Progress Series 305:193-201. (Download PDF)

Rotjan R.D., J. Blum, and S.M. Lewis. 2004. Shell choice in Pagarus longicarpus hermit crabs: does predation threat influence shell choice behavior? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56:171-176. (Download PDF)

Pechenik, J. and S.M. Lewis. 2000. Avoidance of drilled gastropod shells by Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs at Nahant, MA. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 253:17-32.

Masonjones, H.D. and S.M. Lewis. 2000. Differences in potential reproductive rates of male and female seahorses related to courtship roles. Animal Behaviour 59: 11-20. (Download PDF)

Colson, D., S. Patek, E.L. Brainerd, and S.M. Lewis. 1998. Sound production during feeding in Hippocampus seahorses. Environmental Biology of Fishes 51:221-229.

Masonjones, H.D. and S.M. Lewis. 1996. Courtship behavior in the dwarf seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae. Copeia 1996(3): 634-40.

Hay, M.E., V.J. Paul, S.M. Lewis, K. Gustafson, J. Tucker, and R. Trindell, 1988. Can tropical seaweeds reduce herbivory by growing at night? Diel patterns of growth, nitrogen content, herbivory, and chemical versus morphological defenses. Oecologia 75:233-245.

Lewis, S.M., J.N. Norris, and R.B. Searles, 1987. The regulation of morphological plasticity in tropical reef algae by herbivory. Ecology 68:636-641. (Download PDF)

Reinthal, P.R. and S.M. Lewis, 1986. Social behavior and foraging efficiency in a group of tropical surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae). Animal Behaviour 34:1687-1693.

Lewis, S.M., 1986. The role of herbivorous fishes in the organization of a Caribbean reef community. Ecological Monographs 56:183-200.

Lewis, S.M., 1985. Herbivory on coral reefs: Algal susceptibility to herbivorous fishes. Oecologia 65:370-375.

Lewis, S.M. and P.C. Wainwright, 1985. Herbivore abundance and grazing intensity on a Caribbean coral reef. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 87:215-228.

Reinthal, P.R., B. Kensley, and S.M. Lewis, 1984. Dietary shifts in the queen triggerfish Balistes vetula in the absence of its primary food item, Diadema antillarum. Marine Ecology 5:191-195.

Searles, R.B. and S.M. Lewis, 1983. North Carolina marine algae XI. A new species of Helminthocladia (Liagoraceae, Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) with a reappraisal of the generic limits of Helminthocladia and Helminthora. Journal of Phycology 19:164-172.

Lewis, S.M. and B. Kensley, 1982. Notes on the ecology and behavior of Pseudamphithoides incurvaria (Ampithoidae, Amphipoda). Journal of Natural History 16:267-274.

Lewis, S.M., 1982. Sponge-zoanthid associations: Functional interactions. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 12: 465-474.