Rob Dunn

Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life

Taylor, B. W., Allf, B., Hopkins, S. R., Irwin, R. E., Jewell, M., Nevo, O., … Dunn, R. R. (2023, April 19). BIOSCIENCE, Vol. 4.

Urban Jungle

Dunn, R. (2023, March 31). SCIENCE, Vol. 379, pp. 1305–1305.

Using FastID to analyze complex SNP mixtures from indoor dust

Meiklejohn, K. A., Scheible, M. K. R., Boggs, L. M., Dunn, R. R., & Ricke, D. O. (2023, April 3). JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, Vol. 4.

Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation

BioScience, 72(7), 651–663.

Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test

Dunn, R. (2022, August 5). SCIENCE, Vol. 377, pp. 582–582.

Does childhood exposure to biodiverse greenspace reduce the risk of developing asthma?

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 850.

Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants

Gibb, H., Bishop, T. R., Leahy, L., Parr, C. L., Lessard, J.-P., Sanders, N. J., … Wright, I. J. (2022, July 21). FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, Vol. 7.

Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes

Svenningsen, C. S., Bowler, D. E., Hecker, S., Bladt, J., Grescho, V., Dam, N. M., … Bonn, A. (2022, April 28). DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, Vol. 4.

Phylogeography and population genetics of a widespread cold-adapted ant, Prenolepis imparis

Tonione, M. A., Bi, K., Dunn, R. R., Lucky, A., Portik, D. M., & Tsutsui, N. D. (2022, August 3). MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, Vol. 8.

The bacterial community of childcare centers: potential implications for microbial dispersal and child exposure

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME, 17(1).

The evolution of sour taste

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 8(31).

Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity

A Pilot Study on Baseline Fungi and Moisture Indicator Fungi in Danish Homes

JOURNAL OF FUNGI, 7(2).

A natural history of the future : what the laws of biology tell us about the destiny of the human species

New York: Basic Books.

A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles

BIOLOGY LETTERS, 17(1).

A review of sourdough starters: ecology, practices, and sensory quality with applications for baking and recommendations for future research

PEERJ, 5.

Abundance of spring- and winter-active arthropods declines with warming

ECOSPHERE, 12(4).

Ancient and modem genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

CELL, 184(19), 4874-+.

Delicious

Detecting flying insects using car nets and DNA metabarcoding

BIOLOGY LETTERS, 17(3).

Disentangling host-microbiota complexity through hologenomics

Alberdi, A., Andersen, S. B., Limborg, M. T., Dunn, R. R., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2021, October 21). NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS, Vol. 10.

Dispatches from life's blurry boundaries Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Carl Zimmer Dutton, 2021. 368 pp.

Science, 371(6534), 1113–1113.

Global Patterns and Climatic Controls of Dust-Associated Microbial Communities

MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM, 9(2).

Inclusion in citizen science: The conundrum of rebranding

Science, 372(6549), 1386–1388.

Long-term trends in the occupancy of ants revealed through use of multi-sourced datasets

Biology Letters, 17(10).

Methods for the production of fermented beverages and other fermentation products

(US Patent No. US11008539B2).

Microbial composition differs between production systems and is associated with growth performance and carcass quality in pigs

ANIMAL MICROBIOME, 3(1).

Motivation and support services in citizen science insect monitoring: A cross-country study

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 263.

Phylogeography and population genetics of a widespread cold-adapted ant, Prenolepis imparis

Structure and Functional Attributes of Bacterial Communities in Premise Plumbing Across the United States

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 55(20), 14105–14114.

Structure of Chimpanzee Gut Microbiomes across Tropical Africa

MSYSTEMS, 6(3).

Sugar‐seeking insects as a source of diverse bread‐making yeasts with enhanced attributes

Yeast, 39(1-2), 108–127.

The diversity and function of sourdough starter microbiomes

ELIFE, 10.

The toughest animals of the Earth versus global warming: Effects of long-term experimental warming on tardigrade community structure of a temperate deciduous forest

Vecchi, M., Kossi Adakpo, L., Dunn, R. R., Nichols, L. M., Penick, C. A., Sanders, N. J., … Guidetti, R. (2021, June 29). ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 6.

Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods

Dunn, R. R., Wilson, J., Nichols, L. M., & Gavin, M. C. (2021, August 1). CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 8.

Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry

Demi, L. M., Taylor, B. W., Reading, B. J., Tordoff, M. G., & Dunn, R. R. (2021, June 4). ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 6.

eDNA‐based biomonitoring at an experimental German vineyard to characterize how management regimes shape ecosystem diversity

Environmental DNA, 3(1), 70–82.

Antimicrobial resistance and virulence factors profile of Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli isolated from different environments exposed to anthropogenic activity

JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE, 22, 578–583.

Bacterial exposure leads to variable mortality but not a measurable increase in surface antimicrobials across ant species

PEERJ, 8.

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

Dunn, R. (2020, May 15). SCIENCE, Vol. 368, pp. 722–722.

Global forensic geolocation with deep neural networks

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS, 69(4), 909–929.

High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation

PeerJ, 8, e8337.

History and Domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Bread Baking

[Review of ]. FRONTIERS IN GENETICS, 11.

Influences of Ingredients and Bakers on the Bacteria and Fungi in Sourdough Starters and Bread

MSPHERE, 5(1).

Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out

Biological Conservation, 241, 108327.

Island area, not isolation, drives taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of ants on land-bridge islands

JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 47(8), 1627–1637.

Testing trade-offs and the dominance-impoverishment rule among ant communities

JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 47(9), 1899–1909.

The Coupled Influence of Thermal Physiology and Biotic Interactions on the Distribution and Density of Ant Species along an Elevational Gradient

DIVERSITY-BASEL, 12(12).

The Future of Environmental DNA in Forensic Science

[Review of ]. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 86(2).

The Internal, External and Extended Microbiomes of Hominins

FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8.

The Internal, External and Extended Microbiomes of Hominins (vol 8, 25, 2020)

Dunn, R. R., Amato, K. R., Archie, E. A., Arandjelovic, M., Crittenden, A. N., & Nichols, L. M. (2020, August 19). FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 8.

The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats

Animal Conservation, 23(5), 516–523.

Use of standardized bioinformatics for the analysis of fungal DNA signatures applied to sample provenance

FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL, 310.

A nonparametric spatial test to identify factors that shape a microbiome

The Annals of Applied Statistics, 13(4), 2341–2362.

Azteca ants maintain unique microbiomes across functionally distinct nest chambers

Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships on bodies and in buildings

Dunn, R. R., Reese, A. T., & Eisenhauer, N. (2019, January). NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Vol. 3, pp. 7–9.

Contemporary climatic analogs for 540 North American urban areas in the late 21st century

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 10.

Do Bee Wings Adapt for Flight in Urban Environments?

SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST, 18(2), 183–191.

Draft Aphaenogaster genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients

PEERJ, 7.

Exotic urban trees conserve similar natural enemy communities to native congeners but have fewer pests

PEERJ, 7.

Human indoor climate preferences approximate specific geographies

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 6(3).

Public questions spur the discovery of new bacterial species associated with lignin bioconversion of industrial waste

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 6(3).

Simplification of vector communities during suburban succession

PLOS ONE, 14(5), e0215485.

The Exoskeletons in our Closets: A synthesis of research from the ‘Arthropods of our Homes’ project in Raleigh, NC

Zoosymposia, 12(1), 64–68.

American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

MSYSTEMS, 3(3).

Antibiotic and pesticide susceptibility and the Anthropocene operating space

[Review of ]. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY, 1(11), 632–641.

Biodiversity and socioeconomics in the city: a review of the luxury effect

[Review of ]. BIOLOGY LETTERS, 14(5).

Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement

BioScience, 69(1), 69–79.

Citizen science engagerer børn i naturvidenskab

MONA - Matematik- Og Naturfagsdidaktik, 2018(3), 25–40. https://tidsskrift.dk/mona/article/view/107171

Collaboration: Ants, Art, and Science

AMERICAN SCIENTIST, 106(3), 156–159.

Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 24(10), 4614–4625.

Drivers of Microbiome Biodiversity: A Review of General Rules, Feces, and Ignorance

[Review of ]. MBIO, 9(4).

Ecological Analyses of Mycobacteria in Showerhead Biofilms and Their Relevance to Human Health

MBIO, 9(5).

Ecology of sleeping: the microbial and arthropod associates of chimpanzee beds

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 5(5).

Expanded view of the ecological genomics of ant responses to climate change

In bioRxiv (Preprint No. 302679).

External immunity in ant societies: sociality and colony size do not predict investment in antimicrobials

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 5(2).

Getting ahead of the curve: cities as surrogates for global change

Habitat disturbance selects against both small and large species across varying climates

ECOGRAPHY, 41(7), 1184–1193.

Homogenizing an urban habitat mosaic: arthropod diversity declines in New York City parks after Super Storm Sandy

ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, 28(1), 225–236.

Inbreeding tolerance as a pre-adapted trait for invasion success in the invasive ant Brachyponera chinensis

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 27(23), 4711–4724.

Leveraging natural capital to solve the shared education and conservation crisis

Stevenson, K. T., Peterson, M. N., & Dunn, R. R. (2018, April). CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol. 32, pp. 490–492.

Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small

[Review of ]. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 33(10), 731–744.

Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine

NATURE MICROBIOLOGY, 3(12), 1441–1450.

Never home alone: from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live

New York: Basic Books.

The ecology of insect–yeast relationships and its relevance to human industry

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1875), 20172733.

The ecosystem services of animal microbiomes

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 27(8), 2164–2172.

The role of citizen science in addressing grand challenges in food and agriculture research

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1891), 20181977.

Urbanization disrupts latitude-size rule in 17-year cicadas

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8(5), 2534–2541.

Variation in photosynthesis and stomatal conductance among red maple (Acer rubrum) urban planted cultivars and wildtype trees in the southeastern United States

PLOS ONE, 13(5).

Variation in range size and dispersal capabilities of microbial taxa

ECOLOGY, 99(2), 322–334.

A global database of ant species abundances

ECOLOGY, 98(3), 883–884.

A longitudinal study of human milk composition in the second year postpartum: implications for human milk banking

MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION, 13(1).

Beyond thermal limits: comprehensive metrics of performance identify key axes of thermal adaptation in ants

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 31(5), 1091–1100.

Dr. Eleanor's book of common ants of Chicago

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Experimental winter warming modifies thermal performance and primes acorn ants for warm weather

Journal of Insect Physiology, 100, 77–81.

GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY, 10(1), 5–20.

Heat tolerance predicts the importance of species interaction effects as the climate changes

INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 57(1), 112–120.

Higher immunocompetence is associated with higher genetic diversity in feral honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

CONSERVATION GENETICS, 18(3), 659–666.

Indoor arthropod communities and distributions in U.S. homes

In M. P. Davies, C. Pfeiffer, & W. H. Robinson (Eds.), 9th International conference on urban pests (pp. 17–23).

Never out of season: How having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future

New York: Little Brown Books.

Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, 26(5), 584–591.

Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7(1).

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 23(4), 1436–1447.

The Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA)

Myrmecological News, 25, 61–66. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85039766464&partnerID=MN8TOARS

The Global Synanthrome Project: A Call for an Exhaustive Study of Human Associates

Dunn, R. R., Nunn, C. L., & Horvath, J. E. (2017, January). TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY, Vol. 33, pp. 4–7.

The Habitats Humans Provide: Factors affecting the diversity and composition of arthropods in houses

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7(1).

The neglected geography of human pathogens and diseases

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1(7).