Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2025

46. Härer, A., J. Dominguez, J.B. Shurin, & D.J. Rennison. Spatial variation of bacterial diversity within and across mountain lakes of varying size. FEMS Microbiology Ecology

45. Gould, E, Fraser, H.S, Parker, T.H., et al. [252 authors including D.J. Rennison]. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology.

2024

44. Leandro, D., M. Johnson, A. Schneider, A. Lázaro-Lobo, A. Caizergues, C. Lara, C. Iniguez-Armijos, C. Gonzalez-Lagos, C. Frost, D. Rennison, E. del-Val, G. Hood, I. Porth, J. LaMontagne, J. Santangelo, J. Paule, K. Stack Whitney, K. Dyson, K. Gotanda, M. Comerford, M. Just, P. Akinhole, S. Gkelis, T. Merritt, W. Godsoe, V. Pfeiffer, & F. Angeoletto. GLUEing the world: The GLobal Urban Evolution project and its importance to urban biodiversity conservation.  Chapter 12 In Ecology of Tropical Cities – Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity. Springer Publishing.

43. Bakker, T.C.M., M. Hiermes, B. Müller, S. Martin, D.J. Rennison, & I.P. Rick. Adaptive variation in opsin expression of sticklebacks from different photic habitats. Hydrobiologia s10750.

42. Härer, A., K.A Thompson, D. Schluter, & D.J. Rennison. Associations between gut microbiota diversity and a host fitness proxy in a naturalistic experiment. Molecular Ecology e17571.

41. Tapanes, E., & D.J. Rennison. The genetic basis of melanic pigmentation traits in benthic-limnetic threespine stickleback. Heredity 272: 1-9.

40. Härer, A., & D.J. Rennison. Host ecotype and rearing environment are the main drivers of threespine stickleback gut microbiota diversity in a field experiment. Royal Society Open Science 11: 240649.

39. Johnson, M.T., I. Arif, F. Marchetti, J. Munshi-South, R.W. Ness, M. Szulkin, B.C. Verrelli, C.L. Yauk, D.N. Anstett, W. Booth, A.E. Caizergues, E.J. Carlen, A. Dant, J. González, C. González Lagos, M. Oman, M. Phifer-Rixey, D.J. Rennison, M.S. Rosenberg, & K. Winchell. Urban mutants: effects of urbanization on mutation, evolution and health. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 8: 1074-1086.

38. Härer, A., & D.J. Rennison. Gut microbiota uniqueness is associated with lake size – a proxy for diet diversity – in stickleback fish. American Naturalist 203(2): 284-291.

2023

37. Härer, A. & D.J. Rennison. The effects of host ecology and phylogeny on gut microbiota (non)parallelism across birds and mammals. mSphere e00442-23.

36. Härer, A., A. Mauro, T.G. Laurentino, E. Rosenblum, & D.J. Rennison. Gut microbiota parallelism and divergence in White Sands lizards. Molecular Ecology 32(20): 5661-5672.

35. Härer, A. & D.J. Rennison. Validity of faecal sampling for characterization of variation in threespine stickleback gut microbiota. PLoS One 18(9): e0290875.

34. Härer, A., & D.J. Rennison. The biogeography of microbiota diversity and implications for their hosts’ ecology and evolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(6) 931-944.

33. Poore, H.A., Y.E. Stuart, D.J. Rennison, M. Roesti, A.P. Hendry, D.I. Bolnick, & C.L. Peichel. 2023. Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback. Evolution 77(1):110-122.

2022

32. Härer, A., & D.J. Rennison. Quantifying (non)parallelism of gut microbial community change using multivariate vector analysis. Ecology and Evolution 12(12) e0674.

31. Santangelo, J.S., the GLUE consortium (including Rennison, D.J), and Johnson, M.T. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375(6586):1275-1281.

30. Rennison, D.J., and Peichel, C.L. Pleiotropy facilitates parallel adaptation in sticklebacks. Molecular Ecology 31(5):1476-1486.

29. Thompson K.A., Peichel, C.L., Rennison, D.J., McGee, M.D., Albert, A.Y.K., Vines, T.H., Greenwood, A.K., Wark, A.R., Schumer, M. and Schluter, D. Analysis of ancestry heterozygosity suggests that hybrid incompatibilities in threespine stickleback are environment dependent. PLoS Biology 20(1):e3001469.

28. Owens, G.L., Veen, T., Moxley, D.R., Rodriquez, L.A., Tobler, T. and Rennison, D.J. Parallel shifts of visual sensitivity and body colouration in replicate populations of extremophile fish. Molecular Ecology 30(2):451-463.

2021

27. Härer, A., Bolnick, D.I. and Rennison, D.J. The genomic signature of trophic divergence along the benthic-limnetic axis in allopatric and sympatric threespine stickleback. Molecular Ecology, 30(2):451-463.

2020

26. Rennison, D.J., Delmore, K.E., Samuk, K.M., Owens, G.L., and Miller, S.E. Shared patterns of genome-wide differentiation are more strongly predicted by geography than by ecology. American Naturalist, 195(2).

2019

25. Rennison, D.J., Rudman, S.M., and Schluter, D. Parallel changes in gut microbiome composition and function during colonization, local adaptation and ecological speciation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286:20191911.

24. Rennison, D.J., Rudman, S.M., and Schluter, D. Genetics of adaptation: experimental test of a biotic mechanism driving divergence in traits and genes. Evolution Letters, 3:513-520.

23. Rennison, D.J., Stuart, Y.E., Bolnick, D.I., and Peichel, C.L. Ecological factors and morphological traits are associated with repeated genomic differentiation between lake and stream stickleback. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374:20180241.

22. Reyes-Contreras M., Glauser, G., Rennison, D.J., and Taborsky, B. Early-life manipulation of cortisol and its receptor alters stress axis programming and social competence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374:20180119.

2018

21. Bolnick, D.I., Barrett, R.D.H., Oke, K., Rennison, D.J., and Stuart, Y.E. (Non)Parallel Evolution. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics. 49:303-330.

20. Gygax, M., Rentsch, A.K., Rudman, S.M., Rennison, D.J. Differential predation alters pigmentation in threespine stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31:1589-1598.

19. Brock, C., Rennison, D.J., Veen, T., and Bolnick, D.I. Opsin expression predicts male nuptial color in threespine stickleback. Ecology and Evolution, 8:7095-7102.

18. Samuk, K.M., Xue, J., and Rennison, D.J. Exposure to predators does not lead to the evolution of larger brains in experimental populations of threespine stickleback. Evolution, 72:916-929.

2017

17. Owens, G.L., and Rennison, D.J. Evolutionary ecology of opsin gene sequence, expression and repertoire. Molecular Ecology, 26:1207-1210.

16. Veen, T., Brock, D., Rennison, D.J., and Bolnick, D.I. Plasticity contributes to fine-scale depth gradient in sticklebacks’ visual system. Molecular Ecology, 26:4339-4350.

15. Samuk, K.M., Owens, G.L., Delmore, K.E., Miller, S.E., Rennison, D.J., and Schluter, D. Gene flow and selection interact to promote adaptive divergence in regions of low recombination. Molecular Ecology, 26:4378-4390.

2016

14. Rennison, D.J., Owens, G.L., Heckman, N., Schluter, D., and Veen T. Rapid evolution of colour vision in the threespine stickleback adaptive radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283:20160242. Sup. Mat.

13. Rudman, S.M., Heavyside, J., Rennison, D.J., and Schluter, D. Piscivore addition causes a trophic cascade within and across ecosystem boundaries. Oikos, 125:1782-1789.

12. Miller, S.E., Samuk, K.M., and Rennison, D.J. An experimental test of predation upon behaviour and trait correlations in threespine stickleback. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119:117-125.

2015

11. Rennison, D.J., Heilbron, K.A., Barrett, R.D.H., and Schluter, D. Discriminating selection on lateral plate phenotype and its underlying gene, Ectodysplasin, in threespine stickleback. American Naturalist, 185:150-156.

10. Andrew, R., Albert, A.Y.K., Renaut, S., Rennison, D.J., Bock, D., and Vines, T.H. Assessing the reproducibility of discriminant function analyses. PeerJ, 3:e1137.

2014

9. Seehausen, O., Butlin, R.K., Keller, I., Wagner, C.E., Boughman, J.W., Hohenlohe, P.A., Peichel, C.L., Saetre, G.-P., Bank, C., Brannstrom, A., Brelsford, A., Clarkson, C., Eroukhmanoff, F., Feder, J.L., Fischer, M., Foote, A.D., Franchini, P., Jiggins, C.D., Jones, F.C., Lindholm, A.K., Lucek, K., Maan, M.E., Marques, D.A., Martin, S.H., Matthews, B., Meier, J.I., Most, M., Nachman, M.W., Nonaka, E., Rennison, D.J., Schwarzer, J., Watson, E.T., Westram, A.M., and Widmer, A. Genomics and the origin of species. Nature Reviews Genetics, 15:176-192.

8. Vines, T.H., Albert, A.Y.K., Andrew, R.L., Debarre, F., Bock, D.G., Franklin, M.T., Gilbert, K.J., Moore, J.-S., Renaut, S., and Rennison, D.J. The availability of research data declines rapidly with article age. Current Biology, 24:1-4.

2013

7. Vines, T.H., Andrew, R.L., Bock, D.G., Franklin, M.T., Gilbert, K.J., Kane, N.C., Moore, J.-S., Moyers, B.T., Renaut, S., Rennison, D.J., Veen, T., and Yeaman, S. Mandated archiving greatly improves access to research data. FASEB J, 27.

2012

6. Rennison, D.J., Owens, G.L., and Taylor, J.S. Opsin gene duplication and divergence in ray-finned fish. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution, 62:986-1008.

5. Owens, G.L., Rennison, D.J., Allision, W.T., and Taylor, J.S. In the four-eyed fish (Anableps anableps), the regions of the retina exposed to aquatic and aerial light do not express the same set of opsin genes. Biology Letters, 8:86-89.

4. Gilbert, K.J., Andrew, R.L., Bock, D.G., Franklin, M.T., Kane, N.C., Moore, J.-S., Moyers, B.T., Renaut, S., Rennison, D.J., Veen, T., and Vines, T.H. Recommendations for utilizing and reporting population genetic analysis: the reproducibility of genetic clustering using the program STRUCTRE. Molecular Ecology, 21:4925-4930.

2011

3. Rennison, D.J., Owens, G.L., Allison, W.T., and Taylor, J.S. Intra-retinal variation of opsin gene expression in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Journal of Experimental Biology, 214:3248-3254.

2009

2. Windsor, D.J., and Owens, G.L. The opsin repertoire of Jenynsia onca: A new perspective on gene duplication and divergence in livebearers. BMC Research Notes, 2:159.

1. Owens, G.L., Windsor, D.J., Mui, J., and Taylor, J.S. A fish eye out of water: Ten visual opsins in the four-eyed fish, Anableps, anableps. PLoS One, 4:e5970.

Submitted or in Revision Manuscripts

Tsai, B., E. Tapanes, A.L. Fraser, R. El-Sabaawi, & D.J. Rennison. Effect of marine reference on inferred evolutionary patterns of freshwater stickleback. In Revision Ecology & Evolution

Härer, A. & D.J. Rennison. Host traits and environmental variation shape gut microbiota diversity in wild threespine stickleback. In Review Animal Microbiome

Battlay, P., B.T. Hendrickson, J.I. Mendez-Reneau, J.S. Santangelo, L.J. Albano, J. Wilson, A.E. Caizergues, N. King, A. Punetes, A. Tudoran, C. Violle, F. Vasseur, M. Foster, C. Stamps, S.G. Innes, R. Allio, F. Angeoletto, D.N. Anstette, J. Anstett, A. Bucharova, M.S. Comerford, S. David, M. Falahati-Anbaran, W. Godsoe, C. González-Lagos, P.E. Gundel, G.R. Hood, R. Karousou, C. Lampei, C. Lara, A. Lázaro-Lobo, D. Leandro, T.J.S. Merritt, N. Mitchell, M.M. Bazargani, A. Moles, M. Murúa, J. Paule, V. Pfeiffer, J.A.M. Raeymaekers, D.J. Rennison, R.S. Rios, J.K. Rowntree, A.C. Schneider, K.S. Whitney, Í.Tamburrino, A. VanWallendael, P.Y. Kim, R.W. Ness, M.T. Johnson, K.A. Hodgins, & N.J. Kooyers. Structural variants underlie parallel adaptation following global invasion. In Review Nature Ecology and Evolution

Manuscripts in Preparation

Meier, D., & D.J. Rennison. Relationship between phenotypic and genomic parallelism within the threespine stickleback radiation.

Varey, L., & D.J. Rennison. Lateral plate area is a better predictor of anti-predation function than lateral plate number.

Tsai, B., Reese, S., Thompson, K.A., Roesti, M. & Rennison, D.J. Correlated evolution of suites of traits in threespine stickleback.

Dominguez, J., A. Härer, C.B. Wall, C. Symons, D.J. Rennison, & J. Shurin. Contrasting biogeography of host-associated and free-living microbial metacommunities across two study systems.