Molly E. Cummings, Ph.D. - Publications

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University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 

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2024 Preising GA, Gunn T, Baczenas JJ, Powell DL, Dodge TO, Sewell ST, Pollock A, Machin Kairuz JA, Savage M, Lu Y, Fitschen-Brown M, Meyer A, Schartl M, Cummings M, Thakur S, et al. Recurrent evolution of small body size and loss of the sword ornament in Northern swordtail fish. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 39252584 DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae124  0.313
2023 Young RL, Price SM, Schumer M, Wang S, Cummings ME. Individual variation in preference behavior in sailfin fish refines the neurotranscriptomic pathway for mate preference. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e10323. PMID 37492456 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10323  0.718
2020 Wallace KJ, Rausch RT, Ramsey ME, Cummings ME. Sex differences in cognitive performance and style across domains in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). Animal Cognition. PMID 32166514 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-020-01367-2  0.353
2019 Reding L, Cummings ME. Rational choice of social group size in mosquitofish. Biology Letters. 15: 20180693. PMID 30958208 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2018.0693  0.326
2019 Ramsey ME, Fry D, Cummings ME. Isotocin increases female avoidance of males in a coercive mating system: Assessing the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin in a fish species. Hormones and Behavior. 112: 1-9. PMID 30902535 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2019.03.001  0.527
2018 Cummings ME, Endler JA. 25 Years of sensory drive: the evidence and its watery bias. Current Zoology. 64: 471-484. PMID 30108628 DOI: 10.1093/Cz/Zoy043  0.565
2018 Reding L, Cummings ME. Rational mate choice decisions vary with female age and multidimensional male signals in swordtails Ethology. 124: 641-649. DOI: 10.1111/Eth.12769  0.499
2018 Cummings ME. Sexual conflict and sexually dimorphic cognition—reviewing their relationship in poeciliid fishes Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 72. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-018-2483-9  0.44
2017 Dreher CE, Rodríguez A, Cummings ME, Pröhl H. Mating status correlates with dorsal brightness in some but not all poison frog populations. Ecology and Evolution. 7: 10503-10512. PMID 29299233 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.3531  0.56
2017 Etheredge RI, Avenas C, Armstrong MJ, Cummings ME. Sex-specific cognitive-behavioural profiles emerging from individual variation in numerosity discrimination in Gambusia affinis. Animal Cognition. PMID 29022119 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-017-1134-2  0.424
2017 Brock CD, Cummings ME, Bolnick DI. Phenotypic plasticity drives a depth gradient in male conspicuousness in threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 28590028 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.13282  0.75
2017 Reding L, Cummings ME. Context-dependent preferences vary by multicomponent signals in a swordtail Animal Behaviour. 129: 237-247. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2017.05.017  0.58
2016 Friesen CN, Ramsey ME, Cummings ME. Differential sensitivity to estrogen-induced opsin expression in two poeciliid freshwater fish species. General and Comparative Endocrinology. PMID 28013033 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ygcen.2016.12.009  0.444
2016 Reding L, Cummings ME. Does sensory expansion benefit asexual species? An olfactory discrimination test in Amazon mollies Behavioral Ecology. 27: 411-418. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arv168  0.435
2016 Crothers L, Saporito RA, Yeager J, Lynch K, Friesen C, Richards-Zawacki CL, McGraw K, Cummings M. Warning signal properties covary with toxicity but not testosterone or aggregate carotenoids in a poison frog Evolutionary Ecology. 30: 601-621. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-016-9830-Y  0.516
2015 Brady PC, Gilerson AA, Kattawar GW, Sullivan JM, Twardowski MS, Dierssen HM, Gao M, Travis K, Etheredge RI, Tonizzo A, Ibrahim A, Carrizo C, Gu Y, Russell BJ, Mislinski K, ... ... Cummings ME, et al. Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments. Science (New York, N.Y.). 350: 965-9. PMID 26586762 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aad5284  0.33
2015 Dreher CE, Cummings ME, Pröhl H. An Analysis of Predator Selection to Affect Aposematic Coloration in a Poison Frog Species. Plos One. 10: e0130571. PMID 26110826 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0130571  0.349
2015 Wang S, Cummings M, Kirkpatrick M. Coevolution of male courtship and sexual conflict characters in mosquitofish Behavioral Ecology. 26: 1013-1020. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arv049  0.744
2015 Crothers LR, Cummings ME. A multifunctional warning signal behaves as an agonistic status signal in a poison frog Behavioral Ecology. 26: 560-568. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Aru231  0.535
2015 Cummings ME, Ramsey ME. Mate choice as social cognition: Predicting female behavioral and neural plasticity as a function of alternative male reproductive tactics Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 6: 125-131. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cobeha.2015.10.001  0.547
2015 Cummings ME. The mate choice mind: Studying mate preference, aversion and social cognition in the female poeciliid brain Animal Behaviour. 103: 249-258. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2015.02.021  0.56
2014 Calabrese GM, Brady PC, Gruev V, Cummings ME. Polarization signaling in swordtails alters female mate preference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 13397-402. PMID 25197061 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1321368111  0.487
2014 Wong RY, Cummings ME. Expression patterns of neuroligin-3 and tyrosine hydroxylase across the brain in mate choice contexts in female swordtails. Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 83: 231-43. PMID 24854097 DOI: 10.1159/000360071  0.708
2014 Ramsey ME, Vu W, Cummings ME. Testing synaptic plasticity in dynamic mate choice decisions: N-methyl D-aspartate receptor blockade disrupts female preference. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20140047. PMID 24807251 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.0047  0.503
2014 Wang SM, Ramsey ME, Cummings ME. Plasticity of the mate choice mind: courtship evokes choice-like brain responses in females from a coercive mating system. Genes, Brain, and Behavior. 13: 365-75. PMID 24548673 DOI: 10.1111/Gbb.12124  0.602
2014 Veilleux CC, Jacobs RL, Cummings ME, Louis EE, Bolnick DA. Opsin Genes and Visual Ecology in a Nocturnal Folivorous Lemur International Journal of Primatology. 35: 88-107. DOI: 10.1007/S10764-013-9708-6  0.355
2013 Crothers LR, Cummings ME. Warning signal brightness variation: sexual selection may work under the radar of natural selection in populations of a polytypic poison frog. The American Naturalist. 181: E116-24. PMID 23594556 DOI: 10.1086/670010  0.46
2013 Twomey E, Yeager J, Brown JL, Morales V, Cummings M, Summers K. Phenotypic and Genetic Divergence among Poison Frog Populations in a Mimetic Radiation. Plos One. 8: e55443. PMID 23405150 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0055443  0.326
2013 Kültz D, Clayton DF, Robinson GE, Albertson C, Carey HV, Cummings ME, Dewar K, Edwards SV, Hofmann HA, Gross LJ, Kingsolver JG, Meaney MJ, Schlinger BA, Shingleton AW, Sokolowski MB, et al. New frontiers for organismal biology Bioscience. 63: 464-471. DOI: 10.1525/Bio.2013.63.6.8  0.561
2013 Ryan MJ, Cummings ME. Perceptual biases and mate choice Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 44: 437-459. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Ecolsys-110512-135901  0.505
2013 Cummings ME, Crothers LR. Interacting selection diversifies warning signals in a polytypic frog: An examination with the strawberry poison frog Evolutionary Ecology. 27: 693-710. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-013-9648-9  0.426
2012 Wong RY, Ramsey ME, Cummings ME. Localizing brain regions associated with female mate preference behavior in a swordtail. Plos One. 7: e50355. PMID 23209722 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0050355  0.679
2012 Cummings ME. Looking for sexual selection in the female brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 367: 2348-56. PMID 22777022 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2012.0105  0.6
2012 Ramsey ME, Maginnis TL, Wong RY, Brock C, Cummings ME. Identifying context-specific gene profiles of social, reproductive, and mate preference behavior in a fish species with female mate choice. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 6: 62. PMID 22557945 DOI: 10.3389/Fnins.2012.00062  0.752
2012 Maan ME, Cummings ME. Poison frog colors are honest signals of toxicity, particularly for bird predators. The American Naturalist. 179: E1-14. PMID 22173468 DOI: 10.1086/663197  0.363
2012 Lynch KS, Ramsey ME, Cummings ME. The mate choice brain: comparing gene profiles between female choice and male coercive poeciliids. Genes, Brain, and Behavior. 11: 222-9. PMID 22008245 DOI: 10.1111/J.1601-183X.2011.00742.X  0.59
2011 Crothers L, Gering E, Cummings M. Aposematic signal variation predicts male-male interactions in a polymorphic poison frog Evolution. 65: 599-605. PMID 21271999 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2010.01154.X  0.607
2011 Ramsey ME, Wong RY, Cummings ME. Estradiol, reproductive cycle and preference behavior in a northern swordtail. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 170: 381-90. PMID 20977908 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ygcen.2010.10.012  0.678
2011 Richards-Zawacki CL, Cummings ME. Intraspecific reproductive character displacement in a polymorphic poison dart frog, Dendrobates pumilio. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 65: 259-67. PMID 20825478 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2010.01124.X  0.56
2011 Wong RY, So P, Cummings ME. How female size and male displays influence mate preference in a swordtail Animal Behaviour. 82: 691-697. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2011.06.024  0.714
2010 Brown JL, Maan ME, Cummings ME, Summers K. Evidence for selection on coloration in a Panamanian poison frog: A coalescent-based approach Journal of Biogeography. 37: 891-901. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2699.2009.02260.X  0.33
2009 Maan ME, Cummings ME. Sexual dimorphism and directional sexual selection on aposematic signals in a poison frog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 19072-7. PMID 19858491 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0903327106  0.522
2009 Cummings ME, Gelineau-Kattner R. The energetic costs of alternative male reproductive strategies in Xiphophorus nigrensis. Journal of Comparative Physiology. a, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. 195: 935-46. PMID 19688216 DOI: 10.1007/S00359-009-0469-9  0.535
2008 Maan ME, Cummings ME. Female preferences for aposematic signal components in a polymorphic poison frog. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 62: 2334-45. PMID 18616568 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2008.00454.X  0.542
2008 Cummings ME, Bernal XE, Reynaga R, Rand AS, Ryan MJ. Visual sensitivity to a conspicuous male cue varies by reproductive state in Physalaemus pustulosus females. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 211: 1203-10. PMID 18375844 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.012963  0.512
2008 Cummings ME, Larkins-Ford J, Reilly CR, Wong RY, Ramsey M, Hofmann HA. Sexual and social stimuli elicit rapid and contrasting genomic responses. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 275: 393-402. PMID 18055387 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2007.1454  0.751
2008 Cummings ME, Jordão JM, Cronin TW, Oliveira RF. Visual ecology of the fiddler crab, Uca tangeri: effects of sex, viewer and background on conspicuousness Animal Behaviour. 75: 175-188. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2007.04.016  0.546
2007 Cummings ME. Sensory trade-offs predict signal divergence in Surfperch. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 61: 530-45. PMID 17348918 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2007.00047.X  0.446
2006 Cummings ME, García de León FJ, Mollaghan DM, Ryan MJ. Is UV ornamentation an amplifier in swordtails? Zebrafish. 3: 91-100. PMID 18248249 DOI: 10.1089/Zeb.2006.3.91  0.551
2006 Darst CR, Cummings ME, Cannatella DC. A mechanism for diversity in warning signals: conspicuousness versus toxicity in poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 5852-7. PMID 16574774 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0600625103  0.349
2006 Cummings M, Mollaghan D. Repeatability and consistency of female preference behaviours in a northern swordtail, Xiphophorus nigrensis Animal Behaviour. 72: 217-224. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2006.01.009  0.55
2005 Grether GF, Cummings ME, Hudon J. Countergradient variation in the sexual coloration of guppies (Poecilia reticulata): drosopterin synthesis balances carotenoid availability. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 59: 175-88. PMID 15792237 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2005.Tb00904.X  0.426
2005 Ryan MJ, Cummings ME. ANIMAL SINGNALS AND THE OVERLOOKED COSTS OF EFFICACY Evolution. 59: 1160-1161. DOI: 10.1554/Br05-6  0.301
2003 Cummings ME, Rosenthal GG, Ryan MJ. A private ultraviolet channel in visual communication. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 270: 897-904. PMID 12803903 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2003.2334  0.429
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