Publications
(*: corresponding author, **: undergraduate co-author, †: co-first author)
In review-
25. Hood GR, Z Gompert, L Zhang, MS Comerford, JA Drummond, PFP. Brandão-Dias, A Driscoe, EO Martinson, CR Linnen, EE Bendall, VC Sousa, RK Bagley, P Nosil, JL Feder, JR Ott, and SP Egan*. Natural selection promotes extraordinary, but predictable genome-wide divergence in a haplodiploid. in review.
24. Bachelot B*, A Compagnoni, PFP. Brandão-Dias, SK Carter, ML Donald, JC Fowler, D Gorczynski, CGB Grupstra, ZR Neale, L Zhang, JA Rudgers, K Zhu and TEX Miller. Sensitivity to climate variability in North American plant and animal populations. in review.
2025
23. Li QY, L Zhang, XH Hu, R Wang, F He, and XY Chen*. Host specificity of herbivorous insects promotes negative species–genetic diversity relationship. Oikos. Accepted.
22. Zhang L, S. Peters**, A.Wagner**, F. Teng, L. Sherwood**, and AE Weis*. Documenting genetic variance for an extended phenotype of the gallmaker Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae): a selection experiment in the field. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. Accepted.
2024
21. Roush AR†**, L Zhang†*, GR Hood, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2024. A test of trade-offs in dispersal and reproduction within and between a sister species pair of specialist insect herbivores. Oecologia 204: 529-542. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-024-05512-3.
20. Yukilevich R*, F Aoki, SP Egan & L Zhang. 2024. Coevolutionary interactions between sexual and habitat isolation during reinforcement. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, special issue: Speciation. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041431.
19. Zhang L*, E Nonaka, M Higgie & SP Egan. 2024. How important is variation in extrinsic reproductive isolation to the process of speciation? Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, special issue: Speciation. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041430.
18. Zhang L*, GR Hood, JR Ott & SP Egan. The role of divergent host use and geography in the evolution of habitat isolation and sexual isolation among sister species of Belonocnema gall wasps. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 37:248-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae005
2023
17. Zhang L*, S Chaturvedi, C Nice, L Lucas & Z Gompert*. 2023. Population genomic evidence of selection on structural variants in a natural hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology 32:1497-1514.
2022
16. Ward AKG, RW Busbee, RA Chen, CK Davis**, AL Driscoe, SP Egan, BAR Goldberg, GR Hood, DG Jones, AJKranz, SA Meadely Dunphy, AK Milks, JR Ott, KM. Prior, SI Sheikh, SA Shzu**, KL Weinersmith, L Zhang, YM Zhang, AA Forbes*. 2022. The arthropod associates of 155 North American cynipid oak galls. Zoological Studies 61:57.
15.ZhangYM*, SI Sheikh, AKG Ward, AA Forbes, KM Prior, GN Stone, MW Gates, SP Egan, L Zhang, C Davis**, KL Weinersmith, G Melika, A Lucky. 2022. Delimiting the cryptic diversity and host preferences of Sycophila parasitoid wasps associated with oak galls using phylogenomic data. Molecular Ecology 31 (16): 4417-4433.
14. Ward AKG, RK Bagley, SP Egan, GR Hood, JR Ott, KM Prior, SI Sheikh, KL Weinersmith, L Zhang, YM Zhang, AA Forbes*. 2022. Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both. Evolution 76: 1849-1867.
13. Sheikh SI*, AKG Ward,Y Zhang, CK Davis**, L Zhang, SP Egan & AA Forbes. 2022. Ormyrus labotus Walker (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae): another generalist that should not be a generalist is not a generalist. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6: 1-14.
12. Zhang L*, BF Mullin**, S Shzu**, CK Davis**, EG Hu**, IJ Carroo** & SP Egan. 2022. Parallel divergence in an extended phenotype between ecologically divergent populations of six species of gall-forming insects. Ecological Entomology 47: 323-330.
2021
11. Zhang L*, Reifova R, Halenkova Z, Z Gompert. 2021. How important are structural variants in reproductive isolation? Genes 12: 1084.
10. Zhang L*, GR Hood, IJ Carroo**, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2021. Context-dependent reproductive isolation: host plant variability drives fitness of hybrid herbivores. The American Naturalist 197: 732-739.
9. Zhang L*, GR Hood, A Roush**, SA Shzu**, MS Comerford, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2021. Asymmetric, but opposing reductions in immigrant viability and fecundity promote reproductive isolation among host-associated populations of an insect herbivore. Evolution 75: 476-489.
Before 2020
8. Zhang L*, GR Hood, JR Ott & SP Egan*. 2019. Temporal isolation between sympatric host plants cascades across multiple trophic levels of host-associated insects. Biology Letters 15: 20190572.
7. Zhang L & SP Egan*. 2019. Adaptive radiations. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press (invited contribution).
6. Hood, GR*, L Zhang, EG Hu**, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2019. Cascading Reproductive Isolation: Plant phenology drives temporal isolation among populations of a host-specific herbivore. Evolution 73: 554-568.
5. Egan SP*, L Zhang, M Comerford & GR Hood. 2018. Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic vine. Current Biology 28: PR863-R864. (Recommended by Faculty 1000)
4. Hood GR*, L Zhang, L Topper, PFP Brandão-Dias F. Pinto, GA Del Pino, MS Comerford & SP Egan. 2018. ‘Closing the life cycle’ of Andricus quercuslanigera Ashmead 1881 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 111: 103-113.
3. Zhang L, A Driscoe, R Izen, C Toussaint, JR Ott & SP Egan*. 2017. Immigrant inviability promotes reproductive isolation among host-associated populations of the gall wasp Belonocnema treatae. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 162: 379–388.
2. Zhang LY, YR He, H Gao & XH Hu*. 2014. Isolation and characterization of thirteen polymorphic microsatellite loci for Lithocarpus glaber. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 55:10-13.
1. Wang YT*, J Gong & LY Zhang. 2014. Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci for Eupristina altissima, the pollinating wasp of Ficus altissima (Moraceae). Conservation Genetics Resources. 6: 625-627
In review-
25. Hood GR, Z Gompert, L Zhang, MS Comerford, JA Drummond, PFP. Brandão-Dias, A Driscoe, EO Martinson, CR Linnen, EE Bendall, VC Sousa, RK Bagley, P Nosil, JL Feder, JR Ott, and SP Egan*. Natural selection promotes extraordinary, but predictable genome-wide divergence in a haplodiploid. in review.
24. Bachelot B*, A Compagnoni, PFP. Brandão-Dias, SK Carter, ML Donald, JC Fowler, D Gorczynski, CGB Grupstra, ZR Neale, L Zhang, JA Rudgers, K Zhu and TEX Miller. Sensitivity to climate variability in North American plant and animal populations. in review.
2025
23. Li QY, L Zhang, XH Hu, R Wang, F He, and XY Chen*. Host specificity of herbivorous insects promotes negative species–genetic diversity relationship. Oikos. Accepted.
22. Zhang L, S. Peters**, A.Wagner**, F. Teng, L. Sherwood**, and AE Weis*. Documenting genetic variance for an extended phenotype of the gallmaker Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae): a selection experiment in the field. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. Accepted.
2024
21. Roush AR†**, L Zhang†*, GR Hood, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2024. A test of trade-offs in dispersal and reproduction within and between a sister species pair of specialist insect herbivores. Oecologia 204: 529-542. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-024-05512-3.
20. Yukilevich R*, F Aoki, SP Egan & L Zhang. 2024. Coevolutionary interactions between sexual and habitat isolation during reinforcement. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, special issue: Speciation. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041431.
19. Zhang L*, E Nonaka, M Higgie & SP Egan. 2024. How important is variation in extrinsic reproductive isolation to the process of speciation? Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, special issue: Speciation. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041430.
18. Zhang L*, GR Hood, JR Ott & SP Egan. The role of divergent host use and geography in the evolution of habitat isolation and sexual isolation among sister species of Belonocnema gall wasps. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 37:248-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae005
2023
17. Zhang L*, S Chaturvedi, C Nice, L Lucas & Z Gompert*. 2023. Population genomic evidence of selection on structural variants in a natural hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology 32:1497-1514.
2022
16. Ward AKG, RW Busbee, RA Chen, CK Davis**, AL Driscoe, SP Egan, BAR Goldberg, GR Hood, DG Jones, AJKranz, SA Meadely Dunphy, AK Milks, JR Ott, KM. Prior, SI Sheikh, SA Shzu**, KL Weinersmith, L Zhang, YM Zhang, AA Forbes*. 2022. The arthropod associates of 155 North American cynipid oak galls. Zoological Studies 61:57.
15.ZhangYM*, SI Sheikh, AKG Ward, AA Forbes, KM Prior, GN Stone, MW Gates, SP Egan, L Zhang, C Davis**, KL Weinersmith, G Melika, A Lucky. 2022. Delimiting the cryptic diversity and host preferences of Sycophila parasitoid wasps associated with oak galls using phylogenomic data. Molecular Ecology 31 (16): 4417-4433.
14. Ward AKG, RK Bagley, SP Egan, GR Hood, JR Ott, KM Prior, SI Sheikh, KL Weinersmith, L Zhang, YM Zhang, AA Forbes*. 2022. Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both. Evolution 76: 1849-1867.
13. Sheikh SI*, AKG Ward,Y Zhang, CK Davis**, L Zhang, SP Egan & AA Forbes. 2022. Ormyrus labotus Walker (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae): another generalist that should not be a generalist is not a generalist. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6: 1-14.
12. Zhang L*, BF Mullin**, S Shzu**, CK Davis**, EG Hu**, IJ Carroo** & SP Egan. 2022. Parallel divergence in an extended phenotype between ecologically divergent populations of six species of gall-forming insects. Ecological Entomology 47: 323-330.
2021
11. Zhang L*, Reifova R, Halenkova Z, Z Gompert. 2021. How important are structural variants in reproductive isolation? Genes 12: 1084.
10. Zhang L*, GR Hood, IJ Carroo**, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2021. Context-dependent reproductive isolation: host plant variability drives fitness of hybrid herbivores. The American Naturalist 197: 732-739.
9. Zhang L*, GR Hood, A Roush**, SA Shzu**, MS Comerford, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2021. Asymmetric, but opposing reductions in immigrant viability and fecundity promote reproductive isolation among host-associated populations of an insect herbivore. Evolution 75: 476-489.
Before 2020
8. Zhang L*, GR Hood, JR Ott & SP Egan*. 2019. Temporal isolation between sympatric host plants cascades across multiple trophic levels of host-associated insects. Biology Letters 15: 20190572.
7. Zhang L & SP Egan*. 2019. Adaptive radiations. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press (invited contribution).
6. Hood, GR*, L Zhang, EG Hu**, JR Ott & SP Egan. 2019. Cascading Reproductive Isolation: Plant phenology drives temporal isolation among populations of a host-specific herbivore. Evolution 73: 554-568.
5. Egan SP*, L Zhang, M Comerford & GR Hood. 2018. Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic vine. Current Biology 28: PR863-R864. (Recommended by Faculty 1000)
4. Hood GR*, L Zhang, L Topper, PFP Brandão-Dias F. Pinto, GA Del Pino, MS Comerford & SP Egan. 2018. ‘Closing the life cycle’ of Andricus quercuslanigera Ashmead 1881 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 111: 103-113.
3. Zhang L, A Driscoe, R Izen, C Toussaint, JR Ott & SP Egan*. 2017. Immigrant inviability promotes reproductive isolation among host-associated populations of the gall wasp Belonocnema treatae. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 162: 379–388.
2. Zhang LY, YR He, H Gao & XH Hu*. 2014. Isolation and characterization of thirteen polymorphic microsatellite loci for Lithocarpus glaber. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 55:10-13.
1. Wang YT*, J Gong & LY Zhang. 2014. Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci for Eupristina altissima, the pollinating wasp of Ficus altissima (Moraceae). Conservation Genetics Resources. 6: 625-627
