Publications

Knouft, J. H.  In press.  Defense against pathogens and predators during the  

   evolution of parental care in fishes.  In: Fish Defenses, Volume 2: Fish

   Armament and Secretions.  Eds. G. Zaccone, M. J. Manning, C. J. Secombes and  

   B.G. Kapoor.

 

Mitchell, A. L. and Knouft, J. H.  In press.  Non-native fishes and native species

   diversity in freshwater fish assemblages across the United States.  Biological

   Invasions.  (email for reprint)

 

Albert, J. S., Johnson, D. M., and Knouft, J. H.  In press.  Fossils provide better

   estimates of ancestral body size than do extant taxa in fishes.  Acta Zoologica.

 

Johnson, J. R., Knouft, J. H., and Semlitsch, R. D.  2007.  Sex and seasonal

   differences in the spatial terrestrial distribution of gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor)  

   populations. Biological Conservation 140:250-258.

 

Knouft, J. H., Losos, J. B., Glor, R. E., and Kolbe J. J.  2006.  Phylogenetic

   analysis of the evolution of the niche in lizards of the Anolis sagrei group. 

   Ecology 87(7):S29-S38. (email for reprint)

 

Langerhans, R. B., Knouft, J. H., and Losos, J. B.  2006.  Shared and unique

   features of evolutionary diversification in Greater Antillean Anolis ecomorphs. 

   Evolution 60:362-369. (email for reprint)

 

Calsbeek, R., Knouft, J. H., and Smith, T. B.  2006.  Variation in scale numbers is

   consistent with ecologically based natural selection acting within and between

   lizard species.  Evolutionary Ecology 20(4) 377-394. (email for reprint)

 

Miller, A. J., and Knouft, J. H.  2006.  GIS-based characterization of the

   ecological niches of wild and cultivated populations of the Mesoamerican fruit

   tree, Spondias purpurea (Anacardiaceae).  American Journal of Botany 93

   (12):1757-1767. (email for reprint)

 

Taylor, C. A. and Knouft, J. H.  2006.  Historical influences on genital

   morphology among sympatric crayfishes:  systematics and gonopod evolution in

   the genus Orconectes (Cambaridae).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

   89(1):1-12. (email for reprint)

 

Brinkerhoff, R. J., Markeson, A. B., Knouft, J. H., Gage, K. L., and Montenieri, J.

   A.  2006.  Abundance patterns of two Oropsylla (Ceratophyllidae: Siphonaptera)

   species on black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) hosts.  Journal of

   Vector Ecology 31(2):355-363. (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H.  2004.  Latitudinal variation in the shape of the species body size

   distribution:  an analysis using freshwater fishes.  Oecologia 139:408-417.

   (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H. and Page, L. M.  2004.  Nest defense against predators by the male

   Fringed Darter (Etheostoma crossopterum).  Copeia 2004:915-918.

   (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H. and Page, L. M.  2003.  The evolution of body size in extant groups

   of North American freshwater fishes: speciation, size distributions, and Cope’s

   rule.  American Naturalist 161(3):413-421. (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H.  2003.  Convergence, divergence, and the effect of congeners on

   body size ratios in stream fishes.  Evolution 57(10):2374-2382.

   (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H., Page, L. M., and Plewa, M. J.  2003.  Antimicrobial egg cleaning

   by the fringed darter (Perciformes: Percidae: Etheostoma crossopterum):

   implications of a novel component of parental care in fishes.  Proceedings of the

   Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 270(1531):2405-2411.

   (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H.  2002.  Regional analysis of body size and population density in

   stream fish assemblages:  testing predictions of the energetic equivalence rule. 

   Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59(8):1350-1360.

   (email for reprint)

 

Knouft, J. H. and Spotila, J. R.  2002.  Assessment of movements of resident

   stream brown trout (Salmo trutta) among contiguous sections of stream. 

   Ecology of Freshwater Fish 11:85-92. (email for reprint)

 

Hardman, M., Page, L. M., Sabaj, M. H., Armbruster, J. W., and Knouft, J. H. 

   2002.  A comparison of fish surveys made in 1908 and 1998 of the Potaro,

   Essequibo, Demerara, and coastal river drainages of Guyana.  Ichthyological

   Explorations of Freshwater 13(3):225-238.

 

Taylor, C. A., Knouft, J. H., and Hiland, T.  2001.  Consequences of stream

   impoundment on fish communities in a small North American drainage. 

   Regulated Rivers:  Research and Management 17(6):687-698. (email for reprint)

 

Page, L. M. and Knouft, J. H.  2000.  Variation in egg-mimic size in the Guardian

   Darter, Etheostoma oophylax (Percidae).  Copeia 2000:782-785.

   (email for reprint)

 

Armbruster, J. W., Sabaj, M. H., Hardman, M., Page, L. M., and Knouft, J. H. 

   2000.  The catfish genus Corymbophanes (Loricariidae:  Hypostominae) with

   description of one new species: Corymbophanes kaiei.  Copeia 2000:997-1006.

   (email for reprint)

Saint Louis University

Knouft Lab

Department of Biology