maintains an egg bank in stormwater habitats and influences the development of larval mosquito, .

Dormant propagules can provide a rapid colonization source for temporary aquatic habitats and set the trajectory for community dynamics, yet the egg banks of stormwater management systems have received little attention. We asked which species hatched from the sediment of drainage ditches in Champaign County, IL, and found bdelloid rotifers and ostracods () to be the most common taxa. These sites also are colonized by mosquitoes, and we established laboratory experiments to examine interspecific interactions between common co-occurring taxa.

Differential gene expression in response to fungal pathogen exposure in the aquatic invertebrate, .

While vertebrate immune systems are appreciated for their complexity and adaptability, invertebrate immunity is often considered to be less complex. However, immune responses in many invertebrates likely involve sophisticated processes. Interactions between the crustacean host and its fungal pathogen provide an excellent model for exploring the mechanisms underlying crustacean immunity.

A review of the cues used for rejecting foreign eggs from the nest by the Eurasian blackbird ().

Avian brood parasitism is reproductively costly for hosts and selects for cognitive features enabling anti-parasitic resistance at multiple stages of the host's breeding cycle. The true thrushes (genus represent a nearly worldwide clade of potential hosts of brood parasitism by cuckoos in Eurasia and Africa and cowbirds in the Americas. The Eurasian blackbird () builds an open-cup nest and is common within much of the common cuckoo's (.