Preprints

Pavlyshyn, Damian, Iain M. Johnstone, and Jacqueline L. Sztepanacz. (2022) Comparison of REML methods for the study of phenome-wide genetic variation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11709

Accepted and Published

Sztepanacz, J.L. and Houle, D. (2024) Regularized regression can improve estimates of multivariate selection in the face of multicollinearity and limited data. Evolution Letters, qrad064

Sztepanacz, Jacqueline L., Josselin Clo, and Øystein H. Opedal. (2023) Evolvability, Sexual Selection, and Mating Strategies. Evolvability MIT Press

Pélabon, Christophe, Michael B. Morrissey, Jane M. Reid, and Jacqueline L. Sztepanacz. (2023) Can We Explain Variation in Evolvability on Ecological Timescales? Evolvability MIT Press

Collet, Julie M., and Jacqueline L. Sztepanacz (2022) Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness. Behavioral Ecology 33(4): 833-843.

Sztepanacz, J.L. and Houle, D. (2021) Allometry constrains the evolution of sexual dimorphism in Drosophila across 33 million years of divergence. Evolution. 75(5): 1117-1131

Sztepanacz, J.L. (2020). Digest: Within and between sex covariances can enhance the response to climatic selection. Evolution. 74(2): 501-503

Sztepanacz, J.L., and Houle, D. (2019). Cross‐sex genetic covariances limit the evolvability of wing‐shape within and among species of Drosophila. Evolution. 73(8): 1617-1633

Houle, D., Jones L. T., Fortune R., Sztepanacz, J.L. (2019). Why does allometry evolve so slowly? Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(5): 1429–1440
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Sztepanacz, J.L. and Mark. W. Blows. (2017). Artificial selection to increase the phenotypic variance in g_max fails. The American Naturalist. 190(5): 707-723

Sztepanacz, J.L., McGuigan, K., and Blows, M. W. (2017). Selection on heritable micro-environmental variance in an outbred population of Drosophila serrata. Genetics. 206: 2158-2198

Sztepanacz, J.L. and Blows, M. W. (2017). Accounting for sampling error in genetic eigenvalues using random matrix theory. Genetics. 206: 1271-1284

Dettman, J.R., Sztepanacz, J.L. and Kassen, R. (2016). The properties of spontaneous mutations in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. BMC Genomics. 17:27

Sztepanacz, J.L., and Blows, M. W. (2015). Dominance genetic variance for traits under directional selection in Drosophila serrata. Genetics. 200: 371-384 

Dyer K. A., White, B. E., Sztepanacz J.L, Bewick, E. R., and Rundle, H. D. (2014). Reproductive character displacement of epicuticular compounds and their contribution to mate choice in Drosophila subquinaria and Drosophila recens. Evolution.68(4): 1163-1175

Curtis, S., Sztepanacz J.L, White, B. E., Dyer K. A., Rundle, H. D., and Mayer, P. (2013). Epicuticular compounds of Drosophila subquinaria and D. recens: Identification, quantification, and their role in female mate choice. Journal of Chemical Ecology.39(5): 579-590

Sztepanacz J.L., and Rundle, H.D. (2012). Reduced genetic variance among high fitness individuals: inferring stabilizing selection on male sexual displays in Drosophila serrata. Evolution. 66(10): 3101-3110