Director, University of Oklahoma Biological Station
Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma
Selected Publications:
Jeyasingh, P. D., L. J. Weider, R. W. Sterner. 2009. Genetically-based trade-offs in response to stoichiometric food quality influence competition in a keystone aquatic herbivore. Ecology Letters 12:1229-1237. pdf file
Weider, L.J., P.D. Jeyasingh, and K.D. Looper. 2008. Stoichiometric differences in food quality: impacts on genetic
diversity and coexistence of aquatic herbivores in a Daphnia hybrid complex. Oecologia 158:47-55. pdf file
Jeyasingh, P.D. and L. J. Weider. 2007. Invited Review: Fundamental links between genes and elements: evolutionary implications of ecological stoichiometry. Molecular Ecology 16:4649-4661. pdf file
Kyle, M., K. Acharya, L.J. Weider, K.G. Looper, and J.J. Elser. 2006. Coupling of growth rate and body stoichiometry in Daphnia: A role for maintenance processes? Freshwater Biology 51:2087-2095. pdf file
Pijanowska, J., P. Dawidowicz, and L.J. Weider. 2006. Predator-induced escape response in Daphnia. Archiv für Hydrobiol. 167:77-87. pdf file
Weider, L.J., J.J. Elser, T.J. Crease, M. Mateos, J.B. Cotner, and T.A. Markow. 2005. The functional significance of ribosomal (r)DNA variation: Impacts on the evolutionary ecology of organisms. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36:219-242. pdf file
Weider, L.J., W. Makino, K. Acharya, K.L. Glenn, M. Kyle, J. Urabe, and J.J. Elser. 2005. Genotype x environment interactions, stoichiometric food quality effects, and clonal coexistence in Daphnia pulex. Oecologia 143:537-547. pdf file
Kerfoot, W.C. and L.J. Weider. 2004. Experimental paleoecology (resurrection ecology): Chasing Van Valen's red queen hypothesis. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49:1300-1316. pdf file
Weider, L.J., K.L. Glenn, M. Kyle, and J.J. Elser. 2004. Associations among ribosomal (r)DNA intergenic spacer length, growth rate, and C:N:P stoichiometry in the genus Daphnia. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49:1417-1423. pdf file
Spaak, P., A. Denk, M. Boersma, and L.J. Weider. 2004. Spatial and temporal patterns of sexual reproduction in a hybrid Daphnia complex. J. Plankton Res. 26:625-635. pdf file
Weider, L.J. and A. Hobæk. 2003. Glacial refugia, haplotype distributions, and clonal richness in the Daphnia pulex complex in arctic Canada. Molecular Ecology 12:463-473. pdf file
Gorokhova, E., T.E. Dowling, L.J. Weider, T.J. Crease, and J.J. Elser. 2002. Functional and ecological significance of rDNA intergenic spacer variation in a clonal organism under divergent selection for production rate. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269:2373-2379. pdf file
Limburg, P.A. and L.J. Weider. 2002. “Ancient” DNA in a microcrustacean resting egg bank can serve as a palaeolimnological database. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Series B. 269:281-287. pdf file
Hairston, N.G. Jr., C.L. Holtmeier, W. Lampert, L.J. Weider, D.M. Post, J.M. Fisher, C.L. Cáceres, J.A. Fox, and U. Gaedke. 2001. Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria: Evolution of phenotypic plasticity? Evolution 55:2203-2214. pdf file
Elser, J.J., R.W. Sterner, E. Gorokhova, W.Fagan, T. Markow, J. Cotner, J. Harrison, S. Hobbie, G. Odell, and L.J. Weider. 2000. Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems. Ecology Letters 3:540-550. pdf file
Weider, L.J .and A. Hobæk. 2000. Phylogeography and arctic biodiversity: a review. Annales Zoologici Fennici 37:217-231. pdf file
Hairston, N. G. Jr., W. Lampert, C. Caceres, C.L. Holtmeier, L.J. Weider, U. Gaedke, J. M. Fisher, J.A. Fox, and D.M. Post. 1999. Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs. Nature 401:446. pdf file
Weider, L.J., A. Hobæk, J. K. Colbourne, T.J. Crease, F. Dufresne, and P.D.N. Hebert. 1999. Holarctic phylogeography of an asexual species complex: I. mtDNA variation in arctic Daphnia. Evolution 53:777-792. pdf file
Weider, L.J., W. Lampert, M. Wessels, J.K. Colbourne & P. Limburg. 1997. Long-term genetic shifts in microcrustacean egg bank associated with anthropogenic changes in Lake Constance ecosystem. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Series B 264:1613-1618. pdf file
De Meester, L., L.J. Weider & R. Tollrian. 1995. Alternative antipredator defenses and genetic polymorphism in a pelagic predator-prey system. Nature 378:483-485. pdf fil
