Journal articles & software packages

Styga JM, Pienaar J, Scott PA & Earley RL (2019). Does body shape in Fundulus adapt to variation in habitat salinity? 

Frontiers in Physiology (Aquatic Physiology) 10: 1400.

Gevedon, O., Bolus, H., Lye, S. H., Schmitz, K., Fuentes-González, J., Hatchell, K., Bley, L., Pienaar, J., Loewen, C., Chtarbanova, S. (2019) In Vivo Forward Genetic Screen to Identify Novel Neuroprotective Genes in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Vis. Exp. (149), e59720, doi:10.3791/59720

Chung, N. , Pienaar, J. and Greeff, J. M. (2019), Evolutionary stable sex ratios with non‐facultative male‐eggs first sex allocation in fig wasps. Oikos, 128: 859-868. doi:10.1111/oik.06068

Kopperud BT, Pienaar J, Voje KL, Orzack SH, Hansen TF, Grabowski M. (2019) SLOUCH: Stochastic linear Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Comparative Hypotheses. R package version 2.1.2

Kopperud BT, Pienaar J, voje KL, Orzack SH, Hansen TF. (2018) SLOUCH Stochastic linear Ornstein‐Uhlenbeck comparative hypotheses. R package version 2.1.1. 

Pienaar, J., Ilany, A., Geffen E., & Yom-Tov, Y. (2013) Macroevolution of life history traits in passerine birds: adaptation and phylogenetic inertia. Ecology Letters 16: 571-576.

Bartozek, K, Pienaar, J., Hansen, T.F. & Mosstad, P (2012) A multivariate comparative method for studying adaptive optimality. Journal of Theoretical Biology 314: 204-215.

Davis, R. B., Javois, J., Pienaar, J., Ounap, E. & Tammaru, T. (2012) Disentangling determinants of egg size using an advanced phylogenetic comparative method: Maternal body size is the primary factor in geometrid moths. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 210-219.

Uyeda, J. C., Hansen, T. F., Arnold, S. J. & Pienaar, J. (2011) The million year wait for macroevolutionary bursts.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108: 15908-15913.

Wayne, M. L., Pienaar, J., Telonis-Scott, M., Sylvestre, L-S, Nuhzdin, S., V. & McIntyre, L. M. (2011) Expression of defense genes in Drosophila evolves under a different selective regime from expression of other genes. Evolution 65: 1068-1078.

Labra, A., Pienaar, J. & Hansen, T. F. (2009) Evolution of thermal physiology in liolaemus lizards: adaptation, phylogenetic inertia and niche tracking. The American Naturalist 174: 204-220. 

Hansen, T. F., Pienaar, J. & Orzack, S. H. (2008) A comparative method for studying adaptation to a randomly evolving environment. Evolution 62: 1965-1977.

Butler, M; O’Meara, B.C. & Pienaar, J. Comparative methods and data analysis in R (2008) University of Hawaii,  online publication

Pienaar, J. & Greeff, J. M. (2006) Adaptive non-Fisherian sex ratios in a patchily distributed population with outbreeding. Evolutionary Ecology 20: 431-445.

Moore, J. C., Pienaar, J. & Greeff, J. M. (2004) Male morphological variation and the determinants of body size in two Otitesella fig wasps. Behavioral Ecology 15 735-741.

Pienaar, J. & Greeff, J. M. (2003) Maternal control of offspring sex and male morphology in the Otitesella fig wasps. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 244-253.

Pienaar, J. & Greeff, J. M. (2003) Different male morphs of Otitesella fig wasps have equal fitness but are not determined by different alleles. Ecology Letters 6: 286-289.