+ Undergraduate mentee * Authors contributed equally
Salzman S, Bustos-Díaz ED, Whitaker MRL, Sierra AM, Cibrián-Jaramillo A, Barona-Gómez F, Villarreal Aguilar JC. 2025. Chemical ecology of symbiosis in cycads, an ancient plant lineage. New Phytologist doi:10.1111/nph.70109
Li X, Marvaldi AR, Oberprieler RG, Clarke D Farrell BD, Sequeira A, Ferrer MS, O’Brien C, Salzman S, Shin S, Tang W, McKenna DD. 2024. The evolutinoary history of the ancient weevil family Belidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) reveals the marks of Gondwana breakup and major floristic turnovers, including the rise of angiosperms. eLife 13: RP97552 doi:10.7554/eLife.97552.3
Tang W, Skelley PE, Taylor AS, Salzman S. 2024. Review of Pharaxonotha Reitter (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting cones of the cycad Zamia L. (Cycadales) in Panama, with descriptions of five new species. Insecta Mundi 1043: 1-40.https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/135731
Gutiérrez-Garcia K*, Whitaker MRL*, Bustos-Díaz ED, Salzman S, Ramos-Aboites HE, Reitz ZL, Pierce NE, Cibrián-Jaramillo A, Barona-Gómez F. 2023. But microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to B-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) are rich in siderophore biosynthesis. ISME Communications 3: 122. doi:10.1038/s43705-023-00323-8
Simon A+, Salzman S, Specht CD, Raguso RA. 2023. Behavior and Feeding of Two Beetle Pollinators of Zamia integrifolia (Cycadales): Rhopalotria slossoni (Coleoptera: Belidae) and Pharaxanotha floridana (Coleoptera: Erotylidae). Florida Entomologist 106: 199-202. doi:10.1653/024.106.0309
Salzman S, Dahake A, Kandalaft W+, Valencia-Montoya WA, Calonje M, Specht CD, Raguso RA. 2023. Cone humidity is a strong attractant in an obligate cycad pollination mutualism. Current Biology 33: 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.021
de Jesus DA, Batista DM, Monteiro EF, Salzman S, Carvalho LM, Santana K, André T. 2022. Structural changes and adaptive evolutionary constraints in FLOWERING LOCUS T and TERMINAL FLOWER1-like genes of flowering plants. Frontiers in Genetics 13: 954015. doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.954015
Glos RAE+ , Salzman S, Calonje M, Vovides AP, Coiro M, Gandolfo MA, Specht CD. 2022. Leaflet Anatomical Diversity in Zamia (Cycadales: Zamiaceae) shows little correlation with phylogeny and climate. The Botanical Review 88: 437-452. doi:10.1007/s12229-021-09272-0
Salzman S, Crook D, Calonje M, Stevenson DW, Pierce NE, Hopkins R. 2021. Cycad-Weevil Pollination Symbiosis Is Characterized by Rapidly Evolving and Highly Specific Plant-Insect Chemical Communication. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 12: 639368. doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.639368
Valencia-Montoya WA, Quental TB, Tonini JFR, Talavera G, Crall JD, Lamas G, Busby RC, Carvalho APS, Morais AB, Mega NO, Romanowski HP, Liénard MA, Salzman S, Whitaker MRL, Kayahara AY, Lohman DJ, Robbins RK, Pierce NE. 2021. Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20202512. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2512
Liénard MA, Bernard, GD, Allen, AA, Lassance JM, Song S, Childers RR, Yu N, Ye D, Stephenson A, Valencia-Montoya WA, Salzman S, Whitaker MRL, Calonje M, Zhang F, Pierce NE. 2021. The evolution of red color vision is linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuning in lycaenid butterflies. PNAS 118: e2008986118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2008986118
Whitaker, MRL, Salzman S, Gratacos X, Tucker Lima J. 2020. Localized overabundance of an otherwise rare butterfly threatens endangered cycads. Florida Entomologist 103: 519-522. doi:10.1653/024.103.00416
Whitaker MRL* & Salzman S*. 2020. Ecology and evolution of cycad-feeding Lepidoptera. Ecology Letters 23: 1862-1877. doi:10.1111/ele.13581
Salzman S, Crook D, Crall JD, Hopkins R*, Pierce NE*. 2020. An ancient push-pull pollination mechanism in cycads. Science Advances 6: aay6169 doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay6169
Whitaker MRL, Baker C, Salzman S, Martins DJ, Pierce NE. 2019. Combining stabile isotope analysis with metabarcoding improves inferences of trophic ecology. PLoS ONE 14: e0219070. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0219070
Salzman S, Whitaker MRL, Pierce NE. 2018. Cycad feeding insects share a core gut microbiome. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123: 728-738 doi:10.1093/biolinnean/bly017
Hua C+, Salzman S, Pierce NE. 2018. A First Record of Anatrachyntis badia (Hodges 1962) (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) on Zamia integrifolia (Zamiaceae). Florida Entomologist 101: 335-338. doi:10.1653/024.101.0230
Bruenn R, Lavenburg V, Salzman S. 2017. Don’t judge a plant by it’s flowers. Frontiers for Young Minds 5: 31 doi: 10.3389/frym.2017.00031
Whitaker MRL, Salzman S, Sanders J, Kaltenpoth M, Pierce N. 2016. Microbial communities of Lycaenid butterflies do not correlate with larval diet. Frontiers in Microbiology 7: 1920. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01920
André T, Salzman S, Wendt T, Specht C. 2016. Speciation dynamics and biogeography of Neotropical spiral gingers (Costaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 55-63. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.008
Espeland M, Hall J, DeVries P, Less D, Cornwall M, Hsu Y, Wu L, Campbell D, Talavera G, Vila R, Salzman S, Ruehr S+, Lohman D, Pierce NE. 2015. Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 296-306. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006
André T, Specht C, Salzman S, Palma-Silva C, Wendt T. 2015. Evolution of species diversity in the genus Chamaecostus (Costaceae): Molecular phylogenetics and morphometric approaches. Phytotaxa 204: 265-276. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.3
Salzman S, Driscoll H, Renner T, André T, Shen S, Specht C. 2015. Spiraling into history: A molecular phylogeny and investigation of biogeographic origins and floral evolution for the genus Costus. Systematic Botany 40: 104-115. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24546426