Published
Hutchins, ME; Douglas, TE; Pollack, LJ; Saltz, JB. Genetic variation in male aggression is influenced by genotype of prior social partners in D. melanogaster. In press, The American Naturalist
Saltz, JB; Palmer, M; Beaudrot, L. 2023. Identifying the social context of single- and mixed-species group formation in large African herbivores. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0105
Wice, EW, and Saltz, JB. 2023. Indirect genetic effects for social network structure in Drosophila melanogaster. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0075
Wice, EW, and Saltz, JB. 2021. Selection on heritable social network positions is context-dependent in flies. Nature Communications 12: 3357
Girardeau, AR*, Foley, BR, and Saltz, JB. 2021. Comparing single-species and mixed-species groups in fruit flies: differences in group dynamics but not group formation. Accepted, Journal of Heredity
Fisher, David; Kilgour, R; Siracusa, Erin; Foote, Jennifer; Hobson, Elizabeth; Montiglio, Pierre-Olivier; Saltz, Julia; Wey, Tina; Wice, Eric. 2021. Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions. Biological Reviews (early access)
Jaffe, Allison; Burns, Madeline P.; Saltz, Julia B. 2020. Genotype-by-genotype epistasis in Drosophila simulans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 28720200057 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0057
Burns, MP, Cavallaro*, F, and Saltz, JB. 2020. Does Divergence in Habitat Breadth Associate with Species Differences in Decision Making in Drosophila sechellia and Drosophila simulans? Genes: 11(5), 528; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11050528
Keiser, Nick; Rudolf, Volker H.W.; Luksik, Matthew C.; Saltz, Julia. 2020. Sex-differences in disease avoidance behavior vary across modes of pathogen exposure. Ethology. 126(3): 304-312.
Douglas, T; Anderson, R; and Saltz, JB. 2020. Limits to male reproductive potential across mating bouts in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour 160: 25-33.
Geiger, A; and Saltz, JB. 2020. Strong and weak cross-sex correlations govern the quantitative-genetic architecture of social group choice in D. melanogaster. Evolution. 74(1):145-155.
Ochocki, B., Saltz, JB, and Miller, TEX. 2020. Demography-dispersal trait correlations modify the eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion. The American Naturalist. 195(2):231-246
Saltz, J.B. 2019. Gene-environment correlation in humans: lessons from psychology for quantitative geneticists. Journal of Heredity. 110(4): 455–466.
Stamps, JA; Biro, B; Mitchell, D.; and Saltz, JB. 2018. Bayesian updating during development predicts genotypic differences in plasticity. Evolution, 72(10): 2167-2180
Keiser, CN; Rudolf, VHW; Sartain, E*; Every, E*; and Saltz, JB. 2018. Social context alters host behavior and infection risk. Behavioral Ecology 29(4): 869–875.
Press: Rice University press release, futurity, and ScienceDaily.
Saltz, JB; Bell, AM; Flint, J; Gomulkeiwicz, R; Hughes, K; and Keagy, J. 2018. Why does the magnitude of genotype-by-environment variation vary? Ecology and Evolution 8(12): 6342–6353.
Bell, AM; Saltz, JB. 2017. Comment on Baumert et al.: Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development. European Journal of Personality 31(5): 532-533.
Saltz, JB. 2017. Genetic variation in social environment construction influences the development of aggressive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 118:340-347.
Press: Interview with me about the paper featured on the Heredity podcast; Rice’s press release picked up by futurity and phys.org.
Saltz, JB; Hessel, F*; and Kelly, MW. 2017. Trait correlations in the genomics era. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32(4): 279-290.
LSU press release
Saltz, JB; Lymer, S; Gabrielian, JG; and Nuzhdin SV. 2017. Genetic correlations among developmental and contextual behavioral plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster. The American Naturalist 190(1): 61-72.
Am Nat Forthcoming Papers; Rice University press release; futurity.
Keiser, CN; Vodjvodic, S; Butler, I; Sartain, E; Rudolf, VHW; and Saltz, JB. 2017. Queen presence alters the relationship between collective behavior and disease susceptibility in ant colonies.Journal of Animal Ecology 87(2): 379–387.
Saltz, JB; Geiger, AP; Anderson, R*; Johnson, BJ*; and Marren, RI*. 2016 What, if anything, is a social niche? Evolutionary Ecology 30(2): 349-364.
Foley, BR; Saltz, JB; Nuzhdin, SV; and Marjoram, P. 2015. A Bayesian approach to social structure uncovers cryptic regulation of group dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster. The American Naturalist 185(6):797-808.
Saltz, JB; and Nuzhdin, SV. 2014. Genetic variation in niche construction: implications for development and evolutionary genetics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29(1): 8-14
Saltz, JB and Nuzhdin, SV. 2014. Genetic variation in niche construction and its implications: Response to Shuker. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29(6): 304-305.
Ardekani, R; Biyani, A; Dalton, J; Saltz, JB; Arbeitman, MA; Tower, J; Nuzhdin S; and Tavaré, S. 2013. Three dimensional tracking and behavior monitoring of multiple fruit flies. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10: 20120547
USC news: The secret life of fruit flies
Stamps, JA; Saltz, JB; and Krishnan, VV. 2013. Genotypic differences in behavioural entropy: unpredictable genotypes are composed of unpredictable individuals. Animal Behaviour 86(3): 641-649.
Saltz, JB. 2013. Genetic composition of social groups influences male aggressive behaviour and fitness in natural genotypes of Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B280: 20131926.
Saltz, JB; Alicuben, ET*; Grubman, J*; Harkenrider, M*; Megowan, N*; and Nuzhdin, SV. 2012. Non-additive indirect effects of group genetic diversity on larval viability in D. melanogaster imply key role of maternal decision-making. Molecular Ecology 21(9): 2270-2281.
Conrad, L; Weinersmith, KL; Brodin, T; Saltz, JB; and Sih, A. 2011. Behavioural syndromes in fishes: a review with implications for ecology and fisheries management. Journal of Fish Biology 78(2):395-435.
Miller, PM; Saltz, JB; Cochrane, VA; Marcinkowski, CM; Mobin, R; and Turner, TL. 2011. Natural variation in decision-making behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One6(1):e16436.
Top 25% most-cited articles in PLoS One
Saltz, JB and Foley, BR. 2011. Natural genetic variation in social niche construction: social effects of aggression drive disruptive sexual selection in Drosophila melanogaster.The American Naturalist 177(5): 645-654.
Review in Science Daily; This paper won The American Naturalists’ Best Student Paper award in 2012
Saltz, JB. 2011. Natural genetic variation in social environment choice: context-dependent gene- environment correlation in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 65(8): 2325–2334
Pending Manuscripts
Pollack, LJ; Afework, K*; Saltz, JB. The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies. Submitted to Biology Letters
Burns, MP; Saltz, JB. Species differences in learning about gustatory and visual stimuli in two recently diverged species of Drosophila. Under review at Animal Behaviour.
Hutchins, ME and Saltz, JB. "Eavesdropping and the audience effect in fighting fruit flies reveal feedback between social information use and production." Under review at Animal Behaviour, preprint available: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.01.555942v1
Jamilla Akhund-Zade, Denise Yoon, Alyssa Bangerter, Nikolaos Polizos, Matthew Campbell, Anna Soloshenko, Thomas Zhang, Eric Wice, Ashley R. Albright, Aditi Narayanan, Paul Schmidt, Julia Saltz, Julien Ayroles, Mason Klein, Alan O. Bergland, Benjamin L. de Bivort. Wild flies hedge their thermal preference bets in response to seasonal fluctuations. Under review, eLife