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Governors State University: University Park, IL, US

2022-01 to present | Assistant Professor
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Melissa Plakke

University of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, US

2019-08-19 to 2021-12 | NIH IRACDA Post Doctoral Fellow (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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Melissa Plakke

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA, US

2013-08 to 2019-08-10 | PhD (Biological Sciences)
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Melissa Plakke

Colorado State University: Fort Collins, CO, US

2009-08 to 2012-12 | Zoology B.S. (Biology)
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EAPSI: Assessing Butterfly Evolutionary Divergence in a Post-mating, Pre-zygotic Interaction

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Works (5)

How Signaling Geometry Shapes the Efficacy and Evolution of Animal Communication Systems

Integrative and Comparative Biology
2021 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85118096951

Part of ISSN: 15577023 15407063
Contributors: Echeverri, S.A.; Miller, A.E.; Chen, J.; McQueen, E.W.; Plakke, M.; Spicer, M.; Hoke, K.L.; Stoddard, M.C.; Morehouse, N.I.
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Characterization of Female Reproductive Proteases in a Butterfly from Functional and Evolutionary Perspectives

Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85072909796

Part of ISSN: 15375293
Contributors: Plakke, M.S.; Walker, J.L.; Lombardo, J.B.; Goetz, B.J.; Pacella, G.N.; Durrant, J.D.; Clark, N.L.; Morehouse, N.I.
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Structural complexity and molecular heterogeneity of a butterfly ejaculate reflect a complex history of selection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Contributors: Camille Meslin; Tamara S. Cherwin; Melissa S. Plakke; Brandon S. Small; Breanna J. Goetz; Nathan I. Morehouse; Nathan L. Clark
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Digestive organ in the female reproductive tract borrows genes from multiple organ systems to adopt critical functions

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84930733905

Contributors: Meslin, C.; Plakke, M.S.; Deutsch, A.B.; Small, B.S.; Morehouse, N.I.; Clark, N.L.
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Dynamic digestive physiology of a female reproductive organ in a polyandrous butterfly

Journal of Experimental Biology
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84955603793

Contributors: Plakke, M.S.; Deutsch, A.B.; Meslin, C.; Clark, N.L.; Morehouse, N.I.
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