Publications
In Press
O’Brien, Devin M., Romain P. Boisseau, Meghan Duell, Erin McCullough, Erin C. Powell, Ummat Somjee, Sarah Solie, Anthony J. Hickey, Gregory I. Holwell, Christina J. Painting, Douglas J. Emlen. “Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (In Press).
O’Brien, Devin M. “Static scaling and the evolution of extreme canine size in a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis).” Integrative and comparative biology (In Press).
O’Brien, Devin M. “Static scaling and the evolution of extreme canine size in a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis).” Integrative and comparative biology (In Press).
2018
O'Brien, Devin M., Cerisse E. Allen, Melissa J. Van Kleeck, David Hone, Robert Knell, Andrew Knapp, Stuart Christiansen, and Douglas J. Emlen. "On the evolution of extreme structures: static scaling and the function of sexually selected signals." Animal Behaviour 144 (2018): 95-108.
O’Brien, Devin M., Boisseau, Romain P "Overcoming mechanical adversity in extreme hindleg weapons." PLoS ONE 13(11) (2018).
2017
O'Brien, D. M., Katsuki, M., & Emlen, D. J. "Selection on an Extreme Weapon in the Frog Legged Leaf Beetle (Sagra femorata)" Evolution 71.11 (2017): 2584-2598.
2015
McCullough, E. L., Ledger, K. J., O'Brien, D. M., & Emlen, D. J. "Variation in the allometry of exaggerated rhinoceros beetle horns." Animal Behaviour 109 (2015): 133-140.
Press
2019
Tune in for my chat with Dinosaur George on the evolution of extreme canine size in saber-toothed cats! (link below. Also available wherever podcasts are found).
http://www.dinosaurgeorgepodcast.com/the-evolution-of-the-canine-teeth-of-a-sabertoothed-cat-interview-with-dr-devin-obrien-episode-138/
http://www.dinosaurgeorgepodcast.com/the-evolution-of-the-canine-teeth-of-a-sabertoothed-cat-interview-with-dr-devin-obrien-episode-138/
2017
Tiatragul, Sarin, and Jenna E. Pruett. "Digest: Stabilizing selection on an animal weapon in a wild population." Evolution71.11 (2017): 2750-2751.
2015
Research featured in the The Yukan Mie Shimbun (Local newspaper of Matsuzaka, Japan, the primary field site for my work on the frog-legged beetle).
