Leavell BC, Pantoja-Sanchez H, Vélez V*, Hemingway C, Wilhite K, Halfwerk W, Bernal XE (2023) Ripple effects in a communication network: anti-eavesdropper defence elicits elaborated sexual signals in rival males. Proc. R. Soc. B 290: 20231910.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1910 | PDF

Pantoja-Sanchez H, Leavell BC, Rendon B, de-Silva WAPP, Singh R, Zhou J, Menda G, Hoy RR, Miles RN, Sanscrainte ND, Bernal XE (2023) Tiny spies: mosquito antennae are sensitive sensors for eavesdropping on frog calls. J. Exp. Biol. 226 (24): jeb245359.

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245359 | PDF

Winner with Hoover Pantoja-Sanchez of JEB 2023 Outstanding Paper Prize

Kikuchi DW, et al. (including Leavell BC) (2023) The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences. J. Evol. Biol. 36(7):975-991.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14192 | PDF

Bernal XE, Leavell BC, Page RA (2023) Assessing patterns of eavesdropper risk on sexual signals and the use of meta-analysis in behavioural ecology. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 290(1998):20221866.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1866 | PDF

Drinkwater E, Allen WL, Endler JA, Hanlon RT, Holmes G, Homziak NT, Changku Kang C, Leavell BC, Lehtonen J, Loeffler-Henry K, Ratcliffe J, Rowe C, Ruxton GD, Sherratt TN, Skelhorn J, Skojec C, Smart HR, White TE, Yack JE, Young CM, Umbers KDL (2022) A synthesis of deimatic behaviour. Biol. Rev. 97(6):2237-2267.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12891 | PDF

Barber JR, Plotkin D, Rubin JJ, Homziak NT, Leavell BC, Houlihan PR, Miner KA, Breinholt JW, Quirk-Royal B, Padrón PS, Nunez M, Kawahara AY (2022) Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119(25) e2117485119.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117485119 | PDF

Leavell BC, Beaty LE, McNickle GG & Bernal XE (2022) Eavesdropping micropredators as dynamic limiters of sexual signal elaboration and intrasexual competition. Am. Nat. 199(5):653-665.

https://doi.org/10.1086/718967 | PDF

Leavell BC & Bernal XE (2019) The cognitive ecology of stimulus ambiguity: a predator-prey perspective. Trends Ecol. Evol. 34(11):1048-1060.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.07.004 | PDF

Leavell BC, Rubin JJ, McClure CJW, Miner KA, Branham MA and Barber JR (2018) Fireflies thwart bat attack with multisensory warnings. Sci. Adv. 4(8):eaat6601.

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat6601 | PDF

Zlotnik S, Leavell BC, Peniston JH (2017) Indotyphlops braminus (Brahminy Blind Snake) Predation. Herpetol. Rev. 48(3):675.

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Measor KM, Leavell BC, Brewton DH, Rumschlag J, Barber JR, Razak KA (2017) Matched behavioral and neural adaptations for low sound level echolocation in a gleaning bat, Antrozous pallidus. eNeuro 4:1-17.

https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0018-17.2017 | PDF

Barber JR, Leavell BC, Keener AL, Breinholt JW, Chadwell BA, McClure CJW, Hill GM, Kawahara AY (2015) Moth tails divert bat attack: Evolution of acoustic deflection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 2812-2816.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421926112 | PDF

*Undergraduate researcher