Iliana Medina

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• The University of Melbourne Lecturer in Ecology
  2020 - Present

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Publications (57)

• Gene Expression and Structural Differences Underpinning Black and White Colouration in Spiders
  Molecular Ecology 2026 DOI: 10.1111/mec.70433
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• Precipitation shapes colour polymorphism in a widespread spider
  Functional Ecology 2026 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.70440
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• Structural Colour in Bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Is Linked to Climate and Latitude
  Global Ecology and Biogeography 2026 DOI: 10.1111/geb.70307
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• Global selection on insect antipredator coloration
  Iliana Medina, Alice Exnerová, Klára Daňková +53 more
  Science 2025 DOI: 10.1126/science.adr7368
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• Body size rather than reflectivity explains thermal constraints on colour variation in an aposematic jewel bug
  Evolutionary Ecology 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10682-025-10344-5
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• Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2840
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• Anti-predator defences are linked with high levels of genetic differentiation in frogs
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2292
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• Coevolution with hosts underpins speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos
  Science 2024 DOI: 10.1126/science.adj3210
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• Colour polymorphism is prevalent on islands but shows no association with range size in web-building spiders
  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2024 DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voae118
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• Polarization and reflectance are linked to climate, size and mechanistic constraints in a group of scarab beetles
  Scientific Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-80325-1
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• The fecundity costs of building domed nests in birds
  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2024 DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voae117
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• The role of climatic variables on nest evolution in tanagers
  Ecology and Evolution 2024 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11168
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• Assessing the impact of fire on spiders through a global comparative analysis
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0089
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• Disentangling thermal from alternative drivers of reflectance in jewel beetles: A macroecological study
  Global Ecology and Biogeography 2023 DOI: 10.1111/geb.13632
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• Global effects of forest modification on herpetofauna communities
  Conservation Biology 2023 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13998
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• The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences
  David William Kikuchi, William L. Allen, Kevin Arbuckle +43 more
  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2023 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14192
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• The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0143
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• Variation in nest-building behaviour in birds: a multi-species approach
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0145
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• Which side are you on? Spider web positioning affects prey capture more than body colour
  Evolutionary Ecology 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s10682-023-10244-6
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• Cracks in the mirror hypothesis: High specularity does not reduce detection or predation risk
  Functional Ecology 2022 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13963
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