Arendt, J. D. and Reznick D. N. in review. Evolution of juvenile growth rates in guppies (Poecilia reticulata): predator regime or resource levels. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

Arendt, J. D. 2003. Reduced swimming speed is a cost of rapid growth in anuran tadpoles; problems of autocorrelation and inferences about growth rates. Functional Ecology, 17:328-334. Download a PDF copy

Arendt, J. D., D. S. 2001 Wilson, E. Stark. Scale strength as a cost of rapid growth in pumpkinseed sunfish. Oikos. 93:95-100. Download a PDF copy

Swenson, W., J. D. Arendt, and D. S. Wilson. 2000. Artificial selection of microbial ecosystems for 3-chloroaniline biodegradation. Envtl. Microbiol. 2:564-571

Arendt, J. D. 2000. Allocation of cells to proliferation vs. differentiation and its consequences for growth and development. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 288:219-234. Download a PDF copy

Arendt, J. D. and D. S. Wilson. 2000. Population differences in the onset of cranial ossification in pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), a potential cost of rapid growth. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57:371-376. Download a PDF copy

Arendt, J. D. and D. S. Wilson. 1999. Countergradient selection for rapid growth in pumpkinseed sunfish: disentangling the ecological and evolutionary factors. Ecology 80:2793-2798. Download a PDF copy

Arendt, J. D. 1997. Adaptive intrinsic growth rates: an integration across taxa. The Quarterly Review of Biology 72:149-177. Download a PDF copy

Arendt, J. D. and D. S. Wilson. 1997. Optimistic growth: competition and an ontogenetic niche-shift select for rapid growth in pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus). Evolution 51:1946-1954. Download a PDF copy

• 2004 The Proximate Determinates of Body Size in Spadefoot Tadpoles: cell size, cell number and functional consequences. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. New Orleans.
• 2003 Skeletal Development as a Cost of Rapid Growth in Pumpkinseed Sunfish. invited talk for 27^th Annual Larval Fish Conference, Santa Cruz, CA.
• 2003 Multiple developmental mechanisms determine body size in spadefoot toad tadpoles. Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), Cal. State University, Chico.
• 2002 Build 'em big or build 'em slow. (SSE), Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• 2002 A preliminary model for integrating evolutionary ecology and development. IGERT Mini-symposium on Microevolution and Development (poster).
• 2001 Swimming speed as a cost of rapid growth in tadpoles. Ecological Society of America (ESA), Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.
• 2000 Using development to explain an ecological trade-off between swimming speed and growth rate in larval toads. (SSE), Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington.
• 1999 Population differences in morphology: a potential cost of rapid growth. (SSE), Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.
• 1998 Population variation in the onset of ossification of pumpkinseed sunfish: a potential cost of rapid growth. (SSE), Univ. of B.C., Vancouver, B.C.
• 1996 Bullies and Wimps: interspecific competition alters intraspecific social behavior in pumpkinseed sunfish. Ecology and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes (EEEF), Univ. of N.M., Albuquerque.
• 1996 Selection for rapid growth compromises scale strength in pumpkinseed sunfish. (SSE), Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO.
• 1995 Costs of rapid growth: scale strength in pumpkinseed sunfish. (SSE), McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec.
• 1994 Optimistic growth rates in pumpkinseed sunfish. (EEEF), Univ. of Victoria, B.C..
• 1993 The effect of interspecific competition for life-history traits in sunfish. New York Natural History Conference III, Albany, NY.