Publications

2026
Signals of Natural Selection Across Regions of Low Recombination in Wild Populations of the Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Petak, C., Sadler, D. E., Pespeni, M. H., & Nunez, J. C. B. Genome Biology and Evolution Hot off the Press: The Variability of Evolvability: Properties of Dynamic Fitness Landscapes Determine how Phenotypic Variability Evolves Petak, C., Frati, L., Vroomans, R. M., Pespeni, M. H., & Cheney, N. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Wanted: A population genetic theory of biological noise regulation Weinreich, D. M., Sgouros, T., Raynes, Y., Burtsev, H., Chang, E., Rajakumar, S., Bravo, I. G., & Petak, C. PLoS genetics
2025
The variability of evolvability: properties of dynamic fitness landscapes determine how phenotypic variability evolves Petak, C., Frati, L., Vroomans, R. M., Pespeni, M. H., & Cheney, N. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(51)
2024
Networks of Binary Necklaces Induced by Elementary Cellular Automata Rules Frati, L., Petak, C., & Cheney, N. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE)
2023
Coping with seasons: evolutionary dynamics of gene networks in a changing environment Petak, C., Frati, L., Pespeni, M. H., & Cheney, N. Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), pp. 163–166 Whole-genome sequencing reveals that regulatory and low pleiotropy variants underlie local adaptation to environmental variability in purple sea urchins Petak, C., Frati, L., Brennan, R. S., & Pespeni, M. H. The American Naturalist, 202(4), 571–586
2019
Associations among behavioral inhibition and owner-rated attention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, and personality in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) Bunford, N., Csibra, B., Peták, C., Ferdinandy, B., Miklósi, Á., & Gácsi, M. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 133(2), 233–243